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INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON TOLERANCE AND XENOPHOBIA IN SOUTH CAUCASUS LAUNCHED IN YEREVAN
ARKA
Feb 25, 2008
YEREVAN, February 25. /ARKA/. The international conference focused
on tolerance and xenophobia in South Caucasus and Sumgait atrocities
committed 20 years ago launched in Yerevan on Monday.
Hayk Demoyan, director of Armenian Genocide Museum Institute, said
at the conference opening ceremony that the aim of the event is to
analyze motivations of national movements, ethnic cleansings and
violence in Soviet Union and post-soviet territory.
"We also intend to analyze current developments in the region and
gauge intolerance impact on prospects for establishing cooperation
in the region", he said.
Demoyan said that ways of revenge threat prevention will be considered
at the conference.
Armenian Foreign Minister Vartan Oskanian, Ombudsman Armen Harutyunyan,
President of National Academy of Sciences Radik Martirosyan, political
analyst Alexander Iskandaryan and political analyst Levon Melik
Shahnazaryan will attend the conference.
Experts from Russia and Great Britain will take part in the conference
as well.
Chairman of Russian Society on Friendship and Cooperation with
Armenia Victor Krivopuskov, Chairman of Sova analytic center Alexander
Verkhovski, expert on tolerance and xenophobia Galina Kozhevnikova
and expert at Cambridge University Pamela Condappa are among them.
The conference is organized by Armenian Genocide Museum Institute,
Armenian National Academy of Sciences with support from Armenian
Foreign Ministry.
Anti-Armenian pogroms raged between February 26 and 29, 1988 in
Azerbaijan's city of Sumgait populated by Armenians. 32 Armenians
were killed in these pogroms and 14 000 fled the city.-0--
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
ARKA
Feb 25, 2008
YEREVAN, February 25. /ARKA/. The international conference focused
on tolerance and xenophobia in South Caucasus and Sumgait atrocities
committed 20 years ago launched in Yerevan on Monday.
Hayk Demoyan, director of Armenian Genocide Museum Institute, said
at the conference opening ceremony that the aim of the event is to
analyze motivations of national movements, ethnic cleansings and
violence in Soviet Union and post-soviet territory.
"We also intend to analyze current developments in the region and
gauge intolerance impact on prospects for establishing cooperation
in the region", he said.
Demoyan said that ways of revenge threat prevention will be considered
at the conference.
Armenian Foreign Minister Vartan Oskanian, Ombudsman Armen Harutyunyan,
President of National Academy of Sciences Radik Martirosyan, political
analyst Alexander Iskandaryan and political analyst Levon Melik
Shahnazaryan will attend the conference.
Experts from Russia and Great Britain will take part in the conference
as well.
Chairman of Russian Society on Friendship and Cooperation with
Armenia Victor Krivopuskov, Chairman of Sova analytic center Alexander
Verkhovski, expert on tolerance and xenophobia Galina Kozhevnikova
and expert at Cambridge University Pamela Condappa are among them.
The conference is organized by Armenian Genocide Museum Institute,
Armenian National Academy of Sciences with support from Armenian
Foreign Ministry.
Anti-Armenian pogroms raged between February 26 and 29, 1988 in
Azerbaijan's city of Sumgait populated by Armenians. 32 Armenians
were killed in these pogroms and 14 000 fled the city.-0--
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress