Monday, November 29 2021 16:50

ArmInfo.On Monday 29th November 2021, the Federal Parliament's House of Representatives unanimously debated in favour of a motion calling on the Australian  Government to recognise the Armenian, Assyrian, and Greek Genocides,  the Armenian National Committee of Australia (ANC-AU) reports.

According to the source,Trent Zimmerman MP introduced the motion to  parliament, which also had fellow Government members John Alexander  MP and Julian Leeser MP as speakers, joined by Opposition members  Josh Burns MP, Steve Georganas MP and Joel Fitzgibbon MP, who  seconded the motion.  "The House of Representatives has spoken. The  Australian Parliament's largest and most representative legislative  chamber has unanimously called on Australia's Government to recognise  the Armenian, Assyrian and Greek Genocides," said Executive Director  of the Armenian National Committee of Australia (ANC-AU), Haig  Kayserian.  "This unanimous outcome rejects Turkish interference in  Australian foreign policy and calls on our country's Prime Minister  and his Government to stand with the representatives elected by their  constituents and call a genocide a genocide," Kayserian added.

It should be noted that despite the fact that Australia has not yet  recognized the Armenian Genocide, the largest states of the country -  New South Wales and South Australia have recognized this crime  against humanity. In 2007, the NSW Parliament passed an act  condemning the Armenian genocide and suggested the Australian Federal  Government to do the same; in March 2009 the South Australian  Parliament passed a similar act. Moreover, on May 1, 2013, the  Parliament of the Australian state of New South Wales at a meeting of  the legislative council unanimously adopted a petition to recognize  the genocide of the Assyrians, Greeks and Armenians.