GAREGIN II THANKED RUSSIAN STATE DUMA FOR ADOPTING STATEMENT ON ARMENIAN GENOCIDE

PanARMENIAN.Net - Yesterday Catholicos of All Armenians Garegin II met with Vice-Speaker of the Russian State Duma Georgi Boos, the Press Service of the Chancellery of Holy Echmiadzin reported. Garegin II said he was satisfied with the State Duma adopting a statement again denouncing the Armenian Genocide and urging the international community to commemorate the victims of the tragic events of 1915. «We are convinced that time will come when the concepts of genocide and war will be the history. I hope that the censure of the Armenian Genocide will help recognize how fragile our world is,» Georgi Boos noted. In the course of the meeting the interlocutors discussed questions of friendly relations of the peoples of Armenia and Russia, as well as cooperation between the Armenian Apostolic and the Russian Orthodox Churches.