THE ARABS APPEAL TO THE WORLD ABOUT THE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE
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01-04-2005
The 12 leaders of the Syrian North-Eastern tribes who have come to
Armenia in connection with the 90th anniversary of the Armenian
Genocide, appealed to the international organizations today. The leaders
of the Arabian tribes think that «the world must reconsider their
attitude towards the Armenian Genocide and return to the Armenian nation
their just rights and demands».
The Arabs who first visit Armenian are those people who govern their
tribes. It is noteworthy that each Syrian tribe consists of more than a
million people. The leaders arriving Armenian represent the tribes which
during the Genocide received and helped the immigrants saved from the
Turkish jatagan. «The Arabs all know about the Genocide and they have
done many services to the Armenian nation», said the leaders in the
today’s press conference.
The guests have met the Prime Minister, the Foreign Minister, students
and many other people, they have visited Matenadaran and got acquainted
with the Armenian history. Today they will go to the town of Abovyan,
where there are many people who returned to Armenia years after the
Genocide. Tomorrow the representatives of the Arabian world will meet
the Catholicos of all Armenians.
As a result of the meetings already taken place, the representative of
the `Bagyara’ tribe, for example, has concluded, `It is already clear
for us that the Armenian nation has a history of thousand and thousand
of years, even before Christ. So this nation must recover its
fatherland’.
The leaders of the tribes represented the role of the Syrian Armenian
community in the activity of their country. The Armenians have many high
posts and always have places in the Parliament. By the way, the Syrian
Parliament has not officially recognized the fact of the Armenian
Genocide. According to the leaders, it is accounted for by the fact that
in that issue Syria is like Armenia:’There is no need to recognize an
issue which is testified to by every stone of the country’.