DAVID LOKIAN: “ARF DASHNAKTSUTIUN PRESERVED SUCH AN IDEA THAT BECAME A
SERIOUS WEAPON FOR THE COUNTRY AND THE STATE TODAY”

TEHRAN, December 29 (Noyan Tapan). An arrangement devoted to the 114th
anniversary of the national liberation movement of the Armenian people
was held at the “Komitas” hall of the “Ararat” Armenian Cultural
organization of Tehran on December 23. According to the “Alik”
(“Wave”) newspaper of Tehran, during the evening party, which began
with the “Mshak Banvor” (“Worker”) anthem, Samvel Khudadadian made a
speech, after which the film about the activities of the “ARF”
Dashnaktsutiun was shown. Minister of Agriculture of Armenia David
Lokian arriving from Armenia came up during the evening party. He, in
particular, said: “The ideology of our party is the same, as it goes
back to the genetic sources of the Armenian.” He also said, “If I am
asked what does the Dashnaktiutiun party do for the Armenian people,
for Armenia, the facts of not so distant past showed what it
did. Dashnaktiutiun was able to preserve such problems that the
international community turned to the weapon against our enemy today
in order to find the right solution of our problems. If this idea
wasn’t preserved, if the idea of Hay Dat (the Armenian Cause) and the
Genocide wasn’t preserved, I think we would lose a lot”. David Lokian
noticed that Armenia is in the center of the region’s events and “here
the important period is being formed for us, our party, for the
Diasporan communities, for our country’s leadership, and here we have
to turn the common interest of the Armenian people, the common
interest of the RA state into the priority.” Ambassador Extraordinary
and Plenipotentiary of Armenia to Iran Gegham Gharibjanian noticed in
its speech that “ARF has carried out such activities for 114 years
whose part the establishment of the state, the First Republic of
Armenia, became. In my opinion, the second part is the preservation of
the nation, as the “nation” notion is much wider that those
territories becoming the Second Republic, as well as today’s progress,
as ARF plays a decisive role in today’s Armenia. Archbishop Sepuh
Sargsian, the Head of the Armenian Diocese of Tehran, blessed the
Armenians of Tehran in connection with the holiday. The performance of
the national-revolutionary songs took place after the speeches.