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ARMENIA TO FOCUS ON FIGHT AGAINST INTOLERANCE DURING ITS CHAIRMANSHIP AT COUNCIL OF EUROPE
YEREVAN, June 27. /ARKA/. Armenia's priority in chairing at the Council
of Europe is fighting against intolerance and hatred propaganda,
Armenian president Serzh Sargsyan said at Majdanek former Nazi
concentration camp Wednesday.
Having again gained its independence Armenia must draw today
international community's attention to the importance of joint efforts
in prevention and punishment of genocides, Sargsyan said as quoted
by the presidential press office.
"In the same context, we are going to hold an international conference
on fighting against intolerance and discrimination in Yerevan",
the president said.
During its chairmanship period Armenia will also support the global
web initiative against hatred rhetoric, Sargsyan said.
Armenia's president reminded the 100th anniversary of the Armenian
genocide, as well as 70th anniversary of the Second World War and
Holocaust will be observed in 2015.
These anniversaries should make the mankind double their efforts to
prevent genocides, the head of Armenia said.
"There might be no Majdanek if the first genocide of the 20th century,
the Armenian one, had been condemned at the time and the guilty had
been punished", Sargsyan said.
"There is no condemnation without prevention, and there is no
prevention without condemnation", he said.
Majdanek, OÅ~[wiÄ~Ycim and others, as well as Armenian Tsitsernakaberd
monument bear strong messages to the humanity for encouraging tolerance
among peoples and condemning xenophobia, the president said.
The president expressed Armenia's commitment to fight against
any display of racism, xenophobia and intolerance and against
the cruelest crime, the genocide, anywhere.-0-- - See more at:
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YEREVAN, June 27. /ARKA/. Armenia's priority in chairing at the Council
of Europe is fighting against intolerance and hatred propaganda,
Armenian president Serzh Sargsyan said at Majdanek former Nazi
concentration camp Wednesday.
Having again gained its independence Armenia must draw today
international community's attention to the importance of joint efforts
in prevention and punishment of genocides, Sargsyan said as quoted
by the presidential press office.
"In the same context, we are going to hold an international conference
on fighting against intolerance and discrimination in Yerevan",
the president said.
During its chairmanship period Armenia will also support the global
web initiative against hatred rhetoric, Sargsyan said.
Armenia's president reminded the 100th anniversary of the Armenian
genocide, as well as 70th anniversary of the Second World War and
Holocaust will be observed in 2015.
These anniversaries should make the mankind double their efforts to
prevent genocides, the head of Armenia said.
"There might be no Majdanek if the first genocide of the 20th century,
the Armenian one, had been condemned at the time and the guilty had
been punished", Sargsyan said.
"There is no condemnation without prevention, and there is no
prevention without condemnation", he said.
Majdanek, OÅ~[wiÄ~Ycim and others, as well as Armenian Tsitsernakaberd
monument bear strong messages to the humanity for encouraging tolerance
among peoples and condemning xenophobia, the president said.
The president expressed Armenia's commitment to fight against
any display of racism, xenophobia and intolerance and against
the cruelest crime, the genocide, anywhere.-0-- - See more at:
http://arka.am/en/news/politics/armenia_to_focus_on_fight_against_intolerance_duri ng_its_chairmanship_at_council_of_europe/#sthash.WnukC2b6.dpuf