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Sweden parliament approves Armenian genocide resolution

By Bernard Hibbitts (editor) and University of Pittsburgh School of Law students.

[JURIST] The Swedish Parliament on Thursday voted 131-130 to approve a resolution that recognizes the Ottoman Empire's killing of Armenians between 1915 and 1923 as genocide. Of the 349 assembly members, 88 were absent. The resolution was opposed by the ruling center-right coalition and supported by the opposition left. It passed when several members of the ruling party sided with the opposition. The Turkish government has condemned the resolution, recalling its ambassador to Sweden. The vote comes only a week after the US House of Representatives Committee on Foreign Affairs voted 23-22 to adopt a resolution labeling the killings as genocide. The US government has indicated that it will seek to block the resolution from being put before the full House of Representatives. A similar resolution was passed by the committee in 2007, but it never reached the House floor.

Full post as published by JURIST - The Paper Chase on March 11, 2010 (boomark / email).