Israeli Parliament Committee discussed another measure on Armenian genocide allegations on Wednesday dealing with assigning a memorial day for so called Genocide and decided that its Education and Culture Committee discuss this new measure and make recommendation to the Knesset, asbarez.com reported.
The Knesset voted 25-1 to send the bill for consideration by the Education and Culture Committee. The measure was introduced by Knesset member Arie Eldad. This second resolution envisions educational programs and curricula on so called Armenian Genocide to be taught on April 24, Times.am reports.
The one vote against came from a Knesset member who is of Azerbaijani descent.
The Israeli government representative, Uzi Landau, who is Israel’s minister of national infrastructure commented that while the government believes that Armenia and Turkey must address this issue among themselves, the government was not opposed to the discussion of the measure by the Knesset committee.
Wednesday’s motion becomes the second bill to be discussed by the Knesset’s education committee.
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