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Hungarian official in Armenia to unveil monument to WWII soldiers
ITAR-TASS news agency, Moscow
28 Aug 04
Yerevan, 28 August: In the Armenian capital Yerevan a monument to
Armenian and Hungarian soldiers - victims of World War II - will be
unveiled in a special ceremony in the square in front of the Armenian
Academy of Agriculture on Saturday 28 August .
The Armenian Defence Ministry has told ITAR-TASS that Under-Secretary
of State of the Hungarian Defence Ministry, Levent Komor, has arrived
in Yerevan for the event.
The Hungarian delegation will pay a visit to the memorial of the
victims of 1915 genocide of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire.
At the end of World War II Hungarian prisoners of war were kept in
labour camps in Armenia and used at various construction sites,
including the Kanaker aluminium plant, the Sevan hydroelectric power
plant, the Victory Bridge, and a tunnel towards the Razdan river gorge
in Yerevan.
In the early 1950s the surviving Hungarian prisoners of war were
repatriated, while others had died in Armenia by that time.
A total of 450,000 Armenians fought at World War II fronts. Over
200,000 lost their lives on the battle fields.
In 2002, a monument honouring Armenian soldiers killed in Hungary
during World War II and Hungarian prisoners of war, who died in
Armenia, was unveiled in Budapest.
ITAR-TASS news agency, Moscow
28 Aug 04
Yerevan, 28 August: In the Armenian capital Yerevan a monument to
Armenian and Hungarian soldiers - victims of World War II - will be
unveiled in a special ceremony in the square in front of the Armenian
Academy of Agriculture on Saturday 28 August .
The Armenian Defence Ministry has told ITAR-TASS that Under-Secretary
of State of the Hungarian Defence Ministry, Levent Komor, has arrived
in Yerevan for the event.
The Hungarian delegation will pay a visit to the memorial of the
victims of 1915 genocide of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire.
At the end of World War II Hungarian prisoners of war were kept in
labour camps in Armenia and used at various construction sites,
including the Kanaker aluminium plant, the Sevan hydroelectric power
plant, the Victory Bridge, and a tunnel towards the Razdan river gorge
in Yerevan.
In the early 1950s the surviving Hungarian prisoners of war were
repatriated, while others had died in Armenia by that time.
A total of 450,000 Armenians fought at World War II fronts. Over
200,000 lost their lives on the battle fields.
In 2002, a monument honouring Armenian soldiers killed in Hungary
during World War II and Hungarian prisoners of war, who died in
Armenia, was unveiled in Budapest.