Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen MPs,Dear Guests,This year is the 97th anniversary of the genocide of the Pontic Greeks – the second genocide, chronologically, of the 20th century – which took place following the Armenian genocide. The Pontic genocide is one of the saddest moments in human history, as it led to the uprooting, from their ancestral hearths, of a part of Hellenism that struggled for its survival for thousands of years and that followed its own notable course, parallel to that of the rest of Hellenism.Maintaining of the historical memory of the Pontic genocide and venerating the martyred past...
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