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    Armenia Solidarity/Nor Serount Cultural Association
    c/o The Temple of Peace, King Edward Vii Ave, Cathays Park,Cardiff
    Tel 07718982732
    [email protected]

    New Motion in the UK Parliament on the return of our Churches

    We are pleased that Andrew Dismore , the hard-working Labour MP for
    Hendon has put this motion in the House of Commons, London, at our
    request. This is the first time that a motion has been put suggesting
    that some Restitution for the Genocide, including the return of the
    remains of the confiscated Churches and Monasteries, is in order
    We urge Armenians in the UK to lobby their MPs to sign. It has
    gatheres 20 signatures amongst British MPs during its first week.


    EDM 1588

    HISTORIC TREATMENT OF MINORITIES IN TURKEY
    03.06.2009



    Dismore, Andrew
    That this House notes the statement by the Turkish Prime Minister
    recognising that Turkey's minorities have been ethnically cleansed;
    calls on the Government also to recognise this fact; suggests that a
    measure of restitution which could be made by the government of Turkey
    to demonstrate its good intentions would be the return to the
    jurisdiction of the respective Patriarchates the 2,000 Armenian,
    Assyrian and Syriac churches and religious monuments which were
    expropriated in 1923 by the Turkish State under the law of abandoned
    properties following the events of the 1915 Genocide; and urges the
    Government to make representations to Turkey to this effect.
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