German foreign minister welcomes efforts to declare Holodomor genocide - spokesperson

FILE PHOTO: Annalena Baerbock, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Germany, speaks at the COP27 climate summit in the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, November 18, 2022. REUTERS/Emilie Madi

BERLIN (Reuters) - German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock on Friday welcomed efforts in the country's parliament to declare the Holodomor, the death by starvation of millions of Ukrainians in 1932-33, a genocide.

"She welcomes very much that there is a lot of support in the German parliament for this," a spokesperson for Baerbock told reporters.