Doughty Street Chambers to release an announcement on Armenian Genocide

PanARMENIAN.Net - Doughty Street Chambers has just announced that they will launch an opinion by Geoffrey Robertson QC (Queen's Counsel) on the Armenian Genocide. As PanARMENIAN.Net came to know from Armenian Community of UK, the opinion, which will be released on 3 November 2009, will highlight how British government ministers have misled the British parliament over the years under the guidance of the Foreign & Commonwealth Office (FCO) to deny that there is sufficient evidence to conclude that the Armenian Genocide took place. The announcement Doughty Street Chambers goes on to state that:



"Mr. Robertson QC has obtained, under the Freedom of Information Act, all the FCO policy documents which have informed the UK government's position. These hitherto secret memoranda cast a ray of light on how important legal and ethical questions are handled inside the FCO.



"Mr. Robertson's opinion has significance for legal and historical scholarship, but its news value today - and its particular importance for British politics and for the future involvement of this country in international affairs - is because it provides a case study of how easily government policy can be manipulated by the FCO whose members admit internally that they have abandoned "the ethical dimension" in favor of what they think will be commercial and diplomatic advantage."



Doughty Street Chambers is a UK set of barristers' chambers situated in London's Doughty Street undertaking crime, family, property, human rights and civil liberties work. Doughty Street Chambers was set up in 1990 by thirty independent-minded barristers, aiming to break the mould of traditional chambers by moving out of the Inns of Court. The chambers are now three times the size with 89 members, including 16 Queen's Counsels. Geoffrey Robertson is the founder and head of Doughty Street Chambers.