Author: Andres-Papazian

LES RAISONS D’UN CONFLIT
Jean Eckian

10/31/2012

By MEIR ZAMIR

L’hostilite entre les deux pays voisins remonte loin dans le passe

Photo by : Reuters La Syrie devoile son vrai visage. Les 30 annees de
pouvoir d’Hafez Assad (1970-2000) ont masque sa vulnerabilite, qui date
d’avant meme son independance, en 1946. Sa position geopolitique et
ses divisions internes en ont fait une zone de conflits regionaux et
internationaux. Au cours de l’annee ecoulee, Damas est redevenue une
source d’instabilite et d’inquietude pour ses voisins. A commencer
par la Turquie, a la frontière nord. Les consequences de la guerre
civile qui dechire la Syrie ont un impact direct sur Ankara. Des
centaines de millions de refugies syriens ont traverse la frontière
turque. Des citoyens turcs ont ete tues par des obus de mortier, tires
depuis la Syrie. Deux avions de chasse turcs ont ete abattus par des
missiles syriens. Les leaders de la minorite kurde de la Djezireh
(nord de la Mesopotamie, a la frontière nord-est de la Turquie)
cherchent a profiter de l’effondrement du regime Assad pour former
une region kurde autonome a l’image de leurs frères, au nord de l’Irak.

Une ambition des plus inquietantes pour les Turcs qui affrontent deja
leur propre problème kurde a l’est du pays. Pour toutes ces raisons,
Ankara se trouve aujourd’hui a la tete d’une coalition de pays arabes
et occidentaux qui soutient l’opposition syrienne dans ses efforts
pour renverser le president Bashar el-Assad.

Operations clandestines Les tensions a la frontière, le problème kurde
et les efforts turcs pour mettre en place un nouveau regime en Syrie
ne sont pas nouveaux. Les lettres devoilees cicontre le montrent bien.

Ces documents ont ete obtenus par les Services de renseignements
francais a Damas, dans les bureaux du ministère des Affaires
etrangères.

Ils font la lumière sur un usage endemique d’operations secrètes
et de diplomatie clandestine dans le Proche-Orient des annees
1940, dont on ne retrouve quasiment aucune trace dans les papiers
officiels. Les Services de renseignements sont la face cachee
des relations internationales d’alors, ainsi que du retrait par la
Grande-Bretagne de ses colonies après la Seconde Guerre mondiale. Les
agences secrètes britanniques sont profondement impliquees dans la
politique de Londres au Proche-Orient. Les operations clandestines
sont destinees a garantir les interets strategiques et economiques
(petroliers) du pays dans la region.

Ces documents (a lire en bas d’articles), declasses il y a seulement
quelques annees, soulignent la necessite pour les historiens d’etudier
la guerre d’Independance israelienne de 1948 sous l’angle anglo-arabe
ou encore celui des rivalites interarabes, plutôt que celui des
confrontations anglo-juives ou arabojuives.

Ils revèlent notamment que les agents britanniques ont exploite le
reve sioniste d’un Etat juif pour faire peur aux leaders arabes et
les forcer a accepter la presence militaire britannique dans la region.

Que la question palestinienne est profondement liee au conflit
saoudohachemite.

Et que les renseignements francais et sionistes ont conduit une guerre
secrète conjointe contre les Anglais et les Etats arabes.

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vendredi 2 novembre 2012, Jean Eckian ©armenews.com

From: A. Papazian

AZERBAIJAN OIL FUND BUYS A GALLERY NEXT TO ‘ARMENIA’ ON TVERSKAYA STREET IN MOSCOW

Azerbaijan Business Center
Nov 1 2012

Baku, Fineko/abc.az. The State Oil Fund of Azerbaijan (SOFAZ) starts
announced investments in Russian real estate.

The Russian media report that SOFAZ has already applied to the
Federal Antimonopoly Service with request to review its application
for purchase of commercial & business center “Actor Gallery” in the
center of Moscow.

Earlier Russia’s Capital Insurance Group has put up for sale 100%
of shares of company “Tverskaya, 16” that owns “Actor Gallery”.

The building of the “Gallery” is located in the center of Moscow
next to store “Armenia” (intersection of Strastnoy Boulevard and
Tverskaya Street).

Commercial and business center “Actor Gallery” is a landmark and a
unique object of elite commercial real estate in Moscow.

Due to investment policy change, since 2012 the SOFAZ got the right
to purchase real estate. Previously SOFAZ executive director Shahmar
Movsumov announced deals on acquisition of Moscow real estate.

From: A. Papazian

AZERBAIJAN WARNS ARMENIA AGAINST USING NAGORNO-KARABAKH AIRPORT

Interfax
Oct 31 2012
Russia

The Azeri Defense Ministry will take appropriate steps in relation
to Armenia if it starts using an airport built in Nagorno-Karabakh,
Azeri Defense Ministry spokesman Eldar Sabiroglu said.

“First, there is the Chicago Convention [on International Civil
Aviation]. Second, it should be borne in mind that we are in a state of
war. Third, if they resort to this step, they will get an appropriate
answer,” Sabiroglu told ANS television company.

“Appropriate steps imply that the Azeri armed forces will carry out
its duty,” he said.

From: A. Papazian

SYRIA “TERRORIST GROUPS” DESTROY MOSQUES, CHURCHES IN ALEPPO

Syrian TV satellite service
Oct 30 2012
Syria

[Translated from Arabic]

Shadi Hulwah, reports on the havoc wreaked by “takfiri terrorist
groups” to mosques, churches, and schools in Aleppo.

Hulwah says that he toured the area of Sulayman al-Halabi streets
and neighbourhoods after they were fully purged from “the filth of
the armed terrorist groups.”

Hulwah points out the destruction caused to the Al-Qur’an Mosque by
the “armed terrorist groups” there.

Hulwah then interviews residents of the Sulayman al-Halabi
neighbourhood, who relate their suffering during the presence of
“armed terrorist groups” in the neighbourhood. Hulwah also shows a
house used by “the terrorists” to make explosive charges.

Hulwah then reports on an attack by “the armed terrorist groups” on
the Armenian Orthodox Church of St Kivork. He notes that the church
was targeted with Molotov incendiary bombs, burning the entire hall
of the church. He adds that “even the Holy Bible was not spared from
their terrorism.”

Hulwah goes on to say that “Bayt Lahm School and even its kindergarten
were not spared from their terrorism,” adding that “everywhere
terrorism strikes, destruction and sabotage dominate the scene.”

Concluding, Hulwah says that “the terrorists” will never manage to
break up the bond between churches and mosques, and if they manage
to destroy the buildings, they will not manage to break the willpower
of people.

[Translated from Arabic]

From: A. Papazian

SHUSHI – A NEW CREATIVE FIELD
Siranuysh Papyan

Interview – Thursday, 01 November 2012, 11:13

Interview with art critic Lilit Sargsyan, Art Curator at Shushi
ART Project

Lilit, the Festival of Contemporary Art Shushi Art Project with its
slogan “Land and Technologies” is coming to an end. Why do artists
tend to get together in Shushi?

First, Shushi is a town of regional strategic importance both in
political and cultural terms. Since its liberation, despite having
a number of social, economic and other issues, one of the priorities
of development of Shushi has been the cultural restoration of the town.

So, numerous projects, both state and private, are being carried out
there. Shushi Art Project was a new type of contribution to Shushi
and Artsakh. Artists were very interested in Shushi as a new creative
field. Photographers had the brilliant opportunity of presenting
their works done in Shushi. On the other hand, they wanted to plant
seeds in that land and establish communication.

What is the message of contemporary art to the society?

In regard to contemporary art in Yerevan, I have to say that though
the developments are active and interesting, they seem to be going
around the same axis, and in this sense, decentralization becomes
important. What was the particularity of Shushi Art Project?

Protection and evaluation of the liberated land arouses a lot of
social issues which had never been interpreted in the contemporary
art language before, and we did it.

Was it possible to avoid nationalism?

It is impossible to avoid that, especially if the idea of land
underlies the project. But, on the other hand, contemporary art
is able to speak the common language and be consistent with human
criteria. Our project would have been meaningless if it was based on
nationalism. On the contrary, we tried to destroy the nationalistic
stereotypes accompanying the Artsakh issue. We aimed at widening the
meaning of “land” not limiting it to political notions (territory,
homeland, location).

From: A. Papazian

TURKEY, FRANCE FALL OUT OVER GENOCIDE – TURKISH OFFICIAL

tert.am
01.11.12

The speaker of Turkey’s parliament has criticized France for breaking
off with the country because of the Armenian Genocide.

At a meeting with the heads of the Turkish and French Trade Chambers,
Cemil Cicek said the dispute over the Genocide has caused the current
coolness between the two countries.

Addressing the French parliament’s Genocide penalization bill, which
was later declared unconstitutional, and the fact of including the
topic in the French textbooks, the Turkish official said it is a
historical issue between the Armenians and Turks, with France having
nothing to do with all that.

Cicek reportedly told the guests that they are ready to confront
their history.

“There are unbiased historians and scholars. Why don’t your historians
study the matter? Whatever the outcome, we are ready to accept it,”
he said, describing France’s genocide bill as an attempt to violate
human rights.

From: A. Papazian

LEVON ARONIAN RETAINS THE 2ND PLACE IN FIDE RANKING

ARMENPRESS
1 November, 2012
YEREVAN

YEREVAN, NOVEMBER 1, ARMENPRESS. FIDE published the new ranking list
of the strongest chess players of the world on November 1, 2012. As
the Chess Federation of the Republic of Armenia informed “Armenpress”
Levon Aronian retains the 2nd place in FIDE ranking with 2815 points
and only Magnus Carlsen from Norway exceeds Aronian’s result and
tops the list with 2 848 points. Vladimir Hakobyan with 2703 points,
Sergey Movsisyan with 2688 points, Gabriel Sargsyan with 2679 points
and Tigran L. Sargsyan, who scored 2659 points are involved in the
list of top 100 chess players of the world.

Due to the efforts of these Armenian chess players – Levon Aronian,
Vladimir Hakobyan, Sergey Movsisyan, Gabriel Sargsyan and Tigran L.

Petrosyan Armenian National Chess Team became Olympic champion the
Chess Olympiads three times.

From: A. Papazian

CONTRABAND OF THE ARMENIAN COGNAC WAS SEIZED IN ROSTOV-ON-DON AIRPORT

ARMENPRESS
1 November, 2012
YEREVAN

YEREVAN, NOVEMBER 1, ARMENPRESS. Three passengers of the
Yerevan-Rostov-on-Don flight have been captured in the airport. They
made an attempt to transfer alcoholic beverage exceeding the allowable
amount. As reports “Armenpress” citing Rostov.kp.ru website, these
passengers has taken ten bottles of Armenian cognac, each of 5 litres,
as a souvenir. As the Southern Customs Department states an action
for administrative violation was sued to the three residents of
Rostov-on-Don.

The extreme punishment for a violation of this kind is the confiscation
of the alcohol or a penalty of twice of the cost of the bottles. The
website states, that if the passengers used to bring golden jewelry
from Armenia before, now they mostly bring famous Armenian cognac.

From: A. Papazian

THE SPOKESMAN OF THE MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS OF THE ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF IRAN HOSTED THE DELEGATES OF THE MEDIA EXHIBITION

ARMENPRESS
1 November, 2012
YEREVAN

TEHRAN, NOVEMBER 1, ARMENPRESS. The Spokesman of the Ministry of
Foreign Affairs of the Islamic Republic of Iran Ramin Mehmanparast
hosted the delegations from the countries participating in the
19th International Exhibition of Media and News Agencies on October
31. As reports “Armenpress” from Iran, Mehmanparast is hopeful that
organization of such events in Iran will encourage the development of
the cooperation between Iran and participating countries. Mehmanparast
stated: “Nowadays superpowers use the public opinion for the
advancement of their policy. Before making any decision first of all
these states try to effect the public opinion. In order to succeed in
this initiative they make usage of the mass media to create beneficent
atmosphere for their undertakings.” He emphasized the tremendous power
of the mass media and underlined any mass media in each country can
have a positive impact on the preservation of values and protection
from the information of media attack of foreign countries.

In the exhibition, which kicked off on October 28 in the capital of
the Islamic Republic of Iran, “Armenpress” news agency represents
Armenia. Media from Russia, Kazakhstan, Turkey, Jordan, Switzerland
and other countries are participating in the 19th exhibition of Media
and News agencies.

The official ceremony of closing will be held on November 3.

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From: A. Papazian

LES PASSAGERS DU TELEPHERIQUE DE TATEV EVACUES
Stephane

armenews.com
jeudi 1er novembre 2012

Tous les passagers qui etaient coinces dans les cabines du telepherique
le plus long dans le monde ont ete evacues.

Le système de securite s’etait mis en marche automatiquement a cause
de l’orage.

Le telepherique est initialement programme de manière a suspendre
automatiquement son fonctionnement en cas de conditions meteorologiques
defavorables.

La cabine telepherique etait a 18 mètres de hauteur lorsque le système
s’est arrete. Quarante-et-un passagers ont ete evacues par une equipe
de secours du ministère armenien des Situations d’urgence et par le
personnel du telepherique forme en Suisse.

Le telepherique a ete officiellement lance le 26 Octobre 2010, en
presence d’une centaine d’invites et des dirigeants du pays.

Le telepherique s’etend sur 5,7 km avec un point culminant a 330
mètres. Un aller simple a partir de Halidzor au monastère de Tatev
prend 11 minutes.

From: A. Papazian