The lower house of Argentina's parliament has adopted a resolution recognizing the 1915-1918 mass killings and deportations of Armenians in Ottoman Turkey as genocide.The bill declared April 24, which sees annual commemorations of more than one million genocide victims in Armenia and its worldwide Diaspora, an official "day of mutual tolerance and respect" among peoples around the world. Argentine citizens of Armenian descent will have the legal right to be absent from work or university classes on that day.
The bill has to be approved by the Argentine Senate in order to become a law.
