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    CONFERENCE IT/ AYVAZYAN - PARIS

    http://www.tchobanian.org/communique0001005 8.html
    April 4, 2008, Paris

    On Friday, April 4, the Tchobanian Institute, in partnership with the
    UGAB, organized the first of a series of conferences with Dr. Armen
    Ayvazyan on "Armenia's Security Predicament and the Ways Out of
    It". Mr. Francois Thual, a prominent French geopolitologist and the
    Diplomatic Counselor to the Speaker of French Senate, was also invited
    as a Distinguished Speaker.

    The large room of the Alex Manoogian Cultural Center was full to
    capacity (approximately 125 people) and about thirty spectators have
    to follow the conference from the mezzanine.

    After the welcoming remarks from Bruno Knadjian (Secretary of
    UGAB-Paris), Varoujan Sirapian, President-Founder of the Tchobanian
    Institute, promptly presented the latest issue of the Europe&Orient
    Review. He told about the projects of the Institute concerning the
    various publications and also the cultural actions, in particular the
    active participation in the organization of the 1st Festival of BD
    (comics) and the event in Yerevan planned for October 2008.

    Then he passed the word to Dr. Armen Ayvazyan who presented
    compellingly the strategic situation and the challenges of the
    national security of modern Armenia (including the Republic of
    Nagorno-Karabagh/Artsakh). Then Mr. Varoujan Sirapian, the moderator
    of the event, passed the floor to Mr. Francois Thual, who, as usual,
    knew how to captivate the attention of the attendees with a methodical
    and substantiated speech.

    The attendees demonstrated their acute interest by posing questions
    both about the subject of the day and the tense political situation
    after the Armenian presidential elections. The two speakers brought
    their answers to these questions. Present in the room was Mr. Alexis
    Govciyan, president of the CCAF and also President of UGAB-Europe,
    who also contributed his views with a synthesis of what was developed
    by the speakers.

    The audience included noted personalities such as Mrs. Nelly
    Tardivier-Henrot, the Commissar of the Armenia's Year in France (held
    in 2007), the persons in charge for the UGAB-Paris and various French
    Armenian associations, the clergymen and, perhaps most important,
    many young people.

    At the end of the conference and accompanied with hearty applause,
    Varoujan Sirapian passed a Tchobanian Institute's Member of Honor
    Certificate to Mr. Francois Thual, one of its first and devoted
    partners.

    The evening continued very late at the lounge around a glass of
    friendship.

    The next conferences

    The next conferences that Dr. Ayvazyan and Mr. Varoujan Sirapian
    will attend are scheduled in Marseilles (April 8), Valence (April 9)
    and Lyon (April 10).

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