24 03 208 - BULGARIAN CAPITAL'S MUNICIPAL COUNCIL TO RECOGNIZE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE

Bulgarian News Agency - March 20 2008
Bulgaria
Sofia, 20 March: Sofia will become the fourth Bulgarian city to officially recognize the 1915-22 Armenian Genocide. These were the words of Sofia Municipal Council's Committee for European Affairs and Public Relations Irina Yordanova, who talked to BTA on Thursday [20 March]. The capital is expected to follow in the footsteps of Plovdiv, Bourgas [Burgas], and Stara Zagora in stating its belief that the Ottoman Empire undertook such a campaign in the last years before its demise.
A declaration was submitted to the Committee bearing 35 municipal councillors' signatures, who want to see 24 April declared as a day of remembrance for those who died in the Armenian Genocide.
The Committee unanimously approved the text of the declaration, which is supported by eight Sofia-based Armenian organizations as well as by the signatures of twenty-four intellectuals and businessmen of Armenian descent.
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