PanARMENIAN.Net – German Chancellor Angela Merkel is not going to distance herself from resolution recognizing the Armenian Genocide, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung reports.

German CDU politician Volker Kauder said Merkel in a conversation has pledged to defend the Bundestag’s resolution.

Also, the German government on Friday, September 2 said it was not distancing itself from a parliamentary resolution on the 1915 massacre of Armenians by Ottoman forces that has strained ties with Turkey, but emphasized that the measure was not legally binding.

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