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    ArmenPress
    March 12 2004

    URUGUAY PARLIAMENT RECOGNIZES ARMENIAN GENOCIDE

    YEREVAN, MARCH 12, ARMENPRESS: The lower chamber of Uruguay's
    parliament approved a bill on March 10, which indirectly recognizes
    the Armenian Genocide. The bill calls for April 24 to be "the
    commemoration day of Armenians martyred in 1915," and obligates the
    state owned media to "cover those events" on that day.
    There is no reference to "genocide" in the wording of the bill,
    though parliament speeches in favor of the bill did not avoid calling
    the genocide, a "genocide." The resolution will become a law with the
    president's signature.
    In 2000, Uruguay's Senate unanimously passed a resolution marking
    "April 24 a national day of remembrance for the Armenian Genocide."
    In 1965, the Armenian National Committee of Uruguay advanced the
    passage of an Armenian Genocide resolution in Uruguay's
    parliament--to mark the first time a country officially recognized
    the genocide of Armenians.
    At the time, the author of that resolution Senator Dr. Alberto
    Sid, said that the bill aimed to register Uruguay's official position
    on the Armenian Genocide as a crime against humanity.
    Interestingly, the world's first April 24 demonstration also took
    place in Uruguay, in 1964.
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