ArmInfo. The deputies of the National Assembly of Armenia led by the vice-speaker from the ruling Republican Party Arpine Hovhannisyan visited the Aragatsotn region of  Armenia and visited the Yezidi shrine in the village of Aknalich, paying tribute to the memory of 12,000 innocent Yezidis killed by terrorists of the Islamic state in the Iraqi province of Shanghal.

ArmInfo.Ankara wants to establish normal relations with Armenia. Deputy Chairman of the Turkish ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP), deputy of the  Turkish Parliament Ravza Kavakchi Kan, stated in an interview with  the Armenian service of the Voice of America.

ArmInfo.On April 24, on Genocide Victims commemoration day, Hermine Naghdalyan, the Vice Speaker of Armenian parliament and the head of Armenian delegation at PACE delivered a speech at Assembly session, accentuating the  attention of European law makers on  one of the hardest crimes of XX  century - Armenian Genocide and referred to the necessity to develop  effective tools of struggle 

ArmInfo.The deputy chairman of the German Bundestag, Edelhard Bulman, calls on the Turkish government to accept its own history. "Recognition of the truth helps  to remain sober and to avoid hatred, only those who accept it can  come into contact with the consequences of the incident and learn  from this," Bullman stated in the German History Museum in Berlin  during an event dedicated to the memory of the victims of the  Armenian Genocide.

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ArmInfo.Congressman Dave Trott, presenting  to the House of Representatives law-in-draft on Genocide recognition, expressed hope that his project will be adopted not only by Congress but also by he President Donald Trump, as Voice of  America informs, during the evening in remembrance of Armenian  Genocide victims in Congress.

ArmInfo."The world can only applaud when captured/arrested are treated with dignity/respect. Needs to be mutual, though," former US Ambassador to Armenia John Evans tweeted, when commenting on the meeting of the Artsakh Republic  Human Rights Defender Ruben Melikyan with Azerbaijani raider Elnur  Husseinzade, who was captured on February 1 during the failed  Azerbaijani sabotage attack.  

ArmInfo.Naira Karapetyan, PACE Armenian mission member, reminded Turkey about its liabilities in respect to the Council of Europe. 

ArmInfo.Garo Pylan, the ish lawmaker of Armenian origin from the Democratic Party of Kurdish Nations of Turkey, is incapacitated to admit three parliamentary sessions due to his speech  related to Armenian Genocide.  

ArmInfo.Federal Constitutional Court of Germany threw out 8 lawsuits against Bundestag's decision on recognition of Armenian Genocide.  The court decided that the complainant did not present enough evidences of  violating fundamental human rights, consequently there has been no  violation, Associated Press reports.

ArmInfo. President of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan is confident that it is Turkish side that should be applied to in respect to the normalization of relations between Yerevan and Ankara .

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ArmInfo. Head of the Heritage Party Faction Zaruhi Postanjyan has submitted a draft statement on people's right to rebellion for the consideration of the Armenian National Assembly.

ArmInfo. The German government has commented on Der Spiegel's information that allegedly it intends to distance itself from Bundestag's resolution on Armenian Genocide. There can be no talk about it. German Bundestag has the right to express opinion on any issue when it finds it right. The German government supports and defends German parliament's sovereign  right, Official Representative of German government Steffen Seibert  stated commenting on the information published by Der Spiegel that  the government is ready to make a "political gesture" towards Ankara,  distancing itself from the Bundestag's resolution, DW reports. 

ArmInfo. The German  government is going to make a "political gesture" towards Ankara,  distancing itself from the Bundestag's resolution that describes the  mass killings of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire as genocide,  Spiegel-online reports, citing its own sources.