Month: March 2007

ITAR-TASS News Agency, Russia
March 9, 2007 Friday 08:10 AM EST

Armenia criticises US report on human rights

Armenian Foreign Minister Vartan Oskanyan believes that the chapter
of the annual report of the U.S. Department of State on the human
rights situation in the world, which deals with the situation in
Armenia, “contains some factual mistakes and biased approaches to
some problems.” He said so at a press conference here on Friday.

According to Oskanyan, the Armenian Foreign Ministry is closely
analysing the report, comparing its evaluation of the situation in
Armenia with the opinion of some neighbouring and other countries.

The annual report of the U.S. Department of State on the human rights
situation in the world, which was published on Tuesday, said that the
index of the protection of human rights by the Armenian authorities
continued to be low in 2006.

The document said that the republican authorities had put
restrictions on the private life of people, on the freedom of the
mass media and of the population.

In the opinion of the Department of State, there were serious
violations at the referendum on amendments on the Armenian
Constitutions in 2005 and at the 2003 parliamentary elections, and
the voting did not meet international standards.

At the same time, Oskanyan said the chapter dealing with Armenia
“contains both the recognition of the improvement of the situation
in a number of spheres, and serious, well-grounded criticism.” He
stressed that Yerevan would certainly call the attention of the U.S.
authorities to the above-mentioned “factual mistakes and biased
approaches.”

ITAR-TASS News Agency, Russia
March 9, 2007 Friday

Azeri president calls on fellow-countrymen to be politically active

Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliev has called on his fellow-countrymen,
residing abroad, “to be politically more active and to strengthen
their business positions in their respective countries”. This call
is contained in the president’s Friday opening address to the first
forum of the leaders of the organisations of the Azerbaijan and
Turkish diasporas, which is currently under way in Baku.

He stressed, at the same time, that it was necessary “to prevent the
assimilation of Azerbaijanians”. In his opinion, this could be
achieved by means of closer contacts with their fatherland. Aliev
believes the process of forming diaspora organisations “is
proceeding very quickly”. “Our diaspora is a great force today,”
he noted. According to different reports, there are now up to
thirty-five million Azerbaijanians all over the world. The biggest
Azerbaijanian diaspora organisations are now in Iran, Russia and
Germany.

Aliev is also convinced that the Baku forum will permit the diaspora
organisations of Azerbaijan and Turkey to jointly disseminate
truthful information on the realities within the two countries all
over the world. “After this forum, the Azerbaijanian and Turkish
diasporas will operate as one single entity, will coordinate their
efforts and will maintain close contacts with their historical
fatherlands,” Aliev stated. “This unity is most important” due to
the fact that “there is much distorted information on Azerbaijan and
Turkey” all over the world today, he believes.

Touching on the Karabakh conflict, Aliev noted the need to pull out
the Armenian armed forces from the Azerbaijan territories they are
now occupying. “Azerbaijan will never put up with the loss of its
lands and will go out of its way to liberate them,” the president
stated. He also stressed that “Azerbaijan will not allow a second
Armenian state to be formed on its territory,” noting in this
connection that the international law was in favour of his country.
“The territorial integrity of Azerbaijan has never been and will
never be the subject of discussion,” Aliev stated.

DeFacto Agency, Armenia
March 10 2007

NKR PRESIDENT: TRADITION OF POWER’S CIVILIZED DELEGATION SHOULD BE
ESTABLISHED IN KARABAGH

The Nagorno-Karabagh Republic President Arkady Ghoukassian stated
after tendering the President’s resignations he would stay in the
Nagorno-Karabagh and help the next President and government, if
necessary, Arkady Ghoukassian stated at a meeting with professorial
staff and students of the Artsakh State University held March 7, DE
FACTO own correspondent in Stepanakert reports.
Arkady Ghoukassian noted the NKR Constitution gave him legal basis to
seek the third term; however, moral side was more important for him.
`’New traditions should be established in Karabagh, first of all the
power’s civilized delegation”, the President underscored. He stated
he had decided not to seek the third term long ago, as `’some things
cannot be overstepped”.
Arkady Ghoukassian refrained from answering a question concerning his
political successor, noting the people were to choose. `’Sure, I have
my own sympathies and antipathies, however, there will not be a
successor, there will be policy’s succession”, the NKR head stated.
In this connection Arkady Ghoukassian underscored the course targeted
at the development of democracy in Nagorno-Karabagh should be
resumed, noting, `’the international community can recognize only
democratic NKR”. In his words, Nagorno-Karabagh was on the verge of
dictatorship not long ago, but they managed to build a state, where
`’a man lives freely, without fear”. He remarked Nagorno-Karabagh
should not be compared with Azerbaijan, where power passes from a
father to his son. `’Democracy and Azerbaijan are antagonists. We
have no right to be compared with Azerbaijan, we should attain to the
level of the European countries”, the NKR head said.
Speaking of the Karabagh conflict settlement process, Arkady
Ghoukassian stated Nagorno-Karabagh was ready for compromises, which,
however, cannot touch its basic principles, first of all
independence. `’We know what we can concede and what we cannot,
however, brackets should not be opened in diplomacy”, the President
said. In his words, `’a political decision assumes a compromise,
however, if it will prejudice our interest, we’ll not meet half-way”.

Agence France Presse — English
March 9, 2007 Friday 4:55 PM GMT

Armenia has ‘no information’ on US anti-missile plans

Armenia, Russia’s closest military ally in the Caucasus, said on
Friday it had no information on whether the United States wanted it
to host part of its anti-missile defence shield.

"We have no information regarding the intentions of the United States
to place anti-missile radars in one of the Caucasian republics and
therefore are not considering this question," foreign ministry
spokesman Vladimir Karapetian told AFP.

The head of the US missile agency said on March 1 that his country
wanted to put a mobile radar in one of the Caucasus countries —
Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia — where it could detect missiles
earlier than other planned units in Europe.

Russia has reacted furiously to plans to place parts of the system in
states friendly to Washington, including the Czech Republic and
Poland. The US insists the system would aim to track missiles from
states such as North Korea and Iran.

Armenia is Russia’s closest military ally in the Caucasus and a
member of the Collective Security Treaty Organization, a post-Soviet
security group dominated by Russia.

Russia maintains its largest military base in the South Caucasus in
the Armenian city of Gyumri, where about 3,000 troops are deployed.
The Russian and Armenian armies jointly patrol the country’s western
and southern borders.

ITAR-TASS News Agency, Russia
March 9, 2007 Friday

Armenia expects positive results from Karabakh talks

Armenian Foreign Minister Vartan Oskanyan expects positive results
from the talks with his Azeri counterpart Elmar Mamediarov, which are
to be held in Geneva next week. “Of course, if there will be nothing
unexpected from the Azeri side,” he noted.

“As distinct from the Azeri side, the Armenian statements are always
in keeping with the actual contents of the negotiations, and
sometimes one may get the impression that Armenia is adhering to a
more compromising stand than Azerbaijan,” Oskanyan believes.

The minister said the mediators were now preparing most carefully the
ground for the upcoming meeting of the foreign ministers of the two
countries. This is especially borne out by the fact that French
Co-Chairman of the OSCE Minsk Group for Nagorny Karabakh Bernard
Facier had visited Yerevan this week and is now in Baku, whence he
will come back here again on Monday. The mediators are striving to
arrange a new meeting between the presidents of Armenia and
Azerbaijan after the parliamentary elections in Armenia, which are
scheduled for May 12, and are endeavouring, in view of that meeting,
“to settle as many outstanding problems as possible at the level of
foreign ministers,” Oskanyan believes.

During his recent meeting in Washington with U.S. Secretary of State
Condoleezza Rice, Oskanyan stated that Armenia was still adhering to
the document, which is being discussed at the negotiations. The draft
of the framework principles of settlement, tabled by the co-chairmen
of the Minsk Group (Russia, France and the United States) stipulates
the withdrawn of Armenian forces from the occupied territories of
Azerbajan, the stationing of peacemakers there, the rendering of
international economic aid to the Karabakh Region, and the eventual
holding of a referendum on the future status of Nagorny Karabakh.

“We deem it premature to discuss the problem of the return of
Azerbaijanians to Nagorny Karabakh prior to the determination of the
parameters and date of the referendum on Nagorny Karabakh, which is
to determine the status of that region,” the minister stated. He
recalled that Armenia and Azerbaijan had so far only agreed that the
status of Nagorny Karabakh should be determined by its population,
but the details of this process were still being discussed.

Ïðàî Âûáîðà, Azerbaijan
Democratic Azerbaijan
March 10 2007

`Zerkalo’: Whatever the Case May Be, Armenia Will Be Loser, If USA
Attacks Iran
10.03.2007

Current stage of peace talks on regulation of Garabagh conflict was
discussed in Washington by Minister of Foreign Affairs of Armenia,
Vardan Oskanyan and US Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice.
As information and press section of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
of Armenia informed, in the course of the meeting bilateral relations
were also focused on: realization of program `Challenges of
millennium’, forthcoming parliamentary elections in Armenia,
Armenian-Turkish relations and USA’s mediation in this direction. We
should remind here that soon our Minister of Foreign Affairs, Elmar
Mamadyarov, will leave for Washington to meet US Secretary of State.
Most likely, official information in this connection will be
distinguished with the same scantiness. However, it is not difficult
to guess what issues are discussed by C. Rice, E. Mamadyarov and V.
Oskanyan. First of all we may say that Washington is making last
attempt to regulate Armenian-Azerbaijani and Armenian-Turkish
relations, at least, this year. Not long time ago, high rank
representatives of political and military leadership of Turkey
visited Washington. At least slight warming of relations between
these 3 states taking into account aggravation of situation caused by
possible action against Iran, is vitally important for Washington.
The matter is that permanent members of UN Security Council (Russia,
China, France and UK) having supported first resolution of Security
Council on Iran, initiated by USA, have deprived themselves of any
chance for manoeuvre. It is hard to imagine that anyone ever believed
that Iran would bend in UN Security Council’s will. Now permanent
members of UN Security Council should either support, of course with
minor reservations, new tougher resolution proposed by USA, which
will be ignored by Iran once adopted, or to recognize their own
weakness before Tehran’s regime. In first case USA will make pressure
on Iran with `compelled’ support on the part of UN Security Council,
precisely, Russia and China, in the second case, Washington will
blame Moscow and Beijing for inconsequence starting to act in
alliance with London and Paris.
`USA’s attacking Iran will take place, but the question is what way
will it take place?’, political scientist, Levon Melik-Shakhnazaryan,
who can’t be suspected in pro-American sentiments, declared at press
conference in Yerevan. It was informed by Panarmenian.net.
Accordingly to political scientist, Washington did too much for this
to go back.
Accordingly to him, USA has developed 3 directions of actions. `Fist
direction – `punctuated bombing’ accordingly to method used in
Belgrade, when industrial objects get out of the order and
infrastructure suffers destruction. Second – direct land invasion
just like Iraqi scenario, and at last, third direction, `traditional’
– to cause unstable situation inside the country, making Turkish
speaking citizens and Persian speaking ones quarrel and to establish
pro-American regime’, he stressed.
Armenian political scientist said that in last case the role of
Azerbaijan increases, on the borders of which Turkish speaking
population of Iran is living numbering `12-16 mln.’. `Upcoming visit
of Minister of Foreign Affairs of Azerbaijan, Elmar Mamadyarov, to
USA is connected with possible participation of Azerbaijan in solving
of Iranian issue’, Melik-Shakhnazaryan stressed.
Political scientist also pointed out that USA’s allies for Iranian
campaign may be Israel, Azerbaijan and Georgia. Armenia will under no
circumstances join it as authorities of the country are not suicides.
If Baku joins Iranian campaign then Washington will grant bonus to
Azerbaijan not in the form of regulation of Nagorni Garabagh conflict
in favor of Azerbaijan, but in the form of part of Iranian territory,
as Armenian lobby in USA is strong enough.
However Armenia, as political scientist thinks, will be loser
whatever the case may be. `No matter what USA does regarding Iran,
isolation of Armenia will be complete. Unfortunately, this way
Armenia can change nothing. We have very influential diaspora, which
should take steps to prevent complete isolation of the country’, said
he adding that US’s attitude towards Armenia is the most loyal. `The
fact that only Armenia is permitted to have commercial affairs with
Iran can’t be disregarded’, said Melik-Shakhnazaryan.
However, Iran won’t be in somebody’s `debt’. Political scientist
underlines that Iranian missiles may freely reach the above states at
the same time Americans need military basis on Middle East. `Even
today Tehran has drawn up plan concerning 900 `objects under attack’
in Israel, Azerbaijan and Georgia. However, not only Armenia can face
humanitarian disaster but also Azerbaijan. No economy will stand such
flow of refugees, especially such economy as Armenian. Don’t forget
that population of Iran is 80 mln., half of which living at the
border with Armenia, Azerbaijan and Turkey’, Melik-Shakhnazaryan
stressed. Armenian political scientist doesn’t rule out even
fantastic variant of developments, that is, possible conquer of Baku
by Iranian military forces.
Omitting some `trifles’, such as number of Azerbaijanis living in
Iran and Melik-Shakhnazaryan’s oblivion concerning active military
actions of allies of Armenians – Kurds – against Iranian governmental
forces, then everything is almost truth. As for conquer of Baku by
Iran, Armenian political scientist went too far. It conflicts with
Armenian interests. Land forces of Turkey, commander of which, Ilker
Bashbug visited Azerbaijan, can march up to Baku. However it hardly
can meet Armenia’s interests. If we take seriously
Melik-Shakhnazaryan’s saying, then aggravation of situation brings
nothing to Armenia…

R. Mirkadirov

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress

ITAR-TASS News Agency, Russia
March 9, 2007 Friday

NATO Week in Armenia

The Foreign Ministry of Armenia, jointly with the U.S. Embassy, is
launching a “NATO Week in Armenia”, which is to begin on Monday.
“It does not pursue the aim of our membership in NATO,” Armenian
Deputy Foreign Minister Arman Kirakosyan stated here on Friday. The
week includes “a visit of high-ranking NATO representatives, some
information functions, TV programs, and meetings with journalists”,
he stated.

It is envisaged to arrange a TV bridge with Kosovo to guarantee the
contacts of Armenian servicemen, stationed in that region of former
Yugoslavia, with their relatives at home. A film on the republic’s
relations with NATO will be shown on the principal TV channels of the
republic.

Director of the NATO Information Centre in Armenia and Head of the
“Armenian Centre of Trans-Atlantic Initiatives” Ara Tatevosyan
reported that another public organisation, namely the “Atlantic
Association of Armenia”, would arrange “An Information March of
Young People”. A microbus, decorated with NATO symbols will visit
different regions of the republic to inform the population on the
goals of that alliance.

In addition to information functions and publication of different
materials, The NATO Information Centre is planning to launch some
education programs, too. Lectures on the alliance’s activities will
be delivered to cadets of the Military Institute of the Armenian
Defence Ministry. Agreement was reached on NATO’s contacts with the
International Relations Department of Yerevan State University.

The “Armenian Centre of Atlantic Initiatives” is cooperating with
the NATO Information Centres in Moscow and Kiev. This organisation is
in charge of the Yerevan NATO Information Centre and is cooperating
with the government of Armenia, which is paying rent for the Centre’s
building.

Armenia is not pursuing the purpose of joining the North Atlantic
Alliance, Deputy Foreign Minister Arman Kirakosyan stated here on
Friday. “The key principles of our relations with that organisation
include mutual supplementation of our foreign policies and
cooperation,” he noted. “Cooperation with NATO is important for our
republic, especially with a view to reforming and modernising the
national army,” he stated. Kirakosyan noted that Armenia’s
cooperation with NATO was “a component part of the multi-structural
system of the republic’s security”.

ITAR-TASS News Agency, Russia
March 9, 2007 Friday

Armenia not pursues aim of becoming NATO member-deputy FM

Armenia doesn’t pursue the aim of becoming a NATO member, Armenian
Deputy Foreign Minister Arman Kirakosian said on Friday.

“In our relations with this organization we consider complementarity
of our foreign policy and cooperation as key principles,” he said at
a meeting at the NATO information centre in Armenia.

“Cooperation with NATO is important for Armenia from the point of
view of cooperation itself, political and economic processes in the
republic, reform and modernization of the country’s army, in
particular, of its civil component,” Kirakosian said.

“Of late our relations with NATO became one of Armenia’s foreign
policy priorities, and full-fledged cooperation with the Alliance is
a component of the republic’s multi-layer security system,” he said.

Over the past years Armenia expanded its participation in NATO’s
Partnership for Peace Program, he said.

“This participation gives an excusive opportunity for inclusion to
modern concepts and defence policy,” he said. “It may be properly
applied to modernization and upgrading of the country’s defence
system.”

He pointed out that Armenia’s cooperation with NATO is multifaceted
and includes regular dialogues, political consultations with NATO
member-countries on foreign policy and security and participation in
NATO operations.

Hamilton Spectator, Canada
March 10 2007

Is Turkey about to fall upon itself?

Fatih Saribas, Reuters
Ogun Samast is charged with the killing of Turk-Armenian editor Hrant
Dink.

Virulent nationalism threatens to tear fragile country apart
The Economist
(Mar 10, 2007)

Sitting in an office plastered with Ottoman pennants, portraits of
Ataturk and the Turkish flag, Kemal Kerincsiz, a lawyer, says his
mission in life is to protect the Turkish nation from "Western
imperialism and global forces that want to dismember and destroy us."

In the past two years Kerincsiz and his Turkish Jurists’ Union have
launched a slew of cases against Turkish intellectuals under Article
301 of the penal code, which makes "insulting Turkishness" a criminal
offence.

Kerincsiz has confined his nationalism to the courts. But elsewhere
new ultranationalist groups, some of them led by retired army
officers, have been vowing over guns and copies of the Koran to make
Turks "the masters of the world" and even "to die and kill" in the
process.

In January one of Kerincsiz’s targets, a Turkish-Armenian newspaper
editor, Hrant Dink, was shot dead by a 17-year-old, Ogun Samast,
because he had "insulted the Turks." The murder, in broad daylight on
one of Istanbul’s busiest streets, was a chilling manifestation of a
resurgence of xenophobic nationalism aimed at Turkey’s non-Muslim
minorities and the Kurds — plus their defenders in the liberal
elite.

The upsurge threatens to undo the good of four years of reforms by
the mildly Islamist government led by Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Indeed,
it is partly in response to these reforms — more freedom for the
Kurds, a trimming of the army’s powers, concessions on Cyprus — that
nationalist passions have been roused.

The knowledge that many members of the European Union do not want
Turkey to join has inflamed them further (the EU partially suspended
membership talks with Turkey in December because of its refusal to
open its ports and airspace to Greek-Cypriots).

Another factor is America’s refusal to move against separatist PKK
guerrillas who are based in northern Iraq. If the United States
Congress delivers its pledge to adopt a resolution calling the mass
slaughter of the Ottoman Armenians in 1915 genocide, Turkey’s
relationship with its ally would suffer "lasting damage," says the
foreign minister, Abdullah Gul.

Murat Belge, a leftist intellectual who is being hounded by
Kerincsiz, sees disturbing similarities between the racist
nationalism espoused by the "Young Turks" in the dying days of the
Ottoman Empire (who ordered the mass slaughter of its Armenian
subjects), and the siege mentality gripping Turkey today.

The perception, now as then, is that Western powers are pressing for
changes to empower their local collaborators (i.e., Kurds and
non-Muslims), with the aim of breaking up the country.

"This social Darwinist mindset that implies it’s OK to kill your
enemies in order to survive" has been perpetuated through an
education system that tells young Turks that "they have no other
friend than the Turks," says Belge. And it has been cynically
exploited by politicians and generals alike.

Erdogan and Deniz Baykal, the leader of the opposition Republican
People’s Party, have proved no exception. When more than 100,000
Turks gathered at Dink’s funeral chanting, "We are all Armenians,"
Erdogan opined that they had gone "too far." Both he and Baykal have
resisted calls to scrap Article 301, though it may be amended.

The politicians are keen to court nationalist votes in the run-up to
November’s parliamentary election. Erdogan also hopes that burnishing
his nationalist credentials will help him to coax a blessing from
Turkey’s hawkish generals for his hopes of succeeding the fiercely
secular Ahmet Necdet Sezer as president in May.

Yet a recent outburst by the chief of the general staff, Yasar
Buyukanit, suggests otherwise. He declared that Turkey faced more
threats to its national security than at any time in its modern
history and added that only its "dynamic forces" (the army) could
prevent efforts to "partition the country." These words, uttered
during an official trip to America, were widely seen as a direct
warning to Erdogan to shelve his presidential ambitions.

Others do not rule out possible collusion between nationalist
elements within the army and retired officers who are organizing new
ultranationalist groups (one is said to be training nationalist
youths in Trabzon, where Dink’s alleged murderers came from).

"The real purpose is to sow chaos, to polarize society so they can
regain ground (lost with EU reforms)," argues Belma Akcura, an
investigative journalist whose recent book about rogue security
forces known as the "deep state" earned her a three-month jail stay.
It would not be surprising if their next target were a nationalist,
she adds.

Meanwhile, prominent writers and academics, including Belge, continue
to be bombarded with death threats. Some are under police protection.
Orhan Pamuk, the Nobel Prize-winning author whom Kerincsiz took to
court over his comments about the persecution of the Armenians and
the Kurds, has fled to New York.

The battle for Turkey’s soul is not over yet.

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March 9, 2007
Press Release
Western Prelacy of the Armenian Apostolic Church of America
H.E. Archbishop Moushegh Mardirossian, Prelate
6252 Honolulu Avenue
La Crescenta, CA 91214
Tel: (818) 248-7737
Fax: (818) 248-7745
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PRELATE TO CONDUCT HOLY MASS IN LAS VEGAS
AND MEET WITH THE PARISH

This weekend, H.E. Archbishop Moushegh Mardirossian, Prelate, and
representatives of the Executive Council will depart for Las Vegas to visit
the parish community. On Sunday, March 11, the Prelate will conduct Holy
Mass and deliver the sermon on the Sunday of the Unjust Steward. The
Prelate will be assisted at the altar by Very Rev. Fr. Muron Aznikian.
Members of the Holy Martyrs Church choir will also participate in the Mass.
On Saturday evening, the Prelate and Executive Council members
will attend a reception dinner organized by the parish board, during which
Las Vegas Councilwoman Lois Tarkanian will be honored.

REQUEIM SERVICE AND MEMORIAL TRIBUTE
TO HRANT DINK

By the ordinance of the Prelate, on Sunday, March 11th, requiem service will
be offered in all Prelacy churches on the 40th day of the assassination of
Hrant Dink.
On the afternoon of the same day, a community memorial tribute
will take place at the Glendale Civic Auditorium. Very Rev. Fr. Barthev
Gulumian will represent the Prelate, accompanied by Prelacy parish pastors.

PRELATE TO PRESIDE OVER SUNRISE SERVICES AND MICHINK LUNCHEON AT HOLY CROSS
CATHEDRAL

On Wednesday, March 14, the median day of Lent, the Prelate will preside
over sunrise services at Holy Cross Cathedral in Montebello, assisted by
Christian Education Department Co-Directors Very Rev. Fathers Muron Aznikian
and Barthev Gulumian.
Following services, a luncheon has been organized on this
occasion by the parish Ladies Auxiliary at `Bagramian’ Hall. On this day,
similar such events will take place at all Prelacy churches.

GLENDALE ACYA GATHERING AND LECTURE

The Armenian Church Youth Association (ACYA) Glendale chapter has organized
a youth gathering and lecture to take place at `Armenak Der Bedrossian’ Hall
of St. Mary’s Church on Saturday, March 10th. Very Rev. Fr. Barthev
Gulumian will speak on the topic `How the youth can find God in a crisis’.
All Prelacy youth group members are invited to attend. A question and
answer session will follow the lecture.

ORIENTAL ORTHODOX SUNDAY SCHOOLS MEETING

The regular meeting of the Oriental Orthodox Sunday School committee will
convene on Saturday, March 10th, at 2:30 p.m., at the Western Diocese
headquarters in Burbank. The committee will examine issues relating to
upcoming joint Sunday School student gatherings.
By the ordinance of the Prelate, Very Rev. Fr. Muron Aznikian
will attend the meeting.

PRELATE REPRESENTED AT THE ARMENIAN AMERICAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE AWARDS GALA

On Friday, March 9th, the 4th annual business awards gala of the Armenian
American Chamber of Commerce will take place at the Omni Los Angeles Hotel
at the California Plaza. During the banquet, Mrs. Sona Medzadourian-Crow,
Mr. Vahak Hovnanian, and Mr. Hacop Baghdassarian will be honored as
businesspersons of the year.
Rev. Vazken Atmajian, Pastor of St. Mary’s Church, will attend
and convey the Prelate’s blessings and congratulatory remarks.

PRELATE REPRESENTED AT THE SHOUSHI
SCHOOL OF MUSIC BANQUET

The fourth annual banquet of the Shoushi Daniel Ghazarian School of Music is
scheduled to take place on the evening of Friday, March 9th, at Deukmejian
Hall of Ararat Home in Mission Hills.
Archpriest Fr. Vicken Vassilian, Pastor of St. Garabed Church,
will represent the Prelate and convey his blessings and best wishes.
From: Baghdasarian