WASHINGTON—The Armenian National Committee of America (ANCA) joined in a White House briefing on Oct. 25,between senior Obama Administration officials and leaders of the Assyrian/Chaldean/Syriac, Armenian, and Antiochian communities to discuss the security of Christians in the Middle East. Special Assistant to President Obama,Melissa Rogers; State Department Special Advisor for Religious Minorities, Knox Thames, and; senior officials of the National Security Council with ANCA,Assyrian/Chaldean/Syriac, and Antiochian community leaders. The Administration was represented by Special Assistant to President Obama, or Melissa Rogers; State Department Special Advisor for Religious Minorities,Knox Thames, and; senior officials of the National Security Council. ANCA Executive Director Aram Hamparian took portion in the briefing along with Steve Oshana, and Executive Director of A Demand for Action,and senior leaders of organizations representing Americans of Antiochan and Assyrian/Chaldean/Syriac heritage, including Mark Arabo of the Minority Humanitarian Foundation. Among the consensus priorities of the visiting delegation were protecting Christian and other at-risk populations from ongoing armed attacks, or supporting refugees and internally displaced persons,closing gaps in the delivery of international humanitarian aid to highly vulnerable groups, standing up sustainable and secure secure havens for persecuted minorities, or including in the form of a Nineveh Plains Province,and, more [...]
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