The city council of Italy’s Mantua is discussing a draft resolution on recognition of the Armenian Genocide that have been submitted by SEL member Fausto Banzi, Gazzetta di Mantova reported.
“The city council of Mantua formally recognizes the genocide of the Armenian nation and expresses solidarity on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the ‘great evil’,” the draft resolution says.
Fausto Banzi said he had accepted the call by the council of the Armenian community in Rome to pass legal acts in solidarity with the memory of the tragedy that occurred back in 1915.