BUNDESTAG TO DISCUSS RESOLUTION ON MASS SLAUGHTER OF ARMENIANS TODAY

PanARMENIAN.Net - German Bundestag will today discuss the Resolution on Deportation and Mass Slaughter of Armenians in Ottoman Turkey in 1915. As reported by German media, the document notes that some 1.2-1.5 million Armenians were killed in the course of "a planned in advance deportation" realized during World War I. The resolution is sponsored by Christian Democratic Union CDU/CSU of Germany. However, according to Berliner Zeitung, the term "genocide" is "cautiously avoided" in the three-page resolution. One of the MPs, who wished to remain anonymous, reported that the resolution aims at reconciliation of Turkey with Armenia. "We want to build a reconciliation bridge, not to close the door," he noted. In his turn Chairman of the Commission for European Affairs of the Bundestag Matthias Wissmann stated that "open and honest attitude towards the massacre of the Armenians is a litmus test for the European trust to Turkey." In his words, "it is a high risk for the EU to accept such a country as Turkey, which has such tense relations with its neighboring Armenia," Regnum news agency reported.