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On March 20 an exhibition entitled “Armenian Genocide: Front Page Coverage in the World Press” was officially opened in the National Library of Estonia.

The RA NA Deputy Speaker Eduard Sharmazanov, RA Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the Baltic countries Ara Ayvazyan, spiritual leader of the Armenian Apostolic Church in the Baltic States, Father Khosrov Stepanyan, Head of the Church Council of Estonia Anders Pyder, Head of the Armenian Community in Estonia Razmik Ivanian, Director General of the National Library of Estonia Janne   Andresoo, as well as several political, public and cultural figures attended the opening ceremony of the exhibition.

At the opening ceremony of the exhibition delivering a speech, the RA NA Deputy Speaker Eduard Sharmazanov has particularly mentioned that Turkey unfortunately continues its policy of denial: instead of facing its own history, recognizing the Armenian Genocide and rapprochement with Armenia, Turkey has illegally been blockading the Republic of Armenian for more than two decades. According to the NA Deputy Speaker, Turkey thwarted the ratification process of the Armenian-Turkish protocols, unjustly linking the Armenian-Turkish rapprochement with the NK conflict settlement process.

The RA Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the Baltic States Ara Ayvazyan, Head of the Church Council of Estonia Anders Pyder, the Estonian MP Igor Gryazin and Estonian Historian Lembo Tanning has also come up with speeches at the opening ceremony.