Simon Vratsian
Simon Wratzjan Simon Wrazjan ( common spelling Simon Vratsian, Armenian Սիմոն Վրացյան; * 1882 in New Nakhichevan, Russian Empire, † May 21, 1969 in Beirut, Lebanon ) was the last prime minister of the First Republic of Armenia.
Life
After visiting Armenian and Russian schools, Wrazjan entered 1898, the Taschnakenpartei (ARF ) in; he wrongly assumed that he had joined the Hunchak Party, as he walked through the wrong door. He received his higher education from 1900 to 1906 on Gevorkian seminar. He took in 1907 on the 4th General Congress of the Tashnaks in Vienna, where he advocated an orientation to socialism.
In 1908, he traveled to Saint Petersburg to study law, and Education. He traveled in 1911 by the United States, where he edited the newspaper Hairenik. In 1914, he made his way to the 8th General Congress of Tashnaks Ottoman Erzurum. There he was elected to the party's office and exchanged views with leaders of the Young Turks. In August 1914 he was arrested as an alleged Russian spy, but escaped to Transcaucasia, where he came up with the Armenian volunteer units in contact, who fought with the Russian army. After the dissolution of the units he visited in 1917, the Moscow State Conference, the Armenian National Congress and was elected a member of the National Council. Hovhannes Katschasnuni Wrazjan asked if he would accompany him on his journey through Europe and America, but a visa by the British was refused because they saw a radical socialists in it.
On 3 April 1920 he was appointed Minister of Labour, Agriculture and state property in the cabinet of Alexander Chatissjan; he also took over the business information and propaganda. After the resignation of the government and the inability of Katschasnuni to form a government, Wrazjan adopted on 23 November 1920, the Office of the Prime Minister. On December 2, he gave Armenia the Bolsheviks. He went into hiding and was later elected president of the Committee for the Salvation of the Fatherland. He also appealed to Turkey and Western Europe to offer resistance against the Bolsheviks. Wrazjan then traveled through Europe and settled in Paris, to issue from 1923 to 1925 the Troshag.
On 29 December 1926, the Office of the ARF decided by four votes and one vote against (of Schahan Natali ) to join the Promethean Alliance. This considered the Turks as defenders of the Caucasian peoples. In the published in Beirut weekly " Nayiri " (v. 12 No. 1-6 ) Schahan Natalie's published memoirs about Talât Pasha 's assassination. There is damage Hans instruction to Soghomon Tehlirian in Berlin: "You blow the skull of the number - one killer - Nations away and do not try to escape. You stay there, your foot over the body, and surrender to the police who come and will invest you handcuffs. " Schahan Natalie's proposal, DERS convert Tehlirians process into a political process for those responsible for the Armenian genocide, which is also the was part was implemented. However, there were people in the leadership of the ARF - forward Simon Wrazjan all - took out the memoirs of Tehlirians two chapters prior to their pressure, which dealt with Schahan Natalie's key role in the murder of Talât.
Wrazjan also wrote in the journals Harach and Horizon. In 1936 he went back to Paris and then to the United States to South America, 1939. In 1945 he presented to the UN General Assembly in San Francisco a petition before the restoration of Armenia according to the plans of Woodrow Wilson demanded by Turkey. In 1951 he became director of an Armenian school in Beirut.