MAIN GOAL OF WORLD ARMENIAN CONGRESS IS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND PROSPERITY OF ARMENIA
Noyan Tapan
May 16 2006
YEREVAN, MAY 16, NOYAN TAPAN. The main goal of the World Armenian
Congress is economic development and prosperity of Armenia. World
Armenian Congress President Ara Abrahamian declared this at the
sitting of WAC Board held on May 16 in Yerevan. At the sitting they
gave account on the work done by WAC over three years since the
day of the organization’s constituent congress. “Issues of economic
development, which means creation of new jobs, increasing the incomes
of the population, growth of its prosperity, have always been in
the center of attention of WAC,” A.Abrahamian mentioned. According
to him, creation of new jobs will give an opportunity to return to
the homeland to Armenians who have left for foreign countries to
earn money. In his opinion, unless this is done within the coming 10
years, later the issue of return of the Armenians will become more
complicated due to change of the ethnic consciousness of the growing
generation. Another important task of WAC is creation of an effective
mechanism of investments, consolidation of economic and political
resources of the Armenians spread all over the world. A.Abrahamian
regretted to say that only a limited circle of Diasporan Armenians
takes part in assistance to economic development of Armenia. “Remember
the words of Catholicos Vagzen I that for Armenia it is more important
that one million Armenians invest 1 dollar each than 1 person invest
one million dollars,” WAC President said.
A.Abrahamian informed about the active work of WAC aimed at development
of bilateral economic relations with a number of countries and first
of all with Russia. At the same time, according to him, development
of democratic processes is imperfect yet and there are no necessary
conditions for entrepreneurial activity in Armenia. It was mentioned
that the Armenian authorities provide insufficient assistance to
the activity of WAC. A.Abrahamian expressed hope for more active
assistance of the Armenian authorities.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
