ROUND TABLE ON ARMENIA-DIASPORA RELATIONS HELD ON INITIATIVE OF WORLD ARMENIAN CONGRESS
Noyan Tapan
Se p 17, 2008
YEREVAN, SEPTEMBER 17, ARMENIANS TODAY – NOYAN TAPAN. On the initiative
of the World Armenian Congress (WAC), a round table "The Problems of
Armenia-Diaspora Cooperation" dedicated to the problem of Armenian
preservation and the mechanisms to implement the Armenian preservation
process was organized on September 17.
The participants in the round table held at the WAC Armenian Office
discussed such problems as the preservation of the national identity
of the Armenian people in Armenia and the Diaspora, the preservation
and development of the Armenian people in the rapidly changing world,
the formation of a collective national description of Armenians, the
protection of language, culture, religion and history as components
of the national identity, and the creation of a general Armenian world.
Among participants were the vice president of WAC, chairman of the
Democratic Party of Armenia Aram Gaspar Sargsian, the director of
Noravank scientific and educational foundation Gagik Harutyunian, the
director of IT Foundation Garegin Chugaszian, the chairman of Noyan
Tapan media union’s council Tigran Harutyunian, candidate of technical
sciences Nikita Zarubian, ethnographer, Armenologist Harutyun Marutian,
political scientist Suren Movsisian and others.