London -- This week the number of MPs in the House of Commons who have signed motions (called Early Day Motions) recognizing the 1915 Genocide of Armenians and Assyrians has passed 250, representinmg the majority of all eligible MPs. Of the 646 MPs , only 495 of them are eligible to express theoir own views on these motions, because the other 151 are part of the government or have other roles which preclude their signatures.

The number of MPs who have signed (254 exactly) did so by signing motions in 2007 and this year put by Dr. Bob Spink MP, an Independent MP, at our request. The current EDM (number 287) contains a clause which states:: "This House....condemns unreservedly denial and denigration of the memory of the Holocaust, as well as of the 1915 Genocide of Armenians and Assyrians in Turkey, and the politics of hatred and division which led to these events" and also "..... and calls on hon. Members to respect Holocaust Memorial Day and to ensure that the Holocaust, the 1915 Genocide and modern atrocities such as the 1988 Anfal Genocide are never forgotten"

Spokesman Eilian .Williams said : " The recognition of the Genocide of Assyrians in 1915 is fundemental to the case for an Assyrian Homeland, to which they were denied by British betrayals from 1919 to 1933., when Assyrians became victims to a second Genocide, this time by the newly created state of Iraq. The UK has a responsibility to make representations to the United Nations, and especially to the Turkish and Iraqi States to search for a satisfactory solution to the Assyrian National Question. Recognition of the Genocides of 1915 and 1933 by the perpetrator States, asa well as Britain's guilt, is fundemental to the present proposals for a Safe Haven for the Assyrian-Chalean-Syriacs

Furthermore, the question of the return of Armenian and Assyrian Churches after confiscation by the Turkish State in 1923 by the so-called "Law of Abandonned Properties" must be given a high priority by the European Union before Turkey makes progress toward membership

Lobby for the Minorities of Iraq and Turkey
Nor Serount Cultural Association
Armenia Solidarity