Armenians of Spain Call upon Parliament to Recognize Armenian Genocide

PanARMENIAN.Net
08.09.2006 17:01 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ The Armenian community of Spain called upon Spanish
MPs Rosa M. Bonas and Joan Puigcercos to open discussions on the
Armenian Genocide in the Ottoman Empire. The deputies appealed with
a corresponding interpellation to the Foreign Relations Committee
and other MPs to recognize the Armenian Genocide as a crime against
humanity. Later Rosa Bonas told Anatoly Turkish news agency, "We’ll
make changes in the proposal by taking out an article pressing Ankara
to recognize the Armenian Genocide."

At the same time she said that she always has a special attitude to
national minorities nut learned about the Armenian Genocide only
after the appeal of the Armenian community. For his part, Turkish
Ambassador to Spain Volkan Vural stated that if the discussions open
they will damage the Spanish-Turkish relations.