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In the House of Lords in Great Britain an International Conference devoted to Genocide took place organized by the British-Armenian multi-party Parliamentary group. RA Foreign Minister Vardan Oskanyan who had arrived the previous evening from Peking was invited to the Conference as the main speaker.

The issue of the Armenian Genocide was discussed in the context of Turkey's membership to the EU, according to which Ankara ought to recognize it and regulate relations with Yerevan.

Oskanyan invited attention to the contradiction between the words and actions of the Turkish Government, which on the one hand tries to show itself as proponent of conciliation before the International community and on the other hand criminalizes the term «Genocide», prohibits as public discussion with that theme in their country and even demands the British Government to reconsider the history recorded by diplomat James Brown and historian Arnold Toynbee.

Nevertheless, Oskanyan expressed the readiness of Armenia to regulate the Armenian-Turkish relations without preconditions as he did not see any alternative.

In the afternoon the British-Armenian Parliamentary group appealed to the British Government with a petition ratified with 3000 signatures demanding to recognize the Armenian Genocide carried out by the Ottoman Empire in 1915 and contribute to the reconciliation of the two countries.

In the same evening Minister Oskanyan left London for Brussels to represent the plan of actions of Armenia to the North-Atlantic Council and the EU.