National Council
After the reoccupation of Van by Ottoman troops, Manukian settled in Tbilisi, Georgia and occupied himself with the works of the ARF party bureau, the National Committee and the issues of the refugees of Van. By the end of 1917, he became the chief of the Armenian Congress of Eastern Armenians.
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