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ANCA Joins Kurdish American Protest for Reinstatement of HDP Mayors
A scene from the ANCA-supported protest at the Turkish Embassy in Washington, DC calling for the release of the unjustly jailed mayors of Amed, Mardin and Van. WASHINGTON, DC—The Armenian National...
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Armenian Government Still Undecided on Amulsar Issue
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan pictured during a meeting on the Amulsar project (September 4, 2019) YEREVAN—The Armenian government has yet again postponed any ruling on the safety of the controversial...
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Pashinyan: “No legal basis to halt Amulsar mine”
Pashinyan pictured during a meeting about the Amulsar project (September 7, 2019) YEREVAN—Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan announced on Monday that “there is simply no legal basis to block construction...
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Support the Hairenik Weekly, Armenian Weekly on their 120th, 85th Anniversaries
“At a time when the ethnic press is teetering on the brink of change, both the Armenian Weekly and Hairenik publications continue to toe the line with a vision to the future,” wrote longtime Weekly...
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Armenia’s NSS Director Sacked, Police Chief Promoted
Former NSS Director Artur Vanetsyan (Photo: May 11, 2018) YEREVAN—Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan stunned observers this week with a pair of major administrative shakeups: the dismissal of...
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Police Investigating Death of Former Armenian Police Chief in March 1 Clashes
Hayk Harutiunian pictured in Yerevan, April 16, 2003 (Photo credit: Photolur) YEREVAN—General Hayk Harutiunian, a former Chief of the Armenian National Police Department, was found dead in his vacation...
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Pashinyan, ARF Leaders Meet in Los Angeles
Click to view slideshow. (ASBAREZ) LOS ANGELES, Calif.—On the margins of his visit to Los Angeles on Sunday, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan met with representatives of the Armenian Revolutionary...
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ARF Delegation Meets with Armenia’s High Commissioner of Diaspora Affairs...
ARF-ER CC member Ani Tchaghlasian, High Commissioner of Diaspora Affairs of the Republic of Armenia Zareh Sinanyan, ARF-ER CC member John Mkrtschjan RIDGEFIELD, N.J.—A delegation representing the...
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Pashinyan Addresses Columbia University’s World Leaders Forum
NEW YORK, NY—Armenia’s Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan delivered a speech on his government’s foreign and domestic policies at Columbia University on September 25. Co-sponsored by the Harrimann...
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World Leaders from Iran, Russia Converge at Eurasian Economic Summit in Yerevan
YEREVAN—The presidents of Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, and Kyrgyzstan came together in Armenia along with Iran’s President Hassan Rohani and Singaporean Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong for the one-day...
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ARF Supreme Council’s Shaghik Maroukhian ‘Energized’ by Diasporan Youth
ARF Supreme Body Council member Shaghik Maroukhian (Photo: Knar Bedian) WATERTOWN, Mass.—Armenian Revolutionary Federation (ARF) Supreme Council member Shaghik Maroukhian says the energy of today’s...
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Massachusetts Lawmakers Considering Genocide Education Mandate
BOSTON, Mass.—A coalition of over 25 organizations including the ANCs of Eastern Mass., Central Mass. and Merrimack Valley, the Genocide Education Project, Facing History and Ourselves, Mass....
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ANCA Statement on Turkey’s Offensive In Syria and U.S. Troop Pull-Out
WASHINGTON, DC – Armenian National Committee of America (ANCA) Executive Director Aram Hamparian issued the following statement regarding Turkey’s offensive launched in Syria on Wednesday and the U.S....
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WCIT 2019 Positions Yerevan as an Emerging Global Tech Hub
YEREVAN—The 23rd World Congress on Information Technology (WCIT) opened Sunday night with a historic concert in Yerevan’s landmark Republic Square. As the WCIT Orchestra (comprised of members from all...
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ANCA: Override Turkey’s Armenian Genocide Veto
The ANCA has launched an online campaign calling on Senate and House members to “fast-track” Turkey sanctions legislation and support immediate passage of Armenian Genocide legislation (S.Res.150 and...
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Yerevan Backs Ethnic Armenians in Northeastern Syria as Turkey Invades
Turkish M48 Patton Tank in front of Mount Ararat in Turkey (Photo: Hervé Platteaux/Flickr, January 2015) YEREVAN—The Armenian government is working to assist ethnic Armenians in danger of being caught...
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Hairenik, Armenian Weekly Marking 120th, 85th Anniversaries at Conference on...
NEW YORK, NY—On the occasion of the 120th anniversary of the establishment of the Hairenik and the 85th anniversary of the establishment of the Armenian Weekly, the Armenian Prelacy, the Hairenik...
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Chairman Engel Signals Upcoming House Vote on Armenian Genocide Resolution
House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Eliot Engel (D-NY) WASHINGTON, DC – House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Eliot Engel (D-NY), Armenian Caucus Co-Chair Frank Pallone (D-NJ) and other leading...
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Armenian Genocide Resolution Clears Key Hurdle to Historic U.S. House Vote
WASHINGTON, DC – The U.S. House Rules Committee – chaired by Rep. Jim McGovern (D-MA) – cleared the Armenian Genocide Resolution, H.Res.296, for an up-or-down vote of the full House of...
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US House Votes Overwhelmingly to Lock in Armenian Genocide Recognition,...
The U.S. House of Representatives voted overwhelmingly to pass the Armenian Genocide Resolution (H.Res.296), striking a powerful blow against Turkey’s gag-rule on honest U.S. remembrance of that crime....
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