DUTCH MPS PARTICIPATE IN ARMENIAN GENOCIDE COMMEMORATION RALLY IN THE HAGUE, CALL ON TURKEY TO STOP REJECTING POLICY

Panorama.am
14:39 21/04/2010 " Society

Over 500 people participated in the rally for the 95th commemoration of
Armenian Genocide in the Het Plain square near The Hague parliament,
the Netherlands, April 20. The event was organized by Armenian Union
of Netherlands and local Hay Dat office.

Dutch MPs Kees van der Staaij, Harry van Bommel, Joel Voordewind and
Armenian community members delivered speeches during the protest
action. MPs Kathleen Ferrier and Han Ten Broeke left Parliament
building and joined the rally, too.

Participants called on Turkey to recognize the Armenian Genocide and
stop the rejecting policy. Joel Voordewind, Kees van der Staaij and
Han Ten Broeke expressed their support to the Armenian community over
erecting a memorial to the Armenian Genocide victims in The Hague.

The organizers handed a petition to the Foreign Affairs Committee
chairman and members of the Dutch House of Representatives.

In closing, the demonstrators headed to Turkish Embassy in the
Netherlands. The demonstration was videoed by two Turkish and several
local media.

Later same day, representatives of Azerbaijani and Turkish communities,
maximum 40 people, held a meeting in the same square.