Majority of UK Parliament members have recognized the Armenian Genocide, reports Jean Eckian, the correspondent of Nouvelles d’Arménie – magazine of French Armenians.

This week the number of MPs in the House of Commons who have signed motions (called Early Day Motions) recognizing the 1915 Genocide of Armenians and Assyrians has passed 250. Only 495 out of 646 MPs are eligible to express their own views on these motions, because the other 151 are part of the government or have other roles which preclude their signatures. The current Early Day Motion (number 287) contains a clause which states: “This House….condemns unreservedly denial and denigration of the memory of the Holocaust, as well as of the 1915 Genocide of Armenians and Assyrians in Turkey, and the politics of hatred and division which led to these events” and also “…..calls on hon. Members to respect Holocaust Memorial Day and to ensure that the Holocaust, the 1915 Genocide and modern atrocities such as the 1988 Anfal Genocide are never forgotten.”

Thus, UK Parliament followed the lead of Welsh National Assembly that signed the Genocide motions in 2006 and 2007, as well as parliaments of Scotland and Ireland several weeks ago.