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PARUYR HAYRIKYAN is an Armenian politician and former Soviet dissident. Hayrikyan is one of the founders and most active leaders of the democratic movement in the Soviet Union. He is also a writer and an accomplished composer.

Pascal Carmont (1928-2011) was a French diplomat of Armenian origin –and a descendant of the Amiras of Constantinople. He served France between 1955 and 1992, first in Eastern Europe (Bulgaria, Albania, Turkey) and then in Latin America and Africa (Brazil, Mozambique, South Africa, Egypt). His publication Les Amiras: Seigneurs de l’Armenie ottomane was originally published by Editions Salvator (Paris) in 1999.