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INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON GENOCIDE ISSUES TO BE HELD IN YEREVAN ON
APRIL 20-21
YEREVAN, APRIL 15, NOYAN TAPAN. An international conference,
"Ultimate Crime, Ultimate Challenge. Human Rights and Genocide", will
be held in Yerevan on April 20-21. According to the press service of
the State Commission for the Commemoration of the 90th Anniversary of
the Armenian Genocide, the RA President Robert Kocharian and
Catholicos of All Armenians Karekin II will make opening addresses.
Former President of the Republic of Poland, Nobel Peace Laureate Lech
Walesa will deliver a special address, while RA Prime Minister
Andranik Margarian and President of the Nagorno Karabakh Republic
Arkady Ghukasian - opening remarks. Speeches will be made by
well-known scientists, experts, officilas and statesmen from 20
countries. The conference will be attended by a number of specialists
from Turkey and Israel, including Executive Director of Institute on
the Holocaust and Genocide Israel W. Charny (Jerusalem), a former
Israeli minister, member of the Knesset Yossi Sarid, Professor of
Minnesota-Twin City University Taner Akcam, Professor of Ankara's
Bilgi University Murat Belge and others. UN high-ranking officials, as
well as the Diasporan Armenian scientists will make reports. The title
of the conference "Ultimate Crime. Ultimate Challenge" explains its
purpose - to attempt to understand once more the nature of such an
ultimate crime as genocide, expore its origins, work out formulas for
its prevention and counteraction, while the ultimate challange is the
search of ways to overcome the past. The conference will be broadcast
live by the program New Alik of Public Television and can be watched
by satellite in Europe, America, Russia and the Middle East.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
APRIL 20-21
YEREVAN, APRIL 15, NOYAN TAPAN. An international conference,
"Ultimate Crime, Ultimate Challenge. Human Rights and Genocide", will
be held in Yerevan on April 20-21. According to the press service of
the State Commission for the Commemoration of the 90th Anniversary of
the Armenian Genocide, the RA President Robert Kocharian and
Catholicos of All Armenians Karekin II will make opening addresses.
Former President of the Republic of Poland, Nobel Peace Laureate Lech
Walesa will deliver a special address, while RA Prime Minister
Andranik Margarian and President of the Nagorno Karabakh Republic
Arkady Ghukasian - opening remarks. Speeches will be made by
well-known scientists, experts, officilas and statesmen from 20
countries. The conference will be attended by a number of specialists
from Turkey and Israel, including Executive Director of Institute on
the Holocaust and Genocide Israel W. Charny (Jerusalem), a former
Israeli minister, member of the Knesset Yossi Sarid, Professor of
Minnesota-Twin City University Taner Akcam, Professor of Ankara's
Bilgi University Murat Belge and others. UN high-ranking officials, as
well as the Diasporan Armenian scientists will make reports. The title
of the conference "Ultimate Crime. Ultimate Challenge" explains its
purpose - to attempt to understand once more the nature of such an
ultimate crime as genocide, expore its origins, work out formulas for
its prevention and counteraction, while the ultimate challange is the
search of ways to overcome the past. The conference will be broadcast
live by the program New Alik of Public Television and can be watched
by satellite in Europe, America, Russia and the Middle East.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress