Month: March 2015
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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…