Author: Baghdasarian Karlen

ARMENIE
Le Catholicos de tous les Arméniens a reçu le président de l’UGAB

Le 14 Décembre, Sa Sainteté Karekin II, Patriarche Suprême et
Catholicos de Tous les Arméniens, a reçu M. Berge Setrakian, président
du Conseil central de l’Union Générale Arménienne de Bienfaisance
(UGAB), au Saint-Siège d’Etchmiadzin.

Lors de la réunion, le Catholicos de tous les Arméniens et le
Président de l’UGAB ont réfléchi sur les activités patriotiques et les
possibilités de nouveaux projets mis en oeuvre par l’UGAB dans la
diaspora et la patrie. Une discussion a également eu lieu sur les
programmes de construction éducatifs, sociaux et religieux communs
avec la Sainte Eglise Apostolique Arménienne.

A cette occasion, Sa Sainteté a transmis ses bénédictions aux membres
de l’UGAB pour leur soutien constant et leur assistance à l’Eglise
arménienne et surtout au Saint-Siège d’Etchmiadzin. Le Catholicos de
Tous les Arméniens a exprimé sa gratitude à M. et Mme Setrakian, comme
bienfaiteurs du Saint-Siège, pour leur esprit d’amour de l’église et
leurs efforts patriotiques.

Ils ont également parlé sur les différents défis auxquels sont
confrontés la nation et l’Eglise et les événements dédiés au 100e
anniversaire du génocide arménien.

Après la conclusion de la réunion, M. Berge Setrakian a participé à la
Divine Liturgie dans la cathédrale Mère, à la fin de laquelle un
service Requiem a eu lieu pour la paix de l’me des défunts parents de
M. et Mme Setrakian ; M. Hmayak Setrakian et M. Nubar Nazarian.

mardi 6 janvier 2015,
Stéphane (c)armenews.com

From: Baghdasarian

Diaspora representatives want to erect world’s largest cross in Armenia

13:45, 06.01.2015

YEREVAN. – Armenian authorities will help to choose location if
Armenian communities agree to install the world’s largest cross in
Armenia, Diaspora Minister Hranush Hakobyan toldArmenian News-NEWS.am.

The Armenian communities of France and Lebanon have an intention to
install the world’s largest cross.

“The authors of the project will decide on the amount of investments
by themselves, but the Diaspora representatives should first
coordinate the projects with Catholicos of All Armenians Karekin II,”
she said.

Asked about her attitude towards the initiative, the Minister said she
cannot have negative opinion on something “that is related to
Christianity, will promote tourism in Armenia and will make Armenia
popular in the world”.

Armenia News – NEWS.am

From: Baghdasarian

USC News – University of Southern California
Jan 5 2015

Rare testimonies of Armenian Genocide go online

USC Shoah Foundation adds emotional interviews to its Visual History Archive

by USC staff
January 5, 2015

n honor of the 100th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide, the USC
Shoah Foundation – The Institute for Visual History and Education is
readying at least 40 of the nearly 400 Armenian testimonies it has
secured from the Armenian Film Foundation for its Visual History
Archive.

The USC Shoah Foundation and the Armenian Film Foundation signed an
agreement in April 2010 to digitize the interviews of the late J.
Michael Hagopian, recorded on film between 1972 and 2005. The entire
collection is expected to be integrated with the archive by the fall.

Hagopian was an award-winning filmmaker who made 70 educational films
and documentaries including 17 films about Armenians and the Armenian
Genocide.

This project will unveil a trove of film testimony about of a horrific
chapter of human history that remains woefully under-examined.

Karen Jungblut

“This project will unveil a trove of film testimony about of a
horrific chapter of human history that remains woefully
under-examined,” said Karen Jungblut, director of research and
documentation at the institute.

Variety of interviewees

The interviews include not only survivors of the Armenian Genocide but
also of other groups targeted by the Ottoman Turks, such as the
Greeks, Assyrians and Yezidis. Also included are non-victim witnesses
to the atrocities, such as Christian missionaries and Arab villagers,
as well as descendants of the survivors and several renowned scholars.

“The addition of these interviews to the Visual History Archive will
provide broad access to a multilingual collection of material,” said
project adviser Richard G. Hovannisian, an expert in Armenian studies
and USC adjunct professor of history.

“It will help to bring sorely needed attention – and study – to this
dark corner of human understanding,” said Hovannisian, a UCLA
professor emeritus.

The interviews display a unique style and format, as they were
conducted by a documentary filmmaker. A clapboard marks the start of
each take. The interviews – about 15 minutes each – are much shorter
than other testimonies in the Visual History Archive, which average
more than two hours. Hagopian can be heard giving directions to crew
members and interview subjects.

Michael Hagopian generously gave us full access to his film dailies,
which is akin to a diary in that they normally wouldn’t be seen by the
public.

Hrag Yedalian

“Michael Hagopian generously gave us full access to his film dailies,
which is akin to a diary in that they normally wouldn’t be seen by the
public,” said Hrag Yedalian, a program coordinator with the institute.
“This lends a certain candor to these interviews, which are at times
unsettling to watch, but poignant.”

Advance clips available

The foundation has released two advance clips of the Armenian
testimonies. One is a 1987 talk with Mihran Andonian, who was a boy
when his family was deported from Isparta in western Turkey in 1916
and lost eight family members. The other is a 1993 interview with
Haroutune Aivazian, who tells of surviving because his mother left him
at an orphanage.

“Even those of us who did survive, we lost something very precious,”
Aivazian said. “Something which is the birthright of every person:
childhood. We lost our childhood.”

The testimonies served as primary source material for Hagopian’s
documentaries about the Armenian Genocide, including The Forgotten
Genocide, recipient of two Emmy nominations in 1976, and the Witnesses
Trilogy: Voices from the Lake, Germany and the Secret Genocide and The
River Ran Red.

[Hagopian] understood the importance of recording the testimonies of
aging eyewitnesses before their accounts were lost forever.

Carla Garapedian

“He understood the importance of recording the testimonies of aging
eyewitnesses before their accounts were lost forever,” said Carla
Garapedian of the Armenian Film Foundation. “The voices of the people
haunted by these atrocities will now be accessible to teachers,
students, scholars and the general public on a global scale.”

From: Baghdasarian

Daily Sabah, Turkey
Jan 6 2015

Minorities, Turkey, and the quality of its democracy

MARKAR ESAYAN
Published19 hours ago

On Jan. 2, Prime Minister Ahmet DavutoÄ?lu organized a Christmas lunch
for the leaders of Turkey’s non-Muslim communities at the Prime
Ministry office in Dolmabahçe Palace. Ecumenical Orthodox Patriarch
Bartholomew, Deputy Patriarch of the Greek Orthodox Church Peter
Stefanos, Vicar-General of the Chaldean Catholic community of Turkey
Francois Yakan, Patriarchal Vicar of the Syriac Orthodox Church Yusuf
Çetin, Turkish ambassador to the Vatican Mehmet Paçacı, Patriarchal
Vicar of the Syrian Catholic Church in Turkey Yusuf SaÄ?, Apostolic
Administrator of the Armenian Catholic Archieparchy Levan Zekiyan,
Chief Rabbi Ä°shak Haleva and Archbishop of the Armenian Apostolic
Church Aram AteÃ…?yan were present at the lunch.

Mehmet Görmez, the head of Turkey’s Presidency of Religious Affairs,
Istanbul Mufti Rahmi Yaran and Directorate General of Foundations
General Manager Adnan Ertem also participated in the event.

DavutoÄ?lu began by conveying his best wishes to his guests for
Christmas, which is on Dec. 25 for Catholics and Protestants, but
falls on Jan. 6 for Eastern Orthodox Christians, which forms the most
populous non-Muslim community in Turkey.

DavutoÄ?lu continued: “We do not consider any tradition at this table
alien to these lands, or an outsider that arrived here afterward. I
hesitate to use the word ‘minority.’ In the context of authentic
cultural and religious traditions, this picture, which reflects all
the colors of our country, is significant for us. Also, this is an
important picture in terms of the principle of equal citizenship. We
have never attempted any discrimination of our citizens. On the
grounds of the fundamental principle of citizenship, the lives,
commodities, minds and honors of our citizens are sacred to us,
regardless of religious, sectarian or ethnic differences.”

His remarks illustrate how the attitude of the state in Turkey has
radically changed compared to the recent past. This transformation has
been maturing since Nov. 3, 2002, when the Justice and Development
Party (AK Party) became the ruling party.

To our friends who assume that Turkey had a secular, democratic,
modern and westernized democracy in the past, I would like to point
out a few implementations regarding non-Muslims that were routine in
this country for 80 years.

The state used to frequently seize the assets of non-Muslim
foundations through the Directorate of Foundations and adjudications.
The foundations were the only institutions non-Muslims could use for
their fundamental activities such as education, solidarity and
religious needs. For this reason, the non-Muslim population in this
country was minimized to a mere 100,000.

In this country, where an Armenian is DavutoÄ?lu’s chief advisor now,
non-Muslims formerly did not have any chance to join civilian or
military bureaucracy and they could not even be assigned to the lowest
positions in the public sphere. All non-Muslim citizens were
blacklisted and followed by the state, and benefactors backing the
foundations were threatened.

Far from being allowed to construct any new churches, the
already-existing minority churches, schools and other foundation
buildings were demolished.

Non-Muslims were suppressed in economic, cultural and psychological
terms with violent means such as the Property Tax, the 1934 Thracian
pogroms and the 1955 Istanbul pogrom. The Turkish state regularly
abused minorities and violated their rights and the articles regarding
minorities according to the Lausanne Treaty, which was highly praised,
since it was Turkey’s founding agreement. And the West shut its eyes
to all of this, because Turkey was a member of NATO.

Last year, the-then Prime Minister Recep Tayyip ErdoÄ?an announced a
condolence message to the 1915 genocide victims, which broke another
taboo. He said: “We recognize and share your pain.” This binding
official statement was announced on the official website of the Prime
Ministry.

Of course, there are still problems. For example, Heybeliada Halki
Seminary is still closed. And it is known that this is postponed due
to the unacceptable discriminatory practices carried out in Greece
against Turks residing in western Thrace. We have always argued that
this approach of the government is highly inequitable, but we have
never gotten into any trouble for our opinion.

At the closed-door session of the lunch on Jan. 2, requests regarding
this issue were also discussed. Moreover, the Syriacs’ right to build
churches, schools and hospitals has been re-instated. They had been
deprived of this right due to the fact that the word “Syriac” was not
stated in the Lausanne Treaty. With this latest development, Syriacs
are now preparing to build a church in Istanbul for the first time in
modern Turkish history, and the state will provide them land.

Surely there are other criteria for democratization. But I know that
the health of a democracy can be measured by the conditions of
minorities in that country, particularly these days, when racism has
reached its peak in the U.S. and the EU.

From: Baghdasarian

Vestnik Kavkaza, Russia
Jan 6 2015

Nagorno-Karabakh conflict: seven days a week

6 January 2015 – 3:37pm
Andrei Petrov exclusively for Vestnik Kavkaza

On January 3rd near-border and front-line Azerbaijani villages were
shelled by large-caliber weapons and mortar-guns. After that, cases of
breaking the ceasefire regime on the frontline between the Armenian
and Azerbaijani armies became frequent. Last night the villages of
Gyzylgadjily and Kemerli in the Gazakh Region were shelled. The region
is situated on the border with Georgia, i.e. far away from the zone of
the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.

The breaking of the ceasefire regime is a normal practice these days,
but previously the Armenian armed forces which occupy Nagorno-Karabakh
and neighboring territories fired from automatic guns only. There was
no mass shelling of non-military facilities from anti-armor
mortar-guns since the active military operation in Karabakh.

It means the opponents of a peaceful settlement of the
Nagorno-Karabakh conflict intend to provoke the Armed Forces of
Azerbaijan for similar or counter-measures and activities on the state
Armenian-Azerbaijani border. That’s why the Gazakh Region in the
northwest of the country was chosen, as it has never seen military
activities for Karabakh. Any Azerbaijani bullet which gets on the
territory of Armenia, rather than the occupied territories of
Azerbaijan, will be used by the Armenian party of war, i.e. the ruling
party, for preventing negotiations and preserving the status quo.

Moreover, as Armenia is a member of the CSTO, a successful provocation
on the state border would create an opportunity for formal involvement
of CSTO forces to protect Armenian territories.

At the same time, Yerevan would probably make only political
statements on the issue, as it is not beneficial for it to have
international witnesses of the developments on the border with
Azerbaijan. Russian troops protect Armenia’s borders with Turkey and
Iran, but not with Azerbaijan. The Armenian party of war improves its
arsenal of provocations, makes them more direct and crude in their
form. It means that in the very near future we should expect a more
serious breaking of the ceasefire regime, i.e. almost a rejection by
Armenia of the Bishkek Protocol.

Meanwhile, the international community didn’t react to the escalation
of violence in the conflict zone. The world didn’t notice the
explosion of bombs and threats to ordinary people’s lives on the
frontline between the Azerbaijani and Armenian armies in the context
of the New Year holidays. The American co-chairman of the OSCE Minsk
Group, James Warlick, “worked” for the whole key mediating
organization in the Nagorno-Karabakh settlement and made a short
informal post on his Twitter page. At the moment, there is no official
statement on the issue from the OSCE Minsk Group. Yesterday the U.S.
Department of State expressed concerns about firing in the conflict
zone, urging the sides to return to peaceful negotiations under the
Minsk Group, which didn’t react to the firing at all.

That was the only reaction of the international community. It seems,
despite the August escalation in the conflict zone, which led to a
record-breaking number of deaths during the whole ceasefire regime,
and the November helicopter attack on Azerbaijani positions,
international players still believe that the intensified
Nagorno-Karabakh conflict remains “frozen.” However, the prospects of
further provocations and even restoration of military activities in
Karabakh demand the cancellation of “legal vacations” and focusing on
the developments happening over Karabakh by the international
community, first of all the Minsk Group.

This is not impossible. Modern history has examples of intensive
mediation by international players in international and internal
conflicts, which were expressed in effective diplomatic work,
political and economic pressure on aggressors. The absence of a
consolidated international reaction to the events over Karabakh not
only delays a resolution of the conflict, but also encourages the
aggressive and provocative policy of the occupants, i.e. the hot phase
of the unfinished war, even though, according to statements of the
international community, it doesn’t want a restoration of war.

From: Baghdasarian

Libertad Digital, España
Miércoles 31 de Diciembre, 2014

Un ejército de santos: 1,5 millones de víctimas del genocidio armenio
serán canonizadas

En un anuncio histórico que arrojará luz en un conflicto olvidado la
Iglesia armenia conmemorará por todo lo alto el centenario del
genocidio.

Javier Lozano

Ha sido una masacre olvidada. Un genocidio que en distintos ámbitos se
han empeñado en negar y en perseguir al mensajero que quería que la
historia no olvidara. Una matanza que abrió la que fue la primera de
una serie de horripilantes crímenes que han marcado para siempre el
siglo XX, el de los millones de crímenes en la Unión Soviética, el del
holocausto judio, el de los jemeres rojos…

El primero de ellos fue el genocidio armenio. En el 2015 que comienza
se cumple el primer centenario de una masacre que acabó con la vida de
1,5 millones de cristianos armenios a manos de los turcos. Una etapa
negra de la historia que Turquia se niega a reconocer y que prohíbe
por ley decir lo contrario.

Un siglo después de este conflicto olvidado el genocidio armenio sirve
como reflejo de la realidad que hoy se vive no demasiado lejos de
allí. Salvando las distancias, la limpieza étnica y religiosa
perpetrada por el Estado Islámico en este momento y la persecución a
los cristianos en el mundo islámico recuerda en cierto modo a lo que
ocurrió entonces y lo que puede ocurrir si no se pone freno al mal.

Los armenios, uno de los primeros pueblos que abrazó la fe cristiana y
la primera nación cristiana de la historia, se han empeñado en
recordar a sus miles de mártires y contar al mundo lo que ocurrió
entonces. Así lo ha hecho el patriarca armenio Karekin II a través de
una carta encíclica.

Un ejército de santos

En ella anuncia un hecho hasta ahora inédito e inaudito: el próximo 23
de abril serán canonizadas todas las víctimas del genocidio. Será una
ceremonia en la que serán declarados santos para la iglesia armenia en
torno a 1,5 millones de cristianos armenios. Un hecho histórico al que
también se sumará su hermana, la Iglesia Católica. A falta de
confimación oficial, el Papa Francisco celebrará asimismo el 12 de
abril en la Plaza de San Pedro una misa en recuerdo a los mártires de
esta enorme masacre.

En su histórica misiva, el Patriarca Karekin II anuncia que presidirá
el 23 de abril la liturgia en la cual proclamará santos a todas las
víctimas del genocidio, “asesinados por la fe y por la patria”
mientras que el día posterior será la Jornada de la Memoria por “los
santos mártires del genocidio”.

El genocidio comenzó en 1915 y duró varios años aunque ya desde antes
los armenios eran un objetivo. Las matazas se dieron al final del
imperio otomano con el sultán Abdul Hamid II y continuaron con los
llamados “Jóvenes Turcos” y más tarde con el propio Kemal Ataturk,
padre de la actual Turquia.

El primer gran genocidio del siglo XX

Los armenios fueron puestos en el punto de mira por varios motivos:
eran cristianos, instruidos, tenían una gran cohesión social y además
eran miembros de la clase media. En 1915 los turcos comenzaron a
cerrar sus escuelas, sus iglesias y todos sus centros y
organizaciones.

De ahí se pasó a la violencia física y a la humillación. Muchos fueron
ya entonces asesinados. De manera masiva llegaron las deportaciones al
desierto donde muchos murieron. Luego llegaron las fosas comunes.
Otros cientos murieron en trenes incendiados. En total, 1,5 millones
de armenios fueron aniquilados. Los hay que lograron vivir gracias a
que llegaron a Líbano, Siria o la actual Armenia, que entonces ya era
parte de la Unión Soviética.

Ahora el pueblo armenio está dispersado por el mundo. Existe una gran
diáspora. Poco más de 3 millones viven en el actual territorio que
conforma Armenia mientras que hay otros nueve millones repartidos por
el mundo. En total hay en el mundo 12 millones y hace un siglo en
apenas tres años mataron a más de millón y medio.

“Aceptaron morir en vez de repudiar su fe”

El patriarca armenio afirma en su carta que “cada día del año 2015
será un día de recuerdo y devoción para nuestro pueblo, un viaje a los
memoriales de nuestros mártires en la patria y en la diáspora, delante
de los cuales con humildad nos arrodillaremos en oración, ofreciendo
incienso por las almas de nuestras víctimas inocentes que yacen en
tumbas sin nombre pues aceptaron morir en vez de repudiar su propia fe
y su nación”.

Karekin II tiene igualmente un recuerdo para todos aquellos que no han
callado ante esta atrocidad. “Expresamos nuestra gratitud a las
naciones, a las organizaciones y a los individuos que han tenido el
coraje y la convicción de reconocer y condenar el genocidio armenio.
Expresamos gratitud a los países y pueblos amables que han aceptado a
los hijos de nuestra tierra como hermanos y hermanas. Estos ejemplos
de justicia y humanidad son páginas luminosas en la historia de la
humanidad. Ellos serán siempre recordados y apreciados por
generaciones”.

Por último, el patriarca lanza una mirada al futuro: “hagamos fecundo
nuestro centenario, valorizando el recorrido de nuestros pesares y el
renacimiento de nuestro pueblo de modo que nuestros hijos
-reconociendo la voluntad heroica de sus abuelos y padres de vivir y
crear sus esfuerzos iniciados para el bien de la nación y de la
patria- puedan crear un nuevo día luminoso para nuestra patria y
nuestra gente dispersa por todo el mundo. Transformemos la memoria de
nuestros mártires en energía y fuerza para nuestra vida espiritual y
nacional y delante de Dios y de todos los hombres, iluminemos el
recorrido de nuestro camino para guiar nuestro paso hacia la
realización de la justicia y de nuestras sagradas aspiraciones”.

From: Baghdasarian

Armenian Studies Program – CSU Fresno
Barlow Der Mugrdechian, Coordinator
5245 N. Backer Ave. PB4
Fresno CA 93740-8001

ASP Office: 559-278-2669
Office: 559-278-2669
FAX: 559-278-2129

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`Building the `Model Ottoman Citizen’: Life and Death in the Region of
Harput-Mamüretülaziz (1908-1915)’ by
Dr. Vahé Tachjian

Dr. Vahé Tachjian, director of the `Houshamadyan Project’ will be the
guest speaker of the Armenian Studies Program with a talk entitled,
`Building the `Model Ottoman Citizen’: Life and Death in the Region of
Harput-Mamüretülaziz (1908-1915)’ at 7:30PM on Thursday, January 29,
in the University Business Center, Alice Peters Auditorium, Room 191,
on the Fresno State campus.

The lecture is the first in the Spring Lecture Series of the Armenian
Studies Program, with the support of the Leon S. Peters Foundation.

Using a `microhistory’ perspective, this talk analyzes Armenian daily
life in the Kharpert/Harput region in the extensive Ottoman Empire
from the 1908 Young Turk Revolution to the 1915 Genocide. Specifically,
the focus is on the Kharpert Plain that comprises the towns of
Kharpert and Mamüretülaziz (Mezire, present day ElazıÄ=9F) and the
surrounding Armenian villages. Tachjian examines the articles,
lectures, memoirs and letters of two notable intellectuals from
Kharpert, Hovhannes Bujicanian and Donabed Lulejian. He discovers a
rich, minority narrative from the margins. Armenians’ understanding of
being model Ottoman citizens differed vastly from the government
during the decisive last years of the Empire.

Vahé Tachjian is the director and chief editor of the `Houshamadyan
Project.’ He was born in Lebanon and earned a Ph.D. in History and
Civilization at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales
(EHESS) in Paris. His research covers the period of the French
occupation of Cilicia, Syria, and Lebanon between the two World Wars,
the Armenians in the Ottoman Empire, and refugee problems in the
Middle East. He is the author of La France en Cilicie et en
Haute-Mésopotamie: Aux confins de la Turquie, de la Syrie et de
l’Irak, 1919-1933 (2004); editor of Ottoman Armenians: Life, Culture,
Society (2014), the co-editor of Ohannès Pacha Kouyoumdjian: Le Liban
à la Veille et au Début de la Guerre: Mémoires d’un Gouverneur,
1913-1915 (2003) ; Les Arméniens, 1917-1939: La Quête d’un Refuge
(2006); The Armenian General Benevolent Union: One Hundred Years of
History (2006); Les Arméniens de Cilicie: Terroir, Mémoire et Identité
(2012) .

Houshamadyan’s new book, Ottoman Armenians: Life, Culture, and Society
, Vol. 1, will be available for purchase after the lecture.

The lecture is free and open to the public. Free parking is available,
with parking code 273503, after 7:00PM at Fresno State Lots P5 and P6,
near the University Business Center.

For more information about the lecture please contact the Armenian
Studies Program at 278-2669, or visit our website at

From: Baghdasarian

Hurriyet Daily News, Turkey
Jan 5 2015

Controversial name in Dink case named Cizre police chief

ISTANBUL

A Trabzon intelligence police chief, who was accused of negligence in
the murder of Armenian-Turkish journalist Hrant Dink in 2007, has been
assigned to the Cizre district of the southeastern province of Å?ırnak
as chief of police.

Ercan Demir was assigned to the Cizre police chief post after four
people were killed in the district in clashes between the outlawed
Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) and members of the Free Cause Party
(Hüda-Par).

Demir was the police intelligence chief in Trabzon in 2007 and is
accused of having a role in the murder of Dink, failing to monitor the
murderers despite receiving notices about the planned assassination,
according to Dink’s family lawyer, daily Evrensel reported on Jan. 5.

`Ercan Demir has responsibility in the murder of Hrant Dink. It is a
grave decision that such a person is assigned as the police chief to
Cizre,’ Hakan BakırcıoÄ?lu, the lawyer of Dink family was quoted as
saying by daily Evrensel.

According to the presidential inspectors’ report, Demir failed to
monitor `Yasin Hayal and his group’ when he was the head of the
Trabzon police intelligence unit.

In 2008, Dink’s family demanded the court listen to Engin Dinç and
Ercan Demir, two police intelligence officials in Trabzon, adding
their names to the witness list as part of the investigation. The
court accepted the demand at the time.

Four people were killed in Cizre on Dec. 27, 2014 in street battles
between the PKK and Hüda-Par. The street battles came more than two
months after clashes in Turkey’s eastern and southeastern provinces
led to the deaths of about 40 people.

January/05/2015

From: Baghdasarian

ARMENIE
Plus de 300 personnes éligibles à un logement social attendent leur
tour en Arménie

De 330 à 340 personnes admissibles pour un logement social en Arménie
attendent leur tour a annoncé Astghik Minasyan, chef de la division de
soutien social au ministère du travail et des affaires sociales.

From: Baghdasarian

ARF Western Region Hails Uruguayan Call for Recognition of Artsakh

Monday, January 5th, 2015

The Armenian Revolutionary Federation

GLENDALE–Upon learning about Uruguay’s Foreign Ministry’s call for
international recognition of Artsakh, the Armenian Revolutionary
Federation Western US Central Committee on Monday issued an
announcement welcoming the move. Below is the text of the
announcement.

* * *

The news that Uruguay’s Foreign Ministry has called for the
international recognition of the independence and self-determination
of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic is a decisive and historic move by
Uruguay, which has been at the forefront of advancing human rights and
right to the self-determination of all people.

The Armenian Revolutionary Federation Western US Central Committee
welcomes this bold and groundbreaking move.

This announcement further reaffirms the very basic tenets of the
liberation struggle being waged by our people and should embolden the
entire Armenian Nation to continue its pursuit of justice and complete
liberation.

From: Baghdasarian