Author: Babajanian Karo

4-YEAR-OLD LOUSINE FREELY PASSES THROUGH THE GAPS ON THE HOUSE WALLS

Monday, 05 November 2012 19:24

The large family of dependent children will meet the winter with a
roof in holes, cracked walls and an empty and cold stove.

The Haroutyunyans’ family of 9 members in Kherkhan village, Martouni
region, lives in an extreme poverty.

It is several years after her husband’s death since 40-year-old
Sousanna Haroutyunyan has brought up her 6 under-age children alone.

There is a draught in every corner of the small cottage of two rooms
where it is pleasant only in summer. The house is in an extremely poor
state, its upper covering can hardly be called a roof, the gaps on the
walls are so wide that 4-year-old Lousine freely passes through them.

One needs to be courageous enough to walk on the floor of the house as
the decks may break or crush under feet. The windows of the cave-like
room that is black with smoke have only a few panes of glass. The
whole property in the room is the two beds, the half-broken shelf,
the table with two chairs round it.

Because of the poor housing conditions Sousanna Haroutyunyan’s
4 children are now in Stepanakert Children’s Care and Protection
Boarding School. Mother confesses that she is greatly worried about
the absence of her children. I wish my children lived with me but for
that we need a suitable apartment. I am not able to build a house by
myself because the only income of our family is my parents’ monthly
pension of 80 thousand drams which is not sufficient even for food,”
says the mother of the dependent children and adds that they applied
for help to different bodies including the regional administration
and the government, the representatives of the Social Welfare Ministry
also familiarized themselves with the existing conditions but so far
there has been no response to her requests and applications.

The poorest family of Kherkhan village will soon undergo new
privations: winter is at the door and they have neither firewood nor
the money to get it.

Hakob Avanesyan, a student.

A MILITARY COLLEGE WILL BE BUILT IN ARTSAKH

Wednesday, 07 November 2012 10:50

The programme of founding a military college after Souvorov
and Madatov within the framework of the arrangements aimed at
the security of Artsakh has already commenced. The preparatory
activities are systematized by legendary Komandos, General-Mayor
Arkadi Ter-Tadevosyan.

As he assures the idea of opening a military college belongs to
philanthropist Levon Hayrapetyan who assumed the sponsorship of
the project.

The learners of the college will get military education from the
school age. There exist such colleges in Russia as well as in France
and in the USA. “Today we aim to adopt this foreign experience. The
working group has already been created,” Komandos said and added
that the protection of Artsakh and Armenia is the sacred duty of the
Armenians all over the world. Thus, he attached a great importance
to the participation of the Armenian Diaspora in this initiative.

The military college after Souvorov and Madatov will conform to the
modern international standards. According to the project apart from
the hostel and the military building the college will also have a great
hall of festivities, a football sportsground with seats for spectators,
rings for boxing and wrestling, volleyball and basketball grounds,
a tennis platform as well as an orchard and a flower garden.

The opening of the military college not far from Gandzasar is only part
of the comprehensive programme implemented by a group of influential
Diaspora Armenians aimed at uniting the different layers of the
Armenian nation round the idea of protection of our Motherland.

The other steps of this programme are still in secret.

500TH ANNIVERSARY OF FIRST ARMENIAN PRINTED BOOK TO BE CELEBRATED IN TURKEY WITH A RANGE OF EVENTS

YEREVAN, NOVEMBER 9, ARMENPRESS: 500th anniversary of First Armenian
Printed Book will be celebrated with a range of events in Turkey. As
Armenian Patriarchate of Constantinople informed Armenpress, cultural
celebrations dedicated to 500th anniversary of First Armenian Printed
Book are in progress. Lectures, exhibitions covering various activities
of the printing are scheduled in the frame of the celebrations.

“Community schools do not abstain and in their turn embarking various
measures to celebrate 500th anniversary of First Armenian Printed Book
in a proper way” Armenian Patriarchate of Constantinople announces .

Armenian printing houses have been established in Smyrna, Armash,
Van, Mush, Bursa, Adana, Adrianople, Adabazar, Nikomediaya , Samsun,
Karin, Yerznka, Yevdokiya, Kharberd, Marzva, Ayntap and elsewhere.

Printing houses established in Armenian populated cities in Western
Armenia and Ottoman Empire ceased to operate in the years of Armenian
Genocide. Hundreds of printing houses, libraries were destroyed;
thousands of Armenian books were burnt down in the course of those
years.

By 1800 over 350 Armenian books were published in Constantinople.

ARMENIA’S PRESIDENT CONCERNED OVER BELLICOSE RHETORIC. WSJ EXCLUSIVE

YEREVAN, NOVEMBER 9, ARMENPRESS: Armenia’s president is increasingly
concerned about what he sees as neighboring Azerbaijan’s willingness
to engage in armed conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh region, he said
in an interview, warning that Armenian forces would deliver a
disproportionate blow should conflict erupt between the neighbors,
Armenpress reports citing to The Wall Street Journal. According to WSJ,
President Sargsyan said Armenia’s government would continue to push
for a negotiated settlement to the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, which
has simmered for nearly two decades since the collapse of the Soviet
Union. But he also tapped the rising tensions in one of the world’s
key energy corridors. “Unfortunately, I believe Azerbaijan is waiting
for an occasion to start a conflict,” President Sargsyan said Thursday.

“I am confident such a mistake would harm the people of
Nagorno-Karabakh and Armenia but that most harm would come to the
people of Azerbaijan~E.We won’t stand aside when the population of
Nagorno-Karabakh is going to be destroyed.”

“What is the reason for establishing such a xenophobic atmosphere and
hatred against Armenians in Azerbaijan?” President Sargsyan said. “It
is easier to create such an atmosphere, to encourage hate speech,
rather than deal with the consequences of that atmosphere and turn
the tide back.”

President Sargsyan also said that the prospect of a military strike
against Iran, with which Armenia shares a border, was an issue of
“extreme concern” which could set off a sequence of events that could
also trigger a conflict between Yerevan and Baku. He said deeper
international engagement in the region was vital to help reduce
tensions between Azerbaijan and Armenia. “If we had been living in an
isolated region where there was no international impact, war would
have already begun,” he said. The Armenian president also said that
his government was pushing forward to tackle rampant corruption and
that Armenia’s economy had posted a 7% expansion in the year through
September. That signals Armenia’s emergence from an economic crisis
that saw remittances from its large diaspora tumble.

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LE MINISTRE DE LA SANTE ORDONNE D’EXAMINER LES EXTORSIONS D’ARGENT DANS LES MATERNITES
Stephane

armenews.com
vendredi 9 novembre 2012

Le ministre de la Sante Derenik Dumanyan a ordonne a ses subalternes
d’examiner les informations concernant des extorsions illegales
d’argent dans les maternites.

” Chaque annee le gouvernement depense plus de six milliards de
drams dans le cadre d’un programme de certificats d’accouchement
du gouvernement, mais cette initiative importante du president,
concu pour stimuler le taux de natalite, est eclipse par l’extorsion
illegale d’argent dans nos hôpitaux ” a declare Derenik Dumanian.

Derenik Dumanian a charge les experts du ministère de mettre a jour
ces faits illegaux.

vendredi 9 novembre 2012, Stephane ©armenews.com

IRAN, ARMENIA START BUILDING JOINT HYDRO-ELECTRIC POWER PLANT

Press TV
Nov 8 2012
Iran

Iran and Armenia have started the construction of a joint
hydro-electric power plant (HPP) on the Aras River, which borders
the two countries.

The construction of the plant started on Wednesday in a ceremony
attended by Armenian President Serzh Sarksyan and Iran’s Energy
Minister Majid Namjou.

With the completion of the project, some 1,700 megawatts of electricity
will be generated annually for domestic production in Iran, said
managing director of East Azarbaijan Regional Water Company, Arsalan
Hashemi.

According to Hashemi, the HPP has the capacity to produce 260 megawatts
and includes two 130-megawatt plants, one in Iran and the other one
in Armenia.

The project is financed with USD 560 and 500 million in credits
respectively from Armenia and Iran.

Iran and Armenia agreed to build the joint plant during Namjou’s
one-day trip to Armenia in June.

The plant is being constructed simultaneously in Armenia’s Meghri
and Iran’s Qarachilar regions.

AR/HJL/MA

SERZH SARGSYAN ATTENDED THE LAUNCH OF MEGHRI HYDRO PLANT

Mediamax
Nov 8 2012
Armenia

Yerevan/Mediamax/. Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan attended the
ceremony of laying the memorial capsule of Meghri hydro plant today.

The hydro plant will be built on the basis of the agreements on setting
up and operating hydro power plants on border river of Araks signed
between Armenia and Iran.

Construction of “Meghri” hydro power plant will finished within
5 years.

The launch ceremony was held by Ministers of Energy of Armenia and
Iran Armen Movsisyan and Majid Namju.

Majid Namju assured during his meeting with Serzh Sargsyan that they
will continue the active work on implementing joint programs in the
energy and other sectors with Armenian Minister of Energy.

MUSIC, MIDDLE EAST STUDIES BRING GUEST ARTIST, SCHOLAR TO CAMPUS

University of Arkansas
Nov 7 2012

Renowned international pianist Ayse Taspinar will perform a solo
recital of her repertoire of Ottoman classical music as well as
some well-known Western composers at 8 p.m. on Sunday, Nov. 11, in
Giffels Auditorium. She will also present a lecture on Rediscovering
the Shared Cultural Heritage of Armenians and Turks Through Music at
12:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 13, in Old Main, room 208. Both events
are free and open to the public.

Her concert will feature a number works by composers such as Komitas
Vardapet, Dikran Tchoudhadjian and Ahmed A. Saygun, along with Franz
Liszt and E. R. Blanchet.

“I like to play well-known Western composers such as Franz Liszt with
unknown pieces like Emile Robert Blanchet’s Turquie,’ which captures
the mysticism of Turkish culture,” said Taspinar, “I also want to
introduce music-lovers to the rich cultural mosaic of the Ottoman
Empire, and to composers and musicians of different ethnic groups.”

The concert is sponsored by the department of music, as part of the
Fulbright College Piano Performance Program, in partnership with the
King Fahd Center for Middle East Studies.

Taspinar has performed throughout Europe, North and South America,
and the Middle East, for the presidents of Macedonia and Turkey and
as part of the delegation honoring the 75th anniversary of the Turkish
Republic in Washington, D.C.

Taspinar is a graduate of the Bilkent University in Turkey,
Conservatorio di Roma, the Giuseppe Verdi Conservatorio di Milano
and Indiana University. She has recently received a doctorate of
musical arts from the University of California, Los Angeles, where she
completed a thesis. Her academic work is part of her broader musical
exploration of the synthesis of Western and Middle Eastern classical
music traditions in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, especially
the compositions and collaborative efforts of Turkish and Armenian
composers who incorporated local folk melodies into their work.

ONLY A FEW KNOW THAT ARMENIA PRODUCES 8,000 TYPES OF WINE

news.am
November 07, 2012 | 15:39

YEREVAN.- Armenia is producing about 8,000 types of wine but is
usually reported only about several types, chairman of Areni wine
festival said.

Speaking on the occasion of wine festival in Armenia, Nune Manukyan
said insufficient promotion of the Armenian wine prevents its spreading
even in Armenia.

One of the key problems is certification of wines, said expert from
the National Institute of Standards Karo Hakobyan. “Only 2-3 wine and
brandy producers have ISO certification,” he added. Certification is
very important for exports and quality of the products.

The only agency responsible for giving VI 1 certificates, necessary
for exporting goods to the EU, is the National Institute of Standards
at Armenia’s Ministry of Economy.

ARMENIAN-AZERBAIJANI CONTACT LINE MONITORING WAS CONDUCTED WITHOUT INCIDENT

YEREVAN, NOVEMBER 7, ARMENPRESS: A border monitoring took place
on Armenian-Azerbaijani border situated in Aygepar village of
Tavush region on November 7. As Armenpress was informed from Artsrun
Hovhannisyan the spokesman of Armenian Ministry of Defence, no case of
ceasefire violation was recorded in Armenian-Azerbaijani contact line.

Once again Azerbaijani side refused the suggestion of Armenian side to
go to a direct contact. The observators from Armenian side were William
Prior personal representative of incumbent OSCE Chairman and Khristo
Khristov, and the ones of Azerbaijani side Irje Aberle and Peter Key.