sident of Iran Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. This move was done in order not to compromise their relationship with the Republic of Turkey.
Mevlut Cavusoglu, the Turkish President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe also refused to visit the memorial. He asked to have his decision respected.
Presidents that Recognize the Armenian Genocide
Presidents from countries that recognize the Armenian Genocide are:
- Carlos Menem (Argentina)
- Emil Constantinescu (Romania)
- Petar Stefanov Stoyanov (Bulgaria)
- Konstantinos “Kostis” Stephanopoulos (Greece)
- Émile Jamil Lahoud (Lebanon)
- Ion Iliescu (Romania)
- Eduard Ambrosiyevich Shevardnadze (Georgia)
- Aleksander Kwaśniewski (Poland)
- Askar Akayevich Akayev (Kyrgyzstan)
- Leonid Danylovych Kuchma (Ukraine)
- Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin (Russia)
- Rolandas Paksas (Lithuania)
- Mohammad Khatami (Iran)
- Arnold Rüütel (Estonia)
- Tarja Kaarina Halonen (Finland)
- Traian Băsescu (Romania)
- Jacques René Chirac (France)
- Stjepan “Stipe” Mesić (Croatia)
- Mikheil Saakashvili (Goergia)
- Demetris Christofias (Cyprus)
- Boris Tadić (Serbia)
- Valdis Zatlers (Latvia)
- Dmitry Anatolyevich Medvedev (Russia)
- Danilo Türk (Slovenia)
- Micheline Anne-Marie Calmy-Rey (Switzerland)
- Dalia Grybauskaitė (Lithuania)
- Nicolas Sarkozy (France)
- Bronisław Maria Komorowski (Poland)
- Michel Sleiman (Lebanon)
- Heinz Fischer (Austria)
- Aleksandr Grigoryevich Lukashenko (Belarus)
- Karolos Papoulias (Greece)
- Giorgi Margvelashvili (Georgia)
- Didier Burkhalter (Swiss Confederation)
- Nicos Anastasiades (Greece)
- Tomislav Nikolić (Serbia)
- François Gérard Georges Nicolas Hollande (France)
- Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin (Russia)
- Miloš Zeman (Czech Republic)
- Emomali Rahmon (Tajikistan)
- Rumen Georgiev Radev (Bulgaria)
- Michel Naim Aoun (Lebanon)
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