Author: Badalian Vardan

YOURI DJORKAEFF IS SURE ARMENIA WILL WIN GAME WITH MACEDONIA

news.am
Oct 6 2011
Armenia

YEREVAN. – Famous former football player of France’s national team
Youri Djorkaeff is sure that Armenia’s national team will win the
coming match against Macedonia on the October 7.

“Tomorrow we will play against Macedonia and I hope we will be able
to demonstrate a good game because this is a unique chance for us,”
the famous football player, who has visited Armenia with Sarkozy,
said in Zvartnots. “I am proud and happy that I am in Armenia now.”

He gave a positive mark to France’s president’s visit to Armenia.

“I hope the visit will have a positive influence on the relationships
of the two countries. This is a sign of friendship, and Armenia has
shown such signs in return,” Djorkaeff noticed.

KARPIS SURENYAN, GREAT ARMENIAN WRITER, DIES AT 86

Tert.am
06.10.11

Great Armenian essay writer, translator and renowned intellectual
Karpis Surenyan has passed away after a short but serious disease at
age 86, Azg newspaper reported.

An earnest, principled and reserved personality and an author of
more than 15 books, Surenyan went through hard times in his life,
leaving a huge and permanent literary legacy to younger generations.

We extends our condolences to Surenyan’s family and friends.

The funerals ceremony is due at Yerevan’s St Hovhannes church at 6:00
pm tomorrow.

ERDOGHAN TRIED TO BRIBE NA SPEAKER

yerkir.am
12:46 – 06.10.2011

PM of Turkey Rejep Tayyip Erdoghan offers a huge amount of money
to Macedonia football team if it holds a victory over Armenia on
October 7.

According to Sovetunion.ru, Erdoghan made that offer to NA Speaker
of Macedonia Trayko Velyanoski.

Analysts believe that Turkish PM did this in order to avoid the
meeting of Armenia’s and Turkey’s teams in European championship final.

P. KALTENBACH : LE DEPLACEMENT DE M. SARKOZY EN ARMENIE NE FERA PAS OUBLIER LA TRAHISON DE SON ENGAGEMENT A PENALISER LA NEGATION DU GENOCIDE ARMENIEN !
Stephane

armenews.com
jeudi 6 octobre 2011

Philippe Kaltenbach, Senateur – Maire de Clamart, voit dans le
deplacement du President de la Republique en Armenie le 6 octobre
prochain une vaine tentative de reconquete du vote de la communaute
armenienne après les revelations sur la duplicite a laquelle s’est
livre le Chef de l’Etat sur le genocide armenien et l’obstruction de
l’UMP a l’adoption de la loi penalisant la negation du genocide le
4 mai dernier au Senat.

Pour memoire, la France a officiellement reconnu le genocide armenien
en 2001. Le 12 octobre 2006, toujours sur initiative des deputes
PS, l’Assemblee Nationale a adopte une proposition de loi visant a
penaliser la negation de ce genocide. Cette loi devait ensuite etre
examinee par le Senat. En 2007, le candidat Sarkozy avait fait part de
sa determination a ce que ” la France condamne le negationnisme par
la loi ” mais nous avions decouvert avec stupeur debut 2011 par le
biais du site WikiLeaks, que le Conseiller diplomatique du President
Sarkozy avait en fait assure les autorites Turques, seulement 2 mois
après, que le texte allait ” mourir au Senat ” !

Philippe Kaltenbach declare : ” Une telle duplicite de la part du
President de la Republique sur un sujet aussi grave est intolerable.

Il a fallu que le groupe socialiste du Senat ait recours a sa niche
parlementaire pour que ce texte fasse enfin l’objet d’un examen par
la Haute Assemblee le 4 mai dernier. La loi penalisant la negation du
genocide armenien a malheureusement ete jugee irrecevable en raison
d’un vote pratiquement unanime et largement concerte de l’UMP. ”

Le Senateur – Maire de Clamart : ” Comme la gauche possède desormais
la majorite absolue au Senat, je vais demander rapidement un nouvel
examen de la loi. Le negationnisme est la continuation du genocide
et vise a nier a un groupe le droit d’avoir une memoire. Nous ne
tolèrerons pas qu’en France, des personnes tentent encore ” d’effacer
” les traces d’une telle entreprise de mort. ”

PROGRAMME DE LA VISITE DE NICOLAS SARKOZY DANS LE CAUCASE
Stephane

armenews.com
jeudi 6 octobre 2011

Le President de la Republique quittera Paris a 9h 30 et atterrira a 17h
10 en Armenie, où il sera accueilli par le President Serge Sarkissian.

Après la ceremonie officielle : ( hymnes nationaux , passage des
troupes en revue et presentation desdelegations) il se rendra
directement a Etchmiadzine où un entretien avec Sa Saintete le
catholicos Karekine II, est prevu a 17h 40.

A 18h 30 Le President francais ira ensuite au memorial du
Tsitsernakaberd où il deposera une gerbe au memorial des victimes
du genocide. Il visitera le musee et signera le livre d’or avant de
planter un arbre dans le jardin sur la colline.

Dans la soiree, a 21 h ( 8 h heure francaise) Le President de la
republique sera l’hôte du president Sarkissian pour un dîner d’ Etat.

Les alloctions seront prononcees au debut du repas.

Vendredi 7 octobre

Armenie :

A Erevan, La journee commencera a 9 heures par un entretien, au palais
presidentiel en tete a tete entre les deux Presidents, qui donneront
ensuite une conference de presse ensemble. A 10h ils inaugureront la
” maison Charles Aznavour ” en presence de l’artiste.

La maison Charles Aznavour est une realisation de l’Etat armenien pour
remercier le chanteur de son action lors du seisme de 1988. Elle est
situee dans Erevan en haut de la cascade.

Les deux presidents se rendront ensuite, place de France (inauguree en
septembre 2006 par le president Jacques Chirac). Les deux presidents
y prononceront une allocution avant d’inaugurer une sculpture de Rodin
offerte par la societe Orange au titre de son mecenat international.

En fin de matinee Nicolas Sarkozy quittera l’Armenie pour s’envoler
en direction de Bakou en Azerbaïdjan où il dejeunera avec le president
Aliev.

Azerbaïdjan :

Le President Francais restera 3h 30 en Azerbaïdjan où il atterrira a
13h 15 arrivera a 13h 35 au Palais de Zugulba où il sera accueilli
par lham Aliev participera a un ” dejeuner de travail ” avant de
poser la première pierre du lycee francais de Bakou.

L’airbus presidentiel decollera de Bakou a 16h 50 en direction de
Tbilissi en Georgie.

Georgie :

Nicolas Sarkozy arrivera a 17h a Tbilissi ( la Georgie a une heure
de decalage de moins que l’Azerbaïdjan). Il sera accueilli par
le President Mikhail Saakachvili. Les deux chefs d’etats feront
un discours place de la Liberte a Tbilissi. Ils auront ensuite un
entretien restreint et l’airbus presidentiel decollera a 19h 45 de
Georgie pour rentrer a Paris.

Jeanine Paloulian

Envoyee speciale pour Nouvelles d’Armenie Magazine

RENCONTRE ENTRE HOVANNISSIAN ET TER-PETROSSIAN
Laetitia

armenews.com
jeudi 6 octobre 2011

Le leader de l’opposition Raffi Hovannissian s’est rendu sur la Place
de la Liberte où les manifestations continuent. Il a rencontre son
rival Levon Ter-Petrosian mercredi.

Hovannisian, qui dirige le parti Zharangutyun (Heritage) s’est
adresse aux militants du HAK place de la Liberte avant de rencontrer
Ter-Petrossian.

Hovannisian a affirme lors d’une interview accordee a RFE/RL qu’ils
avaient discute tous deux des “questions politiques”. Il n’a pas
donne plus de details.

Le leader du parti Heritage a egalement annonce que cette conversation
n’aurait pas d’impact immediat sur les actions de son parti.

Cette conversation est intervenue six mois après que Ter-Petrossian a
rembarre Havannisian durant des manifestations anterieures. Le leader
du HAK avait refuse de le rencontrer lors du rassemblement le 17 mars.

Havannisian avait immediatement denonce l’arrogance de Ter-Petrossian,
sans cacher sa deception.

Cet incident avait evidemment cree des tensions entre les deux forces
de l’opposition. Le parti Heritage a beaucoup critique la strategie
politique du HAK depuis cet evenement.

Hovannisian a affirme mercredi lors de son interview a RFE/RL que le
square de la Liberte appartient a tout le monde. “Je suis venu ici
pour soutenir le peuple”.

Cet homme politique, ne aux Etats-Unis, a appele le parti Zharangutyun
a rejoindre le mouvement anti-gouvernemental du HAK.

Hovannisian n’a pas pris davantage d’initiatives, meme s’il a demande
a son parti de se battre en alliance avec le HAK pour mettre en place
des elections anticipees.

“J’ai personnellement demande aux partis politiques de se rassembler
pour mener ensemble cette lutte”, a affirme Zurabian.

Hovannisian etait au ministère des Affaires etrangères en 1992 durant
le mandat de Ter-Petrossian. Les militants de son parti avaient
condamne la violente repression de l’après-election en 2008.

Les relations entre les deux partis se sont degradees ces dernières
annees. Zharangutyun a accuse Ter-Petrossian de trop s’imposer.

Faisant reference a Zharangutyun, le leader du HAK a affirme que
certaines forces de l’opposition ont soutenu sa candidature aux
elections presidentielles de 2008 dans l’espoir d’obtenir des postes
gouvernementaux de haut niveau.

QUATRE MINISTRES ACCOMPAGNERONT LE PRESIDENT FRANCAIS LORS DE SA VISITE D’ETAT EN ARMENIE
Stephane

armenews.com
jeudi 6 octobre 2011

Quatre ministres accompagneront le president francais lors de sa visite
d’Etat en Armenie et de ses deplacements en Georgie et Azerbaïdjan :

Eric Besson, charge de l’industrie, de l’ Energie et de l’economie
numerique.

Henri de Raincourt, charge de la cooperation.

Thierry Mariani, charge des transports et Pierre Lellouche, secretaire
d’etat charge du commerce exterieur.

D’autres personnalites accompagneront egalement le President de la
Republique :

Mme Valerie Boyer deputee des Bouches du Rhône et adjointe au maire
de Marseille, Patrick Devedjian president du Conseil general des
Hauts-de-Seine, Francois Rochebloine depute de la Loire et president
du groupe d’amitie France-Armenie a l’Assemblee Nationale, Alexis
Govcyian President Europe de l’ UGAB, Pierre Terzian President du
fonds Armenien de France et Alain Touhadian president de l’Association
Armenienne d’Aide Sociale.

Il y aura egalement : Stephane Richard PDG du groupe France
telecom-Orange, Charles Aznavour et Leon Sayan, la chanteuse Helène
Segara, le producteur Alain Terzian, les deux frères Youri et Denis
Djorkaeff, ainsi que Ara Toranian directeur de Nouvelles d’Armenie
Magazine.

Des personnalites qui iront directement de Erevan et Tbilissi. Seuls
les ministres accompagneront le President en Azerbaïdjan.

Jeanine Paloulian

Envoyee speciale pour Nouvelles d’Armenie Magazine

BIRRI FROM ARMENIA: INTERNATIONAL POWERS TARGETING ARAB REGIMES

Al-Manar (Hezbolla) Television
Oct 5 2011
Lebanon

Speaker Nabih Birri criticized on Tuesday the international community’s
“double standards” in dealing with the Israeli entity, accusing it
of having hidden agendas in the Middle East.

He said before the Armenian parliament: “International decision-makers
are placing all Arab regimes in the position of the accused in order
to subject them to their will.”

“They are seeking to weaken Arab states, one country at a time,”
he added.

“Of course we don’t oppose granting the people their rightful demands
for democracy and transparency, but we cannot but confront powers”
seeking to manipulate these demands for their own interests, Speaker
continued.

Addressing Palestine’s UN bid to be recognized as an independent state,
Birri remarked: “The developments in the region indicate that a long
time will pass before stability is reached in the region.”

“The Middle East will not witness peace and the Palestinians will
continue on having the right to keep a comprehensive popular
resistance, as do the Lebanese against Israeli violations,” he
stressed.

“Syria also has the right to maintain its resistant positions in
attempting to restore the occupied Golan Heights,” he noted.

“I had previously warned that Israel is seeking to evade its
obligations towards fair and comprehensive peace and facts have
demonstrated that peace that is not based on justice is doomed to
fail,” he stated.

“Lebanon and Syria are committed to the basic principles and values
that can guarantee their national sovereignty and right to take
advantage of their natural resources,” he remarked.

Given Israel’s ongoing violations of international resolutions,
Lebanon has the right to hang on to its resistance, Birri noted.

“Abandoning the Resistance would invite Israel to occupy our land,”
he cautioned.

The Speaker also welcomed the negotiations between Armenia and Turkey
that were launched in 2008, saying: “We object neighbouring countries’
efforts to overpower the other and we oppose meddling in the internal
affairs of any state.”

“Attempting to create sectarian strife in Syria, or any other state,
will negatively impact the region and pave the way for its division,”
he warned.

“All sides should have an interest in making Syria a model country
for the Middle East through the establishment of a modern democratic
system there that can confront Israeli aggression and provide the
necessary balance to achieve fair and comprehensive peace in the
region,” he stressed.

On Lebanese-Armenian ties, the speaker noted that despite the
solid ties between the peoples of the two nations, the economic and
commercial ties between the two states do not reflect the depth of
the relations between Lebanese and Armenians.

Birri, accompanied by MPs Mohammed Raad and Arthur Nazarian, began
a three-day visit to Armenia on Monday.

MAHMUD ABBAS GIVES A VAGUE ANSWER TO QUESTION ON THE ARMENIAN QUARTER OF JERUSALEM

Mediamax
Oct 6 2011
Armenia

Yerevan/Mediamax/. Head of the Palestinian Autonomy Mahmoud Abbas
stated in Strasburg today that “all the monotheistic religions have
the right to freely realize their rituals in Jerusalem which is the
capital of the state of Palestine”.

Mahmoud Abbas stated this at the PACE session answering a question
of raised by a member of Armenian delegation Naira Zohrabyan on the
Palestinian authorities’ stance toward the status of the Armenian
quarter in Jerusalem, Mediamax reports.

Naira Zohrabyan thinks the answer of the Head of the Palestinian
Autonomy was “vague’.

Mediamax recalls that back in late 2000, Armenian Foreign Minister
Vardan Oskanyan stated that Armenia was against separation of the
Armenian and Christian quarters of Jerusalem.

In August, 2000, already after the failure of the negotiations in
Camp David, Yasser Arafat refuted the information of Israeli sources,
according to which he had agreed to leave the Armenian quarter of
Jerusalem under Israel’s control. Arafat said in an interview to
Palestinian “Al-Ayyam” newspaper then: “The Armenian quarter belongs
to us; we and Armenians are one city”. And in October, 2002, Arafat
stated in an interview to Arabic “Al-Hayat” newspaper, which was being
published in London: “Israel wanted to control the Armenian quarter
of Jerusalem and I told them that I will never betray Armenians”.

NEWS ON ADOPTION OF ANTI-ARMENIAN DECLARATIONS IN PACE – AZERBAIJANI MEDIA’S MISINFORMATION

Panorama
Oct 6 2011
Armenia

Azerbaijan’s Trend news agency spread misinformation about “adoption
of a written declaration in PACE which strictly condemns the killing
of the 13-year-old Azerbaijani child by Armenians.” According to
the agency, “the draft declaration was prepared by member of the
Azerbaijani delegation Ganira Pashayeva, and the declaration was
signed by MPs from various countries represented in PACE, and was
issued as an official document.”

However, this information does not correspond to reality, and
indeed, the provocative declaration by Ganira Pashayeva, which was
not an official document, was only signed by Azerbaijani MPs and
their Turkish colleagues, a total of around 20 people. Naturally,
PACE could not adopt an official document which blames the Armenian
side for the killing of an Azerbaijani child, who indeed died under
unknown and dubious circumstances, with the investigation into the
incident still unclosed in Azerbaijan.

Azerbaijani media tried to use the very trick yesterday when they
spread misinformation about “adoption of a declaration in PACE which
strictly condemns the municipal elections in Nagorno-Karabakh.” In this
case, however, Trend referred to the declaration by Ganira Pashayeva
as a document signed by certain MPs (again Azerbaijani and Turkish)
and did not invent the status of “PACE official document.”