MOSCOW TO HOST A CONFERENCE ON GENOCIDE

PanARMENIAN.Net
16.12.2008 18:13 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Moscow-based Russian-Armenian Association jointly
with Just World Institute will hold an international conference titled
"The phenomenon of genocide: its causes and ways of prevention" on
December 17, reported Yerkramas, the news paper of Armenians of Russia.

The conference is dated to the 60 th anniversary of Convention on the
Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide. It will bring
together politicians and experts from the CIS and Europe, who will
discuss the following issues: genocide as a gravest international
crime and its legal classification as a crime against humanity;
theArmenian Genocide as an international crime of extermination of a
nation; legal and political responsibility of states and individuals
involved in the organization and perpetration of genocide; UN measures
for prevention of genocide.

"Lack of an adequate assessment of the first genocide of the 20
th century – barbarous extermination of the Armenian nation by the
Ottoman Turkey – led to other crimes against humanity," said Yuri
Navoyan, president of the Russian-Armenian Association.