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    Pan-Armenian declaration makes appropriate references to intn'l law

    13:06 * 31.01.15


    The Pan-Armenian Declaration, adopted after the Genocide Centennial
    Committee's latest session in Yerevan, contains properly selected
    references to norms of international law, an Armenian historian has
    said, praising the professionalism of the specialists who drafted the
    document.

    "I consider the document - the declaration which has been adopted - an
    absolute success, as it comprehensively addresses the issue,
    reflecting our approaches," Bagrat Yesayan, a member of the opposition
    Armenian Revolutionary Federation-Dashnaksutyun (ARF-D) and a former
    editor-in-chief of the newspaper Yerkir, told Tert.am.

    Asked whether by saying "our approaches" he means their political
    party or the prevalent approaches in Armenia, the politician said he
    finds that the declaration reflects the entire Armenian nation's
    stand.

    As to weather the ARF-D is not more radically-disposed to the issue,
    Yesayan replied, "If Dashnaksutyun had any reservation, they would
    have been expressed that; we have our representatives in the
    Centennial Committee, so they would have at least raised their voice
    to say that something isn't in line with our approaches."

    The Declaration was promulgated Thursday night in a ceremony held at
    the Genocide Memorial after the Committee's session. The document,
    reflecting Armenia and its diaspora's approaches to the international
    recognition and condemnation of the tragic crime, is full of
    references and citations of norms of international law (UN Universal
    Declaration on Human Rights, Convention on the Prevention and
    Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, Convention on the
    Non-Applicability of Statutory Limitations to War Crimes and Crimes
    against Humanity and other UN conventions, and different other
    documents , including the Peace Treaty of Sevres and the Arbitral
    Award on Turkish Armenian Boundary by Woodrow Wilson).

    Khosrov Harutyunyan, a former prime minister of Armenia who now
    represents the ruling Republican faction in parliament, says he
    believes that the Declaration is an effort to better express Armenia
    and the Armenian nation's political-legal position on the issue.

    "This testifies to the fact that the Declaration is not just a piece
    of paper stemming from emotional and nationalist sentiments, but
    rather a document anchored on the fundamental approaches of
    international law," he said.

    Harutyunyan said he finds that the document, one copy of which will be
    sent to the United Nations' secretary general, is more targeted at the
    international community rather than the domestic audience.

    According to Armen Martirosyan, a deputy leader of the opposition
    Heritage party, the document's success is due to a deep political
    conflict. "It is the fact that Armenia is now within the realm of the
    Armenia-Turkey protocols, because it hasn't yet recalled its
    signature. So it entirely runs counter to the Declaration," he told
    our correspondent.

    Tert.am also sought comments from Karen Kocharyan, a political
    engineer specialized in electoral technologies, over possible
    anti-propaganda efforts by Turkey. "One doesn't have to prove to an
    Armenian that a crime of genocide was actually committed in line with
    a provision of the UN [convention]," he explained.

    As for the key message, Kocharyan said he thinks that the world is
    guiding itself by double standards. "They are trying to call attention
    to the provisions which they have written themselves, especially the
    ones that address the same Kosovo or the Jewish Holocaust, but they
    won't see those provisions whenever we are at issue," he noted.

    The expert said he sees that the message is addressed to the states
    which haven't recognized and do not want to ever recognize the
    Armenian Genocide.


    http://www.tert.am/en/news/2015/01/31/hrachakagir/1574714


    From: Baghdasarian
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