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KNESSET SPEAKER WORKS ON RECOGNIZING ARMENIAN GENOCIDE
news.am, Armenia
Nov 2 2011
Knesset Speaker Reuven Rivlin said Monday that he wanted to convene an
annual parliamentary session of the full Knesset to mark the Armenian
Genocide, Asbarez writes.
"It is my duty as a Jew and Israeli to recognize the tragedies of
other peoples," Rivlin told Israel-based Haaretz newspaper.
The newspaper wrote that Rivlin stressed the diplomatic considerations,
important as they may be, should not deter us from recognizing a
tragecy experienced by another people.
The recognition of the Genocide and issues related to commemorating
April 24 will be debated in coming weeks by the relevant committees of
the Knesset, said Armenian National Committee of Jerusalem chairman
Hagop Sevan, saying that the legislature has reconvened following a
long summer break.
From: A. Papazian
news.am, Armenia
Nov 2 2011
Knesset Speaker Reuven Rivlin said Monday that he wanted to convene an
annual parliamentary session of the full Knesset to mark the Armenian
Genocide, Asbarez writes.
"It is my duty as a Jew and Israeli to recognize the tragedies of
other peoples," Rivlin told Israel-based Haaretz newspaper.
The newspaper wrote that Rivlin stressed the diplomatic considerations,
important as they may be, should not deter us from recognizing a
tragecy experienced by another people.
The recognition of the Genocide and issues related to commemorating
April 24 will be debated in coming weeks by the relevant committees of
the Knesset, said Armenian National Committee of Jerusalem chairman
Hagop Sevan, saying that the legislature has reconvened following a
long summer break.
From: A. Papazian