Category:Western Armenia Government in Exile

Leonid Azgaldyan:

• On May 24, 1860, the Armenian Patriarchate of Constantinople adopted a Constitution for the administrative territory called Armenia, Armenia of the Turkish Nizamnameli nation. On March 17, 1863, the Ottoman government ratified the Constitution, reducing the number of articles and the number of deputies representing the provinces.
• In 1912, the Armenian Catholicos George V appealed to the Russian government to carry out reforms in Western Armenia, ending the function of the national delegation by authorizing Poghos Nubar Pasha. In 1913 the work of the reform commission took place․ In 1915, the Armenian Catholicos George V addressed the superpowers. In 1915, the administration of Western Armenia was formed. Led by Manukyan in the center of Van. On May 22, 1916, Lieutenant General Nzhnzh Peshkov became the first Governor-General of the regions of Western Armenia. On June 21, 1916, Nicholas II approved the "Provisional Regulations for the Administration of the Territories of Occupied Turkey". The Administration of Military Commanders (RRM) was established in the territories of Western Armenia, headed by Lieutenant-General NZHNJ Peshkov, consisting of 29 military-administrative districts (military-administrative districts). By order of April 26, 1917, Western Armenia was removed from military rule and placed under the control of the Provisional Government. On May 31, 1917, the first military commander of Western Armenia, Lieutenant-General Nzhnzh Peshkov, was released from service and retired.
• In 1943-1947, the Armenian-Armenians living abroad adopted the idea of ​​"unity of national forces." All the national councils were guided by the slogan "Armenians for Armenians".
• The idea of ​​forming a government in exile in Western Armenia has been raised many times since 1948, but the idea of ​​establishing a government in exile in Western Armenia became a topic of real Armenian public discourse only in the early 2000s, when Armenia, Russia, the United States and Europe To form groups and organizations with ambitions to form a government for the deportation of Western Armenians.
• Since October 8, 2006, members of the Armenian Democratic Liberal Party in the United States, the Armenian Progressive League of America, have been working to unite Armenian organizations operating abroad.
• During the Artsakh Liberation War, the hero of the Artsakh war, the commander of the "Independence Army" Leonid Azgaldyan once again raised the idea of ​​forming a government in exile in Western Armenia.

In Armenia:

• After the end of the Artsakh war in 2004, a number of freedom fighters, descendants of Western Armenians, founded the National Council of Armenians of Western Armenia in Shushi, which aims to repatriate Armenians to Western Armenia, recognize the Armenian Genocide, and provide territorial and moral compensation by the Republic of Turkey.
• Since 2007, Armenak Abrahamyan, a participant in the Artsakh Liberation War, has been the chairman of the National Council of Armenians of Western Armenia.

In the USA:

• In 2005 in the United States of America, Sosikyan founded the Committee for the Defense of Western Armenia.
• In 2015, the Constitutional Arbitration Court of Western Armenia and the Academy of Western Armenia were established in the United States, with Surik Ghazaryan as its founder. The facilities are registered at the UN Headquarters.

In the Russian Federation (RF):

• In Russia, the idea of ​​Western Armenia was first spread by David Balyan's Isisapayl online site.
• Karen Mikaelyan was one of the figures in charge of establishing the government of exile in Western Armenia in the Russian Federation. The idea was realized only in 2013-2016, when the National Assembly of Western Armenians was formed in France, and General Norat Ter-Grigoryants, living in Russia, was elected its chairman.
• In 2017, he separated from the National Assembly of Armenian Armenians, created his own structure. Saradaryan (Switzerland) [4].

Establishment: The National Council of Western Armenia