GREAT BRITAIN MADE FIRST STEP TO RECOGNIZE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE

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GREAT BRITAIN MADE FIRST STEP TO RECOGNIZE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE

30.01.2002

 

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ The events of 1915 were noted in Great Britain for the first time on the Holocaust victims memory day. The Armenian Genocide was mentioned in the course of all official measures devoted to the Holocaust anniversary. The subject of the Armenian Genocide was concerned in an informatory brochure, devoted to the slaughter of Jews. The Committee on Recognition of the Armenian Genocide considers inclusion of the events in 1915 into the program of the measures devoted to the memory of Holocaust victims as the first step of the British Government on the way to the official recognition of the fact of the Armenian Genocide in Ottoman Turkey. Let us remind that last year in spite of the efforts of the Armenia community of Britain the Armenian Genocide was not mentioned in the program of the Holocaust memorial day. The representatives of the country Government came out with a statement at the time that the tragic events at the beginning of the last century could not be qualified as genocide.

 

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U.K. GOVERNMENT MAKES FIRST MOVE TOWARDS RECOGNIZING ARMENIAN GENOCIDE

 

JANUARY 30. The U.K. Government has made the first move towards recognizing the Armenian Genocide. As ARMINFO learned from the press service of the Committee for the Recognition of the Armenian Genocide (CRAG), the Armenian Genocide was remembered on the Day of Commemoration of the Holocaust, Jan 27. Representatives of Armenian Diaspora were invited to the ceremony, including those from CRAG. Besides, the Armenian Genocide was included in a brochure concerning the Holocaust. The brochure qualifed the 1915 events as a genocide.

 

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