Aysor, Armenia
Sept 12 2009
`We are not vindictive, but we have good memory’
The co-chairs of the `Stability’ group (Kayunutyun) Sargis
Harutyunyan, Ernest Baloyants and Arshaluys Aghayan today met the
journalists.
Arshaluys Aghayan, one of the co-chairs being an emigrant from Iran
presented the viewpoint of the Iranian Armenians about the last
developments of the Armenian ` Turkish relations.
`The Iranian Armenians are for the opening the boarders’, – said
Arshaluys Aghayan and added that deep in his soul and in the `genes of
his community there is the feeling of yearning towards its country,
and emotions are more than the logic’.
The speaker reminded about the role of Iran especially in 1990 when it
supported Armenia.
`During that hard times, when the ways were closed from all the sides,
Iran, during the process of formation of independence, was helping
Armenia’, – mentioned Arshaluys Aghayan and told that at that time the
continental connections between Armenia and Iran were being realized
through a temporary bridge which was made of empty containers which
were knitted one to another by cords.
The speaker realizes that there are extremists in Armenia there are
also such people who woud not like to see the boarder open.
`But the policy of the 21st century requires a new approach’, – said
A. Aghayan.
Sargis Harutyunyan, the other co-chair of the `Satbility’ party,
mentioned that by the Armenian ` Turkish records `We and Turkey do not
establish brotherhoodlike relations. Even after 100 years such
relations can’t exist’.
`We don’t become a brother country to Turkey, we simply want to have
friendly relations in the region’, – said S. harutyunyan and added
that the open boarders are important for trade in any country and
`this is a way to bring more dividends to Armenia’.
`We are not vindictive, but we have good memory’, – mentioned Sargis
Harutyunyan.