{"id":542,"date":"2014-06-24T18:32:21","date_gmt":"2014-06-24T14:32:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/armeniancause.net\/?p=542"},"modified":"2014-06-25T18:39:50","modified_gmt":"2014-06-25T14:39:50","slug":"parliament-of-navarre-recognizes-armenian-genocide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/armeniancause.net\/?p=542","title":{"rendered":"Parliament of Navarre Recognizes Armenian Genocide"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Parliament of Navarre<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

(asbarez.com<\/a>) PAMPLONA, Spain\u2014The parliament of Spain\u2019s autonomous community of Navarre adopted a measure on Monday recognizing the Armenian Genocide. The measure came after a series of visits by members of the Navarre parliament to Armenia and Artsakh. Navarre lies in the north of Spain and has a sizable population of Basque speakers.<\/p>\n

The declaration, adopted by the unicameral Parliament on June 23, reads that \u201cin accordance with the resolution of the European Parliament of June 1987, reaffirmed by subsequent resolutions (February 28, 2002 and April 1, 2004), the events suffered by the Armenian people are an authentic genocide.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAs we are nearing the centennial of the Armenian Genocide, such declarations clearly show European solidarity with Armenian people and their suffering\u201d commented European Friends of Armenia (EuFoA) Director Eduardo Lorenzo Ochoa. \u201cEuFoA is proud that thanks to its extensive network, more and more key European stakeholders are aware of the importance of this issue,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

The declaration denounces the policy of denial developed by the Turkish regime and calls on Turkey \u201cto establish diplomatic relations with Armenia in the spirit of good neighborhood, and to resolve their border dispute peacefully.\u201d In addition, the text underlines that given Turkey\u2019s status as candidate for EU membership, those two issues (the recognition of the Genocide and the normalization of diplomatic relations) should be urgently addressed.<\/p>\n

Navarre is a Spanish autonomous region in the north, bordering France, roughly the size of Cyprus, and populated by around 650,000 inhabitants. It is the fourth region in Spain that has recognized the Armenian Genocide, after the Basque Country, Catalonia and the Balearic Islands.<\/p>\n

Following is the full declaration<\/a> in Spanish:<\/p>\n

El Parlamento aprueba una declaraci\u00f3n institucional por la que recuerda el aniversario del genocidio contra el pueblo Armenio y denuncia la pol\u00edtica desarrollada por el r\u00e9gimen turco existente en aquel momento.<\/p>\n

Aprobaci\u00f3n en Mesa y Junta de Portavoces. D\u00eda 23 de junio de 2014<\/p>\n

La Junta de Portavoces del Parlamento de Navarra ha aprobado una declaraci\u00f3n institucional por la que el Parlamento de Navarra recuerda el aniversario del genocidio contra el pueblo Armenio y denuncia la pol\u00edtica desarrollada por el r\u00e9gimen existente en aquel momento, presentada por los Grupos Parlamentarios Bildu-Nafarroa y Aralar-Nafarroa Bai.<\/p>\n

La declaraci\u00f3n ha sido aprobada con los votos a favor de SN, Bildu-Nafarroa, Aralar-NaBai e I-E; en contra han votado UPN y PP.<\/p>\n

La declaraci\u00f3n dice lo siguiente:<\/p>\n

\u201cEl Parlamento de Navarra:<\/p>\n

1. Recuerda con dolor el aniversario del genocidio contra el pueblo armenio llevado a cabo por el r\u00e9gimen turco existente en aquel momento, que supuso el asesinato de m\u00e1s de dos millones de personas.<\/p>\n

2. Considera, de conformidad con la resoluci\u00f3n del Parlamento Europeo de junio de 1987, reafirmada por posteriores resoluciones (28 de febrero de 2002 y 1 de abril de 2004), que los hechos sufridos entonces por la poblaci\u00f3n armenia constituyen un aut\u00e9ntico genocidio, de acuerdo con la Convenci\u00f3n de las Naciones Unidas para la prevenci\u00f3n y castigo del crimen de genocidio, adoptada en diciembre de 1904.<\/p>\n

3. Comparte con el Parlamento Europeo que un pa\u00eds en v\u00edas de adhesi\u00f3n a la Uni\u00f3n Europea debe abordar y reconocer su pasado, y solicita a Turqu\u00eda que establezca con Armenia unas relaciones diplom\u00e1ticas de vecindad buenas y armoniosas y resuelva sus conflictos fronterizos de forma pac\u00edfica.<\/p>\n

4. Muestra su simpat\u00eda por el pueblo armenio, y apoya sus esfuerzos por consolidar su proceso democr\u00e1tico y asentar en la regi\u00f3n del C\u00e1ucaso un espacio estable de cooperaci\u00f3n y libertad.<\/p>\n

5. Solicita al Gobierno de Espa\u00f1a que, a trav\u00e9s del Ministerio de Asuntos Exteriores traslade esta declaraci\u00f3n a las instituciones competentes en Armenia y Turqu\u00eda\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(asbarez.com) PAMPLONA, Spain\u2014The parliament of Spain\u2019s autonomous community of Navarre adopted a measure on Monday recognizing the Armenian Genocide. The measure came after a series of visits by members of the Navarre parliament to Armenia and Artsakh. Navarre lies in the north of Spain and has a sizable population of Basque speakers. The declaration, adopted […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":543,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/armeniancause.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/armeniancause.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/armeniancause.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armeniancause.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armeniancause.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=542"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/armeniancause.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":544,"href":"https:\/\/armeniancause.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542\/revisions\/544"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armeniancause.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/armeniancause.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armeniancause.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armeniancause.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}