Harut Sassounian
Harut Sassounian is the Publisher of The California Courier, founded in 1958. His weekly editorials, translated into several languages, are reprinted in scores of U.S. and overseas publications and posted on countless websites.<p>
He is the author of “The Armenian Genocide: The World Speaks Out, 1915-2005, Documents and Declarations.”
As President of the Armenia Artsakh Fund, he has administered the procurement and delivery of $970 million of humanitarian assistance to Armenia and Artsakh during the past 34 years. As Senior Vice President of Kirk Kerkorian’s Lincy Foundation, he oversaw $240 million of infrastructure projects in Armenia.
From 1978 to 1982, Mr. Sassounian worked as an international marketing executive for Procter & Gamble in Geneva, Switzerland. He was a human rights delegate at the United Nations for 10 years. He played a leading role in the recognition of the Armenian Genocide by the U.N. Sub-Commission on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities in 1985.
Mr. Sassounian has a Master’s Degree in International Affairs from Columbia University, and a Master’s in Business Administration from Pepperdine University.
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Senate Should not Confirm Bryza As U.S. Ambassador to Azerbaijan
By Harut Sassounian Publisher, The California Courier At the request of Sen. Barbara Boxer, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee had postponed from early August to […]
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Top Three Armenian Church Leaders Boycott Turkish Show in Akhtamar
By Harut Sassounian Publisher, The California Courier The Turkish scheme of luring Armenian Church leaders to participate in a religious show at Holy Cross (Sourp […]
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Congress Should Investigate State Dept. For Holding Back Aid to Artsakh
By Harut Sassounian Publisher, The California Courier The State Department has acted negligently and possibly in contempt of Congress by withholding assistance that it had […]
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Complaint against Azerbaijan in European Court Could Have Grave Consequences
By Harut Sassounian Publisher, The California Courier In recent years, Armenian-Americans have filed several lawsuits in U.S. courts against insurance companies, banks, and the Republic […]
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Why Would Armenians Go to Akhtamar
Why Would Armenians Go to Akhtamar, And Become Tools of Turkish Propaganda? Ever since the Genocide, after nearly a century of banning Armenian church services, the […]
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Sassounian’s column of July 22, 2010
Turkey has no Right to Interfere In Armenian Patriarch’s Election Although the Treaty of Lausanne is supposed to protect the rights of non-Muslim minorities in […]
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Senate Should not Confirm Bryza As U.S. Ambassador to Azerbaijan
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Top Three Armenian Church Leaders Boycott Turkish Show in Akhtamar
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Congress Should Investigate State Dept. For Holding Back Aid to Artsakh
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Complaint against Azerbaijan in European Court Could Have Grave Consequences
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Why Would Armenians Go to Akhtamar
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Sassounian’s column of July 22, 2010