In 1921 and 1922, as we have seen, almost all the AGBU’s relief programs for Armenian genocide survivors were run out of the Cairo head office. In these years, Nubar attended, in his capacity as president of the Armenian National Delegation, the sessions of the Peace Conference held in London, Spa, and San Remo. Along with Avetis Aharonian, he was one of the Republic of Armenia’s representatives at the negotiations over the Treaty of Sèvres. After several years of service, he resigned from the Armenian National Delegation in June 1921, passing the reins to Gabriel Noradungian, the newly elected vice-president of the Union and a former foreign minister of the Ottoman Empire.
The upheavals occasioned by the War, the dispersion of the Armenian genocide survivors, the Sovietization of Armenia, and a number of other factors had shifted the center of gravity of the Armenian world. Hitherto, the Cairo-based AGBU leadership had, in close co-ordination with Nubar, supervised Armenian refugee aid programs, particularly in Cilicia. But it gradually became plain that the future course of the world would be decided in Europe, and that Nubar’s presence in Paris, which was originally supposed to be temporary, had become permanent.
The Armenian world, or what was left of it, was caught up in a process of restructuration. The AGBU’s ... Read all
Transfer of the AGBU's Head Office to Paris