On June 2, 2016, Germany’s Bundestag has approved a resolution recognizing the Armenian Genocide under the title of “Remembrance and commemoration of the genocide of Armenians and other Christian minorities in 1915 and 1916” , in which, it is stated that the Bundestag of Germany bows before the Armenians and the Christian minorities that were displaced and massacred in the Ottoman Empire. The resolution implicitly recognizes that a hundred years ago the Young Turks initiated a systematical deportation and annihilation of more than a million Armenians. “Their fate exemplifies the mass exterminations, the ethnic cleansing, as well as the implementing of a genocide, that was the most terrible incident of the 20th century”, - says the resolution.

   It is also notable, that the resolution not only recognizes the Genocide, but acknowledges the accomplice role of German Empire in the crime committing process.

The source of the news: The official website of periodical of RA Ministry of Diaspora.