There are crucial moments in history that define the world’s future. For Poland and Europe, one of such moments in the 20th century was the day of August 15, 1920.
In November 1944, Raphael Lemkin – Polish lawyer of Jewish origin – published a book in which the word “genocide” appeared for the very first time. A neologism composed of the Greek prefix genos (race or tribe) and the Latin suffix cidium (to kill). Finally, the “crime without a name”, as Winston Churchill had referred to the Nazi extermination policy, had been named.
The following open letter was signed by 103 foreign-policy experts, whose names and affiliations appear below.
At a special sitting on July 10, the Public Services Regulatory Commission (PSRC) discussed and approved the alienation of Beeline telecommunication company operating under VEON Armenia to Team LLC, the owners of which are Hayk and Alexander Yesayan brothers who have left Ucom.
The Commission on Artsakh, Security and Foreign Relations of the “Vernatun” sociopolitical club calls on the Armenian authorities to work with the U.S. authorities through all possible channels, using all the political, expert and lobbying potential of both Armenia and the Diaspora and to reach the exclusion of such resolution from being put to a vote in the Senate.”
The Co-Chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group (Igor Popov of the Russian Federation, Stéphane Visconti of France, and Andrew Schofer of the United States of America) and Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office (PRCIO) Andrzej Kasprzyk released a statement over the recent clashes on the Armenian-Azerbaijani border.
I am looking for an elusive mountain path in the steep dangerous peaks of Karabagh. I am not sure there is a way through, but I will continue to try. Others have attempted to do so before me. So many have failed or turned back.
Avetik Ishkyanyan, the Chairman of Helsinki Committee of Armenia, a human rights defense organization, has expressed his concern over Gagik Khachatryan’s case, a former minister of Finance of Armenia currently facing politically motivated charges. His statement reads:
On 21 July the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) published its decision by which it awarded the application by former Minister of Finance of the Republic of Armenia Gagik Khachatryan. The ECHR requested the Government of the Republic of Armenia to ensure immediate medical treatment as required for Khachatryan’s state of health in the civil hospital and ensure the involvement of foreign doctors.
The end result of the statements by the heads of Turkey and Azerbaijan about their readiness to implement the adjusted military plans for a joint war has made it imperative for the authorities of the Republic of Armenia to speak about the threat of recurrence of the Genocide hanging over the Armenian people. The relevance of the “Never Again” principle for the Armenian people is due to the genocidal attacks on the Armenian population of Azerbaijan during the Perestroika in the USSR, which were in response to peaceful political rallies of Nagorno-Karabakh Armenians for the right to self-determination and secession from the Azerbaijani SSR in accordance with the USSR legislation and international law. We are talking about the pogroms in Sumgait and Kirovabad in 1988 and in Baku in 1990, as well as war crimes committed against the civilian population of Armenia during the April war of 2016.
