Genocide cannot be erased from history of humanity, Nikolai Levichev, Russian State Duma Speaker said at the Public and Political Global Forum Against the Crime of Genocide in Yerevan on April 23.
"We feel the pain of the fraternal people of Armenia. Our peoples have common religion, history and culture. In Moscow and other towns in Russia the people are holding events to commemorate Genocide - the crime against humanity. The people learned nothing from the tragedy of Armenia. We have no right to remain silent about that crime," he said.
Levichev said the aggression against the Christians in the Middle East has grown into a systematic genocide, which is also a result of the unrecognized genocides of the past. The State Duma will adopt a special statement on the 100th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide, he said.