President Sakellaropoulou lays wreath on Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day
President Katerina Sakellaropoulou at the Monument of the Unknown Soldier. ANA – MPA/HELLENIC REPUBLIC/THODORIS MANOLOPOULOS
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President Katerina Sakellaropoulou laid a wreath at the Monument of the Unknown Soldier, thus marking Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day on April 24.
“This year we mark 106 years since the beginning of the systematic extermination of 1.5 million Armenians during the final years of the Ottoman Empire,” she stressed, “a genocide that crushed a prosperous Christian nucleus in the southern Caucasus, and almost wiped out an ancient peoples.”
She also stated that “today, we unite with the Armenian communities in Greece and across the world, to honor the memory of the victims, but also honor the courage, dignity and self-confidence by which Armenians resisted the perils of alienation and subjugation.”
Finally, she pointed out that “we reaffirm our commitment to a world without discrimination and persecution, where everyone can feel safe, regardless of their identity, origin and beliefs.”
Source: ANA – MPA