SPEAKER SAYS TIME TO SOLVE PROBLEMS

Panorama.am
14:27 19/09/06

Tigran Torosyan, Speaker of the Armenian parliament, indicated at the
Third All-Armenian Forum "Armenia-Diaspora" that there is a need to
pass to the solutions of problems instead of just mentioning them.

In his words, only the statehood can create the bases of national
originality and the existence of Diaspora plays significant role in
this process. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Armenia had
neither experience nor skills. Exactly at that time, the presence of
Diaspora played an important role in the establishment of post-Soviet
Armenia. In the words of the speaker, that support was much more
valuable than financial aid.

Torosyan praised the role of Armenian Apostolic Church. He said
foreigners attach greater significance to our church than we
ourselves. Therefore he said, "This example indicates that we have a
long way to go till the national self-consciousness which needs to
be modernized. It will be difficult to solve tasks in front of use
without that," the speaker indicated.