HRANUSH HAKOBIAN RECEIVES DIASPORAN ARFD FIGURES

Noyan Tapan
July 14, 2009

YEREVAN, JULY 14, NOYAN TAPAN – ARMENIANS TODAY. RA Minister
of Diaspora Hranush Hakobian received Diasporan ARFD figures –
participants of the All Armenian Conference on Armenian-Turkish
relations and Nagorno Karabakh problem held in Artsakh, ARFD Syrian
Central Committee member, Aleppo Sahakian school headmaster Jirayr
Reisian, Israel Hay Dat Office Executive Georget Avagian, ARFD Western
Europe Central Committee members Zareh Minasian and Dro Ekmekjian
(France). The guests in their talk with the Minister presented the
goals of the Artsakh conference, the range of the issues discussed,
and the national significance of the decisions made.

According to the ARFD figures, the problems discussed at the conference
completely involve the problems faced by the Armenian people and
the Armenian state, the starting point of which is the problems the
Armenians worldwide are concerned with: the Armenian Genocide, the
Armenian Cause, and there is a need of showing a common approach in
any issue regarding them.

They expressed their concern in the respect of making competent the
Armenian communities and especially Armenian youth of Diaspora over
the above mentioned approaches and involving the Armenian youth in
national issues.

Minister Hranush Hakobian attached importance to holding of such a
representative conference on problems all Armenians are concerned with.

According to the RA Ministry of Diaspora Press and Public Relations
Department, the meeting participants discussed issues regarding
preservation of the Armenian identity, in particular, attached
importance to solving the issue of providing assistance to the only
Armenian everyday school in the city of Marseille, France.

The Diasporan figures also expressed concern over issues related to
transportation of textbooks, fiction as there are libraries that have
not received literature printed in Armenia more than 20 years. The
guests also inquired about the process of the program Come Home
and expressed readiness to assist 50 children in October to come to
Armenia from France and to take part in the program.