WESTERN ARMENIANS TO ELECT THEIR NATIONAL ASSEMBLY
Armenpress
Oct 20 2006
YEREVAN, OCTOBER 20, ARMENPRESS: About thirty prominent Armenian
intellectuals have come out today with an initiative to create a body
that will represent the heirs of Armenians who escaped the genocide of
Armenians in the historical Western Armenia in the Ottoman Turkey. The
signatories propose to establish a National Assembly, a National
Council and committees.
The initiating committee had sent messages to all heirs of Armenians
who escaped the genocide to seek their accord and based on the feedback
has decided to call a meeting in Paris on December 9-10. The group’s
statement says the meeting will elect an ad hoc National Council with
its committees which will organize and steer elections of deputies
to the National Assembly in all countries where heirs of the genocide
live. This National Assembly is supposed to elect the National Council
of Western Armenians.
The idea behind this initiative, according to the statement, is to
work out and carry out such all-Armenian projects which will promote
strengthening of Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh, consolidation of free
democracy and defense of Armenians’ interests globally.
Another goal is to negotiate with Turkish authorities and other
stakeholders to attain the recognition of Armenian genocide, its
condemnation and press for compensations for the property of Western
Armenians and to ensure unobstructed return of the heirs to Western
Armenia where their ancestors lived.