Some leaders of the beleaguered Armenian community in Syria on Thursday spoke out against a mass evacuation of its members remaining in the war-torn city of Aleppo where the security situation has deteriorated further in recent weeks.
Armenia's government is facing growing calls to help them flee one of the epicenters of deadly fighting between Syrian government troops and rebel forces. Many Aleppo Armenians are apparently ready to take refuge in their ancestral homeland.
"We are not intent on dissolving the community," said Zhirayr Reisian, the spokesman for the Aleppo diocese of the Armenian Apostolic Church, a key community structure. "We are obliged to help those who are having difficulties, which is what we have been doing. But we have nothing to do outside Aleppo or Syria."
Armenian News
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