EACH ARMENIAN SHOULD CONTRIBUTE TO STRENGTHENING OF ARMENIA AND ITS RELATIONS WITH DIASPORA
ARKA News Agency, Armenia
July 9 2007
YEREVAN, July 9. /ARKA/. Each Armenian should contribute to
strengthening of Armenia and its relations with Diaspora, said
the World Armenian Congress (WAC) Chairman Ara Abrahamyan during
the international conference "Challenges of the 21st century and
Armenian youth".
He said that each Armenian should have strong faith in Armenia’s
welfare.
"Everyone should realize that any actions should be directed to the
achievement of national interests," he said.
Abrahamyan pointed out that the main achievement of the conference
will be to sign the Declaration which will become the basis for WAC
action programs.
"Thus we will make our contribution to Armenia’s officials to
build Armenia’s welfare, and to Diaspora – to achieve all-Armenian
unification," he said.
He added that all the WAC programs should be directed to overcoming
those global challenges that every Armenian within or outside Armenia
faces.
In his turn, WAC Chairman of the Association of Youth Organizations
(AYO) Atom Mkhitaryan said that this is the WAC first conference which
on the youth level will touch upon the challenges that Armenians all
over the world face.
"Despite the fact that youth movement in Armenia and Diaspora is
on the level of formation and we intend to discuss ways of putting
this movement into a scientific level, realizing global universal and
all-Armenian challenges of the 21st century, as well as possibilities
and ways of confronting these challenges," he said.
Touching upon the approval of the Declaration, Mkhitaryan said that the
document will be presented during the final session of the conference
based on the results of discussions in task groups.
According to WAC AYO Deputy Chairman Mariam Martirosyan, the event
is held under the aegis of the WAC under the AYO initiative.
"The conference will be conducted in five directions, in particular,
contribution of the Armenian youth to the international recognition
of the Armenian Genocide and fair settlement of the Karabakh problem;
youth issues in the process of strengthening Armenia’s statehood and
social-economic development, role of the Armenian youth as careers
of national features and Armenian identity in the context of new
challenges; Armenian youth and prospects of developing Armenia-Diaspora
relations; structural peculiarities of the Association of Youth
Organizations," she said.
300 representatives of 25 countries, such as Karabakh, Russia,
Georgia, Belarus, the Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Estonia, Brazil, Turkey,
Romania, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Kuwait, Jordan, France, Holland and the
USA participate in the international conference, held in Yerevan on
July 9-11.
The World Armenian Congress was founded in October 2003 as Union
of Armenian Non-governmental associations and has an international
status. The WAC objective is to strengthen relations between Armenia
and Diaspora, contribute to Armenia’s economic development and
peaceful settlement of the Karabakh conflict, as well as international
recognition of the Armenian Genocide.
The WAC Association of Youth Organizations was founded in 2006.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
