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> Armeniangenocide - epetition reply7 December 2007
>
> We received a petition asking:
>
> "We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to Recognise the
> Armenian Genocide of 1915."
>
> Details of Petition:
>
> "More than a million Armenians were massacred by the government of
> Ottoman Empire (now Turkey) in the twentieth century's first genocide.
> We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister and Her Majesty's
> Government to recognise the Armenian Genocide of 1915 because denial
> is "killing them twice."
>
>
> Read the Government's response
>
> The British Government acknowledges and regrets the terrible events
> that afflicted the Ottoman Armenian population at the beginning of the
> last century, when over a million ethnic Armenian citizens of the
> Ottoman Empire were killed. Many were massacred; some were victims of
> civil strife, starvation and disease, which ravaged the whole
> population of Eastern Anatolia during the First World War.
>
> The massacres were an appalling tragedy, which the British Government
> of the day condemned. We fully endorse that view. However, neither
> this Government nor previous British Governments have judged that the
> evidence is sufficiently unequivocal to persuade us that these events
> should be categorised as genocide as defined by the 1948 UN Convention
> on Genocide, a convention which is, in any event, not retrospective in
> application.
>
> The British Government believes that the focus should be on ensuring a
> progressive approach; to improve the chances for reconciliation
> between Armenian and Turkish people and to achieve a peaceful and
> secure future for everyone living in the region. To this end we
> encourage the Governments of Armenia and Turkey to improve co-
> operation, economic development and understanding between their
> countries.
>
> In preparing for EU accession, Turkey must demonstrate its commitment
> to good neighbourly relations and must have undertaken to resolve
> outstanding border disputes. The advancement of accession negotiations
> will be guided by progress made in these, and other areas.
>
> http://www.pm.gov.uk/output/Page13999.asp
Didn't Kembabboy say he was going on holiday? :')
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