EUROPARLIAMENT DEMANDS FROM TURKEY RECOGNITION OF ARMENIAN GENOCIDE
STRASBOURG, December 15 (Noyan Tapan). On December 15, the
Europarliament with 407 votes for and 262 votes against made amendments
and adopted a resolution on Turkey’s joining the EU written by a
Dutch deputy Camiel Eurlings.
According to the European Armenian Federation for Justice and
Democracy, the Europarliament addresses the Armenian issues at least in
8 points of the resolution. The amendments proposed in this connection
have been written by parliamentarians who represent 5 factions.
In the final version of the resolution the Europarliament asks Turkey
to be reconciled to the Armenian people by recognizing the Armenian
genocide and calls on the European Council and the European Commission
to demand that Turkey officially recognize the historic reality of
the genocide and lift without delay the blockade imposed on Armenia.
Amendment No.18 on the Armenian genocide, which was written by deputies
Fransis Wurts and Dimitrios Papadimoulids, was adopted with 395 votes
for and 273 votes against.
Amendment No.83 written by Jaques Toubou and some other deputies was
adopted with 332 votes for and 325 votes against and calls on the
European Commission and the European Council to demand that Turkey
recognize the Armenian genocide and lift without delay the blockade
imposed on Armenia “in accordance with the European Council resolutions
adopted in 1987 and 2004.”
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress