ARMENIAN GENOCIDE

Early day motion 1024, tabled 25 July 2000 by Jane Griffiths (Labour). Signed by 25 members.

That this House congratulates the participants in the recent Scholars Conference on the Holocaust on their statement affirming that 'the Armenian genocide is an incontestable historical fact' and urging western democratic governments to recognise it as such; and therefore urges the Government to take the lead internationally by recognising the 1915 Armenian massacre as genocide, both in the interests of historical accuracy and as an impetus to democracy in Turkey.

Signatures by party: Labour 18, Liberal Democrat 4, Plaid Cymru 2, UUP 1.