Jirair Sefilian: Diaspora should create a government and parliament in exileOctober 8, 2009 - 16:12 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - "The Diaspora is suffering the same disease that Armenia," » Jirair Sefilian , leader of the Miatsum national initiative told a press conference in Yerevan today. According to him, the Diaspora have good people, but "sick" leaders. According ti him, since 1991 the Armenian people has had idee fixe: Armenia separately, Diaspora separately. In his view, it is time to get rid of this idea and unite. As Mr. Sefilian mentioned, every Armenian, regardless of where he is, has the right to worry for their country and express their opinion, if there is a threat to national security. "The reaction of the Diaspora to the Armenian-Turkish Protocols is quite natural," Jirair Sefilian stressed. "I believe the Armenia should be called Armenian state of Eastern Armenia, and concurrently representatives of the Armenian Diaspora should create an Armenian State of Western Armenia with their government and parliament in exile," Mr. Sefilian said. According to him, it necessary to create a Pan-Armenian council, to deal with strategic issues of the country. Top stories President of the Armenian parliament Alen Simonyan met with the Speaker of the Azerbaijani Milli Majlis Sahiba Gafarova. Achieving stable peace between Armenia and Azerbaijan remains a priority of the OSCE, said Ian Borg. The Cabinet of Ministers decided on Thursday, November 9 to allocated AMD 120 million to arrange the gathering. Michael Roth believes sanctions must be put on the table after Baku‘s ethnic cleansing in Nagorno-Karabakh. Partner news | Power of One Dram to benefit Road of Life, Strong Mind IDBank and Idram summarize the results of the May program of “The Power of One Dram”. Yerevan State University, Ucom sign Memorandum of Cooperation Rector of Yerevan State University Hovhannes Hovhannisyan and General Director of Ucom Ralph Yirikian signed the memorandum. EU to provide budgetary support to Armenia The agreement is aimed at increasing the competitiveness of the educational system of Armenia. Aliyev: No peace treaty unless Armenia changes constitution Azerbaijan will not sign a peace treaty with Armenia unless the latter changes its constitution, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev said. |