MAJORITY OF UK PARLIAMENT MEMBERS HAVE RECOGNIZED THE 1915 GENOCIDE

Assyrian International News Agency AINA
Feb 15 2010

London — This week 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 passed 250, representinmg
the majority of all eligible MPs. Of the 646 MPs , only 495 of them
are eligible to express theoir own views on these motions, because
the other 151 are part of the government or have other roles which
preclude their signatures.

The number of MPs who have signed (254 exactly) did so by signing
motions in 2007 and this year put by Dr. Bob Spink MP, an Independent
MP, at our request. The current EDM (number 287) contains a clause
which states:: "This House….condemns unreservedly 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" and also "….. and
calls on hon. Members to respect Holocaust Memorial Day and to ensure
that the Holocaust, the 1915 Genocide and modern atrocities such as
the 1988 Anfal Genocide are never forgotten"

Spokesman Eilian .Williams said : " The recognition of the Genocide of
Assyrians in 1915 is fundemental to the case for an Assyrian Homeland,
to which they were denied by British betrayals from 1919 to 1933.,
when Assyrians became victims to a second Genocide, this time by
the newly created state of Iraq. The UK has a responsibility to make
representations to the United Nations, and especially to the Turkish
and Iraqi States to search for a satisfactory solution to the Assyrian
National Question. Recognition of the Genocides of 1915 and 1933 by
the perpetrator States, asa well as Britain’s guilt, is fundemental to
the present proposals for a Safe Haven for the Assyrian-Chalean-Syriacs

Furthermore, the question of the return of Armenian and Assyrian
Churches after confiscation by the Turkish State in 1923 by the
so-called "Law of Abandonned Properties" must be given a high priority
by the European Union before Turkey makes progress toward membership

Lobby for the Minorities of Iraq and Turkey Nor Serount Cultural
Association Armenia Solidarity