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    TIGRAN KHZMALYAN CALLS ON ARMENIANS WORLDWIDE TO HELP REGAIN ARMENIA'S TRUE INDEPENDENCE

    hetq
    19:36, June 1, 2011

    On May 28 Policy Forum Armenia held a reception on the occasion of
    the Independence of the First Armenian Republic (1918-20). Held at
    the historic University Club of Washington, the reception was well
    attended by community members and friends of PFA from in- and outside
    of the Washington metropolitan area. The event also served as the first
    in a series of introductions of members of the Sardarapat Movement's
    Initiating Group, film director Tigran Khzmalyan and informational
    technology expert Garegin Chugaszyan - who are visiting Washington at
    the invitation of PFA - to the Armenian community and policy circles
    in the nation's capital.

    In his keynote address, Dr. Rouben Adalian, Director of the Armenian
    National Institute, stressed the importance of the battle of Sardarapat
    for preserving culture and identity as well as regaining statehood
    in those darkest of times for the history of Armenia. As improbable
    as it seemed at the time, he noted that the success in Sardarapat
    became an important milestone for measuring successes of the future.

    Tigran Khzmalyan emphasized the need for continued fight for
    independence in the present context, amid worsening governance and
    external dependence of Armenia. Stressing that independence should not
    taken for granted, he called on Armenians worldwide - irrespective
    of party affiliations and geography - to help regain Armenia's true
    independence, one that will guarantee dignity, freedom, and prosperity.

    Recalling Yeghishe Charents' poems written at the dawn of the
    First Republic, Garegin Chugaszyan reminded participants that the
    foundations of a strong statehood lie in people's unconventional love
    towards country in the most desperate of times. He referred to the
    dark winter of the Third Armenian republic, which will undoubtedly
    end soon and be followed by the spring of the Forth Republic to come.

    In his closing remarks, PFA's co-founder David Grigorian called on the
    community members to intensify their search for new ways of engagement
    with Armenia by focusing on civil society groups, such as Sardarapat.

    He stressed that the existing mechanisms have offered little, if any,
    incentives for the successive ruling regimes in Armenia to reform
    and do better, emphasizing the need to scrap them in exchange for new
    models of engagement that will have allegiances to people of Armenia
    (as opposed to their rulers) in their core.

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