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Inspirational Vergin Mazmanian, 103 JUNE 25, 2011 MirTHE rARoMENr IAN -Spe ctator Volume LXXXI, NO. 50, Issue 4194 $ 2.00 NEWS IN BRIEF The First English Language Armenian Weekly in the United States Monument to Fridtjof Bipartisan Nansen to Be Erected Inspirational Vergin YEREVAN (Armenpress) — The Committee for Fridtjof Nansen’s 150th Anniversary held a session Genocide this week, chaired by Armen Gevorgyan, Armenia’s Mazmanian, 103, Dies vice prime minister. An official said that during the session the com - mittee discussed a number of issues on organizing Genocide Survivor Resolution events dedicated to Fridtjof Nansen, a Norwegian diplomat, humanitarian, Nobel laureate and a great ARLINGTON, Mass. — Vergin friend of the Armenian people. (Virginia) Mazmanian, 103, a Introduced The committee agreed to erect a monument to Genocide survivor who never Nansen in Yerevan. shied away from telling her tale even when well past her century In House mark, died on June 14, at the Azeris Violate Ceasefire Lexington Health Care Center Schiff Cosponsors Resolution On Eve of Meeting after a lengthy illness. Urging Turkey to Return Her daughter, Grace K. BAKU (PanARMENIAN.Net) — More than 250 inci - David, suggested that the very Confiscated Church Properties dences of ceasefire violation by the Azerbaijani inner strength that allowed her armed forces were reported in the past week. WASHINGTON — Rep. Adam Schiff (D- mother to survive her horrific According to the Nagorno Karabagh armed forces, CA) last week introduced a bipartisan childhood during the Vergin the Azeri side fired more than 1,700 shots along the Mazmanian at the State House with House Resolution with Rep. Robert Dold Armenian Genocide was the Gov. Deval Pat line of contact, with the most intense violations rick in 2009, during the (R-IL) recognizing and commemorating the one that allowed her to live to annual Armenian Genocide program reported on June 12 and 14. such a ripe age. Armenian Genocide in the House of “Survivors are very strong, determined people,” Representatives. The David said. “What keeps these people alive? The love of the resolution calls on the preservation of our culture, heritage and Christianity.” president and the US UNESCO Objects to Her mother, she said, died without the realization of her government to proper - greatest hope: acknowledgement or an apology from Turkey. ly recognize and com - Jugha Reference at David took care of her mother in their two-family memorate the atroci - Khachkar Exhibit house, until she became too ill to be at home. She said ties that occurred in she has not been able to go to her mother’s apartment Armenia beginning in PARIS (HETQ) — Just hours before the opening of 1915, and which an exhibit on Armenian stone crosses at the United since her death, as the memories are simply too painful Rep. Adam Schiff and overwhelming. resulted in the death Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Vergin Simsarian was born in Amasia, historical of 1.5 million Armen- Organization (UNESCO) headquarters here on Armenia, in 1908. She had taken refuge during the ian men, women and June 16, the organizers removed all place names Vergin Mazmanian Genocide and hidden in a large pit in Deir Zor. However, children, as genocide. and an informational map, as well as a photo of the Turkish soldiers had started a fire in the pit, killing some “The facts of history Armenian cemetery in Jugha after the stone cross - of the children and forcing the others to run out. She was are clear, well docu - es had been destroyed by the Azerbaijani govern - rescued and brought to the Khrimian Hairig Orphanage. She found her only sister, mented and non-nego - ment. Gladys Yerchanging Simsarian, by chance at the orphange. The two were eventual - tiable — 1.5 million The exhibit is titled “Art of the Stone Cross: ly sponsored by the extended Simsarian family and brought over to the US. Armenians were delib - Armenian Holy Stones.” see MAZMANIAN, page 8 erately murdered in Arev Samvelyan, Armenia’s deputy minister of the first genocide of Rep. Robert Dold culture, said UNESCO officials not only found any the 20th century,” mention of Armenian crosses in Turkey and Schiff said. “If we are Azerbaijan objectionable but references to crosses to prevent future atrocities, we must con - in Karabagh as well. Program in Honor of Yerevan My demn genocide whenever and wherever it The Armenian delegation gave in on the Jugha occurs. It has never served our national issue but insisted on keeping the photo of the Love Held at Buckingham Palace see RESOLUTION, page 10 Armenian cemetery before the destruction of hun - dreds of stone crosses. LONDON — Charles, the Prince of Wales, honor. In response, UNESCO staffers removed the orga - hosted an Anglo-Armenian charity event at “It gives me the greatest pleasure to be nization’s official flag from the exhibit hall and did - Buckingham Palace on June 15. Project ini - able to welcome you all to this very special Elena Bonner, n’t show for the opening ceremony, claiming that tiator and main benefactor Armen occasion at Buckingham Palace,” said the they were otherwise engaged. Sarkissian, former prime minister of Prince of Wales in his remarks and Widow of Commenting on the flap, art historian Patrick Armenia and president of Eurasia House expressed his thanks to all the donors to Donabedian said, “I just want to underline that International, welcomed more than 250 Yerevan My Love and Dumfries House. Sakharov, Dies today UNESCO is far removed from fulfilling its guests to the program raising funds for the The evening started with a reception, fol - stated mission. They wanted to remove my exhibit charity Yerevan My Love and Dumfries lowed by a concert, especially put together just because the word Jugha was in the text.” on this occasion. Soprano At 88 Renée Fleming and violin virtuoso and conduc - By Alessandra Stanley tor Maxim Vengerov, took and Michael Schwirtz INSI DE part in the program, along with the Philharmonia Orchestra (London) and the BOSTON (New York Times) — Bach Choir. In addition to Elena G. Bonner, the Soviet dissident Handel, the choir sang and human-rights campaigner who Puppet pieces from the Armenian endured banishment and exile along liturgy, Surb, Surb and Hayr with her husband, the dissident Show Mer by Makar Ekmalian. nuclear physicist Andrei D. Sakharov, Vengerov played Komitas’s died here on Saturday. She was 88. page 12 Krung for the first time in The cause was heart failure, said his musical career, captivat - Edward Kline, a director of the ing the emotions of the audi - Andrei Sakharov Foundation. He said From left, Charles, the Prince of Wales, and Noubar Afeyan, Bonner had been in the hospital since at the charity concert and dinner at Buckingham Palace in ence. Fleming enthralled the February. support of Yerevan My Love and Dumfries House audience not only with her INDEX mesmerizing voice, but also Maligned by the government and, with her remarks. A banquet for much of her life, cast aside by soci - Armenia . 2, 3 House. ety, Bonner and her husband were Arts and Living . 13 followed in the Picture Gallery of the palace. Calendar . 17 Members of the royal family, dignitaries, Yerevan My Love is a heritage-led regen - considered royalty among the tight- Community News. 6 political, cultural and civic leaders and eration project dedicated to preserving knit and embattled community of dis - Editorial . 18 business leaders attended this event. architecturally-significant buildings in sidents who challenged Soviet International . 4, 5 Prime Minister of Armenia, Tigran Yerevan and putting them to use to authority. Sargisian, and mayor of Yerevan, Karen improve the lives of disabled children, see BONNER, page 11 Karapetyan, were among the guests of see BUCKINGHAM PALACE, page 11 2 S ATURDAY , J UNE 25, 2011 T HE A RMENIAN M IRROR -S PECTATOR ARMENIA News From Armenia Wikileaks Declassifies Document Fatah Delegation Visits On NATO-Armenia Relations Armenia YEREVAN (Noyan Tapan) — to the Minister of Foreign Affairs, will side in the end led to certain results. YEREVAN (armradio.am) — A delegation of the Wikileaks has declassified a new docu - continue to consider the situation as a Azerbaijan authorities didn’t allow the Palestinian Fatah party, led by Nabil Shaath, coor- ment on the NATO-Armenia relations test for the NATO,” Godfrey writes, not - Armenian officers to enter the territory dinator for international relations, arrived here on with the North Atlantic Alliance. As ing that the Armenian authorities want of their country, but in response to Sunday, June 19, to strengthen support for the azatutyun.am reports, Anthony to see whether the alliance’s leadership which several hours before the start of recognition of a Palestinian state. Godfrey, the then-temporary attorney of is able to show a political will if the the military exercises James Jounce, the The visit is part of preparations to obtain inter- the United States Embassy to Yerevan, Azerbaijan leadership doesn’t allow the chief supreme commander of the joint national support for UN recognition of a touched upon the existing mood in the Armenian officials to enter the country. armed forces of the NATO to Europe, Palestinian state in September. Armenian government on the threshold The American diplomat also notes announced the cancellation of the hold - The delegation was scheduled to meet with the of military exercises by NATO in Baku. that in summer 2004, the Armenian ing. high-ranking officials in Armenia, spokesman for The participation of the Armenian authorities actively pointed out the pos - In general, assessing the Armenia- the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Armenia Tigran military officers in those military exer - itive approach Yerevan displayed in NATO relations, the temporary attorney Balayan said.
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