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ARMENIAN FOREIGN MINISTER LEAVES FOR NEW YORK TO ATTEND UN SPECIAL SESSION DEVOTED TO 60TH ANNIVERSARY OF RELEASE OF HOSTAGES FROM CONCENTRATION CAMPS
Minister Oskanyan will also speak at the special session. Earlier, he reported that the major topic of his speech would be prevention of genocides through their recognition and condemnation. Foreign Ministers of Germany, France, Argentina, Canada, Israel, Armenia and Luxembourg will speak at the session. UN Secretary General Kofi Annan and Chairman of the 59th session of General Assembly Jean Ping will open the session. The idea of the session was supported by 150 of 191 UN member-states. The initiators are Australia, Canada, Israel, New Zealand, Russia, the USA and EU member-states. Wednesday, talking to journalists, Kofi Annan told that the world community must not allow repetition of the horrors at Nazis camps. The estblishment of the UN was a direct result of the Holocaust, he said. Executive for Human Rights in the Russia Federation Vladimir Lukin is also expected to make a speech at the session. Photo-exhibitions telling about the horrors suffered by the hostages of Osvencim and Majdanek will be held at the foyer of UN headquarters. COUNCIL OF EUROPE DEFAMES ARMENIA AND OFFENDS ARMENIANS YEREVAN, JANUARY 24. ARMINFO.- The Parliamentary Assembly of the Strasbourg-based organization is going to adopt two resolutions, one questioning Artsakh independence, the other excluding the Armenian genocide from the European remembrance. - The European Armenian Federation calls upon the European citizens and organizations to intervene with their representatives. The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) is going to examine and vote on Tuesday two resolutions respectively proposed by Mr. David Atkinson (UK, Democrat Group) and Mr. Mats Einarsson (Sweden, United Left). The resolution prepared by Mr. Atkinson deals with "the conflict over the Nagorno-Karabakh region dealt with by the OSCE Minsk Conference". In this resolution, Mr. Atkinson alleges that "considerable parts of the territory of Azerbaijan are still occupied by Armenian forces" and that "separatist forces are still in control of the Nagorno-Karabakh region". Without explicitly pointing out one of the conflicting parties, the report then evokes "large-scale ethnic expulsion" and the creation of mono-ethnic areas "which resemble the terrible concept of ethnic cleansing". Recalling then a reduced set of past resolutions carefully chosen for their pro-azeri stances, the Atkinson report aims to impose - "if the negotiations under the auspices of the co-chairs of the Minsk group fail" - the settlement of the dispute between Armenia and Azerbaijan in the framework of the UN's International Court of Justice. "The Atkinson report is the report of Azerbaijan. This country believes that shifting the institutional framework will turn its crimes into virtues. Attempts of ethnic cleansing actually occurred but, contrary to Mr. Atkinson insinuations, it was the policy led by Baku." declared Laurent Leylekian, executive director of the European Armenian Federation. "Without the fight for self-determination led by the Karabakhiots, there would be no more Armenians on these historically Armenian territories, as it is the case in Nakhitchevan or in Turkey. By its exactions, Azerbaijan lost all its rights on the Karabakh and did legitimate the right for self- determination of the Karabakhiots, in full compliance with the International Law" Leylekian added. On the other hand, the Einarsson report supports the "establishment of a European remembrance center for victims of forced population movements and ethnic cleansing". In its draft recommendation, this report amply mentions the case of population transfers that followed the Second World War and the forced movements imposed by the Stalinian regime. It mentions also the genocide perpetrated by the Nazis against Jews and Roms as well as the genocide of Ukrainians. However, the draft recommendation deliberately omits to cite the first genocide of the XXth century, i.e. the Armenian genocide, though performed by, and on the territory of the member state of the Council of Europe, Turkey. "What credibility can we grant to an institution which gives such a biased lecture of History?" wondered Laurent Leylekian. "The Council of Europe, commanded by the negationist Turkey is making itself party to a second symbolic murder of the Armenians of Anatolia and Western Armenia. It's pathetic when coming from an institution which claims to be the guardian of Human Rights in Europe". The European Armenian Federation calls upon the European citizens and organizations to intervene with their representative in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (list available at http://assembly.coe.int/Main.asp?link=/composition/DelegationsList.htm ) to call them : - to support - for the Atkinson report - amendments recalling that the problem of the political status of Karabakh is still unresolved, calling upon Armenia and Azerbaijan to renounce to bellicose declarations and calling upon Azerbaijan to establish political contacts with the elected bodies of Karabakh. - To mention the case of the Armenian genocide in the framework of the Einarsson report. YEREVAN, JANUARY 24. ARMINFO. Deputy of Armenia's National Assembly Hakob Hakobyan and his son, recently detained in the United Arab Emirates, were released today on a written undertaking not to leave the country, Spokesman of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Hamlet Gasparyan told ARMINFO. He noted that, nevertheless, they will stay in the UAE till investigation is concluded. According to him, the friend of the deputy, detained along with them, is still in the investigation ward. To note, according to unconfirmed information, H. Hakobyan, his son and his friend were arrested in Abu Dhabi on accusation of stealing of clothes in the local "Wili" supermarket. KARABAKH CONFLICT TO BE DISCUSSED TUESDAY YEREVAN, JANUARY 24. ARMINFO. The report on the Karabakh conflict, prepared by PACE Rapporteur David Atkinson, will be discusses during the winter session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, Tuesday. According to the draft resolution, made public earlier, PACE expresses its concern that the military action, and the widespread ethnic hostilities which preceded it, led to large-scale ethnic expulsion and the creation of mono-ethnic areas which resemble the terrible concept of ethnic cleansing. According to the document, the Assembly reaffirms that independence and secession of a regional territory from a state may only be achieved through a lawful and peaceful process based on democratic support by the inhabitants of such territory, and not in the wake of an armed conflict leading to ethnic expulsion and the de facto annexation of such territory to another state. The Assembly reiterates that "the occupation" of foreign territory by a member state constitutes a grave violation of that state's obligations as a member of the Council of Europe, and reaffirms the right of displaced persons from the area of conflict to return to their homes safely and with dignity. YEREVAN, JANUARY 24. ARMINFO. As Assistant of Avetisyan Mar Martirosian informed ARMINFO, Monday the court of Yerevan's communities Center and Nork-Marash made a decision to select the arrest as a preventive punishment. In the period from 2003 to 2005, Armen Avetisyan openly and through mass media has created hostility and hatred between the Armenian and Jewish peoples. HEADLINES OF FEBRUARY 24 JANUARY
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YEREVAN, JANUARY 24. ARMINFO. Armenian Foreign Minister Vardan
Oskanyan has left for New York to participate in a special session of
the UN, today. The event is devoted to the 60th anniversary of
release of hostages from, concentration camps in the course of the
World War II.