EN
22 February 2001 - 17:50 AMT

PARTICIPANTS OF THE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ISSUED A STATEMENT CONDEMNING THE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE

YEREVAN, February 22. /Mediamax/. Participants of the international conference “The church, state, society and crisis of liberal doctrine of world reconstruction”, held on Feb.21-22 in the National Assembly of Armenia, issued a statement today, condemning the Armenian Genocide, perpetrated in 1915 by the Ottoman Empire.
“Condemnation of the Genocide will help establish atmosphere of trust, consolidation of peace and stability in the region, closer friendship of peoples”, the statement says.
The international conference “The church, state, society and crisis of liberal doctrine of world reconstruction” was organized in Yerevan on the initiative and with the participation of the International fund of union of orthodox peoples within the frames of the development of the European inter-parliamentary orthodox assembly with the assistance of the National Assembly of Armenia.
The European inter-parliamentary orthodox assembly was established at the Constituent Assembly in the Athens in 1993 on the initiative of Russia and Greece. The full members of the organization are Albania, Armenia, Bulgaria, Georgia, Yugoslavia, Greece, Estonia, Kazakhstan, Cyprus, Latvia, Lithuania, Belarus, Moldavia, Ukraine, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Czech and Finland. –0–