ACCORDING TO VLADIMIR AGHAYAN, RF AUTHORITIES’ NOT AUTHORIZING APRIL 24 ACTION NEAR EMBASSY OF TURKEY WAS WRONG

Noyan Tapan
April 29, 2008

YEREVAN, APRIL 29, NOYAN TAPAN. The current geopolitical events
throw down serious challenges especially to small peoples. Therefore,
as Vladimir Aghayan, the Vice-Chairman of the Union of Armenians in
Russia, the head of the Armenian branch of the World Armenian Congress,
said at the April 29 press conference, consolidation around national
interests has become the dictate of time. According to him, the
Union of Armenians in Russia, which exists for already eight years,
pursues the goal of consolidation, and its international authority
becomes higher and higher.

In V. Aghayan’s words, today 2.5 million Armenians live in Russia,
almost as much as in Armenia. It is not so easy to unite so many
people, however, according to his observation, the organization does
its best to assist any Armenian who applies to it. In particular,
as V. Aghayan affirmed, a legal service functions in the central
aministration of the Union of Armenians in Russia, the specialists
of which are engaged in protection of rights of Armenians.

Commenting upon the fact of bringing to Police the participants
of the unauthorized action of protest of Armenians on April 24
near the Embassy of Turkey in Russia, V. Aghayan said that the RF
authorities acted wrongly by not authorizing the event. He reminded
to journalists that every year they authorized the actions of protest
near the Embassy of Turkey and this April 24 was an exception. In
any case not to authorize the action of protest, according to him,
should not give an occasion to suppose that Armenian-Russian strategic
cooperation has become shattered.