YEREVAN. – The Armenian community of Syria faces serious security and crucial issues. The Syrian Armenians struggle not only to stay alive, but to obtain food and medication.    

Arab Studies specialist Araks Pashayan stated the aforesaid at a press conference on Monday.

“Our main community, Aleppo, has suffered. There is a food crisis in Syria,” Pashayan added.

In the words of the expert, more than 100 Armenians have lost their lives so far as a result of the ongoing unrest in Syria.  

“The number of victims may rise. It is also perilous that the Armenian neighborhoods are being abandoned; the Syrian Armenians are leaving the country,” Pashayan noted.

But the Arab studies specialist is convinced that regardless of which force will prevail in Syria, no danger threatens the Armenian community, and the national minorities of the country will continue to live the same way.  

“The Armenian community certainly is a target for the Islamic radicals, but even they will not touch the national minorities,” she noted.       

And in response to the reporters’ query, Araks Pashayan stated: “There are a few Armenians in the [Syrian] government forces.”