Labour’s Development Aid Spokesperson Noel Farrugia Calls On Governm

LABOUR’S DEVELOPMENT AID SPOKESPERSON NOEL FARRUGIA CALLS ON GOVERNMENT OF MALTA TO RECOGNISE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE

ArmInfo
2008-12-16 11:50:00

ArmInfo. In a parliamentary question last week Malta Labour’s
development aid spokesperson Noel Farrugia proposed tabling a motion to
condemn the Armenian genocide. As Malta Today reports, Farrugia asked
Foreign Minister of Malta Tonio Borg whether the government intends
to present a motion to condemn the Armenian genocide, committed by
the Ottoman Empire between 1915 and 1917. Foreign Minister Tonio
Borg insists that Malta is under no obligation to condemn the
Armenian genocide, but would be abiding by a 21-year-old resolution
approved by the European Parliament calling on all EU member states
"to dedicate a day to the memory of the genocide and crimes against
humanity perpetrated in the 20th century, specifically against the
Armenians and Jews". The government intends to institute a day of
remembrance in which parliament will rise to commemorate the victims
of genocide and crimes against humanity.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress

Emil Lazarian

“I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.” - WS