Armenian premier condemns burning of Turkish, Azerbaijani flags 

ArmInfo.  Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan condemns the burning of the flags of Turkey and Azerbaijan at the torchlight procession held in Yerevan yesterday on the eve of the 110th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide in the Ottoman Empire. , - said Nazeli Baghdasaryan,  press secretary of the head of the Cabinet of Ministers of the  Republic of Armenia, answering a relevant question from the state  news agency .

At the same time, she added, Pashinyan condemns the shelling of a  residential building in the village of Khoznavar in the Syunik region  by the Azerbaijani armed forces, the violation of the ceasefire by  the Azerbaijani armed forces, and calls on the Azerbaijani  authorities to investigate these incidents and provide explanations.

The Armenian Genocide in the Ottoman Empire is the first genocide of  the 20th century. Armenians remember the victims of the tragedy every  year on April 24. Turkey traditionally denies accusations of mass  extermination of more than 1.5 million Armenians. The fact of the  Armenian Genocide is recognized by many countries and a number of  authoritative international organizations. The first country to  recognize the Genocide in 1965 was Uruguay. Then this fact was  recognized by such countries as: Cyprus, Russia, Greece, Canada,  Lebanon, Belgium, France, Paraguay, Argentina, Sweden, Bolivia, Great  Britain, the Netherlands, Slovakia, Germany, Lithuania, Venezuela,  Poland, Chile, Switzerland, Brazil, Luxembourg, Austria, Vatican,  Czech Republic, Denmark, Portugal, as well as the provisional  government of Libya, the USA, Syria, the European Parliament, the  World Council of Churches.