Armenpress News Agency, Armenia
January 9, 2018 Tuesday


Armenian Parliament to discuss draft statement on condemning genocidal
acts against Yazidi people in Iraq



YEREVAN, JANUARY 9, ARMENPRESS. Armenia’s Parliamentary Standing
Committee on Foreign Affairs will discuss the draft statement on
condemning the genocidal actions by terrorist group against Yazidi
people in Iraq, reports Armenpress.

The draft statement is included in the agenda of the Committee’s
extraordinary session to be convened on January 11.

The bill has been prepared by RPA faction MPs Rustam Makhmudyan,
Vahram Baghdasaryan and Armen Ashotyan.

ARMENPRESS presents the full version of the draft statement:

“The National Assembly of the Republic of Armenia,

Reaffirming the commitment of the Republic of Armenia to the human
rights protection, the goals and principles set by the UN Charter,

Attaching importance to the efforts of the international community
aimed at implementing the provisions of the Convention on the
Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide,

Highlighting the obligation of states enshrined by the international
law on respecting the rights of national and religious minorities,

Emphasizing the commitment of Armenia and the Armenian people to fight
on preventing genocides and other crimes against humanity,

Taking into account the N2170 (2014) resolution of the UN Security
Council, numerous calls of international governmental and
non-governmental organizations,

ANNOUNCES THAT

Recognizes and strictly condemns the genocidal acts by terrorist
groups against the Yazidi people committed in territories of Iraq
under their control,

Strongly condemns all acts of terrorism and extremist ideology, the
targeted actions by terrorist groups against the Yazidi people for
their ethnic, national, political or religious affiliation, the
tortures, inhuman and cruel treatment against them, the deliberate
targeting of civilian, educational, medical and other objects of
public significance, the destruction of religious and other historical
buildings,

Calls on the international community to investigate the crimes through
international procedures, prosecute and hold accountable the persons
who committed these international crimes,

Calls on the international community to take measures to ensure the
safety and protection of the Yazidi people, provide them humanitarian
aid, as well as make all possible efforts to prevent, rule out and
eliminate similar human rights violations”.