The U.K. parliament unanimously recognized the actions of the Islamic State against the ethnic and religious minorities in Syria and Iraq as a genocide, TASS reports, citing Guardian.

Conservative MP Fiona Bruce said: “The proposers of this motion are here to insist that the overwhelming evidence of the atrocities of Daesh [Islamic State] in Syria and Iraq is recognized for the genocide it is and is considered as such by the UN Security Council and the international criminal court. This will support similar resolutions of other leading international and legislative bodies.”

It was “unprecedented for MPs collectively to declare actions in a war as genocide,” Guardian reports. The House of Commons also urged to consider the given issue in the UN Security Council.