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CELEBRATION OF 70TH ANNIVERSARY OF VICTORY IN GREAT PATRIOTIC WAR SHOULD PRIORITIZE COUNTERING REVISION OF HISTORY AND GLORIFICATION OF NAZISM, SARGSYAN SAYS
YEREVAN, October 10. / ARKA /. The celebration of the 70th anniversary
of Soviet Union's victory in the Great Patriotic War (World War II)
should prioritize for former Soviet republics countering attempts to
revise history and glorify Nazism.
The focus of events marking the anniversary should be on the fight
against racism, xenophobia and intolerance, prevention of crimes
against humanity, Armenia's President Serzh Sargsyan said on Friday
at a CIS summit in Minsk.
According to him, the Armenian nation knows very well what religious
and ethnic intolerance is, as next year it will mark the 100th
anniversary of the Armenian Genocide in the Ottoman Empire.
"We proceed from the fact that one of the most important tools for
preventing recurrence of this terrible crime is the recognition and
condemnation of committed crimes against humanity," said Sargsyan.
According to the president, one of the latest acts of religious
intolerance was the explosion of the Armenian Church of Holy Martyrs
in Syria's Deir ez-Zor by the terrorist group calling itself the
"Islamic State".
"The desecration of the remains of the victims of the Genocide, kept
at the church, inhuman treatment of Christians, Yazidis, and other
minorities in the Middle East, can not be justified and can not fit
in with the philosophy of the known religions, including Islam. We
are grateful to all those who strongly condemned that barbarity,"
said Sargsyan.
According to him, amid worsening political situation in many regions
of the world and mounting international tension cooperation within
the Commonwealth of Independent States should be aimed at ensuring
peace and stability, settlement of existing and prevention of possible
conflicts by peaceful means on the basis of international law. -0-
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YEREVAN, October 10. / ARKA /. The celebration of the 70th anniversary
of Soviet Union's victory in the Great Patriotic War (World War II)
should prioritize for former Soviet republics countering attempts to
revise history and glorify Nazism.
The focus of events marking the anniversary should be on the fight
against racism, xenophobia and intolerance, prevention of crimes
against humanity, Armenia's President Serzh Sargsyan said on Friday
at a CIS summit in Minsk.
According to him, the Armenian nation knows very well what religious
and ethnic intolerance is, as next year it will mark the 100th
anniversary of the Armenian Genocide in the Ottoman Empire.
"We proceed from the fact that one of the most important tools for
preventing recurrence of this terrible crime is the recognition and
condemnation of committed crimes against humanity," said Sargsyan.
According to the president, one of the latest acts of religious
intolerance was the explosion of the Armenian Church of Holy Martyrs
in Syria's Deir ez-Zor by the terrorist group calling itself the
"Islamic State".
"The desecration of the remains of the victims of the Genocide, kept
at the church, inhuman treatment of Christians, Yazidis, and other
minorities in the Middle East, can not be justified and can not fit
in with the philosophy of the known religions, including Islam. We
are grateful to all those who strongly condemned that barbarity,"
said Sargsyan.
According to him, amid worsening political situation in many regions
of the world and mounting international tension cooperation within
the Commonwealth of Independent States should be aimed at ensuring
peace and stability, settlement of existing and prevention of possible
conflicts by peaceful means on the basis of international law. -0-
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