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Bill CLINTON - Nisan 24,
1998
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April 24, 1998 — Armenian Remembrance Day
This year, as in the past, we join with Armenian-Americans throughout the
nation in commemorating one of the saddest chapters in the history of this
century, the deportations and massacres of a million and a half Armenians in
the Ottoman Empire in the years 1915-1923.
This painful event from the past also serves as a powerful lesson for the
future: that man's inhumanity to man must not be tolerated, and that evil
cannot conquer. The Armenian people have endured, surviving the ravages of
two World Wars and seven decades of Soviet rule. Throughout the world, and
especially in this country, Armenians have contributed to the material,
intellectual and spiritual lives of their adopted homes. Today's Armenians
are building a free and independent nation that stands as a living tribute
to all those who died.
The United States will continue working to preserve a free Armenia in a
peaceful, stable and prosperous Caucasus region. In that spirit, I extend to
all Armenians my best wishes on Remembrance Day in the fervent hope that
those who died will never be forgotten.
Bill Clinton
Konrad Adenauer Caddesi No: 61 06550 Yıldız – Çankaya ANKARA
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