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NKR President Promotes Thanksgiving Day Telethon by Paul Chaderjian ( Fresno ) - The President of the Republic of Nagorno Karapakh, Arkady Ghoukassian, delivered an eloquent and passionate speech last week, asking local Armenians to help strengthen the spiritual and economic bridges between the homeland and the Armenian Diaspora. President Ghoukassian spoke at a banquet in his honor, organized by Armenia Fund Fresno Committee. Welcoming the President to the Haig Berberian Hall at the Saint Paul Armenian Church was Committee Co-chair, Deacon Allan Jendian, who toasted the President in Armenian. "On behalf of our entire community," said Jendian, "I welcome you to William Saroyan's city. General Antranig and Soghomon Tehlirian, both passed away here,  longing to return to the homeland and Karapakh. If for a moment, they would raise their heads, they would, with pride, bless the President of an independent and free Karapakh and the freedom fighters of...

Ag Minister visits state-of-the-art livestock diagnostic laboratory to talk to University of California officials about setting up a similar lab in Yerevan by Paul Chaderjian Asbarez.com (Tulare, California) – Top California scientists who help manage the health of dairy herds, maintain animal health standards and manage food safety issues in the Golden State are now being tapped to help Armenia compete in the international marketplace. A joint venture between Armenia's Ministry of Agriculture, the University of California Davis School of Veterinary Medicine and the Armenian Technology Group (ATG) will help Armenia establish an unprecedented central diagnostic laboratory that can control livestock diseases, prevent the consumption of unhealthy food and make it possible for the country to export beef, chicken and dairy products to Europe. The project, spearheaded by the ATG, is why Armenia's Agriculture Minister, Tavit Lokian, visited the Veterinary Medicine Teaching a...

*Community Rallies Around Tavit Lokian to hear about the homeland and find out how to help out Armenian farmers by Paul Chaderjian Asbarez (Fresno) -- "For me, it's very important to meet with people who work on the land, the people who work with the laborers who work on the farms," said Armenia's Ag Minister Tavit Lokian at a posh banquet in his honor in Fresno last week. "As a Minister of the people, I have to be that type of person." At the private dinner, sponsored by the Armenian Cultural Foundation (ACF), the Minister was able to do just what he had hoped to do – to meet and talk openly with the farmers and community leaders who have put Central California on the global map of agriculture. According to the California Farm Bureau, the region's ag industry has generated an average of 16 billion dollars of revenue annually. Lokian spent two-days in California's San Joaquin Valley -- dubbed by locals as the breadbasket to the world -- to ...

* Minister Tavit Lokian is awed by the efficiencies of modern agricultural technologies by Paul Chaderjian Asbarez (Fowler, California) -- Under the bright and warm September San Joaquin sun, a high-ranking official from the Republic of Armenia examines the color of crimson grapes as migrant farm workers pack plastic containers for Wal-Mart and Costco. Leading him on a tour through endless rows of vineyards are the sons of once-migrant Armenians from the old country, men whose grandfathers and fathers labored relentlessly on these lands for nearly a century, making California's Central Valley the most bountiful farmland in the world and their packing houses the most successful in North America. Chemist, biologist, urban planner, athlete, the representative of his people and the Armenian Revolutionary Federation party in Parliament and now appointed Minister of Agriculture, Tavit Lokian, inspects the table grapes, tastes the fruit and comments on the sweetness of it. Dressed i...

By Paul Chaderjian (Fresno) – Friendly banter about public toilets in Armenia and argumentative exchanges about the semantics of the word 'Genocide' marked the extreme range of reaction US Ambassador to Armenia received during his four days of non-stop meetings with Central California Armenians. Ambassador John Ordway and Keith Simmons, Mission Director for the US Agency for International Development (USAID), visited Fresno, Fowler and Yettem as part of their national outreach tour. The goal of the visit was to establish stronger ties between the US Embassy to Armenia and the American-Armenians, whose political activism resulted in Congress setting aside nearly 90 million dollars of support for Armenia last year. "We discovered that the knowledge of what was going on in Armenia, how that 90 million dollars-a-year that Congress voted -- thanks to all of your efforts -- the knowledge of those programs stopped at the water's edge. It never passed beyo...

Paul Chaderjian March 18, 2003   Sayat Nova                         Sergei Paradjanov's "Sayat Nova" is more than a motion picture bringing to life images from historical Armenian culture, it is a code that holds the key to unraveling the ancient reality of a people.                         Philosopher and writer Carl Jung believed that symbols were how the universe or god communicated to man. Jung wrote that the symbols were communicated to man's consciousness through dreams. Within that context, Paradjanov captured symbols of a people on film, so that he would eternally communicate that which represented Armenians to generations to come.             While the conscious mind of the viewer may attach differen...