WAC HAS ENOUGH MATERIAL TO TURN TO INTERNAT COURT OVER GENOCIDE
by Tigran Liloyan
ITAR-TASS News Agency
May 17, 2006 Wednesday 03:52 PM EST
The World Armenian Congress (WAC) has enough documented material to
turn to the International Court over the Armenian genocide in the
Ottoman empire, Ara Abramyan, the president of the WAC and of the
Union of Armenians of Russia, told a news conference here on Wednesday
evening. He recalled that WAC experts had worked in the archives of
more than 30 countries.
Abramyan said WAC experts must specify Armenia’s stand as to how to
pose the question – whether to demand the compensation for moral,
material or territorial damage from the genocide. “It is necessary
to make it clear what we aim to receive and in what order,” the
president of the congress said. A forum with the participation of
representatives of the Armenian authorities and WAC experts is to be
held next year to formulate the uniform stand on the matter.
Abramyan said the WAC would assist the establishment of the Armenian
chair in a large university in Israel so that alongside lectures
about the Holocaust there should be the presentation of facts about
the Armenian genocide in the Ottooman Turkey in the late 19th –
early 20th centuries.
International recognition and condemnation of the Armenian genocide
is one of the priorities of Armenia’s foreign policy.