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The Senate recognizes the Assyro-Chaldean genocide

2023-02-09T16:02:58.290Z


The High Assembly voted a resolution to salute the memory of Christians killed in the Ottoman Empire between 1915 and 1918.


Some will see it as a coincidence and others as a disturbing sign.

Wednesday evening, it was exactly 7:15 p.m. when the High Assembly voted by an overwhelming majority (300 for and 2 against) the “resolution relating to the recognition of the genocide of the Assyro-Chaldeans” perpetrated, also targeting the Armenians and d other Christians, by the Ottoman Empire between 1915 and 1918. A few moments earlier, the Minister Delegate to the Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs, Olivier Becht, nevertheless asserted: "

The government will not support the project of resolution

."

The main thing was not there anyway, but rather in the audience of representatives of the Assyro-Chaldean community of France, which included many young people.

For more than an hour, they attended a beautiful parliamentary moment on a very clear text.

Initiated by Senator Valérie Boyer, supported by the presidents of the LR and Union centriste groups, Bruno Retailleau and Hervé Marseille, this resolution…

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Source: lefigaro

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