Swedish Parliament to Discuss Armenian Genocide
Mar 2nd, 2010 | Category: PoliticsYEREVAN (Novosti-Armenia), March 2—On March 17, the Swedish Parliament will discuss the issue of the recognition and condemnation of the Genocide of Armenians and Assyrians in Turkey, writes “AZG.”
“Despite the fact that the Turkish and Azeri communities of Sweden collected about five thousand signatures with the demand to give up this step, the Swedish MPs decided to bring the issue to the discussion,” the newspaper writes.
Translated from Russian by Yerevan Report
[...] I doubt that Turkish officials want to look like absolute hypocrites by walking away from the protocols at this point. The protocols are already up for discussion in the Armenian parliament. They already look bad by demanding that a resolution to the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict be resolved first before the shared border with Armenia is opened. Naturally the international community (with the exception of Azerbaijan, of course) thinks that doesn’t make much sense. Then again, Ankara is too proud to let anyone boss them around, including Washington. Nevertheless, in the end Ankara can’t do much about Genocide resolutions and condemnations. The Genocide has been recognized by national legislative bodies around the world, and that’s not about to stop. Sweden is also about to bring up the topic for discussion in parliament soon. [...]