BULGARIAN CAPITAL’S MUNICIPAL COUNCIL TO RECOGNIZE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE

Bulgarian News Agency
March 20 2008
Bulgaria

Sofia, 20 March: Sofia will become the fourth Bulgarian city to
officially recognize the 1915-22 Armenian Genocide. These were the
words of Sofia Municipal Council’s Committee for European Affairs
and Public Relations Irina Yordanova, who talked to BTA on Thursday
[20 March].

The capital is expected to follow in the footsteps of Plovdiv, Bourgas
[Burgas], and Stara Zagora in stating its belief that the Ottoman
Empire undertook such a campaign in the last years before its demise.

A declaration was submitted to the Committee bearing 35 municipal
councillors’ signatures, who want to see 24 April declared as a day
of remembrance for those who died in the Armenian Genocide.

The Committee unanimously approved the text of the declaration, which
is supported by eight Sofia-based Armenian organizations as well as
by the signatures of twenty-four intellectuals and businessmen of
Armenian descent.