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    ARMENIAN PARLIAMENT RESOLUTION CALLS ON WORLD PARLIAMENT TO RECOGNIZE AND CONDEMN ARMENIAN GENOCIDE

    YEREVAN, April 21, /ARKA/. The National Assembly of Armenia has adopted
    a resolution today at an emergency session calling on the parliaments
    of the world to recognize and condemn the Armenian genocide committed
    by the government of the Ottoman Turkey in the final years of World
    War I. The resolution was backed by all 131 members of the parliament.

    "Guided by the United Nations Convention on the Prevention and
    Punishment of the Crime of Genocide of 9 December 1948, the law of
    the Supreme Council of the Soviet Armenian Social Republic on the
    Condemnation of the Armenian Genocide in the Ottoman Turkey in 1915
    of November 22, 1988, emphasizing the Pan-Armenian Declaration on the
    100th Anniversary of the Armenian Genocide and the contribution of the
    Armenian people together with the international community to the fight
    against crimes against humanity, appreciating the parliaments of the
    countries, which recognized the Armenian Genocide and the countries
    which adopted laws condemning the denial of genocide, the National
    Assembly of Armenia calls on the parliaments of all countries and
    nations to recognize and condemn the Armenian Genocide in the Ottoman
    Turkey as a crime committed against humanity," the resolution states.

    The resolution is authored by members of parliament from Heritage,
    Prosperous Armenia, Republican, Orinats Yerkir, and the Armenian
    Revolutionary Federation parties.

    The Armenian Genocide was the first genocide of the twentieth century.

    According to Armenian and many other historians, up to 1.5 million
    Armenians were killed starting in 1915 in a systematic campaign by
    the government of Turkey. Turkey has been denying it for decades.

    The Armenian genocide was recognized by tens of countries. The first
    was Uruguay that did so in 1965. Other nations are Russia, France,
    Italy, Germany, Holland, Belgium, Poland, Lithuania, Slovakia, Sweden,
    Switzerland, Greece, Cyprus, Lebanon, Canada, Venezuela, Argentina,
    43 U.S. states. It was recognized also by the Vatican, the European
    Parliament, the World Council of Churches and other international
    organizations. M.V. -0-

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