NEW YORK — Following the 81st convention of the Armenian Democratic Liberal Organization (ADL) last April, the newly-elected co-chairmen, namely Edmond Azadian and Papken Megerian, have embarked on a number of visits to different chapters to reorganize the local groups, to coordinate the activities in the Eastern Region of US and Canada and meet the [...]

By Daphne Abeel
Mirror-Spectator Staff
WATERTOWN, Mass. — For many years, Armenian lobbying groups and the community have worked tirelessly to bring about recognition of the Armenian Genocide by the US Congress. Today, many nations and individual states have recognized the events of 1915 as genocide. Yet, legislation filed in the US House and US Senate has [...]

By Desmond Butler
WASHINGTON (AP) — A US diplomat nominated to be ambassador to Armenia came under intense questioning Thursday at her confirmation hearing over the US policy not to label as genocide the World War I-era killings of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire and later the modern Republic of Turkey.
Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ), who blocked [...]

Activists Slam Conviction
ISTANBUL (Reuters) — Activists condemned on Thursday, June 19, the conviction of a Turkish publisher under a controversial law, which Ankara reformed just two months ago in a bid to satisfy European Union (EU) demands for greater freedom of expression.
Writers’ organization International PEN said the conviction of Ragip Zarakolu for insulting Turkey showed [...]

NEW YORK — The Armenian Genocide Museum of America (AGMA) and the Near East Foundation signed an agreement of cooperation on June 12 at the foundation’s international headquarters in New York City.
Signing the agreement on behalf of the two organizations were Van Z. Krikorian, AGMA trustee and Building and Operations Committee chairman, and Shant Mardirossian, [...]

ISTANBUL (Turkish Daily News) — The former head of the intelligence unit in the Black Sea province of Trabzon where Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink’s murderer came from testified he was aware of plans to kill the prominent journalist, but that he did not learn about crucial subsequent developments in the case until much later, a [...]

Aronian Wins Tournament
YEREVAN (Armenpress, Noyan Tapan) — President Serge Sargisian, Parliament Speaker Tigran Torosian and Prime Minister Tigran Sargisian joined thousands of Armenians on Friday, June 13 to bid farewell to chess player Karen Asrian, who died suddenly on June 9.
Asrian was only 28, but he was Olympic chess champion, three times champion of Armenia [...]

TORONTO — At a special meeting on June 2 the Program and School Services Committee (PSSC) of the Toronto District School Board (TDSB) unanimously approved the recommendation of its Review Committee (RC) and its director to include the Armenian Genocide in its Grade 11 genocide curriculum.
Turkish groups had, in the past six months, lobbied against [...]

BEIRUT, Lebanon — An Armenian Democratic Liberal (ADL) delegation, led by Parliament Member Hagop Kassardjian, visited the presidential palace here on June 3 and met with the newly elected president of Lebanon, Gen. Michele Suleiman. The delegation congratulated the new president on behalf of the Armenian community and the ADL political party, and discussed with [...]

ST. PETERSBURG (RFE/RL) — The presidents of Armenia and Azerbaijan appeared to have rekindled hopes for a resolution of the Nagorno Karabagh conflict with what officials described as “constructive” talks held here on June 6.
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev and his Armenian counterpart, Serge Sargisian, met for the first time on the sidelines of a summit [...]