"ONLY STANDARD OF FREE AND NATIONAL MASS MEDIA IS INSPIRING PEOPLE
WITH HOPE AND BELIEF," NA DEPUTY SPEAKER VAHAN HOVHANNISIAN SAYS

YEREVAN, MARCH 9, NOYAN TAPAN. The 4th two-day conference of the ARF
Dashnaktsutiun press bodies started its work in Yerevan on March
9. Its goal is establishment and strengthening of cooperation and ties
among Armenian and Diasporan mass media. More than two dozens of ARF
and other Armenian media representatives participate in the
conference. As Vahan Hovhannisian, a member of the ARF Bureau, RA
National Assembly Deputy Speaker mentioned at the solemn opening
ceremony of the conference, the only standard of free and national
mass media is to inspire people with hope and belief, by struggling
against defective phenomena. In his words, during the most difficult
years for the Armenian people, the ARF press was able to re-establish
feeling of national unity and self-consciousness in the Armenians
spread all over the world. In V.Hovhannisian’s words, the ARF press
created during those years a "net threads of which tied every Armenian
with the Armenian community, Armenian reality." In the opinion of
Vache Brutian, editor of the "Asbarez" daily of the U.S. Western Cast,
modern challenges arisen before the Armenian people, serious problems
may be solved only by all-Armenian efforts. He also mentioned that the
Fatherland is the basis of existence of the Diasporan Armenians, so
publications dedicated to Armenia occupy great place in the Diasporan
press. "I hope that such a situation will be created soon that
Diaspora has everyday presence in the Armenian press, V.Brutian
said. Boris Navasardian, the Yerevan Press Club Chairman noticed that
the Diasporan press, continuing its historic mission of keeping
Armenian traditions, must respond problems of new Diaspora being
formed during the recent years, help the latters to be integrated in
the local society.