{"id":148648,"date":"2023-02-03T10:54:43","date_gmt":"2023-02-03T08:54:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/df.news\/?p=148648"},"modified":"2023-02-03T10:54:43","modified_gmt":"2023-02-03T08:54:43","slug":"bulgaria-parliament-recognizes-holodomor-as-genocide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/df.news\/en\/2023\/02\/03\/bulgaria-parliament-recognizes-holodomor-as-genocide\/","title":{"rendered":"Bulgaria Parliament recognizes Holodomor as genocide"},"content":{"rendered":"
On February 1, the Bulgarian National Assembly approved a resolution recognizing the Holodomor of 1932-1933 in Ukraine as genocide.<\/div>\n
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According to The Sofia Globe<\/a>, in the 240-seat National Assembly, the vote was 134 in favour, 26 against, with no abstentions. In particular, the pro-Kremlin Vuzrazhdane party voted against the resolution, while those few Bulgarian Socialist Party MPs present in the House did not vote, Ukrinform<\/a> reports.<\/div>\n
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The Bulgarian Parliament\u2019s decision declared that every final Saturday of November will be a Day of Honour and Remembrance for the victims of the Holodomor.<\/p>\n

According to the resolution, any denial, justification and belittling of the genocide is a dishonor to the memory of the millions of people who died in the Holodomor.<\/p>\n

In the course of debate, several MPs who spoke in favour of adopting the resolution referred to atrocities in Russia\u2019s current war in Ukraine.<\/p>\n

President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky thanked the Parliament of Bulgaria for recognizing the Holodomor of 1932-1933 as genocide of the Ukrainian people.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am thankful to the Bulgarian Parliament for recognizing the 1932-1933 Holodomor as a genocide of the Ukrainian people. This step commemorates millions of Holodomor victims and restores historical justice. Bulgaria\u2019s gesture of solidarity will always be remembered in Ukraine,\u201d Zelensky\u00a0wrote<\/a>\u00a0on Twitter.<\/p>\n

As reported, on November 28, 2006, the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine adopted the Law “On the Holodomor of 1932-1933 in Ukraine”, which recognized the Holodomor as genocide of the Ukrainian people.<\/p>\n

On December 15, 2022, the European Parliament adopted by a majority of votes a resolution on the 90th anniversary of the Holodomor in Ukraine, which recognizes the terrible events of the 1930s as the genocide of the Ukrainian people.<\/p>\n

As of December 2022, 23 countries officially recognized the Holodomor as genocide of the Ukrainian people.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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