Serzh Sargsyan about Armenian Genocide and NKR settlement issue at World Armenian Congress Conference

YEREVAN, OCTOBER 15, ARMENPRESS: Serzh Sargsyan partook at the conference of “World Armenian Congress” which concluded the activity of the 2003-2012 period after the founding congress.

“I sincerely welcome the participants of the second conference of the World Armenian Congress union for ArmenianNGO's in Yerevan. I am glad to see the friends who came to their motherland from different corners of the world willing to clarify the agenda of Armenian issues and to try to give some solutions to them” Armenpress reports the opening speech of Serzh Sargsyan. He has assured that the founded friendship is going to have a future, because the participants are bounded with very important values and feelings, allow people Armenian nation pass through the crossroads of the history, keeping Armenian identity.

“We have centuries to pass. I want sincerely say to all of You, welcome to Armenia, welcome to your motherland. Every initiation which is aimed to unite the Diaspora must be encouraged and nourished. We are of a small number so we must struggle for every Armenian to stay Armenian” stressed the President. Serzh Sargsyan has also highlighted that it is thanks to the public organizations’ operation all over the world, that we can speak about global Armenian civil society, with the presence of political, charitable, cultural and professional organizations which have succeeded. Core power of the civil society is in its variety, and we must do our best to keep and be conducive for this variety. President believes, neither the state can replace the civil society nor the society the state.

“Representatives of different nation are living outside their country and in the case of Armenians, the reason is not about the free choice or the better life but about the genocide and dispossession from their homeland. We are coming close to the 100th anniversary of Armenian Genocide and the crime against our nation must be punished. But it is not the only issue of our agenda. We protected Artsakh during the war and now it is time to establish justice in diplomatic arena” noted the President. He also stressed the extremely difficult situation in Syria. Catholicos Karekin II blessed the members and the organizers of the congress for gathering in Armenia. The Chairman of World Armenian Congress Ara Abramyan noted that one of the main issues of the Congress was to support the recognition of Armenian Genocide by international community.

The World Armenian Congress was founded in October 2003 as a union for Armenian NGO's, and has since reached an international status. The WAC objective is to strengthen relations between Armenia and the Armenian Diaspora, contribute to Armenia's economic development and the peaceful settlement of the Karabakh conflict, as well as international recognition of the Armenian Genocide. The President is Armenian-Russian businessman, Ara Abramyan. A youth branch, known as the WAC Association of Youth Organizations, was founded in 2006.