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WESTERN ARMENIANS ARE PREPARING

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RA Prime Minister Serzh Sarkissian received Karen Mikaelian, the Executive Head of the organizing committee of congress of heirs of Western Armenians who survived the Armenian Genocide.

Stressing the importance of deepening of ties and cooperation between segments of world-spread Armenians, Karen Mikaelian presented to the Prime Minister the results of the organizing committee’s activity ever since 2000. The Prime Minister presented the collection of documents issued by the committee. The collection includes the stenography of the first and second congresses of Western Armenians in Yerevan in 1917 and 1919, as well as the National Congress held in Paris in 1919-1920, the lessons of which are very important and edifying for current activity.

Stressing the importance of continuing the suspended process of previous congresses and the initiative of calling a new assembly, Serge Sargsyan noted that for the establishment of representative bodies of Western Armenians – the Western Armenian National Assembly and a National Council – it is necessary to do a great work in Armenian communities.