2006 in Armenia

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2006
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Armenia
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See also: Other events of 2006
List of years in Armenia

The following lists events that happened in 2006 in Armenia.

Incumbents

Events

January

February

March

April

May

  • May 3 - An Armavia plane crashed into the sea while attempting to conduct a go-around following its first approach to Sochi airport, Russia, killing all 113 people on board.
  • May 10 - The Bulgarian Government rejected a bill on recognition of the Armenian Genocide. This came after Emel Etem Toshkova, the Deputy Prime Minister of Bulgaria and one of the leaders of the MRF, the main Turkish party in Bulgaria, declared that her party would walk out of the coalition government if the bill was passed. The bill itself was brought forward by the nationalist Ataka party.

June

July

  • July 17 - The Brazilian state of Ceará became the second state after São Paulo to ratify a bill recognising the Armenian Genocide.
  • July 26 - Investigators examining what caused an Armenian airliner to crash with the loss of all 113 people on board have blamed pilot error.
  • July 31 - The humanitarian assistance rendered by the Armenian government has been delivered to Lebanon via Syria. The 7.5-ton humanitarian cargo includes 52 types of medical products and first-aid means.

August

September

  • September 3 - Armenian tennis champion Andre Agassi retires from professional tennis after 21 years, having won eight Grand Slam titles and an Olympic gold medal.
  • September 4 - Members of the European Parliament voted for the inclusion of a clause prompting Turkey "to recognize the Armenian genocide as a condition for its EU accession" in a highly critical report, which was adopted by a broad majority in the foreign relations committee of the European Parliament.
  • September 26 - The two largest political parties in the Netherlands, Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA) and the Labour Party (PvdA), removed three Turkish-Dutch candidates for the 2006 general election, because they either denied or refused to publicly declare that the Armenian Genocide had happened.
  • September 30 - On a trip to Yerevan, French President Jacques Chirac underscored France's recognition of the Armenian Genocide when commenting of the French Socialist Party's initiative to adopt a law criminalizing Armenian Genocide denial. Chirac said that demonstration of racism and xenophobia in France is punishable in compliance with the Penal Code. "The rest, in my opinion," he said, "is politics having nothing in common with the legal side of the issue."

October

November

  • November 29 - The lower house of Argentina's parliament adopted a resolution recognizing the Armenian Genocide. The bill was overwhelmingly adopted by the assembly and declared April 24, the international day of remembrance for the Armenian genocide as an official "day of mutual tolerance and respect" among peoples around the world.

December