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On April 7 at the sitting of the RA NA Standing Committee on Foreign Relations moderated by Artak Zakaryan the NA draft statement “On the Armenian Genocide Centennial” authored by the NA deputy Zaruhi Postanjyan was discussed.

The document reads:

“The National Assembly of the Republic of Armenia

- Having regard to the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide adopted by the General Assembly of the United Nations on 9 December 1948, the Law on the Condemnation of the 1915 Genocide of Armenians in Ottoman Turkey November 22, 1988 by the ArmSSR Supreme Council,”

- evaluating the provisions stipulated in the “All-Armenian Declaration of the Armenian Genocide Centennial,”

- highlighting the contribution of the Armenian people to the joint efforts of the international community aimed at the crimes against mankind, condemnation and prevention of genocides,

- extending gratitude to the parliaments and state institutes of all states, which have officially recognized the Armenian Genocide, have adopted laws criminalizing the Armenian Genocide denial,

Calls on the parliaments of all countries and inter-parliamentary organizations to officially recognize and condemn the Armenian Genocide perpetrated by the Ottoman Empire as a gravest crime against mankind.”

The Committee endorsed the debated bill for including it in the draft laws of the agendas of the seventh session of the fifth convocation and the upcoming sittings.