SWEDEN TO VOTE ON RECOGNIZING THE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE
Armradio.am
16.02.2010 15:04
Turkey faces another threat of genocide recognition as the Swedish
Parliament prepares to vote on a motion that describes the killing of
Armenians, Assyrians and Chaldeans during the collapse of the Ottoman
Empire as genocide.
The Turkish politicians warned Swedish authorities that voting on such
a motion in the Swedish Parliament would damage bilateral relations
and make the approval of protocols signed by Turkey and Armenia more
difficult, Today’s Zaman reported.
Approval of the motion is backed by the opposition Swedish Social
Democratic Party, which proposed the motion, and the government’s
rightist coalition partners. A similar motion that recognizes the
1915 killings as genocide was not approved by the Swedish Parliament
in 2007.
As parliamentary elections will be held in September in Sweden, the
current parliament has to handle all the motions before the elections.