Statement by ARF Bureau

Yerkir.am
July 07, 2006

Editorial

Armenian Revolutionary Federation on July 3 made a statement calling
for a participation in a project to develop border villages. Below is
the text of the statement.

Dear compatriots,

This year the entire Armenian people will mark the 15th anniversary
of its independent statehood. We will mark this holiday with the
consciousness of this holiday’s exclusiveness and resolution to
improve, enrich and strengthen our Armenian home.

Independence is a supreme value and everybody’s duty is to make
Armenia a center for justice, democracy, solidarity.

The third Armenia-Diaspora forum to be held on September 18-20
in Yerevan coincides with the anniversary of our state, another
opportunity to unite our potential and to make it serve for political,
economic, spiritual and cultural development of the Homeland,
to solution of national problems, to overcoming with dignity the
challenges resisted by the Armenians and Armenia in the 21st century.

This time there is a specific goal on the agenda of the forum – to
find funds and to develop especially the border regions of Armenia,
to improve and to modernize rural infrastructures, to assist solution
of the population’s social problems.

The ARF Bureau calls on all structures, units, individuals of Armenia
and Diaspora, first of all its organization circles and members to
take an active part in the implementation of this program, to assume
a concrete commitment.

With this step we should also prove that we can have a strong,
independent country and homeland, we can become an influential
presence in the large family of peoples. Let’s mark the anniversary
of our independent statehood by a concrete work and responsibility.