The Second Pan-Armenian Forum of Lawyers entitled “Ahead of the 100th Anniversary of the Armenian Genocide” was held in Yerevan on 5-6 July 2013, at the sessions hall of the RA National Academy of Sciences. The forum was organized by the RA Ministry of Diaspora, in association with the Pan-Armenian Conference of Lawyers established after the First Pan-Armenian Forum of Lawyers.
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“Ahead of the 100th Anniversary of the Armenian Genocide”
Second Pan-Armenian Forum of Lawyers
July 5-6, 2013
Yerevan, Armenia
Presentation by Kate Nahapetian1
Government Affairs Director of the Armenian National Committee of America
The Armenian Genocide was indeed a crime under international law at the time. Continue reading →
Armenian Genocide Reperations – July 2013
- Pursue Genocide Recognition and Reparations, criminal and civil claims, separately, in parallel.
- Genocide is a crime against humanity. Like all criminal acts, condemnation and punishment is the right and duty of the community, here, the community of nations.
- Reparations are compensation of harm. It is an inalienable right of the injured party, founded on independent factual and legal grounds.
A. Hovsepyan. Recognition of Armenian genocide shall have a perfect international-legal provision
Republic of Armenia Prosecutor General Aghvan Hovsepyan’s report at the second Pan-Armenian Conference of Lawyers “Ahead of the 100th anniversary of Armenian Genocide”.
Respectable participants of the conference,
At first, let me express my satisfaction on the fact that by the initiation of the Ministry of Diaspora lawyers’ representative and very important conference was held ahead of the 100th anniversary of Armenian genocide which, I am sure, can give light to very old legal issues of Armenian genocide and be a serious stimulus for legal research of Armenian genocide and the Armenian issue, in general.
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Joint Statement: “We demand that Turkey return our confiscated Churches and Church Properties”
His Holiness Karekin II Catholicos of All Armenians, Holy See of Etchmiadzin
His Holiness Aram I Catholicos of Cilicia, Holy See of Cilicia
We demand that Turkey return our confiscated Churches and Church Properties
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Address of President Serzh Sargsyan to the Conference Dedicated to the 90th Anniversary of Woodrow Wilson’s Arbitral Award
Dear Participants of the Conference,
Ninety years ago on this day – November 22, 1920, the President of the United States Woodrow Wilson made an Arbitral Award regarding Armenia’s borders.
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“THE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE: FROM RECOGNITION TO REPARATION”
International Conference organized by the
Armenian Catholicosate of Cilicia
(23-25 February 2012)
Confiscation and Colonization: The Young Turk Seizure of Armenian Property
By Ugur Ungor
The Armenian Weekly
April 2011 Magazine
“Leave all your belongings—your furniture, your beddings, your artifacts. Close your shops and businesses with everything inside. Your doors will be sealed with special stamps. On your return, you will get everything you left behind. Do not sell property or any expensive item. Buyers and sellers alike will be liable for legal action. Put your money in a bank in the name of a relative who is out of the country. Make a list of everything you own, including livestock, and give it to the specified official so that all your things can be returned to you later. You have ten days to comply with this ultimatum.”[1]
—Government promulgation hanged in public places in Kayseri,
June 15, 1915.
International Conference in Yerevan: “The Crime of Genocide: Prevention, Condemnation and Elimination of Consequences”
On December 14-15, 2010, The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Armenia in cooperation with the Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute organized an international conference titled “The Crime of Genocide: Prevention, Condemnation and Elimination of Consequences”.
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Mouradian: Ankara Conference Looks Beyond Genocide, Debates Reparations
By Khatchig Mouradian
The Armenian Weekly
ANKARA, Turkey (A.W.)—On April 24, as genocide commemoration events were being held one after the other in different locations in Istanbul, a groundbreaking two-day conference on the Armenian Genocide began at the Princess Hotel in Ankara.
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