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GROUP OF ARMENIA CITIZENS READY TO DEFEND SYRIA'S ARMENIAN-POPULATED AREAS (PHOTOS)
March 26, 2014 | 15:13
YEREVAN. - There are volunteers in Armenia who have expressed a wish
to set up a volunteer detachment and head to Syria to protect the
Armenian-populated areas (PHOTOS).
Several dozens of Armenian citizens, who on Wednesday staged
a demonstration in front of the UN Office in Armenia, told the
aforementioned to reporters.
"We want to form a 20-30 member detachment. We will inform the
[Armenian] government about this idea.
"[But] for the most part, this detachment can help the Syrian Armenians
emotionally, so they sense that their compatriots stand with them,
and they will be with them at the moment of need," initiative member
Arman Mkhitaryan told Armenian-NEWS.am.
In his words, however, the UN's silence on this matter is strange.
"We want to remind this organization the objectives it is called
to serve. We condemn the UN's silence; this is a crime, a silent
acquiescence to Turkey's actions," Mkhitaryan added.
Subsequently, the protestors handed a respective letter to the UN
Office in Armenia.
In the early morning on March 21, armed militants from the Jabhat
al-Nusra Islamic terrorist group infiltrated into northern Syria's
Latakia Governorate, which is predominantly inhabited by Armenians
and Alawites, from four directions. Two large groups of terrorists had
launched the attack fromTurkey. About 600 Kessab-Armenian families are
currently sheltered in Latakia city. On March 23, Turkish fighter
planes downed a Syrian military aircraft that was conducting a
mission against the Islamic terrorists in Kessab. On Monday, a group
of Armenian parliament members headed to Latakia.
Armenia citizens demand corresponding response from UN on Kessab
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http://news.am/eng/news/200954.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7N276DO0to
March 26, 2014 | 15:13
YEREVAN. - There are volunteers in Armenia who have expressed a wish
to set up a volunteer detachment and head to Syria to protect the
Armenian-populated areas (PHOTOS).
Several dozens of Armenian citizens, who on Wednesday staged
a demonstration in front of the UN Office in Armenia, told the
aforementioned to reporters.
"We want to form a 20-30 member detachment. We will inform the
[Armenian] government about this idea.
"[But] for the most part, this detachment can help the Syrian Armenians
emotionally, so they sense that their compatriots stand with them,
and they will be with them at the moment of need," initiative member
Arman Mkhitaryan told Armenian-NEWS.am.
In his words, however, the UN's silence on this matter is strange.
"We want to remind this organization the objectives it is called
to serve. We condemn the UN's silence; this is a crime, a silent
acquiescence to Turkey's actions," Mkhitaryan added.
Subsequently, the protestors handed a respective letter to the UN
Office in Armenia.
In the early morning on March 21, armed militants from the Jabhat
al-Nusra Islamic terrorist group infiltrated into northern Syria's
Latakia Governorate, which is predominantly inhabited by Armenians
and Alawites, from four directions. Two large groups of terrorists had
launched the attack fromTurkey. About 600 Kessab-Armenian families are
currently sheltered in Latakia city. On March 23, Turkish fighter
planes downed a Syrian military aircraft that was conducting a
mission against the Islamic terrorists in Kessab. On Monday, a group
of Armenian parliament members headed to Latakia.
Armenia citizens demand corresponding response from UN on Kessab
events http://news.am/eng/photos/
http://news.am/eng/news/200954.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7N276DO0to