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2015-03-27
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2015-03-27
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  1. “The international community should work hard to address the gaps in the protection of religious and ethnic groups and empower their members to enjoy human rights and fundamental freedoms and continue their valuable contribution to humanity and civilization.”

    2015-03-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7419 (2015) · source

  2. “However, in this centennial year, it will not be possible to pay tribute to the Victims in Dayr Al-Zour, since in September 2014 terrorist groups destroyed the church and vandalized the holy site. The destruction of the Saint Martyrs church is a symbolic link between old and new crimes. Faced with the continuity of such evil deeds across time and space, we must demonstrate our unreserved human solidarity with the victims of those crimes. In the name of humanity and civilization, we should fight and defeat fear, dehumanization and denial. We are here today first to strongly condemn the violations we have witnessed in recent times in the Middle East and to commit ourselves fully in the fight against ISIL, the Nusra Front and other derivatives and associates of Al-Qaida.”

    2015-03-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7419 (2015) · source

  3. “The issues of education on and remembrance of genocide are important in the prevention of mass atrocities against religious and ethnic groups. It is not a coincidence that those who are engaged in mass atrocities against religious and ethnic groups associate themselves with the denial and justification of previous genocides. On 24 April and throughout the year, the centennial of the Armenian genocide in the Ottoman Empire will be commemorated around the world. A Syrian town, Dayr Al-Zour, and its surrounding desert was the final destination of the death march of hundreds of thousands of the victims of the Armenian genocide. Every year, the Saint Martyrs Armenian church in Dayr Al-Zour, which was a sanctuary for the remains of many Victims, used to be one of the main places of commemoration.”

    2015-03-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7419 (2015) · source

  4. “The full implementation of resolutions 2170 (2014), 2178 (2014) and 2199 (2015) is essential in the prevention of massive and grave human rights violations against religious and ethnic groups. Armenia, as a nation that survived the first genocide of the twentieth century, has a moral responsibility towards the protection of collective and individual rights of religious and ethnic groups and their members, particularly in situations where their survival is at stake. Genocide prevention is a high priority for Armenia. Over recent years, we have tried to mainstream issues of genocide prevention in efforts for international cooperation on security and human rights. We are glad that, two hours ago, the Human Rights Council adopted by consensus an important resolution on genocide prevention, which was sponsored by Armenia and 64 other States.”

    2015-03-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7419 (2015) · source

  5. “The extremist groups have desecrated and vandalized Kassab's Armenian religious and cultural heritage. A number ofother Violent acts took place against Christians and other minorities, including the beheading of 21 Egyptian Copts and brutal attacks against Assyrians in Syria and the killing and oppression of the Yazidi minority by the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) terrorist group in the Mont Sinjar region in Iraq. We all saw the chilling Video footage of ISIL militants smashing 2,700-year-old statues in the Mosul museum, followed by their barbaric destruction of the Nineveh museum and other artefacts of ancient art and culture in Iraq and Syria.”

    2015-03-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7419 (2015) · source

  6. “It was 100 years ago that three countries, which are currently permanent members of the Security Council, coined the term "crime against humanity and civilization" in relation to the mass extermination of a religious and ethnic group in the Middle East. Unfortunately, the use of that term is relevant to current realities as well. The concerted attempts of terrorist groups, including foreign terrorist fighters, to deprive religious and ethnic groups of their life, property, religion, culture and memory can indeed be qualified as a crime against humanity and civilization. On 21 March 2014, Al-Qaida-affiliated terrorist groups attacked the predominately Armenian and millennia-old town of Kassab, situated on the border between Syria and Turkey, resulting in the forced expulsion of the local population from their homes.”

    2015-03-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7419 (2015) · source

  7. “First of all, I would like to thank the French presidency of the Security Council and Mr. Fabius personally for this timely initiative to discuss the deterioration of the situation of the ethnic and religious groups in certain parts of the Middle East. We are facing a new and evolving threat in the Middle East in the form of mass and grave human rights violations targeting ethnic and religious groups and their members. It is disappointing that on the eve of the seventieth anniversary of the United Nations, after such tremendous efforts to strengthen peace and security, tolerance, prosperity, fundamental rights and freedoms, we must deal with this newly emerging wave of violence, vandalism and hatred in a part of the world that is the cradle of world civilization.”

    2015-03-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7419 (2015) · source