Author: Badalian Vardan

LE SERVICE DE SECURITE ARMENIEN ” NIE ” TOUTE INFILTRATION TERRORISTE
Stephane

armenews.com
mercredi 26 septembre 2012

Le Service de Securite Nationale (NSS) a dementi les informations
difffusees par les medias qui pretendent qu’un groupe de militants
radicaux Islamiques a pu entrer en Armenie pour effectuer une attaque
terroriste a l’encontre de la mission diplomatique americaine suite
a la projection d’un film caricaturant l’islam.

Le quotidien ” Haykakan Zhamanak ” avait annonce mardi que le NSS
et les forces de police ont ete mis en alerte rouge jusqu’a la fin
de la semaine après que des fonctionnaires americains aient averti
les autorites armeniennes que des terroristes islamistes pouvaient
cibler l’Armenie.

Il a pretendu que la police a son tour a alerte les etablissements
d’etat et de grandes societes privees d’une telle possibilite.

Le journal dans son edition de mercredi, a dit que ” les terroristes ”
presumes en provenance d’Afghanistan pouvaient deja etre dans le pays.

Il a cite que le porte-parole du NSS Artsvin Baghramian n’a pas
nie cela.

Artsvin Baghramian a dit au service armenien de RFE/RL (Azatutyun.am),
que l’information du journal Haykakan Zhamanak est ” fausse et ne
correspond pas a la realite “.

L’Ambassade americaine en Armenie figure parmi les missions
diplomatiques americaines dans le monde entier qui ont publie des
alertes de securite pour les citoyens americains la semaine dernière
après de vives protestations violentes en Libye et en Egypte contre le
film qui ridiculise le Prophète Mohammed. L’ambassade a souligne en
meme temps qu’elle n’a ” aucune information specifique pour indiquer
que ces evenements affecteront la securite en Armenie “.

OUVERTURE D’UNE ENQUETE SUR LA FRAUDE ELECTORALE
Laetitia

armenews.com
mercredi 26 septembre 2012

Une enquete criminelle devrait etre ouverte sur l’ancien gouverneur
regional qui represente le Parti Armenie prospère (BHK). Ce dernier
aurait joue un rôle majeur dans un incident violent au cours d’une
election locale dans le sud-est de la province de Vayots Dzor. La
police armenienne a declare que Sergueï Bagratian et son fils ont fait
irruption dans un bureau de vote dans le village local de Artabuyn et
se sont empares des bulletins de vote dans la nuit de dimanche a lundi.

Citant des sources policières, les medias ont dit que Bagratian,
qui a gouverne jusqu’en juin la province de Vayots Dzor et qui
maintenant dirige la branche regionale du BHK, aurait essaye de
voler des bulletins de vote. Un porte-parole de la police a declare
a RFE/RL que les conclusions d’une enquete preliminaire de la police
ont ete envoyees au Service special d’investigation et que ce dernier
prendra des decisions envers S. Bagratian. Ce dernier a fermement
dementi la version officielle des evenements rapportes. Il a insiste
sur le fait qu’il n’etait pas entre dans le bureau de vote. ” Je ne
suis pas entre pour intervenir dans le decompte des voix, en aucune
facon. Pas plus que mon fils “, a-t-il dit.

Bagratian a affirme que la procedure penale a ete entame sous la
houlette de Vayots Dzor, le gouverneur republicain actuel.

ARMENBAR APPEALS TO UN OVER PLIGHT OF SYRIAN ARMENIANS

Published: Monday September 24, 2012

Ban Ki-moon,
Secretary General
United Nations

Nabil Elaraby, Secretary General,
The League of Arab States

Laura Dupuy Lasserre, Human Rights Council President Office of the
United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR)

Dear Secretary General, Nation Representatives, Ambassadors, and
President:

The Armenian Bar Association is the largest organized group of Armenian
Diasporan attorneys, judges and law students in the world.

We bring to you as multinational bodies, and through each of you to
your respective countries and citizens, the plight of the Armenians
in Syria.

Our Association shares with the Republic of Armenia and all other
civic, religious and humanitarian organizations, which serve the
Armenian people worldwide, the memories and pain of the Armenian
Genocide of 1915 and the bloody ethnic purges which indelibly
marked it.

It is with those historically well-documented atrocities in mind
that we ask you to not allow history to repeat itself, while you,
your respective multi-national collectives, your individual countries,
and each of your respective governments watches from afar.

With due respect, you must not allow man’s inhumanity to man to occur
yet again, as it did almost a century ago during the Armenian Genocide
and the Great Dispossession of entire cities, towns and villages.

Please join us in saying Not Again!

As the 21st century’s gatekeepers of security and civilization,
and as nations that have come together under the umbrella of peace,
at what point might you extend that cover to provide shelter from the
rainfall of rockets, shrapnel and bullets hailing onto the innocent
civilians and citizens of Syria, Armenians and non-Armenians alike?

In a conflict that has claimed more than 20,000 casualties thus far
and has sent hundreds of thousands more fleeing beyond Syria’s borders
to hoped-for safety, the Armenians in Syria, some of whom can trace
their ancestors as far back to the sixth century B.C., and the bulk
of those who arrived in successive waves, either as survivors of the
Armenian Genocide, or later, between 1925 and 1945, fleeing persecution
in Turkey and seeking refuge in Syria, now once again face uncertainty
and dire consequences due to the current situation on the ground.

Unless, of course, you and your leagues of nations act, and act now.

Unless you and your respective countries engage in brokering a
ceasefire and bringing about lasting peace to the people of Syria.

Armenians, wherever they have resided in Arab lands, or in countries
spanning the four corners of the globe, have always been loyalists to
their host countries and to their adopted homelands. Syrian Armenians
are no exception to this positive subscription and good citizenry.

The Syrian Armenians, and indeed all of the people in Syria,
deserve the peace and security which your charters, constitutions,
and consciences charge you with helping attain and preserve.

The Armenian Bar Association looks to each of you and your respective
nations to deliver on that promise and to replenish the certainty
of life and future to Syria and its citizens, including the
Syrian-Armenians.

Sincerely,

Garo B. Ghazarian President & Chairman Armenian Bar Association

Edvin Minassian Past President & Chairman Ex-Officio

Sara Bedirian Treasurer

Armen K. Hovannisian Past President & Vice-Chairman

Hovanes Margarian Secretary

Harry Dikranian Vice-Chairman

Vicken I. Simonian Past President & Chairman Emeritus

ARMENIAN APRICOT SHOULD BE PRESENTED IN LARGER AMOUNTS IN FRENCH MARKET. VICE PRESIDENT OF MARSEILLE CCI

ARMENPRESS
24 September, 2012
YEREVAN

YEREVAN, SEPTEMBER 24, ARMENPRESS: Armenia evaluates the multilateral
development of relations with France. Highlighted Armenian Minister
of Economy Tigran Davtyan during joint conference of Armenian and
French businessmen hosted in Yerevan.

The Minister highly evaluated the level of Armenian-French
cooperation. According to him it is of crucial importance not to
discuss only the positive sides of the cooperation but also the
omissions.

“We have a number of joint organizations and hundreds of companies
with French investments among them. We are willing to discuss all
the reasonable suggestions with our foreign partners” highlighted
the Minister.

Armenian Chairman of Marseille CCI Bernard Holasian highlighted
the importance of such conferences in the development of bilateral
cooperation. Holasian mentioned the significance of small and medium
businesses.

Artur Hatemian, the Vice President of Marseille CCI highly evaluated
the quality of Armenian products and mentioned the constantly growing
requirement for Armenian Apricot in French Market.

Different issues concerning the future bilateral cooperation have been
discussed during the conference with the participation of Armenian
Minister of Economy Tigran Davtyan.

THE AMOUNT FOR THE SUSPENDED YEREVAN-ALEPPO-YEREVAN FLIGHT TO BE PAYED BACK

ARMENPRESS
24 September, 2012
YEREVAN

YEREVAN, SEPTEMBER 24, ARMENPRESS: A group of Syrian Armenians applied
to “Armavia” national airlines on September 24, demanding the amount
for the suspended Yerevan-Aleppo-Yerevan flight. Armenian Ministry
of Diaspora which is aware of the issue sent a letter on this
occasion to the owner of “Armavia” airlines. About this Armenpress
was informed from Lusine Stepanyan, the head of the Department of
Armenian communities in the Near and Middle East, she also added that
hadn’t received any response yet, causing the non-working days.

” “Armavia” has never said that wouldn’t return the money. First of all
these people have refused the flight on their own and besides “Armavia”
is not a bank and is not able to return the money for the tickets at
once. The amounts for the suspended flight of September 17 are being
returned” declared Nana Avetisova the press secretary of “Armavia”.

SMALL AIRCRAFT IN LITHUANIA AND ITS RELATIONS WITH ARMENIA – PHOTO

September 23, 2012 | 00:34

VILNIUS. – There are many summer schools in Lithuania where pilots
study from all over the world, including Armenia.

Armenia and Lithuania are establishing productive cooperation in
various fields in the recent years, including education. One of the
Lithuanian schools – Pilotu Mokykla, which also has Armenian pilots,
has concluded an agreement with the National Aeronautical Association
(NAA) of Armenia on training Armenian pilots on modern jets.

The school also offers qualification programs for military pilots to
be qualified as civil pilots.

Another school, where Armenians studied, is the Baltic Aviation
Academy.

The NAA President Dmitri Atbashyan believes that cooperation between
Armenia and Lithuania in aviation has good perspectives.

Atbashyan also stated that the small aircraft may unload land
transportation and play a big role in agriculture.

ARMENIA’S AUTHORITIES NEED TO BE MORE CONSISTENT – EXPERT

news.am
September 24, 2012 | 15:18

YEREVAN. – According to the Central Election Commission of Georgia,
fourteen political parties and two political blocs have been given
the right to run in the country’s parliamentary elections slated for
October 1, Georgian Studies specialist Alik Eroyants said during a
press conference on Monday.

To the query on Georgian Armenians’ format of participation in
these elections, Eroyants responded that five and two Armenian MP
candidates will vie for parliamentary seats from the ruling party and
the opposition bloc respectively, but , by and large, the Georgian
Armenians will support the ruling regime.

He also noted that Armenian-Georgian ties are on a very high level, and
this is proved by the intergovernmental meetings and the cooperation
in a variety of domains. So, “Armenia’s authorities need to be more
consistent and to make Georgia’s attention focus on the problems of
Georgian Armenians,” Alik Eroyants concluded.

ARMENIAN OPPOSITION CLAIMS LOCAL ELECTIONS ACCOMPANIED BY BRIBE DISTRIBUTION

news.am
September 24, 2012 | 22:46

YEREVAN. – Local self-governmental elections in Armenia were
accompanied with bribe distribution, as well as use of administrative
resources, including police and attorney’s office, opposition Armenian
National Congress (ANC) bloc secretary Aram Manukyan told Armenian
News-NEWS.am.

He added that condition of people is so piteous that they look forward
for election bribes to buy essential products. At the same time,
he said that it is not always possible to corrupt voters.

As the agency informed earlier, five regions of Armenia held local
elections on Sept. 23.

“I AM ARMENIAN, YES, I AM” FESTIVAL IN BELGIUM

12:55 | 2012-09-24 | Armenia | Diaspora |

The Belgian Armenian community reports that recently there have been
positive changes in the cultural life of Belgian and Dutch Armenian
communities. Due to the united efforts of Belgian Armenians a strong
Armenian community is created in Antwerp, the proof of which is the
festival named “I am Armenian, yes, I am”. The festival is organized
due to the efforts of “Arda” NGO headed by Sergey Vardanayan. The
festival commenced by a scientific conference on “Armenian identity,
where guests from Armenia represented speeches on the peculiarities
of Armenian identity. Among the guests were the primate of Armenian
apostolic church in Belgium, the president of writers’ union of
Armenia and representatives of local Armenian organizations.

The member of Armenian cultural center in Belgium Nikolay Bavtyan said
that in coming year the cultural center will have a newly-constructed
building. The ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary of Armenia
to Belgium Avet Adonc also gave a speech congratulating everybody on
21st anniversary of Armenian independence. The second part of the
festival was full of entertainment and musical performances. Works
of art, graphics, and statues were also represented. The documentary
movie by Arsen Hakobyan titled “From Ararat to Europe” was also
screened. Armenian national songs and dances accompanied the whole
process of the festival. The celebrations were a nice present to
Belgian Armenian community on the 21st anniversary of Armenian
independence.

GAGIK TSARUKYAN IS VIEWED AS PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: POLL

2012-09-24 12:56:44

Sociologist Aharon Adibekyan has conducted surveys among 1650 voters
of Armenian regions and revealed that the 30.4% of the oppositional
part views PAP leader Gagik Tsarukyan as RA presidential candidate.

Aharonyan himself reported about this in the interview with
journalists.

He said that 10.1% of the respondents views RA 2nd President Robert
Kocharyan as a presidential candidate in the presidential elections to
be held in 2013, the 8.7%- “Heritage” party leader Raffi Hovhannisyan,
the 4%- ANC leader Levon Ter-Petrosyan, the 3.4%0 ARF MP Vahan
Hovhannisyan, and the 2.5%- ARF Armen Rustamyan.

Aharonian also said that every third person believes in Tsarukyan’s
victory, which is a pretty serious number. “In response to the
question who they’ll vote for, if their preferred presidential
candidate isn’t nominated in the presidential elections, 13% of the
respondents mentioned Gagik Tsarukyan’s name; that is a majority.”

Aharonyan also explained, that if PAP announces itself as an
opposition, it’ll lose the votes of the other side.

Speaking of Robert Kocharyan’s possible nomination, the sociologist
mentioned, that if he wishes to take over the authority, he either
has to face the authority, or President Serzh Sargsyan has to resign,
yielding his place to Robert Kocharyan.