Remarks by Rouben Shugarian, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Armenia at the Stockholm International Forum "Truth, Justice and Recon

Honorable Mr. Chairman, Excellencies, distinguished participants, A restless quest for historical truth and justice, and political pragmatism are by no means antidotes. Genocides, holocausts and other crimes against humanity will always remain unabsolved until and unless there is an understanding that, on the one hand, denial

Armenian Genocide

The term Genocide was coined by Polish-Jewish lawyer Raphael Lemkin in 1944, whose family was one of the victims of the Jewish Holocaust. By defining this term, Prof. Lemkin sought to describe Nazi politics of systematic murder, violence and cruelty and atrocities committed against the Armenians in the Ottoman Empire in 1915 as well. On December 9, 1948, the United Nations approved the Convention