Armenia to focus on fight against intolerance during its chairmanship at Council of Europe
27.06.2013,
12:00
Armenia’s priority in chairing at the Council of Europe is fighting against intolerance and hatred propaganda, Armenian president Serzh Sargsyan said at Majdanek former Nazi concentration camp Wednesday.
YEREVAN, June 27. /ARKA/. Armenia’s priority in chairing at the Council of Europe is fighting against intolerance and hatred propaganda, Armenian president Serzh Sargsyan said at Majdanek former Nazi concentration camp Wednesday.
Having again gained its independence Armenia must draw today international community’s attention to the importance of joint efforts in prevention and punishment of genocides, Sargsyan said as quoted by the presidential press office.
“In the same context, we are going to hold an international conference on fighting against intolerance and discrimination in Yerevan”, the president said.
During its chairmanship period Armenia will also support the global web initiative against hatred rhetoric, Sargsyan said.
Armenia’s president reminded the 100th anniversary of the Armenian genocide, as well as 70th anniversary of the Second World War and Holocaust will be observed in 2015.
These anniversaries should make the mankind double their efforts to prevent genocides, the head of Armenia said.
“There might be no Majdanek if the first genocide of the 20th century, the Armenian one, had been condemned at the time and the guilty had been punished”, Sargsyan said.
“There is no condemnation without prevention, and there is no prevention without condemnation”, he said.
Majdanek, Oświęcim and others, as well as Armenian Tsitsernakaberd monument bear strong messages to the humanity for encouraging tolerance among peoples and condemning xenophobia, the president said.
The president expressed Armenia’s commitment to fight against any display of racism, xenophobia and intolerance and against the cruelest crime, the genocide, anywhere.–0--
