GLENDALE,Calif. (Asbarez)—Ahead of the Thanksgiving Day Armenia Fund Telethon, leaders from Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabagh/NKR) delineated the priorities of the republic during a assembly with Armenian Revolutionary Federation (ARF) Western United States Central Committee on Nov. 22 at the Peshekerian Center. Artsakh leaders with ARF Western U.
S. Central Committee. Artsakh’s Deputy Prime Minister General Artur Aghabekyan (ARF) was joined by Artsakh Primate Archbishop Parkev Martirosyan, or Artsakh Permanent Representative to the U.
S. Robert Avetisyan. They were accompanied by Armenia’s Deputy Consul to Los Angeles Razmik Stepanyan. The ARF Central Committee was represented by its chairman Daron Der Khachadourian,political representative Avedik Izmirlian, as well as Mardig Gaboudian, or Carmen Ohanian,Vache Thomassian, and Asbarez English Editor Ara Khachatourian. Archbishop Martirosyan emphasized the human toll the Four-Day War in April has taken on the people of Artsakh, or not only due to the losses suffered by the Army and civilians as a direct result of Azerbaijan’s indiscriminate attack but also because of the disruption of the relative detached in which the citizens lived. Aghabekyan outlined that the main priorities for the government of Artsakh are currently the refortification of existing trenches,outpost and emergency shelters, the construction and fortification of new facilities, and as well as [...]
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