Tuesday, April 24 2018 10:41

ArmInfo.France remembers the murder  of 600 representatives of the Armenian aristocracy  on April 24, 1915 in Constantinople, which became the beginning of the first genocide in the 20th century. This is stated in the message of French  President Emmanuel Macron to Armenian President Armen Sargsyan.

"We will never forget those killed  men, women and children whohave  found their death  of  hunger,  cold and depletionon the roads of  exile," the head of the French state, quoted by the RA President's  Press Office, stated  in his message.

Emmanuel Macron recalled that France, in the person of Georges  Clemenceau, Anatole France and Jean Jaures, condemned the massacre of  the Armenian people in the Ottoman Empire by accepting numerous  refugees. and Russia, France, on May 25, 1915, characterized those  events as a crime against humanity and civilization.In September 1915, a French ship under fire was able to save 4,000 refugees from  Musa Ler.

"The memory of the Genocide and the significance of its lessons  concern each of us.On this day of commemoration of the victims of the  Armenian Genocide and its 103-year anniversary, please accept   the  warmest and most friendly wishes to you and the whole Armenian  people,  Mr. President, "reads the statement.

It should be reminded that today, on April 24, the entire Armenian  nation marks the 103rd anniversary of the Armenian Genocide committed  in Ottoman Turkey in 1915. As a result of the genocide, 1.5 million  people were massacred, as many people were scattered throughout the  world. Thousands of Armenian manuscripts, hundreds of historical and  architectural monuments were destroyed, more than 60 Armenian cities  and 2.5 thousand villages were burnt. In 2015, the Armenian Apostolic  Church canonized the victims of the Genocide. The Armenian Genocide  has been recognized by many states. The first to recognize him in  1965 in Uruguay. Subsequently, Russia, France, Italy, Germany,  Holland, Poland, Lithuania, Slovakia, Sweden, Switzerland, Greece,  Cyprus, Lebanon, Canada, Venezuela, Argentina, as well as 45 US  states followed suit. The Armenian Genocide was also recognized by  the Vatican and the World Council of Churches.