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1991. The consultations delivered by the government in exile were instrumental in the process of elaboration of key decisions on the proclamation of
Nagorno Karabakh Republic on September 2, 1991, organizing the September 21, 1991 independence Referendum in Armenia and December 10, 1991 Independence Referendum in Nagorno Karabakh. The formation of government in exile by USSR MP Zory Balayan and the acting Armenian Interior Minister Ashot Manucharyan was an extraordinary step, implemented in the extreme unfavorable conditions for the establishment of Armenia and Artsakh sovereignty.
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242:. These testimonies are proofs of Genocidal actions implemented against Armenian population of Sumgait. Today those “White notes” are located in the archives of Armenia’s General Prosecutor office and are the only professionally systemized evidences on Sumgait massacres. In 1989 on Kotanjian’s initiative, as a result of negotiations with Azerbaijani relevant authorities, an unprecedented swap of 3000 Azerbaijanis living in
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publicly accused the leaders of
Armenian Communist party of cronyism and corruption, and of sabotaging the policy of reforms aimed at modernization of society, also known as “Perestroika”. Kotanjian’s views on reforms were supported by USSR liberal-democratic circles and reformist faction of the USSR Communist party.
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In 1971-1978, Kotanjian was the First
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During his military career, he was commissioned to the war from the position of the Deputy head of the
Armenian Communist Party Central Committee Science division, was tasked the coordination of the establishment of the first Afghan National Academy of Sciences (the academic supervisor of the program
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The government in exile supported the authorities of
Armenia and Nagorno Karabakh to make sober assessments of threats eliminating from the collapse of the USSR. The utmost significance for both Armenia and Karabakh was the assessment on perspectives of the coup d’état, organized in Moscow in August
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Kotanjian, as a member of the national headquarters dealing with evacuation of population from earthquake zone, coordinated the program of redeployment of 30.000 people from earthquake zone, mainly women and children, to the different resorts of Soviet Union with full provision of food, medicine and
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Kotanjian, «Managing Strategic Changes Through DEEP Reforms: A View from the Perspective of U.S.-Armenia „Smart Power“ Cooperation». Partnership for Peace Consortium of Defense Academies and Security Studies Institutes. «Connections», The Quarterly Journal, 2012, pp.
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which later was transformed into the Department of international relations and military cooperation (1996), He was also the founder and Editor-in-Chief of the
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