Noyan Tapan News Agency, Armenia
Nov 23 2006

VLADIMIR AGHAYAN: CASTING SHADOW ON WORLD ARMENIAN CONGRESS, ON
THRESHOLD OF ELECTIONS, LDPA ATTEMPTS TO REMIND SOCIETY ABOUT ITS
EXISTENCE

YEREVAN, NOVEMBER 23, NOYAN TAPAN – ARMENIANS TODAY. The Republican
Board of the Liberal Democratic Party of Armenia stated recently that
it leaves the World Armenian Congress (WAC) as it does not want to
share responsibility with that organization which does not present
reports and is inactive. Whereas, Vladimir Aghayan, as the WAC Deputy
Chairman informed the Noyan Tapan agency, the LDPA has never been a
founding member of the World Armenian Congress as the WAC is an
international public organization and was registered by the Justice
Ministry of the Russian Federation. And according to the RF
legislation, political parties do not have right to become a founding
member of a public organization about what the LDPA was informed
still in 2003. Naturally, the LDPA has never born responsibility and
will not bear for the LDPA activity, and the WAC, in its turn, is not
obliged to officially inform the LDPA about its activity.

And that activity, in V.Aghayan’s words, it rather wide-spread: one
of the main goals of the WAC activity is to gather Armenians round
national interests where there are priorities: to assist processes of
the social-economic development and strengthening of statehood of
newly-independent Armenia, of international recognition of the
genocide and liquidation of its consequences, of the Nagorno Karabakh
problem, keeping Armenians in Diaspora.

In V.Aghayan’s words, during the three years of its existence, the
WAC presented 7000 computers to schools, including not only ones of
Armenia and Artsakh, computer classes opened at Armenian schools of
Buenos Aires, San Paulo. The WAC, with its heads’ resources, bought
130 flats and gratuitously gave to refugees’ families with the right
of property. More than 350 pensioners every day get free food from
the charity dining-hall. A new school for 500 pupils is being built
at present in Stepanakert on the account of the WAC resources.

In V.Aghayan’s estimation, with a similar statement, the LDPA, at the
threshold of elections being prepared in the republic, attempts to
remind the society about its existence and in this way to appear in
the political field. And as many people prepare for the elections in
the republic, in Aghayan’s words, people will also be found, who
again touching upon the WAC or its chairman’s activity, will attempt
to draw the society’s attention at them. "I think that this way is
not honest as it turns out that for reaching political goals, they
attempt to cast a shadow on activity of such an international public
organization already entered a wide arena of activity, as the World
Armenian Congress is," the WAC Deputy Chairman said.