1.Dallakian, Memoirs, op. cit., p. 64.
2.Hoosharar-Miutyune, 89/1, June 2001, p. 19.
3.Dallakian, Memoirs, op. cit., pp. 286-287.
4.Ashot Ghazarian, Executive Director of the AGBU's Armenian Representa-tion, Communication of 19 May 1992 to Louise Manoogian Simone, AGBU Archives in Yerevan.
5.Louise Manoogian Simone, Letter of 12 July 1990 to the Kyud Association, AGBU Archives in Yerevan.
6.Louise Manoogian Simone, Letter of 30 October 1990 to Vazken Manukian, AGBU Archives in Yerevan.
7.Vazken Manukian, Letter of 30 May 1991 to Louise Manoogian Simone, AGBU Archives in Yerevan.
8.Council of Ministers Decree no. 570 of 21 September 1991, signed by Vazken Manukian, AGBU Archives in Yerevan.
9.Mihran Agababian, Message of 27 September 1991 from Yerevan to Louise Manoogian Simone, AGBU Archives in Yerevan.
10.Report on the AGBU's operations in Armenia presented at the October 2004 General Assembly held in Yerevan, AGBU Archives in Yerevan.
11.Ibid.
12.Louise Manoogian Simone, annual report to the October 2004 General Assembly held in Yerevan, AGBU Archives in Yerevan.
13.Besides the musicians' salaries, the AGBU agreed to pay the maintenance costs of the Aram Khatchaturian Hall, located in the Opera complex, as well as the costs of organizing concerts. The annual expenditure required thus ran to nearly half a million dollars.
14.Fifteen of these musicians were inhabitants of Yerevan who agreed to go to Stepanakert to teach.
15.Ashot Ghazarian, message of 18 April 1996 and 8 May 1997 to Louise Manoogian Simone, AGBU Archives in Yerevan.
16.Ashot Ghazarian, message of 8 May 1997 to Louise Manoogian Simone, AGBU Archives in Yerevan. Ghazarian here informs Simone that construction of the school has begun.
17.Bedros Norehad, The Armenian General Benevolent Union, Its History and Purpose, New York, 1966, p. 57 ; Krikor Sarafian, Գործապատում ՀԲԸՄ Միութեան Գալիֆորնիոյ Շրջանի (1910-1953) [The work of the AGBU’s California Committee], Fresno, 1954.
18.Norehad, op. cit., p. 57.
19.Ibid., op. cit., p. 51.
20.Ibid., p. 59.
21.Isabel Kaprielian-Churchill, Like Our Mountains: A History of Armenians in Canada, Montreal & Kingston, 2005, p. 56.
22.Ibid., p. 155.
23.Ibid., pp. 200-201.
24.Ibid., pp. 398-399.
25.Ibid., pp. 439-440.