February 13, 2020

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The Syrian Arab Republic

People’s Assembly

People’s Assembly’s Resolution regarding the Armenian Genocide at the hands of the Ottoman Empire

During its session on Thursday 2/13/2020, the People’s Assembly in the Syrian Arab Republic condemns and acknowledges the crime of Genocide against the Armenians at the hands of the Ottoman Empire at the beginning of the twentieth century. It also condemns any attempt to deny this crime and to misrepresent the historical truth by any party. It also affirms that this crime is one of the cruelest and most horrific crimes against humanity.

And while the Assembly expressed its full sympathy for our friends the Armenian people, it acknowledges that the Armenians, the Syriacs, the Assyrians and others were the victims of systematic ethnic cleansing and massacres at the hands of the Ottomans during that period. It calls upon world parliaments, International public opinion and the entire international community to acknowledge it and condemn it.

Damascus 2/13/2020

The Peoples’s Assembly

In the Syrian Arab Republic

Unofficial Translation