W  A  R  N  I  N  G
( C o m m u n i q u é )

 A former Assistant Secretary General  (ASG) of the UN named as a suspect in the recent Iraqi oil scandal is lobbing for illegality in Cyprus.
 

Benon Sevan, hurriedly retired following the scandal relating to the Food for Oil Program for Iraq, recently procured a meeting between the AGBU’s CB board member Berg Setrakian and President Tassos Papadopoulos of Cyprus in New York. They asked the President  to rescind  the Listing of the Melkonian Establishment and its grounds, recently bestowed by his government.

We wonder what the next step by the AGBU’s Setrakian – Benon axis would be,  should the President Papadopoulos give in to their demands?

Confirmation of the closure of the school and a swift sale of the property?
 

That would be illegal, for The AGBU is not, and never been, the owner of the MEI and its estate  (see the Melkonian Will, dated 1925), a fact clearly understood by the government of Cyprus.

As a matter of fact the Government Authorities of the Republic of Cyprus, besides the rights conferred on them by virtue of the responsibilities of a sovereign county’s governance, are supposed to know who is the legal owner of what in the country under their jurisdiction.

Benon Sevan is in Cyprus accompanied by a legal US adviser. What are they doing in Cyprus? Tourism? It would indeed be very curious, having  a US legal adviser for touring in Cyprus, especially for Benon Sevan – born and schooled at MEI in Nicosia, moreover a Cyprus citizen.

Setrakian’s friend Benon Sevan (who along with Berg and the rest of the CB are signatories of the AGBU CB’s statement of 16 March 2004, which tries to justify the closure of  MEI)  is in Cyprus – with a US legal adviser.

Does anybody think that they are there to rectify their mistake and make their excuses to the Government of Cyprus, saying  “We thought that the AGBU was the owner of the MEI. We made an error. The AGBU is just a trustee. Therefore we have to keep the MEI open on its estate in Nicosia, as a Western Armenian Boarding Secondary School for the children of All-Armenian worldwide Commonwealth”.

This is unlikely. Benon Sevan and the lawyer Setrakian know that they do not need a US legal adviser to confess their errors.

It is much more likely that Benon Sevan, together with his US legal adviser, is in Cyprus to continue his lobbying and presentation of false and inaccurate arguments that he began in New York. 

We warn all Cypriot and international authorities concerned, that a former ASG of the UN is in Cyprus to carry out lobbying for an illegal action.

Pro Edvcatio’s request for amendments – addressed  to the Minister of interior of Cyprus, copied for the President Tassos Papadopoulos as well as all authorities  concerned – is herewith attached for the information of the public.

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