SPAIN’S GOVERNMENT SEEKING TO BLOCK THE ARMENIANGENOCIDE BILL

Armradio.am
24.03.2010 17:11

The Government of Spain is taking steps to prevent the Parliament from
passing a resolution condemning the genocide of Armenians at the hands
of Turkish Ottoman Empire during the First World War. The government
is aware that such a decision would cause great unrest in Turkey.

According to Spanish ABC newspaper, Foreign Minister Miguel Angel
Moratinos has been in contact in recent days with Jose Bono, Speaker
of the Congress of Deputies, to try to stop the initiative.

A similar proposal was approved by all groups in the Parliament of
Catalonia, so the government fears the same could happen in Madrid.

The Government is afraid that what happened in Turkey’s relations
with the U.S. and Sweden, where similar measures were approved,
could repeat.