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    WILL SERZH SARGSYAN PERSUADE DIASPORA?

    02:59 pm | September 30, 2009 | Politics
    http://a1plus.am/en/politics/2009/09/30/dashnakts utiun

    The Armenian Revolutionary Federation-Dashnaktsutiun will march from
    Republican Square to the Tsitsernakaberd Memorial on October 9 in
    protest against the pre-signed Armenian-Turkish Protocols.

    The Party has already notified the Yerevan City Hall about the march
    which will be followed by a rally in the Tsitsernakaberd.

    ARF stalwarts continue the sit-in and hunger-strike in front of the
    Government building and Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

    "We are much concerned about Serzh Sargsyan's upcoming visit to
    Armenian communities," say the strikers.

    The Party thinks Serzh Sargsyan will not be able to convince the
    Diaspora to endorse the Protocols without ARF's proposals.

    "The Protocols are inadmissible in their present form. The authorities
    can say that they have supporters in the Diaspora but our compatriots
    will not accept the documents. Diaspora's core political forces -
    ARF, SDHK and RAK have already voiced their negative opinion on
    the Protocols in a joint statement," says ARF's Supreme Body member
    Romik Manukian.

    ARF MP Ruzan Arakelian says Serzh Sargsyan's decision to make a
    Pan-Armenian tour is dangerous though unprecedented.

    "No reasonable person will be persuaded to endorse the documents,"
    says Mrs. Arakelian.

    ARF members, historian Movses Margarian thinks during the visit to
    the Armenian Diaspora, Serzh Sargsyan will gather embassy employees
    to express a general opinion on the documents.

    "But it cannot be the opinion of the whole Diaspora. I think that
    the visits are artificial and will effect no radical changes," notes
    the historian.
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