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    ISRAEL CHARNY SUGGESTS INCLUDING ARMENIAN GENOCIDE IN AN ISRAELI UNIVERSITY CURRICULUM
    By Tamar Minasian

    AZG Armenian Daily
    18/05/2006

    The third sitting of the Armenian Genocide experts' group of the
    World Armenian Congress with the participation of 21 members from 17
    countries was held yesterday. The work of the experts group launched
    after the meeting with foreign minister Vartan Oskanian in the morning
    that was assessed very positively by WAC chairman Ara Abrahamian:
    "This was the first time we had a very serious discussion on the
    stance of the state and WAC in this issue."

    Head of the chair of Armenian Studies at the UCLA, Richard
    Hovhannisian, said that at all previous meetings they tried to outline
    the paths that would bring to international acknowledgement of the
    Armenian Genocide as well as the steps that will follow recognition
    and legal grounds for applying to international structures.

    "I am one of those who are concerned over bringing the issue to
    international courts," Prof. Mihran Dabag of the Center for Armenian
    Studies at the Bochum University, Germany, says. "The court means a
    decision based on the materials provided by both sides, and in my view,
    the historicity of the Genocide is over doubt and it is not up to the
    courts to decide. For that reason we need to boost our fight against
    denial standing firm on legal ground. My greatest wish is that our
    focusing on Genocide's recognition does not harm our future plans."

    Dr. Israel Charny from Israel suggests opening an Armenian chair
    at one of the biggest Israeli universities and organize lectures on
    the Genocide alongside with Holocaust classes and thus contribute to
    Israeli state's recognition of the Armenian Genocide.

    It is planned to hold a large-scale conference on Armenian
    Genocide in 2007 and invite representatives of the Armenian
    government. Mr. Abrahamian suggested to hold 2 more sittings of the
    WAC's expert's group to clarify their stances and the work ahead. The
    range of questions is rather broad: when was the Armenian genocide
    perpetrated, what was its continuation, what should be the steps
    following Genocide recognition by foreign states, should we apply to
    international courts or not, what are our demands from Turkey? Ara
    Abrahamian said that there are 3-4 different answers to these questions
    but they do not conflict with each other but rather supplement each
    other. He said that they have agreed with the Foreign Affairs Ministry
    to put forward their written proposals and views and begin joint work.
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