The word “genocide” uttered by Pope Francis in his speech at the presidential palace in Yerevan, was not listed in the original text that the Pontiff was to deliver. At a press conference, the press officer of the Vatican, Federico Lombardi said that only the pope can at will change the discourse and the services of the Vatican can not determine in advance. Thus Pope Francis is allowed to use the term “genocide” in his speech yesterday. A gesture that cut short all the rumors and various predictions on the pope.

To the question of journalists interviewing Frederico Lombardi on the possible reactions of Turkey face these words of the Pope, the director of the Holy See Press Office said “the Pope always speaks of peace and dialogue, he has always favored and continue to do so. If you remember the past, it should do so by preventing new wars, understand what to remember that these wars can not happen again. “On the first day of the Pope’s visit to Armenia, Frederico Lombardi told that “the pope is very healthy and is happy to be in Armenia.” F. Lombardi believes that the meeting in St. Echmiadzin between officials of the two churches and the town and friendly prayer is “a strong encounter.” He also confided that Pope Francis was “surprised” by the Catholicos Karekin II of the gift that offered the Pope Francis portrait made on a surface of a millimeter “need a microscope to see it.”

Krikor Amirzayan