WORLD ARMENIANS CONGRESS TO CONSOLIDATE ARMENIA-DIASPORA TIES
Public Television of Armenia, Yerevan
16 May 06
[Presenter] A regular sitting of the supreme board of the World
Armenian Congress [WAC] opened in Yerevan today. Armenian Foreign
Minister Vardan Oskanyan took part in the sitting.
The chairman of the WAC, Ara Abramyan, said that the report on the
supreme board’s activities in 2004-05 was presented at the sitting.
The supreme board will also discuss the WAC’s goals and work done
during the third Armenia-Diaspora forum in 2006. More than 100,000
Armenians live outside Armenia and every condition must be created
for those who want to return to the motherland, Ara Abramyan said.
The chairman of the WAC said that he was talking about the creation
of jobs and development of the Armenian economy.
[Ara Abramyan captioned] We should create jobs and conditions in
Armenia with help from the diaspora and people who are working
abroad so as those who are looking for jobs would be able to return
to the motherland.
[Vardan Oskanyan speaking at the sitting] We have done a lot to boost
the Armenian economy, maintain our statehood and settle the Nagornyy
Karabakh conflict. The congress has done a lot to deepen relations
between Armenia and the diaspora and will continue to work towards
uniting the Armenians.