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EP'S ARMENIAN GENOCIDE RESOLUTION A MESSAGE TO TURKEY TO COME TO TERMS WITH ITS PAST - NALBANDYAN
YEREVAN, April 16. /ARKA/. The resolution of the European Parliament
contains a message to Turkey to come to terms with its past, to
recognize the genocide and thus pave the way for real reconciliation
between the Turkish and the Armenian peoples, says the statement by
Armenia's foreign minister Edward Nalbandyan.
On Wednesday, the European Parliament passed unanimously a resolution
declaring April 24 as the Day of Remembrance of the Armenian Genocide
across the European Union.
The resolution calls on all member states of the European Union to
adopt documents recognizing and condemning the Armenian genocide.
Actually all speakers defended the adoption of the resolution noting
its importance ahead of the 100th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide.
Armenia welcomes the adoption of the resolution, the minister said.
"The European Parliament underlines that yet in its resolution of
1987 it recognized that what took place against the Armenians in
1915-1917 in the Ottoman Empire represents a genocide as defined
by the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of
Genocide, and strongly deplores any attempts of its denial,", the
foreign minister said, as cited by the press office.
Nalbandyan stressed that by the adoption of this resolution the
European Parliament once again reaffirmed its dedication to the
protection of human rights and universal values.
The European Parliament officially recognized the Armenian Genocide
in Ottoman Turkey back in 1987. By another resolution of March 13,
2015, the EP members called on the EU member states to acknowledge
the Armenian Genocide.
The Armenian genocide was the first genocide committed in XX century.
Turkey rejects the accusation of massacres and the killing of one
and a half million Armenians during World War I. The fact of the
Armenian genocide is recognized by many countries, particularly by
Uruguay, Russia, France, Lithuania, most of the U.S. states, as well
as by the parliaments of Greece, Cyprus, Argentina, Belgium, Wales,
National Council of Switzerland, Common House of Canada, the Seym of
Poland and lower house of Italian parliament. -0--
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From: A. Papazian
YEREVAN, April 16. /ARKA/. The resolution of the European Parliament
contains a message to Turkey to come to terms with its past, to
recognize the genocide and thus pave the way for real reconciliation
between the Turkish and the Armenian peoples, says the statement by
Armenia's foreign minister Edward Nalbandyan.
On Wednesday, the European Parliament passed unanimously a resolution
declaring April 24 as the Day of Remembrance of the Armenian Genocide
across the European Union.
The resolution calls on all member states of the European Union to
adopt documents recognizing and condemning the Armenian genocide.
Actually all speakers defended the adoption of the resolution noting
its importance ahead of the 100th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide.
Armenia welcomes the adoption of the resolution, the minister said.
"The European Parliament underlines that yet in its resolution of
1987 it recognized that what took place against the Armenians in
1915-1917 in the Ottoman Empire represents a genocide as defined
by the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of
Genocide, and strongly deplores any attempts of its denial,", the
foreign minister said, as cited by the press office.
Nalbandyan stressed that by the adoption of this resolution the
European Parliament once again reaffirmed its dedication to the
protection of human rights and universal values.
The European Parliament officially recognized the Armenian Genocide
in Ottoman Turkey back in 1987. By another resolution of March 13,
2015, the EP members called on the EU member states to acknowledge
the Armenian Genocide.
The Armenian genocide was the first genocide committed in XX century.
Turkey rejects the accusation of massacres and the killing of one
and a half million Armenians during World War I. The fact of the
Armenian genocide is recognized by many countries, particularly by
Uruguay, Russia, France, Lithuania, most of the U.S. states, as well
as by the parliaments of Greece, Cyprus, Argentina, Belgium, Wales,
National Council of Switzerland, Common House of Canada, the Seym of
Poland and lower house of Italian parliament. -0--
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From: A. Papazian