Armenian parliament official receives Greek delegation
Armenian National Assembly Deputy Speaker Eduard Sharmazanov on Friday received members of the World Council of Greeks Abroad Foti Chitlidis, Vadim Anastasiadi, Sophia Prokopidou, Arkady Khitarov, Anna Khitarova, Eduard Polatov and well-known Greek historian Konstantinos Fotiadis, the press service of National Assembly reports.
The members of the delegation thanked the Armenian National Assembly and the authors of the initiative for the NA statement “On Condemning the Genocide of Greeks and Assyrians Perpetrated in the Ottoman Turkey” unanimously adopted on March 24.
Welcoming the delegation, Eduard Sharmazanov noted that the adoption of the NA statement was not an aim in itself: recognizing the genocide perpetrated in the Ottoman Turkey against the Greeks and Assyrians, the Armenian Parliament condemns all genocides ever perpetrated. In the NA Deputy Speaker’s words, unless the genocides have been recognized and condemned, the possibility of their repetition cannot be excluded.
In this context, Mr Sharmazanov and the guests highlighted the necessity of recognition and condemnation of genocides perpetrated against different nations in different times and the restoration of the historical justice.
The interlocutors emphasized the strengthening of relations between the Armenian and Greek fraternal peoples and the intensification of cooperation in common issues.
The guests handed the NA Deputy Speaker books on the genocide perpetrated against the Greek people.