PRESS RELEASE
COALITION IN SUPPORT OF KASHATAGH
New Website and On-Line Petition
E-Mail: info@kashatagh.com
Website:
New York, USA

October 3, 2006

Dear Fellow Armenians,

As you read these lines the Armenians in Kashatagh (Lachin)need our
immediate help.

After the war in Nagorno-Karabakh, local officials in Armenian and
Artsakh called for Armenian to move to Kashatagh and made promisies of
financial and material assistance to all those who heeded the call to
resettle in Kashatagh. Today, those promises have not been kept.

As a result, livings conditions in Kashatagh are bad and getting worse.
Thus, Armenians who moved there are now leaving. If this situation
persists, there will be no Armenian presence in this strategically
vital region that lies between Armenia and the Republic of
Nagorno-Karabakh.

Armenians in the diaspora, as well as in Armenia and Artsakh, cannot
remain silent when faced with this sad reality. We need to forcefully
voice our concerns and demand an adequate degree of accountabilty from
those responsible.

To publicize the situation a new website devoted to KASHATAGH has been
created:

On the website an ON-LINE PETITION has been posted. This petition is
addressed to the Presidents of Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh. It calls
on these officials to immediately take all possible steps to rectify
the socio-economic situation in KASHATAGH and stop the exodus of
Armenians from the region.

All concerned Armenians are urged to sign this important PETITION and
circulate it as well.

Collectively, the Armenian people can make a difference for the
Armenians of KASHATAGH