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Published on March 14, 2008
TER-PETROSYAN: RA AUTHORITIES NOT INTERESTED IN INVESTIGATION OF MARCH 1 EVENTS
- During a meeting with European diplomats, Armenia’s first President would welcome an independent investigation by international structures. Armenia’s first President Levon Ter-Petrosyan met Thursday with Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights Thomas Hammarberg and head of the OSCE Yerevan Office, Ambassador Sergei Kapinos. “The Armenian authorities are not interested in investigation of the March 1 events,” Ter-Petrosyan said, adding that he would welcome an independent investigation by international structures. Saying that his supporters are still being persecuted and arrested, Ter-Petrosyan provided the European diplomats with information about the detained.
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Today in Armenian history- 1884 Birth in Batoom of Levon Takhtajian, lecturer of Yerevan State University (agricultural economy and linguistics).
- 1901 Birth of Kostandeen Hakobian, Scientist, Doctor and Professor of Agricultural Sciences, in Meerzeek. He got a State Award for the creation of a Kazakh species of white-headed cattle.
- 1914 Birth of Balasan (Vruyr Balasanyan), translator and writer, in Moscow, .
- 1918 Start of the Trebizond negotiations between the delegations of Turkey and the Transcaucasian Seym. The German-Turkish attack took place at the same time. The negotiation effort was in vain as the Mensheviks, led by Chkhenkely, agreed to cede to the territorial demands of Turkey.
- 1921 Start of the Red Army's extensive attack on Yerevan, which ended in its victory two weeks later.
- 1921 End of the London Conference. It made indefinite allusions to a national home for the Armenians in Western Armenia. The Turkish part rejected it later.
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