{"id":17655,"date":"2010-03-12T22:13:40","date_gmt":"2010-03-12T20:13:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishforum.com.tr\/en\/content\/?p=17655"},"modified":"2023-04-06T15:51:21","modified_gmt":"2023-04-06T12:51:21","slug":"armenia-thanks-sweden-for-genocide-recognition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2010\/03\/12\/armenia-thanks-sweden-for-genocide-recognition\/","title":{"rendered":"Armenia Thanks Sweden For “Genocide” Recognition"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"Armenia — President Serzh Sarkisian greets Goran Lennmarker (L), chairman of the Swedish parliament committee on foreign affairs, in Yerevan, 12 March 2010.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
12.03.2010<\/div>\n
Ruben Meloyan<\/div>\n

Armenia\u2019s leaders thanked Sweden\u2019s parliament on Friday for adopting a resolution that recognizes the World War One-era mass killings and deportations of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire as genocide.<\/p>\n

\nPresident Serzh Sarkisian hailed the development at a meeting with Goran Lennmarker, the visiting chairman of the Swedish parliament\u2019s foreign affairs committee. He said \u201crecognition of and condemnation of crimes against humanity is the best way to avert such crimes.\u201d<\/p>\n

Speaking to RFE\/RL earlier in the day, Lennmarker endorsed the resolution which was opposed by the Swedish parliament but passed by a 131-130 vote. He said he would have voted for the measure had he not been absent from Stockholm during Thursday\u2019s vote.<\/p>\n

Lennmarker, who is better known in Armenia as the Nagorno-Karabakh rapporteur of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly, visited on Thursday the Yerevan memorial to up to 1.5 million Armenians killed in what many historians consider a genocide.<\/p>\n

Parliament speaker Hovik Abrahamian also welcomed the resolution strongly condemned by Ankara. \u201cI think that with its historic decision Sweden\u2019s parliament \u2026 will also contribute to peace and stability in the South Caucasus,\u201d Abrahamian said in a letter to his Swedish counterpart, Per Westerberg.<\/p>\n

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan warned, meanwhile, that the Swedish vote \u201ccan hurt relations between Turkey and Armenia.\u201d He appeared to refer to the fence-mending agreements signed by the two estranged nations last fall.<\/p>\n

The Turks were already fuming over a similar resolution that was approved last week by a key committee of the U.S. House of Representatives. Reuters news agency reported that Turkish parliamentary speaker Mehmet Ali Sahin said on Friday Western countries whose assemblies have passed such resolutions should \u201clook in the mirror, if they want to find criminals.\u201d He mentioned no specific country.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur ‘friend’ Sweden has stabbed us in the back with one vote!\u201d read a front-page headline in \u201cSabah,\u201d a leading Turkish daily.<\/p>\n

Fatih Altayli, editor-in-chief of \u201cHaberturk\u201d daily cited by Reuters, was more sarcastic: \u201cSoon, there will be no Turkish ambassadors left abroad and no foreign country our officials can visit.\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n

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