ARMENIAN GENOCIDE

Early day motion 581, tabled 27 January 2003 by Andrew Dismore (Labour). Signed by 63 members.

That this House recognises the extermination of one million Armenians by the Ottoman empire in 1915 as genocide; and calls on Her Majesty's Government to challenge the new government in Turkey to recognise the truth of those appalling and inhuman events of 1915.

Signatures by party: Labour 42, Liberal Democrat 9, Conservative 4, Labour/Co-operative 3, Plaid Cymru 3, Scottish National Party 1, UUP 1.