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MOTION ON ARMENIAN GENOCIDE SUBMITTED TO EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT
18:30 09/02/2015 >> POLITICS
Belgian MEP Gerolf Annemans, chairman of Vlaams Belang party, submitted
to European Parliament a motion calling on Turkey to recognize the
Armenian Genocide.
The document says:
- having regard to Rule 133 of its Rules of Procedure,
- having regard to the many studies and historical data on the
situation of the Armenian population in Turkey at the beginning of
the twentieth century,
- having regard to the UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment
of the Crime of Genocide which defines genocide,
- having regard to the European Parliament resolution of 18 June 1987
on a political solution to the Armenian question,
- having regard to subsequent Parliament resolutions in which it has
argued to a greater or lesser extent in favour of recognising the
Armenian genocide of 1915,
A. whereas these resolutions have not yet induced the Turkish
government to recognise the genocide;
B. whereas a century after the events, the time has come to initiate
reconciliation;
1. Calls on the Turkish government officially to recognise the 1915
genocide of the Armenians living in Turkey perpetrated by the last
government of the Ottoman Empire;
2. Instructs its President to forward this resolution to the Turkish
government, the Armenian government, the Commission, the Council and
the Presidents of the Parliament of the Republic of Turkey and the
Parliament of the Republic of Armenia.
The motion was signed by Marine Le Pen, Louis Aliot, Marie-Christine
Arnautu, Nicolas Bay, Dominique Bilde, Marie-Christine Boutonnet,
Steeve Briois, Mireille D'Ornano, Edouard Ferrand, Sylvie Goddyn,
Jean-Francois Jalkh, Gilles Lebreton, Philippe Loiseau, Dominique
Martin, Joelle Melin, Bernard Monot, Sophie Montel, Florian Philippot,
Jean-Luc Schaffhauser, Mylene Troszczynski, Matteo Salvini, Mara
Bizzotto, Mario Borghezio, Gianluca Buonanno, Lorenzo Fontana, Marcel
de Graaff, Hans Jansen, Olaf Stuger, Harald Vilimsky, Barbara Kappel.
http://www.panorama.am/en/politics/2015/02/09/armenian-genocide/
http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?type=MOTION&reference=B8-2015-0096&format=PDF&language=EN
18:30 09/02/2015 >> POLITICS
Belgian MEP Gerolf Annemans, chairman of Vlaams Belang party, submitted
to European Parliament a motion calling on Turkey to recognize the
Armenian Genocide.
The document says:
- having regard to Rule 133 of its Rules of Procedure,
- having regard to the many studies and historical data on the
situation of the Armenian population in Turkey at the beginning of
the twentieth century,
- having regard to the UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment
of the Crime of Genocide which defines genocide,
- having regard to the European Parliament resolution of 18 June 1987
on a political solution to the Armenian question,
- having regard to subsequent Parliament resolutions in which it has
argued to a greater or lesser extent in favour of recognising the
Armenian genocide of 1915,
A. whereas these resolutions have not yet induced the Turkish
government to recognise the genocide;
B. whereas a century after the events, the time has come to initiate
reconciliation;
1. Calls on the Turkish government officially to recognise the 1915
genocide of the Armenians living in Turkey perpetrated by the last
government of the Ottoman Empire;
2. Instructs its President to forward this resolution to the Turkish
government, the Armenian government, the Commission, the Council and
the Presidents of the Parliament of the Republic of Turkey and the
Parliament of the Republic of Armenia.
The motion was signed by Marine Le Pen, Louis Aliot, Marie-Christine
Arnautu, Nicolas Bay, Dominique Bilde, Marie-Christine Boutonnet,
Steeve Briois, Mireille D'Ornano, Edouard Ferrand, Sylvie Goddyn,
Jean-Francois Jalkh, Gilles Lebreton, Philippe Loiseau, Dominique
Martin, Joelle Melin, Bernard Monot, Sophie Montel, Florian Philippot,
Jean-Luc Schaffhauser, Mylene Troszczynski, Matteo Salvini, Mara
Bizzotto, Mario Borghezio, Gianluca Buonanno, Lorenzo Fontana, Marcel
de Graaff, Hans Jansen, Olaf Stuger, Harald Vilimsky, Barbara Kappel.
http://www.panorama.am/en/politics/2015/02/09/armenian-genocide/
http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?type=MOTION&reference=B8-2015-0096&format=PDF&language=EN