Moscow to host a conference on genocide

December 16, 2008 - 18:13 AMT
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.
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