Tweet
JUSTICE WOULD BOOST REPATRIATION TO ARMENIA - ACTIVIST
13:30 ~U 22.04.13
Sargis Hatspanyan, a French-Armenian activist and a hero of the
Nagorno-Karabakh war, attributes the high rate of emigration to the
existing social injustice in Armenia.
Speaking to reporters on Monday, he said rarely any migrant would
cite economic conditions as a cause for leaving the country forever.
"The Armenian nation has not managed to form a government since 1991,
despite having a desire. The problem in Armenia is that of a lord and
offsprings; the lord never has a parental attitude to his children,
the nation," said Hatspanyan, who has been residing in Armenia for
24 years.
"The authorities do not love this land, Artsakh, Armenia and the
people. If they loved, they wouldn't let them go away. Were there
justice at all, people wouldn't go; they would return in thousands
instead," he said.
The activist noted that the Diaspora-Armenians, who have ever made
investments in the country, are now unwilling to even send a tourist
to Armenia.
He called for the Diaspora Ministry's efforts to organize the
immigration of Armenians to their home country.
"Even in the period of the Syria events, the immigrants' number has
been so little that it isn't even something to be discussed. People
say they are ready to return once the things get on a normal track
in Syria," he said, noting that none of the 60,000 Armenians in Iraq
came to Armenia when the country was facing a war.
http://www.tert.am/en/news/2013/04/22/sargis-hacpanyan/
13:30 ~U 22.04.13
Sargis Hatspanyan, a French-Armenian activist and a hero of the
Nagorno-Karabakh war, attributes the high rate of emigration to the
existing social injustice in Armenia.
Speaking to reporters on Monday, he said rarely any migrant would
cite economic conditions as a cause for leaving the country forever.
"The Armenian nation has not managed to form a government since 1991,
despite having a desire. The problem in Armenia is that of a lord and
offsprings; the lord never has a parental attitude to his children,
the nation," said Hatspanyan, who has been residing in Armenia for
24 years.
"The authorities do not love this land, Artsakh, Armenia and the
people. If they loved, they wouldn't let them go away. Were there
justice at all, people wouldn't go; they would return in thousands
instead," he said.
The activist noted that the Diaspora-Armenians, who have ever made
investments in the country, are now unwilling to even send a tourist
to Armenia.
He called for the Diaspora Ministry's efforts to organize the
immigration of Armenians to their home country.
"Even in the period of the Syria events, the immigrants' number has
been so little that it isn't even something to be discussed. People
say they are ready to return once the things get on a normal track
in Syria," he said, noting that none of the 60,000 Armenians in Iraq
came to Armenia when the country was facing a war.
http://www.tert.am/en/news/2013/04/22/sargis-hacpanyan/