I. Ermeni Sorunun Tarihsel Boyutu

4. Parlamento Kararları

Litvanya Seima Kararı - Aralık 15, 2005
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Approved Seimas resolution “Acknowledgement of the genocide of the Armenian nation”

15 December 2005 VIR(3)
(from prenary sittings)

Evening plenary sitting

Algis Kasèta, the Liberal, presented (47 memebers of Seimas) the project of Seimas resolution No. XP-976. “Acknowledgement of the genocide of the Armenian nation” Votes: “in favour” – 48, abstainers – 3.
The text of the resolution:

“Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania,

commemorating 90th anniversary of the genocid of the Armenian nation,

condemning the genocide of the Armenian nation, committed by the Turkish Ottoman Empire in 1915,

calls on the Turkish Republic to acknowledge this historical fact”.

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In two years about 1.500.000 Armenian nation is acknowledged by: Permanent Court of Human Rights (1984), Sub commission on Human Rights of the UN (1985), European Parliament (1987), Uruguay, Argentina, Canada, Greece, Sweeden, Belgium, Holland, Slovakia, Poland and other countries. Furthermore, 29 January, 2001, the President of France Jaques Chirac and PM Lionel Jospin, in conformity with the decision of the National Assembly about the acknowledgement of the genocide of the Armenian nation, signed the law, which says: “France publicly acknowledges the genocide of the Armenian nation, commited in 1915. This law should be treated like a law of the Republic”.

(From the website of the Armenian community in Lithuania.)
 

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