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16 September 2003 - 17:48 AMT

LITHUANIAN PRESIDENT VISITED YEREVAN MEMORIAL OF ARMENIAN GENOCIDE IN OTTOMAN TURKEY

Lithuanian president Rolandas Paksas, who is in Yerevan on an official call, today visited Memorial of the victims of the Armenian Genocide in Ottoman Turkey. Laying a wreath to the monument, R. Paksas noted in a conversation with journalists that the Armenian people has had a heroic historical past, some moments of which were really tragic. He noted that such moments were also present in the history of the Lithuanian people, too. “We understand you perfectly well and I think that this is our common line,” the Lithuanian leader said.