Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar announced Thursday evening that he will bring to the next government meeting a resolution calling for Israel’s first official government recognition of the Armenian Genocide, Ynet reports.

This was preceded by a statement by US President Donald Trump, who called Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan his friend for staying “out of the war with Iran” and promised that there would be no confrontation between Israel and Turkey.

The draft resolution says that “on the basis of the moral and historical duty, Israel will recognize the genocide committed against the Armenian people in the final period of the Ottoman Empire.”

It also says Israel should condemn the denial, minimization or distortion of the historical truth surrounding those events.

The explanatory notes to the proposal say the Armenian Genocide began in April 1915 with the arrest, deportation and killing of hundreds of Armenian intellectuals, leaders and educated figures in Constantinople—today’s Istanbul.

After eliminating the community’s leadership, the Ottoman government began the systematic destruction of the Armenian population, the proposal says.

The proposal notes that 32 countries have recognized the Armenian Genocide in various ways, and says Israel should do so “in light of the moral and historical duty.”

The issue of Armenian Genocide recognition has surfaced several times in Israel but has never been adopted as an official government position.

A decade ago, the Israeli Knesset (parliament) Education Committee declared its recognition of the Armenian Genocide. In May 2018, against the backdrop of worsening ties between Israel and Turkey, the Knesset plenum approved a discussion and vote on similar recognition, but the Israeli government has not recognized the Armenian Genocide to date.