Armenia on Thursday welcomed the German parliament's resolution recognising the World War I massacre of Armenians by Ottoman forces as genocide.
"Armenia welcomes the adoption of the resolution by the Bundestag," Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian said in a statement.
He praised the recognition as "Germany's valuable contribution not only to the international recognition and condemnation of the Armenian Genocide, but also to the universal fight for the prevention of genocides, crimes against humanity."
German lawmakers overwhelmingly adopted the resolution, defying Turkey's warnings that the vote could hurt ties.
Yerevan has long sought international recognition of the genocide, but Ankara rejects the term to describe the killings more than a century ago and argues that it was a collective tragedy in which equal numbers of Turks and Armenians died.
