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WE NEED PAN-ARMENIAN COUNCIL TO COORDINATE COMMON TASKS, SAYS DEPUTY MINISTER
11:26 * 24.10.14
In an interview with Tert.am, a deputy minister of diaspora shared his
impressions of the Fifth Armenia-Diaspora Conference held in Yerevan,
praising the proposed idea of creating a pan-Armenian council.
Serzh Srapionyan said he thinks that such a structure would be really
important in terms of coordinating common tasks and offering solution
to urgent and major problems of pan-national significance. He cited
the Armenian Genocide Coordination Commission (launched in 2011)
as a good precedent justifying that need.
In his speech at the pan-Armenian annual event, held in Yerevan from
20 to 25 September, President Serzh Sargsyan proposed renaming the
commission a "Pan-Armenian Council" in an effort to turn it into a
permanent platform addressing urgent issues.
"It is stated very clearly and plainly. That's to say, the president
made a proposal, and he now expects a reaction by Armenian and Diaspora
representatives. The Armenian Genocide Coordination Commission's
three-year work proved that a coordinated solution to major and urgent
pan-national problems does really require such a structure. So what
connection can the [plan] to create that body have with the Armenian
Ministry of Diaspora? The Ministry of Diaspora's task has to do
with the consolidation of the Armenian disapora, the preservation of
the Armenian identity, the deepening of the Armenia-Diaspora ties,
the uncovering of diaspora's potential and its use to the benefit of
Armenia's economic development. The programs implemented annually are
the evidence of the Ministry's activities of the past six years. You
can find more detailed information on that in our fifth anniversary
collection, as well as in the annual yearbooks.
But that body, which is still to come into existence, will not focus
its activities on collaboration with the Diaspora; as the president
said, 'it will become a platform to address urgent pan-Armenian
issues'," the deputy minister noted.
Armenian News - Tert.am
11:26 * 24.10.14
In an interview with Tert.am, a deputy minister of diaspora shared his
impressions of the Fifth Armenia-Diaspora Conference held in Yerevan,
praising the proposed idea of creating a pan-Armenian council.
Serzh Srapionyan said he thinks that such a structure would be really
important in terms of coordinating common tasks and offering solution
to urgent and major problems of pan-national significance. He cited
the Armenian Genocide Coordination Commission (launched in 2011)
as a good precedent justifying that need.
In his speech at the pan-Armenian annual event, held in Yerevan from
20 to 25 September, President Serzh Sargsyan proposed renaming the
commission a "Pan-Armenian Council" in an effort to turn it into a
permanent platform addressing urgent issues.
"It is stated very clearly and plainly. That's to say, the president
made a proposal, and he now expects a reaction by Armenian and Diaspora
representatives. The Armenian Genocide Coordination Commission's
three-year work proved that a coordinated solution to major and urgent
pan-national problems does really require such a structure. So what
connection can the [plan] to create that body have with the Armenian
Ministry of Diaspora? The Ministry of Diaspora's task has to do
with the consolidation of the Armenian disapora, the preservation of
the Armenian identity, the deepening of the Armenia-Diaspora ties,
the uncovering of diaspora's potential and its use to the benefit of
Armenia's economic development. The programs implemented annually are
the evidence of the Ministry's activities of the past six years. You
can find more detailed information on that in our fifth anniversary
collection, as well as in the annual yearbooks.
But that body, which is still to come into existence, will not focus
its activities on collaboration with the Diaspora; as the president
said, 'it will become a platform to address urgent pan-Armenian
issues'," the deputy minister noted.
Armenian News - Tert.am