A bill on the recognition of the Armenian Genocide, and which an Armenian MP had introduced to the parliament of the Iraqi Kurdistan autonomous region, has caused debates among the local political forces.
The parliament’s Armenian member, Yervant Nisan, informed that he collected signatures from all parties in the parliament, and in favor of the draft law he introduced, reported the Rudaw website.
Although the parliament’s Kurdistan Patriots Union (KYB) openly supported this bill, the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) and the Movement for Change (Gorran) platform preferred to remain silent on this matter.
KYB MP Rewas Fayik noted that he signed for this bill and its passing in the Iraqi Kurdistan parliament will be something ordinary.
Several KDP MPs likewise signed in favor of the passing of this proposed law.
KDP member Muhammad Amir Dershewi, for his part, said everyone knows that genocide was committed against the Armenians, and stressed that the parliament of the Kurdistan autonomous region must take the initiative.
Forty Iraqi Kurdistan MP’s signed under this bill, which calls for the recognition of the Armenian Genocide, and it was submitted to the presidency of the parliamen