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Appendix B: Address of His Holiness Vazken I to the Delegates of the Armenian National Movement

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

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On November 9, 1989, Vazken I addressed the members of the Armenian National Movement at Etchmiadzin, Armenia, illuminating the evolving nature of church-state relations.

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Nationalities Papers , Volume 20 , Issue 1: Special Issue - Religious Consciousness In The Glasnost Era , Spring 1992 , pp. 44 - 50
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Copyright © 1992 by the Association for the Study of the Nationalities of the USSR and Eastern Europe, Inc. 

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Notes

1. “Address of His Holiness Vazken III to the Delegates of the Armenian National Movement, “tr. Dn. Hratch Tchilingirian, Window View of the Armenian Church, 1:2 (Spring 1990) 6'9.Google Scholar

2. The term “internal diaspora” refers to Armenians living in republics of the former Soviet Union, other than Armenia.Google Scholar

3. The battle of Avarayre is commemorated for the martyrdom of Vardan Mamikonian (Vartan Mamigonian) who commanded a far out-manned Armenian army in the defense of the Armenian nation and Christian faith. The battle was lost, but the courage of Vardan and his men remains a symbol of the Aremnian Nation's will to survive.Google Scholar

4. The battle of Sardarabad (1918) was a last and successful stand Armenians made to protect the small Eastern Armenian portion of the nation against Turkish forces which attacked in violation of the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk. A major engagement took place between May 22'26.Google Scholar

5. The term “external diaspora” refers to Armenians living outside the boundaries of the former USSR.Google Scholar