The Uruguayan parliament has initiated a collection of signatures under the appeal to the European Union to urge Turkey to acknowledge the Armenian Genocide of 1915 as "gravest infringement of human rights." The collection of signatures will bear Pan-American nature, since it will be held in Brazil, Argentina and Paraguay. The action was initiated by deputy of the Uruguayan parliament Lilian Kechichian, Armenian in origin. All the Armenian structures functioning in Latin America will support the initiative. To note, the Turkish Foreign Ministry has already sent a note of protest, which says in part that "the Paraguayan authorities support groundless statements of Armenians." To remind, April 24 Paraguayan President Tabare Vasquez addressed the Armenian community and a monument to the Armenian Genocide victims was erected in Montevideo.