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ANKARA: Spain Withdraws Alleged Armenian Genocide Draft

Spain Withdraws Alleged Armenian Genocide Draft
By Anadolu News Agency (aa), Madrid

Zaman Online
09.21.2006 Thursday – ISTANBUL 09:32

Wednesday, September 20, 2006
zaman.com

It has been reported that a proposal on the alleged Armenian genocide
submitted to the Spanish parliament by two deputies from the extreme
nationalist Republican Left of Catalonia (ERC) Party was withdrawn
following efforts made by the Turkish Madrid Embassy to prevent
its adoption.

The draft proposal, submitted to the Spanish parliament’s foreign
affairs commission in June by Rosa M. Bonas and Joan Puigcercosi from
the ERC, was withdrawn without parliamentary discussion.

Following its submission, Turkey’s ambassador to Madrid, Volkan Vural,
communicated with authorities from the Spanish foreign ministry and
parliament, and sent letters to the MPs who put forward the proposal
as well as to Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Commission, Josep Duran
Lleida, in an effort to prevent its adoption.

Ambassador Vural stressed in the letters that the adoption of the
proposal would be harmful to the bilateral relations between Turkey
and Spain.

Ambassador Vural lastly met with Catalan Deputy Maria Bonas and
convinced her to withdraw the proposal.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress

Emil Lazarian: “I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.” - WS
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