Below is the unedited version of President Serzh Sargsyan's address to the nation on the ocasion of the 94th anniversary of the 1915 Armenian Genocide Dear compatriots, Today we bow down before the memory of the innocent victims of the Armenian Genocide. 94 years ago the Ottoman Empire organized and perpetrated the Armenian Genocide on the state level. A huge part of our people was coldly annihilated. Today the Genocide in not only a past reality, but also an integral part of the present and the destiny of the Genocide survivors, their heirs and all Armenians. The crimes against humanity have no statute of limitation either in people’s memory or before the court of history. The international recognition and condemnation of the Armenian Genocide is an issue of restoration of  historical justice for the Armenian people and the Republic of Armenia. The Armenian nation is not alone in pursuing the condemnation of the crime of genocide. At this time of remembrance we express our heartfelt gratitude to the states, organizations and individuals who support us in our quest for condemnation and prevention of this crime against humanity. We support those Turkish intellectuals who struggle for historic justice, who share our pain. We have said numerous times that the process of recognition of the Armenian Genocide is not directed against the Turkish people and recognition of the Genocide by Turkey is not a precondition for the establishment of bilateral relations. At the time ,the lessons of the Armenian Genocide were ignored. During the last decades sophisticated mechanisms against Genocide denial and denunciation of the recognition process have been developed. To deny Genocide means to cast into oblivion this crime against humanity and to pave the way for new similar ferocious crimes. Today, when the world faces new instances of hatred, nationalism, and intolerance, a united and unanimous response of human kind to the crimes against humanity becomes of crucial importance. As President of the Republic of Armenia, I wish no other nation ever goes through that tragedy again. Dear Compatriots, Every one of our innocent victims has a name, family and story. The committed crime has concrete culprits – those who planned it and those who executed. Many of those tragic stories have not been told yet. Even though a huge amount of work has been conducted, the world is yet to see abundant evidence testifying to the fact of the Armenian Genocide, testimonies, and documented facts. Centuries-long Armenian history has many heroic pages, pages of losses and pages of creation. Today, when we are building our new statehood, when we shape the new biography of our freedom we prove that we ourselves can be the guarantors of our security and eliminate any possibility of the repetition of similar crimes in the future.