On September 5, a conference titled “The Presence of the Past – 100 Years After the Armenian Genocide 1915” was held in Berlin organized by Heinrich Böll Foundation. “Armenpress” reports that head of the EU/North America Department of the Heinrich Böll Foundation Sergey Lagodinsky and Raffi Kantian, president of the GermanArmenian Society made welcoming speeches at the conference.
The main topics of the discussion were the Armenian Genocide, the memories of Genocide survivors, perpetrators of the Genocide and how these issues should be referred to nowadays. Armenian, German and Turkish speakers will make speeches.
Vice President of the Bundestag Claudia Roth and other Bundestag members also made speeches at the conference.
