Head of Armenians Congress of Ukraine Ashot Avanesyan participated in a round table discussion on “Dialogue between the state and national societies” held in Ukraine’s Rada, Analitika.at.ua reports.

Ashot Avanesyan is also the chairman of the national minorities’ council of Ukraine. The round table participants were the leaders and representatives of NGOs of Ukraine’s national minorities.

Avanesyan offered the participants to issue an appeal to the President of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych to mark Day of Remembrance of the Armenian Genocide. He also called to hold days of Armenia’s culture in Ukraine in September and create a new state structure, which may be called the Ministry of nationalities, religions and of Ukrainians living abroad.

The participants hailed positive Armenian delegate’s initiative and instructed the secretariat to draft an address to the President of Ukraine.

According to the 2001 census, representatives of national minorities make 22.5% of Ukraine’s population.