Dear fellow citizens,
Today, on April 24, we commemorate the memory of the 1.5 million innocent victims of the Armenian Genocide. Time has been powerless to dull the pain still felt by the descendants of the genocide’s victims, as long as historical justice remains unfulfilled.
This is not merely a day of remembrance. It is a day for our conscience, our historical memory, and our national identity.
But we must not only grieve. We must live, we must fight for the restoration of justice, and we must build and strengthen our homeland—so that the entire civilized world is convinced that the Armenian will is unbreakable.
The memory of our martyrs obliges us to be strong, to be united, never to forget, and never to give up.
Let us never forget or deny our past; let us stand together to defend our national dignity. Let us build together the Armenia our ancestors dreamed of.
I bow in reverence before the memory of our holy martyrs.