LEVON MKRTCHIAN: “ARF HAS ALWAYS ARISEN ARMY OF OPPONENTS WITH ITS IDEOLOGY”

YEREVAN, APRIL 20, NOYAN TAPAN – ARMENIANS TODAY. “These books will
help to understand what the Dashnaktsutiun is. They are addressed
especially, to youth,” Hrant Margarian, an ARF Bureau representative
stated at the presentation of books concerning the party published
during the recent period of time. The presentation took place on
April 19 at the ARF Bureau office. Haroutiun Kyurkjian’s four-volume
“Historiography of The Armenian Revolutionary Federation”, Ararat
Hakobian’s “The Armenian Parliament and Political Parties of
1918-1920”, “ARF Figures Answer People’s Questions,” Enlightment
Minister of the first republic of Armenia Nikol Aghbalian’s “Thoughts
about the ARF Dashnaktsutiun”, Gevorg Khudinian’s and Ararat
Hakobian’s “Last Attempts of Misrepresenting the ARF History” books
were presented at the presentation. According to Levon Mkrtchian,
a member of the ARF Supreme Body of Armenia and the head of the NA
“ARF” faction, the goal of publication of those books is “to present
the Dashnaktsutiun” to our people.” ” We have the biography of every
year of the 115-years old party in the printed version: by press,
series of books, and we continue this tradition today as well, as the
system of values that has been passed to us and we must pass to our
generation, is passed from a generation to a generation by mainly it,”
L.Mkrtchian stated. “ARF Dashnaktsutiun is an influential political
force both in Armenia and in Diaspora, and it has always arisen an
army of opponents by making eastern its national ideology.

Those opponents attempted to implement some problems by misrepresenting
goals of our historiography,” the head of the ARF parliamentary
faction emphasized.

Responding the Noyan Tapan correspondent’s question how it is possible
to struggle against the anti-Armenian literature in foreign languages,
sponsored by Turkey, Hrant Margarian said: “Works have been done in
that direction already for 70 years. We have alsways been successive
in that issue. But the most essential is that today one must struggle
in that field at the academic level.”