Armenian nation and the state it founded are committed to protecting the right to life of ethnic, religious, and racial groups and their members. 5.16 On the global level, the Republic of Armenia honors this commitment by engaging and assuming a leading role in international cooperation based on the UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide. 5.17 International recognition and condemnation of the Armenian Genocide greatly contributes to the prevention of new genocides. The responsibility to protect the population of the Republic of Armenia and Artsakh is a cornerstone of our foreign and defense policy. 5.18 Turkey’s respect for the comprehensive security of Armenia and the Armenian people must be part of protecting the rights of the victims of the Armenian Genocide and their descendants. 5.19 Turkey’s recognition of the Armenian Genocide and the rights of its victims and their descendants shall form the necessary basis for overcoming the consequences of the Armenian Genocide. ARMENIA-DIASPORA RELATIONS: A PAN-ARMENIAN OUTLOOK 5.20 Among the most important components of Armenia’s national security policy is the further development of relations and cooperation between Armenia and its Diaspora to a new pinnacle. Ascribing importance to the unity between the Republic of Armenia, Artsakh, and the Armenians dispersed throughout the world, the Republic of Armenia adopts a Pan-Armenian outlook, one of forming a unified Pan-Armenian agenda. 5.21 Armenia-Diaspora relations aim to create a Pan-Armenian format, based on a participatory principle, for resolving pan-national issues and priorities. In the context of developing a PanArmenian outlook, the Holy Armenian Apostolic Church, with its hierarchic Dioceses, the Armenian Catholic Church, and the Armenian Evangelical Church, as well as the Pan-Armenian structures of the Diaspora, play an important role. 5.22 The primary goal of Armenia-Diaspora relations is protecting Armenian interests, as well as ensuring progress through collective action. 5.23 The Diaspora is part of Armenia’s competitive and powerful potential. We shall undertake steps to involve the abilities of the Diaspora in resolving state-building, security, economic, scientific-educational, demographic, technological, modernization, and other strategic issues that pose a challenge to the country. 5.24 The main threats to the development of Armenia-Diaspora cooperation include the assimilation of diasporan Armenians, the endangered condition of both Armenian spiritual-cultural values abroad and the Western Armenian language, and the deterioration 20 | NATIONAL SECURITY STRATEGY OF RA