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YEREVAN CONCERNED BY SITUATION IN ARMENIAN-POPULATED SYRIAN TOWN OF KESAB
Interfax, Russia
March 24 2014
YEREVAN. March 24
The Armenian Foreign Ministry is watching the situation in the mostly
Armenian-populated Syrian town of Kesab on the border with Turkey.
"We are concerned by the current situation there. The Armenian
population of Kesab has been moved to Latakia. The Foreign Ministry is
watching the situation and trying to find possible ways of assistance,"
Armenian Foreign Ministry spokesman Tigran Balaian said.
The country's president, Serzh Sargsian, who is currently in the
Hague, is due to make a statement on the events in Kesab shortly,
his press secretary Arman Sagatelian wrote on Twitter.
On Monday, members of the Armenian parliament called on the Syrian and
Turkish authorities to investigate the events in Kesab and demanded
that United Nations observers be sent there.
"We are calling on the government of the Republic of Armenia to take
whatever steps necessary, and the Armenian diaspora to unite their
efforts to protect the rights of the Syrian Armenians. The Armenians
from across the world are shocked by the events in the Kesab province,
where the actions of the Turkish Army forced local Armenians to leave
their houses. We, as members of the National Assembly of Armenia,
regard what happened not as the internal affair of Syria or Turkey
but as an extraordinary case of mass violation of human rights and
most strongly condemn the actions of the Turkish Armed Forces which
in effect constitute a new challenge for the genocide-hit Armenian
community in the Middle East," Armenian parliamentarians said.
The Syrian Army will do whatever they can to restore peace in the
region, the Syrian ambassador to Lebanon said during his visit to
Aram I, the Catholicos of the Great House of Cilicia, at the behest
of Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad last Sunday.
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Interfax, Russia
March 24 2014
YEREVAN. March 24
The Armenian Foreign Ministry is watching the situation in the mostly
Armenian-populated Syrian town of Kesab on the border with Turkey.
"We are concerned by the current situation there. The Armenian
population of Kesab has been moved to Latakia. The Foreign Ministry is
watching the situation and trying to find possible ways of assistance,"
Armenian Foreign Ministry spokesman Tigran Balaian said.
The country's president, Serzh Sargsian, who is currently in the
Hague, is due to make a statement on the events in Kesab shortly,
his press secretary Arman Sagatelian wrote on Twitter.
On Monday, members of the Armenian parliament called on the Syrian and
Turkish authorities to investigate the events in Kesab and demanded
that United Nations observers be sent there.
"We are calling on the government of the Republic of Armenia to take
whatever steps necessary, and the Armenian diaspora to unite their
efforts to protect the rights of the Syrian Armenians. The Armenians
from across the world are shocked by the events in the Kesab province,
where the actions of the Turkish Army forced local Armenians to leave
their houses. We, as members of the National Assembly of Armenia,
regard what happened not as the internal affair of Syria or Turkey
but as an extraordinary case of mass violation of human rights and
most strongly condemn the actions of the Turkish Armed Forces which
in effect constitute a new challenge for the genocide-hit Armenian
community in the Middle East," Armenian parliamentarians said.
The Syrian Army will do whatever they can to restore peace in the
region, the Syrian ambassador to Lebanon said during his visit to
Aram I, the Catholicos of the Great House of Cilicia, at the behest
of Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad last Sunday.
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