APRIL 24 MAY BECOME GENOCIDE COMMEMORATION DAY IN ST. PETERSBURG
April 17, 2014 – 15:37 AMT
PanARMENIAN.Net – Draft laws proposing to mark theArmenian Genocide and
Holocaust commemoration days in St. Petersburg have been introduced
to the city’s legislative assembly. Suggestion to make amendments to
the regional law on holidays and memorial days was initiated by MP
Vitaliy Milonov, according to ITAR-TASS.
The issue will be studied at the coming session of the city
parliament’s legislative committee Friday, April 18.
If approved, the law will declare January 27 and April 24 commemoration
days of the Holocaust and the Armenian Genocide respectively, starting
from the year 2015.
For the first time in nearly a quarter century, a U.S. Senate committee
on April 10, adopted an Armenian Genocide Resolution, calling upon
the Senate to commemorate this crime and encouraging the President
to ensure that America’s foreign policy reflects and reinforces
the lessons, documented in the U.S. record, of the still-unpunished
genocide.
With a vote of 12 to 5, the Committee voted to condemn and commemorate
the Armenian Genocide.
Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Robert Menendez (D-NJ)
spearheaded the effort to have this influential foreign policy panel
speak clearly regarding the Ottoman Turkish Government’s centrally
planned and systematically carried out campaign of genocide from
1915-1923, which resulted in the deaths of over 1.5 million men,
women and children.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
