Statements to combat xenophobia in Moscow's police made more than 10 years

PanARMENIAN.Net - Various committees decide on the fight against xenophobia for more than ten years, and all remains on paper every time, Vartan Mushegyan, president of the Union of Diasporas of Russia, told a PanARMENIAN.Net reporter, commenting on the a statement of the Moscow Committee of Interregional Relations and National Policy.



According to him, in order to improve the situation changes in legislation and in the information field are required. An offender before committing a crime consider the possible consequences. Mentioning that the punishment for a crime committed on ethnic grounds should be severe, Vartan Mushegyan stressed that to date, neither fomentation of ethnic hatred nor murder on the grounds of national hatred are punished so severely to compel the offender to stop.



"The second important factor is the information field. If the media would help the different nations and faiths to understand that they do much more in common then differ, then there would be less ground for ethnic conflicts. Many people do not even guess how similar can be sometimes the traditions and rituals of quite distant cultures. Unfortunately, this is not done, the Moscow Committee of Interregional Relations and National Policy does not have a tool to influence a permanently changing situation.

"One can endlessly read the Gospel to young members of the militia, but this is unlikely to be more effective than strengthening responsibility for crimes and violation of ethics in intercultural relations ", Mr. Mushegyan stressed. According to his estimation, to solve the problem of xenophobia, an integrated system, preventing the crimes on ethnic grounds, should be established.