A Fresno native and incumbent member of the Armenian parliament, Heritage opposition party leader will speak at Fresno State on Friday, December 23, Fresno Bee reports.
Fresno-born Raffi Hovannisian will discuss his journey from Fresno to Yerevan at Fresno State's McLane Hall at 7 pm, spokesman Hrair Messerlian said.
Hovannisian founded the U.S.-based Armenian Bar Association, participated in earthquake relief in Armenia in the late 1980s, reported some of the earliest stages of the Nagorno-Karabakh War, and became the first Armenian foreign minister to raise the Armenian flag at the United Nations, Messerlian said.
He is also the founder of the Armenian Center for National and International Studies think tank in Yerevan.
