YEREVAN. – The memory of the Armenian Genocide victims pushes us to active actions. We must work by informing each other by using the tools and opportunities of the international community.

The general secretary of the World Council of Churches (WCC), Olav Fykse Tveit (Norway), noted the aforesaid Thursday at the two-day International Social and Political Global Forum against the Crime of Genocide. This forum was devoted to the Armenian Genocide Centennial, it was held in Armenia’s capital city of Yerevan, and about 600 participants from fifty countries took part in this event.

“We pay tribute to the innocent victims, and recognize what occurred,” the WCC head specifically said.

Olav Fykse Tveit added that, unfortunately, numerous governments, including the Norwegian administration, have not fulfilled their moral duty, and did not acknowledge the events in 1915 as genocide.

“[But] injustice and violence will not have the last word,” the WCC general secretary concluded.