April 20, 2005 - 10:41 AMT
ISRAELI KNESSET MEMBER TO PAY TRIBUTE TO ARMENIAN GENOCIDE VICTIMS
Today representative of the Israeli Knesset, former Government member Yossi Sarid will visit the Memorial to Victims of the Armenian Genocide, reported the State Commission for organizing the events marking the 90-th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide. Yossi Sarid is the first Israeli supreme official, who has publicly acknowledged the Armenian Genocide and demanded inclusion of record on it in Israeli curricula. It should be noted that Yossi Sarid has arrived in Yerevan to take part in Ultimate Crime, Ultimate Challenges: Human Rights and Genocide international conference that opened in Yerevan today.