FOR THE SAKE OF NATIONAL UNITY

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FOR THE SAKE OF NATIONAL UNITY

 

Open letter of poet Levon Mirijanian to Armenian foreign minister Vartan Oskanian

 

Esteemed Mr. Vartan Oskanian

 

Couple of days ago we watched Your speech on the TV on the Armenia-Diaspora Second Conference to be held in May.

 

It is very delighting to hear that the event aimed at boosting our nations’ unity, moral and economic values is paid serious attention to and will be organized on a higher level than the previous one.

 

We are sure that the second conference, where a lot more representatives of Armenian Diaspora and homeland will participate, will possess principles securing the practicality and usefulness of the initiative. In this respect, esteemed Mr. Oskanian, we found necessary to present to your assessment a reservation concerning the organization of the second Armenia-Diaspora conference.

 

We realize and agree that withdrawing of formal speeches (like greeting speeches of delegations, etc) from the agenda of the sessions of the second conference will save some time which will be used for discussing more serious and useful issues, bearing in mind that this time there are much more urgent problems to be discussed.

 

But a question occurs here: how expedient it is to withdraw reports of common interest from the agenda of plenary sessions and put them into separate programs’ agenda. There are issues that refer to all the participants of the conference and should be heard and considered by all. For example, there are many issues in the culture sphere which directly refer to Armenian businessmen and to their guardianship activity.

 

Let’s not forget that the first conference stated the ‘One nation- one culture’ slogan- bringing it from theory into practice. So it is worth reviewing whether withdrawing reports on cultural relations from the plenary sessions of the seond conference is expedient or not.

 

We think that it is necessary to hear such reports at one of the plenary sessions, and afterwards discuss them in detail in the corresponding sections.

 

Sincerely

 

Levon Mirijanian, poet, chairman of ‘Armenian Educational Association’, 11 February, 2002

 

 

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