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Tuscany Recognizes Armenian Genocide
(horizonweekly.com) On the occasion of the centennial of the Armenian Genocide, the Armenian Community Council of Rome had addressed a letter to all major regional councils of Italy, with a request for adopting resolutions on the Armenian Genocide. The Tuscany region adopted a resolution at Wednesday’s regional parliament session, where it expressed support to the…
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Spain’s Pinto recognizes Armenian Genocide
(panorama.am) Today plenary session of City Council of Pinto (Spain) unanimously officially recognized the Armenian Genocide, the press service of the Armenian Foreign Ministry reports. “Plenary session of Pinto City Council unanimously confirms official recognition of the Armenian Genocide and condemns crimes against humanity committed by the Ottoman Turks. This year marks 100th year of…
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Armenia Officially Recognizes Greek and Assyrian Genocide
(source: Civilnet.am) The Republic of Armenia’s National Assembly unanimously voted to adopt a statement recognizing and condemning the genocide of the Greeks and Assyrians by Ottoman Turkey at the beginning of the 20th Century. A standing ovation by all members of parliament followed the adoption of the statement on March 24. Armenian lawmakers had drafted…
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Joint text for an Urgent Motion for Resolution by the Armenian and the European Parliament on the Centennial of the Armenian Genocide (Final Version)
Yerevan, Armenia, 17 March, 2015: Today, the fourth ordinary session of the Euronest Parliamentary Assembly adopted a resolution on the Centennial of the Armenian Genocide, calling on Turkey to reconcile with its past, stressing, that genocide denial is the final stage of genocide and that the absences of unequivocal and timely condemnation of the Armenian…
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Spain’s Betera Recognizes the Genocide of the Armenians
PanARMENIAN.Net – The plenary council of the City Hall of Betera, Spain, has officially recognized the Armenian Genocide, Armenia’s Foreign Ministry said in a Facebook post, according to Panorama.am. The decision states that massacres and deportations took place in 1915-1921 on the territory of present-day Turkey, particularly under the Young Turks rule, during which 1.5…
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Buenos Aires adopts resolution on Armenian Genocide centennial
ARMENPRESS – The city council of Buenos Aires adopted unanimously a resolution on the centennial of the Armenian Genocide, which says that in the beginning of the previous century a million and a half Armenians were killed in the Ottoman Empire. Armenpress reports, citing PrensaArmenia.com.ar that the resolution states that April 24 is the first…
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European Parliament Annual Human Rights Report Calls Member States to Recognize the Armenian Genocide
On March 12, the European Parliament adopted a resolution which puts Human Rights on top of almost all negotiations with third parties and countries. Specifically paragraph 77 “Calls, ahead of the 100th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide, on all the Member States legally to acknowledge it, and encourages the Member States and the EU institutions…
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Resolution adopted by the EPP Political Assembly (3rd March 2015) on “ The Armenian Genocide and European Values ”
The European People’s Party reaffirms its recognition and condemnation of the Genocide and Great National Dispossession of the Armenian people on the eve of its 100th Anniversary on 24 April 2015. 1. We condemn the genocidal acts against the Armenian people, planned and continuously perpetrated by the Ottoman Empire and various regimes of Turkey in…
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South Dakota becomes the 43rd US state to recognize the Armenian Genocide
– Legislature Calls on Turkey to End Its Denials and Work for a Just Resolution of this Crime (ancawr.org) PIERRE, SOUTH DAKOTA – South Dakota becomes the forty-third United States state to recognize the Armenian Genocide, with the adoption, earlier today, of House Concurrent Resolution 1009 (HCR 1009), reported the Armenian National Committee of America…
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Spain’s Burjassot city recognizes Armenian Genocide
(horizonweekly.ca) The municipal council of Burjassot city of Spain has approved a motion recognizing the Armenian Genocide. The motion was presented by Compromis party, the press service of the Armenian Foreign Ministry reports. The motion said that this year marks the centenary of the Armenian Genocide – the first genocide of the 20th century. “In…