WAC EXPERT COMMISSION DISCUSSES PROBLEM OF IMPLEMENTATION OF RESPONSIBILITY FOR GENOCIDE ON BASIS OF LEGAL PROCEDURE

Noyan Tapan
May 18 2006

YEREVAN, MAY 18, NOYAN TAPAN. A regular session of the expert
commission on Genocide is being held in Yerevan within the framework of
the events organized by the World Armenian Congress (WAC). The expert
commission was created by WAC and includes well-known scientists
from Armenia, Russia, USA, FRG, Israel and Austria. The main point
of the commission’s agenda is the discussion of the issue about
the possibility of solution of the problem of recognition of the
Armenian Genocide by Turkey by means of the international justice
and as a consequence, the responsibility of the Turkish state. A
large document was submitted to the discussion of the experts, in
which various variants of implementation of responsibility for the
Armenian Genocide within the framework of the international justice are
minutely considered. It is the first time the problem of implementation
of responsibility for the Armenian Genocide on the basis of a legal
procedure or arbitration is discussed. The commission’s sitting will
last until May 19.