Emanuele Oozzolo, Member of the Chamber of Deputies of Italy representing Brothers of Italy Party, reffered to the Armenian Genocide:
"On April 24 Armenians remember the huge genocide perpetrated by the Turks between 1915 and 1919: it is only right to turn a thought today to the million and a half members of the Christian population of Armenia who lost their lives and it is important to condemn without hesitation those who still deny such atrocities they have been committed.
Armenia is inseparable tied to our common deep Christian roots, because of which - in the past like today - it has suffered and is undergoing persecution on which the silence of many becomes moral accomplice.
Armenians are also defined as the "people of Ararat", the Mount where Noah's Ark was laid after the flood, and they were referred to by John Paul II - during the hearing on September 14, 2000 to the pilgrims of the Armenian Catholic Patriarchate - with these words:
“The Armenian people know the Cross well: the door engraved in their hearts. It’s the symbol of his identity, of the tragedies of his history and of the glory of his rebirth after every adverse event”."
