The debate in the Bundestag on the proposal of the Greens on the Armenian genocide did take place Thursday afternoon, however, because the future EU-Turkey summit on refugees no vote was taken but the governing parties have promised that a vote will take place shortly.

The Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung spoke yesterday the episode in an article entitled “a hard handshake in difficult times.”

The newspaper says “see a handshake between the opposition and the government is very rare in a plenary session of the Bundestag. Sometimes these handshakes represent a change of power – as was the case when Chancellor Helmut Schmidt SPD was ousted by a vote of no confidence and approached the winner Helmut Kohl and he silently shook hands firmly . This happened once in Bonn. Now, in Berlin, there was a special moment between Volker Kauder, head of the group of the Union in power, and Cem Özdemir, head of the Green Party in opposition. The handshake of the two did not take place as part of a transfer of power – it appeared a promising future. “

To log all stakeholders in the debate in the Bundestag have qualified the massacre of Armenians in 1915 as genocide and an agreement was reached for a joint resolution to be adopted “before the summer”.

The Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung said “during the debate in plenary on Thursday experienced parliamentarians later said they felt a mixture of pride and enthusiasm, something they had not seen in twenty years as deputy”.

Summarizing the trade paper said “Cem Özdemir finally got up, walked to Kauder, expressed its conditions, Kauder nodded several times, then the two men while looking seriously exchanged a long handshake. The resolution was withdrawn. A small sensation, this debate is not ritualized brawl, but in a struggle to find the best solution. “