TWO BRITISH ARMENIAN POLITICAL ACTION GROUPS RECOGNIZE THE ASSYRIAN GENOCIDE
By Nora Vosbigian
Assyrian International News Agency
Oct 23 2007
London — The two major Armenian political action groups in the United
Kingdom have agreed to formally recognise the Assyrian Genocide. They
will henceforth work for the common recognition of the Assyrian and
Armenian genocides of 1915 in Ottoman Turkey. These declarations were
made by Raffi Sarkissian, a local ARF leader and head of Campaign for
the Recognition of the Armenian Genocide (CRAG), as well as Bagrat
Nazarian, a leading member of Armenian Solidarity, a coalition of
British Armenian organisations who are currently pressing an Early
Day Motion in the British Parliament on the Armenian Genocide, as
well as erecting an Armenian Genocide monument at the Temple of Peace
in Cardiff, Wales. Mr. Nazarian also took the opportunity to request
full Assyrian representation at the unveiling ceremony of the Armenian
[and Assyrian?] Genocide monument in Wales next month. Also present
were the British head of the ANC (UK), as well as the first secretary
of the Armenian Embassy.
This new development for better Armenian–Assyrian relations in
the United Kingdom took place during a lecture by Sabri A taman at
Assyrian House in London . Mr. Ataman’s lecture was on the plight of
Assyrians in Ottoman and modern Turkey in light of Turkey ‘s drive
to join the European Union. Mr. Atama’s was delighted by the happy
outcome of his lecture.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
