BRITISH-ARMENIAN PARLIAMENTARY GROUP DEMANDS THAT UK RECOGNIZE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE

16.06.2005 03:35

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ The British-Armenian multi-partisan parliamentary group organized an international conference at the House of Lords yesterday, reported the Press Service of the Foreign Ministry of Armenia. [...].

V. Oskanian made the key report. The conference subject was the issue of genocide,[...], genocide prevention by the international community, unacceptability of the Turkish policy of denial of the Armenian Genocide. [...] V. Oskanian drew the attention of those present to the contradiction between the statements and actions of the Turkish Government, which on the one hand tries to come out as a proponent of the truce, while on the other criminalizes the term «genocide», bans public discussion of the issue in the country and event demands that the British Government revise histories of Genocide witnesses diplomat James Brice and historian Arnold Toynbee. Nevertheless, not seeing an alternative to the Armenian-Turkish reconciliation, V. Oskanian said Armenia is ready to normalize the Armenian-Turkish relations without preconditions. [...].

In the latter half of the day the British-Armenian Group addressed the British Government a demand supported by 3 thousand signatures to recognize the Armenian Genocide and promote Armenian-Turkish reconciliation. [...].

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