During her current visit to the United States, RoA Minister for Diaspora Affairs Hranush Hakobyan was invited to participate in the activities of the Armenian Assembly's conference dedicated to national publicity and U.S. government recognition of the 1915 Armenian Genocide. In her speech at the conference Minister Hakobyan noted that the American-Armenian community was one of the more better organized and established diasporan communities in terms of having an internal institutional framework and that it has the potential to seriously impact on the political life of the United States in general as well as in improving relations between Armenia and the United States. Turning to the current situation in Armenia, Minister Hakobyan noted that an attempt was underway to forge a free and open society where social justice and human rights would reign supreme. Minister Hakobyan proclaimed that, "in the creation of such a government the Armenian people dispersed throughout the world must also participate. Armenia is the homeland of all Armenians and its problems and concerns belong to all of us." Conference members visited the Genocide Museum now being constructed in downtown Washington D.C. and familiarized themselves with the work being carried out