BERN, AUGUST 9, NOYAN TAPAN. Peter Brener, Chairman of the Foreign Relations Commission of the Senate - the upper chamber of the Swiss parliament, stated last week that "the Senate will not dicsuss the massacre of Armenians in Turkey in 1915," Radio Liberty reports. According to the agency Swissinfo, Brener said: "The third countries have no right to indicate to Turkey that it did such a thing 90 years ago." He added that "the Commission has decided not to put the issue of massacre or deportation of 800 thousand to 1.8 million Armenians in Turkey in 1915-1919 on the agenda of the plenary session of Senate." "The Senate's Commission has agreed with the Swiss government that it should not decide whether it was a genocide or not," Brener said. To recap, the House of Representatives - the lower chamber of the Swiss parliament, recognized the Armenian Genocide as early as 2003.

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