Author: Andres-Papazian

YEPIFANTSEV: EVERYTHING MUST BE DONE TO PREVENT SYRIA FROM SPLITTING

14:59 18/09/2013 ” POLITICS

In all probability, everything possible will be done for Syria
to maintain its territorial integrity and not to split. However,
Syria’s political system may change and Assad may step down,
political scientist, expert on Caucasus Andrey Yepifantsev said at
the Moscow-Tbilisi-Yerevan spacebridge in Yerevan.

According to him, a change of the situation in Syria could damage
the interests of Turkey and Israel because Turkey faces the Kurdish
problem and Turkish PM Erdogan fears that it may sharpen.

“Everything must be done to prevent Syria from splitting,” Yepifantsev
said, adding that after Syria, the next target may be Iran which
cannot resist an attack from the U.S. and its allies.

“Azerbaijan may wish to join the coalition against Iran in exchange
for some dividends, including a possibility of attacking Karabakh or
some territories in the Turkish-populated regions of northern Iran,”
the expert said.

Source: Panorama.am

From: A. Papazian

ARMENIAN HEALTH MINISTRY DENIES RUMORS ABOUT CHOLERA OUTBREAK IN ARAGATSOTN PROVINCE

YEREVAN, September 18. /ARKA/. Armenia’s health ministry issued a
statement today denying the allegation posted on one of Armenian
websites of cholera outbreak in Aragatsotn province’s villages of
Oshakan, Voskevaz and Voskehat.

The ministry’s press office reports that not a single cholera case
has been recorded in Armenia since 1998.

Some 54 residents of the mentioned villages were taken to Ashtarak
and Yerevan hospitals on August 28 and 29 with infective intestinal
disease symptoms.

The examination of drinking water has shown that it was polluted.

“Intense chlorination has immediately been started to kill the
bacteria.”

Specialists toured households and explained people how they can
avoid infection.

The epidemiologic study has showed that there was a single-time
pollution of drinking water, and further examinations of water have
found no bacteria here. —0—-

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From: A. Papazian

REVUE DE PRESSE N°1 – 18/09/13 – COLLECTIF VAN

Publié le : 18-09-2013

Info Collectif VAN – – Le Collectif VAN [Vigilance
Arménienne contre le Négationnisme] vous propose une revue de presse
des informations parues dans la presse francophone, sur les thèmes
concernant la Turquie, le génocide arménien, la Shoah, le génocide
des Tutsi, le Darfour, le négationnisme, l’Union européenne, Chypre,
etc… Nous vous suggérons également de prendre le temps de lire ou
de relire les informations et traductions mises en ligne dans notre
rubrique Par
ailleurs, certains articles en anglais, allemand, turc, etc, ne
sont disponibles que dans la newsletter Word que nous générons
chaque jour.

Pour la recevoir, abonnez-vous a la Veille-Média : c’est gratuit !

Vous recevrez le document du lundi au vendredi dans votre boîte email.

Bonne lecture.

Syrie : accord sur la question des armes chimiques Info Collectif
VAN – – “Amnesty International se félicite
des mesures annoncées samedi 14 septembre en vertu desquelles les
armes chimiques de la Syrie pourront être placées sous contrôle
international et détruites. Cette annonce fait suite a la décision
prise par le gouvernement syrien, au début de la semaine, d’adhérer
a la Convention sur l’interdiction des armes chimiques”. Le Collectif
VAN vous propose ce Communiqué de presse publié sur le site d’Amnesty
International le 14 septembre 2013.

Une brigade ” jihadiste ” d’Ankara contre les Kurdes Info Collectif
VAN – – “La Turquie soutient ouvertement les
groupes djihadistes et de nombreuses brigades de l’armée syrienne
libre (ASL) qui combattent les Kurdes au Kurdistan syrien, notamment
depuis mi-juillet. Les frontières de la Turquie restent ouvertes
pour les jihadistes d’Al-Qaida qui recoivent dupuis ces frontières
l’aide militaire, diplomatique et financier”. Le Collectif VAN vous
invite a lire cette information publiée sur le site Actukurde le 11
septembre 2013.

Presse arménienne : Revue du 16 septembre 2013 Info Collectif VAN –
– “1. Il n’y aura pas d’accord paraphé entre l’UE
et Erevan a Vilnius, mais l’Europe ne ferme pas la porte devant ses
partenaires/ La visite du Commissaire européen a l’élargissement et
au Partenariat oriental, Stéfan Fule, a Erevan et sa conférence de
presse font la ” une ” de l’ensemble de la presse. Le Commissaire a
ouvertement déclaré que, suite a la décision de Erevan de rejoindre
l’Union douanière, il n’y aura pas de document paraphé au sommet de
Vilnius, l’accord d’association constituant un document unique”. Le
Collectif VAN vous présente cette Revue de Presse parue sur le site
de l’Ambassade de France en Arménie le 16 septembre 2013.

Les Etats-Unis restent confiants après le retournement arménien
L’ambassadeur américain John Heffern a affirmé que l’adhésion de
l’Arménie a l’union douanière dirigée par la Russie n’aura pas
d’impact sur ses relations avec les Etats-Unis, ni sur le programme
de sécurité de Washington dans la région.

Dépêche de l’APA [ 17 Septembre 2013 16:30 ] – Agence de Presse
d’Azerbaïdjan Le Collectif VAN vous propose un article de l’APA
(Agence de presse azérie) daté du 17 septembre 2013. Les articles
de ce site (écrits généralement dans un francais rudimentaire)
ne sont pas commentés de notre part. Ils peuvent contenir des
propos négationnistes envers le génocide arménien ou d’autres
informations a prendre sous toute réserve. “” Le fait que l’Arménie
continue l’occupation du Haut-Karabakh et sept régions adjacentes
de l’Azerbaïdjan, est considéré comme la violation du droit
international, ainsi que des résolutions du Conseil de sécurité
822, 853, 874, et 884 adoptées en 1993 ” a dit la Parlementaire
européenne Vasilica Viorica DÄ~CncilÄ~C, dans son entretien au Cercle
Européen d’Azerbaïdjan (TEAS)”.

Syrie : la mosaïque rebelle, des groupes aux intérêts parfois
opposés Les rebelles qui se préparaient a s’engouffrer dans la
brèche qu’un bombardement américain aurait pu ouvrir en sont pour
leurs frais.

L’accord Kerry-Lavrov leur a fait comprendre qu’ils devront compter
sur leurs propres forces pour espérer l’emporter. Problème : la
rébellion est constituée d’une myriade de brigades, éparpillées
dans toute la Syrie, qui, outre leur manque chronique d’armes et de
munitions, ont le plus grand mal a coordonner leurs efforts.

La Turquie rejuge les tueurs de Hrant Dink, ” l’Arménien ” Un
nouveau procès a débuté mardi en l’absence des commanditaires
de l’assassinat du journaliste. La mort de Hrant Dink, abattu le
19 janvier 2007 a Istanbul, a désormais des couleurs. Des marches
a proximité du trottoir où le journaliste d’origine arménienne
s’est effondré ont été badigeonnées en rouge bordeaux et en bleu
par des inconnus la semaine dernière.

Regain de tension entre Ankara et Damas après la perte d’un
hélicoptère syrien L’armée syrienne s’insurge contre la perte d’un
de ses hélicoptères, abattu ce lundi. L’appareil, dit-elle, n’était
pas “en mission de combat”. Les pilotes, qui se sont éjectés,
auraient été ensuite tués par les rebelles.

L’info vue par la TRT (1) Le Collectif VAN vous propose cet article
publié sur la TRT (Télévision & Radio de Turquie). Les articles
de ce site ne sont pas commentés de notre part. Ils peuvent contenir
des propos négationnistes envers le génocide arménien ou d’autres
informations a prendre sous toute réserve. “Le Premier ministre Recep
Tayyip Erdogan avec ses collaborateurs vont donner la forme définitive
au paquet de mesures concernant le processus appelé ” de paix ””.

La Turquie devient la destination principale de l’immigration
clandestine Avec son économie en plein essor et ses nombreuses
opportunités d’emplois, la Turquie, qui est traditionnellement un pays
de transit pour les immigrés clandestins se dirigeant vers l’Ouest,
est devenue une destination pour l’immigration.

Retour a la rubrique

From: A. Papazian

BRYZA IN WORKS WITH TURKISH COMPANY TO BUILD PIPELINE

Tuesday, September 17th, 2013

Former ambassador Matthew Bryza

Bryza in Works with Turkish Company to Build Pipeline

NICOSIA, Cyprus-Turkey’s Turcas Holding company has submitted a
$2.5 billion offer to Israel for the construction of a 470-kilometer
pipeline between Israel and Turkey.

The company, affiliated with Azerbaijan’s state oil company SOCAR,
plans for an undersea pipeline that will connect Israel’s newly
discovered natural gas deposits in the eastern Mediterranean to Turkey.

Mathew Bryza – the former American ambassador to Baku, whose
continued ambassadorship was blocked with the help of the ANCA after
the uncovering of serious conflicts of interest – is a member of the
company’s board and announced the offer worth $2.5 billion during an
energy conference held in Cyprus.

Bryza said the 470-kilometers-long pipeline would have a capacity to
transfer 16 billion cubic meters of natural gas a year. The former
diplomat also stressed that if the political problems between Turkey
and Israel affected the construction, all cost and responsibility
would be assumed by Turcas.

Meanwhile, Israel’s daily Globus said Turkey’s Zorlu Group was also
in talks with Israel regarding the building of pipelines and buying
natural gas. Globus said Zorlu, which was constructing a power plant
in the Ashkelon province of Israel, contacted the companies that had
shares in Israel’s natural gas region, Leviathan, and made offers
for buying natural gas and constructing a pipeline.

Israel’s government in June approved limiting natural gas exports to
about 40 percent of the country’s newly-discovered offshore reserves.

Two of the world’s largest offshore fields found in the past decade
lie in Israeli waters. Tamar, with an estimated 280 billion cubic
meters, was discovered in 2009. A year later, Leviathan was found,
with an estimated 530 billion cubic meters.

From: A. Papazian

ARREST WARRANT ISSUED FOR KEY SUSPECT IN RESTARTED DINK CASE

Hurriyet Daily News, Turkey
Sept 17 2013

ISTANBUL

One of the most controversial cases of recent Turkish history,
murder of Armenian-Turkish journalist Hrant Dink, restarts. Dink
family denies to attend trials of ‘crime coalition’s game’ as court
issues an arrest warrant for the key suspect Erhan Tuncel

An Istanbul court has issued an arrest warrant for Erhan Tuncel,
a former police informant and suspect in the resumed murder case of
Armenian-Turkish journalist Hrant Dink.

Tuncel had been released with the first verdict, which has now been
overturned. Dink’s family protested the trial and refused to attend,
saying “they are not a part of this game.”

“As the Dink family, we will no more be tools to the state mechanisms
that have been mocking us and we will not attend the hearings of the
retrial,” Dink’s family said in a letter published on the website of
the Armenian-Turkish daily Agos.

“The crime coalition that is called the state recommitted the murder
in every hearing, every day while it presented itself as if seeking
justice. That coalition is the crime gang itself that planned the
murder and then covered it up.”

Tuncel is a key suspect

Tuncel is seen as a key in linking the murder to the state institutions
as members of the Police Department in the Black Sea province of
Trabzon, the suspects’ hometown, have been accused of failing to relay
intelligence provided by Tuncel to the Trabzon Gendarmerie Command
in a report prepared by Turkey’s State Supervisory Council (DDK).

Dink, the renowned editor-in-chief of Agos, was shot in front of his
office in Istanbul on Jan. 19, 2007, after being repeatedly prosecuted
for “insulting Turkishness.”

The triggerman, Ogun Samast, who was 17 years old at the time of the
murder, and Yasin Hayal, who was charged with being the instigator
of the assassination, were convicted of the murder.

However, a high criminal court dismissed charges related to “armed
terrorist organization.” The Supreme Court of Appeals verdict defined
the acts of all suspects in the case under “an organization formed to
commit crime” according to the Turkish Penal Code Article 220. Hayal
yesterday denied that he was involved in any criminal organization
involved in the murder.

Around 200 demonstrators gathered outside the Istanbul court where
eight defendants were being retried after an appeals court deemed
they were part of a criminal conspiracy. Crowds accused authorities
of covering up a conspiracy by nationalist elements in the state
apparatus.

The crowd chanted “the murderer state will give account” and “we are
all Hrant, we are all Armenians,” holding up banners in Turkish,
Armenian and Kurdish. They see Dink as the victim of a shadowy
“deep state” network of nationalist militants accused of killings of
prominent liberals and Kurdish nationalists.

“This show must end, the real perpetrators must be brought to justice,”
Gulten Kaya, the widow of well-known Kurdish singer Ahmet Kaya,
told reporters outside the court.

Dink’s family and his supporters reject the premise of the retrial
that the defendants were part of a criminal conspiracy and argue that
the state was involved in what amounted to a terrorist conspiracy.

The case was adjourned to December 3.

September/17/2013

From: A. Papazian

EU IN ARMENIA QUIZ 2013: WIN A FREE LAPTOP, NOTEBOOK OR KINDLE

ENPI Info Centre
Sept 17 2013

17-09-2013

What do you know about the cooperation between the European Union and
Armenia? Take a short quiz on the website of the EU Centre in Armenia,
test your EU knowledge and win a free laptop, notebook or Kindle!

The EU Centre is the new European Union information and communication
hub in Armenia that aims to promote EU development cooperation in
the country and raise awareness about the importance of EU-Armenia
relations.

The Centre provides the wider public with information about how the
EU supports reforms in Armenia; it assists the EU-funded projects
in Armeniaby sharing expertise, organising events and activities to
support project communication; it helps students to get information
about the EU and opportunities for studying in Europe; journalists
can benefit by getting accessible and timely information about EU
projects in Armenia.

The EU Centre is a professional communication facility that
coordinates the communication activities of EU funded projects in
Armenia. “It provides quality assurance of the publicity materials
of the projects and assists them in their communication efforts,
while ensuring editorial support and guidance on event management,”
the Centre’s mission statement says.

The names of the winners will be published on the website of the EU
Centre after the official draw in the beginning of December 2013. (EU
Neighbourhood Info)

From: A. Papazian

BELARUS, ARMENIA HOLDING CONTEST FOR BEST PROJECT IN UNIVERSITY SCIENCE

Belarusian Telegraph Agency, Belarus
Sept 17 2013

17.09.2013 17:03

NESVIZH, 17 September (BelTA) – Belarus and Armenia are holding a
contest for the best project in university science, Education Minister
of Belarus Sergei Maskevich told a press conference in Nesvizh.

According to the minister, establishments of higher education of
Belarus and Armenia can submit their works to the Education Ministry
until 25 October. Implementation of the best projects will be financed
by the Education Ministries of the two countries. Sergei Maskevich
stressed that the arrival of the official delegation of the Ministry
of Education and Science of Armenia [is in Belarus on an official
visit on 16-18 September – BelTA’s note] is an important event for
the Belarusian education system. “The Armenian-Belarusian relations
in education have great prospects,” Sergei Maskevich believes. He
also expressed hope that the universities will present interesting,
modern and economically important projects.

The Education Minister told BelTA that projects can be of various
focus. “The main thing is that they should find their use in companies
of Belarus and Armenia, should have an economic component and be of
scientific interest,” he said.

Minister of Education and Science of Armenia Armen Ashotyan stressed
that, while visiting the educational establishments of Belarus,
he saw a high pedagogical component in the educational process. “I
was pleasantly surprised that Belarus pays great attention to the
process of educating the younger generation. Patriotic upbringing,
pioneer teams, discussion and implementation of business projects,
work with cadets is not only interesting but also have a profound
meaning as education, continuous and profound, helps ordinary school
students become citizens of their country who love their Motherland,
defend their interests,” Armen Ashotyan said.

The guests from Armenia have already got familiar with several
establishments of higher education of Belarus, paid visits to preschool
facility No.4 in Nesvizh and Nesvizh Gymnasium.

From: A. Papazian

NEW ARMENIAN CATHEDRAL OPENS IN MOSCOW

The Moscow Times, Russia
Sept 17 2013

17 September 2013 | Issue 5215
By Ashley Perezluha

On Tuesday, a new cathedral and church complex of the Armenian
Apostolic Church was opened in Moscow on Trifonovskaya Ulitsa near
Marina Roshcha metro station. The church is the largest branch of
the Armenian Apostolic Church outside of Armenia.

The opening ceremony was attended by guests from diverse religious
communities such as Patriarch Kirill of the Russian Orthodox Church
and representatives of the board of Muftis of Russia, the Buddhist
Sangha and the Federation of Jewish Communities of Russia.

“Rising from the heart of Russia, the church complex will be the
spiritual and cultural center in the lives of those who – regardless
of nationality – considers themselves a bearer of Christian and human
values,” said Bishop Yezras Nersisyan, head of the New Nakhichevan
and Russian Diocese, said in a press release

The Armenian church complex was created from a community effort
that relied entirely on donations from benefactors, including
Samvel Karapetyan, the president of the Tashir group of companies;
Ruben Vardanyan, chairman of the managing board of Sberbank; Ruben
Grigoryan, president of Rutsog-Invest; and Vitaly Grigoryants,
president of Arch Limited.

“I believe in basic human values and the fact that projects like this
one bring together a large number of people from different spheres,
nationalities, cultures and ages,” Ruben Vardanyan said. Samvel
Karapetyan, another benefactor of the church, commented: “We are
delighted that today we have the opportunity to promote the spiritual
education and the preservation of cultural values [in the Armenian
community].”

The new church is intended to serve Moscow’s sizeable Armenian
community. While the official 2010 census recorded only slightly more
than 100,000 Armenians living in the capital, community members say
there may in fact be as many as half a million Armenians in the city.

The cathedral complex is only the fourth functioning Armenian
Apostolic church in the city of Moscow, though a number of churches
were destroyed or confiscated during the Soviet period.

The church complex has been under construction for eight years. In
2004, Russian Orthodox Patriarch Alexei II attended the laying of the
foundation of the church complex, which was blessed by the Catholicos
of All Armenians, Karekin II.

The church complex includes a main cathedral, a chapel of the Holy
Cross, an educational complex and a residential building for the head
of the Armenian church complex, as well as an underground church
museum and exhibition hall, a symbolic friendship spring monument
and memorial plates.

The main cathedral can hold more than a thousand people and has an
underground and aboveground parking area for up to 300 cars. The total
land area of the complex takes up 1.3 hectares, and the building area
encompasses 25 thousand square meters.

The first divine liturgy in the church complex will be held Sept. 22
in the cathedral at 24 Trifonovskaya Ulitsa. For more information,
see the website of the Russian and New Nakhichevan Diocese of the
Armenian Apostolic Church at armenianchurch.ru.

From: A. Papazian

CZECH REPUBLIC IS READY TO SUPPORT ARMENIA ON PEACEFUL RESOLUTION OF KARABAKH CONFLICT

September 17, 2013 | 17:53

YEREVAN. – Deputy Speaker of the Armenian parliament Eduard Sharmazanov
on Tuesday received the delegation of Czech Republic parliament’s
committee on EU affairs headed by Senate Deputy Speaker Miluše
Horská.

The sides discussed development of Armenian-Czech parliamentary
relations, intensification of mutual visits of the friendship groups
and parliamentary delegations as well as strengthening of a dialogue
with Europe.

Eduard Sharmazanov mentioned incomparability of racism and intolerance
with democracy, bringing example of Turkey’s denial policy and racist
rhetoric of Azerbaijan. He assured that Armenia remains supporter
of peaceful and diplomatic solution to the Karabakh conflict and any
conflict in general.

Miluše Horská assured that the Czech Republic is ready to support
Armenia on peaceful resolution of Karabakh conflict and ensuring of
constant progress in reforms.

News from Armenia – NEWS.am

From: A. Papazian

DINK MURDER TRIAL RESTARTS AMID FAMILY’S PROTEST, COURT RULES FOR ARREST OF KEY SUSPECT

14:52 17.09.2013

Hrant Dink

The trial into the murder of Armenian-Turkish journalist Hrant Dink
restarted in Istanbul today following an overturn of the first
verdict as the victim’s family protested the trial, the Hurriyet
Daily News reports.

“As the Dink family, we will no more be tools to the state mechanisms
that have been mocking us and we will not attend the hearings of the
retrial,” the Dink family said in a letter ahead of today’s hearing.

“The crime coalition that is called the sate recommitted the murder
in every hearing, every day while it showed itself as if seeking for
justice. That coalition is the crime gang itself that planned the
murder and then covered it up,” the family’s letter read.

In today’s hearing, the court issued an arrest warrant for Erhan
Tuncel, a former police informant and suspect in the murder case who
was released after the first verdict.

Tuncel is seen as a key in linking the murder to the state institutions
as members of the Police Department in the Black Sea province of
Trabzon, the suspects’ hometown, have been accused of failing to relay
intelligence provided by Tuncel to the Trabzon Gendarmerie Command
in a report prepared by Turkey’s State Supervisory Council (DDK).

Dink, the renowned editor-in-chief of Agos, was shot in front of his
office in Istanbul on Jan. 19, 2007.

The triggerman, Ogun Samast, 17-years-old at the time of the murder,
and Yasin Hayal, who was charged of being the instigator of the
assassination, were convicted of the murder. However, a high criminal
court dismissed charges related to “armed terrorist organization.” The
Supreme Court of Appeals verdict defined the acts of all suspects in
the case under “an organization formed to commit crime” according to
Turkish Penal Code Article 220.

From: A. Papazian