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{
    "time": "2016-06-10 11:20:00",
    "attribution": {
        "en": "Ms. Pam Goldsmith-Jones (Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Lib.)",
        "fr": "Mme Pam Goldsmith-Jones (secr\u00e9taire parlementaire du ministre des Affaires \u00e9trang\u00e8res, Lib.)"
    },
    "content": {
        "en": "<p data-HoCid=\"4419157\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, we strongly condemn the atrocities by the so-called Islamic State. Official recognition of genocide is to be done by a credible judicial process following a proper international investigation. That is why we have called upon the UN Security Council to investigate this. The UN Secretary-General's special adviser on the prevention of genocide agrees with this. We feel that our UN, U.K., and U.S. allies have all said this needs a proper, formal investigation.</p>",
        "fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"4419157\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, nous condamnons vivement les atrocit\u00e9s commises par le soi-disant \u00c9tat islamique. C'est selon un processus judiciaire cr\u00e9dible qui se d\u00e9roulera au terme d'une enqu\u00eate internationale en bonne et due forme que l'on d\u00e9terminera officiellement s'il y a eu g\u00e9nocide. C'est pourquoi nous avons demand\u00e9 au Conseil de s\u00e9curit\u00e9 des Nations Unies de faire enqu\u00eate. Le conseiller sp\u00e9cial du secr\u00e9taire g\u00e9n\u00e9ral des Nations Unies pour la pr\u00e9vention du g\u00e9nocide est du m\u00eame avis. Nous estimons que nos alli\u00e9s, les Nations Unies, le Royaume-Uni et les \u00c9tats-Unis, ont tous affirm\u00e9 qu'il y a lieu de mener une enqu\u00eate officielle en bonne et due forme.</p>"
    },
    "url": "/debates/2016/6/10/pam-goldsmith-jones-1/",
    "politician_url": "/politicians/pam-goldsmith-jones/",
    "politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/4252/",
    "procedural": false,
    "source_id": "8987786",
    "h1": {
        "en": "Oral Questions",
        "fr": "Questions Orales"
    },
    "h2": {
        "en": "Foreign Affairs",
        "fr": "Les affaires \u00e9trang\u00e8res"
    },
    "document_url": "/debates/2016/6/10/",
    "related": {
        "document_speeches_url": "/speeches/?document=%2Fdebates%2F2016%2F6%2F10%2F"
    }
}