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On April 25, the RA NA Deputy Speaker Eduard Sharmazanov received the MPs of the Iraqi Kurdistan Parliament Yervant Aminian, Ali Alo and Srood Maqdasy.

The NA Deputy Speaker Eduard Sharmazanov welcomed the visit of the delegation to Armenia arrived here to take part in the Second Global Forum Against the Crime of Genocide. Eduard Sharmazanov highlighted the development of relations with the Kurdish and Yazidi peoples and the joint struggle in the most important activities of preventing genocides, noting that the genocide perpetrated towards the Armenian people by Turkey more than a century ago today still continues in the Near East. Touching upon the policy of Turkey and the Islamic State in the region, the NA Deputy Speaker has noticed that the so-called ‘Islamic State’ has no commonness with Islam. He has noted that there are countries in the region which try to give religious colouring to the Nagorno Karabakh conflict, but has no connection with the reality.

The NA Deputy Speaker expressed his concern about the actions being committed towards the Kurdish and Yazidi peoples and condemned all the phenomena of the genocidal policy.

Thanking the NA Deputy Speaker for the reception the MP of the Iraqi Kurdistan Parliament Yervant Aminian conveyed to him the greetings of the Parliament and expressed his support for the Genocide occurred to the Armenian people more than 100 years ago and noted that they understand quite well the Armenian people’s pain, as today that genocidal policy is pursued in the Near East.

At the meeting the sides also touched upon the issue of the national minorities: Eduard Sharmazanov has informed that as a result of the Constitutional amendments made in the Republic of Armenia the representatives of the Yazidi, Kurdish, Assyrian and Russian national minorities will be represented in the next parliament.

The members of the delegation thanked Eduard Sharmazanov for showing care to their compatriots by the Armenian authorities and giving them second motherland. The interlocutors highlighted the strengthening of the friendship between the Armenian and Kurdish peoples and the idea of opening the history from the new page, sharing the same opinion that the black pages of the history serve as a consequence of Ottoman Turkey’s pursued policy.