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YEREVAN. – At Thursday’s meeting of the Commission on Religion, Diaspora and International Integration Issues of the Public Council of Armenia, it was decided to respond with a statement to Russian Patriarch Kirill’s statement that the Christian minorities in the Ottoman Empire were not annihilated.

Public Council member Karine Danielyan, who is the person behind this proposal, told the aforesaid to Armenian News-NEWS.am.

“We need to respond to this statement and expect a more serious explanation, since the explanation given by the Moscow Patriarchate is insufficient,” Danielyan noted.

She added that at Friday’s meeting of the Public Council, they will decide on the format of the adequate response they will demand regarding this statement by Kirill I, Patriarch of Moscow and all Russia of the Russian Orthodox Church.

“I think that we need to petition to the Russian embassy [in Armenia’s capital city of Yerevan] with an open letter,” Karine Danielyan said. “Now, we are working on making additions to the [respective] statement [of ours].”

The Russian Patriarch’s recent TV interview, during which he had made the abovementioned statement, caused protests among the Armenian society.

Subsequently, the Patriarch’s spokesperson commented on the given part of this interview. He noted that the Russian Orthodox Church’s stance on Armenian Genocide was repeatedly expressed through official announcements and the Patriarch’s remarks, whose evidence is the Russian Orthodox Church’s   participation in the Armenian Genocide Centennial commemorations in 2015.

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