Author: Badalian Vardan

“EUROPEAN HERITAGE DAYS” TO LAUNCH TOMORROW

ARMENPRESS
14:57, 30 September, 2011

About 50 countries, which have joined the European Cultural
Convention, will participate this year already for 26th time in
“European Heritage Days” program implemented by the Council of Europe
and European Commission.

With the support of the Armenian Culture Ministry and delegation of
the European Union in Armenia, Armenia will joint hat program for the
6th time October 1-2. The program will be conducted in Armenia under
the heading “Written Heritage”. The choice of the theme is conditioned
by 500th anniversary of Armenian book printing and proclamation of
Yerevan a World Book Capital 2012.

Armenian Deputy Minister of Culture Arev Samuelyan told today a news
conference that cultural events will be organized in the entire
territory of Armenia. “The events program includes visits to the
monuments and sites where educational and cultural centers, medieval
libraries and universities have been historical formed and worked,”
Arev Samuelyan said, adding that at the threshold of two important
events for Armenia, “European Heritage Days” is the best platform
to value the sources of the Armenian written heritage, to stress the
role and significance of the written speech.

Head of the EU delegation in Armenia Raul De Luzenberger said that the
goal of the initiative is to open in front of society such cultural
centers, the doors of which are not usually open for visits. “During
these days we will try to draw society’s attention to the wealth of
the historical heritage,” he said.

PARUYR HAYRIKYAN WON’T BE CHOOSING ‘THE LESSER OF TWO EVILS’

epress.am
09.30.2011 16:34

In Armenia’s political arena today there are two main polarities –
“the so-called coalition and so-called HAK [the Armenian National
Congress],” said Union for Self-Determination (AIM) party leader
Paruyr Hayrikyan, speaking to journalists in Yerevan today about the
possible rearrangements in the political scene.

“There might be changes, first and foremost, in the opposition camp,”
he said, noting that he doesn’t consider the creation of new polarities
as an end in itself.

“I want us to gather around a worthy system,” said the party leader.

Turning his attention to HAK, he declared that it’s quite difficult
to join the opposition bloc “especially for those who have a memory.”

“People with a healthy capacity for rational or intellectual thought
find it difficult to decide where to go. I consider it wrong to
choose the lesser of two evils,” he said, emphasizing that he’s even
prepared not to run in the upcoming parliamentary elections, but he’s
not preparing to fight for 7% of the votes.

ARMENIAN ASTROLOGIST’S STUDY ON THE GALAXIES INCLUDED IN UNESCO’S MEMORY OF THE WORLD

armradio.am
30.09.2011 16:24

World renowned astrologist Benjamin Margaryan’s Study on the Galaxies
has been registered in the Memory of the World International Register
by the decision of the UNESCO Director General and based on the
conclusion given by the International Advisory Committee. With this,
the Memory of the World International Register has been replenished
with the second documented Armenian heritage after the Mesrop Mashtots
Matenadaran was presented in 1997.

Currently, the Memory of the World International Register includes
239 inscriptions of nearly 100 countries, including the chronology of
the 13th century Radzivils describing the origin of Europeans, the
18th century Chinese imperial archives, the archives of the League
of Nations in 1919-1946, the works by Beethoven, Brahms and Chopin,
the works by Nikolay Copernicus and more.

The appeal for Benjamin Margaryan’s Study on the Galaxies was prepared
by the Observatory in Byurakan, the UNESCO Armenian Commission and
was presented to the UNESCO central station in 2010.

UNESCO’s Memory of the World International Register was inaugurated
in 1992 with the purpose of preventing the disappearance of valuable
collections of archives and libraries around the world. The program
features the UNESCO Memory of the World International Register, which
presents a list of documented heritage that includes documents,
manuscripts, audiovisual materials and library archives and
collections. They have been recognized as the embodiment of values
of special significance and must be documented and preserved for
all mankind.

LEBANON’S PARLIAMENT SPEAKER DUE IN ARMENIA ON OCTOBER 3

armradio.am
30.09.2011 16:52

The delegation headed by Chairman of Parliament of Lebanon Nabih
Berri will arrive in Yerevan on October 3 at the invitation of the
Speaker of the National Assembly of Armenia, Hovik Abrahamyan.

The Lebanese Parliament Speaker will have meetings with Armenian
President Serzh Sargsyan, Speaker of the National Assembly Hovik
Abrahamyan, Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan, Foreign Minister Edward
Nalbandian and His Holiness Karekin II, Supreme Patriarch and
Catholicos of All Armenians.

On October 4 Nabih Berri will speak at the sitting of the National
Assembly. The delegation headed by the Speaker of Parliament of Lebanon
will visit the Tsitsernakaberd to lay a wreath at the memorial to
the Armenian Genocide victims.

100 COMPANIES HAVE APPLIED FOR PARTICIPATION IN DIGITEC ICT/HIGH TECH EXPO

armradio.am
30.09.2011 14:51

About 100 companies have applied for participation in the DigiTec
ICT/High Tech Expo, which means a 40% increase. Sixty-eight companies
participated in the Expo last year.

“We do not aim at increasing the number of participants. We want to
show that the future lays in the development of technologies. This
year companies apply for participation in the DigiTec very early,
which means that the previous expos were productive. It is the
participation of pople and companies that indicates the success of
the event,” said Karen Vardanyan, Executive Director of the Union of
Information Technology Enterprises -organizer of the Expo.

The 7th annual international expo will feature companies from Georgia,
Russia, Singapore, Poland and Taiwan. The participant companies
include VivaCell-MTS, Ucom, Maxtronic, Unicomp, Microsoft, GNC Alfa,
Redinet, Synopsys, X-Art, Instigate, ArmSoft, Epygi, Yetri, Enterprise
Incubator Foundation, Nork, National Instruments, Innovative Solutions,
Ovak Technologies, Rafa Solutions, Olymp Engineering, Bitlis-MEN,
Pegasus Logic, Integrator, Sci.-Ind. BioArt, Ani Test, Samara State
Aerospace Research University, ST Kinetics, Radiophysics Research
Institute, Engineering starts in High-school, IP Protection legal firm,
Safety Accounting, Dizozavr, LuxBrok, Museum of Science & Technology,
Busineess sector, Project Integration, Seven Smarts, FlexAp, Henry
Radio, Interactive World, Viasphere Technopark, Cambric and others.

The event will take place under the high auspices of the Prime
Minister of the Republic of Armenia and with the sponsorship of
VivaCell-MTS Company.

NO PROGRESS IN ARMENIAN-TURKISH PROTOCOLS

Aysor.am
Friday,September 30

There is no progress in Armenian – Turkish protocols, said Karen
Bekaryan, head of European Integration NGO today.

He noted that Turkey took out the protocols from the parliament and
explained that step by technical reasons. Now it should be clarified
whether it really had a technical or political tint.

“Armenia has no step to undertake in connection with the protocols,
it is Turkey’s turn to take a step, which should not be fictive,
just for closing the eyes of the international community, but it
should be real, with results and progress,” Bekaryan said.

KOCHARYAN MENTIONED THREE POINTS TO RETURN

Lragir.am News

14:25:46 – 30/09/2011

The second president of Armenia, Robert Kocharyan, did not rule out
his return to politics in an exclusive interview with Mediamax Agency.

Robert Kocharyan said this commenting by Mediamax’s request on the
fact that the topic of his return to big politics became one of
the main themes on the internal political agenda, and the fact that
Vladimir Putin is going to run for the post of Russian President in
2012 aroused a stream of discussions about the impact of this step
on political processes in Armenia and on political perspectives of
the second President in particular.

“I am amazed that my possible return is linked to political processes
in Russia. And this happens immediately after the celebration of
the 21st anniversary of Armenia’s independence? I am sure political
processes should ripen here in Armenia, and not be directly projected
from outside.

I don’t rule out the possibility of my return to big politics.

However, only three major factors may force me to return and not the
events going on in other country which is very close and important
for Armenia. These three factors are:

1. the absence of a tangible and stable improvement of the situation
in country’s economy and people’s welfare, and consequently the growth
of hopeless moods and migration;

2. the demand for my return to big politics by various layers of
the society;

3. my inner belief that I can radically improve the situation.

The ways of return to active politics may vary given these three
factors.

Other circumstances only add a political resource but are not
fundamental,” Robert Kocharyan said in the exclusive interview to
Mediamax.

LA POLICE AFFIRME FAIRE SON MAXIMUM POUR RESOUDRE L’ENQUETE SUR LES VOLS A EREVAN
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armenews.com
vendredi 30 septembre 2011
ARMENIE

La police armenienne a promis de n’epargner aucun effort afin
d’identifier et de poursuivre les responsables d’une serie de vols
a Erevan qui ont cree l’emoi.

” Je veux vous assurer que nous ferons tout pour rapidement resoudre
ces crimes parce qu’ils comportent des consequences dangereuses ”
a declare le Lieutenant General Alik Sargsian, le chef du service de
la police nationale aux journalistes. ” Autrement, nous aurions une
image plus honteuse “.

Alik Sargsian a mentionne qu’au cours des derniers mois des attaques
armees a Erevan ont vise les maisons de cinq riches individus dont un
ancien depute et l’ancien maire du district de Malatia-Sebastia. Les
vols ont suivi le meme schema avec des hommes masques faisant
irruption dans les hôtels particuliers tôt le matin, battant leurs
proprietaires et volant de grandes sommes d’argent comptant et autres
objets precieux.

Les procureurs et la police croient que les cinq vols etaient le
travail d’une meme equipe. Ils n’ont arrete personne jusqu’a present.

Alik Sargsian a confirme que l’enquete criminelle est conduite par
une equipe speciale de policiers de haut rang. ” Elle fonctionne sous
ma surveillance personnelle ” a-t-il dit.

” Nous avons certaines informations qui ont besoin d’etre serieusement
traitees ” a-t-il dit sans entrer dans les details.

L’enquete de police a ete critiquee par le Procureur General Aghvan
Hovsepian. Ce dernier a dit que la police aurait deja neutralise le
gang si elle avait repondu correctement aux deux premiers vols.

Alik Sargsian a accuse le coup. ” Oui, il y a eu quelques defauts ”
a-t-il dit. ” Il y a eu un manque de consistence, un manque d’analyse
correcte. Nous aurions pû l’eviter. Mais soyons un peu realistes. Tous
les crimes ne sont pas resolus en trois ou cinq jours “.

Le chef de police a aussi suggere que le gang puisse comprendre
d’anciens policiers ou autres officiers charge de la securite. ” Nos
analyses ne l’excluent pas parce qu’en commettant leurs crimes ils ont
demontre de telles habiletes que nous presumons qu’ils ont l’habitude
de servir dans les forces speciales dans notre système ” a-t-il dit.

” Ils agissent très habilement ” a ajoute Alik Sargsian. ” Ils essayent
d’eviter les erreurs que les criminels commettent souvent sur le site
d’un crime “.

NICOLAS SARKOZY LOUE L’AMITIE FRANCO-ARMENIENNE
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armenews.com
vendredi 30 septembre 2011
FRANCE

Le president francais Nicolas Sarkozy a loue ” l’amitie exclusive
” avec l’Armenie, alors qu’il accueillait son homologue armenien
Serge Sarkissian.

” La visite officielle du President Sarkissian en France va devenir
une occasion pour souligner l’amitie exclusive qui existe entre
les deux peuples et donnera un nouvel elan a notre cooperation ”
a declare M. Sarkozy.

Les deux presidents ont dejeune ensemble et ont discute d’un certain
nombre de questions, y compris les conflits dans le Caucase du Sud
et en particulier le conflit du Nagorno-Karabakh.

Les deux parties ont egalement evoque la prochaine visite de M.Sarkozy
en Armenie dans le cadre de sa tournee dans le Sud Caucase qui aura
lieu debut octobre.

Outre des reunions avec des responsables francais, y compris le
President de l’Assemblee nationale francaise Bernard Accoyer, le
Premier ministre Francois Fillon, le maire de Paris Bertrand Delanoë,
Serge Sarkissian a egalement eu des reunions avec les responsables
des associations armeniennes.

Serge Sarkissian a assiste a un concert de Charles Aznavour a l’Olympia
a Paris dediee au 20e anniversaire de l’independance de l’Armenie.

Jeudi, une reception solennelle pour le president Sarkissian a ete
organisee a la mairie de Paris au cours de laquelle le president
armenien a rencontre les representants de la communaute armenienne.

‘NEIGHBORS MUST BE INFORMED OF INSPECTIONS AT ARMENIAN NUKE PLANT’

news.az
Sept 29 2011
Azerbaijan

‘The Metsamor nuke plant represents a real threat for the region’.

Energy experts of countries neighboring Armenia must be allowed to
inspection of the Metsamor nuke plant which represents a big threat
to the whole region.

The statement came from president of the National Academy of Science
of Azerbaijan Mahmud Karimov.

‘Armenian side states that the Metsamor nuke plant has been inspected
by no less than ten different commissions this year but the results
of the inspections are not provided to the neighbor countries, which
means that inspections are not transparent. This is not correct’,
Karimov told reporters on Thursday.

“We demand to make these results public. Turkey, Georgia and Azerbaijan
must be aware of the results of inspections”, he said.

According to Karimov, this issue was also raised at the IAEA’s recent
general conference. At this meeting, the head of the Academy of Science
of Azerbaijan spoke of the need for the experts from Armenian neighbor
countries to participate in the activity of the Metsamor nuke plant.

The president of the National Academy of Science of Azerbaijan said
that after the accident at the Fukushima-1 nuke plant, the security
of the Armenian nuke plant has become even more pressing.

“Indeed, the Metsamor nuke plant represents a real threat for the
region, since it does not meet the European standards, exhausted its
resources and gone outdated. EU has repeatedly demanded to shut it
down but Armenian government continues using this station and even
passed a decision to build a new energy unit there”, Karimov said.

He drew attention to the fact Metsamor nuke plant is located in
mountainous area. “In the event of failure, there will be water
shortage for cooling the reactor and it will be very difficult to
prevent the tragedy”, he said.