BY RATIFYING UN CONVENTION, TURKEY ACCEPTS ARMENIAN GENOCIDE
Tert
Sept 23 2009
Armenia
Armenia and Turkey ratified the UN Convention on the Prevention and
Punishment of the Crime of Genocide. As GPartners law firm partner
Sargis Grigoryan stated during a press conference, the Convention is
the only international document regulating issues related to genocide.
"If any country ratifies the convention it means they accept it. By
ratifying the UN Convention, Turkey accepts Armenian Genocide,"
Grigoryan said.
At the same time, Grigoryan also added that Raphael Lemkin, who
developed the Convention, clearly wrote in his report that the concept
of genocide in the Convention was formulated based on the Holocaust
and Armenian Genocide.
The UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of
Genocide came into force on January 12, 1951.