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The President of the Greek Community of Melbourne and Victoria, Bill Papastergiadis, and the Cypriot Community of Melbourne and Victoria, Theo Theophanous, with the support of the Pontian Federations of Australia, sent a letter to the Prime Minister urging the government to officially recognize the genocides committed by the Ottoman Empire between 1915 and 1923 against Armenians, Assyrians, Greeks, and other Christian minorities, neoskosmos reported.

This followed a motion passed unanimously by the House of Representatives on November 29, 2021, calling for the government to officially recognize the acts of genocide.

The proposal was supported by both sides of Parliament.

As of 2021, 31 countries around the world have recognized these genocides, including the United States, France, Italy, Brazil, Sweden, the Netherlands, Austria, Denmark, and the Vatican.

“All we have asked of the Prime Minister and in fact we also ask of the Leader of the Opposition is that they respect the unanimous motion passed by the parliament and act upon it,” the community presidents said in a joint statement.

In their letter to the Prime Minister, they stated the following:

“As Presidents of the Greek Community of Melbourne and Victoria and the Cyprus Community of Melbourne and Victoria together with the Presidents of the Pontian Federations of Australia, we write to you to urge you to act on the motion that was passed by the House of Representatives on 29th November 2021 calling on the Government to formally recognise the Armenian, Assyrian and Greek genocides committed by the Ottoman empire in the period 1915 to 1923.”

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