YEREVAN, MARCH 24, ARMENPRESS: A short 30-minute discussion, devoted to the Armenian Genocide centenary, was held at the House of Commons of the Great Britain’s Parliament. It was initiated by Stephen Pound, the deputy of the Labour Party, the member of the British group of the Armenian-British interparliamentary union.

Presenting the evidences of the Armenian Genocide eyewitnesses, the US Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire Henry Morgenthau and the Genocide survivor Grigoris Balakian, to the British MPs, Stephen Pound stated in his speech: “It is important that we discuss this issue here and show that we know about this issue. 1,5 million Armenians were driven to the Syrian deserts to die under the burning sun. During the death march, directed to the concentration camps, men were killed first and then the Minister of Internal Affairs instructed: “To kill the women, men and the children, who are of the size of my knee”.

“If it is not a genocide, I do not really know what the real genocide is”, - said Pound.

The co-chair of the British group of the Armenian-British interparliamentary union John Whittingdale told Armenpress by phone that the discussion aimed at raising the awareness among the British deputies on the Armenian Genocide and commemorating the 100th anniversary of the Genocide.