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ARMENIAN COMMUNITY OF SYRIA IS ABANDONED ORPHANS OF CIVILIZED WORLD - ARMENIAN DELEGATE TO PACE
October 03, 2013 | 13:43
Armenia hosts thousands of Armenian-Syrians refugees and offers
them ultra-rapid citizenship, member of the Armenian delegation to
PACE said.
Arpine Hovhannisyan recalled that during the Armenian Genocide of 1915
thousands of Armenians were saved or found refuge in the rural areas
of Syria that were part of the Ottoman Empire. And it was mostly the
Aleppo area that accommodated the survivors.
"It is time to acknowledge that the Christian communities in the
Middle East and in this case the Armenian Community of Syria are the
abandoned orphans of the civilized world, forgotten and left to the
mercy of mercenaries. The Christian communities, that were once the
catalyst of progress of these ancient lands, are being wiped out.
Unless we acknowledge our responsibilities towards Middle East
countries, we will soon see a different Middle East - a Middle East
free of civilization, any human rights and any hope for the future.
That will take us to a different Europe, therefore a different world.
The world that neither Robert Schuman, nor any of us would ever
imagine," the statement reads.
http://news.am/eng/news/174181.html
October 03, 2013 | 13:43
Armenia hosts thousands of Armenian-Syrians refugees and offers
them ultra-rapid citizenship, member of the Armenian delegation to
PACE said.
Arpine Hovhannisyan recalled that during the Armenian Genocide of 1915
thousands of Armenians were saved or found refuge in the rural areas
of Syria that were part of the Ottoman Empire. And it was mostly the
Aleppo area that accommodated the survivors.
"It is time to acknowledge that the Christian communities in the
Middle East and in this case the Armenian Community of Syria are the
abandoned orphans of the civilized world, forgotten and left to the
mercy of mercenaries. The Christian communities, that were once the
catalyst of progress of these ancient lands, are being wiped out.
Unless we acknowledge our responsibilities towards Middle East
countries, we will soon see a different Middle East - a Middle East
free of civilization, any human rights and any hope for the future.
That will take us to a different Europe, therefore a different world.
The world that neither Robert Schuman, nor any of us would ever
imagine," the statement reads.
http://news.am/eng/news/174181.html