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    "THE INTERNATIONAL RECOGNITION OF GENOCIDES AS A MEANS OF PREVENTION"

    LRAGIR.AM
    17:44:57 - 14/04/2009

    Yerevan, 14 April, 2009 - "Areg" Scientific-Cultural Youth Association
    with the support of the UN Department of Public Information organized
    a round-table discussion entitled "The International Recognition of
    Genocides as a Means of Prevention".

    The massacre of Armenians carried out by the Ottoman Turks became
    a signal for the international community to prevent people from
    such crimes; the term "genocide" was coined and circulated within
    historical, political and legal framework, while on 9 December,
    1948 the United Nations Organization adopted the "Convention on the
    Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide" being convinced
    that international cooperation for liberating humanity from that
    terrible tragedy is an utmost necessity.

    A little after the 60th anniversary of the Convention, throwing a
    glance on the series of genocides we get persuaded that unpunished
    crimes have the habit of being repeated. Thus, the Armenian Genocide
    became a precedent for the Jewish Holocaust, the Rwanda Genocide and
    other similar crimes, while its international recognition would have
    probably put an end to this hideous crime against humanity.

    The round-table speakers were the Head of the International
    Organizations Department of MFA, Dziunik Aghajanyan, the Deputy
    Director of the Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute Suren Manukyan,
    and the Officer-in-Charge of UN Department of Public Information
    Armine Halajyan. They referred to the efforts of the Republic of
    Armenia to get international recognition of the Armenian Genocide,
    touched upon the struggle against denial, and the role of the UN
    in preventing genocide. During the discussion that followed the
    participants - representatives of NGOs, mass media and students
    among them, expressed their righteous resentment towards crimes
    against humanity and expressed their solidarity with the victims of
    genocide. Indifference and unwillingness to prevent give way to new
    crimes culminating in genocides. Events should be named accordingly and
    the perpetrators should be punished. The participants also mentioned
    that to accomplish the above-mentioned cooperation of all nations is
    required. That is the means to get away with genocide.

    In these days the 15th Anniversary of Genocide in Rwanda is being
    commemorated all around the world. On this occasion the UN Secretary
    General said in his message: "... The United Nations continues
    its vital work to avert future tragedies. We have intensified
    our focus on conflict prevention, and built up our mediation
    capacity. ... Preventing genocide is a collective responsibility. Only
    by meeting this challenge can we match the resolve of the survivors
    and truly honour the memory of those who died in Rwanda 15 years ago."

    Having in mind the above mentioned, and on the threshold of the
    upcoming Armenian Genocide anniversary it is quite appropriate to once
    again bring the attention of the international community and especially
    of youth on the inhuman phenomenon of genocide to UNDERSTAND, RECOGNIZE
    and PREVENT it.
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