Author: Babajanian Karo

Leicester City target Armenian striker Yura Movsisyan

13:44 21.06.2014
Yura Movsisyan

England’s Leicester City have expressed an interest in Spartak Moscow
striker Yura Movsisyan, the Daily Mail reports.

The 26-year-old Armenian smashed 21 goals in 34 games for the Russian
giants last season and is attracting interest from clubs in England,
Germany and Italy.

Movsisyan has also been linked with West Brom and is available for around £7m.

‘I’ve heard there may be some interested teams in England and
Germany,” Movsisyan said earlier this month. ‘Let’s see if that is
serious or not.

‘I’ve proven I can score goals wherever I have played and I have been
lucky to do so again this year with Spartak.

‘It wasn’t the season that we wanted but we have a quality group. I’m
up for a challenge and always want to test myself against the best.

‘If an offer is made for me, I can’t control the outcome. Spartak know
my ambition and all parties need to be satisfied. Either way, I want
success on the field.’

Autriche
Erdogan irrite le Ministre des AE autrichien

Avant de se rendre en France, pour obtenir l’adhésion de la communauté
turque de France, en vue des prochaines présidentielles turques
(août), le premier ministre Erdogan, s’est attiré les récriminations
du ministre des Affaires étrangères Sebastian Kurz, 28 ans, le mettant
en garde de délivrer un message positif à sa communauté en l’appelant
“à apprendre l’allemand et être fidèle à l’Autriche.” Le 16 juin, le
site web du ministre autrichien avait été piraté par un groupe
s’auto-nommant Akincilar.

Le 19 juin, Erdogan a donc “modéré” ses propos devant 13000 de ses
partisans réunis dans un stade à Vienne, en profitant pour accuser
l’Europe de n’avoir rien fait quand le gouvernement militaire
égyptien, élu démocratiquement, a été renversé, et également contre
Bachar el Assad responsable de 200 000 morts exécutés “comme des
moutons”. Une Europe accusée de tous les maux pour sa non intervention
en Irak, restant “assise les bras croisés”.

Il a répété le leitmotiv selon lequel les turcs doivent s’intégrer,
mais ne pas s’assimiler.

6000 manifestants, turcs-alevis de gauche, turcs, kurdes et arméniens
ont scandé des slogans hostiles pendant le discours du premier
ministre turc.

samedi 21 juin 2014,
Jean Eckian (c)armenews.com

Armenian Church to celebrate the Feast of Holy Etchmiadzin on June 22nd

13:28 21.06.2014

This year, on June 22, the world-wide Armenian Apostolic Church and
Armenian nation, will celebrate the Feast of the Universal Church of
Holy Etchmiadzin. Divine Liturgy will be offered in the Mother
Cathedral of Holy Etchmiadzin, starting at 11:00 a.m.

The annual celebration commemorates the founding and establishment of
the mother cathedral of the Armenian people in 301 A.D.

Following the service, His Holiness Karekin II, Supreme Patriarch and
Catholicos of All Armenians will offer a Pontifical Prayer at the
Altar of Descent for the vibrancy and strength of the Mother See.

Another Armenian delegation expected to visit Azerbaijan – newspaper

June 21, 2014 | 07:58

YEREVAN. – The Armenian delegation to the NATO Parliamentary Assembly
has returned from the Azerbaijani capital cityBaku, where it
participated in the Rose-Roth Seminar, Haykakan Zhamanak daily
reported.

“And [, now,] the annual session of the Organization for Security and
Cooperation in Europe Parliamentary Assembly (OSCE PA) will be
convened from June 28 to July 2 in Baku, and the Armenian delegation
to the OSCE PA [likewise] is preparing to head for Baku to participate
in this session,” Haykakan Zhamanak wrote.

News from Armenia – NEWS.am

GEORGIA’S NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL TO CONSIDER POSSIBILITY OF DIRECT RAILWAY SERVICE WITH RUSSIA THROUGH ABKHAZIA

Friday, June 20, 09:58

Georgia’s National Security Council will consider the possibility of
a direct railway service with Russia through Abkhazia, the leader of
the majority of the Georgian Parliament Georgy Volsky told journalists
on Thursday.

Georgia-Online quotes him as saying that it is early yet to do
this as it first necessary to attain progress in Georgian-Abkhazian
settlement. “Here we should give priority to our national interests.

We can discuss this project but we should not hurry to make it true,”
Volsky said.

Earlier, on Wednesday, Georgia’s State Minister for Reconciliation
and Civil Equality Paata Zakareishvili commented on the statement by
Vladimir Yakunin who urged more specific efforts on opening of the
railway communication via Abkhazia and Georgia to Armenia.

Zakareishvili said that the issue is not discussed so far, though
it may become a subject for discussion in future between Georgia
and Russia, particularly, between Georgian Prime Minister’s Special
Representative for the relations with Russia Zurab Abashidze and
Deputy Foreign Minister of Russia Grigory Karasin.

According to the study “Rehabilitation of the railways in the South
Caucasus” issued by the International Alert British NGO, the potential
costs of rehabilitating the South Caucasus railways, in particular
the Sochi-Sukhum/i-Tbilisi-Yerevan railway, will totaled $277.5 mln,
which can be returned in 100 years no sooner.

Restoration of the 190km section Psou-Inguri will cost $251 million.

The Inguri-Zugdigi section will cost $26.5 million dollars. The section
from Zugdigi to Tbilisi and farther to Yerevan needs no repair. It
is noteworthy that Abkhazian experts estimate rehabilitation of the
railway at $350-$400 million. Meanwhile, Georgian experts claim that
the project will cost some $73 million.

SERZH SARGSYAN: ARMENIA SEEKS RESTORATION OF DIRECT RAILWAY COMMUNICATION BETWEEN GEORGIA AND RUSSIA VIA ABKHAZIA

by Marianna Lazarian

Friday, June 20, 10:55

Armenia seeks restoration of direct railway communication linking
Georgia and Russia via the territory of Abkhazia, but is no ‘serious
talk’ on that topic so far, Armenia’s President Serzh Sargsyan told
Rustavi-2 TV, Novosti-Gruzia reports. The Armenian president is on
an official visit to Georgia these days.

“However, we want that railway to function. It is of vital importance
for us,” Serzh Sargsyan said. Nevertheless, the president said,
opening of the railway does not depend on Armenia and Russia only. “It
depends also on other countries, therefore we are actively working on
the issue,” he said. Earlier, on Wednesday, Georgia’s State Minister
for Reconciliation and Civil Equality Paata Zakareishvili commented
on the statement by Vladimir Yakunin who urged more specific efforts
on opening of the railway communication via Abkhazia and Georgia to
Armenia. Zakareishvili said that the issue is not discussed so far,
though it may become a subject for discussion in future between
Georgia and Russia, particularly, between Georgian Prime Minister’s
Special Representative for the relations with Russia Zurab Abashidze
and Deputy Foreign Minister of Russia Grigory Karasin.

According to the study “Rehabilitation of the railways in the South
Caucasus” issued by the International Alert British NGO, the potential
costs of rehabilitating the South Caucasus railways, in particular
the Sochi-Sukhum/i-Tbilisi-Yerevan railway, will totaled $277.5 mln,
which can be returned in 100 years no sooner.

Restoration of the 190km section Psou-Inguri will cost $251 million.

The Inguri-Zugdigi section will cost $26.5 million dollars. The section
from Zugdigi to Tbilisi and farther to Yerevan needs no repair. It
is noteworthy that Abkhazian experts estimate rehabilitation of the
railway at $350-$400 million. Meanwhile, Georgian experts claim that
the project will cost some $73 million.

AZERBAIJANI DEPUTIES REFUSE TO PARTICIPATE IN NATO SEMINAR IN YEREVAN

by Nana Martirosyan

Friday, June 20, 09:56

During the three days of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly’s 84th
Rose-Roth seminar in Baku the participants in the seminar were tired
of the Azerbaijani demagogy representing Armenia as an “aggressor”,
the head of the Armenian delegation to the NATO PA Koryun Nahapetyan
told journalists today.

He also added that the provocation of the Azerbaijani delegates was
accompanied during the three days of the seminar. “Representatives
of international organizations did not take part in the discussions
because of the Azerbaijani delegation, which was inadequate and
childish. At the same time, we made them understand that not Armenia
but Azerbaijan is an aggressor as it unleashed the war against the
people of Nagornyy Karabakh and lost as a result of its aggression”,
– he said.

Nahapetyan said that next year the Rose Roth seminar will be held in
Yerevan, and the Azerbaijani delegation refused to take part in it,
as “there are no relevant conditions in Armenia”. “It is clear, that
they are not interested in participation, but I am sure that time
will show how reasonable their solution was “, – Nahapetyan emphasized.

ARMENIAN PRESIDENT’S “COMPLIMENT” TO TURKISH COUNTERPART AND ITS IMPLICATIONS

12:19 â~@¢ 20.06.14

“Turkish President Abdullah Gul is a broad-minded person, who is well
aware of his state’s real interests.”

The aforecited statement Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan addressed
to Turkey’s president during the Interview program on the Public
Television of Armenia has largely been interpreted and discussed as a
“compliment” by official Yerevan, Mihran Hakobyan, lecturer at Yerevan
State University, told Tert.am.

Hardly anyone noticed serious implications in that simple sentence.

Moreover, that statement was addressed to Turkish Premier Recep
Erdogan in a negative sense rather than to President Abdullah Gul in
a positive sense.

“[He] is well aware of his state’s real interests.” This is what
Armenia’s president says of his Turkish counterpart. But focus your
attention on the word “real.”

What are the real interests the Erdogan camp is unaware of? The
establishment of relations of a new quality with neighbors, and the
development of a policy of open borders and civilized discussions.

Finally, the implementation of the “zero problems with neighbors”
fundamental program authored by Turkish FM Ahmet Davutoglu, which
program was frustrated by the Erdogan cabinet.

Erdogan’s policy of preconditions is known to have played a key role
in the freezing of Armenia-Turkey rapprochement process (much has been
talked about it). And that very fact was signaled by President Serzh
Sargsyan in his interview, which, regrettably, has not correctly been
perceived by many.

It should also be remembered that that was not the first such statement
Armenia’s leader addressed to his Turkish counterpart. In his statement
on the frozen ratification of the Armenian-Turkish protocols, Armenia’s
president expressed special thanks to President Abdullah Gul for
his constructive position, with implied criticism of Premier Recep
Erdogan’s destructive approaches. Time will show the real aims of that
step. One thing is clear: before April 24, 2015, official Yerevan will
be making new steps, and the first signs of such steps can now be seen.

Armenian News – Tert.am

ESTEGHLAL SIGNS ARMENIA DEFENDER MKOYAN

Sport Desk

On Line: 16 June 2014 14:31
In Print: Tuesday 17 June 2014

TEHRAN – Esteghlal announced the signing of international Armenia
defender Hrayr Hovhannesi Mkoyan on Monday.

The 27-year-old defender has joined Esteghlal on a two-year contract.

Mkoyan will undergo the medical exam on Tuesday, according to Esteghlal
FC site.

The popular Iranian football team finished in fifth place in domestic
league in the last season.

Sepahan midfielder Omid Ebrahimi, Tractor Sazi winger Milad Fakhreddini
and Sajjad Shahbazzadeh from Saipa have already joined the Iranian
football giant.

MH

AZERBAIJANI AND RUSSIAN FMS DISCUSS NAGORNO-KARABAKH CONFLICT SETTLEMENT

APA, Azerbaijan
June 18 2014

“The relations between Azerbaijan and Russia are of strategic
importance. Our economic relations are developing rapidly,” Azerbaijani
Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov said at the press conference
following the meeting with his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov in
Baku, APA reports.

Mammadyarov said that they discussed ways to deepen the cooperation,
as well as the settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict: “Russia
is a co-chair country of the OSCE Minsk Group. The status quo is
unacceptable and we discussed ways to move the issue off deadlock.”

Elmar Mammadyarov noted that parliamentary diplomacy between
the two countries is also important, Speaker of the Azerbaijani
Parliament Ogtay Asadov has recently visited Russia and the Russian
parliamentarians will visit Azerbaijan in the near future.

Elmar Mammadyarov said that they also discussed what is happening
in the Middle East and Ukraine; Lavrov conveyed Russia’s position
regarding Ukraine.