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If we were surrounded by peaceful countries, then professional army would be the best way to go. But reality is reality, and the draft is needed.

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ADL'S PAPKEN MEGERIAN RECEIVES AWARD FROM PRESIDENT OF ARMENIA

COMMUNITY | OCTOBER 1, 2013 5:18 PM

YEREVAN - Since Armenia's independence, it has become a tradition for
the president of the republic to hand out honors on the anniversary
of independence to individuals in Armenia and the diaspora who are
outstanding in their fields.

This year among the honorees singled out by President Serge Sargisian
on September 21, at a ceremony in the presidential residence, was
Papken Megerian, co-chair of the Armenian Democratic Liberal (ADL)
party District Committee of Eastern US and Canada and member of the
Central Board of the Tekeyan Cultural Association of the US and Canada.

Megerian and his wife are cofounders of the Papken and Anahid Megerian
Family Foundation, which supports causes in the US, Armenia, Artsakh,
Echmiadzin, the Armenian Patriarchate of Jerusalem, the Diocesan Center
in Javakhk, Georgia and Our Lady of Armenia Boghossian Educational
Center in Gumri. He is also a contributor to the international
children's anophthalmia/ microphtalmia network, the Philadelphia Art
Museum and the Armenian Mirror-Spectator, an ADL publication.

Among other diasporan activists who received medals this year were
Armenia Tree Project President Carolyn Mugar, physician Ernest
Barsamian (Mkhitar Heratsi Medal), Armenia Marriott hotel co owner
Nishan Atinizian (Anania Shiragatsi Medal) and Jirayr Tanielian (Movses
Khorenatsi Medal), the editor of Kamar literary monthly in Lebanon.

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