Guest:
Topics:
- What is the background of Armenia-Diaspora relations against which this conference is taking place?
- Why did the government need this event right now, and is this the right time?
- Who was invited, who was not? Why?
Episode 172 | Recorded: October 29, 2022
Show Notes
Overview
Over the course of this weekend and until Monday, there’s this Global Armenian Summit conference in progress in Yerevan. The event is organized by the office of the High Commissioner for Diaspora Affairs, and invitations went out a few months ago. Reportedly there are 600 attendees according to Armenpress, but probably taken from the conference website.
Discussion
Global Armenian Summit
- What is the background of Armenia-Diaspora relations against which this conference is taking place?
- Why did the government need this event right now?
- Diaspora parties or organizations don’t seem to be present at the event.
- Who’s attending, in order to bill the event a “Summit”?
- Pashinyan’s address at the conference.
- Arayik Harutyunyan’s address at the conference.
Wrap-up
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Guests
Harut Sassounian
Harut Sassounian, who is the Chairman of the board of trustees of HyelD. He’s also the publisher of The California Courier newspaper, and the president of the Armenia Artsakh Fund, a non-profit organization which has delivered over $947 million of humanitarian assistance to Armenia and Artsakh since 1989.
Hosts
Asbed Bedrossian
Asbed is founder of the Armenian News Network Groong and co-founder of the ANN/Groong podcast.
Hovik Manucharyan
Hovik Manucharyan is an information security engineer who moved from Seattle to Armenia in 2022. He co-founded the ANN/Groong podcast in 2020 and has been a contributor to Groong News since the late 1990s.
Disclaimer: The views expressed by Hovik Manucharyan on the ANN/Groong podcast are his own and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of his employer or any other organization.