YEREVAN. – Zhamanak daily clarified from Grand Master Armen Karapetyan of the Grand Lodge of Armenia that the freemasons’ annual conference in Armenia will be convened in fall, but the date and place are not yet determined.   

“To note, the Armenian freemasons’ conference was held in [the capital city] Yerevan in July 2011, and Grand Orient De France lodge’s Grand Master Guy Arsize, who arrived in Armenia along the lines of the conference, conditioned his visit on having very good Armenian friends in the diaspora. According to him, Armenia is an important spiritual land in a complicated geopolitical state, and it needs assistance.    

Last year’s conference topics were human and women’s rights, [and] human dignity. They want to bring to Armenia the fundamental values of their ideology on democracy, human rights, [and] equality. Arsize had also informed that the [French] lodge had 10-20 Armenian members.  

‘I’m here to eradicate those mystic notions in you, to show that I’m not a devil,’ Guy Arsize had said,” Zhamanak writes.