On April 24, 2011, Armenia marks the 96th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide, RA Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan said.

“The aim of the monstrous crime planned and perpetrated during the World War I by the the Ottoman Turkish rulers was complete annihilation of Armenians, while its result was the loss of Motherland by Armenians, complete exclusion of physical, historical, spiritual and cultural presence of Armenians on hour historical land,” Sargsyan said in a statement, which goes on saying, “The Genocide is an episode in both Armenian and world history, which cannot be eliminated from diplomatic documents and annals of the 20th century, even from memories of those people whose ancestors perpetrated it.”

Sargsyan noted that the Armenian people’s demand is clear – “the Armenian Genocide should obtain relevant legal, political and moral assessment.”

He also expressed gratitude to those people and states that supported the Armenian people in the joint struggle for the historical truth, prevention and condemnation of genocides.