{"id":264364,"date":"2015-04-16T09:52:23","date_gmt":"2015-04-16T05:52:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=264364"},"modified":"2015-04-16T09:52:23","modified_gmt":"2015-04-16T05:52:23","slug":"european-parliament-adopts-resolution-urging-turkey-to-recognize-armenian-genocide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2015\/04\/16\/european-parliament-adopts-resolution-urging-turkey-to-recognize-armenian-genocide.html","title":{"rendered":"European Parliament Adopts Resolution Urging Turkey to Recognize Armenian Genocide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t<span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">The European Parliament on Wednesday, April 15, adopted a resolution calling on Turkey to recognize the Armenian Genocide so as to pave way for &ldquo;genuine reconciliation.&rdquo;<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">&ldquo;<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">Armenia and Turkey should use the centenary of the Armenian genocide to renew diplomatic relations, open the border and pave the way for economic integration,&rdquo; says the European Parliament in an official press release.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tMEPs invite Armenia and Turkey to &ldquo;use examples of successful reconciliation between European nations&rdquo; by ratifying and implementing, without preconditions, the protocols on the establishment of diplomatic relations, opening the border and actively improving their relations, with particular reference to cross-border cooperation and economic integration.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tMEPs also commend the statement by Pope Francis of 12 April &ldquo;honouring the centenary of the Armenian genocide in a spirit of peace and reconciliation&rdquo;.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThey welcome statements by the President and Prime Minister of Turkey offering condolences and recognising atrocities against the Ottoman Armenians and encourage Turkey to &ldquo;use the commemoration of the centenary of the Armenian genocide as an important opportunity&rdquo; to open its archives, &ldquo;come to terms with its past&rdquo;, recognise the genocide and so pave the way for a &ldquo;genuine reconciliation between the Turkish and Armenian peoples&rdquo;.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThey also ask Turkey to conduct &ldquo;in good faith&rdquo; an inventory of the Armenian cultural heritage destroyed or ruined during the past century within its jurisdiction.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tMEPs pay tribute to the memory of the one-and-a-half million Armenian victims who &ldquo;perished in the Ottoman Empire&rdquo; a hundred years ago.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tFinally, they propose that an &ldquo;International Remembrance Day for Genocides&rdquo;, be established to &ldquo;recall again the right of all peoples and all nations throughout the world to peace and dignity&rdquo;<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They welcome statements by the President and Prime Minister of Turkey offering condolences and recognising atrocities against the Ottoman Armenians and encourage Turkey to \u201cuse the commemoration of the centenary&#8230;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":264361,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[10372,19726,10222],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264364"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=264364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264364\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/264361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}