Archbishop: Israel must recognise the "genocide"

(23 Apr 2015) RESTRICTION SUMMARY: AP CLIENTS ONLY
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Jerusalem - 21 April 2015
1. Archbishop Aris Shirvanian, Ecumenical and Foreign Relations Director at the Jerusalem Armenian Patriarchate, walking towards monument dedicated to the Armenian massacres of 1915
2. Shirvanian standing in front of monument
3. Shirvanian standing next to monument with visitors
4. Various of entrance to the St James Armenian Convent
5. Set up shot of Shirvanian
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Archbishop Aris Shirvanian, Ecumenical and Foreign Relations Director at the Jerusalem Armenian Patriarchate:
"We are very pleased that at this point, now, the Israeli government has taken the measure of sending an official delegation to participate in the commemorative events of the first century (meaning 100 years since the) genocide in Yerevan."
7. Tilt up from wooden church doors to mural
8. Close of mural
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Archbishop Aris Shirvanian, Ecumenical and Foreign Relations Director at the Jerusalem Armenian Patriarchate:
"It is very important that Israel recognise the Armenian genocide because, we the Armenians and the Jewish people have suffered the same fate and the Armenian genocide has served as a predecessor to the Jewish Holocaust by having Hitler plan to annihilate six million Jews, so Israel should have been actually one of the first countries to support and recognise the Armenian genocide, but due to its political and military and economic considerations as allies with Turkey, so far Israel has refrained from taking that official step."
10. Shirvanian outside church
11. Sign reading (Hebrew, Arabic and English): "Armenian Orthodox Patriarchate Road"
12. Banner on exterior of church reading (Armenian, English, Arabic and Hebrew): "I remember and demand"
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Mevaseret Zion, outskirts of Jerusalem - 21 April 2015
13. Representative of Israeli delegation to ceremony and Israeli Member of Parliament Nachman Shai, looking at map of Armenia
14. SOUNDBITE (English) Nachman Shai, Israeli Member of Parliament, Representative of Israeli delegation to the Armenian ceremony marking the centenary of the 1915 massacre of Armenians:
"Israel should obey to its own conscience and to its own values, and we as Jews, and this is the state, the national state of the Jewish people, should accept the very fact that there was a genocide and to change the traditional policy toward this issue."
15. Cutaway of Shai
16. SOUNDBITE (English) Nachman Shai, Israeli Member of Parliament, Representative of Israeli delegation to the Armenian ceremony marking the centenary of the 1915 massacre of Armenians:
"This is a landmark also that we actually upgrade our attitude towards the history of the Armenians, and what I suggested is just to recognise it was a genocide, but I'm not in a position to carry that message I hope very much that the government of Israel, the sooner the better, will look at this series of tragedies and will change the policy and will just give it the right name which is genocide."
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Jerusalem - 21 April 2015
17. Various of banner outside Armenian church reading (Armenian, English, Arabic and Hebrew): "I remember and demand"
STORYLINE
There are growing calls in Israel for the country to call the mass killings of Armenians during World War I a genocide.
In the first gesture of its kind, Israel is dispatching a pair of lawmakers to this week's remembrance ceremony in Yerevan to convey the Jewish state's sympathies.
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