AZG Armenian Daily #216, 11/11/2006
Diaspora
ARMENIAN-ARAB RELATIONS LESS IMPORTANT?
Editor of Zartonk Asks
In an article titled “Time to Sober Up”
editor-in-chief of Lebanon-based Zartonk newspaper,
Paruyr Aghbashian, voices concern over groundless
excuses of Armenian authorities to provide a site for
a monument symbolizing Armenian-Arab friendship. The
author reminds that Syria’s Armenian community
suggested erecting such a monument a few years ago.
Then, the authorities provided a site and financial
means. But soon after the site was changed and until
today no new site was provided.
On October 27, a memorial dedicated to the Armenian
Genocide and Holocaust was unveiled on the crossroad
of Terian-Miskovian streets, writes the editor and
reminds of the presence of big, important and
influential Armenian communities. He poses a question:
why the issue is not solved so far, why are the
authorities continually finding excuses? “Isn’t this a
national offence in the end, a matter of dignity? The
Armenian people is proud of preserving decent and
honest Armenian-Arab relations but the monument issue
still remains shelved,” Paruyr Aghbashian rounds off
saying that time to sober up has not passed yet.
By Gohar Gevorgian
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
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