 Portugal’s parliament recognizes Ukraine’s Holodomor as genocide March 4, 2017 - 14:26 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - The Portuguese parliament has recognized the Holodomor in Ukraine in 1932-1933 as genocide, UNIAN News said citing Ukrainian Diaspora's media portal VIDIA. The document, which was adopted on March 2, 2017, condemns the Holodomor in Ukraine in 1932-1933 and recognizes it as genocide committed by Joseph "Stalin's totalitarian communist regime, which caused deaths of seven million Ukrainian citizens," the local edition NoticiasAoMinuto reported, VIDIA wrote with reference to Chairman of the Association of Ukrainians in Portugal Pavlo Sadokha. "The criminal communist totalitarian regime, forcibly seizing food, blockading villages and whole districts, banning travel from Ukraine amid suffering from famine, curtailing rural trade, waging a campaign of repression against those who disagreed, intentionally created such conditions of life for Ukrainians that were causing their physical destruction. Such a policy pursued by the regime was a crime against humanity, according to the UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide dated December 9, 1948," Ukrainian parliamentarians said in their appeal.   Top stories Authorities said a total of 192 Azerbaijani troops were killed and 511 were wounded during Azerbaijan’s offensive. In 2023, the Azerbaijani government will increase the country’s defense budget by more than 1.1 billion manats ($650 million). The bill, published on Monday, is designed to "eliminate the shortcomings of an unreasonably broad interpretation of the key concept of "compatriot". The earthquake caused a temporary blackout, damaged many buildings and closed a number of rural roads.   Partner news |  Latest news The Power of One Dram to benefit Road of Life charity  The companies inform that the May beneficiary of The Power of One Dram is the “Road of Life” charitable organization.Ucom General Director gives lecture at French University in Armenia The General Director of Ucom Ralph Yirikian delivered a lecture at the French University of Armenia.Kazakhstan welcomes Yerevan, Baku’s agreement to meet in Almaty Kassym-Jomart Tokayev has welcomed the agreement of Baku and Yerevan to hold negotiations in Almaty.Armenia offers to temporarily host, preserve Gaza manuscripts The Armenian Foreign Minister has said Yerevan is ready to help preserve manuscripts from the conflict zone in Gaza. |
