"At the Foot of Ararat" int'l forum declaration condemns Genocide

PanARMENIAN.Net - The participants of "At the Foot of Ararat" international media forum, which is underway in Yerevan, adopted a joint declaration condemning the Armenian Genocide, Armenian media report.

The declaration says,

“We, representatives of different countries, nationalities and religions, pay tribute to the Armenian people and honor the memory of the 1.5 million innocent victims of the Armenian Genocide perpetrated in the Ottoman Empire in 1915. We strongly condemn the plan of destroying the Armenian nation, its centuries-old culture and depriving people of their homeland as well as mass killings, massacres and ethnic cleansing that followed.

We condemn denialist policies attempting to present Genocide as falsification of historical facts and distorting the causes, mechanisms and consequences of the tragedy. We pay tribute to those journalists who reported about the terrible crimes committed in the Ottoman Empire.”