Pan-European Conference Launched In Armenia’s Parliament

PAN-EUROPEAN CONFERENCE LAUNCHED IN ARMENIA’S PARLIAMENT

11:30, 3 July, 2013

YEREVAN, JULY 3, ARMENPRESS. Within the framework of Armenia’s
chairmanship in the Committee in Ministers of the Council of Europe
the Pan-European conference titled “The European Standards on the Rule
of Law and the Scope of Discretion of Powers in the member states of
the Council of Europe” launched its activities in the Session Hall of
the National Assembly of the Republic of Armenia on July 3. About 80
representatives from 32 countries and international structures take
part in the conference.

The Chairman of the European Court of Human Rights Dean Spielmann, who
has also arrived in Yerevan on this occasion, laid a heavy emphasis on
the significance of the conference and stated that he is hopeful that
the meetings of this kind will have traditional character. As reports
“Armenpress” the Chairman of the European Court of Human Rights Dean
Spielmann noted: “This conference is of a certain importance, as it
is held within the framework ofArmenia’s chairmanship. Armenia has
already recorded an achievement at the course of the chairmanship by
signing the 15th protocol.”

The President of the Venice Commission Gianni Buquicchio highlighted
that this has already become a good tradition for the Venice
Commission. “We are glad that this conference is held in Armenia and
it’s very good that it launched at the course of the chairmanship. I
should say that the decisions must be adopted taking into consideration
the social reality and we cannot compel the courts to follow the
laws blindly,” Gianni Buquicchio emphasized. Among other things he
stressed that the modern state must be flexible to be able to respond
all the problems.

http://armenpress.am/eng/news/724853/pan-european-conference-launched-in-armenias-parliament.html

Armenia Committed To European Values: Speaker

ARMENIA COMMITTED TO EUROPEAN VALUES: SPEAKER

YEREVAN, July 3. /ARKA/. Armenia is committed to European values and
is ready to integrate into the big European family, speaker of Armenian
National Assembly Hovik Abrahamyan said at the opening of a conference
on European criteria for rule of law, Novosti-Armenia reported.

The two-day conference started in Yerevan Wednesday. About 80
representatives from 32 countries and international organizations
participate in the conference.

The event is held in the framework of Armenia’s chairmanship in the
CE Committee of Ministers.

Armenian speaker said the conference makes the rule of law accessible
and understandable not only to European, but also to other countries
having still a lot to do in the field.

According to Abrahamyan, Armenia has successful experience of collating
legal norms and the national system of values.

The speaker also reminded about prominent Armenian public figure Shamir
Shamiryan who described the model of a modern democratic state back
in XVIII century.-0–

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Georgian PM Pledges To Reopen Railway Via Abkhazia

GEORGIAN PM PLEDGES TO REOPEN RAILWAY VIA ABKHAZIA

July 03, 2013 | 12:39

The railway link passing through Abkhazia will definitely be restored.

Georgian Prime Minister Bidzina Ivanishvili stated the aforementioned
on Wednesday, but he added that time is needed for this to be brought
to fruition.

In his words, this railway is indispensable in terms of Georgia’s
economic development and normalizing relations with the Abkhaz.

“The more roads we have, that much greater are the chances for
development, and this is an axiom,” Ivanishvili said, Gruzia Online
news agency of Georgia reports.

The Georgian PM noted, however, that problems have risen on the
road to the implementation of this project, since this matter is
“much politicized.”

“First of all, we should have explained to our people the need to
restore this railway. I think we have achieved this, and we will
begin to move forward in this direction,” Bidzina Ivanishvili stressed.

News from Armenia – NEWS.am

Azerbaijan Breaches Truce Over 7,030 Times Since Beginning Of 2013

AZERBAIJAN BREACHES TRUCE OVER 7,030 TIMES SINCE BEGINNING OF 2013

July 03, 2013 | 03:29

YEREVAN. – Azerbaijan violated the ceasefire, at its boundaries with
Armenia and the Nagorno-KarabakhRepublic, more than 7,030 times since
the beginning of 2013.

The Azerbaijani Armed Forces made use of sniper weaponry close to
1,120 times and large-caliber weapons, around 3,850 times-including
large-caliber sniper weaponry, close to 240 times-, the Armenian
MOD reports.

As a result of Azerbaijan’s breach of the truce, three Armenian
military servicemen were killed and nine others were wounded. In
addition, a civilian was wounded.

Azerbaijan had violated the ceasefire 16,300 times in 2012.

To note, Azerbaijan continually sets new “records” in terms of
breaching the truce in recent years. It violated the ceasefire
approximately 600 times in 2006; around 1,400 times in 2007; 3,500
times in 2008; virtually 4,600 times in 2009; 7,200 times in 2010;
and more than 12,600 times in 2011.

News from Armenia – NEWS.am

Armenia’s Domestic Trade Turnover Amounted To 757.7 Billion Drams In

ARMENIA’S DOMESTIC TRADE TURNOVER AMOUNTED TO 757.7 BILLION DRAMS IN JANUARY-MAY

YEREVAN, July 3. /ARKA/. Armenia’s domestic trade turnover amounted
to 757.7 billion drams in January-May, a 4.3% increase from the same
period of the year before, ArmStat reported.

Retail trade only totaled 472.3 billion drams (3.7% increase) and
constituted 62.3% of the overall turnover, according to the report.

Wholesale accounted for 33.9% of the turnover and amounted to about
256.6 billion drams.

According to the statistics,

Most part of the retail trade (70.1% or 330.8bln drams) was the shop
trade. Consumer goods market trading amounted to about 31.5bln drams
or 6.7%. ($1=410.81drams).-0-

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Nora Armani To Organize Film Festival In New York

NORA ARMANI TO ORGANIZE FILM FESTIVAL IN NEW YORK

Tuesday, July 2nd, 2013

Nora Armani and Mike Camoin

BY PETER BELSITO
>From Sydney’s Buzz Blog

In Cannes recently we met with Nora and Mike and were taken by their
ambitious plans to organize a new New York City and state based film
fest that deals mainly with the type of films we love the most. They
bring impressive qualifications to this new task and we look forward
next year to participating. The Rated SR “Socially Relevant” New
York Film Festival Shines New Light on Film Violence. Nora Armani,
Festival Founding Artistic Director, recently announced this new
Film Festival to launch in both New York City and Rensselaerville,
New York on March 14-20, 2014.

Entitled ‘Rated SR’ for Socially Relevant, the festival is a response
to the proliferation of violence and related social ills in today’s
movie industry. The fest aims to satisfy a market need to concentrate
more on everyday positive human stories seeking an audience.

The Downstate-Upstate event will provide Festival attendees and
public alike with the best of both worlds: the buzz of Manhattan and
the rural setting of Rensselaerville. The main goal of the Festival
is to support filmmakers who are producing films that tackle the
tough social and environmental issues of the day without relying on
gratuitous violence or sensationalism to draw in an audience.

“Rated SR aims to show that socially relevant films can be of high
artistic value, educate, enlighten, but most of all equally entertain
and be commercially viable,” said Armani who holds extensive festival
organizing and curatorial skills honed from decades of experience in
the United States and overseas markets. Armani organized film weeks
at London’s ICA, Cine Lumiere, AFI in Los Angeles and Kennedy Centre,
collaborated with Paris’s Pompidou Centre, The Edinburgh and Cambridge
Film Festivals and the International Film Festival Rotterdam. Armani
had her films in the official selection of the Cannes Film Festival
and is invited to attend the Producers Network at the Cannes Film
Festival this year.

Armani is joined in organizing “Rated SR” by Mike Camoin,
Founder of the Festival’s Filmmaker’s Lab that will take place
March 18-20th during the Upstate portion of the fest. Camoin is
an Albany-based filmmaker, producer and director with a number
of completed documentaries and shorts. Camoin is currently in
post-production with “An American Life: The Journey from Violence
to Hope” centered on mental illness and criminal justice featuring
David Kaczynski. Armani and Camoin met serendipitously in Rotterdam
during the fest’s synergetic industry forum and quickly discovered a
mutual interest in non-violent storytelling. It is this synergy they
want to carry over to New York with “Rated SR.”

Joining Armani and Camoin is Carol Ash, President of the Carey Center
for Global Good, in Rensselaerville, NY, which will host the Upstate
section of the Festival on its 100-acre campus. “The Carey Center
for Global Good’s mission is bringing together innovative and dynamic
people from around the world to seek creative solutions to the most
pressing challenges of the day. Rated SR’s theme of nonviolence make
this partnership particularly unique,” said Ash whose facility began
hosting dialogues through film in 2012.

“We’re quite fortunate to have found a partner in the Carey Center
for Global Good,” stated Camoin.

Keeping with the tradition of the institute, the Upstate retreat
center is an ideal facility for filmmakers to gather in a supportive
environment and move their respective and significant stories to
completion. “The screening and lab components are designed to be
complimentary,” he noted.

Henry Ford once said “Coming together is a beginning, staying together
is progress, and working together is success.” The film festival
also coincides with growing trends related to socially conscientious
consumers. A number of independent research studies show there is
a growing desire by consumers around the globe to do business with
socially conscious companies.

Armani is a seasoned actor and filmmaker who notably draws her
inspiration, among others, from the work of Sherry Lansing, Oprah
Winfrey and Nelson Mandela.

Armani studied drama and sociology in England and currently divides
her time between London, Paris and New York. Her most recent work
“Moving Stories” will screen at the Monaco Film Festival in the
official selection in May 2013.

Mike Camoin is founding member and former President of Upstate
Independents, Inc. He is an advisory board member to The New School of
Radio and Television, and serves as a consultant to the Albany Film
Commission. He’s appeared on Vox-Pop with WAMC’s public radio Alan
Chartock discussing all things independent motion pictures. Camoin
is also attending the Producers Network at the Cannes Film Festival.

The Carey Center for Global Good, located on an historic 100-acre
estate, features a unique setting for conferences, meetings, events
and retreats. The mission of the Carey Center for Global Good is to
bring together innovative and dynamic people from around the world
to seek creative solutions to the most pressing challenges of the day.

http://asbarez.com/111029/nora-armani-to-organize-film-festival-in-new-york/

Karabakh Minister: Sarsag Dam In Safe Hands

KARABAKH MINISTER: SARSAG DAM IN SAFE HANDS

July 03, 2013 | 00:59

STEPANAKERT. – Karabakh Infrastructure Minister Hakob Gaghramanyan
has dismissed Azerbaijani media reports alleging that Sarsag reservoir
situated in Nagorno-Karabakh is collapsing.

“The reports are untrue. Sarsag dam is in safe hands,” he told
Armenian News-NEWS.am.

Earlier Trend agency reported that Azerbaijan plans to appeal to
the European Parliament to clarify the situation over the dam. The
initiative is launched by the headquarters of the president of the
Association for Civil Society Development in Azerbaijan.

Commenting on Azerbaijan’s plans, Gaghramanyan recalled that
Nagorno-Karabakh is open for representative of the European agencies
in particular and the international community on the whole.

News from Armenia – NEWS.am

Une Recolte De Nuit A Eu Lieu Au Karabagh

UNE RECOLTE DE NUIT A EU LIEU AU KARABAGH

Pour la première fois les cultures de cereales ont ete ramassees dans
les champs pendant la nuit dans la region d’Askeran dans la Republique
du Haut-Karabagh selon la television publique d’Artsakh.

La recolte de 2013 est actuellement en cours au Karabagh. Le Premier
ministre Ara Harutiunyan et d’autres fonctionnaires ont observe la
première recolte de nuit.

Ce fut un succès a declare le ministre de l’Agriculture Andranik
Khachatryan. ” Le principe de ” deux equipes par moissonneuse-batteuse
” nous permettra de faire des recoltes en deux temps. Dans un proche
avenir, nous allons essayer de faire que les qualifications techniques
des moissonneuses-batteuses allemandes nous permettent de recueillir
des cultures pendant la nuit ” a declare Khachatryan.

Un responsable du ministère de l’agriculture a declare qu’il y a plus
de 29000 hectares de champs de ble d’hiver semes dans le pays et plus
de 20000 hectares d’orge semes.

mercredi 3 juillet 2013, Stephane ©armenews.com

De Armenia A Boedo Con La Cultura Del Trabajo Al Hombro

DE ARMENIA A BOEDO CON LA CULTURA DEL TRABAJO AL HOMBRO

Nuevo Ciclo, Argentina
Martes 2 de julio de 2013

Harovtioun Kiolesserian es hijo de sobrevivientes del genocidio
armenio, vivio en Grecia y llego al barrio en los 50, donde se asento
con el oficio de cueros y zapatos. Su historia es parte del legado
cultural que caracteriza el sur boedense.

Al caminar la avenida Boedo y pasar bajo el techo de la Autopista 25
de Mayo uno queda frente al legado armenio en plena accion. Cuadras
y cuadras en bajada con negocios especializados en cueros, tintas,
suelas. La especializacion atrae a propios y ajenos del rubro.

A fines de abril, en particular en la víspera del 24, se podía ver
en las vidrieras de estos negocios pancartas con la bandera de Armenia.

Junto a las franjas rojas, azules y naranjas se acoplaba la consigna
de justicia y memoria por el genocidio armenio, que se evoca todos
los años en esta epoca con actos y marchas. Los vecinos del barrio
de descendencia evocaron a sus muertos en la cotidianeidad del trabajo.

En particular, al 1321 de Boedo esta Policuer, el negocio de
Harovtioun Kiolesserian. Suelas, cueros curtidos, tintas se reparten
en la vidriera y en el interior. El aroma es una constante y el tono
marron se impone como una las primeras sensaciones del lugar.

Al fondo, despues de pasar el mostrador, espera Harovtioun en su
escritorio. A su espalda, sobre la pared, un cuero pintado evoca un
gaucho de las pampas argentinas, quien es custodiado de un lado por la
estampa del patriarca de la iglesia armenia y al otro por una bandera
de su país. La mística del crisol de razas se manifiesta tambien en
los pequeños detalles.

Harovtioun se sento a hablar con Nuevo Ciclo en las vísperas del 98
aniversario del genocidio armenio, momento en la historia cuando
Turquía masacro millones de personas. De ese horror escaparon sus
padres: “Llegaron a Grecia, donde nací el 2 de abril de 1930. En ese
país rige la Ley de la sangre, por lo que mi nacionalidad es la de
mis progenitores”.

Mañana zarpa un barco

La tierra helenica fue su horizonte hasta los veinte años de edad.

Entonces, el Río de la Plata se convirtio en su huevo hogar. Así las
comunidades armenias fueron dando en distintos puertos, en distintos
países para reinventarse tras el sufrimiento.

“Nos radicamos fines del 50 en Lanús Oeste. Trabajamos un tiempo de
obreros y luego fabricamos zapatos Luis XV, de buena calidad. Eramos
la familia nuestra mi padre, dos hermanas y dos hermanos. Los seis
trabajabamos de 6 de mañana a 11 de la noche. A fuerza de sacrificio
salimos adelante en el país”, recuerda.

Luego, su vida se encamino hacia este barrio. “Estabamos vendiendo
tintas Duran (al igual que en el presente), firma que en sus almacenes
a fin de año se organizaban cenas de trabajadores. Entre copas y copas,
un señor dijo que vendía un local en Boedo. Mi hermano se ofrecio a
comprarlo. Sellaron el acuerdo en el momento”, suma y sonríe.

Esa epoca de crecimiento laboral Harovtioun primero la padecio: “Me
quede con el doble trabajo en el local de Lanús”. Aunque tambien fue el
inicio de una epoca que hasta el día de hoy disfruta: “En ese momento
me puse de novio con mi señora. Ella tambien nacio en Grecia, Atenas”.

Así fue como, 47 años atras, se casaban un 23 de abril. Harovtioun
explica: “La ceremonia fue alegre, con familiares. Al día siguiente se
conmemoraba el día del genocidio. Elegimos esa semana porque despues
de pascua, los 40 días del carnaval hasta pascuas no hay casamientos
en la iglesia nuestra. Junto a nosotros se habían casado tambien
otras siete parejas”.

Dar identidad a Boedo

El de Harovtioun y toda su familia es el testimonio de primera línea
de como haciendo valer su conocimiento y oficio, los armenios abrieron
persianas de a decenas en el barrio, en paralelo a otras zonas como
el Bajo Flores o Palermo, hoy sede de escuelas, teatros y templos.

“El armenio cuando esta fuera de su país siempre trata de tener un
trabajo propio que puedan trabajar adentro en casa: sastre, confeccion
de calzado, cueros. Cuando hay armonía en casa todo sale perfecto”,
sostiene.

“La ventaja de Boedo cuando se amplía en el barrio hay almacenes de
suelas, esa zona se amplio con los años, esa es la ventaja. El barrio
con los almacenes es de competencia al haber muchos comercios. Ahí
tiene ventaja el fabricante cuando viene por calidad y precio”,
destaca sobre la zona.

Así en el barrio como en el país, Harovtioun se ha sentido a gusto en
esta tierra. Es mas, en esta charla se muestra mas que satisfecho de
que Argentina -a traves de la Ley Nacional 26.199 de 2007- reconocio
el genocidio armenio al conmemorar todos los 24 de abril el “Día de
accion por la tolerancia y el respeto entre los pueblos”.

“Gracias a esta epoca se hizo justicia con nuestro pueblo. Tambien es
de destacar como las nuevas generaciones se hacen eco de sus raíces y
mantienen vivas nuestras tradiciones, a fuerza de trabajo y tenacidad”,
exclama el vecino de Boedo.

En este sentido, el Consejo Nacional Armenio de Sudamerica resalta
este aspecto de “educar en la memoria” para fortalecer “el respeto y
la defensa de los derechos humanos”, materializado en la experiencia
de una diaspora que representa en el país a 135 mil ciudadanos.

A pesar de las amarguras y los momentos de injustica, Harovtioun sonríe
junto a Daniel y Zarina, sus hijos y vuelve a exclamar por esta vida:
“Mi nombre significa en armenio resucitar y mi apellido rosa de los
vientos, eso explica muchas cosas”.

Juan Castro

http://www.nuevociclo.com/de_armenia_a_boedo_2013.htm

Soccer: Henrikh Mkhitaryan Would Make ‘Big Mistake’ Joining Liverpoo

HENRIKH MKHITARYAN WOULD MAKE ‘BIG MISTAKE’ JOINING LIVERPOOL FC

Click Liverpool, UK
July 2 2013

by Richard Buxton.

Henrikh Mkhitaryan has been warned that joining Liverpool would be a
‘big mistake’.

Shakhtar Donetsk manager Mircea Lucescu believes the highly-rated
24-year-old, who has been heavily linked with a switch to the Reds
this summer, would be a sidestep for his career.

Mkhitaryan has failed to report for training with the Ukrianian
champions last week amid growing speculation of a move to the Premier
League, with Tottenham Hotspur also thought to be tracking the
midfielder, who scored a prolific 24 league goals for Shakhtar last
season.

But Lucescu feels that the three-time Armenian player of the year
would not benefit from plying his trade in England and insists that
there is still a road to redemption for him should he choose to
reverse his decision and remain with the Champions League regulars.

He said: “It is his decision, his desire, but there is still time for
him to change his mind, because I think he is making a big mistake.

“I can understand the urge to leave if he has a chance to go to a club
that surpasses Shakhtar, like Barcelona or Real Madrid, but not many
clubs are beyond our level – not clubs like Liverpool or Tottenham.

“We are a strong club with 50,000 passionate supporters every week,
and every year we are fighting for the league, the cups and the
Champions League.

“This place is good for him, and he is making a mistake if he thinks
there are many teams above this level.”

http://www.clickliverpool.com/sport/liverpool-fc-news/1219207-henrikh-mkhitaryan-would-make-big-mistake-joining-liverpool-fc.html