PRESS RELEASE
Wales-Armenia Solidarity
Contact: E. Williams
Cardiff, Wales
Tel: 07718 982 732
Email: eilian@nant.wanadoo.co.uk

Armenia Solidarity

&

Nor Serount Cultural Association

supported by

The Foundation for Relief and Reconciliation in the Middle East

The European NGO: "Working Group Recognition – Against Genocide, for
International Understanding"

The Aegis Trust and The Genocide Prevention All-Party Parliamentary Group

The Seyfo Centre

invite you to an

ARMENIAN / ASSYRIAN GENOCIDE DAY CONFERENCE

Sponsored and chaired by

Andrew George MP

The Grand Committee Room of the House of Commons, London

Thursday, 24th April (Armenian Genocide Day) 2008

at 11.00am till 1.00pm

The following questions will be addressed:

* Is Reconciliation possible after Genocide?

* Is denial of truth any basis for Reconciliation?

* Taking the Armenian, Assyrian, Greek and Kurdish examples: Does the
UK government hinder the process of reconciliation by its one-sided
pro-Turkish government stance?

* Will the planned state visit by HM the Queen to Turkey in May be a
seal of approval on the Turkish government’s distortion of the truth of the
genocide, and the continuing cultural genocide in Turkey?

Presentations:

Ruth Barnett – "The Psychological Effects of Genocide Denial"

Gregory Topalian – "The Comparative Aftermath of the Holocaust and the
Armenian Genocide"

Sabri Atman, The Seyfo Centre, Amsterdam – "The Assyrian/Armenian
Perspective"

Sars Aziz, The Seyfo Centre – "International Law and the Genocide"

Desmond Fernandes – "The Armenian, Assyrian, Greek, Kurdish and ‘Other’
Genocides:

The Politics of Genocide Recognition and Denialism"

Professor Khatchatur I. Pilikian – "A bird’s-eye-view on the phenomena of
Genocide and the Armenian Experience of it"

For further information contact,

Eilian Williams – 07718 982 732 or eilian@nant.wanadoo.co.uk

Khatchik Vartanian – 020 8997 1200 or <mailto:norserount@btconnect.com>
norserount @btconnect.com