ARA ABRAHAMIAN POINTS TO NECESSITY OF ACTIVE WORK WITH YOUTH
Noyan Tapan
Armenians Today
May 17 2006
YEREVAN, MAY 17, NOYAN TAPAN – ARMENIANS TODAY. The Armenian President
has expressed readiness to provide all possible assistance to the work
of the World Armenian Congress. World Armenian Congress President Ara
Abrahamian declared this at the May 17 press conference in Yerevan. He
pointed to the active work of WAC in different directions, including
research and humanitarian ones.
At present the expert group created within the framework of WAC is
working at collecting documents relating to the Armenian Genocide for
the purpose of applying to the International Court with a lawsuit. A
preparatory work on organization of the third congress of the Armenians
of Western Armenia is also being done: the second analogous congress
was held in 1919. At the same time, according to Ara Abrahamian, in
contrast to the Union of Armenians of Russia that united the majority
of Armenian organizations of that country, during 2.5 years of its
existence WAC was not able to unite the Diasporan Armenians.
According to him, WAC had possibilities to open branches in many
countries but no corresponding conditions have been created for
this yet: there are problems inside many organizations and parties
in the Diaspora: “The Armenian communities in the U.S., in France
and in other countries are not ready for opening our branches, we
failed to work together”. He pointed to the necessity of more active
work with the youth: “The youth is our future and we should foster
the feeling of consolidation and unity in the young people, which we
lack”. As for WAC’s possible participation in the home political life
of Armenia Ara Abrahamian declared: “We cannot be indifferent to the
political situation in Armenia, we should take part in it as much as
the Armenian legislation permits this: participate but not intervene”.