Author: Babajanian Karo

MAYORS OF SIX ROMANIAN CITIES VISITING ARMENIA

Tert.am
24.10.11

Mayors of six Romanian cities are paying a first study visit to
Armenia, organized by Armenia’s Foreign Ministry and Ministry of
Territorial Administration.

Prior to their visit the mayors were received in Armenia’s Embassy in
Bucharest where Ambassador Hamlet Gevorgyan spoke with them about the
importance Armenia’s government attaches to decentralized cooperation
with partner countries.

Gevorgyan also said that such visits contribute to the exchange
of experience among communities in the sphere of self-governance,
tourism, as well as to local production projects.

The Romanian side, in turn, noted that it has accumulated enough
experience in decentralized cooperation and is interested in forging
such ties with Armenia, especially given Armenians’ decades-long
presence in the country and the rich cultural heritage they have left.

In Armenia the Romanian mayors will meet the management of the
Ministry of Territorial Administration; visit the Mother See of
Holly Etchmiadzin.

They will further visit Tavush and Shirak provinces and will discuss
with Dilijan and Gyumri municipal authorities the possibilities of
establishing ties.

SHAVARSH KOCHARYAN: ARMENIA MADE OUTSTANDING CONTRIBUTION TO CSTO CONSOLIDATION

ARMENPRESS
October 24, 2011
YEREVAN

YEREVAN, OCTOBER 24, ARMENPRESS: The goal of establishment of the
Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) is not the preservation
of the collective, but provision of security of other member-states.

The entire development is in that direction, Armenian Deputy Foreign
Minister Shavarsh Kocharyan stated today at the National Assembly
during discussions of the protocol “on making changes in Collective
Security Treaty”, and added that today we deal with an organization,
which is in a stage of consolidation.

“CSTO is a young organization, but in this period steps of utmost
importance have been made in the direction of its consolidation.

Armenia has had outstanding contribution to consolidation process of
the CSTO. The course of our presidency at CSTO is considered as one
of the most productive periods of the organization, as we exerted all
the possible efforts to develop mechanisms enabling the structure to
work efficiently even in case of presence of contradictory positions ,”
Shavarsh Kocharyan stressed.

4 QUAKE SURVIVORS PULLED OUT ALIVE IN TURKEY
By SELCAN HACAOGLU

Associated Press
24 Oct 2011

ERCIS, Turkey (AP) – Four people were pulled alive from the rubble
Monday when one managed to call for help on his cell phone after a
7.2-magnitude quake leveled buildings and killed some 270 people in
eastern Turkey

Dozens of people were trapped in mounds of concrete, twisted steel
and construction debris after hundreds of buildings in two cities and
mud-brick homes in nearby villages pancaked or partially collapsed
in the earthquake that struck Sunday afternoon.

Worst-hit was Ercis – an eastern city of 75,000 close to the Iranian
border that lies in one of Turkey’s most earthquake-prone zones –
where about 80 multistory buildings collapsed.

Yalcin Akay was dug out from a collapsed six-story building with a
leg injury after he called a police emergency line on his phone and
described his location, the state-run Anatolia news agency reported.

Three others, including two children, were also rescued from the same
building in Ercis some 20 hours after the quake struck, officials said.

Rescuers searched for the missing throughout the night under
generator-powered floodlights as tearful families members waited by
the mounds of debris. Cranes and other heavy equipment lifted slabs
of concrete, allowing residents to dig for the missing with shovels.

Aid groups scrambled to set up tents, field hospitals and kitchens
to help the thousands left homeless or those too afraid to re-enter
their homes.

“We stayed outdoors all night, I could not sleep at all, my children,
especially the little one, was terrified,” said Serpil Bilici of her
six-year-old daughter, Rabia. “I grabbed her and rushed out when the
quake hit, we were all screaming.”

Over 100 aftershocks rocked the area Monday morning, with three
of them reaching 4.7 magnitude, after another 100 aftershocks
reverberated Sunday.

The bustling, larger city of Van, about 55 miles (90 kilometers)
south of Ercis, also sustained substantial damage, but Interior
Minister Idris Naim Sahin said search efforts there were winding down.

Sahin expected the death toll in Ercis to rise, but not as much as
initially feared. He told reporters rescue teams were searching for
survivors in the ruins of 47 buildings – including a cafe where dozens
could be trapped.

“There could be around 100 people (in the rubble). It could be more
or it could be less,” Sahin said. “But we are not talking about
thousands.”

He told Associated Press Television that around 270 were killed and
more than a thousand others were injured.

Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who inspected the area late
Sunday, said “close to all” mud-brick homes in surrounding villages had
collapsed in the temblor that also rattled parts of Iran and Armenia.

In Ercis, a team specializing in mine disaster rescue combed through
the rubble of a student dormitory.

“Four or five (apartments) have been leveled,” team member Mustafa
Bilgin said. “University students are said to be living here. We don’t
know how many of them are still inside, we’ve reached their computers,
clothing but we did not see anyone.”

Dozens of people huddled around the building, silently watching the
rescue work.

Women carried buckets to collect food from a soup kitchen as frequent
aftershocks jolted the town.

Bilici, a mother of five children between six and 16, said her house
had only cracks but her family was too afraid to go back inside. She
lost one relative in the quake.

A woman who lost her parents sat on the ground near another crumpled
building, sobbing as relatives tried to comfort her.

The terrifying moments of the powerful temblor still haunted many.

“I was in the street and saw the buildings sway,” Hasan Ceylan, 48,
surveying the wreckage of his three businesses, including a grocery
store and a veterinary clinic.

Abubekir Acar, 42, was sipping tea with his friends across from a
coffee house that was leveled.

“We did not understand what was going on, the buildings around us,
the coffee house all went down so quickly,” he said. “For a while,
we could not see anything – everywhere was covered in dust. Then,
we heard screams and pulled out anyone we could reach.”

The government said it would offer favorable loans to help rebuild
small businesses.

Authorities advised people to stay away from damaged homes, warning
they could collapse in the aftershocks. Exhausted residents began
sheltering in tents, some set up inside a sports stadium, after many
spent the night outdoors lighting fires to keep warm. Others sought
shelter with relatives in nearby villages.

More than 2,000 teams were involved in search-and-rescue and aid
efforts, using around a dozen sniffer dogs.

Several countries offered assistance but Erdogan said Turkey was able
to cope for the time being. Azerbaijan, Iran and Bulgaria still sent
aid, he said.

Among those offering help were Israel, Greece and Armenia. The offer
from Israel came despite a rift in relations following a 2010 Israeli
navy raid on a Gaza-bound aid flotilla that left nine Turks dead.

Greece, which has a deep dispute with Turkey over the divided island
of Cyprus, also offered to send in a special earthquake rescue team.

Armenian president Serge Sarkisian proposed help during talks in
Moscow with Russian leader Dmitry Medvedev, when the two leaders
called their Turkish counterpart, Abdullah Gul, Anatolia reported.

Turkey and Armenia have no diplomatic ties due to tensions over
the Ottoman-era mass killings of Armenians and the conflict in
Nagorno-Karabakh, a separatist region in neighboring Azerbaijan.

Leaders around the world conveyed their condolences and offered
assistance.

“We stand shoulder to shoulder with our Turkish ally in this difficult
time, and are ready to assist,” President Barack Obama said.

Israeli President Shimon Peres telephoned Gul to offer assistance.

“Israel shares in your sorrow,” Peres said. “Israel is ready to render
any assistance that may be required anywhere in Turkey, at any time.”

Turkey lies in one of the world’s most active seismic zones and is
crossed by numerous fault lines. In 1999, two earthquakes with a
magnitude of more than 7 struck northwestern Turkey, killing about
18,000 people.

More recently, a 6.0-magnitude quake in March 2010 killed 51 people
in eastern Turkey, while in 2003, a 6.4-magnitude earthquake killed
177 people in the southeastern city of Bingol.

Istanbul, the country’s largest city with more than 12 million people,
lies in northwestern Turkey near a major fault line. Experts have
warned that overcrowding and shoddy construction in Istanbul could
kill tens of thousands if a major earthquake struck there.

Fraser reported from Ankara.

LES REDACTEURS EN CHEF EXIGENT L’ABROGATION DE LA LOI SUR LA DIFFAMATION
Stephane

armenews.com
lundi 24 octobre 2011

Les redacteurs en chef des huit principaux journaux armeniens ont
rajoute leur voix aux appels a la Cour Constitutionnelle pour abroger
la legislation controversee qui a mene a une forte augmentation des
plaintes en diffamation contre les medias.

Le mediateur des droits de l’homme (ombudsman), Karen Andreasian,
la semaine dernière a demande a la cour d’examiner les articles
correspondants au Code Civil d’Armenie et de considerer leur
inconstitutionnalite. Il a exprime sa serieuse inquietude face a
l’execution de la loi par des cours armeniennes.

Les amendements a ces articles ordonnes l’annee dernière ont
decriminalise la diffamation, mais ont resolument durci les penalites
financières pour de telles infractions. Au moins 15 plaintes pour
diffamation ont depuis ete deposees par des fonctionnaires du
gouvernement actuels et anciens, dont l’ancien president Robert
Kocharian et des hommes d’affaires proches du gouvernement.

Dans une declaration commune, les redacteurs en chef ont recommande
vivement a la Cour Constitutionnelle d’au moins suspendre ces clauses
en attendant de prendre une decision sur le fonds. Ils ont dit que
les autorites armeniennes ont employe les changements de la loi avec
le but unique d’etrangler les medias independants financièrement ou
d’introduire une auto-censure parmi les journalistes.

Bagrat Yesayan, redacteur en chef du quotidien Yerkir et l’un des
signataires, a dit que la liberte de la presse en Armenie est menacee
serieusement. ” Il y a un danger que dans le proche avenir meme nous
auront une situation où les medias seront incapables d’observer les
decisions de la cour a verser de fortes indemnites et devront fermer.

Dans ce cas la presse ecrite disparaîtra simplement dans ce pays ”
a-t-il dit au service armenien de RFE/RL.

Ashot Melikian du Comite pour Proteger la Liberte de parole s’est
felicite de ces appels a la Cour Constitutionnelle. Mais il s’est
declare pessimiste quant a l’inconstitutionnalite de la loi

” C’est juste qu’il y a des clauses peu claires qui peuvent etre
interpretees d’une facon subjective ” a dit Ashot Melikian au service
armenien de RFE/RL.

Family Circle, A unique architectural remodel on Mount Tabor envelops its
owners in warmth.

by Amara Holstein for Portland Monthly Magazine, November 2011.

ON THE SLOPING SHOULDERS OF MOUNT TABOR, Edgar Papazian and Michelle Lenzi’s
house catches the day’s last rays under the winking brows of its arched
metal dormers. From the front, it’s a simple white box topped with a clever
cocktail of corrugated steel and arcs. A stroll around back, however,
reveals a more dramatic effect: circles and swoops have been carved into its
framework, giving viewers what seems to be an intimate peek at the warm wood
and round surfaces inside. `I have a fascination for the 1950s and ’60s,
when people were really optimistic about the future and curves were seen as
aerodynamic,’ says Papazian, who designed the form himself. `You could call
this Eero Saarinen on a very, very small budget.’

The couple is originally from New York. Enticed by walkable neighborhoods,
thoughtful urban planning, and a vibrant foodie community, they packed up
their car for Portland in 2008. But perhaps even more compelling for
Papazian, an architect with his own practice, Doon Architecture, was the
dream of building his own home. `New York is built – it’s there already,’ he
says. `Here real estate is affordable, and we could actually have some fun
with a project. It was about breaking the mold and trying something
different.’

After house hunting for several months, they came across the perfect place
for their design tinkering: a basic 1940s-style, 1,000-square-foot house
with a sound foundation, well maintained but never renovated aside from some
shag carpeting. `We weren’t erasing a past that the house had – it wanted to
be redone,’ says Lenzi, a genetics researcher. `It really didn’t have any
character, it was just a blank slate.’

Papazian immediately decided to flip the home’s axis from front to back
(instead of side to side) to focus attention on the backyard, and extend the
house upward instead of outward. Inspired by tunnels, caves, and other
shapes with `a visual dynamic that lead up into space,’ he decided to redraw
traditional top-heavy dormers into something lighter and more modern. The
night he first saw the house, Papazian went to a café and sketched the large
sweeps of curved dormer overhangs that he envisioned enclosing the house on
both the front and back. The remaining pieces slowly fell into place after a
year of living in the space, figuring out what they liked (the small size,
the wooded backyard) and what they didn’t (lack of views to outdoors,
closed-off rooms, and ground-floor bedrooms). The first sledgehammer blow
fell in June 2009, and after nearly a year of living in a 12-by-14-foot
plastic-enclosed room in the basement, the couple was finished with the
project – and Lenzi was eight months pregnant with daughter Giovanna.

The most defining features of the finished exterior are Papazian’s elegant
arched overhangs. Six feet in span and made of the galvanized steel beams
used in Quonset huts, the pieces were lifted into place by crane after the
old roof was lopped off. In addition to giving the house a quirky face-lift,
the arches also achieve Papazian’s desired reorientation of the house and
open it up to the backyard – an effect heightened by a back wall of glass
instead of solid sheetrock.

The massive curves set the tone for inside, as well. Forget straight-lined
modern; everything from chair backs to faucets to the bird feeder is softly
rounded in this home. Walls slide and glide their way around the rooms,
arching to meet the ceiling rather than colliding at right angles. `Curved
shapes are comforting,’ says Lenzi. `Everything’s sort of wrapping around
you.’ Downstairs, in what now comprises the kitchen, living, office, and
dining areas, richly refinished wood floors and butcher block countertops,
as well as the addition of a Doug fir back deck, complete the feeling of
warm enclosure. For some contrast, punctuations of industrial ethos run
throughout, from a perforated steel screen in the dining room to metal bolts
and screws on ceiling beams and metal arches topping the two bedrooms and
bathroom upstairs. White paint, lots of natural light from added windows,
and few interior walls make the house live larger than its footprint.

The changes all aren’t about aesthetics, however. Threads of shared memories
are incorporated into the design: a bookcase core that contains their
collection of tomes on jazz, cooking, and architecture; a kitchen where
expansive countertops are used to roll out the same ravioli recipes that
Lenzi’s grandmother makes; and artwork by Papazian’s mother, Janet Gasson,
make the entire house is a true reflection of the family. The front door
handle was designed by one of Papazian’s architecture professors, and an
alcove in toddler Giovanna’s room is the same shape and size of a nook where
Papazian used to sleep as a child.

`With all these small houses here in Portland, there’s the ability to really
tailor-make a home in a way that’s very authentic and personality driven,’
says Papazian. `And that’s what we tried to do here: make a new kind of
architecture that’s both modern and improves people’s spirit and mental
state.’

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Tuesday, October 18, 2011

New York Dinner Honors 60th Birthday of Catholicos Karekin II

On Wednesday, October 12, 2011, a group of friends and benefactors of
Holy Etchmiadzin gathered at a dinner hosted by Mr. and Mrs. Nazar and
Artemis Nazarian in honor of His Holiness Karekin II’s 60th birthday.
The event was held at Manhattan’s Metropolitan Club and was attended by
60 people in an atmosphere of warm friendship and cordiality.

Berge Setrakian, president of AGBU, acting as the master of ceremonies,
welcomed the guests and congratulated His Holiness on his birthday. “You
are surrounded tonight by great friends of the Mother See of Holy
Etchmiadzin and the Catholicos of All Armenians” he said, and further
noted that the AGBU has been a longstanding supporter of His Holiness’
initiatives to further strengthen the Armenian Church.

Archbishop Khajag Barsamian, Primate of the Diocese of the Armenian
Church of America (Eastern), after thanking the hosts and congratulating
the Catholicos, spoke on the need to develop strong spiritual leadership
in the Armenian Church — a mission His Holiness has advanced throughout
his pontificate. He then announced on that occasion the establishment of
the Pontifical Endowment for Pastoral Development, which will be chaired
by Mr. Setrakian.

“From my experience, I can testify that having a dedicated,
well-prepared pastor is key to a flourishing parish life…Our parishes
flourish, family spiritual life flourishes, and our church as a whole
will flourish,” said the Primate.

Following the announcement of the establishment of the fund, Mr.
Setrakian stated that AGBU had decided to earmark $1 million of its
scholarship programs for this purpose. Mr. and Mrs. Nazarian took the
initiative of donating $1 million to this fund in lieu of Vehapar’s
birthday gift and they were followed with similar amounts by Mr. and
Mrs. Sarkis and Ruth Bedevian and Mr. and Mrs. Hratch and Suzanne
Toufayan.

Mr. and Mrs. Setrakian then announced their contribution of $250,000 and
they were followed by Mr. and Mrs. Yervant and Melissa Demirjian, Mr.
and Mrs. Haig and Elsa Didizian, and Mr. and Mrs. Nishan and Margaret
Atinizian with $100,000 each. Mr. and Mrs. Harry and Edna Keleshian,
Oscar Tatosian, and Jerry Demirjian pledged $50,000 each. Mr. and Mrs.
George and Alice Kevorkian, Mr. and Mrs. Zaven and Arlene Dadekian, Mr.
and Mrs. Papken and Anahid Megerian, and Dr. and Mrs. Haroutune and
Shakeh Mekhjian pledged $25,000 each. Further donations continued to
follow.

Mr. Setrakian then announced that Archbishop Hovnan Derderian, the
Primate of the Diocese of Armenian Church of North America (Western),
had informed him that a pledge drive getting underway in that region had
raised $1 million so far for the same purpose.

To conclude the evening, His Holiness Karekin II expressed his deep
appreciation to Mr. and Mrs. Nazarian for hosting the evening, and
addressed the guests in his usual cordial tone. “Coming here, I feel I
am among family,” he said. “I feel blessed and strengthened to know that
you have been and continue to be so supportive of my ministry as
Catholicos of All Armenians, and recognize the importance of advancing
the clergy in our church.”

Information on the “Pontifical Endowment for Pastoral Development” can
be obtained by contacting Laura Gononian at [email protected].

To view a video from the event, please visit

Established in 1906, AGBU () is the world’s largest
non-profit Armenian organization. Headquartered in New York City, AGBU
preserves and promotes the Armenian identity and heritage through
educational, cultural and humanitarian programs, annually touching the
lives of some 400,000 Armenians around the world.

For more information about AGBU and its worldwide programs, please visit

ITAR-TASS, Russia
October 23, 2011 Sunday 06:41 PM EST

Sargsyan won’t change program of Russian visit because of quake

MOSCOW October 23

The powerful earthquake in Turkey, which was felt in Armenia and other
countries of the region, will have no effect on the program of the
state visit of Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan to Russia.

“There is no change in the program of the visit. It was not even
discussed,” head of the presidential press service Mary Arutyunian
told Itar-Tass. She is accompanying the president on the visit.

Sargsyan came to Moscow on Sunday. The presidential delegation said
there was no quake damage in Armenia.

People in Armenia were alarmed by the powerful earthquake, which
happened in Turkey and sent tremors to the entire region, including
Georgia and Iran.

The tremors in Armenia measured three to five points on the
twelve-point scale, the National Seismic Protection Service of the
Armenian Emergency Situations Ministry said. There were neither
casualties nor damage in the republic.

A quake of 7.6 points on the Richter scale happened in eastern Turkey
on Sunday. The quake epicenter was located 35 kilometers northeast of
Van. The quake nested at the depth of 94 kilometers.

More than 200 people were hurt, the local media said. About 50
buildings, including residencies and a school dormitory, were
flattened to the ground, and several hundreds of buildings sustained
serious damage. The police said that casualties were large but their
precise number is unknown.

Eyewitnesses said that people left their homes in panic and refused to
go back as long as the tremors continued. The quake disrupted power
supply and telephone service.

The head of the national seismic service said that the quake might
have hurt up to 1,000 people.

A large set of documents, including those economic, will be signed on
results of the first-ever state visit of Armenian President Serzh
Sargsyan to Russia.

Sargsyan came to Moscow on Sunday at the invitation of Russian
President Dmitry Medvedev. The leaders will hold negotiations at the
Kremlin on Monday.

The program of the three-day visit also includes meetings with Prime
Minister Vladimir Putin, the speakers of the Federation Council and
the Moscow mayor and an address to students of the Moscow Lomonosov
State University.

Medvedev and Sargsyan “will discuss a broad range of bilateral issues,
further political dialog and trade and economic cooperation and a
number of topical items of the international agenda,” a Kremlin source
told Itar-Tass. “The negotiations will result in the signing of a
weighty set of intergovernmental and interdepartmental agreements
concerning humanitarian and youth exchanges, healthcare, economy and
foreign political coordination.”

The presidents of Russia and Armenia had about ten meetings in
2010-2011, including those during the working visits of Sargsyan to
Moscow and St. Petersburg and multilateral events. They met, for
instance, on the sidelines of an informal summit of the Collective
Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) in Astana and at the CIS Dushanbe
summit in September. There were tripartite meetings, as well,
involving Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev.

“The state visit of Russian President Dmitry Medvedev to Armenia on
August 19-20, 2010, laid down a solid foundation for further
strengthening of the bilateral relations. A number of important
documents in various spheres was signed during that visit,” the
Kremlin said.

Russia is a key foreign economic partner and investor of Armenia.
Bilateral trade stood at $859.1 million last year and $487.7 million
in January-July 2011, which was 15.2% more than in the same period of
2010. According to the forecast, this year’s trade will hit the
pre-crisis level of $899.9 million in 2008.

Russian investments amassed in Armenia since 1991 have exceeded $2.8
billion or almost 60% of the total foreign investments in the country.
About 1,300 enterprises in Armenia have Russian capital in them, which
is over a fourth of all companies with foreign capital in the
republic.

Mostly, Russian investments are made in energy, banking, telecom,
mining, metallurgical and construction sectors. Gazprom, Inter RAO
UES, Russian Railroads, VTB, VympelCom and AFK Sistema are actively
operating on the Armenian market.

The Intergovernmental Commission for Economic Cooperation is an
important instrument of bilateral trade and economic interaction. The
commission held its latest meeting in Rostov-on-Don on July 8.

Large joint projects in priority energy sectors – gas, electric power
and atomic – are progressing successfully. Gazprom assisted the
construction of the fifth unit of the Razdan thermal power plant,
which is being prepared for the startup.

Russia is taking continuous efforts to normalize external transport
links of Armenia. Profound modernization of Armenian railroads started
with their putting into concession management by Russian Railroads in
2008. A railroad ferry line is operating the Kavkaz and Poti seaports.
Traffic goes through the Verkhny Lars checkpoint on the
Russian-Georgian border. All that gives Armenia a land route to Russia
and an opportunity to enlarge its export potential.

Inter-regional relations are developing dynamically and involve about
70 Russian constituents. The first Russian-Armenian interregional
forum was held in Yerevan in April.

Long-standing historical and cultural traditions, which connect Russia
and Armenia, provide a high level of interaction in humanitarian
affairs and education. An office of the Russian Agency for the
Commonwealth of Independent States, Compatriots Living Abroad and
International Humanitarian Cooperation in Yerevan is working actively,
and the Center for Innovative Cooperation opened on its basis in
April. A renovated monument to Russian soldiers, who died in the
Battle of Oshakan in 1827 was unveiled in April. The Days of Russian
Word were held under the umbrella of the Armenian president in Yerevan
in early October, and the House of Russian Book was opened within the
festival’s framework.

The dialog on international issues is a priority of the bilateral
relations. A key subject is the Karabakh situation. “Being a cochair
of the OSCE Minsk Group, Russia carries on its mediating efforts aimed
to coordinate fundamental principles of the Karabakh peace process,”
the Russian presidential press office said.

Moscow and Yerevan interact in the CIS and the CSTO and coordinate
their positions in key aspects of international politics at the UN,
the OSCE and the Council of Europe.

Interfax, Russia
Oct 20 2011

Azeri position on Karabakh contradicts peace settlement logic –
Armenian Foreign Ministry

YEREVAN. Oct 20

Statements of Azeri officials frequently disagree with statements of
the Azeri president, Armenian Foreign Minister Eduard Nalbandian said.

“Nalbandian told U.S. Deputy Secretary of State William Burns that the
position of Azerbaijan not only disagreed with but also frequently
opposed statements of the presidents of the mediating countries and
the logic of the peace process,” the Armenian Foreign Ministry told
Interfax on Wednesday.

In turn, Burns said that peaceful methods were the only way to resolve
the disputes.

He also pledged further U.S. support to the normalization of
Armenia-Turkey relations, the ministry said.

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Armenia offers aid to Turkey after earthquake

armradio.am
23.10.2011 22:24

Armenia offers its assistance to Turkey following the 7.3 magnitude
quake that struck the country earlier today.

Consultations chaired by Armenian Minister of Emergency Situations
Armen Yeritsyan were held at the Crisis Management Center of the
Ministry of Emergency Situations of the Republic of Armenia to discuss
the preparedness of the rescue units.

Through UN cables Armenia has expressed its willingness and
preparedness to send rescuers to Turkey.

Armenia provided aid to Turkey in 1999 and 2000.

Montérégieweb
22 oct 2011

Cours de piano public et concert intime offert par Khachatur Ghazaryan

L’?il Régional – 22 octobre 2011

Le samedi 29 octobre à 14 h, à l’Académie de musique Archets &
Compagnie, aura lieu un cours de piano public et un concert intime
haut en couleur donné par Khachatur Ghazaryan et présenté par La
Fondation Les Petits Archets. M. Ghazaryan a fait ses études
postsupérieures en piano au Conservatoire d’État à Erevan en Arménie
et détient un doctorat en piano.

Avant de s’installer définitivement au Québec en 2009, il enseignait
au Conservatoire d’Arménie en plus d’y être l’accompagnateur officiel.

Il a été reconnu en tant que meilleur accompagnateur par l’Association
des Saxophonistes d’Arménie et par le Conservatoire d’État à Erevan.
Il a également remporté le prix de la meilleure performance en musique
classique pour jeunes pianistes à Tbilissi, Géorgie.

De plus, il a participé en tant que soliste à plusieurs grands
concerts autant en Arménie qu’au Canada.

À présent, Khachatur Ghazaryan enseigne à l’Académie de musique
Archets & Compagnie où il met au service des élèves ses méthodes
pédagogiques, en utilisant des outils novateurs et efficaces.

Ceux qui désirent être participant, rien de plus facile!

M. Ghazaryan se fera un plaisir de leur accorder quelques minutes afin
de leur donner quelques indications sur un cheminement présent ou
futur.

Ce cours de piano et concert intime est ouvert à tous et gratuit.
Places limitées.

Réservez votre siège dès aujourd’hui en téléphonant à l’Académie
Archets & Compagnie au 450.446.8400