Armenians to launch solidarity committee in Kyiv Maidan

President of the Yerevan Press Club Boris Navasardyan has posted on Facebook a declaration about plans for setting up an Armenian solidarity committee in Kyiv’s Euromaidan.

The document expresses esteem for the Ukrainian activists’ “resolute fight for civic dignity and independent statehood”.

“The processes in Ukraine will essentially impact the future of the post-Soviet countries, especially the Eastern Partnership member states, as well as the efforts towards establishing pan-European values. The Maidan activists also protect our society’s aspirations for a fully independent statehood and sovereignty. The Armenian citizens who stood up for a fight against the criminal-oligarchic regime were also gunned down on March 1, 2009,” reads the declaration.

The solidarity committee calls upon the international community, the EU, the United States and the EU member countries to take urgent measures towards ousting President Victor Yanaukovich, enforcing economic and political sanctions for the crimes perpetrated by the ruling regime, and establishing an international tribunal composed of Ukrainian officials and foreigners with the purpose of resolving the crimes committed against the Ukrainian statehood and people.