SERIOUS EVENTS TO BE HELD IN GERMANY’S BOCHUM TO COMMEMORATE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE CENTENARY
13:19, 30 December, 2014
YEREVAN, DECEMBER 30, ARMENPRESS. Erection of the statute of book
piercing a rock and tree planting ceremony will be held in Germany’s
Bochum to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide.
The Chairman of the German Union of Armenian Academicians-1860 Azat
Ordukhanyan stated this at the press conference held on December 30.
Ordukhanyan noted that among other events, the organization held a
number of cultural events in August-November of the current year to
raise the city’s public awareness level advancing the 100th anniversary
of the Armenian Genocide.
Among other things, the Chairman of the German Union of Armenian
Academicians-1860 Azat Ordukhanyan underscored: “German media
published around 35 articles on those events, thus accepting the
Armenian Genocide.
We have also applied to the Yerevan City Hall’s Nature Protection
Department with a proposal for planting 155 trees.”