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  06, 2010

  President Serzh Sargsyan delivers a speech at the reception in the Tavricheski Palace dedicated to the 300th anniversary of the Armenian community of Saint Petersburg Dear Friends: We have gathered here today to celebrate the 300th anniversary of the inception of the Armenian community of Saint Petersburg. First of all, I would like to congratulate you on this momentous occasion. Saint Petersburg is a unique city which embodies the grandeur of the Russian culture and history. It is no accident that Peter the Great founded the new capital here, at the shores of the Baltic Sea. He opened a window to Europe and the new capital became the assertion and...
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  05, 2010

  At Villa Empain President Sargsyan made a statement Dear representatives of Pogossian family, Dear Guests, Ladies and Gentelmen, I am happy to be here, at one of Brussels historical and cultural sites - Villa Empain. First, allow me to start with the words of appreciation for the Pogossian Foundation, which has undertaken the task of restoring this marvelous monument of the first half of the 20th century. Baron Louis Empain, a patron of arts intended to create here a center of arts and culture. But the 20th century was harsh and the...
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  04, 2010

  President Serzh Sargsyan’s Address on the Commemoration of the 95th Anniversary of the Armenian Genocide Dear Compatriots: Today is April 24. Ninety-five years ago on this day, a state-devised plan unleashed a crime whose viciousness, magnitude, or consequences are unparalleled not only in the history of the Armenian nation but also in the history of the world. The plan of extermination of the Armenians was implemented by the Ottoman Empire’s state machine through all its structures, which were acting upon exact instructions. April 24, 1915 became a dividing line: the millennia long journey...
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  04, 2010

  Televised Address of the President Serzh Sargsyan on the Process of Normalization of Relations between Armenia and Turkey Fellow Armenians; A year has passed since the Armenian-Turkish-Swiss joint statement on steps to normalize the relations between Armenia and Turkey. During this period, the two Protocols aimed at normalization of the relations have been publicized, discussed in the public domain, and signed. The documents have for quite a lengthy time now been in the parliaments of Armenia and Turkey, awaiting ratification. Armenia has all along demonstrated her commitment to the process of normalization...
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  04, 2010

  Remarks by President Serzh Sargsyan at the Washington Cathedral in tribute to President Woodrow Wilson Fellow Armenians, Today, all of us together visited the tomb and paid tribute to the President Woodrow Wilson of the U.S.A. – a person and a leader, who is and always will be remembered by our people as a true friend of Armenians. President Wilson was a great statesman, who has been honored by the generations of the ancient people, living thousands miles away from his homeland, and who still remember him although nearly a century has turned since then. For us – Armenians – Wilson is not...
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  03, 2010

  Remarks by President Serzh Sargsyan in Deir ez Zor Your Eminencies, Ladies and Gentlemen, I am here today since I could not but be here. It is the greatest grief of my nation that has brought me here, the grief of the first genocide of the 20th century and the greatest disgrace of the civilized humanity. Up to this moment, in the 21st century, the stigma of that disgrace still remains on the foreheads of all those who have turned the denial of the evident facts into their policy, turned it into their bargaining chip and into their...