Approval of Armenian Genocide Memorial construction overlapped with  Cuban Missile Crisis - Nikol Pashinyan 

ArmInfo.The topic of the  may have been used by the Soviet Union for its  own interests. This is the conclusion reached by Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, who stated this on September 18 at the Second World Armenian Summit, calling on the Armenian people to draw  certain parallels themselves.

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And why did the Armenian people not ask these questions, although  they understood perfectly well what was going on, Pashinyan now asks.  And how did it happen that Moscow gave the go-ahead for the  construction of the Tsitsernakaberd memorial at the very moment when,  according to the Armenian Prime Minister, the Soviet Union was on the  brink of a nuclear war with the United States?

These are questions that we must address in order to come to  well-known conclusions or to clarify that no, there is no  connection,> Nikol Pashinyan summed up.

On November 29, 1967, Tsitsernakaberd, a memorial complex built in  memory of the Armenian Genocide of 1915 in Ottoman Turkey, was opened  in Yerevan. The issue of the need for a monument was raised in the  early 1960s by the First Secretary of the Central Committee of the  Communist Party of Armenia Yakov Zarubyan. Already in March 1965, a  law was adopted on the construction of a monument in Yerevan .

And the extremely tense political, diplomatic and military  confrontation between the USSR and the USA, known to the world as the  took place in October 1962, which was caused  by the deployment by the United States in Turkey in 1961 of  medium-range missiles that could easily reach cities in the western  part of the Soviet Union, including Moscow, which deprived the USSR  of the opportunity to deliver an equivalent retaliatory strike. As a  response to these actions, the Soviet Union stationed professional  military units and subdivisions on the island of Cuba, in close  proximity to the coast of the USA. The crisis could have led to a  global nuclear war. On October 27, 1962, Moscow made a compromise  proposal, which later served as the basis for resolving the crisis.  The USSR agreed to withdraw the missiles from Cuba and turn back  Soviet ships heading for the island, provided that the US government  pledged to respect the inviolability of Cuba's borders and renounce  armed aggression against it. Tensions gradually began to subside. As  a result of the complex diplomatic struggle that followed, the  American naval blockade of Cuba was lifted on November 20. In  November-December 1962, the Soviet launchers were dismantled, the  missiles and some of the military personnel were sent to the USSR.  Later, American nuclear missiles were also removed from Turkey. And  after another month and a half of intensive negotiations, a formal  line was drawn under the final settlement - on January 7, 1963, the  issue of the Cuban Missile Crisis was removed from the agenda of the  UN Security Council.