As Nikol Pashinyan has emerged as the winner of the June 20th Snap Parliamentary Elections, AGBU offers its congratulations to Mr. Pashinyan as the duly re-elected Prime Minister of Armenia. By a decisive margin, voters have given him a second chance to make good on his promises to address all that contributed to the tragic losses of the 2020 Artsakh War...

 

 

 

 

On June 2, 2021, AGBU President Berge Setrakian, Vera Setrakian and Vasken Yacoubian, accompanied by AGBU members, friends and partners paid their respects to the soldiers who lost their lives during the 2020 Arstakh War. AGBU youth was represented by groups from the AGBU Scouts and Young Professionals as well as students from Hayortats Children’s Centers. They took part in a memorial service held at Yerablur Military Memorial Cemetery, where many of Armenia’s war heroes are laid to rest. His Eminence Archbishop Nathan Hovhannisyan led the religious service...

 

 

As the world’s largest Armenian non-profit organization with a 115 year history serving our people, AGBU has long understood the value of an unequivocal recognition of the Armenian Genocide of 1915 by the United States of America. After many missed opportunities, that elusive clarity from an American president was finally brought to bear on the official record through the words of...

 

 

Modern-day historians, journalists, and human rights advocates tend to agree that eyewitness testimonies by ordinary civilians and victims of war are a valuable dimension of the multi-faceted process of documenting and analyzing evidence for the purpose reporting news, prosecuting war crimes, settling historical disputes, or identifying causal...