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Iranian Speaker did not use word "genocide" in Yerevan

12 September 2006 [21:12] - TODAY.AZ
The Iranian government and people always respect the memory of people, who died for the sake of the fatherland, honor and dignity of their nation, Iranian Mejlis Chair Gholam-Ali Haddad-Adel stated at a news conference in Yerevan.

In his words, after the revolution of 1979 the Armenian community of Iran got an opportunity to openly mark April 24, thus commemorating the victims of the events in 1915. As of the Iranian Parliament recognizing the Armenian "genocide" in Ottoman Turkey, Gholam-Ali Haddad-Adel merely remarked that there a proposals like that in the Parliament.

/PanARMENIAN.Net/

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