The Bundestag will Thursday discuss and adopt the Armenian Genocide Resolution, journalist Ashot Manucharian living a working in Germany stated, RFE/RL reports. In his word, the term “genocide” is used in the resolution. At the same time it says that “many independent historians and international organizations define the mass killings of Armenians as Genocide. “Thus the Bundestag on one hand does not want to subject Turkey to sharp criticism but on the other hand does not want to conceal the historical truth”, Manucharian noted. The Bundestag asks the Armenian people for their forgiveness, as partly through approval and through failure to take effective preventive measures there was a German co-responsibility for this genocide, the resolution says. To remind, preliminary discussion on the resolution was held April 21. Despite the pressure exerted by the Turkish government, the Turkish Embassy in Germany as well as Turkish organizations, all the parties represented in the Bundestag decided to adopt a document on the Armenian Genocide till September.
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