Author: Christine Harutyunian

U.S. House adopts pro-Armenian legislative initiative

Christine Harutyunian
Panorama, Armenia

The U.S. House of Representatives has approved a powerful amendment introduced by Congressman Brad Sherman (D-CA) to block the transfer of U.S. defense articles to Baku that could potentially be used by the Azerbaijani government to act upon its threat to shoot down civilian aircraft operating out of Artsakh’s Stepanakert Airport, reported the Armenian National Committee of America (ANCA).

The ANCA-backed amendment, offered to Fiscal Year 2020 National Defense Authorization Act, was cosponsored by Congressional Armenian Caucus Co-Chairs Frank Pallone (D-NJ) and Jackie Speier (D-CA) and Vice-Chair Adam Schiff (D-CA). The House adopted the measure with a vote of 234 to 195.

American-Armenian structures have welcomed the adoption of the measure.

Asbarez: Las Vegas Armenian Community Members Meet Congresswoman Titus

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From Left: ANCA Co-Chair Hera Armenian, Esq., Mikhael Oganesian, Honorary Consul Andy Armenian, Nevada Congresswoman Dina Titus, ANCA Co-Chair Lenna Hovanessian, Esq., Margo Chernysheva-Yepremyan, Esq. and Hovig Maknissian.

LAS VEGAS—Nevada Congresswoman Dina Titus was part of an eight member US delegation that visited Armenia, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine earlier this April.

The delegation members were part of the Congressional House Democracy Partnership and the purpose of the visit was to identify potential opportunities for impactful engagement by HDP with the Armenian Parliament.

Congresswoman Dina Titus and the delegates had meetings with Prime Minister Nikole Pashinyan, Armenia’s Parliament Speaker Ararat Mirzoyan, visited Etchmiadzin and met with H. H. Catholicos Karekin II, and visited the Armenian Genocide Memorial Monument at Dzizernagapert.

Las Vegas Honorary Consul Adroushan Andy Armenian, ANCA Nevada Co-Chairs Hera Armenian, Esq. and Lenna Hovanessian, Esq., along with Margo Chernysheva-Yepremyan, Esq., Hovig Maknissian, and Mikhael Oganesian met the Congresswoman to discuss her recent trip to Armenia.

Congresswoman Titus shared her positive impressions of Armenia, recognizing the geopolitical challenges facing the landlocked nation. Congresswoman Titus also indicated her support for future initiatives to strengthen US-Armenia ties and welcomed the involvement of the Las Vegas Armenian-American community in building stronger economic ties with Armenia. The Congresswoman also commented that she is keen in seeing increased US Economic aid to Armenia in the near future.

From military industry to passport. Polish companies are leaving Armenia

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Polish companies working in various fields are leaving Armenia. Reasons vary: debt pile up, unprofitability, contract cancellation or deal renewal issues. VERELQtried to find out the details of the problem.


“Lyubava-Armenia” – accumulation of debts


Former Ambassador of Poland to Armenia by Jerzy Marek Nowakowski according to information, the first joint Armenian-Polish military-industrial enterprise “Lyubava-Armenia”, operating in Armenia since 2014, is not ruled out to leave Armenia. The ambassador said this during a meeting with Armenian journalists at the Center for Eastern European Studies in Poland, “Aravot.am” writes.


The former ambassador noted that he learned about it in a private conversation and does not open many brackets.


Launched in October 2014, the company is engaged in the production of modern multifunctional camouflage technologies, producing products of military and technical significance: false targets, technical and other tents, helmets, body armor, camouflage nets, etc.


In 2017, it became known that the enterprise produces $1.7 million worth of equipment/equipment for the RA Armed Forces.



The Ministry of Defense of Armenia confirms that at the moment the Armenian-Polish enterprise “Lyubava-Armenia” continues to operate. “At the moment, the enterprise is working” – VERELQSpokesperson of the Minister of Defense said in a conversation with Artsrun Hovhannisyannoting that he cannot reveal other details about the relations and transactions between the company and the Ministry of Defense.


At the same time, our sources in the RA Armed Forces do not rule out that the “Lyubava-Armenia” company may leave Armenia. “The company’s products are quite expensive in terms of price-performance comparison, and the Armenian side is not so inclined in this regard to purchase the latter’s military equipment,” said our source.


The Armenian-Polish company has a trilingual website www.lubawa.am, whose “news” section has not been updated for more than 1.5 years. The latest news was posted on October 17, 2017, which mentions the then Minister of Defense Vigen Sargsyan about the meeting that took place about a month ago (September 27).


Meeting between Yaroslav Rukh, Deputy Foreign Minister of Poland Bartosz Cichoski and the Minister of Defense of the Republic of Armenia, October 17, 2017.


It is interesting that we could not find “Lyubava-Armenia” CJSC mentioned on the official website on the state registry website. Then it turned out that the company registered under 02810067 AVC code has a different name: “CHTG GROUP” CJSC. It was not possible to find out whether the company was initially registered under this name or whether it changed its name in the process. The phone numbers posted on the company’s website did not answer either. Maybe because of a holiday, not a working day.


According to the official website of the company, the enterprise is located in the city of Charentsavan, at Yesayan 2/1. In the SRC Taxpayer Search System, the status of the company is indicated as “active”. However, according to SRC data, the company has been operating at a loss for years. According to the data of 2016, it is 109th in the list of companies that declared a loss, with a negative index of 265 million drams. This is the data we were able to find from open sources.



Judging by the information provided by our source of the Ministry of Defense and the ambassador’s statement, it is no coincidence that the company wants to leave Armenia. It has been operating at a loss for years, the products of which the Armenian side does not consider it appropriate to purchase. One can only assume why the company, which suffered losses of hundreds of millions of drams in the last few years, now announces its departure from Armenia.


The question arises whether it is related to the revision of the rules of the game and the significant limitation of corruption schemes in Armenia after the change of power, especially in the Ministry of Defense.


Tank modernization was entrusted to Russia


In general, the military-industrial cooperation between Armenia and Poland intensified after 2011, and in May 2013 there were reports in the media that Armenia was preparing to upgrade its T-72 tanks to the PT-72U level offered by the Polish company Bumar Łabędy.


Then “Lyubava-Armenia” CJSC appeared on the Armenian market. And before that, according to the report published by the Russian “World Arms Trade Analysis Center”, 84 T-72 Armenian tanks will be upgraded to the PT-72U level. The Polish side, which has a rich experience in the production of tanks, signed a corresponding contract with Armenia for the modernization of tanks in 2012, RazmInfo reminds.


According to the contract, 24 out of 84 tanks will be modernized during 2013, and 30 tanks each will be modernized in 2014 and 2015. The total value of the contract was 100 million US dollars. According to various estimates, the Armenian army has around 530-540 T-72 units in total.



The interest of the Armenian side in Polish modernization began in 2011, when the Minister of Defense of Armenia Seyran Ohanyan During the “MSPO-2011” military-industrial exhibition, he visited the booth of the Polish company “Bumar Łabędy”, where he was presented with the PT-72U tank.


However, the Armenian-Polish cooperation did not reach its logical end. In 2016, it became known that Armenia and Russia started a large-scale modernization program of the T-72 main battle tanks of the RA Armed Forces. Tanks should be upgraded to T-72B4 level.


At that time, referring to the issue of the modernization of the tanks of the Armenian Armed Forces, Ambassador Jerzy Marek Nowakowski emphasized that the decision of the Ministry of Defense of Armenia to entrust the modernization of tanks belonging to Armenia to Russia “was accepted by the Polish side with pain, but with understanding.”


Ambassador Jerzy Marek Nowakowski also mentioned in a conversation with journalists that Polish businessmen are closely following the success of the joint military-industrial enterprise “Lyubava-Armenia”. According to him, it can be a “litmus test” for Polish investments in Armenia


“Our businessmen are closely following the success of the Lyubava-Armenia partnership. Is it a profitable, profitable investment? It can be said that for them “Lyubava” is an example, an experience of how to operate successfully in the Armenian market,” said the ambassador, who now, three years later, is already retired and announces the possibility of the company leaving Armenia.


They do not produce biometric passports either


Another problematic example of a Polish company operating in Armenia is PWPW S.A., which prints biometric passports and identification cards. company transactions. During the processing of those transactions, serious problems arose when in 2016 the Polish side stopped printing biometric passports and identification cards by order of the Armenian police.



In 2011, a contract was signed between the parties, by which the company was obliged to supply 304 thousand biometric passports to the RA police. The contract had expired. An interim solution was found, but in 2017 On January 1, the contract signed by the state with the Polish company PVPV finally expired.


Already at the end of 2019, it became known that a new contract was not signed with the new supplier. “The purchase procedure, as well as the introduction and operation of the new system, will require a long period of time, in our estimation, up to 2 years”, – the RA deputy police chief announced in the National Assembly. Hovhannes Kocharyan.


That was the reason why the National Assembly adopted the draft law presented by the Government, which proposed to extend the period of validity of old passports of RA citizens by 2 years.


In the end, we can only add that, judging by the data collected from open sources, Polish companies leave the Armenian market one by one for various reasons. Currently, among the major Polish companies, the company “Lot Polish Airlines” continues to operate in the Armenian market.


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Armenpress: Armenian PM receives CSTO Secretary General candidate

Christine Harutyunian

Armenian PM receives CSTO Secretary General candidate

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YEREVAN, MAY 28, ARMENPRESS. Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashiyan held a meeting on May 28 in Yerevan with Stanislav Zas, Belarus’s Secretary of Security Council and candidate for Secretary General of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO).

Ambassador of Belarus to Armenia Igor Nazaruk was also present at the meeting, the PM’s office said in a readout.

The CSTO chief’s office is vacant since November 2018, when Secretary General Yuri Khachaturov, an Armenian general, was dismissed by the organization following Yerevan’s initiation of criminal proceedings against him in a case concerning the 2008 post-election unrest. In 2008, Khachaturov was commanding the Yerevan garrison of the military.

The PM welcomed the officials and highlighted the fact that CSTO member states reached agreement regarding the candidacy for Secretary General.

“I am happy that we reached agreement that from January 1, 2020 you will assume the CSTO Secretary General office at the principle of rotation. The CSTO is one of the most important elements of Armenia’s security system and Armenia is interested in the productive work of the Organization. CSTO activities in our region must contribute to maintenance of balance and peace in our region,” Pashinyan said.

The Armenian PM added that CSTO members must act in conformity with the spirit and letter of the Organization’s charter, and that Armenia is committed to these principles. He expressed hope that Stanislav Zas in his future capacity will contribute to cooperation in the security sector between member states and raising effectiveness of collective security.

Zas thanked PM Pashinyan for the reception and for Armenia’s approval of his candidacy. He noted that during his tenure he will make maximum efforts to increase the productivity of the CSTO activities and to develop cooperation between its member states.

The sides also discussed issues concerning cooperation within the Organization. Security challenges, military-technical partnership, maintenance of military balance in the region and other topics were addressed.

Pashinyan added that Armenia is set for continuing joint work in an atmosphere of dialogue for developing a working agenda and mutually beneficial cooperation.

Zas once more emphasized that by assuming the Secretary General position from 2020 he will serve for the realization of these very goals and will strengthen security partnership between the member countries.

Stanislav Zas also congratulated the PM and the Armenian people on the occasion of Republic Day, May 28th, wishing peace, welfare and prosperity.

Edited and translated by Stepan Kocharyan




Sports: Azerbaijanis insist: Armenian player would have been safe

Christine Harutyunian
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Arsenal midfielder Henrikh Mkhitaryan, whose decision not to go to Baku for a key soccer match has created a wave of bad PR for Azerbaijan. (photo: Arsenal)

Following the decision by an Armenian soccer player to skip a championship match in Baku over concerns for his security, many Azerbaijanis complain that the safety issues have been overblown and that the episode is unfairly tarring the country.

The brouhaha over Arsenal midfielder Henrikh Mkhitaryan’s decision to skip the May 29 Europa League final has brought a wave of bad publicity to Azerbaijan, and has occasioned a wave of defensive – and occasionally counteroffensive – reactions. Given that Azerbaijan guaranteed Mkhitaryan’s safety while in Baku and he declined to come regardless, many Azerbaijanis have asked: why are we the ones being blamed?

An Azerbaijan tourism promotion account, Come to Azerbaijan, tweeted video from the 2015 European Games in Baku, when an Armenian boxer was personally awarded a medal by President Ilham Aliyev. When the boxer’s name was announced, there were boos and whistles from the crowd, but Aliyev quieted them, and smiled broadly and gave a thumbs up as the crowd began to cheer instead. “Anyone still believes in Armenian footballer’s claims about ethnically motivated attacks on him in Baku? Show them this,” the account tweeted.

(It should be noted that Mkhitaryan never made a claim about “ethnically motivated attacks.” His statement announcing his withdrawal from the match offered no specific justification. But many sources had reported that security was his primary concern. As for the “exemplary multicultural and tolerant country,” see below.)

Others took offense at the often overblown British media coverage of the case; one Orientalizing trope that has become common in the British press is that Baku is “further east than Baghdad,” implying a sort of Eastern barbarism at the root of the matter. Erkin Gadirli, a leading member of the opposition party ReAl, said the coverage was “very dishonest” and “full of stereotypes.”

Other Azerbaijanis pointed out the utter improbability of the government allowing an attack on a player at the sort of high-profile event that means so much to Baku. “At least government is not that dumb to let a world famous footballer to get killed in a stadium,” turning the glitzy spectacle “to a catastrophic hate murder scene,” tweeted social media personality Cavid Aga.

Many blamed Mkhitaryan himself for ginning up the controversy. After Arsenal qualified for the final, forcing him to make a decision about whether to come, Mkhitaryan had delayed his official announcement for several days after the Azerbaijani government had guaranteed his security if he were to come, contributing to a sense among many that he never intended to come and instead sought to milk the controversy to gain points against Azerbaijan, the country with which his country has been at war for more than a quarter century.

“Mkhitarian’s refusal to come has nothing to do with danger,” wrote investigative journalist and activist Khadija Ismayilova on her Facebook page. “He was not in danger at all. He used opportunity to start discussion about ‘savage Azerbaijanis.’ This was a political move and he used football for dirty political purpose. A racist purpose. We are not animals and we don’t bite.”

The news website Haqqin, connected to Azerbaijan’s security services, wove an elaborate tale of a conspiracy at European soccer’s governing body, UEFA, noting that Mkhitaryan’s sister works there. “Therefore, behind the Armenian footballer stand some powerful people, who can certainly ‘suggest’ to Arsenal how to act in this situation so as to inflict the maximum damage to Azerbaijan,” Haqqin wrote.

Most of these defenses elided a separate but related (and indefensible) issue: the fact that soccer fans of Armenian origin were denied visas (according to an Arsenal fan group) because of Baku’s long-standing policy of refusing entry to anyone with an Armenian name, no matter what passport they hold. (They make exceptions for special cases, which would have included Mkhitaryan, and in those cases they provide constant security escorts for the Armenian visitors.)

Azerbaijan’s ambassador to the UK also didn’t help matters when he said that, while Mkhitaryan’s safety would have been guaranteed in Baku, there may have been caveats. “My message to Mkhitaryan would be: you’re a footballer, you want to play football? Go to Baku you are safe there, if you want to play the issue then that’s a different story,” the ambassador, Tahir Taghizadeh, told Sky News.

So regardless of what Mkhitaryan’s motives might have been, an Armenian can hardly be blamed for being reluctant to visit Azerbaijan in this environment. What has yet to be determined is whether Baku will, in light of the PR disaster they are facing as a result of all this, start to create the conditions in which Armenians have no reason not to come to Azerbaijan.

Azerbaijani Press: Pashinyan vs. Karabakh clan, Armenia may plunge into anarchy

Christine Harutyunian
AzerNews, Azerbaijan
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Relations between Yerevan and the illegal regime in occupied Karabakh are becoming cooler day by day.

Armenian PM Nikol Pashinyan did not calculate his strength when he decided to imprison ex-President Robert Kocharian

In the face of Kocharyan, he came out against the Karabakh clan – a gangster group consisting of people, whose hands are in the blood of innocent Azerbaijanis and robbed Armenia for 20 years of economic activity in this country.

Pashinyan’s frequent visits to the occupied Karabakh even do not melt the ice between Yerevan and the puppet regime in Khankendi. The Karabakh clan very clearly rallies against the new authorities and openly contradicts Yerevan.

When previous President Serzh Sargsyan left power without resistance, Pashinyan had to immediately start taking measures to prevent the future threat, to develop a strategy, to gather around him same supporters and sensible politicians. Instead, he engaged in the arrest of Kocharian, which is just an act of revenge for the failure of opposition in 2008. Pashinyan could not calculate the consequences of certain steps, and now Robert Kocharian’s case is more and more complicating his life.

Founder of the clan, ex-President Kocharyan, had too many supporters. On the eve of the trial, there was formed a Union of Kocharyan’s supporters, which later attached the Prosecutor General’s office. The appearance of former and current separatist leaders Bako Sahakyan and Arkady Ghukasyan in court has narrowed the room for maneuver for the new authorities.

Sahakyan and Ghukasyan made a guarantee and pledge in favor of former Armenian President Robert Kocharyan. They signed a guarantee in the courtroom and contributed 500,000 drams (a little more than $1,000), according to the Armenian media.

The appearance of separatists in the courtroom caused a stir. According to Armenian media, the number of supporters of Kocharyan doubled around the court building. It was quite expected that riots could arise in Yerevan in case of refusal to release Kocharyan.

After coming to power, Nikol Pashinyan tries to show the separatists that Yerevan continues to support them. The requirement to involve occupied Karabakh in the negotiation process is bright evidence. The Karabakh clan now seeks to seize power, and Pashinyan with his meeting passions is only an obstacle.

Pashinyan has almost lost control of the situation. The ongoing processes in Karabakh are very disadvantageous for the Yerevan authorities.

Meanwhile, Serzh Sargsyan continues travelling in the occupied Azerbaijani regions, meeting with his colleagues and giving interviews. While Sargsyan is active in the occupied territories, Pashinyan is unable to control these processes. Karabakh is a dark forest with war criminals, where a large number of weapons and shadow capital have accumulated. It is really a grey area with their dark laws as well as any separatist entity.

Kocharyan’s trial showed that these processes are gaining momentum. The confrontation between Armenia and Karabakh is growing, the gap between them is widening. Creating complexity for Kocharyan, Pashinyan faced a huge problem both with the Karabakh clan and with Russia. Armenian PM cannot openly declare a fight to the clan, as it will be perceived in the Armenian society as an extremely “unpatriotic” step.

In this situation, the only way to keep Armenia from self-destruction is to resolve the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.

It is unlikely that Pashinyan wants to destroy Armenia. Despite all his shortcomings, he is the head of this country, who really understands the main threats to its future. All his statements on the Karabakh issue prove once again that for Pashinyan Karabakh is not Armenia, but only an extra headache. He knows that it is necessary to withdraw troops, return lands, negotiate with Azerbaijan, and the Karabakh criminals should be trialed not in Yerevan, but in Baku.

However, he is unable to destroy what was built by the Karabakh clan alone. Pashinyan is unlikely to find supporters inside the country because the war against the Karabakh clan will be presented by propaganda and perceived by the Armenian society as a war against “free Karabakh”.

Therefore, timely establishment of relations with Baku is extremely necessary for Pashinyan to eliminate a threat of anarchy that overtakes him. For this end, he should withdraw the armed forces from Karabakh and agree with Baku’s proposal on the autonomy of Karabakh within Azerbaijan.

Armenia was once again on the verge of a “revolutionary situation” on May 20. Supporters of Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan in the morning began to block the entrances and exits of the buildings of the capital’s courts. Pashinyan’s announcement of an action to block the country’s courts destabilized the situation and proved once again that both the former and current Armenian authorities are unable and are not ready to resolve issues within the legal framework.

Pashinyan uses a crowd of people as tools to solve his problems. Despite the rainy weather, civil activists blocked the buildings of the constitutional court on Baghramyan Avenue and the court of General jurisdiction, which decided to release former President Kocharian on May 18.

Оne of the protesters said that he came at the call of Nikol Pashinyan and will wait for his instructions.

Earlier, Armenian PM called on the country’s citizens to block all entrances and exits of the courts of the Republic. Commenting on the court’s decision to release ex-President Robert Kocharian from arrest, Pashinyan said that the second and most important stage of the revolution is maturing in the country.

Having no authority in his country, Pashinyan decided to resort to his proven method – to call people to the streets.

However, the desire of Armenians to revolutions is not surprising. Every time people go out on the streets, they hope to attain prosperity finally. For Pashinyan, it is a mean to solve his next task at the expense of protesting crowd.

After the April coup in 2018 in Yerevan and the post-revolt processes, it was quite clear that sooner or later Pashinyan would face opposition in the form of the previous authorities. The lack of political experience and talent for politics had to force him to take inadequate steps to protect his power. So, he had no choice but to announce the “second stage of the revolution”.

Garo Paylan plans to file complaint over religious conversion of 13 year-old child, assessing it child exploitation

Christine Harutyunian

Garo Paylan plans to file complaint over religious conversion of 13 year-old child, assessing it child exploitation

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YEREVAN, MAY 14, ARMENPRESS. Member of Turkish parliament of Armenian origin Garo Paylan plans to file a complaint against Turkish broadcaster Nihat Hatipoğlu, ARMENPRESS reports Paylan wrote on his Facebook page, referring to the religious conversion of 13 year-old Armenian boy Artur on a live broadcast.

“I have met with the mother of Artur, exploited by Nihat Hatipoğlu. She informed that her son appeared in that program without her permission”, Paylan wrote, adding that tomorrow he will file an official complaint to Supreme Council for Radio and Television and Prosecution against this program that exploits children.

During the program Nihat Hatipoğlu had announced that he has the permission of Artur’s mother, but the mother, Alina Yengibaryan, informed that her son converted to Islam without her knowledge.

The family moved to Turkey 13 years ago. According to the mother, her son and her family are Christian.

Edited and translated by Tigran Sirekanyan




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                Participating in the event are our youth with recited poem, who
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Inaugural meeting of Government-Church relations task group held in Yerevan

Christine Harutyunian

Inaugural meeting of Government-Church relations task group held in Yerevan

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14:46, 3 May, 2019

YEREVAN, MAY 3, ARMENPRESS. The inaugural meeting of the task force dealing with the Government-Church relations affairs took place on May 3, the Mother See of Holy Etchmiatsin said.

The first session was chaired by Armenian Apostolic Church leader Catholicos Garegin II and Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan.

Edited and translated by Stepan Kocharyan




Armenian President to attend World Economic Forum meeting in Jordan

Christine Harutyunian

Armenian President to attend World Economic Forum meeting in Jordan

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15:57, 4 April, 2019

YEREVAN, APRIL 4, ARMENPRESS. President of Armenia Armen Sarkissian on April 5 will depart for the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan on a working visit, the Presidential Office told Armenpress.

The World Economic Forum (WEF)’s meeting on Middle East and North Africa will take place in the capital city of Amman from April 5 to 7 where the Armenian President is invited as a Speaker.

The WEF meeting has been organized by the support and auspices of King Abdullah II bin Al-Hussein of Jordan and Queen Rania Al-Abdullah.

The meeting will be attended by more than 1000 leaders of government, business, civil society, faith and academia who will discuss the challenges facing the region. In particular, the meeting participants will focus on energy security, clean and renewable energy, cyber-security and other issues.

The Armenian President will deliver remarks at the discussion titled “New Energy for Middle East”.

Armen Sarkissian will also meet with WEF founder and executive chairman, famous economist Klaus Schwab.

During his working visit in Jordan the Armenian President will also meet with the country’s top leadership, as well as business and local Armenian community representatives.

Edited and translated by Aneta Harutyunyan