Today marks the 109th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide and the civilized world commemorates the holy victims of the first genocide of the 20th century, Mets Yeghern.
At the beginning of the last century, Armenians living in Ottoman Turkey were subjected to organized mass crimes: brutal murders, forced deportation and inhumane torture.
Despite the continuously improving international frameworks for the protection of human rights and the rule of law, the rights of people forcibly displaced from their native homes and subjected to inhuman torture have not been restored.
Impunity for such acts inevitably breeds new crimes.
Still in 1948 on December 9, the international convention "On the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide" was adopted, but even today there is a danger of new genocides and other crimes against humanity in different corners of the world. In 2023, the ethnic Armenian population of Nagorno-Karabakh became a victim of various manifestations of ill-treatment and was forcibly displaced.
Today we bow our heads to the memory of the holy victims of the Armenian Genocide and reaffirm our commitment to condemning the crime, recognizing the truth and restoring justice.
We consider it necessary to unite all efforts to prevent similar crimes in the modern civilized world and implement proper policies in that direction.
Implementation of effective structures to combat such crimes should be on the agenda for all civilized societies.
