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    UKRAINE PARLIAMENT SENDS BACK BILL ON ALLEGED ARMENIAN GENOCIDE

    AzerNews, Azerbaijan
    Aug 1 2013

    1 August 2013, 20:22 (GMT+05:00)
    By Sara Rajabova

    Ukrainian Rada (parliament) has refused to discuss the so-called
    Armenian genocide issue.

    The human rights and interethnic relations committee of the Ukrainian
    parliament refused to submit a draft law on the recognition of the
    alleged World War I-era genocide to the legislature for discussions.

    Ethnic Armenian members of the Verkhovna Rada, Arsen Avakov (Yulia
    Tymoshenko's Batkivshchyna or Fatherland party) and Vilen Shatvoryan
    (the ruling Party of Regions), had prepared the draft resolution and
    the bill was registered by the Rada secretariat.

    The parliamentary committee deemed adoption of such a document by
    the Ukrainian parliament as "contrary to the reality."

    Members of the committee pointed out that such documents could be
    passed only after historians study the issue and arrive at a common
    decision. Moreover, passage of such a document could undermine the
    friendship among the nations living in Ukraine, they said.

    In this regard, a message signed by a group of Rada members has been
    sent to the Ukrainian Azerbaijanis Congress. The message says the bill
    was sent back and there is no need for any discontent of Azerbaijanis
    and other Turkic-speaking peoples living in Ukraine.

    In June, the Congress of Ukrainian Azerbaijanis (CUA), Azerbaijani
    Youth Association of Ukraine and representatives of the Azerbaijani
    Council of Elders in Ukraine sent a statement to Ukrainian President
    Viktor Yanukovych. The statement said the draft resolution is of
    serious concern to the Turkic-speaking peoples living in Ukraine,
    especially the Azerbaijanis.

    Armenia commemorates the alleged "Armenian genocide" on April 24 each
    year. Armenia and the Armenian lobby claim that Turkey's predecessor,
    the Ottoman Empire, committed genocide in 1915 against Armenians,
    an allegation dismissed by Ankara.

    Their efforts have even resulted in the recognition of the "Armenian
    genocide" by the parliaments of several countries.

    Historians note that during those developments, Armenians began an
    uprising, taking up arms against Turkey. To counter those actions,
    the Ottoman Empire decided to resettle the Armenians. The latter claim
    that their predecessors were subjected to genocide in the process.

    http://www.azernews.az/region/57642.html

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