MEMBERS OF BULGARIAN PARLIAMENT FELL INTO DISAGREEMENT IN THE BEGINNING OF PARLIAMENTARY MEETING
Focus News, Bulgaria
April 25 2007
Sofia. The Bulgarian Parliament honored the memory of the victims
of the Armenian genocide with a minute of silence in the beginning
of today’s plenary meeting, after a proposal made by the Parliament
Chairman Georgi Pirinski, a reporter of FOCUS News Agency informed.
The World marked the genocide over Armenians yesterday. During the
forced deportation of Armenians from the Ottoman Empire in the period
1915 – 1918 more than 1,5 Million people died – most of them elderly
people, women and children.
Several MPs presented declarations for the genocide and proposed them
for adoption.
The leader of the nationalist movement Attack Volen Siderov noted
that there were no members of the Movement for Rights and Freedoms
/of the ethnic Turks/ present at the hall to honor the memory of
the victims. The member of MRF Lyutfi Mestan declined and mentioned
the forceful changing of ethnic Turks’ names during the Bulgarian
communist regime in the past.