Hello. My name is Tim Loughton. And I'm a member of the British Parliament, the head of the Armenia-United Kingdom Friendship Group.
I have just come back from taking a delegation of cross-party MPs to Armenia, Yerevan and down to the border of Nagorno-Karabakh. One of the most moving parts of this trip was a visit to the Armenian Genocide memorial in Yerevan where I was privileged to lay flowers on behalf of our parliamentary group.
The Armenian Genocide is an atrocity in history which may have happened over a hundred years ago and in a distant corner of Europe, but it is really important that we do not forget those events, that we educate the world about the horrors that happened all those years ago, and most importantly we learn from those lessons to ensure we do everything we can to make sure they are not repeated again in the future.
It’s really important that we do not neglect the horrors that happened all those years ago, however long it may have been and in whatever remote part, corner of Europe it may have happened, those are really important lessons from history. We will do whatever we can to make sure that in this country the public are educated and are aware of the horrors of the Armenian Genocide we learned the lessons from them and we all strive together, to make sure the justice comes to those victims and their families and that we make sure that we do everything so that those horrors do not revisit the continent again.
