Political-economic interests should not be at a higher level than the historic truth, said head of "Prosperous Armenia Party" parliamentary faction Naira Zohrabyan while delivering her speech on the Armenian Genocide during the PACE session.
She reminded that 1.5 million Armenians had been murdered in Ottoman Turkey 100 years before. "Modern Turkey will remain the successor and associate of Ottoman Turkey until it stoutly denies the Armenian Genocide", she said.
At the same time she stressed that the recognition and condemnation of the Armenian Genocide would contribute to the prevention of such future crimes. "Crimes committed in Cambodia, Rwanda, Darfur, as well as Islamic State's actions show that the impunity and denial policy cause new genocides", she summed up.
Republican Party deputy Armine Hovhannisyan also raised the issue of the Armenian Genocide.
To note, during the session the Azerbaijani delegation "did a new show" - at the beginning head of the Azeri delegation to PACE Samed Seidov said, "Armenian soldiers do not want to serve on territories which do not belong to the Armenians". Then the delegation demonstrated edited photos featuring Armenian soldier Andranik Grigoryan who had crossed the border into to Azerbaijan. He was supposedly hoisting a white flag.