Armenian International Magazine Volume 10, Number 10, October 1999, p. 10

[Editorial by Hratch Tchilingirian]

Two Different Islands
Cooperation among state officials, policy makers and businesses benefits all

In the last few years, Great Britain, a huge and important island in Europe, has gone through a process of reassessing its foreign policy in the South Caucasus, Central Asia and Armenia in particular.

Armenian International Magazine Volume 10, Number 10, October 1999, p. 11

[Editorial by Hratch Tchilingirian]

Electing A Holy Father
Will the new Catholicos heal, build and lead the Church into the next century?

At the end of October over 450 delegates from around the world, elected by their respective communities, will convene the National Ecclesiastical Assembly (NEA), the Armenian Church’s highest body of authority, to elect a new Catholicos of All Armenians.

Armenisch-Deutsche Korrespondenz (ADK)[Koln], No. 103, 1999/Heft 1, pp. 7-8; No. 104, 1999, Heft 2, pp. 2-4.

Berg-Karabach: Die Außenpolitik im Wandel [published in German, see PDF versions] 

[Nagorno Karabakh:  Foreign Policy in Transition]

Hratch Tchilingirian

For over a decade now, the Nagorno Karabakh conflict in the South Caucasus remains the oldest unresolved conflict in the former Soviet Union. Meanwhile, a fragile cease-fire since May 1994 remains in place and the OSCE's Minsk Group continues attempts to mediate a resolution. 

"Diaspora Humanitarian Assistance to Armenia in the Last Decade"

Hratch Tchilingirian

Report prepared for the Armenia Diaspora Conference

Yerevan, 22-23 September 1999.

Armenian International Magazine (AIM), August-September 1999, Vol. 10, No. 8&9, pp. 76-77, 79

Looking to the East
Chant Avedissian rediscovers and redefines Egyptian visual art

By Hratch Tchilingirian

If you’ve traveled through London’s Heathrow Airport or flown on British Airways in the last few years, chances are you’ve seen Chant Avedissian’s paintings—representing Egypt. It is one of a series of colorful art deco British Airways plane tails representing different nations around the world.

Armenian International Magazine (AIM) July 1999, Volume 10, Number 7, pp 53-54

Instilling the Armenian Spirit Armenian Education in a Transient Community

By Hratch Tchilingirian

The tiny Armenian community in the United Arab Emirates, numbering less than 2000, has a collective history of about 20 years. Unlike most established Diaspora communities around the world, the most prevalent characteristics of this community is its transient nature.

Armenian International Magazine (AIM) July 1999, Volume 10, Number 7, pp 29-33

The End of a Journey
Karekin I, Catholicos of All Armenians, 1995-1999; Catholicos of Cilicia, 1977-1995

By Hratch Tchilingirian

In April 1995, Karekin I was elected the 131st Catholicos of All Armenians in Ejmiatsin by the National Ecclesiastical Assembly, arguably, the most pan-Armenian body representing almost nine million Armenians in the republic and 32 countries in the Diaspora. Unlike other elections in the last five hundred years, this one was the first in a free and independent Republic of Armenia. And for the first time in history, the Catholicos of the Great House of Cilicia, in Lebanon, was elected Catholicos of All Armenians in Ejmiatsin.

Armenian International Magazine (AIM) July 1999, Volume 10, Number 7, pp 37 & 39

Crisis Without Borders
The Media in the Middle East

By Hratch Tchilingirian

In the old days, when things looked bleak in the Diasporan communities of the West, everyone looked to the Middle East for hope. There, Armenians spoke, read, wrote Armenian. There, the future of the language and the culture was guaranteed.