The Foreign Affairs Committee of the Belgian House of Representatives on Tuesday passed a draft resolution on the commemoration of the centenary of the Armenian Genocide,Ā Belgian websites report.
The resolution must now be voted in a plenary session of the House. Three coalition parties abstained from voting.
Head of theĀ MR groupĀ Denis Ducarme welcomed the vote.
A few weeks ago the tragic events committed between 1915-1917 in the Ottoman Empire should be āconsidered a genocide.”