ANCA WELCOMES SWEDISH PARLIAMENT’S ADOPTION OF RESOLUTION RECOGNIZING ARMENIAN GENOCIDES
PanARMENIAN.Net
12.03.2010 11:01 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ ANCA welcomes Swedish Parliament’s adoption of
resolution recognizing Armenian, Assyrian/Syriac/Chaldean and Pontic
Greek genocides. Over strident opposition from the Turkish Government,
the Swedish Parliament, today, adopted a resolution recognizing the
murder and annihilation of the Armenian, Assyrian/Syriac/Chaldean
and Pontic Greek populations by the Ottoman Turkish Government as
"genocide," reported the Armenian National Committee of America (ANCA.)
"Twice in just one week, we have seen legislative bodies – the
House Foreign Affairs Committee in the United States and the full
Parliament in Sweden – take a strong stand against Turkey’s threats
against an honest affirmation of the Armenian Genocide," said ANCA
Executive Director Aram Hamparian. "We congratulate the Swedish
Parliamentarians – particularly those who defied party politics and
foreign intimidation – to send a clear message that genocide must be
condemned whenever and wherever it occurs."
The Swedish Parliament adopted the resolution, Motion 2008/09:U332,
by a vote of 131 to 130, overcoming an earlier Foreign Affairs
Committee decision voting down the measure. In addition to recognizing
the Armenian, Assyrian/Syriac/Chaldean and Pontic Greek genocides,
the motion also calls on Swedish authorities to work with the United
Nations, European Union and Turkey to secure international affirmation
of this crime against humanity.