September 19, 2011

RAFFI HOVANNISIAN AT INTERNATIONAL CONSULTATION OF PARLAMENTARIANS

Kiev, Ukraine—Raffi K. Hovannisian is in Kiev, Ukraine to address the International Consultation of Parliamentarians between September 18 and 20. Parliamentary representatives from throughout Europe have gathered here to mark the 70th anniversary of the Babiy Yar massacre and to discuss genocide, racism, and anti-Semitism in the new era.

Hovannisian has met the Speaker of the Verhovnaya Rada of Ukraine, the Vice Speakers of the German Bundestag, the Israeli Knesset and the Georgian parliament, as well as members of various European parliaments.

The Armenian Center for National and International Studies (ACNIS) is a leading independent strategic research center located in Yerevan, Armenia.  As an independent, objective institution committed to conducting professional policy research and analysis, ACNIS strives to raise the level of public debate and seeks to broaden public engagement in the public policy process, as well as fostering greater and more inclusive public knowledge. Founded in 1994, ACNIS is the institutional initiative of Raffi K. Hovannisian, Armenia’s first Minister of Foreign Affairs.  Over the past fifteen years, ACNIS has acquired a prominent reputation as a primary source of professional independent research and analysis covering a wide range of national and international policy issues.

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