Pan Armenian News
AUSTRALIAN RYDE CITY OFFICIALLY RECOGNIZED ARMENIAN GENOCIDE AND CALLED ON
COMMONWEALTH GOVERNMENT TO DO THE SAME
14.04.2005 03:39
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ For the first time, an Australian Council yesterday
officially recognized the Armenian Genocide of 1915, and called on the
Commonwealth Government to do the same, Independent Ryde City Councilor,
Sarkis Yedelian announced today. “As the first Australian Councilor of
Armenian ancestry, and a son of survivor of the Armenian Genocide, I feel
honored to have moved this motion,’ Yedelian said. Yesterday evening Ryde
City Council unanimously passed the following motion: That this Council:
acknowledges this year as marking the occasion of the 90th anniversary
commemoration of the Genocide of the Armenians perpetrated by the then
Ottoman Government between the years 1915-1922, recognizes 24 April every
year as a day of remembrance of the Armenian genocide; condemns the
genocide of the Armenians and all other acts of genocide; calls on the
Commonwealth Government to officially condemn the Genocide of the Armenians
and any attempt to deny such crimes against humanity.