Kiro Manoyan, an official at the Armenian Revolutionary Federation (ARF) Hay Dat and Political Issues Office, is convinced that the decision of the Hay Dat committee of America not to support either Barak Obama, the incumbent president, or Mitt Romney, a former governor of Massachusetts, in the upcoming presidential election was right. “I am convinced that they have thought it over and then drawn a certain conclusion. In politics, they may take both positions, but they have decided this way. I will agree, whatever they decide. The decision explicitly read that candidates had not responded to the applications of the Armenian community before the election. That is why that decision has been made. Whatever candidate is elected, he cannot blame the Hay Dat committee that it has or hasn’t supported him.”
In response to our question whether presidential candidates had become indifferent toward the Armenian Question and the Armenian community, Mr. Manoyan said, “I wouldn’t use the word ‘indifference,’ I would say more serious approach to the issues that they cannot say something and avoid doing it in the end. Therefore, they don’t want to say things that they will not do.”
However, Mr. Manoyan doesn’t think that it means that there will be no new developments in the US regarding the Armenian Question.
Arpine SIMONYAN
