Over 1450 violations of ceasefire
yerkir.am
13:34 – 08.10.2011
Over 1450 violations of ceasefire during September from Azerbaijan’s army.
According to the information from the NKR Defense army, the opponent
had shot from different type of weapons, including snipers for more
than 300 times.
The Armenian army is keeping the ceasefire regime strictly and answers
back only in emergency cases.
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L’Arménie, aux portes du Paradis européen de l’Euro 2012
si l’Arménie s’impose face à l’Irlande mardi à Dublin, elle est
qualifiée pour la finale de l’Euro 2012
L’Arménie renouvelle les exploits. Hier soir, dans un stade
Républicain archi-comble, la sélection nationale d’Arménie a battu la
Macédoine sur le score de 4-1. L’Arménie qui est à 90 minutes des
qualifications de la finale de l’Euro 2012. Mardi prochain à Dublin,
une victoire de l’Arménie face à la redoutable Irlande qualifierait
l’équipe arménienne. Ce qui serait un exploit historique ! Face à la
Macédoine, l’Arménie ouvrait le score à la 28e minute par un but de
Marcos Piselli qui reprenait une passe de Youra Movsissian, le
meilleur joueur arménien du match d’hier soir. Henrikh Mekhitarian
d’un tir de 20 mètres en pleine lucarne surprenait le gardien
macédonien et doublait la mise à la 34e. A la 53e, la Macédoine était
réduite à jouer à dix après l’expulsion de Velice Shoumoulikoski.
Kevork Ghazarian sur une passe de Youra Movsissian, triplait le score
à la 69e. Vance Chikov réduisait le score pour la Macédoine à la 86e.
A la 90e l’Arménie marquait un quatrième but par Arthur Sarkissouv sur
une balle transmise une nouvelle fois par Youra Movsissian. L’Arménie
s’imposait 4-1 dans un stade survolté, y compris le président arménien
Serge Sarkissian dans les tribunes. Après cette victoire de l’Arménie,
des milliers de supporters en liesse ont envahi le centre d’Erévan,
avec une place de la République couverte de tricolors arméniens et des
files de voitures. Erévan fera la fête jusuqu’au petit matin.
Krikor Amirzayan
Les supporters de l’équipe d’Arménie arrivent au stade
Arrivée des supporters Arméniens au stade Républicain d’Erévan
Club des supporters de l’équipe d’Arménie
Youra Movsissian le meilleur joueur arménien du match Arménie-Macédoine
Le capitaine de l’Arménie, Sarkis Hovsepian récompensé par Roupen Haïrabédian
Arrivée des footballeurs arméniens au stade Républicain d’Erévan
Supporters de l’équipe d’Arménie de football
Les supportrices de l’équipe d’Arménie de football
L’Arménie en action
L’Arménie en actionphotos site Armsport
samedi 8 octobre 2011,
Krikor Amirzayan ©armenews.com
Métro Montréal, QC
7 oct 2011
Génocide arménien: Ankara fustige Sarkozy
YEREVAN, Arménie – Le président français Nicolas Sarkozy a appelé une
nouvelle fois vendredi la Turquie à reconnaître sa responsabilité dans
le génocide arménien de 1915, laissant entendre que la France pourrait
faire voter une loi pénalisant le négationnisme en la matière. Ankara
l’a accusé d'”opportunisme politique”.
Le ministre turc des Affaires étrangères a estimé que la France, du
fait de son passé colonial, était mal placée pour critiquer Ankara.
Ahmet Davutoglu a qualifié les propos du président Sarkozy
d'”opportunisme politique”, jugeant que “malheureusement, chaque fois
qu’il y a des élections en Europe, on assiste à ce genre
d’opportunisme”.
Lors d’une conférence organisée dans la matinée à Erevan, Nicolas
Sarkozy a précisé qu'”il ne revient pas à la France de poser un
ultimatum à qui que ce soit”. “Mais enfin, à travers les lignes, vous
pouvez comprendre que le temps n’est pas infini, 1915-2011, il me
semble que pour la réflexion, c’est suffisant”, a-t-il souligné.
“Dans ce cas-là, la réaction de la France, en fonction de ce que
diront les dirigeants turcs, se ferait connaître dans un délai assez
bref, et si je ne le précise pas, c’est parce que j’espère toujours
dans les réactions de la société turque et du gouvernement turc”, a
souligné le chef de l’Etat. “Mais enfin, assez bref, cela a une
signification qui, en tout état de cause, englobe la durée de mon
mandat”, a-t-il ajouté.
Il a aussi confié que sa visite, la veille, au mémorial de
Tsitsernakaberd, dédié aux victimes du génocide, lui avait rappelé des
sentiments similaires à ceux qu’il avait eus en se rendant au mémorial
Yad Vashem consacré aux victimes de l’Holocauste, à Jérusalem, et dans
un musée rendant hommage aux victimes du génocide au Rwanda.
La France, comme une vingtaine d’autres pays, a reconnu le génocide
arménien, en 2001, mais la Turquie refuse de le faire, ce qui pèse
notamment sur son dossier de candidature à l’Union européenne.
Les autorités arméniennes estiment que jusqu’à 1,5 million d’Arméniens
ont été tués par les Turcs de l’empire Ottoman pendant la Première
guerre mondiale, ce que les historiens considèrent comme le premier
génocide du XXe siècle. La Turquie affirme que ce nombre est exagéré
et qu’il s’agit de victimes de la guerre civile et du chaos de
l’effondrement de l’empire Ottoman.
Nicolas Sarkozy terminait la journée de vendredi et son déplacement
caucasien en se rendant à Bakou, en Azerbaïdjan, pour un entretien
avec le président Ilham Aliev, puis à Tbilissi, en Géorgie, pour une
rencontre avec le président Mikhaïl Saakachvili. AP
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Le Monde, France
7 oct 2011
Génocide arménien : “Que Sarkozy abandonne le rôle de l’historien”
LEMONDE.FR avec AFP | 07.10.11 | 08h12 – Mis à jour le 07.10.11 | 14h13
Le président français Nicolas Sarkozy a précisé, vendredi 7 octobre,
qu’il souhaitait que la Turquie reconnaisse dans un délai “assez
bref”, avant la fin de son mandat en mai 2012, le génocide arménien de
1915, au deuxième jour de sa visite d’Etat en Arménie.
“Il ne revient pas à la France de poser un ultimatum à qui que ce
soit, ce n’est pas une façon de faire (…), mais enfin, à travers les
lignes, vous pouvez comprendre que le temps n’est pas infini,
1915-2011, il me semble que pour la réflexion c’est suffisant”, a
expliqué M. Sarkozy lors d’une conférence de presse avec son homologue
arménien, Serge Sarkissian.
Depuis jeudi, le chef de l’Etat a invité à plusieurs reprises la
Turquie à “revisiter son histoire” et à reconnaître les massacres
ottomans perpétrés en 1915 et 1916 en Turquie, qui ont fait plusieurs
centaines de milliers de morts, comme un génocide, ainsi que la France
l’a fait en 2001.
Le ministre turc aux affaires européennes, Egemen Bagis, cité par
l’agence de presse Anatolie, a aussitôt rétorqué lors d’une visite à
Sarajevo, vendredi : “Il serait mieux, pour la sérénité en France, en
Europe et dans le monde, que M. Sarkozy abandonne le rôle de
l’historien et se creuse un peu la tête pour sortir son pays du
gouffre économique dans lequel il se trouve et produise des projets
pour l’avenir de l’Union européenne.”
“GESTE DE LA PAIX”
Nicolas Sarkozy a confirmé que, si la Turquie ne faisait pas ce “geste
de paix”, ce “pas vers la réconciliation”, il envisagerait de proposer
l’adoption d’un texte de loi réprimant spécifiquement la négation du
“génocide” arménien. Cette “réaction de la France se ferait connaître
dans un délai assez bref. Si je ne le précise pas, c’est que j’espère
toujours dans les réactions” turques. “En tout état de cause, [ce
délai] englobe la durée de mon mandat”, a-t-il ajouté.
Avant son élection en 2007, le candidat Sarkozy avait promis aux
représentants de la forte communauté arménienne de France, estimée à
un demi-million de personnes, de soutenir le vote d’un texte de loi
spécifique réprimant la négation du génocide de 1915. Mais ce texte a
été enterré en mai faute d’une majorité au Sénat et surtout du soutien
du gouvernement de Nicolas Sarkozy, suscitant l’amertume des Arméniens
de France et de leurs partisans.
ÉTAPE EN AZERBAÏDJAN
Outre ce dossier sensible, Nicolas Sarkozy a également appelé
l’Arménie à faire la “paix” et à la “réconciliation” avec
l’Azerbaïdjan voisin sur le Haut-Karabakh, territoire séparatiste
azerbaïdjanais peuplé en majorité d’Arméniens. Dix-sept soldats ont
été tués depuis le début de l’année autour du Haut-Karabakh,
république autoproclamée depuis une guerre dans les années 1990 qui a
fait 30 000 morts.
Nicolas Sarkozy a d’ailleurs fait une étape en Azerbaïdjan vendredi.
Il a été accueilli à la présidence, la palais de Zagulba, par son
homologue Ilham Aliev, avec lequel il s’est immédiatement retiré pour
un entretien en tête-à-tête, avant un déjeuner de travail avec leurs
délégations. Les deux dirigeants devaient ensuite poser la première
pierre du lycée français de Bakou. Paris espère aussi de cette courte
visite un “coup de pouce” à la conclusion de gros contrats pour des
entreprises françaises dans ce pays, important producteur de gaz et de
pétrole.
Whittier Daily News , CA
Oct 8 2011
Aram I comes to San Gabriel Valley
By Brian Charles and Brian Day, Staff Writers
PASADENA – The spiritual leader for millions of Armenian Christians
paid visits to Pasadena and Montebello in recent days during his
fourth pontifical visit to the West Coast.
Included in his stops were St. Sarkis Armenian Apostolic Church in
Pasadena on Friday, and the Armenian Martyr’s Memorial in Montebello
on Saturday.
More than 500 residents, luminaries and high ranking city and state
officials awaited the arrival of His Holiness Aram I in Pasadena, who
came to celebrate an event that occurred more than 1,500 years ago.
“Today is the service for the Feast of the Holy Translators, when they
first translated the Bible into Armenian,” said Koko Panossian,
treasurer of the board of trustees for St. Sarkis Church.
The day is a major holiday for the Armenian Apostolic Church, making
Aram I’s visit even more significant, Panossian said.
“This is as special as having your pope visit,” Panossian said.
The Armenian Apostolic Church is part of the six Oriental Orthodox
Churches, “that believe in the unity of Jesus Christ as one
individual,” said Father Muron Aznikian.
The belief system varies from the trinitarian beliefs of western
Christianity, but Friday’s ceremony was not about the lines that
divide people, but
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about unity, Aznikian said.
“This brings together all denominations, stressing the unity that we
all share in Christ and his mission,” Aznikian said.
As bells blared in the background and the flashing lights of Pasadena
police motorcycles lit up the evening sky, the crowd grew restless.
Aram I was finally here.
His holiness was escorted by a quartet of clergy, all dressed in the
traditional black and purple vestments.
“Isn’t this just amazing,” said Gene Masuda, Pasadena District 4
councilman. “This is a special night.”
Aram I has millions of followers worldwide.
According to U.S. census data, more than 10,000 Armenians live in the
greater San Gabriel Valley area, with major communities in Glendale,
Burbank, Pasadena, Montebello and Altadena. Levon Kirakosian, who sits
on the organizing committee for the pontiff’s visit, said he believes
the number is closer to 100,000.
At a smaller, private ceremony in Montebello, Aram I led a somber
requiem service and laid a memorial wreath at the base of the towering
Armenian Martyr’s Memorial, which pays tribute to the 1.5 million
Armenians killed in a genocide carried out by the Turkish government
between 1915 and 1921.
“We are humbled that you are here,” Mayor Art Barajas said upon
greeting the pontiff. “The Armenian community is part of the
Montebello community.”
Incense was lit as Aram I and other clergy members sang hymns and
prayers in Armenian underneath the towering memorial.
“We have never forgotten our martyrs and we will never forget them,”
Aram I said.
“Today we once again honor those Armenian martyrs who have fallen
because of the genocide,” he said.
“Genocide is a crime against humanity,” Aram I added, which should be
condemned by all free nations. “The Armenian cause is the cause of
justice.”
“May God bless you all, and may God bless this beautiful country of
the United States of America,” Aram I said.
Aram I’s tour of California continues with a lecture Friday at UCLA on
the topic of Christianity in the Middle East, of which the pontiff is
considered an authority.
He plans to return to Montebello on Oct.24 for a Hrashapar Service and
banquet at the Holy Cross Armenian Apostolic Cathedral, 900 W. Lincoln
Ave.
The event will also celebrate the 90th anniversary of the Holy Cross
Armenian Apostolic Church and the 30th anniversary Banquet of the Holy
Cross Armenian Apostolic Cathedral.
Irish Independent
Oct 9 2011
Losing this one would be ultimate humiliation
Ireland should have no reason to be wary of Armenia, writes Eamonn Sweeney
By Eamonn Sweeney
Sunday October 09 2011
Let’s get it straight about Armenia. In their 4-1 win against
Macedonia on Friday night, our opponents on Tuesday featured five
players from their domestic league. The Armenian League is rated 50th
in Europe by UEFA, 17 places behind the League of Ireland.
Only the leagues of Andorra, the Faroe Islands and San Marino rank lower.
There are two players on the Armenian team from Khimki, which last
year finished 13th in the Russian First Division. This is not the top
flight, Russia has a Premier League. Ural Sverdlosk Oblast, Krasnodar
and Shinnik Yaroslavl, who contribute players to the team, also toil
on the second rung of Russian football. There are a couple of players
from Metalurh Donetsk, currently lying eighth in the Ukrainian Premier
League. Defender Levon Hayrapatyan plies his trade with mighty Lechia
Gdansk, currently tenth in the Polish Premier League.
The one player at a big club is Henrik Mrkhitaryan, a midfielder who’s
made 26 appearances over the past couple of seasons for Shakhtar
Donetsk. In the qualifying campaign for the 2010 World Cup, Armenia
finished bottom of their group with four points from ten matches. When
the draw was made for Euro 2012, they were ranked 45th out of 53 teams
in Europe, between Iceland and Kazakhstan. In the last decade they
have gone through 11 managers.
This is the team then whose visit to the Aviva Stadium on Tuesday is
being greeted with so much trepidation.
Ireland need only a point to make the play-offs. Armenia need a win
because, incredibly, for the first time in the country’s football
history they have come within an ass’s roar of qualification.
And fair play to them for doing so. We know what it’s like to be the
minnows and we’d have a good idea of the excitement gripping the folk
of Yerevan, Gyumri and Kapan as they catch a glimpse of uncharted
territory for the first time.
But the stark truth is that it says a lot about the piss-poor standard
of European Championship qualifying Group B that Armenia are still in
there with a shot on the last day. And it says even more about the
good fortune that Ireland have enjoyed that we merely need a draw
against them to qualify after a campaign which saw us take three
points out of a possible 12 against our perceived main rivals,
Slovakia and Russia.
Before the competition began, you’d have imagined that such a haul
would have doomed us to irrelevance. What you wouldn’t have imagined
is that people would be worrying about our prospects of earning a draw
at home to Armenia, a ‘gimme’ if ever there was one under normal
circumstances.
If Ireland lose to the ancestral homeland of Cher, Charles Aznavour
and Kim Kardashian at the Aviva Stadium, it will be, given everything
that’s at stake, the most humiliating defeat in the history of soccer
in this country. By some distance. Because more than half of the team
we’ll be facing play their club football at a level which is roughly
equal to or lower than that of the League of Ireland.
Yet such is the pessimism surrounding Trapattoni’s team that Armenia
are being touted as a serious challenge to an Irish side which appears
to have an addiction to making life hard for itself. Chances are,
however, that we will clamber over the obstacle which is Armenia and
make the play-offs where the argument over whether Trap is saviour or
stooge will finally be resolved one way or the other. If all goes
well, we could get Montenegro; if our luck finally runs out, it might
be Croatia.
But first we need a draw against Armenia. A draw against Armenia for
God’s sake. You’ve heard of the Group of Death. Turns out we’ve been
playing in the Group of Life.
– Eamonn Sweeney
Trend, Azerbaijan
Oct 10 2011
MP: Hearings on Nagorno-Karabakh at OSCE PA strengthen Azerbaijan
position among member countries
10 October 2011, 00:24 (GMT+05:00) Azerbaijan, Baku, Oct. 9 / Trend M.Aliyev /
The hearings on Nagorno Karabakh conflict held at the OSCE
Parliamentary Assembly session have strengthened the just position of
Azerbaijan among the Assembly member states, a member of Azerbaijani
delegation to the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly, MP Azay Guliyev told
Trend Sunday by telephone from Croatia.
“Debate on Nagorno-Karabakh, held at the OSCE PA session can be viewed
as a victory of Azerbaijan in the information war. As a result of this
debate, OSCE PA Member States once again saw that Armenia is an
occupier” – Guliyev said.
Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh was discussed at
the Saturday session of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly in the
Croatian city of Dubrovnik.
According to the MP, for the first time open discussions on Nagorno
Karabakh have been held at the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly.
“The debate was objective and has fully disclosed the essence of the
Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. At the debate lasting more than three
hours, the French co-chair of the Minsk Group Bernard Fassier said in
his speech that Azerbaijani territories had been occupied, that
Nagorno-Karabakh is Azerbaijani territory, and that this territory is
controlled by Armenians who, in addition, occupy seven districts more.
Fassier’s speech was an open message that Armenia is an occupying
country”, Azay Guliyev said.
According to the MP, the most important aspect of the debate was that
the co-chairs presented in details the information on how to resolve
the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict and on its essence.
Guliyev believes the very holding of the debate is a success of the
Azerbaijani delegation. He said that the Azerbaijani side has worked
for a year to ensure that this debate take place. In particular,
special mention can be made of the efforts of Azerbaijani delegation
head, Azerbaijani Parliament’s Vice-Speaker Bahar Muradova, the MP
said.
“Co-chairs hesitated in the public debate and hearings on Nagorno
Karabakh. One of the co-chairs even did not want to attend it day
before the debate. However, after Azerbaijani delegation had insisted,
discussions were held that have fully revealed the essence of the
conflict”, said Guliyev.
According to him, Bahar Muradova’s speech on the conflict was welcomed
by Member States and addresses on this issue were made by
representatives of 25 countries. In their speeches, they pointed out
the truth of the Azerbaijan’s position. Among them were
representatives of Ukraine, Portugal, Austria, Italy, Kazakhstan,
Turkey and other countries.
The conflict between the two South Caucasus countries began in 1988
when Armenia made territorial claims against Azerbaijan. Armenian
armed forces have occupied 20 percent of Azerbaijan since 1992,
including the Nagorno-Karabakh region and 7 surrounding districts.
Azerbaijan and Armenia signed a ceasefire agreement in 1994. The
co-chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group – Russia, France, and the U.S. – are
currently holding the peace negotiations. Armenia has not yet
implemented the U.N. Security Council’s four resolutions on the
liberation of the Nagorno-Karabakh and the surrounding regions.
The delegation of Azerbaijan to the OSCE PA, in addition to Bahar
Muradova presented by chairmen of parliamentary committees Rabiyat
Aslanova, Eldar Ibrahimov, as well as MPs Fattah Heydarov, Agalar
Veliyev and Azay Guliyev.
Restaurant Blueprint for Kecharis Rejected As Is
hetq
13:55, October 7, 2011
The Ministry of Culture says that architectural blueprints for a
restaurant at the Kecharis Monastery have been rejected for review by
it experts since they have been found to be incomplete and not
preserving the architectural integrity of the site.
Sarkozy Won’t Complicate Relations with Russia During Georgia Visit: Opinion
10.04.2011 17:40 epress.am
French President Nicolas Sarkozy will be in Georgia as part of a
political tour and not specifically for Georgia, believes political
analyst Ramaz Sakvarelidze.
`Accordingly we must assume that it is necessary for him, as a
politician, to create an image that he can visit problematic regions
and resolve certain issue. As he did before,’ said Sakvarelidze.
According to the analyst, Sarkozy wants to show that not only is he
the president of France, but also that he may intervene in all issues
that arise in Europe’s environs.
`At the same time Sarkozy will not complicate relations with Russia.
It’s not in its interests. I don’t think that the issue of the
six-point agreement will be brought up again as a claim against
Russia. Many analysts believe that Sarkozy will talk about the need to
withdraw [Russian] troops [from Abkhazia and South Ossetia], but it
won’t be a statement in terms of claims and demands. That is, Sarkozy
will try to save the kebab as well as the skewer,’ he said, reports
Gruzya (`Georgia’) Online.
Interfax, Russia
Oct 8 2011
U.S.’ position on Nagorno-Karabakh remains unchanged – ambassador to Azerbaijan
BAKU. Oct 8
Neither the U.S. nor any other country have recognized
Nagorno-Karabakh’s independence, U.S. Ambassador to Azerbaijan Matthew
Bryza said.
In commenting to journalists on Saturday on State Senator of
California Joseph Simitian’s recent visit to Nagorno-Karabakh, Bryza
stressed that the United States and even Armenia have not recognized
Nagorno-Karabakh as an independent entity, and the U.S. policy in
relation to Azerbaijan, Armenia and the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict has
not changed.
State Senator Simitian’s trip to Nagorno-Karabakh was not planned as
part of his visit to Baku, Bryza said, adding that Simitian had not
asked his opinion of such a trip.
At the same time, the ambassador said it was his hope that Simitian’s
visit to the region would contribute to efforts the OSCE Minsk Group
is making toward settling the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.
The Azeri Foreign Ministry announced on Monday that it had declared
Simitian persona non grata for traveling to Nagorno-Karabakh without
Baku’s consent.
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