ROBERT KOCHARIAN: BE SURE THAT ARMENIA-DIASPORA RELATIONS ARE PRIORITY FOR US

Noyan Tapan News Agency, Armenia
Sept 20 2006

YEREVAN, SEPTEMBER 20, NOYAN TAPAN – ARMENIANS TODAY. "I would consider
this conference the highest body of Armenian people’s collective
wishes, during which we all make decisions and try to carry them out,"
RA President Robert Kocharian declared on September 20, at the closure
ceremony of the Armenia-Diaspora third conference.

The President considered that it was still early to give estimations to
the conference’s work, but informed those present that all proposals
voiced at the meetings held within the framework of the conference
will be summed up without fail. Robert Kocharian said that we should
avoid the issues that disunite Armenia and Diaspora and not unite them.

In his words, there are approaches, the solutions to which are
difficult to give today, at the same time, he declared: "We should
keep them in our mind, for them to be touched upon in the future, for
instance, the issue of spelling, the issue of a structure coordinating
Diasporan structures, etc."

The President said that it is possible to form a very wide field of
consent and assured that all materials of the conference will be
summed up in a very short period: "In the line of the government
these decisions will become a part of the government activity
program, just like we did after the previous conference. Be sure
that Armenia-Diaspora relations are priority for us. Not to collect
such a powerful potential in the globalized world around one issue,
for solution of national goals, would be criminal negligence for the
Armenian leadership," Robert Kocharian declared.