CORDOBA STATE OF ARGENTINA RECOGNIZED ARMENIAN GENOCIDE

PanARMENIAN.Net
08.09.2006 18:25 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ September 6 the Parliament of the Argentinean State
of Cordoba passed a bill, according to which April 24 will be marked as
the Day of Commemoration of the Armenian Genocide Victims, reported the
RA MFA press office. The author of the document, MP Alexandro Vigo,
says that the "atrocities committed against the Armenian people by
the Ottoman Empire Government during the World War I and after it
are nothing else but a Genocide." A corresponding law will come into
effect upon approval by the Governor of the state within ten days. The
bill also provides for introduction of the Armenian Genocide course
in the school curriculum.