DUTCH POLITICIANS CALL ON FM TO BE COURAGEOUS IN RECOGNIZING ARMENIAN GENOCIDE
PanARMENIAN.Net
August 31, 2011 – 13:22 AMT
PanARMENIAN.Net – Dutch MPs addressed a letter to Minister of Foreign
Affairs Uri Rosenthal, according to Nouvelles d’Armenie.
The politicians included several questions regarding the recognition
of 1915 events in the Ottoman Empire as Genocide. They also reminded
the Foreign Minister that the parliament had earlier adopted a
recommendation on including the issue of the Armenian Genocide in
the agenda of EU-Turkey admission talks.
Dutch politicians also inquired about the government’s decision on
constructing an Armenian Genocide memorial in the suburbs of Hague.
In his reply, Rosenthal only mentioned that the authorities do not
support the idea of constructing a memorial.
Later, the MPs’ called on him to be courageous in recognizing the
Armenian Genocide.
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