” ” ” “This year, announced the inventor of the Days, Michel Azot, “we will launch the idea of creating some Houses of Peace, i.e. observatories of peace in the world which may acts as places of attention and dialogue”. The choice of "Europe" as the subject of the Days, and in particular Armenia (to coincide with the closing of the year that France devoted to the Armenian genocide), aims at "raising awareness of the example of a continent which has experienced all the massacres specified Azot as well as all the reconciliations and reunifications of men and states". The dramatic experience of Armenia aims at reminding us "that reconciliation and forgiveness are conditional on the acknowledgement of one’s faults”. In answering the journalists’ questions, the Major of Lourdes Jean-Pierre Artigave said, however, that no Turkish speakers have been invited to the Days. "The purpose of our meetings he explained is not to replace the governmental and non-governmental agencies nor to sign treaties. But since all of mankind comes to Lourdes, we think we have something to say, to learn peace together". Card. Javier Lozano Barragan, president of the Papal Council for the Pastoral of Health and the Pope’s delegate in Lourdes, recalled instead the value of the Marian experience for the sick people who go to Lourdes. ” “
