DIASPORA ARMENIANS SEND CLEAR MESSAGE TO ARMENIAN PRESIDENT

Gibrahayer
Oct 7, 2009

FROM BOURJ HAMMOUD TO CALIFORNIA

Gibrahayer e-magazine and other combined sources 7 October, 2009 –
Armenians across the world from Lebanon to California, from Paris
to New York, turned the Diasporan Presidential visit, to a chain of
demonstrations, voicing their opposition to the announced Protocols
between Turkey and Armenia. In Armenia the ARF Dashnaktsoutiun started
a hunger strike opposite the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

We enclose a chronology of events and the reaction to the Presidential
Disaporan tour as it was reported from Asbarez, over the past week. A
more detailed update with more than half a dozen posts every day,
appear in the Gibrahayer Facebook Page, which has reached 2,700
subscribers.

Meanwhile, 12 political parties in Armenia have issued a joint
statement in which they denounce the current Armenia-Turkey protocols
and pledge efforts to thwart their signing expected later this month.

The statement was signed and published on Tuesday afternoon at the
Office of the Executive Council of the ARF Dashnaktsoutiun, being
its main initiator.

The statement issued on behalf of eleven parties, including
Raffi Hovannisian’s Heritage, Aram Karapetyan’s New Times, Aram
Sargsyan’s Democratic Party, Tigran Karapetyan’s People’s Party,
the Ramkavar-Azatakan Party of Armenia and others, says that "t he
readiness of Armenia to settle relations with Turkey without any
preconditions is already a serious concession to the country that
perpetrated the Genocide of Armenians and has blockaded Armenia’s
border and, therefore, should be the only concession of Yerevan on
the way towards establishing diplomatic relations with Ankara."