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THE ARMENIAN Ctator Volume LXXXVIII, NO JUNE 23, 2018 Mirror-SpeTHE ARMENIAN ctator Volume LXXXVIII, NO. 48, Issue 4543 $ 2.00 NEWS The First English Language Armenian Weekly in the United States Since 1932 INBRIEF Mirror Annual Summer Retired General Grigoryan Arrested for Vacation WATERTOWN — The Armenian Mirror-Spectator Stockpiling Military Weapons, Goods will close for its annual summer vacation starting July 2. The last issue before the vacation will be that of Son, Mayor of motion to launch criminal proceedings committee Gagik Melikyan said. June 30 . The first issue back will be that of July 21. against an arrested lawmaker, Manvel Grigoryan, who chairs the Yerkrapah You may submit stories, letters or inquires elec- Echmiadzin, Forced to Grigoryan, the former general, who is sus- Volunteer Union, a paramilitary organiza- tronically in the meantime. pected of embezzling military sup- tion, was arrested on Resign plies and illegal possession of June 16 by national secu- firearms. rity service in his home- Russia to Supply YEREVAN (Combined Sources) — Eighty Only three members of town of Echmiadzin Armenia with Jets one members of parliament on June 18 Parliament voted against prosecu- (Vagharshapat). voted to support the Prosecutor General’s tion, chairman of the counting The Republican Party YEREVAN (Armenpress) — Russia intends to sup- member is suspected in ply Armenia with Su-30SM fighter jets, Russian embezzling military sup- Kommersant reported this week. plies and illegal posses- It was noted that before the power change in sion of firearms. Armenia the leadership of the country cancelled Agents found huge the purchase of multifunctional Su-30SM jets until Gen. Manvel amounts of military 2024. The contract between the sides had been Grigoryan weapons and ammunition signed in 2012, but never went into effect. The and supplies, including newspaper informs that Russia plans to implement donated food, clothing and the contract with the new authorities of even include letters written by schoolchildren Armenia. It’s mentioned that Prime Minister of during the days of the April War of 2016. Armenia Nikol Pashinyan has already been inside The National Security Service (NSS) Su-30SM and called the fighter jet one of the best released on Sunday a video of searches car- in the world. ried out by its officers at Grigoryan’s vast villas and other properties. The donations were made by local com- Garo Paylan Says munities, public schools and other civilian institutions during the April 2016 war in Denial of Armenian Some of the items seized in Manvel Grigoryan’s home Karabakh. Genocide Is Insult see GRIGORYAN, page 2 ISTANBUL (Armenpress) — Turkish-Armenian Member of Parliament Garo Paylan (HDP), who is running for another term in the Turkey’s parlia- EU Said to Help ment representing Diyarbakir in the upcoming elec- tions, has commented about the investigation tar- New Armenian geting him under the infamous Article 301. Speaking to Bianet agency on June 19, Paylan claimed that it is the very same article which led to Government the murder of journalist Hrant Dink. Dink, the editor-in-chief of Agos, a bilingual YEREVAN (RFE/RL) — The European Turkish-Armenian newspaper, was gunned down Union (EU) stands ready to help Armenia’s in 2007. new government implement sweeping “I am under investigation for ‘insulting reforms promised by it, a senior member of Turkishness’ for speaking about the Armenian the European Parliament said after visiting Genocide. Actually, it is the denial of the genocide Yerevan on Monday, June 18. which is an insult. Call it whatever you want, deny- David McAllister, the chairman of the ing the great tragedy of the Armenians is an insult EU legislature’s Committee on Foreign to Turkishness,” he said. Affairs, headed a multi-partisan delegation “Thousands of our churches, schools, cultural of EU lawmakers who met with Prime legacy, we’ve lost everything. We are suggesting — Minister Pashinyan, other senior you yourself name the events. We are saying, name Armenian officials and civil society repre- the events based on a fair remembrance. However, sentatives during the visit. we always get the same answer: You cannot speak “This is a key moment for Armenia,” Nvair Beylerian (left) with supporters and running mate Richard Medina (right) at about this. And in such conditions, it turns out you McAllister said in a statement. “To the Upper Saddle River Memorial Day Parade. have insulted Turkishness. Turks are perceived in strengthen its democracy, to deepen its the world as genocide deniers. Whereas I, on the relations with the EU and to make long- contrary, I am fighting to eliminate this injustice lasting peace.” An Armenian Spirit Leads against Turks,” he said. “Armenia’s citizens want this, Armenia’s leaders have committed to this and the European Union will be there to help every To a Call to Serve step of the way,” he added. UPPER SADDLE RIVER, N.J. — The seeds of political activism were planted in Pashinyan reportedly briefed McAllister Nvair Beylerian at a young age. Waking up one Saturday morning as a 7-year-old, and either European Parliament members INSIDE she spotted her Armenian dance costume, resplendent and long-flowing with its on his government’s stated efforts to com- traditional embroidery, hanging on her bat corruption, break up economic monop- closet door, no doubt placed there by her olies hampering faster growth and democ- mother who taught folkloric dances from ratize Armenia’s political system. “The pur- By Taleen Babayan Let’s Meet at the highlands of ancient Armenia. That pose of our actions is to bring about real Special to the Mirror-Spectator dress was in fact more than a costume — changes in the country,” he was quoted by it echoed the cultural footsteps of a peo- his press office as saying. The Met ple who had been torn apart across the world, reincarnating a New Armenia in The Armenian premier said last week these pockets of the Diaspora. Rolling down New York City’s 5th Avenue on a that he will visit Brussels to meet top EU Map of Armenia float later that afternoon, young Nvair waved at the large crowds Page 14 officials later this month. as fellow Diasporans yelled into the microphone, “Recognize the Armenian The EU closely monitored the political Genocide!” crisis in Armenia sparked by former That symbolic afternoon, all those decades ago, is her first clear memory of wit- President Serzh Sargsyan’s attempt to hold nessing the power of activism right before her eyes. Those calls for justice con- INDEX on to power after serving out his second tinued to ring in her ear as she devoted a life not only to important Armenian Arts and Living . 14 presidential term on April 9. It repeatedly causes but to a greater purpose of education and equality — and it was a moment Armenia . 2,3 urged Armenian political factions to end Community News. .. 6 that stayed with her when she recently announced her run for Borough Council the standoff through dialogue. Editorial . 18 of Upper Saddle River, NJ, in an election set to take place in the fall. Donald Tusk, president of the European International . 4,5 see BEYLERIAN, page 13 Council, and Jean-Claude Juncker, the see EU, page 5 2 S ATURDAY, J UNE 2 3 , 2 0 1 8 T HE A RMENIAN M IRROR -S PECTATOR ARMENIA News From Armenia Retired General Grigoryan Arrested for Stockpiling Military Weapons, Goods New Japanese GRIGORYAN, from page 1 Meanwhile, the recently appointed In an apparently related development, Ambassador Meets “It emerged that Manvel Grigoryan chief of the Armenian army’s General security officers also searched the has used the food meant for soldiers Staff, Major General Artak Davtian, Echmiadzin villa of Manvel Grigoryan. Premier participating in the four-day April issued a statement on Tuesday implicit- They found and confiscated large quan- [2016] war for feeding animals of his pri- ly referring to the high-profile case tities of “illegally acquired” weapons YEREVAN (news.am) — Armenian Prime Minister vate zoo,” the NSS charged in a state- against Grigoryan. “Impunity is now a and ammunition before detaining the Nikol Pashinyan received on Tuesday, June 19, the ment. It said Grigoryan also misappro- thing of the past,” he declared. once powerful general, according to the newly appointed Ambassador of Japan to Armenia priated several vehicles that were donat- Davtian said the Armenian military NSS statement. Jun Yamada, the official website of the Prime ed to the military two years ago. will join the country’s new government Minister of Armenia reported. The video also featured many in waging an “uncompromising struggle War Veteran Pashinyan highlighted the activation and future weapons, including rocket-propelled even against seemingly insignificant The NSS raids and arrests came as development of Armenian-Japanese relations, adding grenade launchers, as well as several abuses.” Karen Grigoryan’s opponents stepped that there is the potential to raise the level of part- dozen expensive and retro cars parked up the pressure on the Echmiadzin nership to a new level. in the Arshaluys compound. It was swift- Parliament Vote mayor, blocking the town’s main streets He thanked the government of Japan for providing ly aired by Armenia’s main TV channels Grigoryan’s arrest was met by demon- in the morning. The embattled mayor Armenia with 200 new vehicles and hoped that the and widely shared on social media. strations held by supporters in of organized a counterdemonstration in close cooperation of the executives of the two states The Prosecutor General requested an Echmiadzin, while others demonstrated the town’s central square later in the will foster the attraction of Japanese capital to extraordinary sitting of the parliament for the arrest of his son, Karen, the long- day.
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