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  • Lecture on Genocide Recognition, Turkey-Armenia Relations, Diaspora

    PRESS RELEASE
    ARPA Institute
    18106 Miranda St. Tarzana, CA 91356
    Contact: Hagop Panossian
    Tel: (818) 586-9660
    E-mail: [email protected]
    Web: http://www.arpainstitute.org/

    ARPA Institute presents the Lecture/Seminar: "Genocide
    Recognition, Turkey-Armenia Relations and the Role of
    the Diaspora," by Mr. Harout Sassounian, on Thursday,
    January 25, 2007 at the Merdinian School auditorium.

    The Address is 13330 Riverside Dr., Sherman Oaks, CA
    91403. Directions: on the 101 FWY exit on Woodman, go
    north and turn right on Riverside Dr.

    Abstract: Mr. Sassounian's lecture will cover several
    topics, followed by an exchange of views with the
    audience:

    -- Genocide recognition, is it really necessary?
    -- Should Armenians support or oppose the application
    of Turkey for EU Membership?
    -- Turkey-Armenia relations
    -- Diaspora-Armenia relations
    -- How best to organize the Diaspora?
    -- The firing of U.S. Ambassador to Armenia John Evans
    -- The hold on the nomination of Ambassador-designate
    Richard Hoagland
    -- UAF's assistance to Armenia and Lebanon
    -- Lincy Foundation's infrastructure projects in
    Armenia and Artsakh

    Harut Sassounian, the publisher of The California
    Courier newspaper, is the President of the United
    Armenian Fund which has shipped $460 million worth of
    humanitarian assistance to Armenia since 1989. He is
    also the Vice Chairman of The Lincy Foundation which
    has funded $230 million worth of infrastructure
    projects in Armenia and Artsakh. He worked for Procter
    and Gamble in Geneva, Switzerland, as an international
    marketing executive from 1978 to 1982. He served for
    10 years as a non-governmental delegate on human
    rights at the United Nations in Geneva, playing a key
    role in the UN recognition of the Armenian Genocide in
    1985. He has a Master's degree in International
    Affairs from Columbia University (NY) and an MBA from
    Pepperdine University. His book, `The Armenian
    Genocide: The World Speaks Out, 1915-2005, Documents
    and Declarations,' published in 2005, was republished
    in Arabic translation in Lebanon in 2006. He has been
    awarded the `Anania Shiragatsi' medal of honor by the
    President of Armenia and has received numerous other
    awards for his leadership and community activities.

    For more Information Please call Dr. Hagop Panossian
    at (818)586-9660
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