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The ceremony was held after a mass that was led by Armenian Patriarch of Jerusalem Nourhan Manougian, and was attended by the leaders of Armenian community in Jerusalem.
During the 20-minute ceremony Clooney took part in a procession with Armenian politicians and military, before laying a flower at the memorial and soberly standing alongside Mr Sargsyan.
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(Tigran Mehrabyan, PAN Photo via AP).
Pro-Armenia demonstrators at the Turkish Embassy on Sunday, April 24, 2016.
Ankara estimates the number of Armenians killed between 1915 and 1917 around 300,000 to 500,000, as opposed to 1.5 million claimed by Armenians, and considers the massacre as the “casualties” of World War I.
Turkey accepts that Armenians died in clashes with Ottoman soldiers but denies hundreds of thousands were killed and rejects the term genocide.
About 20 countries have recognized the Turkish massacres of Armenians as a Genocide as well as the European Parliament.
During his time in Armenia, Clooney also presented the first Aurora Prize for humanitarian effort to Marguerite Barankitse, who saved thousands of lives and cared for orphans and refugees amid the Burundi civil war.
Memorial events in Armenia kicked off late Saturday with a torchlight march to the memorial complex.
Many Armenians and their Polish relatives, as well as several Kurdish young people arrived in Warsaw from different cities to participate in the Armenian Genocide Commemoration events.
“We will never give up working for amity and peace against those who try to politicize history through a bitter rhetoric of hate and enmity and strive to alienate the two neighboring nations”, he said.
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Animosity between the neighbors, whose border is shut, have flared this month after clashes between Muslim Azerbaijan and Armenian-backed Christian separatists in Nagorno-Karabakh, a region inside Azerbaijan that is controlled by ethnic Armenians.
