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Armenian Assembly Of America To Honor Longtime Leaders And Staff At Celebratio
It’s No Lie. It’s Triple-cross
By Jirair Tutunjian
The two mass murderers—Donnie Orangutan and Bibi Satanyahu—had
a top secret conversation a few hours after the joker, who leads the
United States, announced a two-week ceasefire with Iran.
B.S.: You are my hero and the hero of every Israeli, Jew, and people
everywhere who believe in international peace, justice, democracy,
human rights, and civilization.
D.O.: Slow down, Bibi.
B.S.: You are too modest, big brother. Your classic hot-and cold
treatment of the situation will be hailed in history books. Political
science students at universities around the world will study your
strategy. It’s truly a master class in deception.
D.O.: What you say is a fact …
B.S. :We will hold an international conference in Jerusalem and
dedicate a whole week to hail your genius.
D.O.: Enough already. You sound as if you want to become my PR man.
B.S. I would love to become your PR man once I get our judicial system
off my back. Perhaps you can use your clout with the Israeli judges to
go easy about my verdict.
D.O: You demand too much.
B.S.: With your soaring popularity in Greater Israel, no judge will dare
say “no” to you.
D.O. One day at a time.
B.S.: We, Israeli political and military leaders often spout war threats to
scare our enemies…the three Ks…Khamas of Gaza, Khizbillah of
Lebanon, Khoutis of Yemen. Did you know that about 1,500 years ago
one of our generals—a proto Zionist—beat the Yemeni army? Perhaps
he was the pioneer of the great Greater Israel sacred mission.
D.O: Bibi, you know something? You talk too much. When you leave
your job, you should consider becoming a DJ or circus carney. Anyhoo.
B.S.: The two-week ceasefire, as before, will give us a breather while
you replenish our arsenal.
D.O.: Hold on to your horses, B.S. What makes you think it’s a ploy?
Maybe, I am genuinely interested in peace with Iran.
B.S.: You are such a teaser, Mr. President. You are like Jello—nobody
can pin you down. You are like a smooth eel which no one can catch.
You are such a kidder.
D.O. : No joke. I want to make peace with the Ayatollahs.
B.S.: You can’t do that.
D.O.: Watch me.
B.S.: Should I mention that we have deadly files on you. Consider that
when President Clinton was beginning to listen to the Palestinian
terrorists regarding the future of Judea and Samaria, we reminded him
about his affair with our girl…Lewinski.
D.O.: B.S., you are B.S. A perfect tag for an obnoxious low-life.
B.S.: Don’t provoke me, Donnie. Remember that we have assassinated
Lord Moyne, Count Bernadotte, a bunch of Khisballah leaders, a gang of
anti-Semite ayatollahs. I can’t vouch for it, but they say we sent
President John Kennedy to Kingdom Come and Arafat on the same trip.
D.O.: Just as you are taping this conversation, so am I. I can easily order
my forces, the strategists, and intelligence officers to make a 180-
degree turn, join the Iranian forces and rain death on your puny,
misbegotten country which wouldn’t have been born had it not been
for President Truman and my people. Yes, before you alert your AIPAC
conspirators, the bought politicians and the Zionist media, Israhell will
turn into Cinemascope, VistVision, Technicolor Gehenna. Don’t
threaten me. I’ll turn you into Lot’s wife. Ha. Ha.
City of Glendale’s 25th Annual Armenian Genocide Commemorative Event
Glendale to Host 25th Annual
Armenian Genocide Commemoration
and Week of Remembrance Events
Glendale, CA – The City of Glendale will host its annual Armenian Genocide Commemorative Event on Thursday, April 23, 2026, at 6:30 PM at the Alex Theatre honoring the memory of the 1.5 million lives lost during the Armenian Genocide.
This year’s theme is “Memory Across Generations: The Continuing Echo of 1915,” and the program will feature performances by the AGBU Choir, Lilia Dance Group, Jivan Gasparyan Jr., musical selections by students from the Sonata Music School, and a short film produced by the City of Glendale Television (GTV) team.
The City of Glendale stands with the global Armenian community not only in remembering the events of 1915, but also in recognizing the ongoing importance of awareness and cultural preservation. Through this annual commemoration, now in its 25th year, the city remains committed to honoring the past while supporting a more informed future.
“By coming together to reflect, we honor the past while reinforcing our commitment to preserving these stories for future generations,” said Mayor Ara Najarian.
The City will also host a series of events as part of the Week of Remembrance, taking place from now through the end of the month. Highlights include Armat Celebrates the Culinary Diaspora of Armenia, taking place on April 11th, and a Lecture and Book Talk with Peter Balakian, taking place on April 30th. A full schedule of events is available at GlendaleCA.gov/AGCE.
This event is free and open to the public; however, tickets must be reserved. To reserve free tickets and view the full list of Week of Remembrance events taking place, visit: GlendaleCA.gov/AGCE.
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Glendale The city Will host Armenian: Genocide 25-th Annually Commemoration and: In memory of the week The events
GLENDALE, Calif. – The city of Glendale will host its annual Armenian Genocide Commemoration event on Thursday. On April 23, 2026, at 6:30 p.m., at the historic Alex Theater, to pay tribute to the memory of the 1.5 million lives lost during the Armenian Genocide.
This year’s theme is “Memory Transmitted Through Generations: The continuing echo of 1915”, and the program will include performances by the AGBU Choir, Lilia Dance Group, Jivan Gasparyan Jr., Musical performances by Sonata School of Music students, as well as a short film produced by the Glendale City Television (GTV) team.
The City of Glendale stands with the global Armenian community, not only remembering the events of 1915, but also emphasizing the continuing need to raise awareness and preserve cultural heritage. Through this annual commemoration, now in its 25th year, the city continues to stay true to its commitment to honoring the past and building a more informed future.
“By coming together to reflect and commemorate, we respect the past while strengthening our commitment to preserve these stories for future generations,” Mayor Ara Najarian said.
The city will also host a series of events as part of Remembrance Week, which will take place between now and the end of the month. Among the important events are “Root. “Celebration of the Culinary Diaspora of Armenia” event on April 11, as well as a lecture and book discussion with Peter Balakian on April 30. A complete schedule of events is available at GlendaleCA.gov/AGCE.
The event is free and open to the public, but advance reservations are required. To reserve free tickets and see a complete list of all Memorial Week events, visit GlendaleCA.gov/AGCE.
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About Glendale:
Known as the “Jewel City,” Glendale is the fourth largest city of Los Angeles County. With a population of almost 200,000, Glendale is a thriving cosmopolitan city that is rich in history, culturally diverse, and offers nearly 50 public parks & facilities, with easy access to a municipal airport. It is the home to a vibrant business community, with major companies in healthcare, entertainment, manufacturing, retail, and banking. Visit GlendaleCA.gov for more information and follow us on social media @MyGlendale.
About the Alex Theatre:
A beloved landmark in the heart of Glendale, the Alex Theatre has been a cultural hub since 1925. Known for its distinctive Art Deco architecture and iconic spire, the theatre has hosted a wide range of performances—from vaudeville shows and classic films to concerts, community events, and live theater. Operated by SAS, the Alex continues to be a vibrant gathering place for artistic _expression_.
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CC: Pasadena mechanic turns scrap metal into art
Armenian Heritage Month: Family auto shop becomes art studio
FOX 11’s Araksya Karapetyan introduces you to a local artist who is turning metal into sculptures, many of which are inspired by his Armenian roots.
The Brief
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- Pasadena mechanic Tro Khayalian is transforming discarded auto parts and scrap metal into intricate sculptures, blending decades of family labor with artistic _expression_.
- His work explores themes of Armenian identity, history, and survival, including pieces that memorialize the Armenian Genocide and the 2020 war.
- Khayalian’s latest collection, “Mind in Flight,” debuts April 9 at the Glenmark Hotel, featuring bird-inspired works symbolizing freedom and the human life cycle.
PASADENA, Calif. – Inside a family mechanic shop that has served the community for nearly 50 years, Tro Khayalian works with steel, heat, noise and muscle.
He bends pipe. He fixes exhaust systems. He stands among old bolts, worn parts, scraps of metal and tools marked by grease and repetition.
Then he transforms those same materials into something else. He makes sculpture out of what other people leave behind.
The shop sits at the center of his life. His father and uncle built the business after immigrating from Syria.
Khayalian grew up there, surrounded by repair work, family rhythm and the rough poetry of a place where damaged things come in and leave whole again.
That history matters because his art rises from the same instinct.
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He does not separate labor from imagination. He does not treat the shop as one life and sculpture as another. The metal, the memory and the family story all travel together.
He says the shop shaped him early, not only as a worker but as someone who learned to see discarded things differently. A car part did not have to remain a car part. A broken object could hold another shape inside it. That way of seeing now drives a body of work that transforms scrap metal, hardware and even kitchen utensils into art that feels both personal and hard-won.
“I’ve grown up here in the shop,” Khayalian said. “I also love doing art.”
That instinct never really left him. It deepened with time. What others might pass over as useless, he studies for line, weight, tension and possibility.
The castoff object becomes raw material for memory and invention.
“I used to see car parts differently when I was younger,” he said. “I get more satisfaction out of scrap metal car parts in my sculptures when I create them. Nothing is junk to me.”
Friends and relatives now save pieces for him, handing him spoons, screws, nails and scraps because they know he may find life in them again.
“All of a sudden you see friends and family with a bucket with their old spoons,” he said. “‘Hey, make something out of this.’ I use nails, screws, bolts, nuts, anything that I could get my hands on.”
By day, Khayalian handles exhaust systems, a trade that calls for control, force and an intimate feel for metal.
He bends tubing and piping with the practiced precision of someone who knows where a stubborn material will resist and where it will give. That work demands patience and touch.
It also helps explain why his sculptures carry such a strong physical presence. They do not feel imagined from a distance. They feel handled, wrestled with and coaxed into form. In his world, the mechanic’s workbench and the artist’s table sit close together.
The same eye that studies line and curve in metal for function studies it again for meaning.
“My specific job here is I do exhaust systems,” he said. “So, I bend tubings and pipings. That’s more like an art form for me.”
He does not romanticize the labor. Working with metal leaves a mark. The heat, the grinding, the repetition and the force all register in the body.
His art may carry grace and symbolism, but it begins in strain. It begins in hands that absorb impact and in a body that must stay with the work long enough to make hard material yield.
“It takes a lot of toll on your hands and your body for sure,” he said. “A lot of heat comes out to it. A lot of grinding.”
Still, he returns to sculpture for reasons that reach beyond craft. He describes the process as challenge, but also as release.
The same shop that demands physical effort also offers him a kind of stillness. In that sense, the work becomes more than design or assembly. It becomes a way to empty out what he carries inside.
“It’s a different approach that I take to it,” he said. “The meditation through my sculptures. It satisfies me a lot more.”
Much of that inner life flows toward Armenian identity and memory.
One sculpture honors the Armenian Genocide. It does not treat history as something distant or sealed away. It pulls grief and survival into the present through symbols that speak directly to heritage, language and endurance.
The Armenian alphabet appears in the work. So do forget-me-not flowers. Together they turn sculpture into testimony.
“I want to show people what we have endured with all the pain through one of my sculptures,” Khayalian said. “The base is a tree trunk. We have our Armenian alphabet. Our language. It’s dear to us. We’re eternally grateful for our culture and our Armenian people.”
That sense of inheritance runs through the entire story. The family business traces back to Syria. The art points toward Armenia. The shop stands in Pasadena, where many diasporic lives have taken root while still looking back toward other homes, other ruptures and other beginnings.
Khayalian’s work seems to hold those geographies together. It understands that home is not always one place. Sometimes it is a chain of places. Sometimes it is language. Sometimes it is memory.
Sometimes it is the act of making something lasting from fragments that remain.
His wife, Maral, says inspiration also enters through ordinary domestic life, through what the family watches, talks about and absorbs together. Even pop culture can spark a burst of work.
She recalls the household’s fascination with the Johnny Depp trial, which led Khayalian toward a run of pieces that turned obsession into object, including a large metal Black Pearl ship and a sculpture inspired by the Mad Hatter’s hat.
“It started with my obsession with the Johnny Depp trial,” Maral said. “It was 24-7 in our household.”
She said of the pieces, “They were labors of love for him.”
She says life with an artist keeps the house alive with surprise. She also points to more serious events that have pushed him inward and then back toward creation.
The 2020 war in Armenia, she says, stirred something in him and led him to make more work. Even when the pieces carry whimsy or fantasy, they remain tethered to grief, concern and the pressure of history.
“It’s actually quite exciting in our household to have someone as creative as Tro live with us,” Maral said. “Every day is something different.” She added, “Closer to the 2020 war in Armenia it just evoked something inside of him to start creating more.”
Today, a small room inside the shop serves as a kind of private museum.
Customers may arrive expecting a repair estimate and end up in a conversation about sculpture, symbolism and process.
It is a fitting image for the world Khayalian has built. The shop remains a place of labor and livelihood, but it also opens into something more intimate.
“It’s like my little museum,” Khayalian said. “Whoever comes and once their car is done, we totally forget about the payments and then we’re talking about my art.”
His newest exhibit, “Mind in Flight,” opens April 9 at the Glenmark Hotel in Glendale.
The collection centers on bird-inspired sculptures and reaches toward freedom, love and the stages of human connection.
Birds make an apt subject here. They suggest motion, release, migration and return.
For Khayalian, the series traces a human arc, from solitude to partnership to home and family.
“It’s going to be called ‘Mind in Flight,’ where trying to elevate your thoughts and your mind to be free,” he said. “It’s like a life story. We all start off alone, then we find our significant other, and then we build a home. Finally, you fall in love. You become a parent.”
In the end, Khayalian describes the impulse behind all of it in plain words. He has something inside that needs release, and sculpture gives it form.
In this Pasadena shop, that _expression_ arrives in steel and fire, in fragments joined together, in symbols of heritage and echoes of displacement.
“Whatever I have inside of me, I have to let it out,” Khayalian said. “The only way I could express is through my art.”
The Source: This report is based on direct interviews with Tro Khayalian and his wife, Maral in Pasadena. The information regarding the “Mind in Flight” exhibit and the artist’s creative process was gathered through first-hand observations of the workshop and the artist’s private collection.
168: Change the default selection rule. time works in favor of power
April 10, 2026
With the hasty amendment made by the National Assembly in the “Electoral Code”, the parties were forbidden to use names and personal names when participating in the elections. It is clear that this was done to prevent the registration of the electoral bloc named after Samvel Karapetyan. As always, the political field mostly reacted with more sharp humor, sarcasm, imaginings of new bans by Nikol Pashinyan…
But what happened should not be a joke, but a cause for deep concern for most humorists. This legislative change, testifying to the total lack of democracy in Armenia, means that Nikol Pashinyan does not care about any legal, democratic structure and will deal with the results of the elections in the same way as he dealt with the “Electoral Code” two days ago, to suit his political interest. The formation of the next government in Armenia will not be influenced by sociological polls, nor by the activity of people at the polling station, nor by the abundance of votes received by the opposition and by the CP.
The outcome of the elections will be determined by one factor: the degree of manageability of the vertical system of power by Nikol Pashinyan. Even up to today, that indicator is close to one hundred percent.
Moreover, the loyalty of the government and state systems is built on the principle “without Nikol, everyone’s destruction”. The effectiveness of the latter, that is, Pashinyan’s ability to manage the system, increases with the hardening of the opposition’s rhetoric. the more the opposition makes verbal threats, the more the instinct of the state administration system and law enforcement officers to devote themselves more selflessly to the reproduction of the government operating for self-preservation.
Nikol Pashinyan needs the total manageability of the vertical state system not only and perhaps not so much to satisfy his own despotism, but to ensure the reproduction of power. And while the opposition presents the amendment of the “Electoral Code” as a manifestation of Pashinyan’s fears (it’s not that Pashinyan is not afraid), he shows with this next step that he controls the political and state systems, all decision-making institutions to such an extent that after the elections, regardless of the results of the elections, he can even pass a new law through the still functioning National Assembly, by which he will declare himself Armenia forever. manager.
The West, within the framework of the fight against “hybrid war”, will applaud this, declaring that Armenia has turned from a bastion of democracy into a newly discovered continent of democracy. And Russia will “respect the election of the friendly Armenian people” with the calculation of calling the newly elected Pashinyan to Moscow once again at a convenient moment and establishing itself on him.
The opposition has very little time and less opportunity to change this status quo, which is getting stronger every day. It should lead to a change in the atmosphere of conducting the elections according to Pashinyan’s game rules and imposing a new rule. At this point, and with today’s toolkit from the opposition, that seems ridiculously impossible.
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The erasure of historical memory cannot be caused by short-term politics
April 10, 2026
A letter regarding the forced resignation of Gzoyan, director of HCTI
April 9, 2026
Committee on Academic Freedom
Armenia:
N.G. Nikol Pashinyan
Prime Minister of the Republic of Armenia
Your Excellency,
We are writing to you on behalf of the Committee on Academic Freedom of the Middle East Studies Association of North America (MESA) to express our concern regarding reports of the forced resignation of Dr. Edita Gzoyan, director of the Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute Foundation (AGMIF).
We urge his immediate reinstatement and demand that your office guarantee the academic integrity of the institute.
MESA was founded in 1966 with the goal of promoting scholarly research and teaching on the Middle East and North Africa. As a leading organization in the field, MESA publishes the “International Journal of Middle East Studies” and has around 2,800 members worldwide. MESA is committed to promoting academic freedom and freedom of expression both in the region and in the context of research in the region in North America and elsewhere.
Dr. Gzoyan, who was elected to his position in 2024 by the HCTI Board of Trustees, has played a key leadership role in promoting new scholarly work on the Armenian Genocide, modernizing the museum, and integrating young Armenian scholars into the global community of Genocide scholars.
His own scientific works on the transportation of children during the Armenian Genocide were published in leading European and American periodicals. He drew positive international attention to HCTI.
Therefore, we are concerned about press releases and communications with Armenian colleagues, according to which Dr. Gzoyan was forced to resign on February 10, 2026, after the official visit of US Vice President JD Vance to HCTI.
During that visit, he presented several of the Institute’s publications, including a paper on early 20th-century American press coverage of massacres and attacks against Transcaucasian Armenians that mention Nagorno-Karabakh, and accompanied Mr. Vance and his wife, Usha Bala Vance, to the museum and Armenian Genocide Memorial.
During the press conference on March 12, 2026, you mentioned that you demanded his resignation due to the inclusion of the Institute’s books on Nagorno Karabakh, calling those books “provocative” and contrary to Armenia’s foreign policy. Then, you bypassed the established procedure and appointed one of your staff members to the position of director, and replaced the members of the independent board of trustees with political allies.
We understand that Armenia is in a difficult and difficult situation, striving to end the multi-year conflict with Azerbaijan and reach a normalization of relations. However, erasure of historical memory cannot be caused by short-term political needs.
One of the goals of the establishment of HCTI was to confront the denial of the Armenian Genocide.
Protecting the academic freedom of scientists associated with one of the world’s leading research institutions and an important scientific resource dedicated to the study of the history and memory of the Armenians of the Ottoman Empire, HCTI, is essential.
We ask you to immediately restore Dr. Gzoyan to his position.
We urge the Government of Armenia to act quickly to remedy what appears to be an unjustified interference with scientific independence, and to restore the confidence of the international academic community in the institutional integrity of HCTI and Armenia’s commitment to academic freedom and fundamental human rights.
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Osama Makdisi
President of MESA
Professor, University of California, Berkeley
Judith E. Tucker
Chairman of the Committee on Academic Freedom
Professor Emeritus, Georgetown University
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Zhanna Andreasyan, RA Minister of Education, Science, Culture and Sports
Anahit Manasyan, RA Human Rights Defender
Michael O’Flaherty, Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights
International Association of Genocide Scholars (IAGS)
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The courts of RA on the working conditions of Romanos Petrosyan, the employees of “HETC”.
April 10, 2026
The courts of RA recognize Romanos Petrosyan’s orders to terminate the employment contracts of the employees of “HETC” PB company as invalid.
As a result of the invalidation of dismissal orders for about three dozen employees, in favor of the employees, the amount subject to confiscation reaches hundreds of millions of drams, which will directly harm the owners of the company.
Let’s also remind that the “Tashir” group of companies financed the excess part of the tariff-compensated salary fund, in the amount of about 12 billion AMD, from its own funds in 2016-2025.
At the moment, the company’s salary fund is also not within the limits of the tariff compensatory amount and is partially financed at the expense of the funds of the “Tashir” group.
It turns out that the member of the KP board is making pre-election bribes of the KP at the expense of the owners of the HEP, without agreeing with them.
It is already clear what purposes the HEC will serve…
HEC-Supervisory Committee
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We are dealing with a big fraud. This is not peace. they won’t buy peace
April 10, 2026
The main issue of the Armenian parliamentary elections is the issue of peace, and Nikol Pashinyan has decided to take the monopoly of peace into his hands, which is another big fraud. ANC Prime Minister candidate Levon Zurabyan announced this at the press conference.
According to him, they are the only political force capable of bringing sovereign peace to Armenia.
“Whoever correctly predicts the main issue of the elections and builds his election campaign correctly has the greatest chances to succeed in the given elections. Nikol Pashinyan knows this very well, that’s why he chose peace as his slogan. Pashinyan shows an empty heart with red hands and seems to understand that his hands are bloody,” said Zurabyan.
According to him, Pashinyan is trying to present the non-shooting for 1.5 years, several wagons of gasoline that came to Armenia through the territory of Azerbaijan as peace, but it is not peace.
“The peace treaty has not been signed because Azerbaijan refuses to do so, our prisoners continue to suffer in Baku prisons, in Azerbaijan they continue to talk about the liberation of the Zangezur Corridor, West Azerbaijan and other territories,” he said.
According to the politician, the “Trump’s Way” project, which is presented as a great breakthrough towards peace, has remained at the level of intentions and is losing its vitality as a result of recent developments.
Zurabyan reminded that Pashinyan was opening an “era of peace” even before the 2021 elections, but as a result Artsakh was destroyed and sovereign territories were seized from Armenia.
He emphasized that they are building peace, not begging for it, and no one has the right to make Armenia choose between sovereignty or peace.
The politician is sure that many problems in the country will be solved if the constitutional reform is carried out and the country returns to the semi-presidential system, which will restrain the authorities. According to Zorharbyan, the judicial system of Armenia should be freed from the control of the executive power, and the authorities should fear that they are under control.
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40 million to the same NGO. The “faithful” partner of the director of KGSMN and Matenadaran
April 10, 2026
The NGO in the National Creative Union will again receive a grant from the Ministry of Education and Culture. This is the fifth in the number of this h/c the grant from the Ministry.
With around 40 million drams (39 million 999,600 drams), the organization will once again hold the international conference titled “Images of memory: the latest technologies for preservation and restoration of handwritten and printed written heritage” in Matenadaran from April 27 to May 2.
Let’s note that the “National Creative Union” JSC, which, according to the data of the register of legal entities, has been in existence since 2006, has only been under the auspices of KGSMN grants since 2022, having already received 4 grants.
By the way, last year the amount of the grant was 40 million drams, in 2024 – 49 million drams. the goal was again the same seminar.
There were publications in the press about the former deputy minister of “National Creator” and KGSMS, then the director of Matenadaran. About the connection with Ara Khzmalyan.
Let’s remind: Khzmalyan was the deputy minister of KGSMS from 2019, and from July 2023 – the director of Matenadaran.
But these are not the only commitments that have been placed on the shoulders of the young and energetic Khzmalyan. in April 2025 became famous about the formation of the new Public Council.
Pashinyan announced that he submitted the candidacy of the president of the Public Council from among the 45 members of the Public Council elected in the prescribed manner to the consideration of the Government of the Republic of Armenia.
“Arayik Khzmalyan was appointed as the chairman of the Public Council by the government’s decision N 389-A of April 9, 2025. As of April 10, 2025, the Public Council is considered constituted,” the statement said.
This is how Khzmalyan’s new mission began, for example, he began to go with Pashinyan and the council created by Pashinyan and record what is not recorded by people who, for example, do not consider the Kirants wall a symbol of peace.
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