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HRANUSH HAKOBYAN EXPECTS SUPPORT FROM RCIC TO MOVE KESSAB-ARMENIANS FROM VAQIF
20:12, 18 April, 2014
YEREVAN, APRIL 18, ARMENPRESS. By the invitation of the acting
Minister of Diaspora of the Republic of Armenia Hranush Hakobyan,
the Head of the Armenian delegation of the Red Cross International
Committee Sarah Epprecht was in the Ministry on April 18.
The Department of Mass Media and Public Relations of the Ministry
of Diaspora of the Republic of Armenia informed Armenpress that at
the course of the meeting Hranush Hakobyan introduced Sarah Epprecht
the situation created around Kessab-Armenians. She underscored that
38 elderly and disabled people who were unable to escape, were taken
hostage. 22 of them are in the sole Armenian Vaqif village in Turkey.
Hranush Hakobyan noted that according to reliable information they
ask to move them from Turkey to join their relatives.
http://armenpress.am/eng/news/758776/hranush-hakobyan-expects-support-from-rcic-to-move-kessab-armenians-from-vaqif.html
From: A. Papazian
20:12, 18 April, 2014
YEREVAN, APRIL 18, ARMENPRESS. By the invitation of the acting
Minister of Diaspora of the Republic of Armenia Hranush Hakobyan,
the Head of the Armenian delegation of the Red Cross International
Committee Sarah Epprecht was in the Ministry on April 18.
The Department of Mass Media and Public Relations of the Ministry
of Diaspora of the Republic of Armenia informed Armenpress that at
the course of the meeting Hranush Hakobyan introduced Sarah Epprecht
the situation created around Kessab-Armenians. She underscored that
38 elderly and disabled people who were unable to escape, were taken
hostage. 22 of them are in the sole Armenian Vaqif village in Turkey.
Hranush Hakobyan noted that according to reliable information they
ask to move them from Turkey to join their relatives.
http://armenpress.am/eng/news/758776/hranush-hakobyan-expects-support-from-rcic-to-move-kessab-armenians-from-vaqif.html
From: A. Papazian