A son of Armenian Genocide survivors from Musa Ler , Karnusian was born in 1926 in a camp of refugees in Beirut . He studied at the universities of Greece and Switzerland . In 1979 he initiated the first Armenian World Congress in Paris . In 1983 on the occasion of the 60th centenary of the Treaty of Lausanne , James Karnusian organized a Pan-Armenian convention in Lausanne attended by delegates from 17 countries . " Our priority remains the recovery of Western Armenia occupied by Turkey , " he explained
Armenian Genocide
Armenian Genocide
James Karnusian