Issue of declaring 2015 year of "Memory and Conscience" in centre of European Parliament's attention

(Yerevan, May 20, Armenpress). The issue of declaring 2015 year of the Armenian genocide remembrance is in the centre of European Parliament's attention. The issue will be under discussion in Strasbourg after the 8th elections of the European Parliament. As reports "Armenpress", the representative of the European Parliament General Secretariat Philip Kamars stated this inhis reply to the letter to the President of the European Parliament Martin Schulz sent by Italian-Arab Assadakah Centre.

Previously it was reported that advancing the 100th anniversary of the Armenian genocide, Italian-Arab Assadakah Centre sent a letter to the President of the European Parliament Martin Schulz and the Vice President of the European Parliament Gianni Pittella urging them to indtroduce a special resolution and declare 2015 year of "Memory and Conscience".

As reports "Armenpress" in the letter the Secretary-General of the Arab-Italian Assadakah Center Raimondo Schiavone particularly emphasized: "The horrible and systematic massacre of the Armenian population launched on April 24, 1915 in the Ottoman Empire. The historical and political consequences and the pain of those terrible events of the modern history live on".

Assadakah Centre has also declared 2015 year of remembrance in Italy as well. The Responsible for Foreign Relations of the centre, journalist Talal Khrais stated that the actions is dedicated to the memory of the Armenian genocide victims.

The fact of the Armenian Genocide by the Ottoman government has been documented, recognized, and affirmed in the form of media and eyewitness reports, laws, resolutions and statements by many states and international organizations. The complete catalogue of all documents categorizing the 1915 wholesale massacre of the Armenian population in Ottoman Empire as a premeditated and thoroughly executed act of genocide, is extensive. Uruguay was the first country to officially recognize the Armenian Genocide in 1965. The massacre of the Armenian people were officially condemned and recognized as genocide in accordance with the international law by France, Germany, Italy, Belgium, Netherlands, Swizerland, Sweden, Russia, Poland, Lithuania, Greece, Slovakia, Cyprus, Lebanon, Uruguay, Argentina, Venezuela, Chile, Canada, Vatican and Australia.

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