The Genocide of the Armenian nation, which occurred during the First World War, was Ottoman-turk government's last act in the Armenians' long history of oppression.

Before 1914, more than 2 million Armenians were living in the Ottoman Empire and the majority of them in the occupied Armenian territories. By the end of the First World War no more than 100,000 Armenians had remained in the area (today called Turkey) while almost half million homeless headed to the territories, which today constitute the Republic of Armenia and to regions of Middle East, Europe and North and South America. Survivors haunted by tragic memories and their descendants who have their share of suffering, live dispersed in many foreign countries.

A fundamental aspect of the Armenians' intentions for a free and collective existence is the attribution of Genocide's responsibilities. Armenians refuse to be forgotten even if this means that they will be a burden on humanity's conscience.

The Genocide that put an end to the three thousand year old life in Armenia, created new demands, ratified in the International Law by the Convention of the United Nation on the prevention and punishment of Genocide. These demands are:

• The crime of the genocide commited against the Armenian nation in 1915 and the subsequent years be condemned by the international community and by Turkey, furthermore, Turkey must admit the guilt and accept the responsibility.
  
• In accordance with the articles of the Treaty of Sevres (1920), the immediate return of the larger part of their homeland -Armenia- (now under Turkish occupation and emptied of its native armenian population), to its rightful owners - the Armenian people. 

The report of last decades' efforts and especially of those of the Armenian National Committee, include many positive elements.
Parliaments, international organizations and committees, distinguished personalities of enormous international, political, intellectual and artistic prestige, by resolutions and statements, justify historically the Armenian people, recognize the Armenian genocide, its consequences and the rights of the Armenian nation and find Turkey guilty of crime, guilty of Genocide. 

Armenians all over the world, graduating the political struggle with several initiatives in international forum, target to a definite solution to the Armenian Question.

The massive extermination as a mean of political domination, which has been used by Turkey many times, can be adopted more frequently in the future, unless the principle of justice prevails on the relations among nations. If Armenians and the other victims of repression and genocide, together with all the free thinking individuals, do not overwhelm every possible effort to stop the Turkish irreconcilable imperialistic policy, they will have failed towards their responsibilities regarding the next generations.