On April 20, member of Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors Michael D. Antonovich presented the declaration on the 95th anniversary of Genocide to Armenian Community in Los Angeles.

According to the document, April 24, 2010 is declared an “Armenian Genocide Victims’ Remembrance Day”. Accordingly, mutual understanding, ease of conditions and recovery will be ensured for the Genocide victims’ descendants-including 350.000 local Armenians. The declaration, issued on the initiative of Antonovich, recalls remembering and paying tribute to Armenian Genocide victims.

The members of Social Democratic Hunchakian Party Peter Darakian and Mehran Khachadurian expressed their gratitude to Antonovich for the efforts in recognition of Armenian Genocide.

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