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"ARMENIA NEEDS A POWERFUL STATE TO OVERCOME ALL THE SOCIAL, ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL ISSUES"
hetq
16:41, June 18, 2012
To: "We are the owners of our city" civic initiative
"Save Teghut" civic initiative
Institute for Democracy and Human Rights (IDHR)
"Our city" civic initiative
"Trchkan" civil movement
All Armenian citizens and other movements fighting for human rights
Geneva, 12 June 2012
Dear friends,
With these few lines we wish to express our deepest gratitude to
you for the fight that you have been leading since a few years to
save the ancient lands of the Armenian nation from being destroyed by
mining activities, as well as for the unprecedented achievement of the
liberation of the Mashtots Park which has been an undeniable victory of
our constitutional rights, thanks to your determination and struggle.
We share with you the conviction that we have the moral duty to
preserve our lands inherited from our ancestors and pass them down
to our future generations, to reinforce our national borders by
populating the contiguous villages instead of undermining them by
dislocating people for mining reasons. If, however, our national
natural resources are to be exploited in some way, it must uniquely be
done with the consent of the Armenian people because the sovereignty
of the nation resides in them, hence, every decision relating to the
national long-term interests belongs to them.
You have been solemnly defending our constitutional rights days and
nights, during cold winter in Mashtots Park, Trchkan, Teghut or Kajaran
in order to perpetuate the existence of our nation, to preserve its
wonderful nature so that it does not turn into a big mining hole filled
up with tones of chemical waste as a gift for our future generations.
These unprecedented civic movements have been inspirational giving us
the will to rise up for our constitutional rights and made us believe
in the future of Armenia that we all have dreamt to see for so many
years after the birth of the third republic.
Armenia needs a powerful state to overcome all the social, economic
and political issues that the country is facing today, but prior to
that it needs a powerful civil society because the state is precisely
the expression and product of the civil society and the will of
its nation. Without a healthy, mature and educated civil society we
will never be able to produce a healthy and a powerful state with
its supreme mission to perpetuate the prosperity and existence of
the nation.
Thus, we express our unconditional support and gratitude to our
brothers and sisters for defending our national resources and
nature, for fighting for our civil rights and the supremacy of our
constitution, for building a powerful and healthy civil society
based on mutual respect and love for each other as well as for the
mother nature and which will be secured by the supreme power of the
Armenian Constitution.
With our warm regards,
Hakob Aslanyan
Tigran Tonoyan
Anush Sargsyan
Arsen Torosyan
Artush Yeghiazaryan
Liana Ghukasyan
Meda Khachaturyan
Nejdeh Khachaturyan
Garabed Yelegen
Ashot Ghazaryan
Bagdasar Kushkian
Alice Mehtemetian
Hrant Sahakyan
Asya Mikhaylidis-Sahakyan
Armen Petrosyan
Lusine Aslanyan
Armen Zargaryan
Nune Magoyan
Arnold Mikhaylidis
Armen Margaryan
Hripsime Margaryan
Zareh Kurkdjian
Vahan Mkhitaryan
Lyudvig Yeghiazaryan
Christine Sedef
Sarkis Shahinian
Astrig Marandjian
Frederic Lapeyre
Ani Mnatsakanian
Anna Sargsyan
Petar Kuruch
Lilit Tovmasyan
Ofelya Hovhannisyan
Gor Sultanyan
Agnieszka Suska
Raffi Garibian
Ani Garibian
Aline Dedeyan
Gohar Oganessian
Gework Oganessian
Anelga Arslanian
Viken Cheterian
hetq
16:41, June 18, 2012
To: "We are the owners of our city" civic initiative
"Save Teghut" civic initiative
Institute for Democracy and Human Rights (IDHR)
"Our city" civic initiative
"Trchkan" civil movement
All Armenian citizens and other movements fighting for human rights
Geneva, 12 June 2012
Dear friends,
With these few lines we wish to express our deepest gratitude to
you for the fight that you have been leading since a few years to
save the ancient lands of the Armenian nation from being destroyed by
mining activities, as well as for the unprecedented achievement of the
liberation of the Mashtots Park which has been an undeniable victory of
our constitutional rights, thanks to your determination and struggle.
We share with you the conviction that we have the moral duty to
preserve our lands inherited from our ancestors and pass them down
to our future generations, to reinforce our national borders by
populating the contiguous villages instead of undermining them by
dislocating people for mining reasons. If, however, our national
natural resources are to be exploited in some way, it must uniquely be
done with the consent of the Armenian people because the sovereignty
of the nation resides in them, hence, every decision relating to the
national long-term interests belongs to them.
You have been solemnly defending our constitutional rights days and
nights, during cold winter in Mashtots Park, Trchkan, Teghut or Kajaran
in order to perpetuate the existence of our nation, to preserve its
wonderful nature so that it does not turn into a big mining hole filled
up with tones of chemical waste as a gift for our future generations.
These unprecedented civic movements have been inspirational giving us
the will to rise up for our constitutional rights and made us believe
in the future of Armenia that we all have dreamt to see for so many
years after the birth of the third republic.
Armenia needs a powerful state to overcome all the social, economic
and political issues that the country is facing today, but prior to
that it needs a powerful civil society because the state is precisely
the expression and product of the civil society and the will of
its nation. Without a healthy, mature and educated civil society we
will never be able to produce a healthy and a powerful state with
its supreme mission to perpetuate the prosperity and existence of
the nation.
Thus, we express our unconditional support and gratitude to our
brothers and sisters for defending our national resources and
nature, for fighting for our civil rights and the supremacy of our
constitution, for building a powerful and healthy civil society
based on mutual respect and love for each other as well as for the
mother nature and which will be secured by the supreme power of the
Armenian Constitution.
With our warm regards,
Hakob Aslanyan
Tigran Tonoyan
Anush Sargsyan
Arsen Torosyan
Artush Yeghiazaryan
Liana Ghukasyan
Meda Khachaturyan
Nejdeh Khachaturyan
Garabed Yelegen
Ashot Ghazaryan
Bagdasar Kushkian
Alice Mehtemetian
Hrant Sahakyan
Asya Mikhaylidis-Sahakyan
Armen Petrosyan
Lusine Aslanyan
Armen Zargaryan
Nune Magoyan
Arnold Mikhaylidis
Armen Margaryan
Hripsime Margaryan
Zareh Kurkdjian
Vahan Mkhitaryan
Lyudvig Yeghiazaryan
Christine Sedef
Sarkis Shahinian
Astrig Marandjian
Frederic Lapeyre
Ani Mnatsakanian
Anna Sargsyan
Petar Kuruch
Lilit Tovmasyan
Ofelya Hovhannisyan
Gor Sultanyan
Agnieszka Suska
Raffi Garibian
Ani Garibian
Aline Dedeyan
Gohar Oganessian
Gework Oganessian
Anelga Arslanian
Viken Cheterian