Giles Watling MP, Member of Parliament for Clacton, has this week been pressing the Government over the refusal to recognise the Armenian genocide as genocide at all.
Asking the comments in the House of Commons, Mr. Watling MP - who last week laid a wreath at the Cenotaph to commemorate the victims of the genocide 108 years ago - demanded to know why the atrocities had not yet been recognised formally as a genocide.
Responding, Minister of State of the United Kingdom for Europe and North America Leo Docherty said that it was a matter for the courts to determine what is and is not genocide, arguing that the word has a threshold that needs to be met in order to qualify.
Mr. Watling MP intends to pursue the matter further, to seek recognition of the hundreds of thousands of people who died during the genocide.