Month: November 2009

BRANDS FROM TURKEY AND IRAN TO BE REPRESENTED AT THE CONSTRUCTION EXHIBITION IN YEREVAN

PanARMENIAN.Net
09.11.2009 18:22 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Seventh International Specialized Exhibition
"Caucasus CONSTRUCTION AND RENOVATION EXPO 2010" will be held from
April 2 to 4 of 2010 in the Sports and Concert Complex after.

Demirchyan in Yerevan, press office of LOGOS EXPO Center reports.

The exhibition is aimed at finding new business partners and markets,
attracting foreign investments to Armenian economy.

"For the first time in Armenia largest brands in construction from
Turkey, Georgia and Iran will be presented. This event will provide a
unique platform for the establishing and developing business relations
between construction companies of Armenia and the countries of the
region, " the statement says.

Armenian companies will receive the opportunity to integrate with
largest manufacturers in the construction industry that will lay
the basis for the growth of international investment in the Armenian
economy, the report says.

In theframework of the exhibition following presentations and round
tables are scheduled: "Application of new technologies in modern
construction", "Rational use of modern design ideas in interior
and exterior".

Event is organized by the LOGOS EXPO Center and the Union of
Industrialists and Entrepreneurs of Armenia and officially supported
by Armenia’s ministry of economy, Union of Constructors of Armenia,
Union of Designers of Armenia and Armenian Union of Architects.

The exhibition is expected to bring together more than 100 industry
leaders: investment and construction companies, design organizations,
etc.

HAIKO MIGHT REPRESENT TURKEY IN EUROVISION 2010

Tert
urovision/
Nov 9 2009
Armenia

The process for who will represent the country in the 2010 Eurovision
Song Contest has already begun in Turkey.

Turkish TV broadcaster NTV, during the second initial stage, asked
website visitors to vote for their favourite contestant. About 15,000
people voted with first place going to Haiko Chefkin, a Turkish
citizen of Armenian descent, who garnered 15.94% of the votes. Haiko,
in particular, beat Tarkan, who fell behind by 4%.

The 55th Eurovision Song Contest will take place in Oslo, Norway,
from May 12-16, 2010.

ERDOGAN BLAMED FOR ‘COOPERATING WITH ARMENIANS TO TURKEY’S DETRIMENT’

Tert
Nov 9 2009
Armenia

At a general meeting of Turkey’s governing Justice and Development
(AKP) party held yesterday in Istanbul, Turkish Prime Minister Recep
Tayyip Erdogan said that there are 70,000 citizens from the Republic
of Armenia in Turkey and an additional 100,000 Turkish citizens of
Armenian ancestry.

"This is the reality of the relations between Armenia and Turkey,"
he said.

Erdogan’s statement was made as if in response to the statement
Nationalist Movement Party leader Devlet Bahceli made yesterday.

Bahceli, referring to the establishment process of Armenia-Turkey and
Turkey-Greece relations initiated recently during a parliamentary
session, had stated that Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan "is
cooperating with Armenians and Greeks, to Turkey’s detriment."

SIMON KAMSARAKAN APPLIES TO PROSECUTOR GENERAL IN ANTICIPATION OF ARMENIAN FMS’ ANSWERS

PanARMENIAN.Net
09.11.2009 18:30 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Member of RA Public Council on Defense and National
Security, physicist and Director of Institute of Fundamental Sciences
Simon Kamsarakan has published his open letter addressed to Foreign
Minister Edward Nalbandyan. In his letter, Kamsarakan informs Armenian
FM that he has already requested Prosecutor General to institute
a criminal case against him for violating constitutional order and
abusing authority to the detriment of the Armenia’s national security
and defense.

Kamsarakan finds that Armenian FM is obliged to provide information
on who initialed RA-Turkish Protocols and where, who elaborated
the so-called press release on behalf of Armenian, Turkish and Swiss
Foreign Ministries and why parties’ signatures are missing. Kamsarakan
is also interested to know whether the press releases on initialed
protocols were available to President on August 30, and why public
has no access to the Protocols signed. Besides, activists wonders who
undersigned the shorthand reports, how long they are going to be kept
confidential etc.

In his letter, Kamsarakan also says that in case the questions above
remain unanswered, he’ll submit relevant conclusions to RA Prosecutor
General as an argument proving his accusations.

CAFESJIAN’S ‘OPEN DOORS’ CLOSED EARLIER THAN ANNOUNCED

Tert
Nov 9 2009
Armenia

The Cafesjian Center for the Arts declared November 8 as an exclusive
‘Open Doors’ day for the public, where art-loving Yerevan citizens
could become familiar with the centre’s various contemporary art
collections, without having to pay an admission fee.

In all the glossy pamphlets published on the occasion of the exhibition
opening, Open Doors day was announced on November 8 from 10 am to 10
pm. In fact, the Cafesjian Center for the Arts closed the doors to its
exhibit halls a few hours earlier. Tert.am correspondents succeeded
in gathering information from neither the security guards nor the
young women working behind the first floor reception desk. All of them
stated that they’re not the ones in charge and could say nothing. The
only excuse was that the escalators’ hours of operation were mentioned
in the booklet. In fact, the numerous escalators within the Cascade
complex have always been in operation till 11 pm, irregardless of
the opening of the Cafesjian Center for the Arts.

While those arriving apparently "late" were angrily waiting before
the entrance, security guards were letting groups of what one could
assume to be VIP guests in.

Earlier, enthusiastic museum-goers were made to wait in long queues,
since, after all, the opening of this institution of contemporary art
was a long-awaited event, and there was a rush to become acquainted
with Gerard Cafesjian’s collection while it was still free of charge.

The others, and those who appeared before the doors of the centre
after 7:30 pm on the ‘Open Doors’ day, will have to pay an admission
fee of 1,000 AMD to view all but the first two exhibit halls at the
Cafesjian Center for the Arts.

ETHNIC ARMENIAN SINGER TO REPRESENT TURKEY IN 2010 EUROVISION SONG CONTEST

PanARMENIAN.Net
09.11.2009 18:31 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ The process for who will represent the country in
the 2010 Eurovision Song Contest has already begun in Turkey. Turkish
TV broadcaster NTV, during the second initial stage, asked website
visitors to vote for their favorite contestant. About 15,000 people
voted with first place going to Haiko Chefkin, a Turkish citizen
of Armenian descent, who garnered 15.94% of the votes. Haiko, in
particular, beat Tarkan, who fell behind by 4%.

The 55th Eurovision Song Contest will take place in Oslo, Norway,
from May 12-16, 2010.

‘NOT ARMENIA THAT MUST GO TO GLOBAL COMPANIES, BUT MAJOR COMPANIES MUST COME TO ARMENIA’: TIGRAN SARGSYAN SPEAKS AT ARMTECH GALA

Tert
Nov 9 2009
Armenia

ArmTech Congress ’09, the third Global Armenian High Tech Industry &
Business Conference, was held under the patronage of the Prime Minister
of the Republic of Armenia on November 5-8, 2009, in California’s
Silicon Valley.

Distinguished keynote speakers included Honorable Joe Simitian,
California State Senator (U.S.); Areg Galstyan, Deputy Minister of
Energy and Natural Resources (Republic of Armenia); Pegor Papazian,
CEO, National Competitiveness Foundation of Armenia; Daniel M.

Mahoney, President and CEO, Renesas Technology America, Inc. (U.S.);
and Gregory K. Hinckley, President of Mentor Graphics, Inc.(U.S.).

Sargsyan, speaking at the conference’s evening gala at Fairmont Hotel
San Jose, said that during his stay in Silicon Valley, it became
clear it is necessary to make changes to RA government projects in
the area of internet technology. "They grew outdated over the time we
were trying to implement them," the prime minister stated. It turns
out that we have to refresh, an opportunity which ArmTech provides.

Secondly, during our meetings with a major company an idea was proposed
that, firstly, made me astonished, that it’s not Armenia that must
go to global companies, but rather, major companies must come to
Armenia. The world is becoming very small, and global companies are
competing there. There are no longer any free places."

The prime minister emphasized the third conclusion: "The competition
among the world’s global companies is not in finding a place in the
present market, since there is no more free space. Moreover, all the
spaces in the future market too are occupied, which makes the Blue
Ocean Strategy very timely, since all those territories where we try
to position ourselves are occupied today and tomorrow. We are late:
this means we must find our ocean, our space, where we will have
our relative advantage." The prime minister considered the question
"What is Armenia’s place in the future world?" to be pivotal. "No
global company thinks [about this], other than us; they think about
their own business. And ArmTech must provide assistance in finding
the answer to the question."

In the context of the meetings and discussions held recently, Sargsyan
also referred to the Armenian world: "The Armenian world is a reality.

The rapidly changing and diminishing world showed that. It is not
the formation of the Armenian world that should interest us, since
it exists, but its future: what changes we must undergo, how we must
change the Armenian world’s traditional structures, our country."

As announced by the Republic of Armenia government, the prime minister
referred to the Armenian Genocide, Armenia-Diaspora cooperation,
and major issues related to Armenian-Turkish relations, as well
as presenting Armenia’s position and the Armenian’s president’s
initiatives directed toward the establishment of the relations.

ARMENIA-TURKEY CULTURAL COOPERATION CANNOT BE OFFICIAL, SAYS MINISTER

Tert
nov 9 2009
Armenia

Since diplomatic relations have not yet been established between
Armenia and Turkey, one cannot speak of official relations in the area
of culture, Republic of Armenia Minister of Culture Hasmik Poghosyan
stated. According to the minister, all the possible joint projects
contain a public aspect.

Earlier, Turkish media reported on the possible meeting of Armenian
and Turkish historians and archaeologists in Kars. According to this
news, the scientists were going to discuss issues related to the
reconstruction of one of Armenia’s ancient capitals, Ani.

"This information might correspond to reality. Armenian archaeologists
may participate in such projects," said the minister, answering
Tert.am’s question on the reliability of the information.

Poghosyan also stated that over the course of two years (2008-2009),
16-17 discussions related to cultural projects took place between
Armenia and Turkey.

ARMENIAN FINANCE MINISTRY FIXED STATE PRICES FOR GOLD

PanARMENIAN.Net
09.11.2009 18:38 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ The "State Treasury of precious metals and stones"
Ágency of Armenia’s ministry of finance, fixed state prices for gold
valid from November 9 to 15, press office of the finance ministry
reports.

The price of buying gold is 12357.62 (+456.80), and price of selling
is 13432.20 (+496.53), for the purchase of silver is 195.68 (+4.09),
the price for selling silver is 212.70 (+4.45 ), purchase price
of platinum is 15437.22 (+241.29), the selling price is 16779.59
(+262.27), purchase price of palladium was fixed at 3746.14 (+6.70),
and selling price is 4071.89 (+7.28).

ARMENIAN-AMERICAN MILLIONAIRE OPENS ART CENTRE IN HIS NAME

Tert
Nov 9 2009
Armenia

Yerevan’s newest contemporary art museum, the Cafesjian Center for
the Arts, had its official opening on Saturday. Republic of Armenia
President Serzh Sargsyan, His Holiness Karekin II, Catholicos of All
Armenians, and American businessman Gerard L. Cafesjian himself,
as well as various artists and political figures, were present at
the ceremony.

Within Yerevan’s famous Cascade architectural complex, a number
of exhibit halls were opened and made available to the public. The
majority of the works are derived from the private collection of its
main benefactor, Mr. Gerard L. Cafesjian.

At Sasuntsi Davit Hall, visitors could familiarize themselves with
spouses Stanislav Libensky and Jaroslava Brychtova’s glass artwork.

In the centre’s last exhibit hall, Swarosvki luminous installation
Light Socks by well-known New York architectural studio Diller Scofidio
and Renfro, presenting a thoroughly modern version of the chandelier.

There is also a hall on the top floor of the Centre where concerts
will be held and films will be shown.

Other grand opening highlights included the special Arshile Gorky
collection (including 16 graphic works and 7 drawings), the mural by
Grigor Khanjyan, and the Cafesjian Sculpture Garden at the base of
the Cascade, which includes sculpture works by such renowned artists
as Fernando Botero, Lynn Chadwick, and Barry Flanagan.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress