Israel will not recognize “Armenian genocide”

Israeli Knesset will not recognize the “Armenian genocide”, Deputy Foreign Minister of Israel Danny Ayalon was quoted by AzerTAc as saying Haberturk.

“Knesset has no chance to recognize the genocide. We can not harm relations with Azerbaijan. Azerbaijan is our strategic partner in the Islamic world. We can not break our relationship for the events happened hundred years ago,” the deputy minister said.Ayalon emphasized that Israeli government is against the populist decisions and doesn’t accept such behaviours.

Knesset’s Committee on Education, Culture and Sports is panning to put the false “Armenian genocide” issue on agenda early in December. MPs from Likud Party are interested in inclusion of this issue in agenda, but member of “Israel - Our Home” party are against this plan saying that it would seriously harm the Israel-Azerbaijan relations.


/AzerTAc/