Knesset will not pass "Armenian genocide" bill

The Azerbaijani MP is confident that the discussions over so-called "Armenian genocide" will not go out frames of Israel's parliament commission.

"The people have the right to make proposals and they are not deprived of this right," the Chairman of a working group on interparliamentary ties Azerbaijan-Israel, MP Yevda Abramov said. "We are confident that the Israeli-Azerbaijan relations as well as Israel's attempts to improve relations with Turkey and on the contrary, Turkey's aspiration to improve ties with Israel for the sake of peace in the region, do not allow this matter to turn into the subject of broad discussion."

During the recent visit to Azerbaijan the Israeli Foreign Ministry Director General Rafael Barak also stressed this matter will not go out the commission's framework, Abramov said.

Some members of the Israeli parliament (Knesset) intend to discuss the matter of fictional so-called "Armenian genocide" at a meeting of commission on education, culture and sport.
The Israeli parliament consists of many parties, and one of them - Merets party tries to get into the mainstream of events and processes once or twice a year, he added.

Including in the Knesset's commission agenda the matter of "Armenian genocide" is connected with the adoption of a bill criminalizing denial of the so-called "Armenian genocide" by the lower France's parliament the other day.

"Some members of the Israeli Knesset under the influence include the matter of "Armenian genocide" in the agenda," Abramov said.

The relations established by the Israeli parliament's members with Azerbaijan and Turkey, give the framework to suggest that after discussions, the committee will again decide not to submit it at a plenary session of Knesset, he noted.


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