276) Did the Swedish Parliament Recognize the "Genocide"? “Swedish Parliament corrects Its Earlier Decision; Says Genocide Did Not Happen�

 
 
  
  “Swedish Parliament corrects Its Earlier Decision; Says Genocide Did Not Happenâ€�
 
 By Serkan Demirtas, Cumhuriyet, 27 March 2002
 
 (Cumhuriyet is a Turkish daily newspaper published since 1923 in Ankara, Turkey)
 
 "... Swedish Parliament admitted that they made a mistake in the year 2000 by recognizing the AAG and basing their decision on the UN resolutions of similar recognition . They have since determined that the UN had never had such resolutions.
 
 The Swedish Parliament declared that no pronouncements can be made on the alleged, pre-1948 genocide of Armenians, Assyrians, and Keldanis, and the issue should be left up to the historians. By resolving that the genocide convention of 1948 is not retroactive, the Swedish Parliament also gave support to the Turkish position.
 
 The resolution was introduced by Murad Artin, an Armenian member of the Swedish Parliament, Foreign Relations Committee, who belongs to a leftist party. After deliberations, the committee offered the following recommendations to the general assembly:
 
 Â· No official Swedish position has ever been formulated which recognizes the events during the Ottoman Empire as genocide;
 
 Â· Our committee, during its deliberations of the resolution dated and numbered 1999/2000:U651, made a reference to a UN resolution in 1985, recognizing the treatment of Armenians by the Ottoman Empire at the beginning of the 20th century as genocide. Later, it was determined that no such U.N. resolution was passed in 1985 or in any other year. Consequently, our committee should have never formulated their statement the way it did.
 
 Â· Our committee is of the opinion that it is important to discuss these events openly. For this to happen, unconditional historical researches must be conducted.