'Endowing one's own people with genocide' is neither patriotism nor diplomacy: Serzh Sargsyan

Inspiring one's own people that they have been subjected to genocide is neither patriotism nor diplomacy, Armenian president has said.

Serzh Sargsyan made the statement as he addressed an international conference held in Yerevan, dedicated to the adoption of the 1948 UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide.

Sargsyan said that some countries attempt to artificially create stories of "their own genocides", adding that such attempts are "simplistic misinterpretations" of the legal grounds of the crime of genocide.

"Such factitious approaches are simplistic misinterpretations of the legal grounds of the clearly formulated crime of genocide," said he.

"Without referring to the various reasons of such phenomenon, I would like to mention one thing only: the so-called endowment of one's own people with genocide is neither patriotism nor diplomacy."

Further, Sargsyan said that some countries' attempts to present their made up history for reality are doomed to failure.

"Those re-editing the history and the historical facts think that they can thrust their distorted and fabricated history upon the humanity," Sargsyan said. "Concealing one's own guilt and one's own crime means committing a new crime."

According to Sargsyan, that cynicism comes to prove that some people do not really comprehend and do not want to understand that the humanity has paid and continues to pay a highest price for that.

He went on saying that the international community should include in its agenda the issues of preventing and condemning, as well as eliminating the consequences of the genocide.

"The civilized humanity should develop the ability to jointly combat this evil," said Sargsyan.