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April 23 2004
ARMENIA WELCOMES CANADIAN PARLIAMENT'S GENOCIDE DECISION
YEREVAN, APRIL 23, ARMENPRESS: Armenia welcomed Thursday a
decision by Canada's parliament to formally recognize the Armenian
genocide. A spokesman for Armenian foreign ministry, Hamlet
Gasparian, told Reuters that "we welcome the April 21 motion of
Canada's parliament which came to finalize the complete and legal
acknowledgment of the Armenian genocide after the upper chamber of
Commons, Senate, recognized it on June 13 of 2002."
He said that by that decision Canada has paid tribute to the
memory of the 1915 genocide that claimed the lives of 1.5 million
Armenians.
The spokesman also said that the decision is another evidence that
crimes against humanity are not subject to oblivion, a contribution
to the struggle against the policy of denial adopted by Turkish
government. He said the decision was also the result of a many-year
long campaign of the Canadian Armenian community for the genocide
recognition.
April 23 2004
ARMENIA WELCOMES CANADIAN PARLIAMENT'S GENOCIDE DECISION
YEREVAN, APRIL 23, ARMENPRESS: Armenia welcomed Thursday a
decision by Canada's parliament to formally recognize the Armenian
genocide. A spokesman for Armenian foreign ministry, Hamlet
Gasparian, told Reuters that "we welcome the April 21 motion of
Canada's parliament which came to finalize the complete and legal
acknowledgment of the Armenian genocide after the upper chamber of
Commons, Senate, recognized it on June 13 of 2002."
He said that by that decision Canada has paid tribute to the
memory of the 1915 genocide that claimed the lives of 1.5 million
Armenians.
The spokesman also said that the decision is another evidence that
crimes against humanity are not subject to oblivion, a contribution
to the struggle against the policy of denial adopted by Turkish
government. He said the decision was also the result of a many-year
long campaign of the Canadian Armenian community for the genocide
recognition.