Adjournment debate on Wednesday, 7 June 2006, in the House of Commons, led by Stephen Pound. The answering member was Geoffrey Hoon.

Genocide (Armenia and Assyria)

Westminster Hall adjournment debate on genocide in Armenia and Assyria

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Type: Parliamentary proceeding
Reference: 447 c130-7WH
Session: 2005-06
Department: Foreign and Commonwealth Office
Chamber / Committee: Westminster Hall
Proceeding contributions: Speaker | 447 c131WH (Link to this contribution) Briefly.; Andrew Dismore | 447 c131WH (Link to this contribution) The real problem is that article 301 of the Turkish penal code makes it an offence to insult Turkish...; Stephen Pound | 447 c130-1WH (Link to this contribution) Were I to attempt to address the history of the Armenian and Assyrian peoples, I would require far l...; Stephen Pound | 447 c134-5WH (Link to this contribution) As I said, if I took right hon. and hon. Members down every bloodstained byway of the 20th century, ...; Andrew Dismore | 447 c133-4WH (Link to this contribution) That account was very moving. It is a pity that when the same happened in Smyrna in 1923, the navies...; Stephen Pound | 447 c131-3WH (Link to this contribution) I freely and publicly admit that there are few in the House who have a deeper knowledge of the Turki...; Andrew Dismore | 447 c131WH (Link to this contribution) It applies in respect of the Armenian genocide and, of course, advocating troops going out of Cyprus...; Speaker | 447 c135WH (Link to this contribution) Mr. Hoon, you have nine minutes in which to reply.; Stephen Pound | 447 c135WH (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend’s words are so prescient and important that I almost felt like pausing when I heard t...; Andrew Dismore | 447 c135WH (Link to this contribution) There is another reason why we should remember that first genocide of the last century: to be able t...; Geoffrey Hoon | 447 c136-7WH;447 c135-7WH (Link to this contribution) Thank you, Mr. Cook. It is obvious from the passionate presentation of my hon. Friend the Member for...; Andrew Dismore | 447 c130WH (Link to this contribution) I do not wish to contest what my hon. Friend says, but I point out that the oppression of the Armeni...; Stephen Pound | 447 c130WH (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure to appear before you this afternoon, Mr. Cook, and a particular honour that my righ...
Subjects: Armenia Genocide Turkey Christianity Assyria
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Genocide (Armenia and Assyria)

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