Yuri Barseghov

Yuri Barseghov ("Юрий Барсегов", "Յուրի Բարսեղով," March 7, 1925, Tiflis - August 6, 2008, Moscow) was an internetional law expert, J.D., professor, member of the United Nations' International Law Commission, the special assistant of the UN Deputy Secretary-General at the UN Secretariat (since 1971), director of the Armenian Institute of International Law and Political Science and a Foreign Member of the Armenian Academy of Sciences.

His most famous work was a three-volume collection of documents titled "The Armenian Genocide: Turkish responsibility and obligations of the international community. Documents and Comments" was published in 2005. This year he also published the first volume of his collected papers on Nagorno-Karabakh. He was an author of over 300 articles on international relations and law published in Russia, France, Germany, Norway, Sweden, Japan, Finland, Armenia and U.S. [ [http://www.armtown.com/news/en/pan/20080807/26823 INTERNATIONAL LAW EXPERT YURI BARSEGOV DIES AT 83, Panarmenian, August 07, 2008] ] .

Y. Barseghov was also a member of the Maritime Law Association and the International Law Association of Russia.

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* [http://groong.usc.edu/news/msg240308.html Professor Yuri Barseghov Dies, Noyan Tapan, Aug 8, 2008]