ARMENIAN PARLIAMENT TO CONSIDER BILL TO OBSERVE MEMORY OF ARMENIAN GENOCIDE VICTIMS

PanARMENIAN.Net - Armenia should observe the memory of the victims of the Armenian Genocide in the Ottoman Turkey in 1915-1922 by the power of the law. The corresponding bill submitted to the National Assembly says this. The document is developed by Agroindustrial People's Union. In the words of the chief of the group Hamayak Hovhannisian, the planned massacre of 1.5 million Armenians in Ottoman Turkey should become a fact for Armenia registered by the law. The bill stresses that Armenia supports the aspiration of the descendants of the victims of the Genocide to recompense for the moral and material damage. According to the document, Armenian official delegations abroad with diplomatic or other missions have to present the position of official Yerevan concerning the question. Although this can take place if the receiving party questions the fact of the Armenian Genocide. The draft stipulates that the citizens and diplomats of Armenia do not have a right to participate in measures in which the matter of the Armenian Genocide either is questioned or entirely denied. Armenian citizens also do not have a right to resist to the process of international recognition of the Armenian Genocide, the document notes. According to it, any activity doubting the fact of the Armenian Genocide or generally denying it is considered crime and is to be punished by the law.