Armenian International Magazine (AIM) Vol. 11, No. 10, October 2000, pp. 58-61.

Risking Democracy 
Much at stake for President and Son in upcoming elections in Azerbaijan

By HRATCH TCHILINGIRIAN

Azerbaijanis will go to the polls on November 5 to cast their votes for a new Parliament. However, indirectly, it seems they will be voting for a new president. An ailing President Haidar Aliyev, hospitalized at the Cleveland Clinic in Ohio where he had heart surgery just a few years ago, must hang on until the elections, until his son Ilham Aliyev is elected to Parliament. This would make the younger Aliyev eligible for the position of that body’s Speaker, and thus able to assume the duties of the president in the event the head of state is incapacitated or dies.

Armenian International Magazine (AIM) Vol. 11, No. 10, October 2000, pp. 40-44.  COVER STORY

Dividing Jerusalem 
Armenians on the line of confrontation

By HRATCH TCHILINGIRIAN

The Armenian Quarter in the Old City of Jerusalem has become one of the most talked about issues in the ongoing Palestinian-Israeli negotiations over the final status of the city that is sacred to Christians, Jews and Muslims. At the Camp David II talks in the US in July [2000], it was proposed that the Old City be divided into two sections: Israeli control over the Jewish and Armenian quarters and Palestinian control over the Christian and Muslim quarters.

Armenian International Magazine (AIM) July 2000, Volume 11, No. 7, pp. 44-45.

COUNCIL OF EUROPE
Parliamentary Assembly of Council of Europe Votes In favor of Armenia’s membership

By Hratch Tchilingirian

On June 28 the Coucil of Europe Parliamentary Assembly (PACE) voted unanimously to approve Armenia’s bid to join the 41-member organization. Armenia is set to become a full member of Council of Europe (CE) when its Committee of Ministers meet in September. Azerbaijan’s bid was also overwhelmingly accepted, with just one vote against.

Armenian International Magazine (AIM) Vol. 11, No. 6, June 2000, pp. 50-51

A Noble Cause
Violinist Levon Chilingirian Crusades for Armenia’s Musicians

By Hratch Tchilingirian

With all the pomp and regalia of royal ritual, Queen Elizabeth II, by the Grace of God, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Canada, and Her other Realms and Territories, Head of the Commonwealth, has bestowed upon Violinist Levon Chilingirian, 52, the title of Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) for his "contribution to music" during a ceremony at Buckingham Palace in February. OBE, established by King George V in 1917, is awarded to British subjects for their "outstanding work." 

Armenian International Magazine (AIM) April 2000, Volume 11, No. 4

Reinventing Life

Nouritza Matossian on Arshile Gorky: the Black Angel from Vaspurakan

By HRATCH TCHILINGIRIAN

Arshile Gorky, a painter…the first cousin of Maxim Gorky, the writer… ends life,” wrote The New York Times in a short obituary on July 22, 1948.

Armenian International Magazine (AIM), April 2000, Volume 11, No. 4, pp. 20-21

Shooting Again
Unsuccessful Assassination Attempt Shakes Up Karabakh and Armenia

By HRATCH TCHILINGIRIAN

Less than six months after the assassination of eight top Armenian officials, the president of Karabakh narrowly escaped an attack on his life.

Armenian International Magazine (AIM) Vol. 11, No. 3, March 2000, pp. 62-64

Witness of His Time
The Oppressed and the Rejected Find Dignity and Respect in Norikian

By Hratch Tchilingirian

"The different faces I paint have the same agony and suffering," says Krikor Norikian, 58 -- popularly known as Norik -- who is one of the Diaspora’s most well-known painters. "I don’t know where that agony comes from. It’s from nature, from human suffering. It’s from my past, my family and my life experience. It might come from a specific source, but it is universal."

Armenian International Magazine (AIM) March 2000, Vol. 11, No. 3, p. 23

Pomp and Circumstance Greet Kocharian

By Hratch Tchilingirian

President Robert Kocharian paid an official three-day visit to Lebanon in February. He was greeted at the Beirut airport by Lebanese President Emil Lahoud, the Chairman of the Lebanese Parliament Nabih Berrie, Prime Minister Selim Hoss and other senior officials. The 72 hours of pomp and circumstance turned heads. “Even the visit of President Jacques Chirac was not so grand,” said one observer.