Author: Andres-Papazian

ARMENIANS OF TBILISI ORGANIZE ACTION TO CLEAN VERI CEMETERY

PanARMENIAN.Net
June 14, 2010 – 20:41 AMT 15:41 GMT

The action of cleaning Veri cemetery of Tbilisi was initiated by
the National Congress of Armenians of Georgia with the support
of representatives of other organizations, including the Assembly
of Tbilisi Armenians, Nor Serund, Shen, etc, as well as ordinary
residents of the city.

“This is our cultural heritage and we should preserve it. Previously,
Surb Khach Church was operating at the cemetery’s territory, but
its activity has been stopped during the Soviet era. Famous and
respected residents of Tbilisi are buried at the cemetery. Today,
due to the fact that heirs of these people do not live in Georgia,
their graves are neglected. Besides, tombstones of famous people
disappear with the lapse of time,” representative of the Armenian
community Mikhail Avagyan told a PanARMENIAN.Net reporter.

The activists cleaned up 12 neglected graves, vaults and sepulchers.

The action was covered by Georgia’s RegionTV television channel.

From: A. Papazian

EDUARD ABRAHAMYAN: ARMEN ASHOTYAN’S EDUCATIONAL POLICY INCOMPREHENSIBLE TO SOCIETY

PanARMENIAN.Net
June 14, 2010 – 14:29 AMT 09:29 GMT

RA Education Minister Armen Ashotyan’s educational policy is
incomprehensible to society, according to National Neoconservative
Movement leader Eduard Abrahamyan .

Commenting on introduction of a bill on opening foreign-language
schools in Armenia, Eduard Abrahamyan stressed the importance of
improving education quality in Armenian schools.

“Armenian schools are the only hope and stronghold of powerful Armenian
statehood of future. Instead of bringing Armenian-language education
up to international standards, a number of Armenian officials are
doing their best to cut off current generation from their roots.”

“I am opposed to opening foreign-language schools in Armenia. Growing
generation is what determines the future of the country. Our education
should become a reflection of Armenian world view and mentality, rather
than a result of foreign cultural expansion,” National Neoconservative
Movement leader emphasized.

From: A. Papazian

P. AVETISYAN, “LAWS ON PRESERVATION OF RA MONUMENTS NEED IMPROVEMENT”

ARMENPRESS
JUNE 14, 2010
YEREVAN

YEREVAN, JUNE 14, ARMENPRESS: The territory of the Republic of Armenia
is distinguished by a great number of monuments, the considerable part
of which are of archeological nature, Director of the Archeology and
Ethnography Institute of the Armenian National Academy of Sciences
Pavel Avetisyan said today at a meeting with journalists.

He said that issues can arise during the activity of people living
in that environment connected with preservation of monuments, which
must be discussed on several platforms. According to him, the laws on
monument preservation need improvement and updating. “We should not
forget that all the monuments of Armenia are of global significance,
they give exclusive information for all the rounds of the human
civilization and are unique sources,” P. Avetisyan said.

According to him, any monument needs professional care and which is
the most important, the monuments of the territory of Armenia must
be socialized and become the property of the society. Director of
“Erebuni” historical-archeological reserve-museum Gagik Gyurjyan
noted that there are two reserve-museums under the liability of the
Armenian Culture Ministry – “Agarak” historical-cultural, which has
been established in 2001 and occupies 118 hectares area, and “Erebuni”
historical-archeological, which is situated in Yerevan and occupies
100 hectares area with its 3 sub-buildings.

According to G. Gyurjyan, the law must be able to regulate not only the
territories of the historical-archeological reserves of the republic,
but the archeological territories as well. G. Gyurjyan said that
the whole territory of Armenia must be proclaimed an archeological
territory, like in Italy, thanks to which archeological studies are
carried out in those territories before starting any construction.

From: A. Papazian

PARADE DEDICATED TO THE ARMENIAN TRICOLOR TO KICK OFF IN YEREVAN

ARMENPRESS
JUNE 14, 2010
YEREVAN

YEREVAN, JUNE 14, ARMENPRESS: A parade dedicated to the flag of the
Republic of Armenia will kick off at 19:00 pm June 15. The event is
organized by “Menk” fund for preservation of national values under
the sponsorship of the Armenian Culture Ministry.

“This is a program-proposal aimed at officially proclaiming June 15
a festival of state symbols – flag, emblem and hymn,” Director of
“Menk” Pavel Sargsyan said. “In this parade we have involved all the
classes of society,” Satenik Lazarian, an organizer of the event,
said noting that the participants of the parade will march from the
Republican Square to Nalbandyan Street, dancing, musical and other
performances will be held at every crossing, and the participants
will be replenished with new groups.

A the end of the series of events, according to the organizers,
the main flag will be ceremonially placed in the Republican Square,
and “Mush” dance ensemble will come forward with three-storey “Berd”
dance. The participants will mainly be young people and students,
and the parade will be quite full and interesting. The director of
the parade is Aram Sukiasyan. According to the initial information,
the approximate number of the participants of the event is 5000. They
will be given tricolor shirts symbolizing the Armenian flag.

From: A. Papazian

“GOLDEN APRICOT” INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL TO KICK OFF JULY 11

ARMENPRESS
JUNE 14, 2010
YEREVAN

YEREVAN, JUNE 14, ARMENPRESS: “Golden Apricot” seventh Yerevan
international film festival will be conducted July 11-18 with
the support of the Armenian Culture Ministry. An official from
the organizational committee of the festival told Armenpress that
this year the festival has received nearly 500 applications from 75
countries of the world.

The contest program will maintain the former format; the best films
selected from the applications will compete in 3 contest programs –
international feature, international documentary films and Armenian
panorama. During “Golden Apricot” the anniversaries of film director
Henrik Malyan, actors Mher Lazarian, Khoren Abrahamyan, operator
Albert Yavuryan and Armen Jigarkhanyan will be celebrated. There are
also special programs dedicated to Anri Verno’s 90th and Atom Egoyan’s
50th anniversaries.

The birthday of honorary chairman of “Golden Apricot”,
Canadian-Armenian distinguished Director Atom Egoyan will be celebrated
just with his participation. The program on Yerevan premieres will
be presented in a rich film list, and will show the tapes of “The
Classmates” by Sergey Solovyov, “Honey” by chief award winner of
Berlin festival Semih Kaplanoglu, “Ward N 6” by K.

Shahnazarov, “Mutual Visit” by Polish famous film director K. Zanus,
“Cuisine of Spirit” by German distinguished director of Turkish
diocese Fatih Akini, “The Inspired” by American Rob Nilson, etc.

Retrospective showing of works of renowned directors of the world
movie will be held this year, too, and a separate Russian program
dedicated to the 65th anniversary of the Victory will be conducted.

From: A. Papazian

FRENCH WRITER GILBERT SINUE’S “YEREVAN” BOOK TRANSLATED INTO BULGARIAN

ARMENPRESS
JUNE 14, 2010
YEREVAN

YEREVAN, JUNE 14, ARMENPRESS: The presentation of the Bulgarian
translation of French writer Gilbert Sinue’s “Yerevan” book, printed
by ‘VAKON’ publishing house in Sofia, was held June 11 at the hall
of Trakart Cultural Center of Plovdiv, Bulgaria.

An official from the press and information department of RA Foreign
Affairs Ministry told Armenpress that that the book is a documentary
novel, which presents a variety of historical facts and statements of
witnesses about the massacres and the Genocide, committed against the
Armenians by the Ottoman Empire in 1915-22. The facts, heroes, persons,
mentioned in the book, are real. A number of valuable documents,
describing that historical period, were used in the book as well.

RA Ambassador to Bulgaria Mr. Manasaryan was present at the
presentation. He greeted the organizers of the ceremony and expressed
his gratitude to the editor-translator of the book Zlatko Staykovski.

The Ambassador stressed the fact that the novel is a real piece of
fiction, as well as a small archive of documents, which will grant
the readers the opportunity to give an unbiased assessment to the
events of that period and to the barbarity, the Turks committed
against the Armenians.

From: A. Papazian

DIRECTOR OF ARMENIAN RESCUE SERVICE AWARDED WITH MEDAL “FOR SERVICE IN BATTLE” ON DECREE OF NKR PRESIDENT

ARMENPRESS
JUNE 14, 2010
STEPANAKERT

STEPANAKERT, JUNE 14, ARMENPRESS: For active participation in
organizing the NKR defense President Bako Sahakyan signed on June 10
a decree awarding the medal “For Service in Battle” to First Deputy
Minister of Emergency Situations of the Republic of Armenia, director
of the Armenian rescue service Edik Barseghyan, presidential press
service of the Nagorno Karabakh Republic told Armenpress.

From: A. Papazian

AUTO SHOW EXPO 2010 TO BE HELD IN YEREVAN

ARMENPRESS
JUNE 14, 2010
YEREVAN

YEREVAN, JUNE 14, ARMENPRESS: Auto Show Expo 2010 will be held in
Yerevan July 3-5 at Karen Demirchyan Sport-Concert Complex. The
exposition is organized by Logos Expo center. Manager of the center
Armine Hakobyan reported Armenpress that more than 50 pavilions
are intended for the expo, where a number of cars of the companies,
importing cars to Armenia, as well as several old and original models
will be represented.

Companies, engaged in car insurance, renting, shipping, transportation
services, are expected to partake in the expo. Armine Hakobyan
mentioned that the Logos Expo center first organized the Auto show
expo in 2005.

From: A. Papazian

NKR PRESIDENT RECEIVES ARMENIAN MINISTER OF EMERGENCY SITUATIONS

ARMENPRESS
JUNE 14, 2010
YEREVAN

YEREVAN, JUNE 14, ARMENPRESS: On June 12, President of the Nagorno
Karabakh Republic Bako Sahakyan received Armenian Minister of Emergency
Situations Armen Yeritsyan and his first deputy, director of the
Armenian Rescue Service Edik Barseghyan. Presidential press service
of the NKR told Armenpress that issues related to further deepening
and widening of ties between the corresponding structures of the two
Armenian states were discussed at the meeting. Special attention was
paid to the exchange of experience, technical re-equipment, as well
to the issues of carrying out join activities.

Director of the Artsakh Republic rescue service Arthur Harutyunyan
partook in the meeting as well.

From: A. Papazian

SESSION OF CONSULTATIVE GROUP ON INTERNATIONAL AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH FOR COUNTRIES OF CENTRAL ASIA AND SOUTH CAUCASUS

ARMENPRESS
JUNE 14, 2010
YEREVAN

YEREVAN, JUNE 14, ARMENPRESS: The session of the Consultative Group
on International Agricultural Research kicked off June 13 in Ashkhabad
for the countries of the Central Asia and South Caucasus. “Armenpress”
reports citing the state news agency of Turkmenistan that themes
on providing rich food to the population, efficiency growth of
agricultural production and on realization of its export were mainly
referred at the session. The mentioned group has been established
in 1971. Over 60 states and research institutions throughout the
world are affiliated to it. “The joint efforts of the scientists
in this sphere are directed toward giving solution to global issues
connected with agriculture, climate change, food security, loss of
biodiversity, insufficiency of water resources,” the news agency of
Turkmenistan reported.

From: A. Papazian