Month: November 2006

LIBRARY AFTER HRAYR MAROUKHIAN OPENS
By Ruzan Poghosian
AZG Armenian Daily
09/11/2006
According to the Press Service of ARFD, the official ceremony of
opening the Library after Hrayr Maroukhian took place at the ARFD
Bureau’s “Christapor Mikaelian” Center, recently. The representatives
of the party’s bureau, the party branches from Armenia and Artsakh,
ARFD members of RA National Assembly and state officials were present
at the library’s opening ceremony.
The library functioned from this March based on the amount of books
allocated to the library from Athens.
Later, the library received more books from the office in Lebanon. The
Library also inherited the large private book collections of
Ed. Hovhannisian and Art. Tsatourian.
“In the course of the last month the library was enriched by the
exclusive private book collection of Maroukhian, that includes many
valuable books of social, political, philosophical, critical, legal,
national and cultural importance, as well as over 3000 books in
Armenian and English. At present, over 5000 books are registered at
the library. Comrade Hrayr had both high political and organizational
skills and rich worldview in the issues of political, public and
ideological importance. He loved books and he was a good reader. His
private library was the mirror of his personality. A large part of
his library included the works by the Russian classic writers and
those of the modern European Literature,” Albert Atchemian, member
of the ARFD Bureau stated.
The wife and the younger daughter of Maroukhian were also present at
the opening ceremony of the library.

VLADIMIR SPIVAKOV AWARDED UNESCO WORLD ARTIST
By Marietta Makarian
AZG Armenian Daily
09/11/2006
Vladimir Spivakov, outstanding Russian musician, was recently
awarded the title of The World Artist title by UNESCO. The UNESCO
administration highly appreciated the professionalism of the musician
and his great contribution to the implementations of the programs of
UNESCO. The official ceremony of awarding the artist with the title
took place in Paris.

ARAM ASATRYAN WILL BE BURIED IN ARMENIA (video)
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[05:40 pm] 08 November, 2006
more images This time yesterday it didn’t even occur to the
participants of the baptizing ceremony in Oshakan that the godfather
will not be alive soon. The godfather was famous singer Aram Asatryan
who died suddenly at about 07:00 p.m. yesterday. Asatryan was 53
years old.
According to eyewitnesses, he was in high spirits till the end. He
told the participants of the party that they would have a wonderful day
together. But shortly after that Aram Asatryan lost consciousness right
in the hall. He was taken to hospital immediately, but the doctors
failed to save his live. According to them, he died from heart attack.
Aram Asatryan was born on March 3, 1953, in Echmiadzin. He had three
sons and a daughter. One of his sons died a few months ago at the age
of 30. Could the personal grief be the reason for his death? Asked
this question his press secretary Hrachuhi Yeranosyan answered,
“He never spoke about his problems”.
Aram Asatryan arrived in Armenia from the USA five days ago. His
family is still in the States. On November 10 the presentation of his
new CD titled “My Sons” will take place in the Armenian Music Center.
After that he intended to go on a concert tour in Russia and Europe.
Tomorrow the singer’s family will arrive in Armenia to participate
in the funeral. According to the preliminary information, the Office
for the Dead will take place on November 10 at 06:00 p.m. in the
singer’s house in Echmiadzin. On November 11 the body will rest in
the concert hall after Aram Khachatryan in order to give his fans a
chance to say good bye to him. The funeral will take place on November
12 in Echmiadzin.
We managed to get the photos of the singer taken a few hours before
his death, as well as the video of the baptizing ceremony. Press the
“video” button in order to see part of the video.

ARMENIA WILL PROBABLY BE GIVEN MONEY
A1+
[03:09 pm] 08 November, 2006
“Armenia will most probably be financed by the “Millennium
Challenges” next year”, said US deputy Ambassador to Armenia, Anthony
Godfry. Nevertheless, the corporation council has not yet made that
decision.
Let us remind you that famous law-enforcement organization “Freedom
House” has called on “Millennium Challenges” not to finance Armenia
for not protecting human rights and freedoms.
By the way, the deputy Ambassador has underlined that Armenia must
do everything in order to organize free and fair elections in 2007.

NAIRA MELQOUMYAN WILL LEAVE FOR FRANCE
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[06:32 pm] 08 November, 2006
Executive director of pan-Armenian fund “Armenia” Naira Melqoumyan
will leave for France on November 16 where the annual pan-European
phonethon will be held.
The geography and number of the participants of the pan-European
phonethon held on the eve of the telemarathon grows year by year. Naira
Melqoumyan will be present at the phonethon at the request of the
representatives of the local bodies of the Fund in Europe.
At the end of the phonethon the executive director of the fund will
leave for Los Angeles where on November 23 “Telemarathon-2006” will
be held. The financial means gathered this year will be spent on the
development of the region of Hadrut, NKR, within the framework of
the second phase of the program “Revival of Artsakh”.

MURDER REVEALED
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[05:50 pm] 08 November, 2006
On November 4 the Central department of the police found the dead
body of Sasunik Petrosyan (b. 1968) in Nar-Dos 77/10. The body had
head injuries.
The police revealed that on November 3 at about 10:30 p.m. Petrosyan
was killed by Karen Ts. (b. 1964) in a quarrel.
The police has resorted to measures in order to find and arrest
Karen Ts. The case is being investigated by the Prosecutor’s office
of Kentron and Norq-Marash communities.

“KOCHARYAN IS SAHAKASHVILI’S MARIONETTE”
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[06:53 pm] 08 November, 2006
How come people leave Javakhq for Armenia in order to tell about
their problems but meet violence against them instead?
The anti-criminal movement organized a closed discussion today in order
to answer this question. As a result of the discussion leader of the
New Times party Aram Karapetyan revealed, “In my opinion Kocharyan
has become the marionette of Sahakashvili”.
It can be inferred from the words of Karapetyan that Kocharyan
orders to punish our compatriots at the request of the Georgian
President. “Yes,- he claimed,- a year ago 11 people including Jirayr
Sefilyan were persecuted by the authorities for raising the problems
of Javakhq”.
According to the leader of the New Times party Robert Kocharyan has
two reasons for becoming the marionette of Sahakashvili, “Sahakashvili
is a pro-Western politician, and the RA authorities hope that he can
engage in their lobbying in the USA. Besides, the RA authorities have
once been engaged in weapon trade; the deals were made in Tbilisi. The
only way to export contraband from Armenia is through Georgia”.
Mr. Karapetyan found it necessary to underline that this is his
personal opinion. As for what happened with the weapon sent toe
Tbilisi, he asked us to find it out ourselves.

MILLENNIUM CHALLENGES ACCOUNT TO DECIDE ON ASSISTANCE TO ARMENIA
Panorama.am
15:26 08/11/06
Anthony Godfry, temporary charge d’affaires of USA in Armenia,
said assistance to the republican will largely depend on “fair
administration of Armenia.”
America pays special attention to this issue. If the management of
Millennium Challenges Account decides that Armenia complies with this
requirement, it will take a decision at tomorrow’s board meeting of
the corporation to release funds to Armenia in the coming year. The
Board must also be sure that Armenia will conduct free and fair
elections at 2007 parliamentary elections.

KASPRZYK CONCERNED WITH INJURED RESIDENT AT ARMENIAN-AZERBAIJANI BORDER
Panorama.am
15:35 08/11/06
Andrzej Kasprzyk, personal representative of the acting chairman at
OSCE on Nagorno Karabakh, most probably will observe Tavush section
of Armenian-Azerbaijan border, Kasprzyk told Panorama.am.
Kasprchik is taking part in a conference organized by Wilton Park on
challenges in South Caucasus.
Panorama.am asked him on the recent incident in Tavush marz when
Azeri sniper shoot at a peaceful resident.
“I think the situation is quite stable during the recent few months,”
Kasprchik said also saying the incident is concerning. “Such cases
were reported in the past. But the fact that a person is injured is,
of coarse, concerning,” he said.

SIXTY PERCENT OF GEOGRAPHIC NAMES IN VAYOTS DZOR TO BE REPLACED
Armenpress
Nov 08 2006
YEGHEGNADZOR, NOVEMBER 8, ARMENPRESS: A special commission that was
set up in Vayots Dzor province to examine all geographic names of
the region has found that 60 percent of 2,861 such names need to be
changed because they are of foreign (mainly Turkic) origin and many
are not euphonic.
The commission has presented a list of new names to replace the old
ones. Local rural and urban communities gave their accord to changing
these names.
Now they are waiting for a special government decision to do it.
An official of the governor’s office said the proposed names are
either Armenian translations of Turkic names or the original names
of the places, rivers, lakes, mountains and other sites that were
replaced at one time by Turkic names.