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    SWEDEN TO VOTE ON RECOGNIZING THE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE

    Armradio.am
    16.02.2010 15:04

    Turkey faces another threat of genocide recognition as the Swedish
    Parliament prepares to vote on a motion that describes the killing of
    Armenians, Assyrians and Chaldeans during the collapse of the Ottoman
    Empire as genocide.

    The Turkish politicians warned Swedish authorities that voting on such
    a motion in the Swedish Parliament would damage bilateral relations
    and make the approval of protocols signed by Turkey and Armenia more
    difficult, Today's Zaman reported.

    Approval of the motion is backed by the opposition Swedish Social
    Democratic Party, which proposed the motion, and the government's
    rightist coalition partners. A similar motion that recognizes the
    1915 killings as genocide was not approved by the Swedish Parliament
    in 2007.

    As parliamentary elections will be held in September in Sweden, the
    current parliament has to handle all the motions before the elections.
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