Armenia: 1915 Atrocities Debate

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Armenia: 1915 Atrocities

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Tuesday 16th June 2015

(8 years, 11 months ago)

Lords Chamber
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Earl of Courtown Portrait The Earl of Courtown
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No, I cannot agree with the noble Lord. I am not aware of the response that was given concerning the Sikhs in India, and there is nothing more I can add.

Lord Flight Portrait Lord Flight (Con)
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My Lords, while the treatment of the Armenians in 1915 is to be condemned absolutely as genocide, might we be able to persuade Armenia to withdraw from those parts of Azerbaijan which it has been illegally occupying for some 20 years?