ARMENIAN FOREIGN MINISTER LEAVES FOR NEW YORK TO ATTEND UN SPECIAL
SESSION DEVOTED TO 60TH ANNIVERSARY OF RELEASE OF HOSTAGES FROM
CONCENTRATION CAMPS
YEREVAN, JANUARY 24. ARMINFO. Armenian Foreign Minister Vardan
Oskanyan has left for New York to participate in a special session of
the UN, today. The event is devoted to the 60th anniversary of release
of hostages from, concentration camps in the course of the World War
II.
Minister Oskanyan will also speak at the special session. Earlier, he
reported that the major topic of his speech would be prevention of
genocides through their recognition and condemnation. Foreign
Ministers of Germany, France, Argentina, Canada, Israel, Armenia and
Luxembourg will speak at the session. UN Secretary General Kofi Annan
and Chairman of the 59th session of General Assembly Jean Ping will
open the session. The idea of the session was supported by 150 of 191
UN member-states. The initiators are Australia, Canada, Israel, New
Zealand, Russia, the USA and EU member-states.
Wednesday, talking to journalists, Kofi Annan told that the world
community must not allow repetition of the horrors at Nazis camps. The
estblishment of the UN was a direct result of the Holocaust, he said.
Executive for Human Rights in the Russia Federation Vladimir Lukin is
also expected to make a speech at the session. Photo-exhibitions
telling about the horrors suffered by the hostages of Osvencim and
Majdanek will be held at the foyer of UN headquarters.