YEREVAN, MARCH 26, NOYAN TAPAN - ARMENIANS TODAY. The three-day official visit of Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan to Syria finished on March 24 with a trip to Deir es Zor where, in his words, "bereft of home and property, bereft of children and parents, bereft of health and the last hope, and finally bereft of the most important their homeland, these people were doomed to lose the last thing they had - their life in accordance with the state orchestrated and meticulously developed plan of extermination". The president attended the Honorary Consulate of the Republic of Armenia, then he went to the Saint Martyrs Church in memory of the victims of the Armenian Genocide where he delivered a speech, in which he declared: "It is impossible to kill a nation that does not want to die. We mean to live and to grow. It is no more possible to intimidate or blackmail us since we have seen the most horrible". According to the Public Television Company of Armenia, the president returned from Damascus with a package of agreements on the development of political, cultural and economic cooperation.

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