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Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents, 1998
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Message on the Observance of Armenian Remembrance Day, 1998,
April 24, 1998
This year, as in the past, we join with Armenian-Americans throughout the nation in commemorating one of the saddest chapters in the history of this century, the deportations and massacres of a million and a half Armenians in the Ottoman Empire in the years 1915-1923.
This painful event from the past also serves as a powerful lesson for the future: that man’s inhumanity to man must not be tolerated, and that evil cannot conquer. The Armenian people have endured, surviving the ravages of two World Wars and seven decades of Soviet rule. Throughout the world, and especially in this country, Armenians have contributed to the material, intellectual and spiritual lives of their adopted homes. Today’s Armenians are building a free and independent nation that stands as a living tribute to all those who died.
The United States will continue working to preserve a free Armenia in a peaceful, stable and prosperous Caucasus region. In that spirit, I extend to all Armenians my best wishes on Remembrance Day in the fervent hope that those who died will never be forgotten.
William J. Clinton
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Chicago: William J. Clinton, "Message on the Observance of Armenian Remembrance Day, 1998, April 24, 1998," Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents, 1998 in United States. Executive Office of the President, Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents, Week Ending Friday, May 1, 1998 (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1998), 34:2540 Original Sources, accessed April 19, 2024, http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=YU53WUEIHT6TVI7.
MLA: Clinton, William J. "Message on the Observance of Armenian Remembrance Day, 1998, April 24, 1998." Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents, 1998, in United States. Executive Office of the President, Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents, Week Ending Friday, May 1, 1998 (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1998), 34:2540, Original Sources. 19 Apr. 2024. http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=YU53WUEIHT6TVI7.
Harvard: Clinton, WJ, 'Message on the Observance of Armenian Remembrance Day, 1998, April 24, 1998' in Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents, 1998. cited in , United States. Executive Office of the President, Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents, Week Ending Friday, May 1, 1998 (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1998), 34:2540. Original Sources, retrieved 19 April 2024, from http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=YU53WUEIHT6TVI7.
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