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About 500 Representatives Of Armenian Communities From 50 Countries To Attend Armenia-Diaspora Forum

17.09.2011, 16:20
About 500 representatives of Armenian communities from 50 countries will travel to Armenia to attend Armenia-Diaspora forum scheduled for September 19 in the Yerevan Sports and Concerts Complex.
YEREVAN, September 16. /ARKA/. About 500 representatives of Armenian communities from 50 countries will travel to Armenia to attend Armenia-Diaspora forum scheduled for September 19 in the Yerevan Sports and Concerts Complex, Armenian Diaspora Ministry’s press office reported on Friday.

Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan and Nagorno-Karabakh President Bako Sahakyan will speak at the forum. Catolicos Karekin II, Armenian Apostolic Church leader, and Aram I, Catholicos of Great House of Cilicia, will bless participants of the event. The forum is to be held as part of the program of celebration of the 20th anniversary of Armenia’s independence.

Ministers, experts, journalists from Armenian communities worldwide, representatives of political parties are expected to speak at the forum. Interaction between Armenia and Armenian communities overseas will be among key issues on the agenda.

Language and education, the youth’s problems, Armenian Genocide, Armenia-Diaspora cooperation will be discussed here.

Before to wrap up the participants will sign a national declaration calling for setting up a united front to ensure Armenia’s security, to press for peaceful settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, also for international recognition of the Armenian genocide and for rallying around the Armenian Apostolic Church for preservation of Armenian identity. –0--