19 Ap 2010 - Article 144 of the Treaty of Sevres is valid, expert says

On April 14, the French Bureau of the Armenian Cause organized a symposium with several international experts who have analyzed various aspects of the Armenian issue


Were present, Dogan Özgüden, Journalist, President of the Foundation Info Turk, Frederic Encel, Geo-political scientist, Professor at the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris, Yair Auron, Professor of History at the Open University of Israel ; Giro Manoyan, Head of the Political Bureau of the ARF Dashnaktsutyun, Ali Ertem, Historian and Chairman of the Association fighting genocide, Israel Charny, President of the Institute for Holocaust and Genocide (Jerusalem) ; Alfred de Zayas, an international lawyer and historian, and Harut Sassounian, editor of the California Courier. Also the French historian Yves Ternon.


Everyone is allowed to say that we must continue to seek international recognition of Armenian genocide, but now the priority is the requirement of repairs. Thus, the lawyer Alfred de Zayas said that "under the terms of article 144 of the Treaty of Sevres, of historical value, obligation of repairs and restitutions of property titles to the Armenians is made. According him, this provision is always valid today, and it's at the international society to claim "

J.E. Paris