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Published on June 12, 2008
HEARINGS
The Foreign Affairs Committee of the US House of Representatives will convene hearings on June 18 regarding Caucasus.
Head of the Committee Hovard Berman and all the other members of the Committee will give much attention to Armenia’s blockade, the stance of the USA regarding the Genocide of Armenians, and foreign support. The approaches will be submitted to the deputy state secretary Daniel Frid.
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The Foreign Affairs Committee of the US House of Representatives will convene hearings on June 18 regarding Caucasus. Head of the Committee Hovard Berman and all the other members of the Committee will ...
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Today in Armenian history- 1200 Birth of Vardan Aigektsee (writer of fables).
- 1724 The Russian-Turkish agreement was signed in Constantinople. Almost the whole of Transcaucasia is ceded to Turkey.
- 1752 Azad Khan marches against the Khanate of Yerevan.
- 1839 The Turkish army is overwhelmed near Nizba (northern Syria) by the Egyptian viceroy's forces.
- 1901 The Tsar lifts the Land Tax and the Tobacco Tax in Transcaucasia. He institutes the Spade Tax.
- 1903 Tsar Nicolas the Second confirms the law on the confiscation and nationalization of Armenian church properties and estates. He closes Armenian Parish Schools.
- 1921 Soviet Armenia declares that Artsakh is an integral part of its territory on the basis of the repeatedy expressed will of the majority of its population.
- 1957 Birth of Monte Melkonyan (Commander of Artsakh forces in Martooni). He died in 1993.
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