Parlasur marks 10th anniv. of Armenian Genocide recognitionNovember 14, 2017 - 11:03 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - The Mercosur Parliament (Parlasur) recalled the tenth anniversary of its recognition of the Armenian Genocide in the 51st ordinary session in Montevideo, Uruguay on Monday, November 13, Agencia Prensa Armenia reports. During the session, the bloc approved a proposal in which it declared its "approval for the fulfillment of the 10 years of recognition by the Parlasur of the Armenian Genocide". Later, the Armenian National Committee of Uruguay handed out a publication on the subject to all the legislators present and delivered a plaque to Arlindo Chinaglia, president of the Parlasur. Chinaglia read a statement reaffirming the body's commitment to "justice" and against "oppression, denial and impunity." In addition, the leader of the Parlasur added that, with the recognition of the Armenian Genocide, the Mercosur parliamentarians "echoed a civil society imperative that refers to an issue that has as its central axis the defense of human rights, tolerance, and the fight against discrimination and exclusion." On November 19, 2007, also in Montevideo, the Parlasur had approved a declaration in which it expressed "its strongest condemnation of the Armenian Genocide that cost one and a half million lives between 1915 and 1923 executed by the Ottoman Turkish Empire and expresses its solidarity with the just cause of the Armenian people." In turn, they exhorted the governments and parliamentarians "who have not yet made the recognition and condemnation of this crime against humanity to do it." With the presence of members of the Armenian community of Uruguay and several Uruguayan legislators who had been present during the approval, such as Ruben Martinez Huelmo and Francisco Gallinal, Diana Itutmazian, representative of the Armenian National Committee of Uruguay thanked the Parlasur for its solidarity with the Armenian people and for "marking a milestone" in the recognition of the Genocide. Top stories The EU does not intend to conduct military exercises with Armenia, Lead Spokesperson for EU Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Peter Stano says. Hikmet Hajiyev has said that there is no place for USAID operation in Azerbaijan any longer. A telephone conversation between Putin and Pashinyan before the CSTO summit is not planned, Peskov says. London’s Armenian community has been left feeling “under attack” after the city’s Genocide monument was vandalised. Partner news | Armenia to participate in key EU meeting for the first time ever National Assembly speaker Alen Simonyan has said that Armenia will for the first time participate in the Conference. Russia clarifying reports on Baku’s alleged arms supply to Ukraine Russia says is carefully working to verify reports about alleged arms supplies from Azerbaijan to Ukraine CSTO: Armenia has not participated in secretariat’s work recently Recently Armenia has not participated in the work of the secretariat of the CSTO, Imangali Tasmagambetov said. Meeting with U.S., EU not against third parties, says Armenia The meeting scheduled for April 5 is dedicated to strengthening of the Armenia-EU-US cooperation, Yerevan added. |