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April 3 in the PAP Faction the Yezidi community of Armenia the meeting of the deputies of the PAP Faction with the representatives of several organizations representing the Yezidi community of Armenia took place.

During the meeting the representatives of the Yezidi community presented to the members of the faction facts and documents on the crimes committed in the Ottoman Turkey towards Yezidis, expecting adequate political assessment by the RA NA. The representatives of the Yezidi community also proposed the PAP Faction to give political assessment by the RA NA until April 24 to the atrocities occurring by the terrorist organization “Islamic State” towards the Yezidis in Iraq.

The deputies of the PAP Faction proposed to discuss the issue of qualifying the occurred towards the Yezidis in Ottoman Turkey as “genocide” in the working group to be set up in the NA, where the deputies of the faction will actively take part. Referring to giving assessment to the atrocities occurring by the terrorist organization “Islamic State” towards the Yezidis in Iraq, the PAP deputies promised to raise that issue in the NA upcoming sittings.