Moscow appoints acting permanent representative to UN after Vitaly Churkin’s death

Russia’s First Deputy Permanent Representative to the United Nations Pyotr Ilyichev has been appointed as acting Permanent Representative to the organization after Vitaly Churkin’s unexpected death, according to a representative of Russian Foreign Ministry’s press service.

Turkey calls on US to adopt objective approach after Obama's 'Meds Yeghern' remarks

Turkish Foreign Ministry has urged the U.S. administration to adopt an objective and constructive approach in evaluating historical realities on the basis of a memory after U.S. President Barack Obama's “Meds Yeghern” remarks on the killings of Armenians in 1915.

Turkey to send back envoy to Vatican after ‘rewording’ on 1915 incidents

Turkey has announced a decision to return its ambassador to the Vatican, Mehmet Paçacı, nearly 10 months after withdrawing him in protest at Pope Francis’ description of the killings of Anatolian Armenians during World War I as “the first genocide of the 20th century.”

There Must Be Reparation, Says Paraguayan Senator Who Introduced Genocide Recognition Bill

ASUNCION (Agencia Prensa Armenia)—In an interview with Agencia Prensa Armenia, Paraguayan Senator Desiree Masi, who introduced Armenian Genocide recognition bill in the Congress of Paraguay last month, said that, “this statement of the Paraguayan Parliament will lead to greater recognition and a rescue of the historical memory.”

Victims’ relatives gather on 9/11 attacks anniversary. Obamas lead moment of silence to mark anniversary

Relatives of the nearly 3,000 people killed in the September 11, 2001, attacks gathered in New York, Pennsylvania and outside Washington on Friday to mark the 14th anniversary of the hijacked airliner strikes carried out by Al Qaeda militants.

Hollande honours the lives of slaves at Caribbean museum

French President François Hollande inaugurated a museum and memorial site to honour the memory of slaves and their struggles in the French Caribbean island of Guadeloupe on Sunday.

Reasons behind Russia's high-profile V-Day celebrations

Russia is busy preparing for the Victory Day celebrations on May 9, as this year marks the 70th anniversary of the victory of the Great Patriotic War, Russia's term for World War II (WWII).

Erdoğan warns Pope Francis not to repeat "mistake" about Armenian claims

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has condemned Pope Francis, warning him to not repeat the “mistake” of describing the mass killings of Ottoman Armenians as “genocide.”

Turkey recalls Vatican ambassador after pope's Armenia genocide remarks

Turkey called its ambassador to the Vatican back to Ankara for consultation, the foreign ministry said on Sunday, after Pope Francis publicly described the 1915 massacre of Armenians as genocide.

Pope calls Armenian slaughter ‘first genocide of 20th century’

Pope Francis on Sunday remembered the centenary of the slaughter of Armenians under the Ottoman Empire by calling it “the first genocide of the 20th century,” a politically explosive pronouncement that will certainly anger Turkey.

"Nobody joins NATO by force, Serbia included" (Jens Stoltenberg)

BELGRADE -- NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg has said that this western military organization "does not force any country, Serbia included, to join."

He added that he was "satisfied with the military cooperation so far."

World marks 10 years since Asia tsunami. (Memorial services held for 220,000 people killed after underwater earthquake)

Beachside memorials and religious services have been held across Asia to mark the 10th anniversary of the Indian Ocean tsunami that killed 220,000 in one of modern history's worst natural disasters.
The devastating December 26, 2004, tsunami, triggered by a 9.1-magnitude earthquake, struck a dozen countries around the Indian Ocean rim.

Deputy PM and FM Venizelos’ statement on the 40th anniversary of the Turkish invasion of Cyprus (Hellenic MFA)

Hellenic MFA, Friday, 18 July 2014

Forty years after the Turkish invasion of Cyprus, in 1974, Greece bows to the memory of our fallen brothers and expresses its respect for and gratitude to all the brave Cypriot and Greek defenders of Cyprus who faced the superior forces of the invader in a harsh and unequal confrontation.

Forty years later, the wounds remain open: the ongoing illegal Turkish military occupation and illegal settlement of the occupied territories, the suffering of the families of the missing, the uprooting of over 200,000 displaced brothers of ours, the pillaging of Orthodox places of worship and the ancient monuments of our culture.

Deputy PM and FM Venizelos’ statement regarding the desecration of the Jewish cemetery of Thessaloniki

MFA, Friday, 30 May 2014:

 

Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Evangelos Venizelos made the following statement regarding the desecration of the Jewish cemetery of Thessaloniki:

“I condemn in the most unequivocal manner yesterday’s desecration of the Jewish cemetery of Thessaloniki. It is an abhorrent act that is a brutal insult to the memory not only of the Jewish Community, but of the Greek people as a whole.

Serbs' disappearance from Krajina - goal of Operation Storm

THE HAGUE - Serbia's legal team underlined before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on Friday that Operation Storm was the largest, single, ethnic cleansing campaign in living memory, which the Croatian authorities conducted with the genocidal intent to destroy the Krajina Serbs.

Counsel for Serbia Wayne Jordash noted that the genocide was planned in the Brioni meeting between the then Croatian president Franjo Tudjman and military commanders on July 31, 1995.
During the meeting, Tudjman set as the objective of Operation Storm, which followed on August 4-5, 1995, that the Serbs disappear from the Krajina region.
"As the evidence shows, President Tudjman, the leader of Croatia and its ruling party, the HDZ, as well as the Supreme Commander of the Croatian forces at the time, saw genocide as a solution to the problem presented by the Krajina Serbs," Jordash said.