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Published on September 22, 2006
UNITY IS THE SOLUTION OF NATION’S PROBLEMS
- The third Armenia – Diaspora forum ended on September 20. On the second day the New Answers to Old Questions: Armenia in the 21st Century Forum took place, and our compatriots from India, Germany, Argentina made reports. The forum was followed by the debate on the practical aspect of the Armenia-Diaspora relations, in which famous businessmen from Armenia and the Diaspora participated. In this context, they also touched upon economic migration in an effort to seek possibilities to battle this negative phenomenon. In answer to our question how this could be carried out, Avetik Chalabian from Russia emphasized the importance of this forum itself. He says the forum is unique in the sense that it is intended to implement a definite project, namely investments by Diasporan businessmen in the development of rural communities, remote villages in Armenia. It is clear that this will enable people to earn their living in their village. However, everything is not that simple. The talk with Diasporan businessmen reveals their worries about development of Armenia but they avoid making big investments, and the reason is clear: in a number of cases the funds provided by Diasporan benefactors were wasted. It appears, however, that the formula of tackling this phenomenon was worked out in the course of the forum. Member of Parliament Khachatur Sukiassian, for instance, suggests controlling the funds provided for a project to ensure its targeted use. In other words, every businessman will attend to a separate village. The Armenia-Diaspora relations will not be viewed as charity, and two basic problems will be solved. Besides the targeted spending of the funds provided by Diasporans, this project will enable connecting each of the Diasporan communities to separate regions and separate communities of Armenia and make them full participants of the processes in different villages of Armenia. For its part, the third Armenia-Diaspora forum has one purpose – view the program of overcoming poverty as a project intended to establish mutually profitable cooperation to replace charity. By bringing into being this project our compatriots will be helped to overcome the feeling of being guests in their homeland. The chair of the Union of Armenians of Russia Ara Abrahamian said the idea of national unity should underlie the implementation of this project. “Even if separate communities are strong, and separate organizations of the Diaspora are strong, it is impossible to guarantee the organizational and political unity of the Armenians worldwide without the active engagement of the Republic of Armenia.†CHRISTINE MNATSAKANIAN, YEREVAN
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