HEARINGS ABOUT ARMENIAN GENOCIDE STARTED IN BRITISH PARLIAMENT

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2010-03-30

YEREVAN, MARCH 30, ARMENPRESS: Hearings about the Armenian Genocide
have started in the British parliament. The discussions on the theme
of "Events in Armenia in 1915-1917 years" have been involved on the
agenda with the proposal of Baroness Caroline Cox.

Baroness C. Cox called in her March 23 open letter addressed to the
British government to recognize as genocide the massacres of Armenians
committed in the Ottoman Empire.

The fact of recognizing the Armenian Genocide by Burgas municipality
has evoked the confrontation of Turkey. Ankara annulled the cooperation
agreement with Burgas. Burgas authorities called the National Assembly
of Bulgaria to set the bill on the genocide going and to proclaim
April 24 in Bulgaria as the day of the memory of the victims of the
Armenian Genocide.