YEREVAN, MAY 31, ARMENPRESS. The discussions over the draft resolution of the “Genocide and memory of the Armenian and other Christian minorities in the Ottoman Empire 101 years ago” are scheduled on June 2 at 11:10 local time, “Armenpress” reports, Bundestag official website informs.

The discussions will be broadcast via the net: www.bundestag.de.

Despite the Turkish pressures, with the joint initiative of the Christian Democratic Union/Christian Social Union (CDU/CSU) and Social Democratic Party’s parliamentary fractions the resolution of the Armenian Genocide was put on the Bundestag agenda with a clear “genocide” word.

Both coalition and opposition factions support the adoption of the resolution.

In 2005, Germany's parliament adopted a resolution recognizing the Armenian Genocide. However, in the Bundestag’s decision, the term Armenian Genocide was avoided, and instead "massacres of Armenians" was used.

On April 24, before the Bundestag hearings, Germany's Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier announced that he supports those MPs, who are in favor of calling the mass killings of Armenians “Genocide”. On April 23, during the ceremony in the Berlin Cathedral dedicated to the memory of the Armenian Genocide, German President Joachim Gauck used the term “Genocide” in his speech.

In March of 2015, the President of the German Parliament Norbert Lammert said: "what happened in the Ottoman Empire during the First World War in front of the whole world, was genocide. And it was not the last genocide of the 20th century”. During the session the leaders of various party fractions also came with their pro-Armenian statements admitting what had happened. However, the discussion of the resolution indefinitely postponed.   

The heated discussion of the Armenian Genocide on February 25 at Bundestag did not terminate with voting in 2016.