Armenia-Diaspora Unity Must be Preserved at all Cost In recent
months, as heated debates raged on the Armenia-Turkey Protocols,
Diaspora Armenians reacted with frustration and anger at the
damage these agreements would have caused to Armenian national
interests. While Armenia’s leaders have the right to take
decisions on behalf of the country’s 3 million inhabitants, they
also have an obligation to take into account the interests of
all 10 million Armenians worldwide on pan-Armenian issues, such
as the Genocide, the Artsakh (Karabagh) conflict, demands from
Turkey. In negotiating the Armenia-Turkey Protocols, Armenian
officials should have shown more sensitivity to critical
national issues. By signing the contested agreements with
Turkey, they alarmed and deeply hurt Armenians worldwide.
Thousands of angry demonstrators reacted by hurling vitriolic
epithets at Pres. Sargsyan, during his October tour of the
Diaspora to promote the Protocols. Such confrontations,
unprecedented during earlier presidential visits