Author: Babajanian Karo

ZHOGHOVURD: ARMENIAN EMBASSY IN TEHRAN TAKES MEASURES TO LIFT EXPORT BAN ON SOME GOODS

Panorama.am
10:23 20/11/2012

Tehran banned the export of 52 goods to Armenia, Zhoghovurd daily
reminds.

“Since it is not known when our neighboring country will lift the
ban, Armenian government assigned the Foreign Ministry on November
6 to negotiate with Iran for solving this problem quickly,” the
paper writes.

Zhoghovurd asked Armenian Foreign Ministry in what phase the
negotiations are with Iran and what steps the Ministry is going to
take to solve this problem.

“In response to your inquiry, I say that the embassy of Armenia in
Tehran undertakes some measures which I am not going to make public,”
Armenian Foreign Ministry spokesman Tigran Balayan said.

WALLS OF A FORTIFIED CONSTRUCTION HAVE BEEN DISCOVERED IN THE ARCHEOLOGICAL SITES OF AGARAK

10:21, 20 November, 2012

YEREVAN, NOVEMBER 20, ARMENPRESS. There are great expectations from
the excavation of the archeological sites of Aragatsotn province
(marz) of Armenia. In a conversation with “Armenpress” the Director
of the Institute of Archeology and Ethnography of the National
Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Armenia, the Head of the Agarak
Expedition Group Pavel Avetisyan stated that the excavations are still
in progress. He said: “We have already discovered walls of a rather
fortified construction. Notwithstanding it’s soon to speak about the
character of the construction. We have excavated little statues and
remainings dating back to the Early Bronze Age and the Iron Age.”

The Director of the Institute of Archeology and Ethnography of the
National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Armenia, the Head
of the Agarak Expedition Group Pavel Avetisyan noted: “As per the
construction of the North-West Road we are also planning excavations
in other places nearby as well.”

The excavation of archeological sites of Agarak kicked off in 2001.

The results of the excavations show that this territory has
been inhabited in the third millennium B. C. This place was also
largely inhabited during the reign of the Artaxiad Dynasty and
Orontid(Yervanduni) Dynasty.

TURQUIE: REPRISE DU PROCES DE 44 JOURNALISTES PRO-KURDES

Publie le : 20-11-2012

Info Collectif VAN – – Le Collectif VAN vous
invite a lire ce Communique de presse des Reporters Sans Frontières
publie sur leur site le 13 novembre 2012.

Reporters Sans Frontières

Turquie

Reprise du procès de 44 journalistes pro-kurdes : les accuses ne
peuvent toujours pas s’exprimer

Le procès des 44 journalistes et collaborateurs des medias accuses de
liens avec l’Union des communautes du Kurdistan (KCK – proche du PKK)
a repris, après deux mois d’interruption, le 12 novembre 2012.

Reporters sans frontières, qui a assiste a l’audience devant la 15e
chambre de la cour d’Assises d’Istanbul, exige a nouveau la remise
en liberte conditionnelle des 34 representants de medias pro-kurdes
qui restent incarceres dans cette affaire depuis le 20 decembre 2011,
et la possibilite pour les prevenus d’avoir recours a des interprètes.

” Le droit a un procès equitable comprend celui de s’exprimer devant
les tribunaux dans sa propre langue, a rappele l’organisation.

L’article 6.3 de la Convention europeenne des droits de l’homme
prevoit explicitement que ‘chaque accuse a le droit de se faire
assister gratuitement d’un interprète, s’il ne comprend pas ou ne
parle pas la langue employee a l’audience’. En l’ignorant et en abusant
systematiquement de la detention provisoire, la Turquie viole une fois
de plus ses engagements internationaux. Ce refus ne peut que renforcer
la tension, a mille lieues de la necessaire serenite de la justice. ”

” Nous accueillons avec espoir le projet de loi depose par le parti au
pouvoir AKP, dans la nuit du 12 au 13 novembre, qui prevoit justement
la possibilite pour les prevenus de s’exprimer dans leur langue
maternelle. Mais, comme le demontre le procès KCK, il y a urgence
a inscrire cette disposition dans les faits “, a ajoute Reporters
sans frontières.

L’audience du 12 novembre a commence par l’appel et le contrôle
d’identite des accuses, auxquels ces derniers ont repondu : ” Az livir
im ” (” Present “, en kurde). Au moment du contrôle des adresses, les
journalistes Fatma Kocak, Nilgun Yildiz et Semiha Alankus ont refuse
de parler en turc et demande en kurde l’aide d’un traducteur. Le
president de la Cour, le juge Ali Alcik, ne les comprenant pas,
leur a demande de se rasseoir.

Il a ensuite refuse de donner la parole a l’accuse Kenan Kirkaya,
representant d’Ankara de l’agence de presse DIHA (Tigre), qui
souhaitait s’exprimer pour porter a l’attention du tribunal l’etat
de sante de ses confrères en grève de la faim. Les journalistes
et collaborateurs des medias pro-kurdes accuses de ” faire partie
du Comite des medias du KCK “, ont quitte la salle en signe de
protestation lorsque le juge a ordonne l’expulsion de Kenan Kirkaya,
estimant que ” les grèves de la faim sont hors sujet “. Le journaliste
a juste eu le temps de dire que la revendication des grevistes etait
le droit a l’usage de leur langue, le kurde, dans les tribunaux.

L’ensemble des 44 accuses dans ce dossier ont rejoint le mouvement ces
dernières semaines. Au moins trois d’entre eux seraient dans un etat
preoccupant. Reporters sans frontières reitère sa profonde inquietude
pour la sante et la vie de ces detenus, et appelle a nouveau toutes
les parties au dialogue afin d’eviter le pire.

Malgre la reforme du 5 juillet 2012, qui encourageait les magistrats a
adopter des mesures de contrôle alternatives a la detention provisoire,
34 collaborateurs de DIHA, Ozgur Gundem (Agenda libre), Azadiya Welat
(Pays libre), Demokrat Modernite (Modernite democratique), restent
emprisonnes depuis bientôt onze mois alors que leur procès ne fait
que commencer.

L’audience du 12 novembre s’est tenue en presence d’une delegation
du Parlement europeen comprenant la presidente de la delegation
parlementaire UE-Turquie, Helène Flautre, et le depute polonais
Jaroslaw Walesa, ainsi que des representants du Conseil de la presse
turc, Orhan Birgit et Turgut Kazan, des deputes du parti pro-kurde
BDP, et les representants locaux de Human Rights Watch et de Reporters
sans frontières.

Des avocats tels qu’Ercan Kanar et Rusen Mahmutoglu ont invite le
tribunal a se deposseder du dossier s’il ne parvenait pas a faire
avancer l’affaire. ” Vous ne parviendrez pas a etablir l’ordre dans
la salle d’audience par la force. Un procès ne peut pas se tenir sous
l’ombre des armes. Nos clients font grève [de la faim] pour defendre
leurs droits universels. Vous ne supportez meme pas de les ecouter.

Ils s’approchent de la mort mais aucun pas n’a ete fait par les
autorites “, a affirme Ercan Kanar.

Le juge Ali Alcik a cependant declare qu’il n’ecouterait personne et
qu’il serait procede a la lecture de l’acte d’accusation d’environ 800
pages. Une fois la salle videe, la lecture du document a effectivement
commence. Seuls sont restes presents a l’audience le reporter du
quotidien Vatan, Cagdas Ulus, et son avocat.

La lecture de l’acte d’accusation se poursuit aujourd’hui, 13
novembre 2012.

Lire les precedents communiques de Reporters sans frontières sur
cette affaire :

13.09.2012 – Procès de masse de journalistes : deux mois de plus en
prison, la justice a l’abri des regards

10.09.2012 – Quarante-quatre journalistes en procès : ” la
criminalisation du journalisme doit cesser ”

20.12.2011 – Nouvelle rafle dans l’affaire KCK : une quarantaine de
journalistes en garde a vue

Retrouver les recommandations de Reporters sans frontières dans le
rapport d’enquete : “Un livre n’est pas une bombe ! Medias et justice
en Turquie, entre mefiance et reflexes securitaires” (juin 2011)

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COMMUNIQUE DU DIOCESE DE FRANCE DE L’EGLISE APOSTOLIQUE ARMENIENNE
Stephane

armenews.com
20 novembre 2012

COMMUNIQUE

DU DIOCESE DE FRANCE

DE L’EGLISE APOSTOLIQUE ARMENIENNE

Paris, le 12 novembre 2012

Le Diocèse de France de l’Eglise Apostolique Armenienne tient a
informer la population de Nice et de sa region que la personne se
faisant appeler ” Père Sahag ” qui pretend celebrer des messes selon
le rite de l’Eglise Apostolique Armenienne est un imposteur.

Les messes qu’il officie et les sacrements (baptemes, mariages,
services funèbres …) qu’il delivre ne peuvent en aucun cas etre
consideres comme valables, et les familles y ayant eu recours,
certainement en toute innocence, doivent etre conscientes qu’elles
ne pourront se prevaloir de ces ceremonies pour justifier leur
appartenance a notre Sainte Eglise.

Le Diocèse rappelle egalement que notre Saint-Siège a retire a
” l’Association cultuelle de l’Eglise Apostolique Armenienne de
Nice-Côte d’Azur “, organisatrice de ces pretendues messes, le droit
de se recommander de l’Eglise Apostolique Armenienne et d’en utiliser
le nom et les attributs.

A cet egard, le communique de cette association en date du 9 novembre
2012, appelant a rencontrer un imposteur du titre d’archeveque est
une preuve supplementaire de l’usage de faux fait par cette pretendue
association cultuelle, visant a abuser les fidèles.

Enfin, le bâtiment de l’Eglise Sainte Marie ayant ete profane par
les ceremonies qui s’y sont deroulees au cours de ces derniers
mois, ne pourra retrouver ses fonctions originelles qu’après une
nouvelle ceremonie de consecration a notre Sainte Eglise Apostolique
Armenienne. Dans cette attente, nul ne peut y celebrer de facon
canoniquement valide de service religieux quelle qu’en soit la nature
y compris bien sûr l’ordination de diacre ou de pretre.

Nous invitons tous nos fidèles a prier a l’heure de la Divine liturgie
pour que notre Seigneur insuffle la foi aux brebis egarees et ramène
la paix au sein de notre Sainte Eglise.

Les personnes de la region de Nice desirant obtenir les services d’un
pretre de l’Eglise Apostolique Armenienne sont priees de s’adresser
au Père Krikor (06 10 10 32 65), pretre paroissial de la Paroisse
de l’Eglise Apostolique Armenienne des Alpes Maritimes, du Var et
de Monaco.

mardi 20 novembre 2012, Stephane ©armenews.com

ASEF HAJIYEV: “WE SENT AN INVITATION TO ARMENIA FOR ATTENDING THE MEETING IN BAKU, THIS IS SIMPLY THEIR ONE MORE GAME” – UPDATED

APA
Nov 19 2012
Azerbaijan

“They have nothing to say. What will they say in the country, whose
20 percent they have occupied?”

Baku. Malahat Najafova – APA. “According to the rule, the country
chairing the Parliamentary Assembly of the Organization of the Black
Sea Economic Cooperation sends invitations to every member. This
invitation was also sent to Armenia,” head of the Azerbaijani
delegation to PABSEC Asef Hajiev said while commenting on Armenia’s
claims that they are not invited to the meeting of the organization
in Azerbaijan on November 26, APA reports.

He said the Armenian side knows that the invitation was sent to them,
this is simply their one more game.

“This is not the first time they act so. We attended the meeting of
the organization in Armenia. We had our say. They have nothing to say.

What will they say in the country, whose 20 percent they have
occupied?”

The committees on law and culture will discuss “The role of states
and private sector in the development of the cities located in the
Black Sea basin”, “The role of parliament in the development of the
Black Sea countries” and “New reforms in social security sphere”
at the PABSEC meeting in Azerbaijan on November 26.

Speaker of the Armenian parliament Hovik Abrahamyan told the local
media that they hadn’t been invited to the 40th meeting of PABSEC
in Baku.

EUROPEAN UNION VS. EURASIAN UNION: IT’S UP TO ARMENIA TO DECIDE
Anna Nazaryan

“Radiolur”
18:17 20.11.2012

European Union or Eurasian Union? “Armenia has to decide itself
where its best interests are,” s Onno Simons, Deputy Head of the EU
Delegation to Armenia, said at a seminar in Yerevan titled “Towards
a common inter-institutional approach for EU-Armenia integration.”

Won’t the membership in the Eurasian Union be an obstacle on the way
of European integration?

“I think Armenia has time to think where its best interests are. I’m
sure Armenia will want to have certain relations with the Eurasian
Union, but I’m sure also that your Government should come as close
to the European Union as possible,” Onno Simons said.

Is it possible to be member of two clubs? “It depends on the clubs,”
the EU representative said. “Armenia is a CSTO member and has
good relations with NATO,” Onno Simons said, adding, however, that
“Armenia is a CSTO member, but it’s not a member of the North-Atlantic
Alliance.”

8 INSTANCES OF TRAFFICKING IN CHILDREN REGISTERED IN ARMENIA SINCE 2008

arminfo
Tuesday, November 20, 16:33

8 instances of trafficking in children have been registered in Armenia
since 2008, Coordinator of People In Need Czech NGO Tatevik Bezhanyan
told journalists on Tuesday.

She said that 6 girls and 5 boys were involved in the cases, with the
girls subjected to sexual violence and the boys forced to beg. “All
of the children were from poor families, the boys were from boarding
schools,” Bezhanyan said.

One of the cases was registered in Turkey, one more in Russia. All of
the cases have been investigated, 4 of them have already been closed,
with those guilty (pimps) sentenced to different terms in jail.

According to Bezhnyan, in Armenia a person accused of trafficking in
children can be sent to jail for 7-10 years.

SCIENCES GET BUDGETARY SHORT SHRIFT IN ARMENIA
Daniel Ioannisyan

hetq
13:52, November 20, 2012

There is some 11.545 billion AMD (22 million Euros) allocated to the
sciences in Armenia’s 2013 draft budget.

Armenia’s estimated GDP for next year is some 4.537 trillion AMD,
a slight rise over this year’s 4.136 trillion AMD. This year, 10.171
billion went to the sciences.

In terms of percentages, in 2012 sciences received .246% of GDP and
next year it will rise to .254%.

It’s usually accepted as a given that a country’s sciences sector is
in decent shape if it receives at least 1% of GDP.

If we do the math, it will take Armenia 94 years, or the year 2106,
to reach the 1% mark at the current rate of increase.

AZERBAIJAN PRESIDENT LASHES OUT AT ARMENIA – ON TWITTER
Sergey Guneev

RIA Novosti

MOSCOW, November 20 (Dan Peleschuk, RIA Novosti) – Heads of state
across the world have long since embraced Twitter as a means for
communication with the masses.

But few, it seems, have taken to it as voraciously as Azerbaijani
President Ilham Aliyev, who used the social network on Tuesday
to unleash a barrage of disparaging tweets against Armenia, the
predominantly Islamic country’s bitter rival.

“Armenia as a country is of no value,” Aliyev tweeted from his official
handle, @presidentaz. “It is actually a colony, an outpost run from
abroad, a territory artificially created on ancient Azerbaijani lands.”

He added that his country would “continue to expose Armenia’s
aggressive policy in all international organizations.”

The comments appeared at first to be aimed at domestic consumption.

The tweets were excerpts taken from a November 16 speech he gave at
a meeting of the ruling New Azerbaijan Party, which was celebrating
its 20th anniversary, according to Aliyev’s official website.

While Aliyev also hailed in the speech what he said was Azerbaijan’s
positive development, his multitude of comments on Armenia were the
first to be broadcast over Twitter.

“I have often talked about it, I want to say it again without fearing
anyone – our enemy is the Armenian lobby,” Aliyev added.

Armenia and Azerbaijan have been bitter enemies since the Russian
Civil War, in which inter-communal massacres by both sides took place
in Baku and elsewhere.

Their recent mutual enmity is rooted in a dispute over the breakaway
majority ethnic-Armenian republic of Nagorno-Karabakh, which declared
independence in 1992 but remains internationally recognized as part
of Azerbaijan.

The territory was the subject of a brutal war between the two countries
in the early 1990s that left more than 30,000 dead and drove out most
of the non-Armenian population. Both sides have regularly violated
the shaky 1994 ceasefire, with low-intensity border incidents and
sniper attacks now commonplace.

More recently, a military build-up in both Armenia and Azerbaijan
has led observers to fear another outbreak of large-scale violence
may be imminent.

“Azerbaijan grows stronger and more powerful by the year, while
Armenia weakens and declines every year,” Aliyev claimed on Tuesday.

As international powers have unsuccessfully sought a solution to
the frozen conflict – particularly in the form of the Minsk Group,
organized by the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe
(OSCE) – officials from both Armenia and Azerbaijan have continued
to trade barbs amid the heightened tension in recent months.

Recently, the Nagorno-Karabakh authorities threatened to re-open
an airport in the self-declared republic’s capital of Stepanakert,
attracting sharp criticism from Azerbaijani officials.

Aliyev’s latest tirade may reflect the worsening atmosphere.

“We will continue our efforts to isolate Armenia,” Aliyev said, his
Twitter page adorned in a blue sunburst and emblazoned with the motto
“We turn initiatives into reality!”

“This policy is working,” he added. “We see its results.”

Aliyev’s counterpart, Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan, does not
appear to have an official Twitter account.

THE U.S. NAVY AMIDST WAR AND REVOLUTION 1919-1923

ISBN/SKU: 978-1-61251-053-8
Binding: Hardcover
Era: WWI
Number of Pages: 392
Subject: History
Date Available: November 2012

Drawing heavily on previously unknown sources, Robert Shenk offers a
revealing portrait of America’s small Black Sea Fleet in the years
following World War I. Home-ported in Constantinople, navy ships sped
to the Crimea to help evacuate some 150,000 White Russians, and then
coordinated the grain shipments that ended a terrible Russian famine.

The fleet’s successes in evacuating nearly 200,000 ethnic Armenian and
Greek refugees from Smyrna and in rescuing tens of thousands from
mainland Turkey are also detailed in full. Shenk’s incisive depiction
of Admiral Mark Bristol as both head of U.S. naval forces and
America’s chief diplomat in the region-William Leahy, Thomas Kinkaid,
Julian Wheeler, and diplomat Allen Dulles served under him-help to
make this book the first-ever comprehensive account of a vital, but
little-known naval undertaking.

Robert Shenk, a widely published professor of English at the
University of New Orleans, is a retired captain in the U.S. Naval
Reserve. He lives in Mandeville, LA.

Advance Praise ~

“This book is an instant candidate for the CNO’s recommended reading
list! Robert Shenk’s well-crafted narrative depicting the extensive
yet nearly unknown U.S. Navy involvement the Black Sea region
following the World War I is textbook material for Service Schools and
universities here and abroad studying Military Operations Other than
War (MOOW). Given recent crises in the Balkans and the Middle East
having nationalistic and religious overtones, this book provides a
classic case study on the appropriateness of intervention. Shenk’s
compelling stories about naval operations in ‘peace time’ conditions
are timeless and serve to remind why naval forces are such a vital
component to national power.”

-David F. Winkler, author of Cold War at Sea: High-Seas Confrontation
Between the United States and the Soviet Union

“America’s Black Sea Fleet is most interesting, readable, and
impressively researched. It tells the story of a little known episode
of American naval history. It should appeal to both those interested
in naval history as well as those fascinated by Near Eastern history,
and even Russian history.”

-William N. Still Jr., author of American Sea Power in the Old World:
The United States Navy in European and Near Eastern Waters, 1865-1917

“America’s Black Sea Fleet will be a revelation to most who open its
pages. In the turbulent aftermath of the First World War, an American
admiral commanding a fleet composed mostly of destroyers is also de
facto ambassador to the dissolving Ottoman Empire. The exodus of
White Russians from the northern end of the Black Sea fills
Constantinople with aristocratic tea-room waitresses and princely
musicians and gardeners. From the point of view of American sailors
based there it is a fabulous party town. Meanwhile, though, huge
numbers of Armenians and Greeks meet horrendous fates as Turkish
forces insist they must disappear from Turkish soil. Anchored offshore
from Smyrna, American and other allied sailors watch as the city burns
and desperate women and children crowd the quay. While giving new
perspective on the still-contentious issue of Turkish treatment of
minority populations, Shenk raises questions about the role of
external power in local and regional conflicts. His clear style, eye
for telling detail, and meticulous research create a fascinating
narrative; he brings to life a time and place for which ‘colorful’ is
far too pale a word.”

-C. Herbert Gilliland, author of Voyage to a Thousand Cares