Armenian lawmakers to gather on Tuesday for issuing statement on Armenian Genocide centenary

YEREVAN, April 17. /ARKA/. The National Assembly of Armenia convenes an extraordinary session on April 21 on the initiative of some its members for issuing a statement on the 100th anniversary of Armenian Genocide, the press office of the National Assembly reported on Friday. In the draft statement, Armenian lawmakers are calling on the parliaments of the entire world and all the international organizations to recognize the fact of Armenian Genocide in Ottoman Turkey in 2015 and condemn it. Armenian Genocide was the first genocide committed in XX century. Turkey rejects the accusation of massacres and the killing of one and a half million Armenians during World War I. The fact of the Armenian Genocide is recognized by many countries, particularly by Uruguay, Russia, France, Lithuania, most of the U.S. states, as well as by the parliaments of Greece, Cyprus, Argentina, Belgium, Wales, National Council of Switzerland, Common House of Canada, the Seym of Poland and lower house of Italian parliament. ---0-----