BODY REPRESENTING HEIRS OF ARMENIANS WHO ESCAPED GENOCIDE TO CALL ITS SESSION DECEMBER 9-10 IN SEVRES

Armenpress
Oct 24 2006

YEREVAN, OCTOBER 24, ARMENPRESS: The body that will represent the heirs
of Armenians who escaped the genocide of Armenians in the historical
Western Armenia in the Ottoman Turkey will call its first session on
December 9-10 in the town of Sevres, not far from Paris. The initiative
belongs to about thirty prominent Armenian intellectuals who came out
on October 20 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 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 on December 9-10. The group’s statement
said the meeting would 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.

The initiating committee consists of prominent intellectuals Armen
Jigarkhanian, Sos Sargsian, Pertch Zeituntian, distinguished scholar
Vahagn Tatrian, Anushavan Danielian, Hayk Mikaelian, Artyom Tarasov,
Karen Mikaelian and others.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress