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Armenian Leaders Mark First Republic Anniversary JUNE 1, 2019 Mirror-SpeTHE ARMENIAN ctator Volume LXXXIX, NO. 45, Issue 4589 $ 2.00 NEWS The First English Language Armenian Weekly in the United States Since 1932 INBRIEF Mirror-Spectator Armenian Annual Summer Break WATERTOWN — The Armenian Mirror-Spectator Leaders will close for two weeks in July as part of its annu- al summer break. The last issue published before the vacation will Mark First be that of June 29, and the first edition back would be that of July 20. The office will be closed July 1 through 12. Republic Armenia Expects 150 Anniversary New Tech Enterprises YEREVAN (PanARMENIAN.Net) — During the My Step for Syunik Province business forum on YEREVAN — Armenia’s political and May 27, the director of the Union of Information religious leaders, including Prime Technology Enterprises of Armenia, Karen Minister Nikol Pashinyan, Karekin II, Vardanyan, announced that from 2019 to 2024, Supreme Patriarch and Catholicos of All From left, Parliament Speaker Ararat Mirzoyan, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, President 150 technology enterprises with a total turnover of Armenians and President Armen Armen Sarkissian and Catholicos of All Armenians Karekin II make their way to Sardarapat. 75 billion drams ($156 million) are expected to be Sarkissian attended the celebrations ded- founded in Armenia. icated to the Republic Day on May 28. As a result of the implementation of the project, The prime minister laid a wreath at the years after the collapse of the Cilician Yet, instead of defeat, a new country was 1,500 workplaces will be opened in the field of high monument to the memory of the heroes of Armenia, the Armenian people who had no reclaimed. “The unexpected happened, and technology and 3,000 more in related fields. Sardarapat battle and paid tribute to them. state, were subjected to a grave catastro- the Armenian people gained what seemed Then a memorial dedicated to the 140th phe, a genocide. 1.5 million Armenians to have been lost irrevocably, gained state- anniversary of the founder of the First were killed, hundreds of thousands of hood, acquired a state flag, acquired a state Canberra Genocide Republic of Armenia, Aram Manukyan, was refugees were in danger.” emblem, acquired a national anthem, which unveiled. The monument was created by expressed our nation’s The tragic, but at Commemoration on architect Hayk Asatryan and sculptor Artak the same time, the miraculous story of the June 5 Hambardzumyan. historical revival.” Afterwards, the Prime Minister watched the He praised the heroes and members of the CANBERRA, Australia (PanARMENIAN.Net) — exhibition titled “Formation of the First government of the First Republic, as well as The Armenian National Committee of Australia - Armenian Republic and the history of May’s Armenia’s population for supporting it. He Canberra Branch has organised the first Armenian heroic battles” at the National Museum of went on to praise modern officials and heroes, Genocide Commemoration event to be held in the History of Armenian Ethnography and from government to sports and science. Australian Capital Territory (ACT). It will take place Liberation Struggle of Sardarapat memorial. He concluded, “Long live freedom, long on June 5. In his speech Pashinyan praised the live the Republic of Armenia, live Artsakh, Dr. Panayiotis Diamadis, vice president of the anniversary, adding that the declaration of live the heroes of Sardarapat, Bash-Aparan, Australian Institute for Holocaust and Genocide independence “happened at a time when it Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan delivered an Gharakilisa, live fathers of the First Studies, will be the keynote speaker at the event. seemed that the history of the Armenian address at Sardarapat. Republic, we and our children will live and The Canberra Armenian Genocide people reached its final stage. Just 500 live free and happy in Armenia.” Commemoration Evening will take place at the Reception Room in the ACT Legislative Assembly. ALBIN LOHR-JONES PHOTO Janigian Discusses Beard Festival to Be With Poet Barba Life, Held in Armenia YEREVAN (Panorama.am) — The organizers of Novels, Literature “Yerevan Wine Days” have come with an idea to hold the first ever beard and moustache festival in Armenia in which men with beards and moustach- By Aram Arkun es display lengthy, highly styled facial hair. As the Mirror-Spectator Staff initiators report this unique and interesting event will break the stereotypes about standard festivals being held in Armenia and raise the country’s WATERTOWN – The Tekeyan Cultural attractiveness among tourists worldwide. Association (TCA) Boston Chapter and the According to the source, the festival will be held Armenian General Benevolent Union in the scope Fest Food & Eclectica Music Fest (AGBU) New England District presented a which is organized by Dolmama founder Zhirayr literary evening on May 15 with California Avanyan to be held at one of Dilijan restaurants on novelist Aris Janigian and Susan Barba, June 14, 15 and 16. poet and editor, as discussant. TCA Executive Director Aram Arkun The Armenian Ambassador to the US Varuzhan Nersesyan and Armenia’s Representative thanked the AGBU and its local chairman to the United Nations Ambassador Mher Margaryan with Bishop Daniel Findikyan Ara Balikian, traveling that week, for cospon- soring the event and introduced the new INSIDE chairwoman of the TCA Greater Boston Primate Findikyan Leads First Chapter, Dr. Aida Yavshayan, who presented the biographies of the two speakers. Janigian started the evening with a read- NAASR Service as Bishop at St. Vartan ing from his third novel, This Angelic Land. To make it accessible, he first provided NEW YORK — On Saturday, May 18, the Primate of the Eastern American Fundraiser see JANIGIAN, page 9 Diocese, Bishop Daniel Findikyan, celebrated his first Episcopal Badarak in America before more than a thousand ARAM ARKUN PHOTO worshippers who filled every crevice of Page 11 By Florence Avakian New York’s St. Vartan Cathedral. The tremendous excitement and enthusiasm was palpable as people from all over the United States filed into the Cathedral on a Saturday morning at 10 INDEX A.M. to see their beloved Primate celebrate his first Badarak as a bishop. Arts and Living . 13 Findikyan is the first American born Primate, now elevated to bishop, in the his- Armenia . 2,3 tory of the 121-year old American Diocese. Community News. 6 It took quite a while for the excitement shared by so many in attendance to quiet Editorial . 18 down for the special service. International . 4,5 see BISHOP, page 20 Aris Janigian, left, with Susan Barba 2 S ATURDAY, J UNE 1 , 2 0 1 9 T HE A RMENIAN M IRROR -S PECTATOR ARMENIA News From Armenia Armenian, Azeri FMs to Meet Again YEREVAN (RFE/RL) — The foreign Mammadyarov. Kommersant published on Monday, Foreign Minister Says ministers of Armenia and Azerbaijan The top Armenian and Azerbaijani Mammadyarov sounded cautiously opti- will meet again soon for further talks on diplomats most recently met in Moscow mistic about further Armenian- Genocide Recognition Is the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, the on April 15 in the presence of Russian Azerbaijani peace talks. He said Baku Armenian Foreign Ministry said on Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov. A joint last year give Armenia’s new leadership Priority Monday, May 27. statement released by the three minis- time to “familiarize itself with details of The ministry spokeswoman, Anna ters said the warring sides reaffirmed the negotiation process.” YEREVAN (News.am) — The recognition of the Naghdalyan, said Foreign Minister their stated intention to strengthen the “That transitional phase ended, and Armenian Genocide is not only on the agenda of Zohrab Mnatsakanyan and US, Russian ceasefire regime around Karabakh and negotiations resumed at the level of bilateral relations, but it is also one of the priorities and French mediators discussed in along the Armenian-Azerbaijani border both the leaders of the two countries of the Armenian foreign policy, Armenian Minister Yerevan preparations his “upcoming” and to take other take confidence-build- and the foreign ministers … The dia- of Foreign Affairs Zohrab Mnatsakanyan said in the talks with his Azerbaijani counterpart ing measures. logue is going on in the existing format Armenian National Assembly on Wednesday. Elmar Mammadyarov. Pashinyan and Azerbaijani President and under a particular agenda, which His remark came in response to comment on My The three mediators co-chairing the Ilham Aliyev briefly spoke with each gives rise to certain optimism,” he said. Step Bloc MP Vahe Hovhannisyan’s question on Organization for Security and other when they visited Brussels on Mammadyarov also stressed that confi- whether recognition of the Armenian Genocide by Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) Minsk May 13. It was Pashinyan’s and Aliyev’s dence-building measures by the two sides Beijing is possible, given the latest statement by Group visited the Armenian capital at the fifth face-to-face contact in about eight must go hand in hand with “real steps in Chinese President Xi Jinping about the “tragic start of a fresh tour of the Karabakh con- months. Their first meeting held in the negotiation process” and “elimina- events that occurred to the Armenian people” made flict zone. They met with Prime Minister Tajikistan in September was followed by tion of severe consequences” of the con- at a meeting with Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan. Nikol Pashinyan later in the day. a significant decrease in ceasefire viola- flict. That first and foremost means a In response, the minister noted that the issue of Naghdalyan gave no date of tions on the frontlines. “withdrawal of occupation forces from recognizing the Armenian Genocide is a problem of Mnatsakanyan’s planned talks with In an interview with the Russian daily Azerbaijan’s territories,” he said. restoring justice. “This is not only a question of Armenia or the Armenian people.
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