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| 15:20:18 | 25-04-2005 | Social |
COMMEMORATION DAY IN STRASBOURG
The 90th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide was celebrated in Strasbourg.
At noon the representatives of the RA NA deputy president and PACE RA
delegation head Tigran Torosyan, RA permanent representative in EU Q.
Ter-Stepanyan, mayor reprentative Grand, Russian chief consul to Strasbourg
and Armenian community of Elzas put flowers to the memorial to the victims
of the Genocide in the Strasbourg State square.
In memory of the 1.5 million victims in the evening in the Strasbourg
Saint-Pierre-Le Jon catholic church a holy mess was served by friar Mesrop,
representative of the Armenian Apostolic Church.
In the same church an ecumenic ceremony also took place with the
participation of the Armenian Apostolic, Catholic, Protestant, Orthodox,
Greek, Serb and Romanian Churches.
From: Baghdasarian