Ukraine’s recognition of the Armenian Genocide at the legislative level will be an important foreign policy step on the way of Ukraine’s establishment as a regional leader in the Black Sea basin.

Creation of Kiev-Yerevan-Sofia triangle will serve as a deterrent of pan-Turkic sentiments in the region, says the article by Ukrainian public figure Dmitry Snegiryov.

Presenting details of Armenian history, the expert notes that, under the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment (1948), and the Convention on the Non-Applicability of Statutory Limitations to War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity, Turkey’s actions against the Armenian people must be considered as an act of genocide, the purpose of which was extermination of ethnic and religious groups.

“The victims of the genocide policy against the Armenians were more than 1.5 million representatives of this nation. Western Armenia was deprived of its native population. The Young Turks solved the Armenian issue by physical extermination of the indigenous population of these lands,” the expert is quoted by Analitika.at.ua.

As Armenian News-NEWS.am informed earlier, a bill on the Armenian Genocide’s recognition was registered on June 6 in the Verkhovna Rada. Ukrainian parliament members Arsen Avakov and Vilen Shatvoryan are the persons behind this law proposal.