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The Armenian genocide was officially recognized by a unanimous vote
of Parliament on August 17th, in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
This enthusing development was directly due to the diligent and
continuous endeavors of Sergio Nahabedian, one of the young leaders
of the Armenian Democratic Liberal Party in South America who is at
the same time a duly elected member of Parliament.
The following news report gives important details in this respect.
Buenos Aires Sovereign City Parliament Recognized Armenian Genocide
and Voted on Corresponding Law about Annual Commemoration
Armenian Genocide history will be taught in schools of Buenos Aires
every April 24.
On Thursday evening, August 17 the Legislative Assembly of Buenos Aires
Sovereign City unanimously passed a law according to which April 24th
will be honored as "Commemoration day of the first genocide of 20th
century where Armenian people were persecuted".
This decision of Buenos Aires Sovereign City is based on Buenos
Aires Province law number 13.478, which as is known, was introduced
for discussion last June with the effort of director of "Sardarabad"
newspaper and district member of parliament Sergio Nahapetian.
The law envisions that every April 24th all schools of the city have
classes giving an overview of the Armenian Genocide issue.
The draft was presented in the city parliament by MP Gorge Sanmartino
who based his report on above mentioned provincial law. The law was
unanimously passed during a long parliamentary session.
During the August 17 session the following were present:
Republic of Armenia Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador
Vlatimir Karmirshalian, minister Mr. Khorhen Terterian and embassy
associate on cultural and media matters Mr. Ruben Mozeian, leader of
Argentine and Chile Archbishop Gisak Muradian, Rev. Eghishe Nazarian,
vice-president of Armenian Central Committee Dr. Alperto Cherechian,
AGBU vice-president Mr. Ricardo Halachian, Mr. Hayk Shahinian (ADLP),
Pedro Muradian (ARF), and Mrs. Tiana Ter-Karapetian (Tekeyan Cultural
Center).
After the adoption of the law Mr. Gorge Sanmartino thanked all the
members of parliament of the Sovereign City as well as Provincial
parliamentarian Sergio Nahapetian. He also greeted the presence of
ambassador of Republic of Armenia and the embassy staff, the Armenian
Primate and representatives of Armenian organizations.