Sentence examples for joint commemoration from inspiring English sources

It ought to be a moment for joint commemoration between Russia and the West.

For years such a joint commemoration was made impossible by Turkey's refusal to acknowledge the genocide.

The judicial rehabilitation of the victims has been blocked; the archives are still sealed.It was therefore a huge breakthrough that, after painstaking and intricate diplomacy, the Polish government was able to bring Mr Putin to Katyń for a joint commemoration ceremony on April 7th.

The cable concerns the so-called "history wars", a nationalist campaign which came to the fore last year, but has since dimmed following the rapprochment between Russia and Poland, leading to the first joint commemoration of the Soviet massacre of 22,000 Polish officers in the Katyn forests in 1940.

In 2005, Schulweis joined Archbishop Hovnan Derderian of the Armenian Church of North America at the first joint commemoration of the Jewish and Armenian genocides.

Visiting the cities of Lund and Malmo in southern Sweden for a joint Catholic-Lutheran commemoration of the Reformation, the pope observed the 499th anniversary of Luther's protest of the sale of indulgences by noting the beneficial impact it had on Catholicism.

He caused further upset when he changed Church rules to allow women to take part in a male-only Lenten service, ruled out any campaigns to convert Jews and approved a "common prayer" with Lutherans for joint commemorations for next year's 500th anniversary of the start of the Protestant Reformation.

The legacy of Impulse Records has hardly lacked for commemoration.

So on Friday, the two men attended a joint military commemoration in Cannes, standing coatless in a cold rain, praising French-American friendship and military comradeship, from the two world wars to Libya, as soldiers from both countries were in attendance.

According to the Serb authorities, they had come to take part in a joint Russian-Serb commemoration of their alliance in the first world war.

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