Boghos Nubar
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Boghos Nubar also known as Boghos Nubar Pasha (1851–1930) was a Chairman of the Armenian National Assembly
Armenian National Assembly (Ottoman Empire)
Armenian National Assembly was the governing body of the Armenian Millet established by Armenian National Constitution of 1863 under Ottoman Empire....

, liberal
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, the son of Egypt
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ian Prime Minister Nubar Pasha
Nubar Pasha
Nubar Pasha was an Egyptian politician and the first Prime Minister of Egypt. He served as Prime Minister three times during his career. His first term was between August 1878 and February 23, 1879. His second term was served from January 10, 1884 to June 9, 1888...

 and the founder, alongside ten other Armenian national movement
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Armenian national movement, also known as the "Armenian revolutionary movement" and Armenian national liberation movement was the Armenian national effort to re-establish an Armenian state in the historic Armenian homelands of eastern Asia Minor and the Transcaucasus...

 leaders, of the Armenian General Benevolent Union
Armenian General Benevolent Union
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 on April 15, 1905.

He was the first ever president of the Armenian General Benevolent Union
Armenian General Benevolent Union
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 (AGBU) from 1906 to 1928.

Career

Nubar fought valiantly for the Armenian cause. Armenian National Constitution
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 (approved form of the "Code of Regulations" composed of 150 articles drafted by the Armenian intelligentsia) assigned by the powers of Patriarch (position in Ottoman Millet
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) and formed "Armenian National Assembly
Armenian National Assembly (Ottoman Empire)
Armenian National Assembly was the governing body of the Armenian Millet established by Armenian National Constitution of 1863 under Ottoman Empire....

". This code is still active among Armenian Church in diaspora. As early as the beginning of 1912 the Catholicos of Etschmiazin in Russia had sent the Boghos Nubar to the Cabinets of Europe with a commission to demand administrative autonomy for Armenians in the Ottoman Empire. He has also been considered as one of the promiment figures of Armenian betrayal against the Ottoman Empire, thus inflicting many catastrophes during World War I. This proceeding was nothing but a step in Russian policy. The policy pursued by France in In Constantinople almost at the same moment on March 15, 1913. Boghos Nubar, the Ambassador, repeatedly asserts that the Armenians of Ottoman Empire in no way desire to bring up the question of independence or constitutional changes (regarding Armenian National Constitution). Their sole aim is to secure the reforms drawn up by Russia France and England and provided for in the Treaty of Berlin reforms which have remained a dead letter hitherto. In February 1914, the Armenian reform package
Armenian reform package
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 passed.

In January, 1919, The Times
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published a letter from Boghos Nubar (an Ottoman
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 citizen) in which he protests, belatedly, about the non-representation of Armenians at the Paris Peace Conference, 1919
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. The letter includes a useful summary of the Armenian contribution to the allied war effort.

Awards

Boghos Nubar was awarded the Belgian "Ordre de Leopold" and Egyptian Medjidieh, Osmanieh and Nile
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Orders, honorary degrees and medals for distinguished services
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