On June 12only 37 of 245 members of the Parliament of Sweden voted for the
recognition of the Armenian Genocide. According to Vahagn Avetian, head of
Armenica.org, the Parliaments of Sweden held very long debates on the
issue the day before.
The parliamentarians figured out 4 points against the recognition of the
Genocide. In particular, they explained their position by absence of any
UN official document on the Armenian Genocide.
Secondly, the negationists insisted that in 1948, when the relevant UN
resolution was adopted, the Ottoman Empire existed no more. The last two
points were rather vague and hardly had any relationship with the issue.
They said that there are still controversies about the scenarios of the
downfall of the Ottoman Empire and that the recognition of the Armenian
Genocide may provoke unpleasant actions by certain nationalistic forces.
By A. Haroutiunian, translated by A.M.
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