ARMENIAN STUDENTS OF MOSCOW EXPRESSED ANXIETY TO RA AMBASSADOR RELATING TO EVENT TAKEN PLACE RECENTLY WITH ARMENIANS IN RUSSIA

Noyan Tapan
Armenians Today
Jun 22 2006

MOSCOW, JUNE 22, NOYAN TAPAN – ARMENIANS TODAY. A meeting of RA
Ambassador to RF Armen Smbatian and Moscow students of Armenian origin
took place at the Embassy of Armenia to Russia on June 18.

As Noyan Tapan was informed by the RA Foreign Ministry’s Press and
Information Department, issues being in the center of attention of
Moscow students of Armenian origin were discussed at the meeting. Those
issues are: usage of the dual citizenship institute in Armenia,
problems of the sphere of migration, widening of the possibility of
adding quotas being allocated to citizens of Armenia in institutions
of higher education of Russia.

At the same time the students expressed anxiety on the occasion of
the event taken place recently to representatives of the Armenian
origin in Russia.

Those events are presented by some mass media as a display of
intolerance towards Armenians. According to them, all those anger
the society both in Armenia and in Russia what may be used by third
sides interested in weakening of the Armenian-Russian relations and
may influence negatively on the cooperation process.

Ambassador Smbatian, agreeing in general with modernity of the problem
arisen by the students and with their approach that those events are
addressed in no way against representatives of the Armenian nation,
emphasized that those problems first of all do not arise of interests
of Russia and oppose the policy fostered by Russia towards Armenia and,
in general, Armenians living in Russia.

The students were informed at the meeting about the steps implemented
by the Embassy on the occasion of that event as well as about works
being implemented by the Russian authorities in the direction of
revealing the last murders.

It was emphasized that those crimes are also condemned by
representatives of the highest authorities of Armenia. It was also
mentioned that the authorities of Russia assured at different levels
that all the possible means will be used in the direction of revealing
those crimes and punishing those guilty with the whole strictness of
the law.