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Paris mayor Bertrand Delanoe (C) delivers a speech during a ceremony to commemorate the Armenian Genocide for the 97th anniversary of mass killings of Armenians under the Ottoman Empire, on April 24, 2012 in Paris.Ara Toranian and Mourad Papazian, co-presidents of France's Armenian Organizations Coordination Council (CCAF), Armenia's ambassador in France, Viguen Schapira, Paris deputy mayor Anne Hidalgo and Pierre Schapira, Deputy Mayor of Paris with responsibility for international relations and the French-speaking World. Armenians regard the 1915 massacres as genocide and many countries, including France and Canada, have officially recognized it as such.