PART II. OPINIONS

FROM RUSSIA WITH ASSYRIANISM"

Under this title the Nineveh newspaper published by the United Assyrian Youth of Canada gave a column entirely to cover "Meltha" Bulletin information. In its introductory part the "Nineveh" editors point out: "Nineveh newspaper staff take this opportunity to express their gratitude and appreciation to the Assyrian Intellectual Club for their thoughtful gesture of putting "Nineveh" Newspaper on their mailing list.

No doubt, Nineveh Newspaper will continue to reach then in a timely fashion.

All Assyrian publications are encouraged to do the same in order that "Nineveh" Newspaper that reaches almost all Assyrian communities can make fruitful use of them for the benefit of our beloved Assyrian Nation."

In response to this publication in "Nineveh" Newspaper, "Dear friends and colleagues, every is- sue of your paper is a joy for us. The cause initiated by the United Assyrian Youth of Canada makes us feel that the future of our nation is in the righteous hands and our success is predetermined by persistence and devotion of your hearts and spirit to our common goal.

We feel sympathy and even pride in your personal efforts to keep our nation and to help New i Assyria arise with every issue of your newspaper. We all at "Meltha " wish you success and good t future work in finding the way to reach every Assyrian heart with word indeed!"

Meltha Editorial Staff

Meltha have received a congratulatory letter from His Grace Mar Aprim Khamis, Bishop Diocese of America and Assistant to the Patriarch of Holy Apostolic Assyrian Church of the East. His Grace points out in particular, "Please, convey our heartfelt thanks and warmest greetings to your staff at Meltha; they are doing a wonderful job. May our worshipful God continue to pour forth His mercies you and yours. We beseech Him to watch over you and to keep you in good health, and to grant strength to our Holy Church and nation. II Your Grace,

Thank you very much for your kind fatherly words you said to us. Actually "Meltha" was launched only to help the rising of the spirit of our beloved nation. We think all political and social steps will eventually fail without the spirit of our nation which has thus far carried us all through the times of hardship and strife. In this fashion we think we should measure our steps in accordance with the ideas of our Holy Church.

For we believe that only under the spell of our Holy Church and in the face of its renewed missionary activity in the world, we will be able to unite our beloved people on their way to peace and prosperity in the future.

In great esteem and with love.

sincerely

"Meltha" staff

We take this opportunity of thanking Mr. Gewargis B.Daniel (Australia) for very warm message. He wrote us, "I have a pleasure and pride in receiving regularly our beloved Assyrian magazine "Meltha" which is devoted entirely to promote our national cause.

Therefore, I wish you and all the committee members a very good luck and a prosperous future."

Dear Mr. Daniel,

Please accept our deep appreciation for your letter. We are happy to send you compliments from Mr.Volodia Badalov of Tbilissi and Your relative Mr. Tedo Betbonov of Mos- cow.

Editorial "Meltha" Staff

We acknowledge with thanks the receipt of letter and Report about the Second Session of the Working Group on Minorities of the United Nations Sub-Commission (Geneva, 29 April-3 May, 19~6) from Mr. Shmouel Warda, Chapter Secretary (Australian Chapter) of Assyrian Universal Alliance. In his letter of 24/06/1996 Mr. S.Warda wrote:

Dear Dr. Bidjamov,

I obtained your address from your magazine "Meltha" and it is very educational and political advancement for our Assyrian Cause, I sincerely thank you and all the staff for the good work.

I thought you would be interested to know what our Assyrian Universal Alliance Australian Chapter is doing internationally for the Assyrian cause. We will be in Geneva again by the end of next month to participate in the ;United Nations Working Group for Indigenous Populations on July 29-2 August 1996. I will send you the full report when I come back from Geneva."

The delegation of the International Assyrian Universal Alliance included: Senator John Nimrod (USA)- Secretary General, Mr. Shmouel Warda (Australia)-Chapter Secretary, Ms. Suzy David (Australia) -lnt.Legal Adviser, Ms. Assyet David (Australia)- Ass. to Legal Adviser, Mr. Barem Zia Bahrem (United Kingdom)-AUA Representative and Mr. Shlimon Haddad (Holland)-AUA Representative.

The General Assembly consisted of the following members present: 87 Government Representatives, 25 Non-Governmental Organizations, large number of representatives of the United Nations special agencies and large number of Minorities representatives from Asia, Europe, Middle East, Africa, Australia, United States, Canada and South America.

The meeting of the General Assembly was officially opened by the Chairman and five permanent members of the Sub-Commission: Norway, Egypt, Chile, India and Russian Federation.

The Submission on Assyrians presented at the meeting was very well accepted by the Assembly when the following Governments representatives gave strong approval and comments for the; Assyrian Universal Alliance submission and the Assyrian people's suffering: Republic of France, Republic of Georgia, Sweden, Austria, Arab Republic of Egypt, Islamic Republic of Iran, Danielle Mitterrand Foundation.

We propose to our readers Conclusions from the Submission on Assyrians presented at the Meeting of the Working Group on Minorities (Second Session), Commission on Human Rights, Sub-Commission on prevention of discrimination and protection of Minorities (see Part III).

We are also grateful to the Assyro-Chaldean Association of France and its President, Mr. Naman Adlun, and also the' "Hammurabi" Bulletin staff, the body of the Assyro-Chaldean Association of France for the active cooperation with us. .

Every step we make toward each other gives us hope to reach the common goal. Sometimes we might have differences in the opinion, but we would like to call all Assyrian communities in Bet-Nahrein and in Diaspora to come out with their suggestions or ideas in the whole range of the Assyrian issue. And whatever differences, we will be glad to publish them in Meltha Bulletin.

We believe there must be not indifference in the question of survival of the nation which kept itself alive after 25 centuries since the fall of the Assyrian kingdom.

Meltha Editorial Board. "