1.Guregh II, Armenian Patriarch of Jerusalem, Letter no. 5544/17 of 30 April 1948 to Karekin I, the Catholicos of Cilicia, Sion, 22/5-6, May-June 1948, p. 183.
2.Guregh II, Armenian Patriarch of Jerusalem, Letter no. 5569/14 of 15 June 1948 to K. Guiragossian, executive director of the AGBU, Sion, 22/5-6, May-June 1948, pp. 184-187.
3.George Hintlian, “Armenian Jerusalem,” Jerusalem Quarterly File, no. 2, 1998.
4.By November 1948, 6,500 Armenian refugees from Palestine had fled to neighboring Arab countries. Տրտում և արիւնոտ օրերու պատմութիւն, Sion, 22/11-12, November-December 1948, pp. 331-332.
5.Executive Committee of the New York Central Board, Զեկոյց ՀԲԸՄիութեան, 28 February 1951 [Report of the AGBU], Circulars (1946-1962), AGBU Archives/Cairo.
6.Minutes of the 30 July and 25 August 1958 Beirut Meetings of the District Committee of Lebanon, AGBU Archives/Cairo.
7.Minutes of the 4 September 1958 Beirut Meeting of the District Committee of Lebanon, AGBU Archives/Cairo.
8.Minutes of the 14 February 1978 AGBU Central Board Meeting in New York, no. 173, p. 2, Archives of the Bibl. Nubar.
9.Interview with Araksi Shahinian, president of the AFED from 1977 to 2003.
10.Minutes of the 12 June 1978 AGBU Central Board Meeting in New York, no. 175, p. 2, Archives of the Bibl. Nubar.
11.Minutes of the 8 December 1978 AGBU Central Board Meeting in New York, no. 177, p. 1, Archives of the Bibl. Nubar.
12.Ibid., p. 2.
13.Minutes of the 3 April 1979 AGBU Central Board Meeting, in New York, no. 179, p. 2, Archives of the Bibl. Nubar.
14.Minutes of the 9 February 1979 AGBU Central Board Meeting in New York, no. 178, p. 1, Archives of the Bibl. Nubar.
15.Minutes of the 3 April 1979 AGBU Central Board Meeting, op. cit., p. 2.
16.Minutes of the 22 June 1981 AGBU Central Board Meeting in New York, no. 191, p. 1, Archives of the Bibl. Nubar.
17.Minutes of the 8 December 1978 AGBU Central Board Meeting, op. cit., p. 1; Minutes of the 28 September 1979 AGBU Central Board Meeting in New York, no. 182, p. 1, Archives of the Bibl. Nubar.
18.Minutes of the 12 December 1980 AGBU Central Board Meeting in New York, no. 188, pp. 1-2, Archives of the Bibl. Nubar.