PRESIDENT SARGSYAN: "SHUSHI NEEDS OUR SUPPORT"

Aysor
Oct 26 2009
Armenia

For about 80 Armenian businessmen participated in a dinner to raise
money for a charity within annual Telethon-2009 Campaign held by
Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan at Ararat Park Hayat hotel in
Russian capital city.

The fund raising dinner was also attended by President of the
Nagorno-Karabakh Republic, Bako Sahakyan, and Speaker of the Parliament
of Armenia, Hovik Abrahamyan.

All money raised from Fund raising charity Dinner goes directly to
development programs of Shushi in Nagorno-Karabakh Republic.

Welcoming the participants Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan said:

"As you know, fundraising for charity of All-Armenian Fund "Hayastan"
gets underway. This event is often fairly called a "national tribute".

For this once, all money goes directly to development programs of
Shushi – same Shushi which was one of the educational and cultural
centers of Eastern Armenia, same Shushi we always were proud of,
and same Shushi which now needs our support.

You can hardly find a town over the world which has experienced such
a complex fate. No one war appeared in our region without hurting our
beautiful city-fortress. Needless to say, that at least 15 times it
changed hands over past 200 years. That is why it is dearer to us,
tenfold dearer.

I urge you to be generous in donations, true to type of our benefactors
and patrons over centuries. No matter how much you donate, it will not
be more than our soldiers’ blood paid for the return of Shushi. So,
let us be worthy of their sacred cause.

We are strong and we are many, including those who, word for word,
in mountains repairs the Arpa-Sevan tunnel to provide water into
the lake; those who teaches Armenian children to Armenian dancing
because they believe Komitas’s saying that "the most powerful means
of national education is an Armenian dance."

We are strong by those of us with arms keeps the peace for our people;
those of us who expresses pain of Genocide through rock music, foreign
language; those of us who in Turkey publishes a newspaper in Armenian
and Turkish to give to the world his soul’s word and sometimes dies;
those of us who does not get tired and does not lose a hope, explaining
different people and especially the officials of many countries that
we want justice; those of us who restores Armenian schools Lebanon
after attacks.

We are strong by those of teens that call and donate for Artsakh. We
are strong by those of us whether he is masonry, patron, and architect
building a hospital in Artsakh or new Matenadaran in Yerevan. By
those from America and to India and Australia who serves public
Armenian prayer each Sunday. By those who does not accept the present
political course of Armenia and by those who does. By those Armenians
who are not physically along with us, but always they are present in
our spiritual, cultural, scientific, and political life – our great
fathers who bequeath a rich civilization as well as a sense of pride
and trust to be an Armenian. We are strong by all Armenians."

Total money raised at Fund raising charity Dinner will be announced
today during the telethon.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress