Iraqi Armenians Do Not Appreciate Presence Of Armenian Peacekeepers

IRAQI ARMENIANS DO NOT APPRECIATE PRESENCE OF ARMENIAN PEACEKEEPERS IN COUNTRY

PanARMENIAN.Net
30.03.2007 18:47 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Iraqi Armenians have never had problems with
the authorities, head of Central Armenian National Administration
of Iraq Paruyr Hakopian stated at his meeting with "Noravank"
scientific-educational fund in Yerevan March 30. He said, it is not
important who was ruling in Iraq, Armenians never had problems with
the ruling regime.

Alongside Hakopian stressed that representatives of the Armenian
community have not actively been involved in policy. According to
Hakopian representatives of Armenian community were involved in this
or that party, even represented in the parliament, however they did
not introduce problems of the Armenian community and served interests
of the party, since the legislation of the country states it.

The head of Armenian community in Iraq informed that Armenians have
never involved in the struggle between Shias and Sunnis. "And Armenians
as Iraqi citizens expressed extremely negative to American invasion.

>From the beginning of the fall of Saddam Hussein’s regime up to March
1, 2007 28 Armenians have died. In this regard the community does not
appreciate the presence of Armenian peacekeepers in the country and
tries not to contact with them," the head of the Armenian community
of Iraq stressed, IA Regnum reports.