Koutakan Mayor Aharon Abrahamyan says that 500 hectares of the community’s 1,230 hectares was privatized back in the early 1990s. The land was divided up amongst 40 families. Another 700 hectares was leased to twelve individuals.
The General Assembly of the St. James Brotherhood in Jerusalem has elected Archbishop Aris Shirvanian as Acting Patriarch following the death of Patriarch Torkom Manoogian.
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