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1 ARPA INSTITUTE 18106 Miranda St., Tarzana CA 91356 . PHONE/FAX (818) 881-0010 26/1 Vazgen Sagsyan Str., Yerevan 0010, Armenia. Tel: (374 2)545538 Jointly with UCLA Armenian Educational Foundation Chair in Modern Armenian History Present : Panel Discussion/Seminar “The Armenia-Turkey Protocols, Pros & Cons” Thursday, December 17, 2009 @ 7:30PM Merdinian Auditorium 13330 Riverside Dr., Sherman Oaks, CA 91423 Panelists: Prof. Richard Hovannisian (Moderator), Hon. Grigor Hovhannisyan
Consul General of Armenia, Dr. Razmig Shirinian, and Dr. Joseph Kechichian
Directions: On the 101 FY Exit on Woodman, Go North and Turn Right on Riverside Dr.
Abstract: The normalization of Armenian-Turkish relations is a natural and necessary goal,
but the road to that goal may have desirable and undesirable implications for independent
Armenia and the Diaspora. It may impede or lead Turkey to move closer to recognizing its
moral and material responsibilities, and may even affect the formulation of policies
involving the Armenian Genocide. Analysis of the political and economic advantages that
the Protocols may provide will be addressed and the potential threats to Armenia’s security,
survivability and ethnic identity they may present will be discussed, The question, whether
Armenian chrono-politics has yielded to the current geopolitical reality, disrupting the
prospects of a balanced development course for Armenia, will be addressed. The political
and legal implications of the Armenian-Turkish Protocols will also be considered, focusing
on obligations that Yerevan may have to assume as it absorbs its latest commitments.
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(Moderator) Dr. Richard G. Hovannisian is Professor of Armenian and Near Eastern
History and the AEF Chair in Modern Armenian History at the University of California,
Los Angeles. From 1978 to 1995, he was Associate Director of the G.E. von Grunebaum
Center for Near Eastern Studies. He has been on the UCLA faculty since 1962, where he
organized the undergraduate and graduate programs in Armenian and Caucasian history.
Dr. Hovannisian is the author or editor of numerous books on the Republic of Armenia; the
Armenian Genocide; historic Western Armenian cities and provinces; and Armenian and
Near Eastern societies and culture. Richard Hovannisian is a Guggenheim Fellow and
founder a