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Anna Hakobyan Visits Boston APRIL 13, 2019 Mirror-SpeTHE ARMENIAN ctator Volume LXXXIX, NO. 38, Issue 4582 $ 2.00 NEWS The First English Language Armenian Weekly in the United States Since 1932 INBRIEF Armenia, Russia, Iran Anna Hakobyan Visits Boston And Georgia Consider Electricity Corridor YEREVAN (Arka) — Power engineering experts City of Smile Banquet Is from Armenia, Russia, Iran and Georgia are sched- Great Success with Keynote uled to convene in Tehran to discuss the creation of the North-South electricity corridor, Rima Speaker Hakobyan Yeganyan, a spokeswoman for Armenia’s Ministry of Energy Infrastructures and Natural Resources, WALTHAM, Mass. – The greater Boston told ARKA news agency on April 9. area Armenian community came together She said the gathering in Tehran is scheduled for as one in sup- April 15-17. It will bring together experts who will port of the wor- look into the technical aspects of the construction By Aram Arkun thy cause of of the North-South electric corridor. The meeting Mirror-Spectator Staff c o m b a t t i n g of experts will be followed by a meeting of deputy childhood can- energy ministers of the four countries, also sched- cer in Armenia. uled to take place in Tehran on April 29 - May 1. Close to thirty organizations and churches “The results of the meetings and discussions and came together along with many donors to the proposals will be presented during the ministe- make the April 5 banquet at the Westin rial meeting to be held in Tehran on June 16-18. Hotel in Waltham a successful effort at rais- After that the next steps and work on the project ing awareness of the problems of childhood will be specified,” said Yeganyan. cancer patients in Armenia and fundraising She said at the meetings the Armenian side will for the City of Smile Charitable Anna Hakobyan, third from left, with Ester Demirtshyan of City of Smile, accepts a gift from present developments, technical solutions and Foundation. The fact that Anna Hakobyan, Michael Aram, right, at the gala banquet on Friday night. other infrastructure issues on regional integration honorary chair of the City of Smile and trade in the electricity sector, which are con- Foundation and wife of Prime Minister sonant with Armenia’s policy. Nikol Pashinyan, headlined the program in words of welcome in Armenian. Ensemble, whose members danced in colorful her first visit to Boston added a definite The artistic element of the evening was pro- Armenian costumes under the supervision frisson of excitement to the atmosphere vided by the Erebuni Dance School and see VISIT, page 6 Turkey Police Arrest that Friday night. With at least 456 registered guests, the Smugglers with Westin’s banquet hall was packed as Sheriff Armenian Tombstone of Middlesex County Peter Koutoujian skill- Hakobyan Meets with Students at MIT, fully leavened the by nature often melan- ISTANBUL (Daily Sabah) — Anti-smuggling choly topics discussed with his customary St. Stephen’s Elementary School police seized a 2,000-year-old tombstone belonging humor as master of ceremonies. He to an ancient Armenian king in Turkey’s north- informed the guests that cancer, the second western Balıkesir province on Tuesday, April 2. leading cause of death in the entire world, By Alin K. Gregorian Acting upon a tip, security forces tracked two does not discriminate by race, geography, Mirror-Spectator Staff cars passing through the town of Edremit headed or any other boundaries and has affected toward western Çanakkale province. After search- all of our lives directly or indirectly. ing the cars, police found and confiscated a tomb- CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Anna Koutoujian pronounced that the night is stone reading “the final resting place of the Hakobyan, the wife of Armenian Prime about children, and the stark and upsetting Commagene Kingdom’s leader Antiacho” in Minister Nikol Pashinyan, spent an hour challenges that they face in Armenia. He Ancient Roman script. The smugglers were plan- on Friday, April 5, with Armenian stu- called upon all present to work together as ning to sell the artifact for 2 million Turkish lira dents enrolled at Harvard University and Armenians to help beat cancer in Armenia. ($281,000), reports said. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Knarik Nerkararyan sang the Armenian Four suspects were detained during the opera- (MIT), as well as staff from the two uni- and American national anthems and Fr. tion and police launched an extensive investigation versities. Vasken Kouzouian of Holy Trinity Armenian Anna Hakobyan at MIT (photo: Arkun) into the incident. see HAKOBYAN, page 8 Church of Greater Boston gave the invoca- Thousands of anti-smuggling operations are tion. Ani Arakelians Avakian spoke eloquent carried out across Turkey every year to halt the illegal sale of historical objects. The issue is cru- cial to a country that is home to about 3,000 Pres. Sarkissian ancient cities from 42 civilizations and whose tourism industry relies on its rich historical her- itage to attract millions of foreign visitors each Visits Jordan year. The Kingdom of Commagene, an Armenian AMMAN, Jordan (Armenpress) — Hellenistic era state located on southeastern President of Armenia Armen Sarkissian part of Anatolia, existed from 163 B.C. to 72 A.D. arrived in Amman, on April 5. On April 6, The famous Mount Nemrut that contains the Armenian president will participate in Commagene Kings’ statues is inscribed on the the World Economic Forum meeting on the UNESCO List of World Heritage. Middle East and North Africa. Sarkissian was invited to the event as a keynote speaker. Sarkissian visits banks of the Jordan INSIDE River where he toured in the area and made a note in the Book of honorary guests. The VEM Ensemble in action at Holy Trinity Armenian Church (photo: Aram Arkun) He noted that the careful attitude of Jordan towards such a global sanctuary is Healthy VEM Ensemble Tour of Detroit, see JORDAN, page 2 Montreal and Boston a Triumph Kufteh Page 14 WATERTOWN — The VEM Ensemble of the UCLA By Aram Arkun Herb Alpert School of Music inspired and moved large Mirror-Spectator Staff audiences in the hundreds in Detroit, Montreal and Boston as it completed the first part of its spring 2019 INDEX North American tour organized by the Tekeyan Arts and Living . 13 Cultural Association of the United States and Canada (TCA). Each stop included com- Armenia . 2 munity outreach sessions at local Armenian schools as well as a primary performance. Community News. 4 Each stop included a premiere of the Tekeyan Triptych, composed specially for VEM Editorial . 17 President of Armenia Armen Sarkissian and International . 3 by Artashes Kartalyan as the result of a grant from the Tekeyan Cultural Association. King of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan see VEM, page 9 Abdullah II bin Al-Hussein 2 S ATURDAY, A PRIL 1 3 , 2 0 1 9 T HE A RMENIAN M IRROR -S PECTATOR ARMENIA News From Armenia Ruling Bloc, Opposition Spar Concert Tribute to Aznavour to Take Place Over LGBT Rights in Armenia in May YEREVAN (RFE/RL) — Prime He said a security agency protecting our country. Under the HHK, a trans- YEREVAN (Armenpress) — A concert will be held Minister Nikol Pashinyan’s alliance the parliament building shared with gender person would not have deliv- at Karen Demirchyan Sport and Concert Complex on and the main opposition Prosperous him a list of individuals, including Lilit ered a speech in the National May 26 dedicated to the 95th birthday of the late Armenia Party (BHK) on Tuesday, Martirosyan, invited to the hearings, Assembly,” Sharmazanov said in a Charles Aznavour. April 9, continued to blame each which was signed by the Zohrabyan. video statement posted on Facebook During the concert, titled “For you, Armenia”, other for a transgender activist’s The prime minister went on to chal- on Friday. famous and beloved French singers, such as Patrick unprecedented speech in the lenge the BHK to consider recalling Pashinyan countered that Fiori, Helen Segara, Lea Castel, Slimane, Kate Ryan, Armenian parliament which caused a Zohrabyan and naming another head Martirosyan had legally changed her Raffi Arto and others will perform. The Armenian stir in the socially conservative coun- of the parliament committee. previous, male first name, National Philharmonic Orchestra, headed by Artistic try. The BHK’s parliamentary faction, Vagharshak, during Sargsyan’s rule. Director and Principal Conductor Eduard Topchyan, Pashinyan also hit out at former which is the second largest in the He said that the transgender activist’s will accompany the French artists. President Serzh Sargsyan’s National Assembly, was quick to hold current passport issued in 2015 iden- The singers will perform not only Aznavour’s Republican Party of Armenia (HHK), an emergency meeting and voice tifies her as a male. “Is it a common songs, but also their own. saying that some of its senior mem- strong support with its embattled practice among the Republicans to bers are “gay activists.” member. have men named Lilit?” he scoffed. The scandal broke out during last “Our faction believes that Naira “When I was telling them that ‘you Time for Armenia to week’s parliamentary hearings in Zohrabyan did not violate any rules of are gay activists’ they did not believe Yerevan chaired by Naira Zohrabyan, ethical parliamentary conduct or pro- Become Part of New Silk me,” Pashinyan added mockingly. the BHK-affiliated chairperson of a visions of the parliament statues or “They just can’t avoid that status and parliament committee on human any other legal norm,” said Gevorg Road this is further proof [of that.]” rights. They were attended by law- Petrosian, another senior BHK parlia- YEREVAN (Armenpress) — President of Armenia makers, government officials as well mentarian known for his vocal opposi- Meanwhile, the fallout from Armen Sarkissian received on April 4 a delegation led as representatives of local non-govern- tion to LGBT rights.
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