Armenia is interested in the maintenance of centers for Armenian studies abroad, but it has limited resources. At the same time, the Armenian government needs to prepare qualified Armenologists, Turkologists and Azerologists who will also work abroad. This is what High Commissioner for Diaspora Affairs under the Prime Minister of Armenia Zareh Sinanyan said today.
“What I am concerned about is the fact that we Armenians don’t know our enemies well. We need to know them so that we can understand how to fight against them. We have been living with them since the 11th century, but we still don’t understand who we are dealing with. We haven’t done that to this day, and this is why we constantly receive blows from them,” he added.
The official noted that one of the key objectives is to make the voice of the Armenian Diaspora heard more. “In this sense, there is an idea to create a bicameral parliament. There are also other solutions, and it is necessary to hold a discussion on all this,” he emphasized.
Sinanyan informed that the Office of the High Commissioner for Diaspora Affairs has created a closed database showing the data of Diaspora Armenians who can make investments for Armenia’s development. “Out of the 50 specialists who arrived in Armenia through the “iGorts” program for Diaspora Armenians, more than half of them have repatriated to Armenia. Out of those repatriates, 14 have been hired to work in the public administration system. One of the participants moved to Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh),” he said, adding that Armenia will set up a center for integration of repatriates that will provide services in Eastern Armenian, Western Armenian, Russian and English under the one-stop shop principle.