Author: Babajanian Karo

ARMENIAN BOY’S DEAD BODY FOUND IN WATER CANAL

July 03, 2013 | 17:00

The dead body of Narek Hovsepyan, 14, was removed Wednesday from the
Talin water canal at Baghramyan District of Armenia’s Armavir Region

Armenian News-NEWS.am learned the aforesaid from Armavir Police
Department.

According to preliminary information, the boy had gone to swim with
his friends but drowned.

Narek was a resident of Argina village of Armavir Region.

Police General Investigation Department is preparing a report on
the incident.

News from Armenia – NEWS.am

LITTLE ARTYOM NEEDS YOUR FINANCIAL HELP! -VIDEO

13:27, July 3, 2013

Two and a half year-old Artyom Hovhannisyan, suffering from a heart
ailment, desperately needs your financial help to undergo a life-saving
medical operation.

Little Artyom’s parents have called on all concerned Armenians to
contribute in order to defray the enormous cost of the operation at
the Berlin Heart Clinic.

The parents can be reached at +37455/ 45-44-50:

Financial donations can be made to the following AmeriaBank accounts:

For USD-payments

INTERMEDIARY: CITIBANK NA, NEW YORK

SWIFT: CITIUS33

BENEFICIARY’S: AMERIABANK, YEREVAN

SWIFT: ARMIAM22

ACCOUNT 1570015799760101

EDIK HOVHANNISYAN

For EUR-payments

INTERMEDIARY: COMMERZBANK AG, FRANKFURT

SWIFT: COBADEFF

BENEFICIARY’S: AMERIABANK, YEREVAN

SWIFT: ARMIAM22

ACCOUNT 1570015799760146

EDIK HOVHANNISYAN

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GIRO MANOYAN: TURKEY EVENTS COULD MARK THE START OF ERDOGAN’S DOWNFALL

16:02 03/07/2013 ” TOPIC OF THE DAY

The Turkish Summer has nothing to do with the Arab Springs, Giro
Manoyan, Director of the ARF bureau’s Hay Dat and political affairs
office, told a discussion at the Caucasus Institute.

“There can be some similarity, but there are a lot of differences,”
he added.

Turkey’s protests were mostly directed against Prime Minister Erdogan,
who made a great influence on the entire country during the past ten
years, according to Manoyan.

The Turkey events, particularly the use of force against protesters,
can affect Turkey’s position on the international arena, including
its relations with the European Union, Manoyan said.

“If Erdogan continues acting the same way, the Turkey events could mark
the start of his downfall,” Manoyan said, adding that some changes
could take place inside the party headed by Erdogan, resulting in
the weakening of his positions.

CYPRIOT OFFICIAL RULES OUT ARMENIAN PM’S EXPLANATION REGARDING OFFSHORE COMPANY REGISTRATION

NEWS | 02.07.13 | 09:06

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Cypriot Attorney General Petros Clerides on Monday called in question
Armenian Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan’s assurances that he has
no ties to a Cyprus-registered company that was allegedly used for
defrauding an Armenian businessman.

In connection with the ongoing “offshore scandal” in Armenia, RFE/RL’s
Armenian Service asked the Attorney General of Cyprus Petros Clerides
if a shareholder of an offshore company could be registered in Cyprus
without the shareholder’s knowledge.

After the publication by Hetq.am of an article alleging that
businessman Ashot Sukiasyan cheated Hayastan department store owner
Paylak Hayrapetyan out of his money via a Cyprus-based offshore company
whose co-founders are also the Armenian prime minister and the Primate
of the Ararat Diocese of the Armenian Apostolic Church Navasard
Kchoyan, Prime Minister Sragsyan denied any links to the company,
insisting that his registration as one of its shareholders was without
his knowledge. He asked the Armenian Prosecutor-General’s Office to
look into the matter and establish who did that on his behalf.

In response to the question, Mr. Clerides said: “I spoke to Armenia’s
Prosecutor General. He informed me about the issue… This is the
first time I hear about it. He promised to submit all the necessary
documents to me before I leave Armenia. I pledged to take immediate
steps and provide a reply.”

Asked if it is possible to register anyone as a shareholder of
an offshore company without that person’s permission, the Cypriot
official said: “No. But I wouldn’t like to go into detail before
studying the documents.”

Asked if his answer means that registration is definitely impossible
without permission, Clerides replied: “It is impossible, if, of course,
he did not act through a proxy or in a similar way.”

FOREIGN COMPANY BRANCHES IN ARMENIA SHOULD MAKE THEIR RULES CONFORM TO COUNTRY’S LAWS – EXPERT

July 02, 2013 | 01:06

YEREVAN. – The foreign company branches and organizations that
function in Armenia should make their corporate rules conform to the
laws in Armenia.

Corporate law specialist Artak Garoyan told the aforementioned to
Armenian News-NEWS.am.

“I have come across cases when a foreign company has imposed its
working rules upon its branch in Armenia. [But] work is regulated
differently in Armenia.

“As case in point, there exists a maximum working week concept here
[in Armenia]. There are clear limitations in the case of additional
work, too.

“The [Armenia] branch [of a foreign company] is considered an Armenian
company, [and] therefore it must comply with the laws of Armenia,”
Garoyan noted.

News from Armenia – NEWS.am

ROBERT KOCHARYAN HAS BEEN REELECTED

The Hraparak reports that during the annual meeting of Sistema AFK
Holding on Sunday, the new board of the company was formed. Robert
Kocharyan, former president of Armenia, has also been reelected. The
board of directors is composed of 13 people. Head of Anti-Corruption
NGO Garnik Margaryan stated that the involvement of one of Armenian
officials in AFK Sistema Company is 600 million USD, the newspaper
notes.

10:35 02/07/2013 Story from Lragir.am News:

ARMENIAN GENOCIDE OPENED THE LIST OF CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY, UKRAINIAN POLITICAL SCIENTIST SAYS

15:07 01.07.2013
Armenian Genocide, Ukraine

All mankind and every country is obliged to remember about the genocide
of Armenians and the tragedies that followed, Ukrainian political
scientist Mikhail Belitsky said in comments to Analitika.at.ua.

~SThe genocide of Armenians opened the list of mass crimes against
humanity committed in the 20thcentury and served as an example. All
humanity and every country should remember about the genocide and the
mass tragedies that followed it in order to prevent their reoccurrence
in the future,~T Belitsky said..

According to the political scientist, by passing a bill recognizing
the Armenian Genocide, Ukraine would express respect for the memory of
the victims and would make its contribution to restoring of historic
justice.

The bill on the Armenian Genocide of 1915-1922 perpetrated at the
hands of the Ottoman Empire was introduced in the Ukrainian Supreme
Rada. The document has been authored by member of the Batkivshchyna
Party Arsen Avakov, members of the Party of Regions Vilen Shatvoryan
and Never Mkhitaryan.

LA POLICE TURQUE TIRE DU GAZ LACRYMOGÈNE SUR DES MANIFESTANTS KURDES

(AFP) – La police antiemeute turque a fait usage dimanche de gaz
lacrymogène et de canons a eau pour disperser des milliers de personnes
qui manifestaient dans le sud-est de la Turquie pour les droits des
Kurdes, selon des journalistes.

Ils etaient environ 8.000 a s’etre rassembles devant le bâtiment
abritant le Parti de la Paix et de la Democratie (BDP), favorable a
la cause kurde, a Diyarbakir, au premier jour du mouvement baptise
“Gouvernement, prends une mesure”, qui vise a faire pression sur les
autorites en vue d’obtenir des progrès dans le processus de paix avec
les Kurdes.

Un groupe de manifestants masques a jete des pierres sur la police,
qui avait refuse d’autoriser la manifestation, et les policiers ont
replique a coups de gaz lacrymogène et avec des canons a eau.

Quatre personnes, dont un journaliste, ont ete blessees dans ces
heurts qui se poursuivaient en debut de soiree dans plusieurs rues
de Diyarbakir, ville situee dans une region où la population est en
majorite kurde.

Le BDP a annonce dimanche qu’il organiserait de tels mouvements dans
toute la Turquie afin de contraindre le gouvernement a mettre en
oeuvre des reformes destinees a permettre le règlement du conflit
vieux d’une trentaine d’annees avec les separatistes kurdes en Turquie.

Le chef des rebelles kurdes de Turquie, Abdullah Ocalan, qui purge
une peine de prison a vie sur l’île-prison d’Imrali (nord-ouest),
a annonce mardi le debut d’une deuxième etape dans le processus de
paix engage avec Ankara, après la fin prochaine du retrait de ses
combattants kurdes du territoire turc.

Les rebelles armes du Parti des travailleurs du Kurdistan (PKK)
ont commence a se retirer le mois dernier vers leurs bases du nord
de l’Irak, première etape de l’accord passe entre le chef rebelle et
Ankara pour un règlement au conflit kurde qui a coûte la vie a plus
de 40.000 personnes depuis 1984.

Selon les medias turcs, le retrait de ces combattants touche a sa fin.

Dans la deuxième etape, le gouvernement islamo-conservateur turc
doit faire les reformes necessaires pour accroître les droits de la
communaute kurde, qui constituerait entre 12 et 15 millions des 76
millions d’habitants de la Turquie.

mardi 2 juillet 2013, Stephane ©armenews.com

LA SOCIETE SPAYKA ETABLIT UN NOUVEAU STOCKAGE FRIGORIFIQUE D’UNE CAPACITE DE 1000 TONNES

La compagnie de fret Spayka a lance un nouveau stockage frigorifique
d’une capacite de 1000 tonnes a declare Karen Baghdasaryan, le
coordinateur des projets de la societe aux journalistes.

Un incendie a eclate dans le bâtiment de Spayka le 16 mai et a detruit
le plus grand stockage frigorifique dans la region de 15000 mètres
carres. Aucun des 250 employes de l’entreprise n’avait ete blesse.

” Hier, nous avons etabli un nouveau stockage frigorifique et 12
jours plus tard, nous envisageons de lancer un autre complexe avec
la meme capacite. Ainsi, nous parviendrons a resoudre les problèmes
lies aux achats ” a precise Karen Baghdasaryan.

Actuellement, la societe est en negociation avec les agriculteurs
sur l’achat de fruits et legumes.

mardi 2 juillet 2013, Stephane ©armenews.com

SOAR SEEKS SPONSORSHIP FOR VAGHINAK BAYBOURTYAN

SOCIETY FOR ORPHANED ARMENIAN RELIEF (SOAR)
1060 First Avenue, Suite 400, King of Prussia, PA 19406
Office: 610.213.3452 Fax: 610.229.5168
Email: [email protected] Web:

The Our Lady of Armenia (OLA) Center is a private orphanage in Gyumri
housing mostly girls between the ages of six and 18. The Center is
operated by the Armenian Sisters of the Immaculate Conception, a
religious order of nuns established in 1847. The Director of OLA is
Sr. Arousiag Sajonian.

The Sponsorship Program is the primary mechanism through which SOAR
provides support to specific orphaned Armenians. We are seeking
sponsorship funds ($600/year) that will be used entirely and
exclusively for Vaghinak Baybourtyan (picture and profile below).

Vaghinak Baybourtyan

Name: Vaghinak Baybourtyan

Facility: Our Lady of Armenia Center Center

Gender: Male

DOB: September 12, 2002

Father’s name/Occupation: Artoush/Deceased

Mother’s name/Occupation: Alina/Unemployed

Sibling(s): One brother

Family history: Vaghik’s father passed away in 2006, and he
has attended OLA since April 2009. Vaghik has one older brother, who
lives with a paternal uncle. The mother is unable to provide for the
needs of the children.

Health history and current medical conditions: Vaghik is a healthy child.

Special interests, talents, and hobbies: Vaghik is an intelligent
child. He plays chess and is fond of painting. Sponsorship funds
would be used to cultivate these interests.

We offer two types of sponsorships: a Full Sponsorship ar $600/yr.

($50/mo. payment plan available) or a Special Occasion Package ($150
annually). If you would like to sponsor Vaghinak, please contact
George S. Yacoubian, Jr., at [email protected] or select Vaghinak
through the Sponsorship Program.

Thank you in advance for your support!

The Society for Orphaned Armenian Relief (SOAR) is a 501(c)(3)
nonprofit organization dedicated to providing humanitarian relief to
orphaned Armenian children and adults. Working with a loyal donor base
and a trusted network of partners, SOAR distributes clothing,
educational supplies, medicine, and other essential resources to
orphaned Armenians throughout the world.

SOAR Seeks Sponsorship for Vaghinak Baybourtyan

The Our Lady of Armenia (OLA) Center is a private orphanage in Gyumri
housing mostly girls between the ages of six and 18. The Center is
operated by the Armenian Sisters of the Immaculate Conception, a
religious order of nuns established in 1847. The Director of OLA is
Sr. Arousiag Sajonian.

The Sponsorship Program is the primary mechanism through which SOAR
provides support to specific orphaned Armenians. We are seeking
sponsorship funds ($600/year) that will be used entirely and
exclusively for Vaghinak Baybourtyan (picture and profile below).

Vaghinak Baybourtyan

Name: Vaghinak Baybourtyan

Facility: Our Lady of Armenia Center Center

Gender: Male

DOB: September 12, 2002

Father’s name/Occupation: Artoush/Deceased

Mother’s name/Occupation: Alina/Unemployed

Sibling(s): One brother

Family history: Vaghik’s father passed away in 2006, and he
has attended OLA since April 2009. Vaghik has one older brother, who
lives with a paternal uncle. The mother is unable to provide for the
needs of the children.

Health history and current medical conditions: Vaghik is a healthy child.

Special interests, talents, and hobbies: Vaghik is an intelligent
child. He plays chess and is fond of painting. Sponsorship funds
would be used to cultivate these interests.

We offer two types of sponsorships: a Full Sponsorship ar $600/yr.

($50/mo. payment plan available) or a Special Occasion Package ($150
annually). If you would like to sponsor Vaghinak, please contact
George S. Yacoubian, Jr., at [email protected] or select Vaghinak
through the Sponsorship Program.

Thank you in advance for your support!

The Society for Orphaned Armenian Relief (SOAR) is a 501(c)(3)
nonprofit organization dedicated to providing humanitarian relief to
orphaned Armenian children and adults. Working with a loyal donor base
and a trusted network of partners, SOAR distributes clothing,
educational supplies, medicine, and other essential resources to
orphaned Armenians throughout the world.