Author: Badalian Vardan

ROBERT KOCHARYAN HAS FULL MORAL RIGHT TO RETURN – PROSPEROUS ARMENIA PARTY CHAIRMAN

Tert.am
16:46 03.10.11

Gagik Tsarukyan, Chairman of the Prosperous Armenia Party (PAP),
gave an interview to the www. zham. am website.

Below are excerpts from the interview:

– What do you think about the reasons for Vladimir Putin’s return,
and what impact may it have on Armenia?

– It is not a surprise for the Russian Establishment because it was
under Vladimir Putin that Russia overcame a severe crisis, put an
end to the Chechen war and restored stability. As regards Armenia,
I think Mr. Putin’s return will be beneficial for Armenia with respect
to both development of Armenian-Russian relations and Nagorno-Karabakh
peace process.

– Many people link Robert Kocharyan’s return to big politics with
Vladimir Putin’s return. Armenia’s second president did not rule out
this possibility in his interview. What can you say?

– I am surprised at the society that has marked the 20th anniversary of
its independence and is drawing such unreasonable conclusions. I think
it is time for us to feel independent. Otherwise, we’ll not be able to
build up full-fledged statehood. As to the second president’s possible
return to big politics, he has full moral and political right to it.

– Will the Prosperous Party of Armenia run for Parliament with a
straight ticket or a mixed one?

– I have repeatedly said that the party will run for Parliament
with a straight ticket. On the other hand, I stress once more that
Armenia needs consolidation and unity at a much higher level than
the present-day coalition. I am sure it is a realistic principle and
I am going to follow it.

– Which of the candidates is the PAP going to support in the
presidential election?

– We should not forget the parliamentary elections are to be held
first. A few months ago, half in jest, I said, “We are going to talk
about it at the next lesson.” So this reply remains in force.

PETROL PRICES WENT UP BY 23.7% SINCE 2010

Tert.am
12:03 ~U 01.10.11

The price of petrol has increased by 23.7% in September this year
compared to the same period in 2010, according to a recent report by
Armenia’s National Statistical Service.

Prices of diesel fuel also went up in the same period by 29.7%.

The prices of petrol and diesel increased by 19.6% and 23.1%
respectively in September in comparison with December 2010, the
reported added.

However, prices fell down in September compared to figures registered
in August with petrol going down by 2.6%. In turn, the price of diesel
dropped by 1.9%.

59TH ITALIAN TOWN RECOGNIZING THE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE

Tert.am
13:13 ~U 01.10.11

Cerchiara di Calabria, a town in Italy’s Calabria region, has
recognized the Armenian Genocide, becoming the 59th town in the
country to acknowledge the 20th century’s greatest atrocity against
the mankind.

Earlier this year, five other towns in Italy had recognized the
Genocide.

The municipal councils of San Giorgio (Padua region), Bolano (Spezia
region), Sermide (Mantova region), Dorgali (Nuoro region) and Izola del
Liri (Frosinone) passed unanimous decisions in April to acknowledging
the Armenian Genocide.

Overall, the Genocide has been recognized by 63 towns and regions
of Italy.

THE CITY COUNCIL OF CERCHIARA DI CALABRIA RECOGNIZES THE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE

armradio.am
01.10.2011 13:34

The City Council of the Italian city of Cerchiara di Calabria has
recognized the Armenian Genocide.

This was the 6th Italian city to recognize the Armenian Genocide
this year.

In April bills recognizing the Armenian Genocide were unanimously
adopted by the City Councils of San Giorgio, Bolano, Sermide, Dorgali
and Isola del Liri.

Thus, 59 Italian cities and 4 provinces have recognized the Genocide
so far.

PRES DE 200 MARSEILLAIS AU PELERINAGE A TALLARD
Krikor [email protected]

armenews.com
samedi 1er octobre 2011

MARSEILLE-COMMUNAUTE

Dimanche 18 septembre le traditionnel pèlerinage a Tallard, avec
une messe a Saint Gregoire de Tallard suivi d’un repas a reuni
plusieurs centaines de personnes. La manifestation etait organisee
par l’Association cultuelle de l’Eglise Saint Gregoire l’Illuminateur
de Beaumont (Marseille) et l’Association Culturelle des Armeniens
de Gap et des Hautes-Alpes. L’operation, placee sous l’egide de Mgr
Norvan Zakarian, Primat du Diocèse de l’Eglise Apostolique Armenienne
de France beneficiait du soutien de Didier Parakian, le ” gnkahaïr ”
(parrain en armenien) de l’Eglise armenienne de Beaumont pour 2011. Ce
pèlerinage sur les traces de Saint Gregoire de Tallard, eveque de la
Grande Armenie disparu au debut du Ve siècle. Parti de sa ville natale
d’Amnice (Armenie) a la fin du IVe siècle, après un sejour a Jerusalem
et Rome, Saint Gregoire passa par la Gaule et rencontra Saint Martin
de Tours. Sur le chemin du retour vers l’Armenie, Saint Gregoire fut
l’hôte de l’eveque de Gap qui lui proposa d’evangeliser Tallard où il
venait de consacrer une nouvelle chapelle. C’est d’ailleurs lors de
la celebration de la Sainte Messe que Saint Gregoire mourrait, le 24
septembre 404. Ainsi depuis 1954 le pèlerinage a Tallard s’effectue
le 3e dimanche de septembre avec une messe en rite armenien.

Cette annee, l’eglise de Tallard etait trop petite pour accueillir les
quelque 180 fidèles de la region marseillaise ainsi que les Scouts
armeniens de Marseille et les dizaines d’autres venus de Grenoble,
Valence, Lyon et Avignon. La messe fut celebree par le Père Archen
Movsessian de l’Eglise armenienne Saint Gregoire l’Illuminateur de
Beaumont. La chorale de Beaumont, dirigee par Anahide Garabedian etait
egalement presente. Après la messe, le public fut convie a un repas.

Le Père Archen remercia tout d’abord les bienfaiteurs de ce pèlerinage
a Tallard, Didier Parakian ainsi que Minas Yessayan. Puis prirent
la parole Gilbert Derderian le responsable du Conseil paroissial de
l’Eglise armenienne de Beaumont, Didier Parakian et Kevork Gyuldalian.

Didier Parakian, saluant l’intime proximite de la nation armenienne
avec son Eglise a affirme son bonheur de se sentir egalement très
proche de cette Eglise qui vehicule la Foi mais aussi de nombreuses
valeurs armeniennes. Il a felicite l’ensemble des membres de l’Eglise
de Beaumont et le Père Archen Movsessian pour la realisation de ce
projet de pèlerinage a Tallard. A l’occasion de la celebration du
20ème aniversaire de l’independance de la Republique d’Armenie fut
entonnee avec le public l’hymne national armenien “Mer Haïrenik”.

Durant le repas, de nombreux chants et poèmes armeniens furent
interpretes, rendant la rencontre très conviviale et chaleureuse.

Krikor Amirzayan

Les scouts Armeniens de Marseille etaient presents a Tallard L’eglise
Saint Gregoire de Tallard pleine a craquer Les Marseillais en très
grand nombre a Tallard De très nombreux fidèles La messe armenienne
celevree par le père Archen Movsessian

L’eglise Saint Gregoire de Tallard bondee Les fidèles lors de la
messe armenienne Le khatchar venent d’Akhtamar offert jadis par les
Marseillais Didier Parakian remercie les participants Didier Parakian
et le Père Archen Movsissian et un fidèle entonnat “Mer Haïrenik”Photos
Eglise Saint Gregoire l’Illuminateur de Beaumont (Marseille)

PAINTINGS, WRITINGS, APPAREL OF ASSISTED-SUICIDE ADVOCATE JACK KEVORKIAN HEADING FOR AUCTION

Washington Post
Sept 30 2011

By Associated Press, Updated: Friday, September 30, 4:35 PM DETROIT –
Paintings, writings and the iconic blue sweater of assisted suicide
advocate Jack Kevorkian are going up for auction, his attorney and
close friend said Friday.

Lawyer Mayer Morganroth said the late pathologist’s artwork and items
will be sold in late October at the New York Institute of Technology.

Scheduled for auction are more than 20 paintings, Kevorkian’s art kit
and the sweaters he became known for donning during his high-profile
assistance in the suicides of dozens of people in the 1990s.

Many of the paintings depict death or dying, and are often intended to
provoke or disturb. One of those up for auction is entitled “Genocide,”
and features a bloody head being dangled by the hair and held by the
hands of two soldiers. One wears a German military uniform from World
War II and the other a Turkish uniform from World War I.

Morganroth said Kevorkian wanted to depict the mass killings of
Armenians and Jews during World I and World War II, respectively. The
doctor was of Armenian descent.

“Just looking at it, you can say (it’s) grotesque,” Morganroth said.

“They were to make a point, like any art.”

CBS Detroit first reported the auction plan.

Morganroth said he doesn’t know the value of the collection but most
of the proceeds will go to Kevorkian’s sole heir – a niece – and the
charity Kicking Cancer for Kids. Morganroth said the timing was right
to sell the items, since there was interest from several auction houses
and the broader art world, as well as a desire to settle the estate.

The Associated Press left a message seeking comment with the New York
Institute of Technology.

Kevorkian was convicted of second-degree murder in 1999, and was
released from prison in 2007. He died in June at the age of 83.

Suburban Detroit art gallery owner Anne Kuffler, who has twice
displayed Kevorkian’s work and sells signed and numbered lithographs
of six of his works for $500 apiece, said she was offered $100,000
for one of his original paintings during the first exhibit of his
work in 1994. Kuffler, owner of the Ariana Gallery in Royal Oak,
suspects that the value has only increased since then.

“I had several orders for his prints this morning,” she said.

Kuffler recalled an argument with Kevorkian, who painted the frame of
“Genocide” with his own blood and wanted to have a skeleton with an
IV flowing through it next to the painting.

“He said, ‘I want to show how horrible it is, I want people to be
upset by it,'” Kuffler said. “I said, ‘If you haven’t portrayed it
in your painting, then you haven’t succeeded.'”

Many of the paintings have been hanging at the Armenian Library and
Museum of America in Watertown, Mass., which also has a collection
of his compositions and writings. Kevorkian was also a keen musician
and composer.

“I think the legacy is showing the many facets of him and his
capabilities,” Morganroth said. “He was a multi-talented man.”

A GROWING FRONT OF ENEMIES

Today’s Zaman, Turkey
Sept 30 2011

Until recently, Turkey captured a style of foreign policy that exceeded
Ankara’s dreams. As Turkey developed relations with both the East
and the West, it also turned into a country applauded by both sides.

Turkey was one of the few countries in the world able to form dialogues
simultaneously with nations which were not only each other’s opposites,
but also often engaged in direct conflict with one another.

It was capable of talking not only to Shiites in Iraq, but also
having warm relations with the Sunnis there. And just as it was able
to talk to a Saudi Arabia nervous about Tehran’s nuclear machinations,
it was also able to maintain a dialogue with Iran. Its good relations
with Hezbollah did not prevent the establishment of a relationship
of trust with the Lebanese Sunnis. And as normal relations with
Israel continued, liaisons with Syria rose to a level of strategic
partnership; in fact, Turkey did everything it could to see peace
flourish between these two countries.

2004, the year that Turkish relations with the European Union were at
its peak, was also the year that for the first time ever, a Turkish
citizen was elected as the General Secretary, through democratic
selection, of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC).

The same year that Ankara began efforts to see relations with Armenia
normalize (in order to transcend the genocide allegations constantly
placed in front of Turkey by the West), was also the year that the
Turkish Cooperation Council was formed at a summit held in Nakhchivan,
hosted by Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev.

And during a time when Turkish-US relations developed positively
under the definition of â~@~model partnershipâ~@~] (despite the
many crises occurring between Ankara and Washington during the Bush
administration), Russia was on its way to becoming Turkey’s biggest
foreign trade partner.

Those with the greatest parts in this stunning tableau of
accomplishments were President Abdullah Gül, Prime Minister Recep
Tayyip ErdoÄ~_an and the foreign ministers during those periods,
Ali Babacan and Ahmet DavutoÄ~_lu — in other words, the Justice and
Development Party (AK Party) leaders. In order to realize a foreign
policy which appeared impossible, they worked day and night.

After all, in order to carry out these initiatives in an atmosphere
dominated by the mentalities like â~@~Turks have no friends outside
of other Turks,â~@~] and â~@~We are surrounded by enemiesâ~@~] took
enormous theoretical and physical efforts. Some of the concepts which
came into play in the literature of diplomacy at this time were ideas
such as â~@~multi-dimensional foreign policy,â~@~] â~@~zero problems
with neighborsâ~@~] and â~@~central country.â~@~] And Turkey turned
from an inactive country, where government planes would be rusting
on the ground in Ankara, to a country whose foreign ministers are
spending most of the month abroad.

in the political sense where names associated with foreign policy
were spending the majority of the month outside of the country.

Concepts that had once dominated Turkey’s security-focused stance on
foreign policy, such as â~@~casus belliâ~@~] and â~@~red lines,â~@~]
were replaced concepts based more on cooperation and alliance, such
as â~@~reciprocal dependence,â~@~] â~@~winning friends,â~@~]
â~@~standing straight and strong without glowering,â~@~] and
â~@~win-win.â~@~] The goal at hand became solving seemingly
intractable problems and maximizing relationships by getting rid
of hostilities as much as possible, as well as becoming a leader in
solving not just the problems in which we held a side, but all the
problems plaguing the region.

Interfax, Russia
Oct 1 2011

Azerbaijan accuses Armenia of disrupting South Caucasus leaders’
meeting in Warsaw

BAKU. Oct 1

Novruz Mamedov, deputy head of the external relations department of
the Azerbaijani presidential administration, said the meeting between
the heads of the three countries of Southern Caucasus did not take
place at the recent eastern Partnership summit in Warsaw through the
fault of the Armenian delegation led by Armenian President Serzh
Sargsyan. “The presidents of Azerbaijan, Georgia and Armenia were
expected to meet on the initiative of the EU. We agreed to meet.
However, to our great regret, Armenia, which is declaring its
readiness for cooperation and is accusing Azerbaijan of having taken a
destructive position, took a destructive position and prevented the
meting from taking place,” Mamedov told ANS television.

At the same time, Mamedov said the Eastern Partnership summit held in
Warsaw on September 30 was very successful for Azerbaijan and the
provisions of the declaration adopted at the summit are very
significant to the country.

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Armenian boxers attacked in Baku

October 2, 2011 – 16:21 AMT

PanARMENIAN.Net – Armenian boxers, participating in Baku-hosted AIBA
World Championships, were attacked.

According to Criminal Azerbaijan information agency, a group of
Karbakh Liberation Organization (KLO) supporters infiltrated the
championship venue. As the the Armenian boxer was entering the ring,
their shouts `Armenians, get out!’, `Karabakh or death’ were followed
by a deluge of stones.

The match was suspended. The Armenian boxer, judges and referee left the venue.

As ALO leader Akif Nagi stated, `we’ve been planning the protest
action for several days. We must prevent Armenians’ participation,
and, unless our voice is heard, more drastic measures are under way.’

Aronian plays draw with Viswanathan Anand

14:37 – 02.10.11

Armenian chess grandmaster Levon Aronian played draw with world
champion Viswanathan Anand who slipped to joint third spot at the half
way stage of the fourth Bilbao Final Masters.

According to the Sportsndtv.com, Anand’s third white in the tournament
went in vain for the third time on the trot as the Indian ace could
not use it to his advantage.

The Indian’s sole victory in the event had come in the previous round
when he beat Francisco Vallejo Pons of Spain.

World number one Magnus Carlsen of Norway rose back in contention for
the top honour with a finely crafted victory over tournament leader
Vassily Ivanchuk of Ukraine.

In the other game of the day, American Hikaru Nakamura scored his
first win at the expense of Vallejo Pons.

With the Brazilian leg ending after the fifth round, the focus will
now shift to Bilbao in Spain where the event will continue after a
four-day break.

Despite his first loss, Ivanchuk still leads on 10 points in the
soccer-like scoring system in place here.

Nakamura, who won his first game after four draws, occupies the second
spot on seven points, while Anand, Aronian and Carlsen stand joint
third now with six points each.

Anand tried and got some advantage with his white pieces in the Closed
Ruy Lopez against Aronian. The middle game had Anand pushing for more
on the queen side and Aronian had no option but to go for the central
breakthrough.

After regulation exchanges the players arrived at a rook and pawns
endgame where Aronian had an extra pawn which was not of much use. The
two agreed to a draw after 41 moves.

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