GENOCIDE AGAINST THE ASSYRIAN AND ARMENIAN PEOPLE

Early day motion 1806, tabled 17 June 2008 by Bob Spink (UKIP). Signed by 18 members.

That this House urges the Government to recognise formally the genocide of Assyrians and Armenians under the Young Turk regime in Ottoman Turkey during 1915 to 1923; and welcomes the co-operation between groups representing the Armenian and Assyrian peoples, joined also by groups representing the Kurdish people who have also suffered genocide, in jointly working to encourage the whole international community to recognise the atrocities perpetrated against their respective peoples as genocide.

Signatures by party: Labour 12, Social Democratic and Labour Party 2, Independent 1, Liberal Democrat 1, Plaid Cymru 1, UKIP 1.