EACH ARMENIAN SHOULD CONTRIBUTE TO STRENGTHENING OF ARMENIA AND ITS RELATIONS WITH DIASPORA

YEREVAN, July 9. /ARKA/. Each Armenian should contribute to strengthening of Armenia and its relations with Diaspora, said the World Armenian Congress (WAC) Chairman Ara Abrahamyan during the international conference “Challenges of the 21st century and Armenian youth”.

He said that each Armenian should have strong faith in Armenia’s welfare.
“Everyone should realize that any actions should be directed to the achievement of national interests,” he said.

Abrahamyan pointed out that the main achievement of the conference will be to sign the Declaration which will become the basis for WAC action programs.

“Thus we will make our contribution to Armenia’s officials to build Armenia’s welfare, and to Diaspora – to achieve all-Armenian unification,” he said.

He added that all the WAC programs should be directed to overcoming those global challenges that every Armenian within or outside Armenia faces.

In his turn, WAC Chairman of the Association of Youth Organizations (AYO) Atom Mkhitaryan said that this is the WAC first conference which on the youth level will touch upon the challenges that Armenians all over the world face.

“Despite the fact that youth movement in Armenia and Diaspora is on the level of formation and we intend to discuss ways of putting this movement into a scientific level, realizing global universal and all-Armenian challenges of the 21st century, as well as possibilities and ways of confronting these challenges,” he said.

Touching upon the approval of the Declaration, Mkhitaryan said that the document will be presented during the final session of the conference based on the results of discussions in task groups.

According to WAC AYO Deputy Chairman Mariam Martirosyan, the event is held under the aegis of the WAC under the AYO initiative.

“The conference will be conducted in five directions, in particular, contribution of the Armenian youth to the international recognition of the Armenian Genocide and fair settlement of the Karabakh problem; youth issues in the process of strengthening Armenia’s statehood and social-economic development, role of the Armenian youth as careers of national features and Armenian identity in the context of new challenges; Armenian youth and prospects of developing Armenia-Diaspora relations; structural peculiarities of the Association of Youth Organizations,” she said.

300 representatives of 25 countries, such as Karabakh, Russia, Georgia, Belarus, the Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Estonia, Brazil, Turkey, Romania, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Kuwait, Jordan, France, Holland and the USA participate in the international conference, held in Yerevan on July 9-11.

The World Armenian Congress was founded in October 2003 as Union of Armenian Non-governmental associations and has an international status. The WAC objective is to strengthen relations between Armenia and Diaspora, contribute to Armenia’s economic development and peaceful settlement of the Karabakh conflict, as well as international recognition of the Armenian Genocide.

The WAC Association of Youth Organizations was founded in 2006. L.M. –0--