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Andriana
Simos, November 30, 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 on Monday.
According
to the Armenian National Committee of Australia (ANC-AU), Trent Zimmerman MP
introduced the motion to Parliament, which also had fellow Government members
John Alexander MP and Julian Leeser MP as speakers.
Opposition
members, Josh Burns MP, Steve Georganas MP and Joel Fitzgibbon MP, seconded the
motion.
“[The
genocide] is absolutely something that should be recognised by our government
and by this Parliament,” Greek Australian and Member for Adelaide, Mr
Georganas, said in his address.
“President
Biden has recognised it, many countries around the world have recognised the
genocide, and it’s about time that we did too because if we don’t recognise
humanity’s mistakes, they are there to be committed again.”
In
a statement after the motion to Parliament, the Executive Director of ANC-AU,
Haig Kayserian, said “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,” Mr Kayserian said.
“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.”
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