MAJORITY OF BRITISH MPS RECOGNIZE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE

Tert.am
15:45 ~U 15.02.10

The number of MPs in the House of Commons who have signed motions
(called Early Day Motions) recognizing the 1915 Genocide of Armenians
and Assyrians has increased past 250 this week, representing the
majority of all eligible MPs.

Of the 646 MPs , only 495 of them are eligible to express their
own views on these motions, because the other 151 are part of the
government or have other roles which preclude their signatures,
writes independent French-Armenian journalist Jean Echian.

The current Early Day Motion (number 287) contains a clause which
states: "This House….condemns unreservedly the denial and denigration
of the memory of the Holocaust, as well as of the 1915 Genocide of
Armenians and Assyrians in Turkey, and the politics of hatred and
division which led to these events.