Armenia to table 1915 genocide at CIS assembly

Mediamax news agency
7 Dec 04

Yerevan, 7 December: Armenian parliamentarians intend to table
the issue of recognition of the genocide of Armenians in 1915 [in
Ottoman Turkey] at the CIS Interparliamentary Assembly in 2005,
the vice-speaker of the Armenian National Assembly, Vaan Ovanesyan,
said in Yerevan today.

He recalled that the 90th anniversary of the genocide will be marked
next year and “these discussions are important no matter what their
result is”.

Nevertheless, Ovanesyan admitted that there are many opponents of
this initiative at the CIS Interparliamentary Assembly and there is
no guarantee for a successful result for the Armenian side.