We condemn the unlawful actions by Armenia’s Gov. against the Armenian Apostolic Church. Jan Figel
"Status Quo'"s tonight guest was the former deputy Prime Minister of Slovakia and the chairman of the European Forum for Religious Freedom (FOREF) Jan Figel. Jan is also a member of the Forum of Armenian Associations of Europe which initiated an advocacy group for the protection of the Armenian Apostolic Church and Christianity in Armenia.
The group has made a statement condemning the unlawful steps taken by the authorities against the Armenian Apostolic Church.
Among the signatories:
1. The Most Reverend and Right Honorable Lord Carey of Clifton – Former Archbishop of Canterbury (United Kingdom)
2. Ján Čarnogurský – Former Prime Minister of Slovakia, Co-Chair of the PANAP Club Vienna (Slovakia)
3. Luis Moreno Ocampo – First Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), Argentina (UN)
4. His Grace Bishop Dr. Prof. Patrick Sookhdeo – Professor at the University of Pretoria and Executive Director of the Oxford Centre for Religion and Public Life (United Kingdom)
5. Ján Figeľ – First EU Commissioner for Innovation and Research, President of the European Forum of the Forum for Religious Freedom (FOREF) (Slovakia)
6. Jonathan Steele – Member of the PANAP Club Vienna, British journalist and commentator, former foreign chief correspondent of The Guardian (United Kingdom)
7. John Eibner – Director General of Christian Solidarity International, Research Fellow at the Institute of Historical Research, University of London (United Kingdom)
8. Ľuboš Blaha – Member of the European Parliament (Slovakia)
9. František Mikloško – Former Speaker of the Parliament of Slovakia, current member of parliament, Knight of the Highest Order of the National Assembly (Slovakia)
10. Wolfgang Hummel – Member of the Berlin Senate, member of the Financial Affairs Department of the Federal Ministry of Economics (Germany)
11. Helga Zepp-LaRouche – Founder and leader of the Schiller Institute (Germany)
12. Cyril Svoboda – President of the Diplomatic Academy of Prague, Czech Republic (Czechia)
13. Jan Campbell – Well-known Czech economist, analyst, and commentator (Czechia)
14. Robert Amsterdam – International lawyer specializing in political defense and human rights (USA)
15. François Fillon – Former Prime Minister of France (France)
16. Romano Prodi – Former Prime Minister of Italy, former President of the European Commission (Italy)
17. Gustav Gustenau – Brigadier General, Secretary General of the European Institute for Counter-Terrorism and Conflict Prevention, Vienna (Austria)
