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San Paulo city parliament adopts Armenian genocide resolution
21.10.2005 17:38

YEREVAN (YERKIR) - In its most recent session, the city parliament of San Paulo, Brazil, adopted Resolution MOC 0010/2005 recognizing the Armenian Genocide, Armenian Foreign Ministry reported.

The resolution which notes in parts that over 1.5 million Armenians were subjected to a genocide perpetrated by the Turkish government in 1915, and that such crimes go against the spirit of international coexistence, expresses solidarity with the Armenian nation and calls on the Brazilian president to take necessary steps to have the Armenian genocide recognized on the federal level.

The resolution was adopted unanimously. A copy of the resolution was handed to the Armenian consul general in San Paulo on October 20.

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Armenia Square Founded in Sao Jose do Rio Preto, Brazil

07.12.2005 21:45 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ November 26 the solemn founding ceremony of Armenia Square took place in the Brazilian town of Sao Jose do Rio Preto, RA MFA press center reported. After unveiling the memorial board the Mayor and Town Council Chairman delivered speeches highly assessing Armenians’ contribution to the development of the town and condemned the Armenian Genocide perpetrated by the Turkish government at the beginning of the 20th century. On behalf of the Armenian community professor Aris Kuyumjian thanked the town authorities for immortalizing the memory of Armenians. To note, Sao Jose do Rio Preto is situated in the state of San Paolo, the population of which makes 400 thousand including 350 Armenians.

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Armenia welcomes recognition of Armenian Genocide by Lithuanian parliament

Recognition of the Armenian Genocide by Turkey in 1915 by Lithuania is another step towards international recognition of this horrible crime, said Head of parliamentary faction of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation Dashnaktsutiun Levon Mkrtchyan to a REGNUM correspondent.

According to Mkrtchyan, it is very important from the political point of view that another EU country recognized Armenian genocide, and that understanding of the horrible character of this crime has spread Eastern Europe.

Head of the Republican Party faction Galust Saakyan also expressed his gratitude and satisfaction with this decision and added that the world understood that without this recognition they could face serious problems.

Head of the Defense, National Security and Interior Affairs Parliamentary Commission, member of Orinats Erkir party Mger Shakhgeldyan noted that “the process of the recognition of historical justice has a worldwide coverage and is irreversible”. He added that this decision is especially important to parliaments of Scandinavian and Baltic countries.

As REGNUM earlier reported, on December 15 the Lithuanian parliament passed by a majority the resolution on recognition of the Armenian Genocide in 1915. The resolution condemns the events of 1915 and calls Turkey to recognize the Genocide.

The resolution condemns the events of 1915 and calls Turkey to recognize the Genocide.

The voting was held in the evening of Thursday. 55 of 141 MPs participated in the debates on the resolution. As a result, 48 deputies voted for the resolution, 3 abstained from voting, no one voted against.

http://www.regnum.ru/english/561406.html

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Lithuania recognized Armenian Genocide

Lithuania recognized Armenian Genocide

On December 15, the Lithuanian parliament passed by a majority the resolution on recognition of the Armenian Genocide in 1915. The resolution condemns the events of 1915 and calls Turkey to recognize the Genocide.
The voting was held in the evening of Thursday. As a REGNUM correspondent reports, 55 of 141 MPs participated in the debates on the resolution. As a result, 48 deputies voted for the resolution, 3 abstained from voting, no one voted against. Mostly, for the resolution voted members of the Motherland Union (13 votes), 11 were members of the Labor Party, by 6 members from liberals and social democrats, 5 liberal democrats, 3 members of the People’s Party.



Up to the present day, the Armenian Genocide of 1915 has been recognized by 15 countries including Russia, France and Canada, and more than 30 US states.

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Great news!! They're in the EU.

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Lithuania's Call To Admit Armenian Nation's Genocide Draws Diplomatic Demarche From

LITHUANIA'S CALL TO ADMIT ARMENIAN NATION'S GENOCIDE DRAWS DIPLOMATIC DEMARCHE FROM TURKEY

Baltic News Service
December 21, 2005

The Lithuanian parliament's resolution, which urges Turkey to
acknowledge having carried out genocide of the Armenian nation almost
a century ago, will worsen the bilateral Lithuanian-Turkish relations,
Lithuanian Ambassador to Turkey Vytautas Nauduzas has been told.

Nauduzas was summoned by the Turkish Foreign Ministry's Security
Department director on Tuesday.

After Lithuanian lawmakers adopted the resolution last Thursday,
the Turkish Foreign Ministry censured in on Friday, Nauduzas told BNS.

"During the conversation (at the ministry), I was told that the
Armenian issue was highly sensitive to Turkey. The official stance is
that Turkey wants relations normalized with Armenia. He also said that
the resolution had been adopted hastily. I was told this would without
doubt have an effect on bilateral relations," said the ambassador.

In his words, Turkey issued similar responses to analogous resolutions
adopted by other countries - Slovakia, Poland and Russia.

This also had an effect on the agenda of visits, for instance,
Turkish parliamentary chairman did not go to Moscow and canceled
other foreign visits.

During the meeting at the Turkish Foreign Ministry, the Lithuanian
ambassador noted the public opinions in Europe and Lithuania had been
affected by the trial of writer Orhan Pamuk. Pamuk, Turkey's most
famous novelist, should go on trial for "denigrating Turkishness",
under the Chapter 301 of the amended Turkish Penal Code, which drew
broad criticism abroad.

The trial will focus on remarks made by Pamuk in the Swiss newspaper
Das Bild in February 2005. In the interview, he said that "thirty
thousand Kurds and one million Armenians were killed in Turkey"
during World War One and again in the 1980s and 1990s. He also said
that "almost no one dares to speak out on this but me." Ankara has
always denied genocide against Armenians.

"The reply was that Turkish courts are independent, and I said that
the Lithuanian Seimas was independent too, especially from Turkish
courts. The Seimas has a right to state its opinion on any issue,"
said Nauduzas.

The ambassador noted that the conversation with the Turkish diplomat
had been an unpleasant and tense one: "It was not the friendliest
meeting I've had."

The diplomat said he had proposed a good-willed and constructive view
of the Lithuanian-Turkish ties.

He told BNS he had noticed many articles in the Turkish press about
the Lithuanian parliament's resolution, saying there may be many more
statements by Turkish officials criticizing the Seimas' stance.

In the statement passed last week, the Turkish Foreign Ministry
censured the Lithuanian resolution, dismissing it as lacking historical
and legal background.

"The parliament (...), condemning the genocide of the Armenian nation
committed by the Turkish Ottoman Empire in 1915, calls on the Republic
of Turkey to recognize this historical fact," reads the resolution
adopted last Thursday.

In the Armenians' words, about 1.5 million Armenians were killed
during the genocide committed by the Ottoman Empire in 1915-1923.

Turkey, which is seeking EU membership, denies the fact of genocide,
saying that Armenians were victims of the war, which claimed the
lives of many Turks as well.

The genocide of the Armenian nation has been officially acknowledged
by the Court of Human Rights (1984), UN Human Rights Subcommission
(1985), the European Parliament (1987), Greece, Sweden, Belgium,
the Netherlands, Slovakia, Poland and other countries.

Vilnius newsroom, +370 5 2681510, [email protected]

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Armenian Genocide Studies At Ottawa-carleton Catholic Schools

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