Discussion on Armenian Genocide resolution kicks off in German Bundestag

The plenary session has been launched in Germany’s Bundestag. The first issue of the agenda is dedicated to the discussion of the new resolution recognizing the Armenian Genocide in the Ottoman Empire in 1915.

As reports “Armenpress” it’s noteworthy that the term “genocide” is clearly used instead of “massacres” and “killings” in the reports. It is considered that the discussion of the aforesaid issue will last 1 hour. Previously it was reported that Germany’s President Joachim Gauck has called the Armenian massacres of 1915 a genocide. “The fate of the Armenians is an example of the history of mass destruction, ethnic cleansing, the deportation, the genocide of the 20th century is marked in such a horrible way,” Gauck said aloud in advance to published text of his speech at an ecumenical memorial service in Berlin Cathedral. As reports “Armenpress” citing the German DPA News Agency, Gauck highlighted that the Germans would have to “make work­up, namely when it comes to a co­responsibility, perhaps even complicity in the genocide of the Armenians”.