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  • RAA NGO Receives Recognition From the National Assembly of Armenia

    PRESS RELEASE
    Research on Armenian Architecture RAA/USA
    Contact Person: Jora Manoucherian
    Telephone: (818) 469-1186
    Email: [email protected]


    RAA NGO RECEIVES RECOGNITION FROM THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY OF ARMENIA

    On June 10, 2008, the National Assembly of Armenia recognized Research on
    Armenian Architecture (RAA) NGO, as well as its founder and chairman, Dr.
    Armen Haghnazarian, and Samvel Karapetyan, the president and managing
    director of the Yerevan Office, for their tireless contribution towards the
    research, documentation, archiving, preservation and publication of Armenian
    historical monuments and architectural heritage currently located in the
    neighboring countries of our homeland.

    To that effect, the National Assembly of Armenia awarded RAA and its
    managers with Certificates of Recognition, as well as gold medals, in
    appreciation for their work and efforts made in the last three and a half
    decades. The importance of their work is unquestionable, as a large number
    of monuments surveyed and documented by RAA are now either destroyed or in
    total ruin and can only be remembered through archival information.

    Additionally, the numerous documentary books published in the last few
    years, which record thousands of Armenian historical monuments located in
    the countries neighboring Armenia, are being used in the current political
    negotiations with these countries. These books are enduring proof of the
    Armenian roots and of the fact that Armenians flourished in these lands for
    centuries - indeed, millennia - before the lines were drawn on today's maps
    allegedly ceding these lands to their present `owners.'

    Although the publication costs are being secured by RAA/USA, in the last 2
    years the National Assembly of Armenia, which has recognized the value of
    these archives and importance of these publications, has begun supporting
    the activities of RAA by providing special grants to accelerate the
    publication of new books and the translation of existing ones into English
    and Russian.

    The latest volume (No. 11) published under the patronage of Tufenkian and
    Galust Gulbenkian Foundations is 'Akhaltskha', which treats the history, and
    cultural monuments of Akhaltskha District situated on the northern
    borderline of Historical Armenia.

    On July 15, 2008, RAA Organization held the presentation of Sirak Sarhadian'
    s 'Memoirs' book published in Armenian, at the `Yerevan Museum of the
    Armenian Genocide'. In this ceremony the author's younger son Arthur
    Sarhadian was present.

    Between July 21 and 27, 2008, RAA participated in a weeklong scientific
    conference in Yerevan on the topic of `Hamshen Armenians' by presenting an
    exhibition related to Hamshen. Narekatsy Art Centre organized this event,
    in cooperation with the Yerkir Union of Non-Governmental Organizations and
    Bagaran NGO.

    The year 2008 is also marked with two 30-day research trips to Western
    Armenia. Overall, RAA has now made 7 scientific expeditions to the lost
    Armenian homeland.

    From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
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