Dear compatriots, today we are paying tribute to the memory of the innocent victims of the Armenian Genocide, a genocide that was planned by a state and was perpetrated in Ottoman Turkey 95 years ago. The most part of the creative nation was exterminated, deported and deprived of the Motherland, and its only guilt was being Armenian. It was not only a crime towards a nation, but it was a crime towards a whole mankind.
Any nation neither morally, nor physically and spiritually cannot refuse its memory, in which there is duty of soul and call of spirit, pain of deprivation of Homeland.
The Armenian is never disputable and will not be, independent of some others’ wishes and actions to use the genocide as a playing card. Any document cannot put under doubt the fact of the perpetrated genocide towards the Armenians in Ottoman Turkey or become an occasion of bargaining. Any process should not be perceived or observed as denial from the recognition of the genocide. Going forward through history should not be through denying the history.
The mankind should see the reality through the repentance of those, who perpetrated the genocide that was not fully condemned at the beginning of the 20th century and until now. That repentance is a debt not only before the victims of the Armenian Genocide, which was perpetrated in Ottoman Turkey in 1915, and their generations, the whole Armenian people, but also the whole civilized world. The people and the country bearing the stigma of perpetrating the genocide have no right to be considered member of the civilized society, if today they are continuing to live with that same psychology and way of thinking, by which the 1915 Armenian Genocide was perpetrated.
Nobody can forget the wound, the massacre, that was not healed, but have no right to do that, because the restoration of justice is mixed with the feelings of our soul. But we shall also get strength and find the vision of the future, which will not impede the progress of the Armenian people and Armenia, will boost our role in the international and regional processes.