A monument, devoted to the Armenians and the Assyrians who fell victims to genocide in Ottoman Turkey, will be placed in Botkyrka, which is the largest municipality in Stockholm County in east central Sweden, not far from the capital Stockholm.   

The Botkyrka City Hall held a voting at the request of the Assyrian associations of Stockholm, reports Cihan news agency of Turkey.

As a result, the City Council members sanctioned, with a vote of 54 for and 5 against, the placing of an Armenian and Assyrian Genocide monument.   

Before the voting, however, a group of Azerbaijanis and Turks staged a protest across the City Hall building.   

The Armenian and Assyrian Genocide was formally recognized by Sweden in 2011.