CONFERENCE DEDICATED TO GENOCIDE HELD IN UN WITH EFFORTS OF AMBASSADORS OF ARMENIA AND RWANDA AND ARMENIAN GENERAL BENEVOLENT UNION
Noyan Tapan
Armenians Today
Apr 04 2006
PRAGUE, APRIL 4, NOYAN TAPAN – ARMENIANS TODAY. The conference on
the theme “Genocide: Yesterday and Today: With What Lessons We Enter
21th Century” organized at the UN with efforts of the Ambassadors of
Armenia and Rwanda and the Armenian General Benevolent Union finished
late the last week. “It must still be estimated as a regular discussion
held at the UN, this wasn’t held under the UN patronage. The UN gave
only the hall, though UN secretary general Kofi Annan’s assistant
for policy participated in the discussions as well,” Professor Vahakn
Dadrian, the Director of the Genocides Researches Center of the Zoryan
Institute, presented the Armenian veiwpoints at the discussions said
to Radio Liberty. Responding the question what a goal the UN has,
giving place to such discussions, Vahakn Dadrian said that the UN is
not a scientific center, but is a political body, so the main goal
is prevention of future genocides. “The goal is to study the first
and last genocides of the 20th century, to take lessons of them to
prevent future genocides,” Vahakn Dadrian mentioned. Radio Liberty
also informs that among a number of historians and researchers of
genocides, Professor Dadrian arrived in Prague to participate in the
conference concerning the Armenian Genocide organized in the Senate
of Czechia on April 4.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
