Antelias: Greek Foreign Ministry Rep. visits His Holiness Aram I

PRESS RELEASE
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Armenian version:

THE REPRESENTATIVE OF THE GREEK FOREIGN MINISTRY VISITS HIS HOLINESS ARAM I

His Holiness Aram I received Jeorjes Poukamisas, a representative of the
Greek Foreign Ministry in Bikfaya on September 9. Poukamisas had been
specially delegated to discuss the current situation of Lebanon with His
Holiness Aram I.

Catholicos Aram I and the Greek diplomat met for over an hour, discussing
recent developments in the political life in Lebanon and the Middle East.
They focused on the international decision to include Turkish forces in UN
peacekeeping Forces in south Lebanon.

His Holiness expressed his concern towards this issue, wondering how a
country with an unacceptable human rights record, a state, the history of
which is full of massacres of other nations and people; a state, that after
all, has committed Genocide against the Armenian nation and still remains
unpunished, can participate in peacekeeping forces.

Poukaminas was the former head of the department in the Greek Foreign
Ministry that dealt with Turkish-Greek issues.

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The Armenian Catholicosate of Cilicia is one of the two Catholicosates of
the Armenian Orthodox Church. For detailed information about the history and
mission of the Cilician Catholicosate, you may refer to the web page of the
Catholicosate, The Cilician Catholicosate, the
administrative center of the church is located in Antelias, Lebanon.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress

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Emil Lazarian

“I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.” - WS