ETCHMIADZIN, FEBRUARY 1, NOYAN TAPAN - ARMENIANS TODAY. A requiem ceremony dedicated to former U.S. President Woodrow Wilson will be held at the end of the Sunday Surb (Saint) Liturgy at the Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin, on this Sunday, February 4. Noyan Tapan was informed about it by priest Vahram Melikian, the information system responsible of the Mother See. This decision was made responding the proposal presented by Rafayel Hambardzumian, the Chairman of the "Oath of National Unity" organization, to hold requiem ceremony in memory of the Armenian people's great friend every year, on Sunday nearest to Woodrow Wilson's death anniversary (February 3, 1924). As Mr.Hambardzumian informed Noyan Tapan the same proposal was approved at the Catholicosate of the Great House of Cilicia as well. The "National Unity Oath" party presented a proposal in November of the previous year to implement events in Armenia and Diaspora to perpetuate Woodrow Wilson's memory. President Wilson, particularly, is the author of the map on territories to be returned to Armenia by the Treaty of Sevres by which it was envisaged that Turkey was to return about 90 thousand square km territory to Armenia.

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