YEREVAN, AUGUST 10, NOYAN TAPAN. Vardan Oskanian, the RA Minister of Foreign Affairs, received Karen Mikayelian, a member of the Committee for organizing the preparatory measures of the conference of the representatives of the heirs of those, who survived the genocide, on August 10. According to the information provided to Noyan Tapan by the Press and Information Department of the RA Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the two previous conferences were held in Yerevan in 1917 and 1918. Introducing the significance and necessity of organizing this third conference in respect of jointly nominating and solving national problems, Karen Mikayelian declared that a few organizational sittings have already been held and that the Declaration on founding entitled represantative bodies has been published. Attaching importance to the initiative on continuing the interrupted processes of the two previous conferences and holding the third one, Vardan Oskanian mentioned that in order to hold such a representative conference, it is necessary to implement great preparatory measures in the Armenian communities of the Diaspora, with temporal and spiritual organizations, in particular, by discussing with them all the problems concerning the organization of the conference beforehand.

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