KAROLOS PAPOULIAS: THE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE IS A BLACK STRIPE IN CONTEMPORARY HISTORY
ArmRadio.am
27.06.2007 17:11
"The victims must demonstrate tolerance, if the persecutors are
disposed to accept its fault," the President of Greece Karolos
Papoulias said during the meeting with the faculty and students of
the Yerevan State University, obviously having in view the Armenian
Genocide and similar issues. According to the Greek President,
political and individual courage is needed for that, like the one
Germany demonstrated by recognizing the Holocaust of Jews.
Karolos Papoulias today visited the Institute-Museum of Genocide. "The
fact of the Genocide is very barbaric from the perspective of human
rights violations and is a black stripe in contemporary history. The
fact of the Genocide should be at least recognized, the guilty must
be held responsible and should apologize," the President of Greece
wrote down in the book of records. The First Lady of Greece, Mrs. May
Papoulia wrote: "Once again I felt the deep roots, which unite the
Armenian and Greek peoples."