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1) The following members of the CUA Board with the right to vote were present at the meeting:
- Aram Satian (Chairman of the Board),
- Anna Asatryan,
- Ruben Antonyan,
- Lilit Artemyan,
- Anna Arevshatyan,
- Stepan Babatorosyan,
- Anna Garsoyan,
- Edgar Gyanjumyan,
- Lilit Yernjakyan,
- Narine Zarifyan,
- Arpine Kalinina,
- Aram Hovhannisyan,
- Ashot Ghazaryan,
- Edmond Makaryan,
- Gohar Shagoyan.
2) The meeting was also attended by:
- CUA Music Editor Tigran Hambaryan as the secretary of the meeting without the right to vote
- David Satian (Adviser to the Chairman) without the right to vote
- Edgar Hakopyan (CUA lawyer) without the right to vote
3) Brief description of the agenda of the extraordinary meeting and the issue submitted for discussion:
With the permission of the Chairman of the Board Aram Satian, CUA lawyer and attorney Edgar Hakobyan presented the current situation and legal basis for the issues on the agenda.
E. Hakobyan noted that over a certain period of time, events were initiated by one of the CUA members, as a result of which incidents occurred that could discredit the reputation of CUA. We are talking about CUA member Sergey Umroyan. Back in 2022, in connection with the “Urvakan” festival, CUA signed an agreement with «AEM» CJSC, headed by Sergey Umroyan, on permission to hold this festival on the territory of Composers’ Creativity House in Dilijan (CCH in Dilijan), as a result of which CUA allowed S. Umroyan to hold the festival on the territory of the CCH in Dilijan, including the hall, and for the organization of the festival, they allowed the territory of the CCH in Dilijan to be prepared for the organization of this festival. Within the framework of the signed agreement between CUA and the company headed by S. Umroyan, a dispute arose, after which, a few days before the appointed date of the festival, in September 2022, due to the military situation on the borders of the Republic of Armenia, S. Umroyan announced that the “Urvakan” festival would not be held and was not even going to pay CUA the amounts arising from the contract he signed, which he was obliged to pay, specified in the contract, within the terms. During this time, the head of the CCH in Dilijan David Davtyan submitted a report to the Chairman of the CUA on September 6, 2022, stating that on the territory of the CCH in Dilijan, as part of the festival to be held on September 20, unknown persons, under the leadership and permission of S. Umroyan, did the following: under the pretext of tidying up the library, a group of schoolchildren trampled and crushed books, and also broke the latch and removed the toilet, damaged property belonging to the CUA, burned films of cultural value belonging to the CUA. And when the director of the CCH in Dilijan D. Davtyan asked what they were doing or why they were damaging property, these young people replied that they were allowed to do so and that S. Umroyan instructed them to do so. Also, with the help of previously brought electric saws, deep pruning of trees in the adjacent territory was carried out, which was again done on the instructions of S. Umroyan. Along with his speech, E. Hakobyan presented to the members of the Board a copy of the protocol of the director of the CCH in Dilijan D. Davtyan and copies of the protocol of private interrogation provided by the lawyer. E. Hakobyan also reported that CUA member S. Umroyan has not paid membership fees for the second year without any reason and has an accumulated two-year debt, which is also grounds for termination of his membership in accordance with the CUA charter. CUA Chairman A. Satian noted that the director of the CCH in Dilijan D. Davtyan, having received the report, repeatedly invited S. Umroyan to his office to discuss the reasons for such actions and why he does not pay the amounts arising from the contract, but he avoided such meetings. A. Satian also mentioned that D. Davtyan did not initiate any legal proceedings regarding the report, as he believed that these issues would be resolved within the CCH in Dilijan. S. Umroyan is a member of the CUA Board, and that these actions should not be immediately brought to justice (the goal was to initiate a criminal case), i.e. disclosure or other communication about the actions of CUA members to law enforcement agencies will not bring honor to the reputation of CUA, and he believed that CUA would be able to resolve this problem within the CUA. After this, when the elections of the CUA Chairman took place and CUA was busy with organizational issues, S. Umroyan submitted an application to CUA, demanding that he be provided with documents and information, including the personal data of all CUA members, the reasons for their joining CUA, all minutes of all CUA bodies, accounting financial documents. At that time, since CUA was busy with organizational work on the election of the Chairman, he said that firstly, most of them were published on the official website and in the social network of CUA, and secondly, to get acquainted with other necessary documents, he can contact either the accounting department at any time or Mrs. Astghik and receive the information and documents she is interested in.
After this, without paying attention to this, S. Umroyan goes to court against CUA, demanding that CUA be obliged to provide him with this huge package of documents, citing that CUA has not provided and refuses to provide the package of necessary documents. CUA filed a claim in court that there are no problems with its failure to provide, most of the information presented on the website and is publicly available. And adding that S. Umroyan did not come personally and did not demand, the communication took place at the legal level. And the court in its decision noted that regardless of the fact that they are public and accessible, CUA must once again provide them to S. Umroyan in paper form. Later, CUA, through its representative, handed over to the enforcement service a package with more than 200 papers – these are all the documents that CUA had and that S. Umroyan requested. However, at the same time, S. Umroyan’s lawyer Narek Yeghiazaryan wrote twice to law enforcement agencies, in which he attributed exceptional cynicism and insolence to the Chairman of the CUA in relation to judicial acts, claiming that the CUA, on behalf of its Chairman, allegedly committed a crime and a criminal case should be initiated against him.
This was followed by another application in 2024. On February 8, where it was indicated that in the application filed in October 2023, they reported that the judicial act was not executed, and demanded that measures be taken to initiate at least one criminal case.
Edgar Hakobyan stated that, in his opinion, as a result of these inappropriate lexical descriptions of the lawyer, based on those statements, the enforcement service, in fact, at the request of S. Umroyan, submitted a protocol to the prosecutor’s office, on the basis of which a criminal case was initiated against the CUA, as if the requirement for a judicial act from the Chairman of the CUA was not fulfilled. Investigator of the Investigation Department of Kentron and Nork-Marash Administrative Districts of Yerevan Narine Sargsyan summoned and invited CUA Chairman Aram Satian for questioning as a witness on suspicion of committing a crime, on suspicion that A. Satian, being the Chairman of CUA, deliberately failed to comply with the requirement of the court ruling. Moreover, having presented this 200-page package of documents to S. Umroyan, he did not appear before Mr. Satian or the administrative staff to clarify the content of the documents. Instead, he filed a lawsuit with the enforcement service through a lawyer, and currently a criminal case is being conducted against CUA in the person of Mr. A. Satian. Having familiarized himself with the content of the 2022 report, Chairman A. Satian instructed to conduct a private legal investigation to clarify what happened in the CCH in Dilijan by a group of schoolchildren in terms of material damage. The director of CCH in Dilijan D. Davtyan was subjected to legal questioning and drew up a report in which he described the events in detail.
E. Hakobyan reported that he had a short telephone conversation with another employee, Artur Aghababyan, who verbally confirmed D. Davtyan’s words.
He also added that S. Umroyan had not paid membership fees for 2 years, which is also grounds for termination of his membership according to the CUA charter, the decision on which is made by the CUA Board.
E. Hakopyan explained the points of the CUA charter, the violation of which can be considered the actions of S. Umroyan, which should be discussed by the CUA Board and decide what disciplinary action should be taken, whether S. Umroyan should be subjected to any penalty or not. E. Hakopyan also explained what grounds and procedure provided for by the CUA charter for deprivation or suspension of membership of a CUA member.
4) Summary of the discussions at the extraordinary meeting:
At the beginning of the meeting, CUA lawyer E. Hakobyan presented details of the 2022 trial against CUA member, composer S. Umroyan, regarding S. Umroyan’s demand for all CUA document flow, CUA financial activities, meetings, sessions, congresses. The lawyer also thoroughly presented the actions committed by S. Umroyan and/or under his leadership, in the framework of the preparation of the “Urvakan” festival (which was to be held in September 2022 at the CCH in Dilijan), which caused great damage to the property of the CCH in Dilijan. The basis for this was the report of the director of the CCH in Dilijan D. Davtyan and the explanation made on its basis, as well as a telephone conversation with the deputy director of the same institution Aghababyan. CUA Chairman A. Satian called S. Umroyan’s actions unacceptable, since, in the opinion of the CUA Chairman, they damaged CUA’s reputation. A. Satian proposed to remove S. Umroyan from CUA membership. CUA’s lawyer, in turn, highlighted references from the charter reflecting the above-mentioned actions, and also presented two statements to the members of the Board addressed to the executive service by S. Umroyan’s lawyer Narek Egiazaryan, in which incorrect and offensive statements were made about CUA (cynicism, etc.), about its director, administrative employee(s), with which S. Umroyan filed a petition with law enforcement agencies to initiate a criminal case against CUA. Advisor to the Chairman of CUA D. Satyan, members of the CUA Board A. Hovhannisyan, E. Makaryan spoke on the above-mentioned topics. A. Asatryan and A. Ghazaryan made proposals to discuss the issue of excluding S. Umroyan from CUA on another day, providing an opportunity to listen to him or offer to return his application. However, the lawyer noted that at this stage it is no longer possible to influence the suspension of the process in any way, therefore, of the 2 questions presented, the first one to be voted on was the question of dismissing S. Umroyan. As a result of the vote: 6 for, 6 abstained, 2 against (1 member of the Board did not participate in the vote), S. Umroyan was excluded from CUA membership. At the same time, the Board unanimously approved the application sent several weeks ago to the official CUA e-mail address of composer Nubar Aslanyan, about the termination of membership in CUA.
5) The issue of excluding composer S. Umroyan from CUA was discussed, as a result of which the following voting results were recorded:
- Satian Aram – FOR
- Asatryan Anna – FOR
- Antonyan Ruben – AGAINST
- Artemyan Lilit – DID NOT PARTICIPATE IN VOTING
- Arevshatyan Anna – ABSTAINED
- Babatorosyan Stepan – FOR
- Garsoyan Anna – FOR
- Gyanjumyan Edgar – ABSTAINED
- Yernjakyan Lilit – ABSTAINED
- Zarifyan Narine – ABSTAINED
- Kalinina Arpine – ABSTAINED
- Hovhanesyan Aram – AGAINST
- Ghazaryan Ashot – ABSTAINED
- Makaryan Edmond – FOR
- Shagoyan Gohar – FOR
FOR – 6 people
AGAINST – 2 people
ABSTAINED – 6 people
ABSENT – 4 people
DID NOT PARTICIPATE – 1 person
