TURKEY MUST RECOGNIZE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE TO BECOME EU MEMBER: GEOFFREY ROBERTSON – VIDEO

13:20, 18 March, 2015

YEREVAN, MARCH 18, ARMENPRESS. The prominent TV anchor Charlie Rose
had a conversation with Geoffrey Robertson, a distinguished British
barrister. He is currently part of the legal team representing Armenia
at the European Court of Human Rights on Dogu Perincek’s case.

As reports “Armenpress” citing ANCA, his latest book is An
Inconvenient Genocide: Who Remembers the Armenians? In recent years,
he has been particularly prominent in the defense of Julian Assange
and WikiLeaks. He has also represented author Salman Rushdie, and
prosecuted General Augusto Pinochet. In 2008, he was appointed by
United Nations (UN) Secretary General Ban Ki-moon as a “distinguished
jurist” member of the UN’s Justice Council, which nominates and
supervises UN judges. His memoir, The Justice Game, has sold over
150,000 copies.

>From March 13th to 15th, Mr. Robertson was in New York City
headlining the “Responsibility 2015: Armenian Genocide Centennial
Conference, a three day spotlight on the state of Armenian Genocide
scholarship, genocide education, building solidarity, individual
and group reparations, genocide denial, transitional justice, gender
and mass violence, Islamized Armenians, and the Armenian Genocide in
policy circles.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress