LIKELIHOOD OF RETURN OF MIGRANTS DIMINISHES DAY BY SAY, SAYS ARA ABRAHAMYAN
Lragir.am
16 May 06
On May 16 the meeting of the Board of the World Congress of Armenians
is going on in Yerevan, discussing the activity of the organization in
the past two years and future plans. The congress was initiated in 2003
by the leader of the Union of Armenians of Russia Ara Abrahamyan. He
says that over the past two years the congress did considerable work,
but the key issue of the meeting of the board is the future.
“The core issue is to establish an organization which would enable
working out a national policy. It is the Armenian ideology. It is one
of the key concerns,” says Ara Abrahamyan. He underlines the importance
of development of a youth branch of the Congress, for the youth is the
future. Another key issue, according to Ara Abrahamyan, is to establish
branches of the Congress all over the world, including an organization
of West Armenians, which would operate under the World Congress.
“It is very important to define the relations between Armenia
and the Diaspora to have definite devices. The Diaspora-Diaspora
relations, as well as the Diaspora-Diaspora-Armenia relations are
of core importance. It is important to set up an economic Diasporan
organization to improve people’s social condition. It should be
established in Armenia, of course, with the help of the Diaspora,
all together, to create conditions, jobs for economic migrants to
get back, because later it will be impossible to have them back,
for they will have been integrated in those countries,” says Ara
Abrahamyan. According to him, if we fail to create and implement such
a program now, later the return of migrants will be very doubtful.