International Conference On Armenian Genocide Opens In Stockholm

YERKIR
15.11.2005 15:24

YEREVAN (YERKIR) - An international conference dedicated to the 90th
anniversary of the Armenian Genocide is opening in Stockholm today.

The event is initiated by Live History institution, coordination
council of the Armenian Unions of Sweden and some other
organizations. The conference has the purpose to raise issue the
Genocides of Christian peoples, especially Armenians in Ottoman Turkey
in 1915, in the political, public and scientific circles.

"The rights of the Christian minorities in Turkey are still infringed
and the intellectuals are subjected to persecutions, while Turkey
has acquired a right to hold talks on accession to the EU. Not only
Swedish political circles and intelligentsia, but also wide public are
interested whether it is worth to spread and widely cover the truth,
" Chairman of the coordination council of the Armenian Unions Karo
Hakobian said.

Turkey's position at the conference will be presented by historian
Kemal Cicek. Members of the Swedish Reichstag, political and public
figures, representatives of political parties and ministers are
invited to the event.