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    APRIL 24 MAY BECOME GENOCIDE COMMEMORATION DAY IN ST. PETERSBURG

    April 17, 2014 - 15:37 AMT

    PanARMENIAN.Net - Draft laws proposing to mark theArmenian Genocide and
    Holocaust commemoration days in St. Petersburg have been introduced
    to the city's legislative assembly. Suggestion to make amendments to
    the regional law on holidays and memorial days was initiated by MP
    Vitaliy Milonov, according to ITAR-TASS.

    The issue will be studied at the coming session of the city
    parliament's legislative committee Friday, April 18.

    If approved, the law will declare January 27 and April 24 commemoration
    days of the Holocaust and the Armenian Genocide respectively, starting
    from the year 2015.

    For the first time in nearly a quarter century, a U.S. Senate committee
    on April 10, adopted an Armenian Genocide Resolution, calling upon
    the Senate to commemorate this crime and encouraging the President
    to ensure that America's foreign policy reflects and reinforces
    the lessons, documented in the U.S. record, of the still-unpunished
    genocide.

    With a vote of 12 to 5, the Committee voted to condemn and commemorate
    the Armenian Genocide.

    Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Robert Menendez (D-NJ)
    spearheaded the effort to have this influential foreign policy panel
    speak clearly regarding the Ottoman Turkish Government's centrally
    planned and systematically carried out campaign of genocide from
    1915-1923, which resulted in the deaths of over 1.5 million men,
    women and children.

    http://www.panarmenian.net/eng/news/178067/

    http://itar-tass.com/spb-news/1125728



    From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
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