Armenia’s Foreign Minister Zohrab Mnatsakanyan at the UNDP conference in Geneva on Sept. 13
GENEVA—Armenia’s Foreign Minister Zohrab Mnatsakanyan delivered the opening remarks at the High-Level Panel on 70th Anniversary of the Convention on Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide in the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva.
“Having in mind the upcoming 70th Anniversary of the Convention this coming December 9, I want to acknowledge and pay tribute to Raphael Lemkin, a profound lawyer who had dedicated his entire life to challenging and confronting the right to kill behind the thick curtain of sovereignty, elaborating the legal term of genocide and endorsing international responsibility upon sovereign states to protect their populations from the crime of genocide,â€
