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PRESS RELEASE
Stockholm, 26 April 2014
Union of Armenian Associations in Sweden, UASS
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.armeniska.se
http://armeniska.se/index.php/en/press/pressmeddelanden/79-the-azeri-disinformation-attempts-hits-new-desperate-lows
The Azeri Disinformation Attempts Hits New Desperate Lows
In a news article, published on April 25, the AzeriNews.az site made the
sensational disclosure that the `Armenians' planned protest in Sweden
fails.' The scoop was verified with an image showing an seemingly empty
Sergels Torg in Central Stockholm where the UASS had set up the exhibition
posters for `Armenian Genocide and the Scandinavian Response' together
with the flags of the countries who have recognized the genocide a book
stand etc. The article can be found here
http://www.azernews.az/region/66462.html
The article confidently citing the State Committee for Work with Diaspora
of Azerbaijan sates that `The protest didn't take place due to the fact
that no one came to participate in it.' However, the reporter of the news
seem to have been so eager to send the article that he or she had turned
up on site moment after the organizers set up the posters, the flags, the
banners, the table with the information brochures and books on the
genocide early in the morning hours. Had he or she waited a few more
minutes, he or she would have instead confirmed that the 2014
commemoration was one of the biggest and more diverse in the history of
the Swedish Armenian community history.
Thus, it is our pleasure to comfort the AzeriNews.az editorial board with
the correct information along with the some selected images of each
activity: the commemoration program started with the gathering of several
hundred protesters at Karlaplan (11:00) listening to divine service
performed by Father Yeghise Avetisyan, before moving towards the Turkish
Embassy in Stockholm and holding a rally until 14:30. At the same time,
the members of the clergy, together with the Armenian Ambassador and
members of the UASS Board continued to the Skogskyrkogården Cemetery for
the annual wreath-laying at the grave of the Swedish missionary Alma
Johansson in the memory of her deeds in Western Armenia during and after
the genocide. Then the party travelled to the Vantör Church in Stockholm
where a concert was given to the memory of Komitas Vartapet (13:00). At
16:00, the main program begun when the rally returned from the Turkish
Embassy while other protesters joined at the Sergels Torg to listen to a
number of speakers, among others the Chairman of the UASS Board, Mr.
Garlen Mansourian, the Armenian Ambassador, Mr. Artak Apitonian, The Vice
Chairman of the Union of Assyrian Associations in Sweden, Mr. Tony Meshko,
Father Yeghise Avetisyan and the Swedish Member of the Parliament Hans
Linde (Left), Fredrik Malm (Liberal) and Mats Pertoft (Greens). During the
entire rally at Sergels Torg (11:00 - 19:00) a steady flow of passing by
people visited the exhibition, the book and brochure stand reading,
enquiring information about the genocide and its related events.
Along the commemoration activities in Stockholm, similar commemorations
Stockholm, 26 April 2014
Union of Armenian Associations in Sweden, UASS
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.armeniska.se
http://armeniska.se/index.php/en/press/pressmeddelanden/79-the-azeri-disinformation-attempts-hits-new-desperate-lows
The Azeri Disinformation Attempts Hits New Desperate Lows
In a news article, published on April 25, the AzeriNews.az site made the
sensational disclosure that the `Armenians' planned protest in Sweden
fails.' The scoop was verified with an image showing an seemingly empty
Sergels Torg in Central Stockholm where the UASS had set up the exhibition
posters for `Armenian Genocide and the Scandinavian Response' together
with the flags of the countries who have recognized the genocide a book
stand etc. The article can be found here
http://www.azernews.az/region/66462.html
The article confidently citing the State Committee for Work with Diaspora
of Azerbaijan sates that `The protest didn't take place due to the fact
that no one came to participate in it.' However, the reporter of the news
seem to have been so eager to send the article that he or she had turned
up on site moment after the organizers set up the posters, the flags, the
banners, the table with the information brochures and books on the
genocide early in the morning hours. Had he or she waited a few more
minutes, he or she would have instead confirmed that the 2014
commemoration was one of the biggest and more diverse in the history of
the Swedish Armenian community history.
Thus, it is our pleasure to comfort the AzeriNews.az editorial board with
the correct information along with the some selected images of each
activity: the commemoration program started with the gathering of several
hundred protesters at Karlaplan (11:00) listening to divine service
performed by Father Yeghise Avetisyan, before moving towards the Turkish
Embassy in Stockholm and holding a rally until 14:30. At the same time,
the members of the clergy, together with the Armenian Ambassador and
members of the UASS Board continued to the Skogskyrkogården Cemetery for
the annual wreath-laying at the grave of the Swedish missionary Alma
Johansson in the memory of her deeds in Western Armenia during and after
the genocide. Then the party travelled to the Vantör Church in Stockholm
where a concert was given to the memory of Komitas Vartapet (13:00). At
16:00, the main program begun when the rally returned from the Turkish
Embassy while other protesters joined at the Sergels Torg to listen to a
number of speakers, among others the Chairman of the UASS Board, Mr.
Garlen Mansourian, the Armenian Ambassador, Mr. Artak Apitonian, The Vice
Chairman of the Union of Assyrian Associations in Sweden, Mr. Tony Meshko,
Father Yeghise Avetisyan and the Swedish Member of the Parliament Hans
Linde (Left), Fredrik Malm (Liberal) and Mats Pertoft (Greens). During the
entire rally at Sergels Torg (11:00 - 19:00) a steady flow of passing by
people visited the exhibition, the book and brochure stand reading,
enquiring information about the genocide and its related events.
Along the commemoration activities in Stockholm, similar commemorations