CivilNet: How to bring together Armenia and the diaspora to benefit both

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Noubar Afeyan, the Co-founder of ARMENIA 2041 Foundation and Founder and CEO of Flagship Pioneering, talks to CivilNet’s Eric Hacopian about past mistakes in Armenia-Diaspora relations and how best to bring the two together. Afeyan also discusses the importance of Armenia’s educational institutions in shaping the country’s pubfuture, and ways to attract investors to the country.

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