The police are now trying to detain the participants of the action who have grouped in a nearby café.

President Barack Obama announced the designation of a Presidential Delegation to the Republic of Armenia to attend the Centennial Commemoration of the Events of 1915 on April 24, 2015, the press service of the U.S. Embassy in Armenia reports.

The lights of the Eiffel Tower of Paris will be switched off in memory of the victims of the Armenian Genocide on April 24th, the Embassy of Armenia in France reports.

Obama not to recognize Armenian Genocide

The ancestors of HHK deputy Shushan Petrosyan are from Western Armenia. Today she voted in favor of the NA statement on the 100th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide almost with tears in her eyes.

On April 23, 2015 from 8 a.m. to 12 p.m. there will be a limitation of traffic on the following streets leading to the Republic Square.

The Armenian Assembly of America (Assembly) announces that Arpi Vartanian was appointed to the newly-created Regional Director position in Yerevan.

Speaker of the parliament assures that though the mankind was silent, people must feel that without Armenians they are incomplete, as the Armenian nation was in the center of world culture, “After the Genocide Armenians were able to prove the world that world is weak, when there are genocides and wars.”

Criminal Court of Appeal refused the appeal on the change of custody as a measure of restraint for the President of the Founding Parliament Garegin Chukaszyan.

Today Parliament of Austria adopted a resolution condemning the Armenian Genocide.

On April 21 under Article 70 of the RA Constitution, on the RA NA deputies’ initiative, the RA National Assembly extraordinary sitting was convened, and on the agenda was the issue of voting the NA statement On the Armenian Genocide Centennial debated on the previous sitting of the RA National Assembly.

Today during its special sitting the NA will vote the draft bill on the statement on the 100th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide. 113 out of 131 deputies are present at the sitting.

During his visit to Washington, Turkey’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Mevlut Cavusoglu announced that Turkey shares the sorrow of Armenians, but it has refused to follow the call of the European Parliament and to recognize the Armenian Genocide.

NA special sitting is due today: the draft bill on the statement connected with the 100th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide will be put to the vote.

This year April 24 will be more united and targeted. Sociologist Aharon Adibekyan doesn’t remember such a high activity and international reaction.

Turkey’s PM Ahmed Davutoglu released a message on the Armenians Genocide of 1915. The message reads, in part:

Germany joins other nations and institutions including France, the European parliament and Pope Francis in using the term “genocide" to describe the massacre of up to 1.5 million Armenians by Ottoman Turkish forces 100 years ago.

In the current world of drastic political changes, the international community and individual States occasionally do not manage to address issues, which at first glance do not seem urgent, even though there is an understanding that addressing them is of high importance.

Through their works, the University students conveyed the pain and sorrow of their ancestors, the strength and will to live, fight and survive.

The group was received by Deputy Ombudsman Armen Grigoryan and presented him their concerns and demands.

Safaryan has been on hunger strike for five days now. He is said to have started the strike after being subjected to tortures in prison.

The meeting was also attended by representatives of the party and the Embassy.

Mr Avetisyan says he has chosen the venue deliberately to call Ombudsman Karen Andreasyan’s attention to his demand.

Le Monde, a popular daily newspaper published in Paris, has published an article by world renowned chansonnier Charles Aznavour, Nouvelles d'Arménie magazine reports.