Armenian Genocide" src="http://www.yerevanreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/UK-Parliament-Starts-Debates-on-Armenian-Genocide-300x225.jpg" alt="UK Parliament Starts Debates on Armenian Genocide" width="300" height="225" />YEREVAN (Panorama.am), March 30–The draft resolution on the Armenia Genocide was discussed in the House of Lords of the Parliament of the United Kingdom yesterday, according to Radio Liberty.

The discussion was initiated by Baroness Caroline Cox, who appealed “to recognize the mass massacres committed against Armenians in Ottoman Turkey as Genocide.”

During the hour-long discussion, Cox, presenting different facts, stated that “it is high time to join the civilized nations which recognized the Armenian Genocide, especially given the fact that this year marks the 95th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide committed in 1915.” Some House of Lords representatives delivered speeches in support of recognizing the Genocide.

Baroness Glenys Kinnock was against the initiative. She suggested evading the usage of the word “genocide” in order not to hinder the normalization of Armenian-Turkish relations.

Baroness Cox, the Chairperson of the British-Armenian All-Party Parliamentary Group in the House of Lords, has vowed to continue raising the Armenian issue in the upcoming months and to intensify discussions on it.