DECLARATION ON RECOGNIZING ARMENIAN GENOCIDE INTRODUCED TO BULGARIAN PARLIAMENT

PanARMENIAN.Net
26.04.2007 14:29 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ By Speaker Georgi Pirinski’s offer the April 25
session of the National Assembly (parliament) of Bulgaria opened with
a minute of silence in the memory of the Armenian Genocide victims
in the Ottoman Empire.

MP Boyko Vatev from "Bulgarian National Front" introduced a
declaration, which recognizes and condemns the Armenian Genocide. He
demanded to adopt the document by the parliament. Other MPs too
condemned the Armenian and Bulgarian Genocides. Currently initiators
are collecting signatures for including the issue of adopting
declaration of the Armenian and Bulgarian genocide in the agenda.

>From April 22 till 22 a number of events dedicated to the 92nd
anniversary of the Armenian Genocide were held in various Bulgarian
cities – Sofia, Plovdiv and Varne. They were organized by the Armenian
community of Bulgaria, the RA MFA Press Office reports.