April 24 isn't proclaimed as Day of Condemnation of Dispossession
The Armenian National Assembly today observed a one-minute silence for the victims of the 1988 earthquake.
The Armenian parliament today postponed the bill on proclamation April 24 as Day of Remembrance for the Victims of the Genocide and of Condemnation of the Great Armenian Dispossession.
Earlier the bill had been disapproved of by Armenian Government.
"The proposal is urgent and actual. The president underlined in his speech that we aren't going to challenge the fact of genocide and dispossession. Hence we expect the bill to be supported and put on the agenda," Heritage MP Stepan Safaryan addressed the Armenian parliamentarians.
"The Armenian Genocide was unique in the sense the Armenian people were deprived of their homeland," said Heritage MP Armen Martirosyan and added: "Not all genocides are followed by dispossession."
In his addressing speech ARF-Dashnaktsutyun MP Vahan Hovhannisyan urged his colleagues to vote for the bills which sounded very convincing.
Anyway, the bill was voted down with 27 pros, 59 cons and 3 abstentions.
