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STATE COMMISSION TO BE ESTABLISHED FOR ARMENIAN GENOCIDE MUSEUM IN MONTEVIDEO
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12:44, 20 July, 2013
YEREVAN, JULY 20, ARMENPRESS: A solemn event was held on July 17 on the
official announcement of the establishment of an Armenian Genocide
museum in Uruguay. As Armenpress was reported by the Department
for Press, Information and Public Relations of the Ministry of
Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Armenia, at the beginning of the
ceremony the message of the president of Uruguay Jose Mujica was read,
in which he welcomes this important initiative and states that the
establishment of the museum will help to keep alive the memory about
the genocide, which shocked the entire mankind. Speeches were made
by the Uruguayan Minister of Education and Culture, the Primate of
the Armenian Patriarchate of Uruguay and the Ambassador of Armenia
to Uruguay Vahagn Melikyan.
Expressing gratitude on behalf of the Armenia's Government to the
Uruguayan authorities and the initiative's authors, the Ambassador
of Armenia to Uruguay Vahagn Melikyan noted that it is the next
historical and considerable step in the way to justice and the next
reasonable response to denial and xenophobia.
A state commission will soon be established to start the building
the Armenian Genocide museum.
The project is organized by the Uruguayan Ministry of Education and
Culture and the Centennial Commemoration Commission of the Armenian
Genocide, a collaborative commission by Armenian organizations in
Uruguay. The Museum will be the first one ever created by a government
outside of Armenia.
The Uruguayan Undersecretary of Education, Oscar Gomez, said that
the initiative "ratifies the Uruguayan policy of defense of human
rights." Oscar Gomez recalled that Uruguay was the first country in
the world to recognize the Genocide in 1965.
"The Museum will not only refer to the Armenian Genocide, but also to
the defense of human rights in general and the recognition of other
genocides, such as the Holocaust and the African genocide during the
era of slavery", he added.
http://armenpress.am/eng/news/726793/state-commission-to-be-established-for-armenian-genocide-museum-in-montevideo.html
12:44, 20 July, 2013
YEREVAN, JULY 20, ARMENPRESS: A solemn event was held on July 17 on the
official announcement of the establishment of an Armenian Genocide
museum in Uruguay. As Armenpress was reported by the Department
for Press, Information and Public Relations of the Ministry of
Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Armenia, at the beginning of the
ceremony the message of the president of Uruguay Jose Mujica was read,
in which he welcomes this important initiative and states that the
establishment of the museum will help to keep alive the memory about
the genocide, which shocked the entire mankind. Speeches were made
by the Uruguayan Minister of Education and Culture, the Primate of
the Armenian Patriarchate of Uruguay and the Ambassador of Armenia
to Uruguay Vahagn Melikyan.
Expressing gratitude on behalf of the Armenia's Government to the
Uruguayan authorities and the initiative's authors, the Ambassador
of Armenia to Uruguay Vahagn Melikyan noted that it is the next
historical and considerable step in the way to justice and the next
reasonable response to denial and xenophobia.
A state commission will soon be established to start the building
the Armenian Genocide museum.
The project is organized by the Uruguayan Ministry of Education and
Culture and the Centennial Commemoration Commission of the Armenian
Genocide, a collaborative commission by Armenian organizations in
Uruguay. The Museum will be the first one ever created by a government
outside of Armenia.
The Uruguayan Undersecretary of Education, Oscar Gomez, said that
the initiative "ratifies the Uruguayan policy of defense of human
rights." Oscar Gomez recalled that Uruguay was the first country in
the world to recognize the Genocide in 1965.
"The Museum will not only refer to the Armenian Genocide, but also to
the defense of human rights in general and the recognition of other
genocides, such as the Holocaust and the African genocide during the
era of slavery", he added.