March 10 the Parliament of Uruguay passed the bill approved by the Senate in 2000, according to which the country will annually mark April 24 as "Commemoration Day of Armenian martyrs, killed in 1915." According to the bill, on that day Uruguay state media should cover events taken place in the Ottoman Turkey in early last century. The law will come into effect after being signed by the Uruguayan President. As reported by Armenia Uruguayan Radio Company, although the bill does not use the term "genocide," everyone addressing the Parliament qualified the events as genocide.