International conference on tolerance and xenophobia in South Caucasus launched in Yerevan
26.02.2008,
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The international conference focused on tolerance and xenophobia in South Caucasus and Sumgait atrocities committed 20 years ago launched in Yerevan on Monday.
YEREVAN, February 25. /ARKA/. The international conference focused on tolerance and xenophobia in South Caucasus and Sumgait atrocities committed 20 years ago launched in Yerevan on Monday.
Hayk Demoyan, director of Armenian Genocide Museum Institute, said at the conference opening ceremony that the aim of the event is to analyze motivations of national movements, ethnic cleansings and violence in Soviet Union and post-soviet territory.
“We also intend to analyze current developments in the region and gauge intolerance impact on prospects for establishing cooperation in the region”, he said.
Demoyan said that ways of revenge threat prevention will be considered at the conference.
Armenian Foreign Minister Vartan Oskanian, Ombudsman Armen Harutyunyan, President of National Academy of Sciences Radik Martirosyan, political analyst Alexander Iskandaryan and political analyst Levon Melik Shahnazaryan will attend the conference.
Experts from Russia and Great Britain will take part in the conference as well.
Chairman of Russian Society on Friendship and Cooperation with Armenia Victor Krivopuskov, Chairman of Sova analytic center Alexander Verkhovski, expert on tolerance and xenophobia Galina Kozhevnikova and expert at Cambridge University Pamela Condappa are among them.
The conference is organized by Armenian Genocide Museum Institute, Armenian National Academy of Sciences with support from Armenian Foreign Ministry.
Anti-Armenian pogroms raged between February 26 and 29, 1988 in Azerbaijan’s city of Sumgait populated by Armenians. 32 Armenians were killed in these pogroms and 14 000 fled the city.-0--
Hayk Demoyan, director of Armenian Genocide Museum Institute, said at the conference opening ceremony that the aim of the event is to analyze motivations of national movements, ethnic cleansings and violence in Soviet Union and post-soviet territory.
“We also intend to analyze current developments in the region and gauge intolerance impact on prospects for establishing cooperation in the region”, he said.
Demoyan said that ways of revenge threat prevention will be considered at the conference.
Armenian Foreign Minister Vartan Oskanian, Ombudsman Armen Harutyunyan, President of National Academy of Sciences Radik Martirosyan, political analyst Alexander Iskandaryan and political analyst Levon Melik Shahnazaryan will attend the conference.
Experts from Russia and Great Britain will take part in the conference as well.
Chairman of Russian Society on Friendship and Cooperation with Armenia Victor Krivopuskov, Chairman of Sova analytic center Alexander Verkhovski, expert on tolerance and xenophobia Galina Kozhevnikova and expert at Cambridge University Pamela Condappa are among them.
The conference is organized by Armenian Genocide Museum Institute, Armenian National Academy of Sciences with support from Armenian Foreign Ministry.
Anti-Armenian pogroms raged between February 26 and 29, 1988 in Azerbaijan’s city of Sumgait populated by Armenians. 32 Armenians were killed in these pogroms and 14 000 fled the city.-0--
