On December 26, 2014 International and Comparative Law Center organized a conference on “International Legal Bases for raising  Claims to the Republic of Turkey for the Armenian Genocide” in the frames of which the presentation of legal catalogue “International-legal bases of the responsibility for the Armenian Genocide”. The program was carried out under the patronage of the staff of RA president and with the support of Youth Foundation of Armenia.

One of the founders of International and Comparative Law Center Vladimir Vardanyan mentioned that Armenian Genocide shouldn’t be treated emotionally, on the contrary  its legal and  legal-political issues should be studied. “The documentary material, which has been collected for years, now becomes legal. We have a lot of opportunities in the legal sphere to raise claims in different courts”

Head of the department of  Armenian Cause and Armenian Genocide of NAS RA Institute of History, Candidate of Historical Sciences, associate professor Armen Marukyan mentioned that a great work  was done  for the 100th anniversary of Armenian Genocide. He noticed that Turkey thinks that everything would over with and apologize. “We don’t share their opinion, on the contrary everything begins with an apologize. As it is not possible to kill millions of people and only to apologize. We speak about the annihilation of a nation, seizure their homeland, confiscation of their property. All the consequences of the Armenian genocide must be discussed”,-said Armen Marukyan.

Deputy director of YSU Institute for Armenian Studies Mher Hovhannisyan emphasized  the fact, that we pass from the recognition process to the process of claims and legal sphere. 

“Armenian genocide is seriously studied in Armenia. We began to work on the training process of new cadres, especially a group of lawyers. They should be aware of the issues of Armenian genocide not only from the standpoint of International law, but from the standpoint of historiography, psychology, philosophy. In this way they will get an understanding of various issues of the Armenian Genocide. The observations made during  the presentation, the  publication of the catalogue are very essential, as they are the basis of further work and projects” mentioned Mher Hovhannsiyan.

During the conference  head of  the International and Comparative Law Center Taron Simonyan,  head of  Chair of European and International Law of YSU Vigen Kocharyan, as well as founders of International and Comparative Law Center Levon Gevorgyan and Yeghishe Kirakosyan represented  international legal challenges and concepts of the catalogue.