ARKA News Agency, Armenia
April 28 2006
ACTIVITIES IN MEMORY OF ARMENIAN GENOCIDE VICTIMS HELD IN GERMANY
YEREVAN, April 28. /ARKA/. Activities in the memory of the Armenian
genocide victims were held in Germany. The press service of the RA
Foreign Ministry reported that a scientific-cultural activity,
organized by the Central Council of Armenians of Germany and the
Armenian embassy in Germany, was held in Berlin on 24 April.
Head of Berlin’s Armenian community Vardges Ailanak and Armenian
Ambassador to Germany Karine Kazinyan delivered a speech. Bundestag
MP, German Vice-Minister of Internal Affairs, secretary of state
Kristof Bergner also delivered a speech. He spoke about the Armenian
genocide’s statutes, fixed in the Bundestag resolution of 2005.
He also pointed out that the German government should be consistent
in developing and bringing this resolution’s statutes to a logical
completion. Professor of the Jehn University, Germany, a well-known
historian, Doctor Norbert Frei acquainted the audience with historic
facts of the genocide; in particular, he drew parallels between the
Holocaust and the Armenian genocide in 1915.
Young Armenian musicians delivered a performance in the cultural part
of the meeting. Participating in the activity in Berlin were 1200
guests, including MPs of Bundestag and the federal parliament of
lands, well-known German historians, workers of art, church figures,
representatives of the Armenian community and embassies, accredited
in Germany.
A liturgy in the memory of the Armenian genocide victims, attended by
the Armenian Ambassador to Germany and representatives of Armenian
communities, was served in one of Berlin’s churches on 23 April. R.O.
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