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YEREVAN. – Standing together with Armenia and Armenians around the world, UK Ambassador Katherine Leach wrote.

“Standing together with Armenia and Armenians around the world, remembering over a million victims of deportations & massacres of 1915,” she tweeted from Tsitsernakaberd, Armenian Genocide Memorial Complex.

Ambassador Leach posted a photo of John Whittingdale, Chair of All-Party British-Armenian Parliamentary Friendship Group, who is representing the UK at the Memorial.

The Armenian Genocide is recognized by many states. The first to acknowledge the fact was Uruguay in 1965. France recognized the Armenian Genocide in 2001. Genocide was recognized by Russia, Italy, Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, Poland, Lithuania, Slovakia, Sweden, Switzerland, Greece, Cyprus, Lebanon, Canada, Venezuela, Argentina, and 42 U.S. states. Armenian Genocide was recognized by the Vatican, the European Parliament, the World Council of Churches.

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