Armenian Deputy Foreign Minister Responds to Russian Patriarch and Anti-Armenian Reports

Deputy Foreign Minister Shavarsh Kocharyan. (Source: Armenpress)

Deputy Foreign Minister Shavarsh Kocharyan. (Source: Armenpress)

YEREVAN (ArmInfo News Agency) —Armenian Deputy Foreign Minister Shavarsh Kocharyan discussed the irrelevance of Patriarch Kirill’s statement, and told reporters on January 14 that Armenia has taken action against the anti-Armenian resolutions included in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE).

According to Kocharyan, the statement of Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia, who said that the Christian minorities in the Ottoman Empire were not annihilated, was irrelevant.

“Though the given statement was followed by the Russian Orthodox Church’s explanations, nevertheless, I think that the statement was irrelevantâ€

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