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Francophonie Parliamentary Assembly adopts statement on Armenian Genocide
20:06 ¢ 31.03.15
The chairpersons of the European regional sections of the
Parliamentary Assembly of La Francophonie for the European Region
adopted a statement on the Armenian Genocide, the Armenpress news
agency reports.
This is what Head of the Armenian delegation to the Parliamentary
Assembly of La Francophonie, Deputy of the Republican Party of Armenia
Margarit Yesayan told Armenpress.
The statement reads as follows: `We, representatives of the
parliaments of states using French as a common language, gathering at
the conference of sections of the Parliamentary Assembly of La
Francophonie for the European Region on 31 March 2015;
- affirming our obligations for the benefit of peace, democracy, human
rights, security in the territory of La Francophonie and the universal
values thereof;
- encouraging the International Organization of La Francophonie and
the Parliamentary Assembly of La Francophonie to be consistent with
the implementation of actions aimed at preventing crises and conflicts
in accordance with the United Nations Declaration on the Principles
and Norms of International Law; ¬
- highlighting the inadmissibility of lack of international
recognition of the actions viewed as crime of Genocide to this day and
reminding that such crime has no expiry date;
- we condemn the Genocide perpetrated against the Armenian people in
the Ottoman Empire;
- we commemorate the innocent victims of the Armenian Genocide of 1915
and express solidarity with Armenia and the Armenian people in the
struggle for international recognition of the Armenian Genocide and
the restoration of the rights of persons subject to that genocide;
- we invite Turkey to confront its past and eventually recognize the
Armenian Genocide and voice hope that that recognition will become a
starting point for the reconciliation between the Armenians and
Turks.'
http://www.tert.am/en/news/2015/03/31/francophonie/1633664
From: Baghdasarian
20:06 ¢ 31.03.15
The chairpersons of the European regional sections of the
Parliamentary Assembly of La Francophonie for the European Region
adopted a statement on the Armenian Genocide, the Armenpress news
agency reports.
This is what Head of the Armenian delegation to the Parliamentary
Assembly of La Francophonie, Deputy of the Republican Party of Armenia
Margarit Yesayan told Armenpress.
The statement reads as follows: `We, representatives of the
parliaments of states using French as a common language, gathering at
the conference of sections of the Parliamentary Assembly of La
Francophonie for the European Region on 31 March 2015;
- affirming our obligations for the benefit of peace, democracy, human
rights, security in the territory of La Francophonie and the universal
values thereof;
- encouraging the International Organization of La Francophonie and
the Parliamentary Assembly of La Francophonie to be consistent with
the implementation of actions aimed at preventing crises and conflicts
in accordance with the United Nations Declaration on the Principles
and Norms of International Law; ¬
- highlighting the inadmissibility of lack of international
recognition of the actions viewed as crime of Genocide to this day and
reminding that such crime has no expiry date;
- we condemn the Genocide perpetrated against the Armenian people in
the Ottoman Empire;
- we commemorate the innocent victims of the Armenian Genocide of 1915
and express solidarity with Armenia and the Armenian people in the
struggle for international recognition of the Armenian Genocide and
the restoration of the rights of persons subject to that genocide;
- we invite Turkey to confront its past and eventually recognize the
Armenian Genocide and voice hope that that recognition will become a
starting point for the reconciliation between the Armenians and
Turks.'
http://www.tert.am/en/news/2015/03/31/francophonie/1633664
From: Baghdasarian