Who Did Makunts Really Meet? Human Rights Defender

“I just noticed that the U.S. Ambassador to Armenia, Lilit Makunts, has posted a photo on Twitter claiming it is a meeting with members of the American Armenian Bar Association’s leadership council. Human rights defender Ruben Melikyan wrote about this on his Facebook page.

First, I am puzzled because I know the leadership of the Armenian Bar Association (ArmenBar) very well; I organized the annual conference of the Armenian Bar Association in Shushi in 2018, and I did not recognize any familiar members in this photo. Who did Makunts really meet?

P.S. I will be very straightforward: I hope that the Armenian community in the U.S. will treat Makunts, the ambassador of Nikol, as an outcast.”