Armenian President Sargsyan Visits the US

Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan is sworn in during his inauguration ceremony in Yerevan, Armenia, on April 9, 2013. Armenia was holding a referendum Sunday on proposed constitutional changes that would give more powers to the prime minister and parliament at the expense of the president, who would become largely a figurehead, but the opposition has seen the reform as an attempt by President Serzh Sargsyan to extend his rule. Davit Hakobyan/PanArmenian via AP

Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan visited MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on March 29. Several weeks before that date, his press attaché invited a small group of notable Armenian-American men and women to meet with him in one-on-one, private conferences. One such person was three-time Nobel Peace Prize nominee, Dr. Simon J. Simonian, whose teamwork with two other doctors created the vaccine that eradicated smallpox. Here, exclusively to the Epoch Times, is Dr. Simonian’s journal of that day and that man.

Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan. Public domain