ARMENIA PRAISES GREECE FOR LAW BANNING DENIAL OF GENOCIDE

Neos Kosmos – The Hellenic Perspective, Australia
Sept 11 2014

Armenian Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian says the bill “is an
important step towards the prevention of genocides and other heinous
crimes against humanity”

11 Sep 2014

Armenia has praised Greece for approving a law banning the denial
of genocide as Yerevan calls for the massacre of Armenians during
World War I in present-day Turkey to be internationally recognised
as genocide.

“Armenia welcomes the adoption of a bill on September 9 by the Greek
parliament, which criminalises the denial of genocides,” Armenian
Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian said in a statement.

“The adoption of this bill… is an important step towards the
prevention of genocides and other heinous crimes against humanity,”
he added.

After a year of debates, the Greek parliament passed a new law that
punishes those denying or praising the Holocaust, genocide and war
crimes against humanity.

Armenia has long sought for 1915 massacres by the Ottoman Empire
in which it says up to 1.5 million people were killed to be
internationally recognised as genocide.

Turkey has fiercely rejected the term, arguing that 300,000 to
500,000 Armenians and at least as many Turks died in civil strife
when Armenians rose up against their Ottoman rulers and sided with
invading Russian troops.

Source: AFP

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress