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 \u201cThe Crime of Genocide: Prevention, Condemnation and Elimination of Consequences\u201d.
\n<\/p>\n
The Minister of Foreign Affairs Edward Nalbandyan opened the conference and a follow\u2013up speech was delivered by the President of RA Serzh Sargsyan: \u201cI attach great importance to the organization of this scientific conference for the issues related to the crime of genocide, and I am confident that it may be instrumental for the adoption of political decisions aimed at the prevention of that crime and for the manifestation of political will. The conference is also important in the context of developing defined approaches and conceptual documents on the elimination of the consequences of genocides.\u201d<\/p>\n
Prominent genocide scholars from about 20 countries participated in the Conference: Yves Ternon (France), Leandro Despouy (Argentine), Israel Charny (Israel), Donna-Lee Frieze (Australia), William Schabas (Ireland), Fran\u00e7ois Roelants du Vivier (Belgium), Taner Akcam (USA-Germany), Richard Hovhannisian, (USA) Tessa Hofmann (Germany), Ayman Abdel Aziz Salama (Egypt), Frank Chalk (Canada), Matthias Bj\u00f8rnlund (Denmark), Mohammed Rifat (Egypt), Theofanis Malkidis (Greece), Ruben Safrastyan (Armenia), Enzo Maria Le Fevre (Italy\/Hungary), Tetsushi Ogata (Japan), Dickran Kouymjian (USA-France), Anthonie Holslag (Netherlands), Armen Marsoobian (USA), Peter Balakian (USA), Wa\u2019il Nicholas Khair (Lebanon) and Seda Parsamyan (Armenia).<\/p>\n