December 9, 2008 - 16:28 AMT
UN Convention on Prevention and Punishment of Genocide needs improvements
The Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide of December 9, 1949 is imperfect and needs improvements, according ARF Dashnaktsutyun Bureau's Hay Dat and Political Affairs Office Director.

"The signatories should be punished if fail to fulfill the obligations envisaged by the Convention," Kiro Manoyan told a news conference today.

"The UN should have extra authority to interfere up to use of force to stop the countries perpetrating genocide," he said.