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Honorary Council Members of HONORARY COUNCIL Emanuele ALIPRANDI (Italy) Academic, author, member of the Council of the Armenian Community of Rome and of Iniziativa italiana per il Karabakh Valerie BOYER (France) Member of the National Assembly of France: she submitted the bill penalizing denial of the Armenian Genocide Bernard COULIE (Belgium) Former Rector of the Université catholique de Louvain (UCL); ordinary Professor of Armenian, Georgian and Byzantine studies at UCL Emilia DE BIASI (Italy) Member of the Italian Senate (Partito Democratico) Co-Chair of the Italy-Armenia Inter-Parliamentary Friendship Group Emmanuel DE BOCK (Belgium) Member of the Parliament of the Brussels-Capital Region (DéFi) Frank ENGEL (Luxembourg) Member of the European Parliament - EPP Group; Member of the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE); Honorary Consul of Armenia to Luxembourg; Chair of the European Parliament Friendship Group with Nagorno-Karabakh Tessa HOFMANN (Germany) Scholar of Armenian studies and sociology, PhD, research scholar at the Freie Universität Berlin; Chairperson of Working Group “Affirmation” – Against Genocide, for Reconciliation Sophie JOISSAINS (France) Member of the Senate of France (Radical Party/ALDE) Deputy Mayor of Aix-en-Provence Pierre GURDJIAN (Belgium) Philanthropy Partner at RVVZ Foundation; President of the Board of Directors of ULB, former Senior Partner at McKinsey & Co. Josu JUARISTI ABAUNZ (Spain) Member of the European Parliament - GUE/NGL Group; Member of the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety (ENVI) Ioannis KASOULIDES (Cyprus) Minister of Foreign Affairs of Cyprus (Democratic Rally/ EPP), former Member of the European Parliament Andrey KOVATCHEV (Bulgaria) Member of the European Parliament - EPP Group; Member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs (AFET); Member of the Subcommittee on Human Rights (DROI) Riccardo MIGLIORI (Italy) Former President of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly; former member of the Italian parliament (Popolo della Liberta'/EPP) Péter NIEDERMÜLLER (Hungary) Member of the European Parliament - S&D Group; Member of the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE) Flavia PICCOLI NARDELLI (Italy) Member of the Italian Parliament (Partito Democratico/ PES); Co-Chair of the Italy-Armenia Inter-Parliamentary Friendship Group Sergejs POTAPKINS (Latvia) Member of the Latvian Parliament (Concord/PES); Chairman of the Group for interparliamentary relations with Armenia; Secretary of Foreign Affairs Committee Stephen POUND (United Kingdom) Member of the British Parliament (Labour Party/PES); Vice-Chair of the British-Armenian All-Party Parliamentary Group Michèle RIVASI (France) Member of the European Parliament - Greens/EFA Group; Member of the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety (ENVI) Hans-Jochen SCHMIDT (Germany) Former Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany to Armenia Jaromír ŠTĚTINA (Czech Republic) Member of the European Parliament - EPP Group; Member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs (AFET) Charles TANNOCK (United Kingdom) Member of the European Parliament - ECR Group; Member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs (AFET) Josep-Maria TERRICABRAS (Spain) Member of the European Parliament - Greens/EFA Group; Member of the Committee on Constitutional Affairs (AFCO) Eleni THEOCHAROUS (Cyprus) Member of the European Parliament - ECR Group; Member of the Committee on Development (DEVE) Varujan VOSGANIAN (Romania) President of the Union of Armenians in Romania; member of Romanian Parliament (ALDE); former Minister of Economy John WHITTINGDALE (United Kingdom) Member of the British Parliament (Conservative Party/ ACRE); Chair of the British-Armenian All- Party Parliamentary Group .
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