WE NEED TO SET UP DIASPORA PARLIAMENT – SASSOUNIAN
Panorama.am
09/10/2012
Armenia-Diaspora relations are far from perfect, Harut Sassounian,
the publisher of The California Courier newspaper, told reporters.
“The Ministry of Diaspora is doing certain things, but there are lots
of issues that remain imperfect,” he said, considering Armenia’s
failure to seek closer ties to be among the key reasons of such
failures.
“The next thing to say is that by saying diaspora we mean a single
structure, a unit. But the diaspora is not just one structure; it
includes hundreds of communities,” Sassounian said.
According to him, we need to set up a diaspora parliament. “Each
Armenian elects a parliament member or a representative from his or
her district. There are probably 350 members of parliament, so it is
necessary to combine the activities.”