On official visit to the American capital, Raffi K. Hovannisian met with Deputy Secretary of State Eric Rubin on June 3. In a private meeting at the Department of State, they discussed not only Armenia's domestic democratic challenges, but also its international challenges, including a righteous resolution to the conflict surrounding the Mountainous Karabakh Republic and a true recognition of the Armenian Genocide and Great National Dispossession of 1915.

On the same day Hovannisian delivered a keynote address to an audience of diplomats, policy-makers, and intellectuals at the George Washington University Law School. The event, "A Conversation on Armenia," was co-sponsored by the Institute for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies, Policy Forum Armenia, and the Armenian Bar Association.

After the event he gave interviews to representatives of the local and international media.

Hovannisian June 3 speech at the George Washington Law School can be seen here.