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    RAFFI HOVANNISIAN IN CAMBODIA

    Tert.am
    03.12.10

    Raffi K. Hovannisian, Heritage Party leader and Armenia's first
    minister of foreign affairs, is currently in the Cambodian capital to
    take part in and address the 6th General Assembly of the International
    Conference of Asian Political Parties (ICAPP) on the 10th anniversary
    of its founding.

    Bringing together the delegates of 89 political parties from 36
    countries, ICAPP's continental convention is dedicated this year to
    "Asia's Quest for a Better Tomorrow."

    Raffi Hovannisian's plenary presentation today outlined the global
    security, environmental, socioeconomic and human challenges of the
    third millennium, and against the backdrop of state sovereignties
    and national interests underscored the imperative of respecting and
    safeguarding the fundamental dignity, rights, and empowerment of each
    and every individual in national societies and international affairs.

    In this connection and as the grandson of survivors of the Great
    Genocide and National Dispossession of the Armenian people,
    Hovannisian paid tribute to its victims as well as those of the
    Holocaust, the Cambodian genocide and all other crimes against
    humanity. Reconciliation, he concluded, must in all cases be anchored
    in truth, justice and a liberating redemption.

    Raffi Hovannisian had earlier joined the other delegates in visiting
    the Phnom Penh High School which in 1975 the dictator Pol Pot and
    his Khmer Rouge regime had turned into the S-21 concentration camp,
    a holding and torture compound that served as the launching ground
    for the murder of nearly two million of his own people in the killing
    fields of Cambodia. It was not until this past summer that the first
    senior officer of the Khmer Rouge was actually tried and convicted
    on the charge of perpetration of genocide.

    In the margins of the conference, Hovannisian met with Cambodian
    Prime Minister Samdech Hun Sen; Malaysian Prime Minister Dato Sri
    Mohamad Najib bin Tun Haji Abdul Razak; Nepalese Prime Minister Madhav
    Kumar Nepal; former President Fidel Ramos of the Philippines; former
    President Megawati Sukarnoputri of Indonesia; Chinese Communist
    Party Politbureau member Li Yuanchao; Speaker of the Philippines
    Parliament Feliciano Belmonte; ICAPP Founder and former Speaker of
    the Philippines Parliament Jose de Venecia; as well as officials and
    non-governmental representatives from Asia and across the world.




    From: A. Papazian
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