Armenia formally recognized the First World War-era mass killings of Assyrians and Greeks in the Ottoman Empire as genocide with a resolution unanimously passed by its parliament on Tuesday.
"The National Assembly of Armenia declares that it condemns the genocide of Greeks and Assyrians perpetrated in the Ottoman Empire in 1915-1923," reads the resolution co-sponsored by the main parliamentary factions.
The document says that the widely documented massacres conformed to the definition of genocide set by a 1948 United Nations convention. It also cites "centuries-old friendly relations between the Armenian, Greek and Assyrian peoples."
Armenian News
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