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OSKANIAN'S APPEAL TO AUTHORITIES
Story from Lragir.am News:
http://www.lragir.am/engsrc/politics26679.html
Published: 16:52:20 - 27/06/2012
The ex-foreign minister Vartan Oskanian posted on his Facebook wall
an appeal to the Armenian government to support the Armenian community
in Syria.
"Yesterday Syria's Bashar Assad admitted that his country is at
war. A civil war is meant, of course. Considering Syria's ethnic and
religious structure, as well as the current arrangement of forces,
there is a credible danger for a large-scale civil war to start.
Over 60,000 Armenians live in Syria of which 45,000 live in Aleppo.
The Armenian community of Aleppo is referred to as a "mother community"
because it was the first community that occurred after the Genocide,
which later grew and divided into different other communities in the
Near East and elsewhere," Mr. Oskanian wrote.
"Today the Armenian community of Syria is seriously threatened. The
developments are unpredictable," he warns.
Coming from Aleppo, he contacts his friends and relatives there and
he has learned that in the past eight years not a single Armenian
official has visited Aleppo or Syria. The unions, organizations,
the community of Aleppo in general do not feel the support of Armenia.
"I think, even though late, this shortcoming must be attended to
immediately because the situation is getting more and more complicated,
and the community does not know what to expect. Official Yerevan must
take some urgent steps.
First, hold a National Security Council meeting and identify
the possible developments and scenarios and what kind of tailored
assistant should be provided for each particular case. Second, without
any publicity, the envoy of the president must leave for Aleppo,
unite the representatives of Armenian organizations based there,
leaders of religious communities, listen to them, and as a result
a joint plan of actions must be worked out to reduce losses of the
community in case of undesirable developments.
The Armenian state does not have the right to linger," Oskanian wrote.
Story from Lragir.am News:
http://www.lragir.am/engsrc/politics26679.html
Published: 16:52:20 - 27/06/2012
The ex-foreign minister Vartan Oskanian posted on his Facebook wall
an appeal to the Armenian government to support the Armenian community
in Syria.
"Yesterday Syria's Bashar Assad admitted that his country is at
war. A civil war is meant, of course. Considering Syria's ethnic and
religious structure, as well as the current arrangement of forces,
there is a credible danger for a large-scale civil war to start.
Over 60,000 Armenians live in Syria of which 45,000 live in Aleppo.
The Armenian community of Aleppo is referred to as a "mother community"
because it was the first community that occurred after the Genocide,
which later grew and divided into different other communities in the
Near East and elsewhere," Mr. Oskanian wrote.
"Today the Armenian community of Syria is seriously threatened. The
developments are unpredictable," he warns.
Coming from Aleppo, he contacts his friends and relatives there and
he has learned that in the past eight years not a single Armenian
official has visited Aleppo or Syria. The unions, organizations,
the community of Aleppo in general do not feel the support of Armenia.
"I think, even though late, this shortcoming must be attended to
immediately because the situation is getting more and more complicated,
and the community does not know what to expect. Official Yerevan must
take some urgent steps.
First, hold a National Security Council meeting and identify
the possible developments and scenarios and what kind of tailored
assistant should be provided for each particular case. Second, without
any publicity, the envoy of the president must leave for Aleppo,
unite the representatives of Armenian organizations based there,
leaders of religious communities, listen to them, and as a result
a joint plan of actions must be worked out to reduce losses of the
community in case of undesirable developments.
The Armenian state does not have the right to linger," Oskanian wrote.