At around the same time, on March 29, 2000, the Swedish Parliament passed a formal resolution recognizing the Armenian Genocide, this after a Swedish parliamentary report asserted that «An official statement and recognition of the genocide of the Armenian is important and necessary.» Sweden urged Turkey to do so as well. Canada also recognized the genocide. (The Italian and Austrian parliaments as well as the Swiss and the German parliaments recognized and debated this issue of the Armenian Genocide without a conclusion.)