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    BULGARIAN CAPITAL'S MUNICIPAL COUNCIL TO RECOGNIZE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE

    Bulgarian News Agency
    March 20 2008
    Bulgaria

    Sofia, 20 March: Sofia will become the fourth Bulgarian city to
    officially recognize the 1915-22 Armenian Genocide. These were the
    words of Sofia Municipal Council's Committee for European Affairs
    and Public Relations Irina Yordanova, who talked to BTA on Thursday
    [20 March].

    The capital is expected to follow in the footsteps of Plovdiv, Bourgas
    [Burgas], and Stara Zagora in stating its belief that the Ottoman
    Empire undertook such a campaign in the last years before its demise.

    A declaration was submitted to the Committee bearing 35 municipal
    councillors' signatures, who want to see 24 April declared as a day
    of remembrance for those who died in the Armenian Genocide.

    The Committee unanimously approved the text of the declaration, which
    is supported by eight Sofia-based Armenian organizations as well as
    by the signatures of twenty-four intellectuals and businessmen of
    Armenian descent.
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