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    ARMENIAN PARLIAMENT ADOPTS STATEMENT ON GENOCIDE CENTENNIAL

    14:04 21/04/2015 >> SOCIETY

    The Armenian National Assembly adopted the statement on the Armenian
    Genocide Centennial during a special session on Tuesday.

    The authors of the draft statement are MPs Zaruhi Postanjyan, Vahe
    Enfiajyan, Artak Zakaryan, Koryun Nahapetyan, Araik Hovhannisyan, Naira
    Karapetyan, Artashes Geghamyan, Hamlet Harutyunyan, Sukias Avetisyan,
    Alexander Arzumanian, Shirak Torosyan, Samvel Farmanyan, Volodya
    Badalyan, Tatshat Vardapetyan, Mher Shahgeldyan and Artsvik Minasyan.

    The draft statement was adopted unanimously with 113 votes.

    The text of the statement is provided below:

    "The National Assembly of the Republic of Armenia

    - having regard to the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment
    of the Crime of the Genocide adopted by the United Nations General
    Assembly on 9 December 1948, the law on the Condemnation of the 1915
    Genocide of the Armenians in Ottoman Turkey adopted by the Armenian
    SSR Supreme Council on 22 November 1988;

    - evaluating the provisions stipulated in the All-Armenian Declaration
    of the Armenian Genocide Centennial,

    - highlighting the contribution of the Armenian people to the joint
    efforts of the international community aimed at crimes against mankind,
    condemnation and prevention of genocides,

    - extending gratitude to the parliaments of all countries, state
    and local institutions and international organizations, which have
    officially recognized the Armenian Genocide, have adopted laws
    criminalizing the Armenian Genocide denial,

    Calls on the parliaments of all countries, inter-parliamentary
    organizations and international organizations to officially recognize
    and condemn the Armenian Genocide perpetrated by the Ottoman Empire
    as a gravest crime against mankind."

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-t-T5b_DOI

    http://www.panorama.am/en/current_topics/2015/04/21/parliament-statement/

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