Speaker of Armenian Parliament Hovik Abrahamyan thanks Sweden for
Genocide recognition
13.03.2010 13:05 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Speaker of the RA Parliament Hovik Abrahamyan
addressed a letter of thanks to Per Erik Gunnar Westerberg, Speaker of
the Swedish Riksdag in connection with the recognition of the Armenian
Genocide by the Swedish Parliament.
In the letter Speaker Abrahamyan, on behalf of the Armenian
Parliament, expressed profound gratitude to the Swedish Parliament for
approving a just resolution on the Armenian Genocide.
`By recognizing the Armenian Genocide you contributed to the
prevention of similar crimes in the future…By its historic decision
the Swedish Parliament also contributed to peace and stability in the
South Caucasus,’ the letter says.
The Armenian Genocide (1915-23) was the deliberate and systematic
destruction of the Armenian population of the Ottoman Empire during
and just after World War I. It was characterized by massacres, and
deportations involving forced marches under conditions designed to
lead to the death of the deportees, with the total number of deaths
reaching 1.5 million.
The majority of Armenian Diaspora communities were formed by the
Genocide survivors.
To date, twenty countries and 44 U.S. states have officially
recognized the events of the period as genocide, and most genocide
scholars and historians accept this view.