L’Armenie Critique La Communaute Internationale Pour Son Incapacite

L’ARMENIE CRITIQUE LA COMMUNAUTE INTERNATIONALE POUR SON INCAPACITE A REPONDRE AUX VIOLATIONS DES DROITS DES PRISONNIERS ARMENIENS EN AZERBAIDJAN

ARMENIE

Le vice-ministre de la Defense Davit Tonoyan a critique les
organisations humanitaires internationales et des militants des droits
de l’homme pour leur incapacite a repondre a ce qu’il a decrit comme ”
la permissivite de l’Azerbaïdjan ” au sujet d’un conscrit de l’armee
armenienne Hagop Idjighulyan, capture par les troupes azeries plus
tôt ce mois-ci près du Haut-Karabagh .

Les remarques de Davit Tonoyan ont ete faites alors qu’il
rencontrait des representants des bureaux armeniens du HCR et du
Comite international de la Croix-Rouge. Il a dit que les autorites
armeniennes sont preoccupes par les violations continues des droits
du conscrit capture.

Davit Tonoyan a dit qu’aucune organisation internationale n’a condamne
” l’interview ” d’Hagop Ijighulyan, diffusee par une television
azerbaïdjanaise.

” Il est evident que les autorites azerbaïdjanaises exercent une forte
pression morale et psychologique, et peut-etre physique sur Hagop,
le forcant a faire des declarations contradictoires. Une entrevue
forcee ne peut etre considere comme un motif de sa remise a un pays
tiers ” a declare le ministère de la Defense.

Davit Tonoyan a reaffirme que Ijighulyan ne sera pas passible de
poursuites lorsqu’il sera rapatrie en raison de l’absence de crime
dans ses actions. Le service de presse a egalement rappele qu’aucun
citoyen de l’Armenie rapatrie de l’Azerbaïdjan auparavant n’avait
jamais ete poursuivi.

vendredi 30 août 2013, Stephane ©armenews.com

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La Lutte Des Femmes Pour Trouver Du Travail Dans Gyumri

LA LUTTE DES FEMMES POUR TROUVER DU TRAVAIL DANS GYUMRI

ARMENIE

Les mères celibataires en Armenie ont souvent du mal a echapper a
la pauvrete parce qu’elles sont très peu payees quant elles peuvent
obtenir un emploi. Mais toutes celles qui vivent dans Gyumri, deuxième
ville du pays, cela est particulièrement difficile.

La ville du nord-ouest vit toujours dans l’ombre du tremblement de
terre de 1988, qui a devaste cette partie de l’Armenie qui etait alors
sovietique. Aujourd’hui, les femmes representent 60 pour cent des
360000 habitants de la ville, parce que beaucoup d’hommes l’ont quitte
pour trouver du travail en Russie en tant que travailleurs migrants.

L’auberge utilise pour accueillir les travailleurs a l’usine LenTextile
de Gyumri a ete gravement endommage par le seisme. L’usine est
ferme depuis longtemps mais 20 familles ou plus vivent encore dans
l’auberge beaucoup d’entre elles sans les hommes ou un salarie. Le
sombre bâtiment decrepit manque de commodites de base et presque tous
les escaliers sont endommages.

La plupart des femmes qui y vivent comptent sur les prestations de
l’Etat. Edward Baghramyan, chef du departement des services sociaux
dit que les familles vivant a l’auberge recoivent des prestations
mensuelles de base de 16000 drams, soit l’equivalent de 39 dollars,
ainsi qu’un montant supplementaire de 6000 drams, soit 15 dollars
pour chaque enfant.

Ani Koretsky, 19 ans, vit dans l’auberge avec sa mère, son frère et
sa fille Alvard, un an et demi.

Après deux ans de mariage, le mari de Ani a abandonne sa femme et sa
fille et est partit pour la Russie.

” Chaque nuit, je m’endors et me reveille terrifie a l’idee que ce
bâtiment delabre va tomber “, dit-elle.

Le revenu total de sa famille est de 26000 drams, soit 63 dollars,
y compris les prestations recues par son frère et son enfant.

Ani doute qu’elle pourra trouver un emploi.

Selon le departement provincial du Shirak pour la famille, les femmes
et les enfants, 72 pour cent des femmes de la region sont au chômage,
un taux beaucoup plus eleve que chez les hommes.

Dans Gyumri, les offres d’emploi precisent souvent que les candidates
doivent etre belles, jeunes et avoir un diplôme universitaire.

Vahan Tumasyan, chef du Centre de la culture politique et des Accords
a Gyumri, a distingue de telles annonces – ” entreprise a la recherche
d’une belle fille jusqu’a l’âge de 28 ans afin de travailler comme
femme de menage “, ” magasin a la recherche de femmes jusqu’a l’âge
de 30 ans afin de travailler comme vendeuses ” ; ” restaurant a la
recherche d’une femme bien eduquee jusqu’a 30 ans pour un travail de
serveuse “.

Vahan Tumasyan a declare que les salaires des femmes a Gyumri en
moyenne n’est que de 35000 a 40000 drams, soit environ 85 a 100
dollars par mois, et que beaucoup de femmes prefèrent rester a la
maison et vivrent des prestations.

Yepraxia Kirakosyan, 24 ans, travaille comme coiffeuse depuis huit
mois, mais a quitte son travail a cause de la faible remuneration.

” Je gagnais presque rien pour le travail d’un mois. Une fois que j’ai
gagne 40000 drams, mais le mois suivant je n’ai eu que 10000 drams.

Vous ne pouvez pas vivre avec ca, bien sûr. Tout est cher “, dit-elle.

Les activistes des droits des femmes disent que les attitudes
traditionnelles a l’egard des rôles entre les sexes contribuent a
des taux particulièrement eleves de chômage des femmes.

Vahe Tagvoryan, directeur adjoint de l’ONG Ajakits, qui aide les
femmes et les personnes âgees vulnerables, a declare que de nombreux
hommes ne croient pas que les femmes doivent travailler.

” Il y a beaucoup de familles pauvres a Gyumri, mais les hommes
continuent a ne pas jamais permettre a leurs epouses de travailler
parce qu’ils pensent que c’est deshonorant de travailler comme
serveuses ou dans un magasin “, a declare Tagvoryan. ” Ils pensent
que ce genre de travail pourrait nuire a leur reputation. L’opinion
publique est très importante ici, car la societe condamne les femmes
qui prennent ces emplois “.

Liana Muradyan, 26 ans, vit dans l’auberge avec ses cinq enfants. Le
revenu mensuel de sa famille est 53000 drams, soit 130 dollars. Malgre
leurs difficultes, le mari de Liana Gevorg Mangasaryan 22 ans, refuse
de la laisser travailler.

” Je travaille, et c’est assez. Elle ne pourrait travailler que dans
un cafe où il y a beaucoup de gens qui vont et viennent. Pourquoi
devrais-je lui permettre d’y travailler ? ” a-t-il dit. ” D’ailleurs,
nous avons cinq enfants. Elle doit rester a la maison et prendre soin
d’eux “.

La psychologue Manushak Karapetyan a fait valoir que les dures
attitudes sociales existante expliquent que ” le chômage rend les
hommes a Gyumri agressif et despotique. Ils craignent que si les
femmes commencent a travailler, elles n’auront plus besoin d’eux “.

Lusine Ginosyan, chef du departement regional pour la famille,
les femmes et les enfants a declare que le gouvernement local a
essaye de faire travailler plus de femmes grâce a des programmes de
creation d’emplois et des prets aux entreprises pour les femmes dans
les communes rurales.

” Il est impossible de fournir a toutes les femmes un travail, mais
il est clair que les programmes sont mis en ~uvre et que des progrès
ont ete realises dans ce domaine “, dit-elle.

Roza Hovhannisyan est journaliste pour le quotidien Hayatsk, Nelly
Shishmanyan est une photojournaliste independante et Lusine Avagyan
est une journaliste pigiste en Armenie.

Institute for War & Peace Reporting

vendredi 30 août 2013, Stephane ©armenews.com

US’ War Plan For Syria Is Part Of Greater Israel Project: O’Keefe

US’ WAR PLAN FOR SYRIA IS PART OF GREATER ISRAEL PROJECT: O’KEEFE

Thu Aug 29, 2013 10:16AM GMT

Interview with Ken O’Keefe
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Those that are in the government would carry out the orders of those
who are in charge of them and those that are in charge want another
war and part of that is what we discussed earlier, the Greater Israel
Project, to destabilize any Arab regime which might have any kind
of autonomy and self-determination…, Any regime in the Arab world
that is not an absolute puppet cannot be tolerated and who are the
nations that we target? Those that are not puppets.”

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US stance on Syria based on lies

Press TV has talked with Ken O’Keefe, a former US marine and war
veteran in London, to shed more light on the Western-Arab war rhetoric
on Syria following claims by the Syrian opposition and militants that
the Damascus government used chemical weapons against civilians.

What follows is a rough transcription of the interview.

Press TV: Ken O’Keefe do you agree with that (Lawrence Korb’s
remarks)? I mean some are saying, even the US lawmakers, that what
Lawrence Korb there said, that it amounts to somewhat of a symbolic
type of strike, if anything?

O’Keefe: Well, I do not agree at all. First off, how is it possible
that anybody with any kind of sanity would consider the United States
or Britain or the West in general to be in any kind of position to
be punishing anyone for any illegalities?

If we want to take a look at Iraq, there is at least one million,
probably even close to two million dead. We invaded that country,
destroyed it, created millions of orphans, millions of refugees and
never even so much was apologized for that.

Let us go back to Vietnam where we dropped 20 million bombs, more than
all of World War II combined. We have destroyed so many countries. We
have tortured and killed and maimed and raped around this planet,
who in the hell in their right mind would consider the United States
or the West in general to be in any position to punish anybody?

Never mind the obvious facts that this is a false-flag attack in a
long list of false-flag attacks, which let us get into that please!

Press TV: Ken O’Keefe, it is kind of ironic that you have the UN
Secretary General Ban Ki Moon and the UN Special Envoy Lakhdar Brahimi,
practically if we really look at it, almost begging for the US and
its allies including France and the UK to go to the Security Council
in order to get backing for this, but of course you are saying let
the chemical investigation by the UN inspectors to take place and
for the results come out.

I mean what does that mean in terms of international law, what the US,
UK and France in particular are pursuing here?

O’Keefe: Well, we do not operate under international law. What we
have is the color of law, the law of the jungle in which the rich
and the powerful, basically, determine what goes and what does not
go. Iraq is a perfect example of that.

Why is not Tony Blair and George Bush rotting away in prison cell
for the rest of their lives? Because the law is not being applied.

These are war criminals and they should be in prison for the rest
of their lives, if not executed, if their own rules were adhered to,
for their own crimes.

Not only that, but we need to really understand the truth here. First
off, all of these players, these politicians are nothing more than
puppets. They do not serve the people, there is no real democracy,
they really serve the rich and powerful who run the world and that
would be the bankers who control the money supply.

The bankers, of course, make huge amounts of money, whether they have
made bad investments or not wars are great for them and ultimately
they control the politicians and that is why we see these policies.

Obama and Cameron are nothing more than puppets who read the script
and the script is: We need another war.

And the reason why we need another war, according to the psychopaths
who are running the world, is because more and more people, despite the
clueless masses who continue to be entranced by things so ridiculous
as the X Factor and the American Idol, there are larger numbers of
people around the world who are realizing the truth and beginning
to recapture the capacity to think for themselves and they can see
that these people who have been put in positions of public trust,
are defying that trust and representing an agenda, which they could
never speak about openly, because they are nothing more than …

and nothing more than minions for the powers that be.

Press TV: It is very interesting Ken O’Keefe. I do not know if you
caught the presser that Bashar al-Jafari, Syria’s envoy to the UN had
earlier, a couple of hours back, and he said that this is all because
of Israel, Israel is actually responsible behind the uprisings from
North Africa throughout the Middle East; and this is a push by Israel
onto US to, basically, go and attack Syria.

What is Israel’s role in this, Ken O’Keefe?

O’Keefe: Well, the greater Israel Project is all about destabilizing,
surrounding nations, ultimately in pursuit of this dream of greater
Israel from the Euphrates down to the Nile, all the way over to the
Eastern Mediterranean. This is the dream of these psychopaths and so
destabilizing governments, creating sectarian strife, is all part of
that menu and all part of the design to create a greater Israel. So
that goes …, it is self-evident.

I have to go back to what this gentleman was saying in Washington D.C.

about the Americans not wanting to get involved or Obama not getting
involved.

What are you talking about? We have been arming people, directly,
who are al-Qaeda! Al-Nusrah Front is al-Qaeda! These people are
psychopath to the worst order; they are conducting suicide attacks,
they are gassing people, we know Carla Del Ponte said in May that it
was the so-called rebels in Syria that were using the Sarin gas not
the Bashar al-Assad regime. No it was not!

We know that the United States’ president is arming people who are on
the US terrorist list. He should be convicted of aiding and abetting,
giving material support to a terrorist organization but then again, you
know, what we are …, we the West, the United States and in particular
Israel and Britain, are the biggest terrorists on the planet.

So our little junior partners and al-Qaeda, which is nothing more than
a CIA database, thus the name al-Qaeda, this is nothing more than a
group of terrorists working together each playing one different role
but all of them working together for the same goal which is to maintain
this hideous and sick and twisted unjust world that we have, which is a
perpetual state of war. Always one illusion, one bogyman after another
but the fact is that Obama is nothing more than a puppet war criminal
just like his predecessors and every other US president before him.

So please do not tell people out there that the US is not involved. It
is directly involved and it is arming people who are absolute
psychopaths.

Press TV: Ken O’Keefe yesterday Walid al-Muallem and then we had Bashar
al-Jaafari today talk about how they have allowed the inspectors to
go in, but it seems and why is that …, and I am thinking do not
they have intelligence? Does not the United States already know who
is behind this? It is obvious it is not the Syrian government.

An analyst has said two possibilities: One, obviously being the
insurgents who have this and at a very low scale perhaps, maybe some
low-ranking soldiers of the Syrian army not carrying through orders
of not using chemical weapons but going out on their own which he
has said there is a very small possibility of that.

Why does not the US want to wait along with its allies for the
inspectors to analyze what has come out and then make an announcement
based on that before they move in or attack?

O’Keefe: Because the United States has never been interested in
anything other than war. The United States is in a perpetual state
of war because the bankers control the politicians and they read the
script as given to them by the banksters and they make huge amounts
of money off of this.

What this gentleman is saying about the United States not wanting
war and not wanting to get involved in this like Iraq 2.0. It is a
repeat of the same rubbish that was said: Oh! We do not want war! War
is the last resort. That is absolutely untrue, it is a lie.

Those that are in the government are nothing more than … who would
carry out the orders of those who are in charge of them and those that
are in charge want another war and part of that is what we discussed
earlier, the Greater Israel Project, to destabilize any Arab regime
which might have any kind of autonomy and self-determination.

Any regime in the Arab world that is not an absolute puppet cannot
be tolerated and who are the nations that we target? Those that are
not puppets. We do not target those like the Saudi regime, which is
the biggest human rights violator in that region. It is cutting off
peoples’ heads in public, cutting off hands, it is the most grotesque
regime on the planet and yet we give that regime weapons and it is
no problem whatsoever.

The duplicity and hypocrisy of the United States and the West cannot
even be measured, it is so enormous and these mouthpieces such as
this gentleman in Washington is only doing the disservice to himself
and his country and the fact is that the American sons and daughters
will get involved in this yet again and these chicken hawks who are
pretending to care about the Syrian people are going to be sacrificing
not their own sons and daughters, I would like this man to send his
sons and daughters and his grandchildren off to Syria when this turns
into a greater conflict because this is what we are flirting with,
[it] is a world war, a third world war, this is not a joke.

We are flirting with the Third World War on the basis that apparently
we care so much about the Syrian people, just like we cared so much
about the Iraqi people and the Afghani people. The only people that
by this sort of stuff are either bought off … or the dumbest of
the dumb!

And we are also led to believe that Assad is the dumbest idiot dictator
on the planet. Now, is not he? Because he invited the UN inspectors to
come in and he brought them in; [and] on the very day that they come
in, he decides to attack his own people ten miles away from where the
inspectors arrived! This is beyond ridiculous and the only people to
buy this, again, are bought off … or the dumbest of the dumb!

Press TV: Ken O’Keefe we have alluded to this throughout this
conversation and debate but there are many who are not buying the US’
viewpoints, they are not buying what the UK and France are doing along
with the US. Because they are saying that what US is saying limited
in scope is not going to hardly cripple Assad’s sizable military
infrastructure and forces unless this is a wider-scale war.

Do you think that is what we are looking at?

O’Keefe: Well, there is no question that they do not intend for
limited strikes and that is not going to do anything. They want to
go in full-scale, that is the plan. Of course they will use a pretext
to justify the initial attack and then they will concoct more things
to justify a greater involvement.

The Daily Mail reported here in the UK, and it is commonly understood
to those who are paying attention that defense contractors, leaked
emails from defense contractors, proved that there was already an
approved plan from Obama …, to give these psychopath terrorist
al-Nusrah Front, chemical weapons!

We know that al-Nusrah Front, 12 individuals in Turkey were caught with
two kilos of Sarin gas, where did they get that from? And this is,
you know, clearly a false flag. We understand this to be true and it
is the only way that they could justify an attack at all.

And I have to say that I am happy that the gentleman in Washington
mentioned [General Martin E.] Dempsey, General Dempsey of the Joint
Chiefs [of Staff], because I tell you what, more than anything else
it is the true American patriots, those who were sick and tired of
having given up their lives to, basically, serve the American dream,
the American nation, the constitution that they swore to uphold.

It is those military men and women, it is you now, it is coming to
you now! Are you a patriot or are you not? Are you going to let your
nation to [be] sent even further into the chaos and corruption that
has been so sick and so twisted, that is destroying the American
lives, as well as the rest of the world, to the tune of 22 American
servicemen a day, who are committing suicide.

Are you going to sacrifice more of your American sons and daughters
for Israeli wars? For Zionist wars? Are you going to continue to do
that because you are not a patriot?

You are in fact aiding and abetting the terrorists [that] you
supposedly think you are fighting against! And those Americans who
are waking up to this, I hope to God, in the military in particular,
that refuse your orders and this is why the people of America who
were refusing to buy this nonsense, their overwhelming majority, do
not support any kind of attack on Syria and those in the military, I
know that the powers that be are very, very frightened that higher-ups
within the military will refuse the orders and I hope that this is
exactly what happens if an attack on Syria occurs.

MY/NN

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Armenia’s Premier Receives Georgia’s Vice-Premier

ARMENIA’S PREMIER RECEIVES GEORGIA’S VICE-PREMIER

21:48 29.08.13

Armenia’s Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan received on Thursday a
delegation led by Georgia’s Vice-Premier, Minister of Economy and
Sustainable Development George Kvirikashvili.

“We must continue our efforts to develop our ties, which meets our
peoples’ interests. We have to create a common area for our peoples
to freely cooperate in different areas, which will afford ample
opportunities for expanding economic ties,” Armenia’s premier said.

He pointed out mutual understanding of all the aspects of
Armenian-Georgian relations.

For his part, Georgia’s vice-premier noted that Georgia’s authorities
are interested in implementing mutually beneficial investment projects
and in strengthening ties in various areas.

The sides discussed cooperation in transport communication,
agriculture, tourism, customs clearance, as well as the resumption
of the Yerevan-Tbilisi flight.

The sides also stressed the importance of meetings of the
Armenian-Georgian intergovernmental commission and arranged to organize
a meeting in the near future.

Armenian News – Tert.am

Freedom-Fighters Hold Rally In Yerevan’s Freedom Square (Updated) Vi

FREEDOM-FIGHTERS HOLD RALLY IN YEREVAN’S FREEDOM SQUARE (UPDATED) VIDEOS

[ Part 2.2: “Attached Text” ]

Armenian News – Tert.am
20:43 ~U 29.08.13

Freedom-fighters’ rally has kicked off in Freedom Square in Yerevan,
Armenia.

They are calling for combining efforts to improve the situation in
the country.

Last week, Chairman of the Heritage party Raffi Hovannisian announced
his intention to participate in the rally.

Among the participants is member of the former Karabakh Committee
Ashot Manucharyan. Also, Vice-Chairman of the Heritage party Armen
Martirosyan participated in the two previous rallies.

Ashot Manucharyan called the rally “the military council’s open
meeting.” He was highly critical of Armenia’s mass media for
humiliating freedom-fighters (participants in the Nagorno-Karabakh
war of liberation) by claiming that they hold rallies for the only
purpose of having their own problems solved.

“All the local mass media are engaged in this campaign. But we are
well aware who their masters are,” Manucharyan said.

Manvel Yeghiazaryan, commander of the Arabo detachment, stated that
Armenia has over the past 20 years committed blunders. But it is not
the right moment to recall them now.

Yeghiazaryan called on the participants to be strong and face
difficulties with courage.

“We are often afraid of saying something. That’s why we are in this
situation now,” he said.

Freedom-fighters are determined to defend Armenia’s people to the
end and they have no intention to leave Armenia.

The next rally is scheduled for September 5.

A number of students made speeches at the rally as well.

“We have come out to force these dregs of society to invalidate their
unlawful decisions,” said Harutyun Lazarian, a student at Yerevan
State University.

He announced students’ intention to start a struggle and make their
demands.

 

http://www.tert.am/en/video/7HDRc2HAyw8/
http://www.tert.am/en/video/xzODOI6rAIk/

Statement Of The NKR MFA Circulated In The UN

STATEMENT OF THE NKR MFA CIRCULATED IN THE UN

On August 28 the statement the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the
Nagorno-Karabakh Republic of August 14, 2013, was circulated as a
document of the General Assembly and Security Council in the United
Nations Organization.

In its statement the NKR MFA expresses grave concern over the
fraudulent campaign by Azerbaijan the most recent examples of which
were the circulation of the letter in the UN calling upon its Member
States to warn their citizens against visiting the NKR “without
the prior authorization of the government of Azerbaijan” as well as
publication of a list of people declared personae non gratae by the
Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Azerbaijan because of their visits to
the NKR.

The MFA statement particularly reads that deluded by its language of
threats and hostility, Azerbaijan has made a step forward in a wrong
direction, and threatens with sanctions against the third countries
nationals visiting the NKR. Such a policy of Azerbaijan fits perfectly
into the logic of its domestic human rights record that it is striving
to impose upon foreign citizens.

The Ministry for Foreign Affairs of the NKR welcomes and encourages
the visits of foreign nationals, both officials and tourists, to the
NKR. Such visits and people to people contacts in general contribute
to the creation of an atmosphere of confidence and co-operation in
the region and are essential for the international community to get
truthful and objective information about the NKR.

NKR MFA Press Service

18:18 29/08/2013 Story from Lragir.am News:

http://www.lragir.am/index/eng/0/politics/view/30758

Expert: Armenian Government Must Encourage Development Of Small And

EXPERT: ARMENIAN GOVERNMENT MUST ENCOURAGE DEVELOPMENT OF SMALL AND MEDIUM-SIZED BUSINESS

August 29, 2013 | 17:10

YEREVAN. – Amid the global crisis, development of small and
medium-sized business is a key factor, especially for such a country
as Armenia which is not rich in natural resources

Pavel Sigal, President of the Center of Microfinancing and chairman of
coordination council on small and medium-sized business in Tatarstan,
is confident that the state must not support only the IT companies but
those which are background of small business: the companies dealing
with trade and services.

“Small business must be regarded not as micro business or private
business, but a social entity,” he told Armenian News-NEWS.am.

“If a family is being engaged in some productive work, is creating
added value and is not leaving the country, it already has the
greatest benefit. In this context, support for any small business
is a key factor,” he emphasized, adding that liberal legislation and
low taxes are a necessary prerequisite for SMBs development.

News from Armenia – NEWS.am

This Month In Armenian History Signature Of The Treaty Of Sevres (Au

THIS MONTH IN ARMENIAN HISTORY SIGNATURE OF THE TREATY OF SEVRES (AUGUST 10, 1920)

Nor Or Weekly – Thursday August 29, 2013

The victory of the Allies in World War I imposed the signature of
a series of treaties to end the war and legalize the defeat of the
Central Powers (Germany, Austria-Hungary, the Ottoman Empire, and
Bulgaria). The Peace Conference of Paris, which opened in January 1919,
prepared a package of treaties.

Four treaties were signed with Germany (Versailles, June 1919), Austria
(Saint-Germain, September 1919), Bulgaria (Neuilly, November 1919),
and Hungary (Trianon, June 1920). The fifth and last was with the
Ottoman Empire.

Negotiations about the terms of the treaty with Turkey dragged on
until mid-1920. They started at the Peace Conference, continued at
the Conference of London (February 1920), and took definite shape
only after the Prime Minister’s meeting at the San Remo Conference
(April 1920).

The delay was the result of the inability of the triumphant powers
to come to an agreement, and in turn, this allowed the beginning and
development of the Turkish national movement, which by the time of
the signature of the Treaty of Sevres was seriously challenging the
authority of the Ottoman government.

The treaty was signed in an exhibition room at the famous porcelain
factory in Sèvres, outside Paris. It was signed by Great Britain,
France, Italy, Japan, Belgium, Greece, Poland, Portugal, Romania,
Armenia, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, and Hejaz, on one side, and the
Ottoman Empire on the other. Avetis Aharonian, as President of the
Delegation of the Republic, signed on behalf of Armenia.

The treaty liquidated the Ottoman Empire. In Asia, Turkey renounced
sovereignty over Mesopotamia (Iraq) and Palestine (including Jordan),
which became British mandates; Syria (including Lebanon), which became
a French mandate; and the kingdom of Hejaz (now Saudi Arabia). Turkey
retained Anatolia but was to grant autonomy to Kurdistan. Armenia
became a separate republic, and Smyrna (modern Izmir) and its
environs were placed under Greek administration pending a plebiscite
to determine its permanent status. In Europe, Turkey ceded parts of
Eastern Thrace and certain Aegean islands to Greece, and the Dodecanese
and Rhodes to Italy, retaining only Constantinople (modern Istanbul)
and its environs, including the Zone of the Straits (Dardanelles and
Bosphorus), which was neutralized and internationalized.

Armenia was recognized de jure as an independent republic by Turkey.

Both countries agreed to leave the delimitation of the borders in
the provinces of Erzerum, Trabizond, Van, and Bitlis to the arbitral
award of U.S.

President Woodrow Wilson, including his proposals for an outlet to
the Black Sea forArmenia and the demilitarization of the border.

(The award was presented to the Allied powers on November 22, 1920,
and left to Armenia a territory of 90,000 square kilometers, which,
including the actual territory of the independent republic, would
become a total of 161,730 square kilometers.) The Armenian borders with
Azerbaijan and Georgia would be resolved through direct negotiations
among the sides. The Ottoman law of 1915 on abandoned property was
declared illegal, while the Ottoman government ensured its cooperation
to deliver war criminals, including people responsible for massacres,
to military courts and to find and rescue people who had disappeared
or been deprived of their liberty after November 1914.

The treaty was accepted by the government of Sultan Mehmed VI at
Istanbul but was rejected by the rival nationalist government of Kemal
Ataturk at Ankara. Ataturk’s separate treaty with the USSR and his
subsequent victory over Greece during the “war of independence” forced
the Allies to negotiate a new treaty in 1923 (Treaty of Lausanne),
where the Treaty of Sevres was superseded.

Nevertheless, Wilson’s award became law of the land, while the U.S.

Congress never ratified the Treaty of Lausanne.

The Treaty of Sevres, despite having never been put into practice,
remains grounds for Armenian territorial reclamations.

Prepared by the Armenian National Education Committee

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Turkey Aims To Get Rid Of Syrian-Armenians: Orientalist

TURKEY AIMS TO GET RID OF SYRIAN-ARMENIANS: ORIENTALIST

[ Part 2.2: “Attached Text” ]

16:54, 29 August, 2013

YEREVAN, AUGUST 29, ARMENPRESS. The Turkish authorities target several
goals in Syria, and one of those goals is to get rid of the powerful
Armenian community of Syria. Prof. Ruben Safrastyan, the Director
of the Institute of Oriental Studies of Armenian National Academy
of Sciences and Professor of History and Turkish Studies at the
Yerevan State University, stated this at the course of the press
conference convoked on August 29. Among other things the expert
stated that Turkey seeks its own goals in Syria and wants to get rid
of the current authorities of the country. As reports “Armenpress”
in addition Ruben Safrastyan underscored: “Turkey also wants to
get rid of the Armenian community in Syria, because the Armenian
communities of Aleppo, Damascus, and other cities as well are among
the cornerstones of the Western Armenians.”

http://armenpress.am/eng/print/730953/turkey-aims-to-get-rid-of-syrian-armenians-orientalist.html

Haykakan Zhamanak: Attempts Made To Hush Up Financial Pyramid Case’

HAYKAKAN ZHAMANAK: ATTEMPTS MADE TO HUSH UP FINANCIAL PYRAMID CASE’

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Thursday,August 29

‘Haykakan Zhamanak’ says that to all appearances, attempts are
being made to hush up the criminal case relating to the creation
of a financial pyramid by high-ranking police officials. The scheme
members attracted by deception$2.5 million from citizens.

The daily was informed by the Special Investigation Service of Armenia
(SIS) that a person has been detained in connection with the criminal
case, but his name and details were not given.

According to the daily’s sources, a certain A.A. who was in fact
running the pyramid has been detained. He was also a coordinator of
the currency exchange outlet located in Moskvichka supermarket. The
newspaper was informed that SIS believes that the financial pyramid
embezzled only $25 thousand. Even the citizen who was the first to
file a complaint and who lost $50 thousand has not been recognized
as an aggrieved person.

“To all appearances, the detained man will pay $25 thousand to
repair the damage and the criminal case will be closed. The chief of
Yerevan police Nerses Nazarian was dismissed as part of the criminal
case. The chief of police of the city of Gyumri, Karen Babakekhian,
who was also questioned during the investigation, continues to work.

It is obvious that the case will be closed and no high-ranking
policeman will suffer severe punishment,” the paper writes.

 

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