To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what plans the Government have to make a statement on the Armenian genocide. [79964]

The British Government condemned the massacres of Armenians in Eastern Anatolia in 1915–16 at the time, and views the sufferings of the Armenian people then as a tragedy of historic proportions. But the British Government have not recognised the events of 1915–16 as a "genocide" a term which did not exist at the time and has no plans to make a statement.