This is the latest episode in the controversy over leasing the “Cows Garden” — about 25% of the Patriarchate’s Armenian Quarter in Jerusalem — to an Israeli investor. In 2021, Armenian Patriarch Nourhan Manougian signed a contract with an Israeli businessman to lease to him 123,785 square feet (11,500 square meters) of the Patriarchate’s land … The post Jerusalem Patriarchate’s General Assembly rejects signed lease to Israeli investor appeared first on The Armenian Weekly.| The Armenian Weekly
After Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and High Commissioner for Diaspora Affairs Zareh Sinanyan have burned almost all bridges between Armenia and the diaspora, now the President, Vahagn Khachaturyan, is completing the damage. In late May, during an interview with foreign journalists attending the government forum, “The Yerevan Dialogue,” Khachaturyan made disparaging remarks about the diaspora. …| The Armenian Weekly