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Freemasons Also Pay Educational Fees, Ruben Gevorgyants Says
http://www.aravot.am/en/2012/10/26/124106/
October 26, 2012 15:00
Guy Arcizet, the Grand Master of the Grand Orient de France, a masonic
lodge, who visited Armenia last year stated in an interview that there
were 15-20 members of their lodge in our country. He also said that
those people would not be revealed, since there was no lodge in
Armenia yet. Arcizet stated that he had come to Armenia to examine the
possibilities of establishing that lodge. There were articles
published, according to which in order to establish and to recognize
the Armenian masonic organization called the Grand Lodge of Armenia,
the approval of at least three countries was needed. And according to
the same source, the masonic organizations of the US, Russia and
France approved of having the Grand Lodge of Armenia. According to
some articles in the mass media, Armenian Freemasons have even
acquired land in the Vahagn neighborhood and wish to build a masonic
temple.
The subject of Freemasonry has been actively discussed in the press
and on social networks again recently - the issue of the 2013
presidential election in Armenia will be discussed in the Grand
Masonic Lodge of Armenia or the Grand Lodge of Freemasons in the short
run and even the candidate will be `outlined.' Among the influential
figures of the meeting reportedly was Armenian American lawyer Armin
Janyan, director Ruben Gevorgyants, the president of the Association
of Armenian Cinematographers, and Levon Rukhkyan, a former Minister of
Agriculture. www.aravot.am inquired of the Association of Armenian
Cinematographers president which schools had Armenian Freemasons
provided computers with and had supported financially, as he had
stated in an interview given to the Law and Investigation newspaper.
`It is classified information, I can say nothing,' Mr. Gevorgyants who
doesn't conceal his being a Freemason said.
In response to another question of ours whether nationalism was
compatible with Freemasonry, since he was an extreme nationalist, the
president of the Association said, `There is no such thing, what
newspaper wrote that? It only seems to them that they are not
compatible with each other.'
Shortly afterwards, he stated once again that Armenian Freemasons were
engaged in charity, `We give scholarships... not scholarships,
educational fees... we have done different things at different times, we
have paid the educational fees of 2-3 people this year.' Has there
been any support in terms of cinema? `Our mission has nothing to do
with cinema,' the head of the Cinematographers' Association rushed to
answer.
For what qualities have you been included in the masonic lodge, what
is the principle that you correspond to and adhere to? In response to
this question of www.aravot.am, Ruben Gevorgyants said again, `It is
classified information, but everything that is necessary is on the
web, connect and read, yet there are many lies written in the press.'
Let us remind that in an interview given to Aravot in 2008, Hovsep
Seferyan, a member of Rotary International, not ruling out that there
were Freemasons in the Rotary Club, stated that, for example, on the
occasion of the 90th commemoration of the Genocide, the Armenian
National Opera Theater had staged the Gayane ballet in Turkey and all
the expenses had been covered by the Turkish Rotarians.
Gohar HAKOBYAN
http://www.aravot.am/en/2012/10/26/124106/
October 26, 2012 15:00
Guy Arcizet, the Grand Master of the Grand Orient de France, a masonic
lodge, who visited Armenia last year stated in an interview that there
were 15-20 members of their lodge in our country. He also said that
those people would not be revealed, since there was no lodge in
Armenia yet. Arcizet stated that he had come to Armenia to examine the
possibilities of establishing that lodge. There were articles
published, according to which in order to establish and to recognize
the Armenian masonic organization called the Grand Lodge of Armenia,
the approval of at least three countries was needed. And according to
the same source, the masonic organizations of the US, Russia and
France approved of having the Grand Lodge of Armenia. According to
some articles in the mass media, Armenian Freemasons have even
acquired land in the Vahagn neighborhood and wish to build a masonic
temple.
The subject of Freemasonry has been actively discussed in the press
and on social networks again recently - the issue of the 2013
presidential election in Armenia will be discussed in the Grand
Masonic Lodge of Armenia or the Grand Lodge of Freemasons in the short
run and even the candidate will be `outlined.' Among the influential
figures of the meeting reportedly was Armenian American lawyer Armin
Janyan, director Ruben Gevorgyants, the president of the Association
of Armenian Cinematographers, and Levon Rukhkyan, a former Minister of
Agriculture. www.aravot.am inquired of the Association of Armenian
Cinematographers president which schools had Armenian Freemasons
provided computers with and had supported financially, as he had
stated in an interview given to the Law and Investigation newspaper.
`It is classified information, I can say nothing,' Mr. Gevorgyants who
doesn't conceal his being a Freemason said.
In response to another question of ours whether nationalism was
compatible with Freemasonry, since he was an extreme nationalist, the
president of the Association said, `There is no such thing, what
newspaper wrote that? It only seems to them that they are not
compatible with each other.'
Shortly afterwards, he stated once again that Armenian Freemasons were
engaged in charity, `We give scholarships... not scholarships,
educational fees... we have done different things at different times, we
have paid the educational fees of 2-3 people this year.' Has there
been any support in terms of cinema? `Our mission has nothing to do
with cinema,' the head of the Cinematographers' Association rushed to
answer.
For what qualities have you been included in the masonic lodge, what
is the principle that you correspond to and adhere to? In response to
this question of www.aravot.am, Ruben Gevorgyants said again, `It is
classified information, but everything that is necessary is on the
web, connect and read, yet there are many lies written in the press.'
Let us remind that in an interview given to Aravot in 2008, Hovsep
Seferyan, a member of Rotary International, not ruling out that there
were Freemasons in the Rotary Club, stated that, for example, on the
occasion of the 90th commemoration of the Genocide, the Armenian
National Opera Theater had staged the Gayane ballet in Turkey and all
the expenses had been covered by the Turkish Rotarians.
Gohar HAKOBYAN