SWEDISH PARLIAMENT TO RE-RUN VOTE

17:15:50 – 25/03/2010
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ON ARMENIAN GENOCIDE RESOLUTION

The Swedish Parliament will hold a second vote on the Armenian
Genocide resolution in 2011, Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt
stated in his March 25 interview with Turkish NTV.

It is wrong to adopt political decisions on the events which took
place 100 years ago. What should be in question now is 2015, when
Turkey may become a full-fledged EU member, rather than 1915, Bildt
said.

He expressed a hope the resolution-complicated Turkish-Swedish
relations will shortly be normalized. Minister Bildt gave assurances
that that Sweden is a friendly state to Turkey, RIA Novosti reports.

On March 11 the Swedish Parliament approved an Armenian Genocide
resolution. A week before, the U.S. House of Representatives Committee
on Foreign Affairs approved a similar resolution. Turkey recalled its
Ambassadors to the U.S and Sweden in protest.