Events to commemorate the Armenian Genocide were held in Geneva

24 April, 2022

On April 24, at the St. Hagop Armenian Apostolic Church in Geneva, a service was held by Very Rev. Fr. Archimandrite Goussan Aljanian, Locum Tenens in Switzerland, for the holy martyrs of the Armenian Genocide. He also delivered a sermon dedicated to the meaning of the day. Wreaths were laid at the monument to the victims of the Armenian Genocide adjacent to the church.

Afterwards, the commemorative events continued in front of “The Lampposts of Memory”, a memorial dedicated to the Armenian Genocide at the Trembley park of Geneva.

Mr. Andranik Hovhannisyan, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Armenia to Switzerland, Mr. Patrick-Etienne Dimier, Member of the State Council of Geneva andMs. Lucy Miganouche Baghramian, President of the Armenian Union of Switzerland (UAS), and Mr. César Murangira, President of the Association of Genocide Survivors “IBUKA, Memory and Justice” (Swiss Section), delivered their remarks during the commemorative event.

Ambassador Andranik Hovhannisyan particularly mentioned that “today we are proud that we have an independent State, and the sacred duty of all of us is to support our Homeland, to unite around it, to strengthen and to develop it. This is the most effective recipe for preventing any such disaster in future” (full text of the speech of the Armenian Ambassador to Switzerland can be found at https://bit.ly/3EHB6yd.

The speeches were followed by the cultural part of the event, within the framework of which works by Komitas and Barsegh Kanachyan were performed, as well as the representatives of the Armenian community recited in French poems by Vahan Tekeyan, William Saroyan and other prominent Armenian authors.

The event was attended by the members of the State and City Council of Geneva, numerous representatives of the Armenian community, and friends of the Armenian people. The commemoration event was organized by the Armenian Union of Switzerland (UAS).

Commemorative events dedicated to the 107th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide were also held in Zurich, Oberentfelden and Bern.

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