GENOCIDE - A CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC CONFERENCE HELD IN MOSCOW

PanARMENIAN.Net - Today, on April 13 Genocide - a Crime against Humanity International Scientific Conference, dedicated to the 90-th anniversary of the Armenian tragedy, was held at the Institute of Scientific Information on Social Sciences of the Russian Academy of Sciences (ISISS of RAS), Regnum news agency reported. The conference was organized by the National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Armenia, ISISS of RAS, the Russian-Armenian Commonwealth and the Union of the Armenians of Russia. Corresponding Member of the RAS, professor, director of ISISS of RAS Yuri Pivovarov, director of the Armenian Institute of International Law and Political Science, professor Yuri Barseghov, deputy of the Russian State Duma, president of the Urban-Ecological Association, member of the Serbian Scientific Society Vasil Mancic, Academician of the International Academy of Sciences of Pedagogical Education, co-chair of the Federation of Jewish communities of Russia Roman Spektor, President of the World Peace-Making Organization Vadim Izhevsky, as well as representatives of the leading scientific and research centers, non-governmental and political organizations, legislative and executive bodies, the media, foreign embassies. All those addressing the conference noted the fact that being organized by Turks in 1915 the Genocide of the Armenian people resulted in 1.5 million Armenian victims and is not acknowledged by the Turkish Government yet. The Kurdish representatives all those, who suffered from genocide by Turkey, "to unite to resist to the enemies." In the opinion of FJCR chairman Roman Spektor, Turkey is also responsible for "the genocide of Slavonic peoples in the Balkans in 1994-1995, of Armenians in Nagorno Karabakh, Baku and Sumgait in 1988-90 and the constant genocide of Kurds in their territory." In Spektor's opinion the actions of Turkey regarding Kurds are qualified as genocide according to the UN Charter definition. "Any states implicated in genocide practice should be withdrawn from the UN and be totally boycotted," he stated in his speech. Professor E. Margarian in his turn noted that "resulting from the Soviet-Turkish agreements in 1920 and the Lausanne Peace Treaty genuinely Armenian territories, never possessed by Turkey before, were included in the Ottoman Empire." In the conclusion the conference its participants signed a statement on the Commemoration Day of the victims of the Armenian Genocide in 1915-23 that will be marked on April 24. The statement says that due to political reasons and resulting from double standards policy, the fact of the Genocide of the Armenian people has not been legally recognized by the international community and the Government of Turkey. In the opinion of the authors of the statement, as a result the fact that this was not punished entailed the Jewish Holocaust during World War II and other genocides. Establishment of good neighborly relations and peaceful coexistence impossible unless Turkey recognizes the fact of the Armenian Genocide and takes measures to eliminate its consequences.