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SIT-IN FOR 'LIBERATED LANDS': YEREVAN YOUTH GROUP ON 24-HR STRIKE AGAINST CONCESSIONS OVER KARABAKH
By Gayane Abrahamyan
ArmeniaNow
http://armenianow.com/karabakh/30610/karabakh_armenia_azerbaijan_sitin_yerevan
24.06.11 | 13:32
A small group of Armenian youths held a "precautionary procession"
on Friday morning and began what it announced as a 24-hour sit-in
action in front of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs building in
Yerevan's central square ahead of crucial talks on the future of
Nagorno-Karabakh hosted by Russia.
About 10 young people representing the Hayazn Youth Union, holding
banners with images of Karabakh war veterans and singing patriotic
songs, were making calls addressed to the foreign minister and the
president not to agree to concessions at internationally mediated
talks with Azerbaijan, the latest round of which is due in Kazan,
Russia, on June 24-25.
"By agreeing to any concession we will show disrespect to the memory
of our heroes," said several of the Union's members.
Representatives of the youth organization that was set up in 2009
and has about 500 members will take shifts until Saturday morning
to stage the sit-in action near Republic Square - "in defense of
liberated territories that are now on the negotiating table".
"Ceding liberated territories can only be the decision of a defeated
nation, but we had a crushing victory; as the winning state we have
no right to sign such a document. If we give up even one village,
we'll, first of all, break the Armenian spirit, secondly will agitate
the enemy's enormous appetite and eventually will thus disrespect the
memory of our heroic men," Hayazn Youth Union member Armen Lazarian
told ArmeniaNow.
Hayazn members urge other youth organizations to raise their voice
of protest, too.
"We all must show to the international community that we are not
asleep, we are seriously concerned about this issue and are resolute
in pursuing these demands," Hayazn member, Yerevan State University
law student Lilit Petrosyan told ArmeniaNow.
Representatives of the Hayazn Youth Union submitted to the Presidential
Administration and the Foreign Ministry a statement signed by the
organization's members in which they, in particular, said:
"We, members of the Hayazn Youth Union, are deeply concerned
and angered by the statements that have been made by high-ranking
officials, politicians, experts and consider all these points of the
expected document as unacceptable."
"The signing of these points will ruin Artsakh, will ruin entire
Armenia, will ruin the Armenian people. We are resolute and confident
that our generation will not allow that."
By Gayane Abrahamyan
ArmeniaNow
http://armenianow.com/karabakh/30610/karabakh_armenia_azerbaijan_sitin_yerevan
24.06.11 | 13:32
A small group of Armenian youths held a "precautionary procession"
on Friday morning and began what it announced as a 24-hour sit-in
action in front of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs building in
Yerevan's central square ahead of crucial talks on the future of
Nagorno-Karabakh hosted by Russia.
About 10 young people representing the Hayazn Youth Union, holding
banners with images of Karabakh war veterans and singing patriotic
songs, were making calls addressed to the foreign minister and the
president not to agree to concessions at internationally mediated
talks with Azerbaijan, the latest round of which is due in Kazan,
Russia, on June 24-25.
"By agreeing to any concession we will show disrespect to the memory
of our heroes," said several of the Union's members.
Representatives of the youth organization that was set up in 2009
and has about 500 members will take shifts until Saturday morning
to stage the sit-in action near Republic Square - "in defense of
liberated territories that are now on the negotiating table".
"Ceding liberated territories can only be the decision of a defeated
nation, but we had a crushing victory; as the winning state we have
no right to sign such a document. If we give up even one village,
we'll, first of all, break the Armenian spirit, secondly will agitate
the enemy's enormous appetite and eventually will thus disrespect the
memory of our heroic men," Hayazn Youth Union member Armen Lazarian
told ArmeniaNow.
Hayazn members urge other youth organizations to raise their voice
of protest, too.
"We all must show to the international community that we are not
asleep, we are seriously concerned about this issue and are resolute
in pursuing these demands," Hayazn member, Yerevan State University
law student Lilit Petrosyan told ArmeniaNow.
Representatives of the Hayazn Youth Union submitted to the Presidential
Administration and the Foreign Ministry a statement signed by the
organization's members in which they, in particular, said:
"We, members of the Hayazn Youth Union, are deeply concerned
and angered by the statements that have been made by high-ranking
officials, politicians, experts and consider all these points of the
expected document as unacceptable."
"The signing of these points will ruin Artsakh, will ruin entire
Armenia, will ruin the Armenian people. We are resolute and confident
that our generation will not allow that."