ACADEMICIAN RAFAEL GHAZARIAN, MEMBER OF KARABAKH COMMITTEE, DIED

Noyan Tapan
Nov 5, 2007

YEREVAN, NOVEMBER 5, NOYAN TAPAN. Rafael Ghazarian, an academician
of the National Academy of Sciences, a participant of the World War
II and a member of the "Karabakh" Committee, died after a serious
and long disease at the age of 84 on November 3.

Rafael Ghazarian, not being a political figure, took active part in the
public-political life of the country. The academician-radiophysician
together with other famous intellectuals took part in the proceedings
of the Council of Elders of the Forum of Intellectuals in his last
years.

Rafael Ghazarian was put under arrest in the Butirskaya prison of
Moscow for six months (from December 1988 to May 1989) with other
members of the "Karabakh" Committee. And in 1989-1990 he already held
the office of the Deputy Chairman of the Chairmanship of the Supreme
Council of the Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic. Between 1990-1995
academician Rafael Ghazarian headed the parliamentary commission for
science and education.

>From the middles of the 90s Rafael Ghazarian took up an opposing
attitude towards Levon Ter-Petrosian, the first President of the
Republic of Armenia, and later towards the current President Robert
Kocharian.

Levon Ter-Petrosian paid a visit to the seriously ill academician a
month ago. Their conversation lasted rather long and passed a in a
too warm atmosphere.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress