YEREVAN. – After struggling for years for the Armenian Genocide recognition at our Bundestag (parliament), the respective resolution shall finally be adopted on June 2, and where it will be called like it is: genocide.
Ursula “Ulla” Jelpke, Left Faction member of the German Bundestag and member of Die Linke Party of Germany, on Thursday stated the aforementioned at a press conference in Armenia’s capital city of Yerevan.
The German MP, however, stated that such a resolution should have passed a long time ago.
“The document, which we have submitted to the Bundestag, contains a more important point,” Jelpke stated. “We underscore the acceptance of Germany’s accountability and complicity [in the Armenian Genocide].”
And when asked how confident she is that the resolution will pass this time, Ulla Jelpke noted that she is sure of this.
“German Chancellor Angela Merkel was criticized for conducting a deal with Turkey,” the MP added. “So, the Bundestag MPs want to express their clear [respective] position, and say that we have our own view.”