{"id":717,"date":"2015-05-07T15:50:32","date_gmt":"2015-05-07T11:50:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/armeniancause.net\/?p=717"},"modified":"2015-05-08T16:00:12","modified_gmt":"2015-05-08T12:00:12","slug":"luxembourg-parliament-votes-to-recognise-armenian-genocide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/armeniancause.net\/?p=717","title":{"rendered":"Luxembourg parliament votes to recognise Armenian genocide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a title=\"Luxembourg parliament votes to recognise Armenian genocide\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wort.lu\/en\/politics\/1915-1918-killings-luxembourg-parliament-votes-to-recognise-armenian-genocide-554b1d950c88b46a8ce58c9e\" target=\"_blank\">Luxembourg Wort<\/a> &#8211; (CS\/CBu) The Luxembourg parliament on Wednesday unanimously voted to officially recognise the Armenian 195 \u2013 1918 killings during the Ottoman Empire as genocide.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/armeniancause.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Luxembourg-Parliament-Chamber-of-Deputies.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-718\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/armeniancause.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Luxembourg-Parliament-Chamber-of-Deputies-600x450.jpg\" width=\"263\" height=\"197\" srcset=\"https:\/\/armeniancause.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Luxembourg-Parliament-Chamber-of-Deputies-600x450.jpg 600w, https:\/\/armeniancause.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Luxembourg-Parliament-Chamber-of-Deputies-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/armeniancause.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Luxembourg-Parliament-Chamber-of-Deputies.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 263px) 100vw, 263px\" \/><\/a>The CSV had introduced the motion in parliament.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The vote came despite protest from the Turkish community in Luxembourg which warned of an oversimplification of facts, adding that it was not up to politicians but to historians to decide the implications of the mass killings during WW1.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Luxembourg Foreign Minister Jean Asselborn commented that Luxembourg with Wednesday&#8217;s decision was sending a clear signal. \u201cWe bow our heads to the dreadful suffering of the Armenian people,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">However, Asselborn also commented that the recognition of the killings as genocide was not a \u201chostile act\u201d towards Turkey, but a call for reconciliation between the two countries.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Luxembourg Armenian Genocide Resolution\" href=\"http:\/\/www.chd.lu\/wps\/PA_RoleEtenduEuro\/FTSByteServingServletImpl\/?path=\/export\/exped\/sexpdata\/Mag\/133\/435\/143324.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">The text of the resolution can be find here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Luxembourg Wort &#8211; (CS\/CBu) The Luxembourg parliament on Wednesday unanimously voted to officially recognise the Armenian 195 \u2013 1918 killings during the Ottoman Empire as genocide. The CSV had introduced the motion in parliament. The vote came despite protest from the Turkish community in Luxembourg which warned of an oversimplification of facts, adding that it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":718,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/armeniancause.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Luxembourg-Parliament-Chamber-of-Deputies.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/armeniancause.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717","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=717"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/armeniancause.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":719,"href":"https:\/\/armeniancause.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717\/revisions\/719"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armeniancause.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/armeniancause.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armeniancause.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armeniancause.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}