German Chancellor Angela Merkel agrees with her parliamentary group that the Armenian massacres should be called a genocide, her spokeswoman said on Thursday.
However, Christiane Wirtz said the Chancellor would not attend the vote at the Bundestag on Thursday due to other official engagements on her schedule, Local.de reported.
The resolution titled “Remembrance and commemoration of the genocide of Armenians and other Christian minorities in 1915 and 1916” has been drafted by Merkel’s Christian Democrats and junior coalition partner Social Democrats, along with the opposition Greens.