Author: Andres-Papazian

AZERBAIJAN TO MAKE DOCUMENTARY ON KARS TREATY

news.az
Aug 9, 2011
Azerbaijan

The Azerbaijani Ministry of Culture and Tourism’s Salname studio has
started production of a documentary film entitled “The Autumn of 1921”.

The film marks the 90th anniversary of the signing of the Treaty of
Kars, AzerTAj news agency reported.

The treaty, signed by the Grand National Assembly of Turkey, led by
Ataturk, and the government of Bolshevik Russia, led by Lenin, created
Turkey’s current borders with Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan. Kars
and the surrounding area became part of Turkey, while Batumi became
part of Soviet Georgia.

The documentary will be shot on location in Nakhchivan, Kars, Erzurum,
Ankara and Istanbul.

Relevant material from the Russian and Turkish film and photo archives
will be used.

The director of “The Autumn of 1921” is Tahir Aliyev, the screen
writer Ilham Tumas and adviser Hajeli Najafoglu.

From: A. Papazian

ARMENIAN PREMIER APPRECIATES UNICEF’S ROLE IN ARMENIA

Tert.am
09.08.11

Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan received today UNICEF’s permanent
representative to Armenia, Laily Moshiri-Gilan, who is ending her
diploamtic mission in the country.

Welcoming the guest, the premier highly praised UNICEF’s role and
activities aimed in Armenia.

“The Republic of Armenia appreciates the role of United Nations
Children’s Fund, and your personal efforts towards protecting
children’s rights and ensuring a better health, and living standards
for them,” he said.

The premier particularly stressed the importance of the UNICEF projects
and activities aimed at integration of orphanage children to society.

Moshiri thanked the premier for high-level cooperation and support.

She said the government’s policies on the protection of children’s
rights had played a major role in the implementation of several social
programs. Mochiri told the premier that UNICEF continue its mission
in the country, furthering reforms in the social services sector and
the protection of children’s rights.

A new UNICEF representative to Armenia will take office in September.

From: A. Papazian

ARMENIAN MUSICIAN PROPOSES HOLDING ARMENIAN MUSIC COMPETITION IN YEREVAN

Tert.am
09.08.11

Martin Vardazaryan, conductor of the pops and symphony orchestra of the
Armenian TV and radio, believes it is time for holding international
Armenian music competitions in Armenia.

The country has serious potential for that, he said. At his Aug. 9
press conference, Vardazaryan proposed organizing an international
competition in Yerevan. According to him, relevant steps will be made
next year. Yervand Yerzinkyan, Artistic Director of the orchestra, said
that putting the idea into practice requires greater combined efforts.

From: A. Papazian

ARMENIAN CONVERTS MAINTAIN THEIR IDENTITY IN TURKEY, SAYS EXPERT

Tert.am
15:17 08.08.11

A large group of Turkish Armenians forcibly converted to Islam continue
living in Turkey, not forgetting about their roots, an expert in
Western Armenian studies has said.

Speaking at a news conference on Monday, Haykazyun Alvyrtsyan, the
head of the Western Armenians’ Studies Center, shared his impressions
of the Mdzur Nature and Worship festival held recently in Turkey’s
Dersim province.

He said the event had attracted the Armenian folk ensemble Maratuk,
as well as more than 10 Armenian intellectuals had toured the province
to collect ethnographic records.

It is the 13th year Dersim has been hosting this kind of festivals,
the first two being non-official, the expert noted.

“This is an exceptional event that spreads our culture to the
most remote ends of Western Armenians. It is somethiong out of the
ordinary,” he added.

Further he said that most Armenian converts disguised behind the mask
of Kurds or Alevis inwardly maintain their ethnic identity despite
living in Turkey.

“This festival convinced us yet another time that there are a great
number of Armenians living there. Many of them would come up to us to
tell their stories – full of horror, tragedy and thrilling episodes,”
Alvrtsyan said.

He noted further that the event is important not only for incognito
Armenians but also those residing in Armenia.

“We too, need to realize what we have, and what they have [in order
to know] what to give them and what to take from the pieces of culture
they have preserved,” the expert added.

From: A. Papazian

ARAVOT: PRIME MINISTER TELLS ABOUT HIS FAMILY

Tert.am
12:45 06.08.11

The paper claims Armenia’s Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan has
dismissed press reports that his wife and children do not have
Armenian citizenship.

On his Facebook account, Sargsyan wrote that all the members of his
family are citizens of the Republic of Armenia.

“It could not have been otherwise. Under our law a child whose parents
are RA citizens [automatically] obtain RA citizenship,” Sargsyan wrote.

Further, he said that his daughter, the elder among the children,
was in 1985 in Yerevan but lived for several years in Spain where
Sargsyan’s wife taught Russian at a local prestigious university.

After the termination of her contract they returned to Yerevan.

Sargsyan’s daughter went to an Armenian school. Later she got married
and lived in Moscow for three years and is now back to Yerevan.

Sargsyan also has two sons – Abgar ad Markos – who were born in Spain.

Upon returning to Armenia Abgar now goes to an Armenian school,
while Markos attends kindergarten.

Sargsyan also wrote that he met his wife in Saint Petersburg when he
studied there.

From: A. Papazian

BREASTFEEDING SEEN EFFECTIVE MEANS AGAINST ALLERGIES

Tert.am
14:49 06.08.11

Breastfeeding and proper treatment of skin wounds are the only ways to
combat allergies in young children and infants, Astghik Baghdasrayan,
a pediatrician and allergist from Arabkir joint medical center has
told reporters.

Speaking at a news conference on Saturday, Astghik Baghdasaryan said
one in three children suffers from some form of allergy nowadays,
with such rate having a tendency of growth by 2015.

“There is a hypothesis that a contact with microbes since early ages
contributes to the right development of the child but this is not
an ultimate theory. The only preventive means is breastfeeding and
proper treatment of skin wounds,” she said.

The specialist stressed the importance of turning to doctors in time
to facilitate further treatment.

From: A. Papazian

LA TURQUIE RENOUVELLE L’ETAT-MAJOR DE SON ARMEE APRES DES DEMISSIONS
Ara

armenews.com
vendredi 5 aout 2011

ISTANBUL, 4 août 2011 (AFP) – La presidence turque a rendu publics
jeudi les noms des generaux appeles a prendre la tete de l’armee
après une serie de demissions a l’etat-major sur fond de crise entre
les militaires et le gouvernement islamo-conservateur.

A l’issue de quatre jours de reunion du Conseil militaire supreme
(YAS), qui examine chaque annee l’evolution des carrières dans l’armee
turque, le porte-parole de la presidence Ahmet Sever a annonce la
nomination du general Hayri Kivrikoglu, l’ancien chef de la 1re armee,
a la tete de l’armee de terre.

L’amiral Emin Murat Bilgel, le general Mehmet Erten et le general Bekir
Kalyoncu prennent respectivement la tete de la marine, de l’aviation
et de la gendarmerie, a indique M. Sever.

“Concernant la nomination du chef d’etat-major, nous attendons une
decision du conseil des ministres, mais il est evident qu’il n’y a
pas de problème”, a affirme le porte-parole, laissant entendre que le
general Necdet Ozel, nomme vendredi soir chef d’etat-major en exercice
après la demission du general Isik Kosaner, serait confirme dans sa
nouvelle fonction.

Le chef d’etat-major Isik Kosaner et les generaux commandant l’armee
de terre, la marine et l’aviation ont demissionne vendredi en raison
d’un desaccord avec le gouvernement sur la promotion de militaires
de haut rang incarceres mais non condamnes dans des affaires de
complot contre le regime. Les ex-chefs de l’armee exigeaient que les
militaires en detention puissent beneficier de promotions, meme s’ils
sont en prison dans l’attente de la fin de leur procès, ce que refuse
le gouvernement, selon la presse.

Jeudi, M. Sever a annonce que les 14 generaux actuellement en detention
provisoire etaient maintenus dans leur fonction, sans promotion ni mise
a l’ecart. “Un an de prolongation pour les 14 generaux”, a-t-il dit.

Quarante-deux generaux, soit plus d’un sur dix, et plusieurs dizaines
d’officiers d’active ou a la retraite, sont actuellement incarceres
dans le cadre de complots presumes visant le gouvernement.

From: A. Papazian

news.am, Armenia
Aug 6 2011

Former Armenian FM is actively attending meeting of Free Democrats party

August 06, 2011 | 21:48

YEREVAN. – Former member of the Armenian National Congress (ANC) and
Foreign Minister Alexander Arzumanyan is actively taking part in the
meetings of the newly-formed `Free Democrats’ party. His membership to
the party will be clear in 3 days, Vice-Chairman of Free Democrats
Party Anush Sedrakyan told Armenian News-NEWS.am.

As for the former ANC member Karapet Rubinyan’s membership to Free
Democrats, Sedrakyan said: `Rubinyan is engaged in different projects.
I cannot provide further information,’ he noted. According to her,
1500 people joined the party.

As reported earlier, former members of Armenian National Congress
Khachatur Kokobelyan, Ararat Zurabyan and others established Free
Democrats party.

From: A. Papazian

news.am, Armenia
Aug 6 2011

Haykakan Zhamanak: Former Armenian FM to open Internet TV

August 06, 2011

YEREVAN. – Former Armenian Foreign Minister, founder of Sivilitas
Foundation Vardan Oskanian intends to open Internet TV, Director of
Sivilitas Salbi Ghazaryan confirmed the information, Haykakan Zhamanak
newspaper reports.

`It is a new kind of online news. It is better not to call it TV,’
Ghazaryan stressed.

It is yet unclear when the Internet TV will open.

According to some rumors, Oskanian plans to establish a TV company,
based on Internet TV. However, Salbi Ghazaryan noted it would be only
an Internet TV.

From: A. Papazian

UNIBANK LAUNCHES A PROMO POINT AT M&S FURNITURE STORE

arminfo
Wednesday, August 3, 12:10

Unibank has launched a promo point at M&S furniture store at 29/1,
Isakov Str., Yerevan.

The press service of Unibank told ArmInfo that the bank provides
consumer loans to individuals for purchase of furniture on the
following terms: loan amount – up to 1.5 mln AMD, redemption period –
24 months, interest rate – 20% p.a. The opening and service of the
accounts is free of charge. Prepayment is 10%. The customers are
to submit an application, the passport, the social card and a proof
of employment.

Promo points of Unibank also operate at the computerwear shops “Fine”,
“Nix”, and “Compass”, as well as at Mobile Center and Aviatrans
agency. The employees of the promo points familiarize the customers
with the terms of Unibank’s consumer loans, explain the procedure of
lending and help them to fill in the loan applications.

“The pledge of Unibank’s successful activity in the consumer crediting
market is the customer-oriented approach to the work. The availability
of Unibank’s promo points at the points of sale allows making the loan
provision process simple and more convenient. In the near future we
will considerably increase the number of promo points and will expand
the cooperation with the points of sale. Moreover, we have essentially
accelerated the process of approving the loan applications”, said
Gourgen Ghukasyan, Head of Consumer Loans Underwriting Department
of Unibank.

Over Q1 2011 Unibank was on the list of top five leading banks of
Armenia by the volume of consumer crediting. As of 30 May 2011, the
number of consumer loans of the bank increased more than 7 times as
compared to the same period of 2010.

From: A. Papazian