"WE BELIEVED IN OUR GOALS AND WE SUCCEEDED"

Aysor.am
Monday, October 05

The second stop of our pan-Armenian trip was New York. Here on October
3 the RA President Serzh Sargsyan met with the representatives of
the East Coast communities of the USA and Canada.

Coming up to the concern that the consequences and influences of the
normalization of the Armenian – Turkish relations are not foreseen
till the end the President of the Republic said that in that concern
a big work has been realized by the professional institutions and
organizations and they are also in the process, corresponding tasks
are given.

The RA President has underlined that in reality it is impossible to
count all possible challenges and risks in the progressing scenario,
but also has noticed that many of our compatriots in Armenia, Artsakh
and Diaspora had the same fears in other important periods of our
history: "We were voting for the independence of Armenia, that time
too many people had concerns for the future, that time as well not
everything and not the all scenario was foreseen till the end. In
the same way when we were fighting for the freedom and the right of
self-determination that time too not everything was foreseen and there
were different concerns. But we believed in our goal and we succeeded",
– mentioned President Serzh Sargsyan.

The head of the Republic assured that the concerns of economic
expansion are baseless, and has announced that the state has enough
tools and mechanisms to solve the problems and challenges in that
sphere.

During the meeting with the representatives of the Armenian communities
of the East Coast and Canada Serzh Sargsyan once again underlined that
the fact of the Genocide could not be discussed within the framework
of normalization of relations with Turkey. The only problem connected
wit the Genocide that can serve a subject of discussion is, how we can
help the Turkish people to be more objective while looking through the
pages of their history or better to say how to overcome the consequen
ticipants of the meeting have expressed their approaches and opinions
about the pre-signed protocols, the opportunities that will be open
by the normalization of the relations and the challenges that will
occur. They agreed in one thing that regardless the process and the
opinions of the pre-signed protocols Diaspora has and ought to stand
next Armenia and Artsakh.

Summing up the results of the New York meeting President Serzh Sagsyan
said: "The most important for us is to be able to be strong enough
to understand each other in this responsible phase. I believe in the
bright future of Armenia. I believe because I see the correct path", –
the head of the country has mentioned and has called for our sisters
and brothers in Diaspora to support in moving our country forward
with constant steps, informs the Press office of the RA President.