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On April 17 the RA NA Deputy Speaker Eduard Sharmazanov took part in the solemn plenary session of the Inter-Parliamentary Assembly of Member Nations of the Commonwealth Independent States (IPA CIS) in Tavrichesky Palace of Saint Petersburg, which was dedicated to the 70th anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War. The Chairperson of the IPA CIS Council, the Speaker of the RF FA Federal Council Valentina Matvienko presided over the session.

The NA Deputy Speaker gave a speech, where he noted in particular: “Ahead of the 70^th anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War we mark the Armenian Genocide Centennial. At first glance the relation of these two events is invisible and seems to be indirect, but I should note that in 1915 one and a half million Armenian people have fallen victims of that very Nazism and fascism. It was the impunity of Turkey that bore Mussolini’s fascism and Hitler’s Nazism. Its vivid example was Hitler’s announcement before the German military commanders: “Who after all speaks today of the annihilation of the Armenians?” This once again proves that the policy of Germany was the continuation of the policy of the Young Turks’ Nazism.

The Great Patriotic War, in fact, was one more experience for our people, experience of victory, when the Armenians, together with other peoples, fighting against fascism and Nazism, withstood the evil, the victim of which they became in the Ottoman Empire.”