Armenia creates national day honoring minorities

January 21, 2021January 21, 2021 Emil Lazarian 2021

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YEREVAN, JANUARY 20, ARMENPRESS. Parliament approved with an overwhelming 101 votes in favor at first reading a bill authored by MP Rustam Bakoyan (representing the Yazidi community) from the ruling My Step bloc on introducing the “Republic of Armenia National Minorities Day” in the calendar of public holidays.

Editing and Translating by Stepan Kocharyan

Emil Lazarian

“I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.” - WS