Author: Baghdasarian Karlen

ARMENIAN HERITAGE
The Armenian Church Surb Aménaprguitch Isfahan (Iran) will be entered
on the list of World Cultural Heritage by UNESCO – Photos

The Iranian news agency Mehr reported that the Armenian church Surb
Amenaprguitch (Saint Saviour) at Esfahan (Iran) will incorporate the
World Heritage List of UNESCO.

The Armenian Church Surb Aménaprguitch Isfahan (Iran)

Sherly Avedian, the head of Iran registration records of the churches
of Iran in the list of World Heritage of Unesco said that the record
of the church and monastery Surb Armenaprguitch Isfahan is complete
and submitted to the examination of Unesco, the file should be quickly
validated and accepted.

The Armenian Church Surb Aménaprguitch Isfahan (Iran)

Recall that 9 places of worship of Iran are already included in the
list of World Cultural Heritage by UNESCO, including the Armenian
Church Karakikissé located in the region of West Azerbaijan northwest
Iran.

The Armenian Church Surb Aménaprguitch Isfahan (Iran)

In this same area is also Makou Armenian church Surb Maryan (Saint
Mary). The other major Armenian spiritual center in Iran being the
convent and church Surb Stepanos (St. Stephen) dating from the
10th-12th centuries is located near Julfa, on the banks of the Araxes
northeast Iran .

Krikor Amirzayan

Sunday, May 25, 2014,
Krikor Amirzayan © armenews.com

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Erevan
Conférence de Bédros Terzian à propos de la situation énergétique au Caucase

A la suite de la visite d’État du président de la république François
Hollande en Arménie, Pierre (Bédros) Terzian, Directeur général de
Pétrostratégie, a donné une conférence à Erevan, pour CivilNet, sur la
situation des Ressources pétrolières et gazières dans la région.
(Langue arménienne)

dimanche 25 mai 2014,
Jean Eckian (c)armenews.com

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Armenian great inteligence agents finally remembered

17:00 / 24.05.2014

A wonderful state initiative has been displayed during these days. For
the first time Haypost issued posts with the pictures of legendary
Armenian intelligence agents.

On the posts are USSR hero Gevorg Vardanyan, agents Hakob Davtyan,
Ivan Aghayants, Ashot Hakobyan and deputy head of the USSR foreign
intelligence Hayk Hovakimyan. By the way, the book “Resident” written
by Ashot Aghababyan considered the most read is not engaged in the
National Security Service museum.

In parallel with the posts envelopes “Gevorg and Gohar Vardanyans” and
“Armenian agents” have been issued.

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LIBAN
Une mémoire commune est-elle possible entre l’Arménie et la Turquie ?

Un colloque international s’est tenu à l’Université Saint-Joseph à
l’initiative de la Fondation Boghossian sous le titre >, souligne Ahmet Insel,
maître de conférences à Paris I. Les Turcs vivent une nostalgie du
système politico-religieux et social des millets où le millet musulman
était supérieur aux autres. Cette nostalgie ne conçoit pas jusqu’à nos
jours une égalité entre un chrétien et un musulman, entre un juif et
un orthodoxe, etc. Raison pour laquelle la société a du mal à vivre la
notion même de différence, et son aspiration à l’homogénéité est très
forte. Cette obsession est à la base d’une violence susceptible
d’exploser à tout moment. Dans ce sens, le conférencier Ahmet Insel
explique que cette violence est liée à une peur et à une sorte de
refoulement de l’histoire basée sur plusieurs dénis : épuration
ethnique qu’ont subie les Arméniens en Anatolie, saisie de leurs
biens, massacres des grecs-orthodoxes, etc.

Facteurs de changement Michel Marian, de la revue Esprit, a présenté
les évolutions du problème arménien. Ces pas en avant commencent à se
mettre en place au début du XXIe siècle, lorsque la Turquie cherche à
s’ouvrir à l’Union européenne. On assiste à la fin du > en Turquie de par son obligation de se conformer aux normes
relatives aux droits de l’homme de l’Union européenne. Une
reconnaissance internationale du génocide est obtenue par son entrée
dans les manuels d’histoire.

En 2014, le Premier ministre turc, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, a présenté
ses condoléances aux petits-enfants des Arméniens, la veille du 24
avril, considéré comme étant la date anniversaire du début du drame
arménien. Mais >, souligne
M. Ahmet Insel. La responsabilité est celle des responsables de l’État
qui étaient impliqués directement. La société est coupable d’avoir
assisté, mais elle n’a pas accompli le crime. Et comme aujourd’hui ces
crimes ne sont plus vivants et qu’on ne peut plus les juger au
tribunal, il faut au moins ne pas les considérer comme héros, et
débaptiser les écoles et les rues qui portent leurs noms.

Les médias internationaux ont contribué à mettre en relief la cause
arménienne, mais le temps est venu que le travail se fasse dans la
société de la Turquie d’aujourd’hui. Guillaume Perrier veut, à travers
son livre La Turquie et le fantôme arménien, traduit et publié
récemment en Turquie, que les Turcs apprennent leur histoire. Il
confirme que tout le monde est responsable de la politique d’oubli et
qu’actuellement, de plus en plus de citoyens turcs réclament la
vérité.

Peut-on donc un jour pardonner ? Pour Ahmet Insel, la question n’est
pas celle du pardon, bien qu’il soit nécessaire pour vivre ensemble,
mais de la reconnaissance des faits ; le pardon est individuel,
certains le font, d’autres non, c’est à la conscience de chacune et de
chacun de le faire, mais la reconnaissance est collective.

François Dermange, professeur ordinaire d’éthique à la faculté de
théologie à l’Université de Genève, souligne qu’une réconciliation ne
se fait pas par une voie juridique et mémorielle, mais par le pardon
qui doit avoir une source religieuse.
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BAKU URGES EUROPE TO TAKE MORE SERIOUS NAGORNO-KARABAKH CONFLICT

AzerNews, Azerbaijan
May 23 2014

23 May 2014, 14:00 (GMT+05:00)
By Sara Rajabova

Azerbaijani Foreign Minister called on the European countries to pay
more attention to Armenian-Azerbaijani Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.

“Europe must pay more attention to the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict,”
Elmar Mammadyarov said at a meeting of PACE Standing Committee in
Baku on May 23.

Mammadyarov said such a large number of refugees and conflicts in
the 21st century are unacceptable.

Since a lengthy war in the early 1990s that displaced over one million
Azerbaijanis, Armenian armed forces have occupied over 20 percent
of Azerbaijan’s internationally recognized territory, including
Nagorno-Karabakh and seven adjacent regions.

Though a fragile ceasefire has been in place since 1994, long-standing
efforts by US, Russian and French mediators have been largely fruitless
so far.

Mammadyarov said Azerbaijan faces double standards when it comes to
implementation of UN resolutions on Karabakh.

“We see an obvious approach in the form of, I am not afraid of these
words, double standards. Some UN resolution just start running on
the day of adoption, while the UN resolutions on the Nagorno-Karabakh
conflict have not been implemented for 20 years,” Mammadyarov stressed.

Noting that negotiations with Armenia will continue, Mammadyarov said,
this conflict is leading the region to nowhere and has undeniable
negative effects.

He said that the principles of resolving the conflict have already
been recognized.

“UN Security Council has adopted four relevant resolutions. Any
resolution on the Karabakh conflict must be based on the principles of
sovereignty and territorial integrity of the countries,” Mammadyarov
said.

He further said visiting the territory of a country without taking
permission of its authorities is impossible.

Azerbaijan has repeatedly stated that a visit to Nagorno-Karabakh
without the permission of the country is unacceptable.

“Karabakh is Azerbaijan’s territory, therefore we make a list
of persona non grata all, who violates this provision and visit
Nagorno-Karabakh without permission of the Azerbaijani authorities.

After a person’s explanation, we can reconsider this person’s inclusion
in the list,” Mammadyarov said.

While commenting on Azerbaijan’s presidency in PACE, Mammadyarov said
during the period Azerbaijan will hold several major international
events.

“The country will host 18 international events in the next six
months,” he added. “We intend to demonstrate maximum transparency and
openness. Meanwhile, the European countries must try to understand
each other, rather than argue” Mammadyarov said.

Mammadyarov added that during its presidency in PACE, Azerbaijan will
coordinate its activity with European partners.

Azerbaijan’s chairmanship of the committee started officially on May
14 and will end in November when the country hands it over to Belgium.

Also, speaking at the meeting, PACE President Anne Brasseur said
PACE takes an unequivocal position on the territorial integrity
of Azerbaijan.

She noted that the territorial integrity principle is one of the
fundamental values.

“We use it towards not only Ukraine’s issue but also towards
Azerbaijan. PACE and all European organizations must adhere to these
values,” Brasseur said.

She said PACE has already commented on the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict,
passed a resolution and supported the territorial integrity of
Azerbaijan.

“Azerbaijan and Ukraine are not the only countries with territorial
integrity under a threat. I am talking about all so-called “frozen
conflicts” in Europe,” she said. “Regarding Ukraine, PACE will again
discuss the situation in this country after the presidential and
municipal elections.”

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AZERBAIJANI FM SAYS EUROPE MUST PAY MORE ATTENTION TO KARABAKH CONFLICT

Trend, Azerbaijan
May 23 2014

Baku, Azerbaijan, May 23
By Emin Aliyev – Trend:

Europe must pay more attention to the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict,
Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov said at a meeting of
the PACE Standing Committee in Baku on May 23.

“Having such a large number of refugees and conflicts in the 21st
century is unacceptable,” he said.

Azerbaijani minister went on to note that the country faces double
standards when it comes to implementation of the UN resolution on
the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.

“Some UN resolutions literally get implemented almost on the same
day of receiving, while the UN resolutions on the Nagorno-Karabakh
conflict have not been executed for 20 years,” Mammadyarov said.

The minister added that the negotiations with Armenia are underway,
however, the conflict leads the region to nowhere and negatively
affects it.

“The conflict settlement principles have already been determined,”
Mammadyarov added. “The UN Security Council has passed four relevant
resolutions. The Nagorno-Karabakh conflict settlement must be based
on the principles of sovereignty and territorial integrity of the
countries.”

The conflict between the two South Caucasus countries began in
1988 when Armenia made territorial claims against Azerbaijan. As a
result of the ensuing war, in 1992 Armenian armed forces occupied
20 percent of Azerbaijan, including the Nagorno-Karabakh region and
seven surrounding districts.

The two countries signed a ceasefire agreement in 1994. The co-chairs
of the OSCE Minsk Group, Russia, France and the U.S. are currently
holding peace negotiations. Armenia has not yet implemented the U.N.

Security Council’s four resolutions on the liberation of the
Nagorno-Karabakh and the surrounding regions.

“The Nagorno-Karabakh conflict can not be considered frozen,” he said.

“There is a contact line of troops, the front line, where incidents
occur every day.”

“The Madrid principles are very realistic, but the main problem
in the conflict is the presence of the Armenian armed forces on
the territory of Azerbaijan,” he said. “These principles envisage
a package of measures, including the withdrawal of Armenian armed
forces from a territory of seven areas adjacent to Nagorno-Karabakh,
large-scale reconstruction work and other gradual actions on peace
establishment in the region.”

While commenting on Azerbaijan’s presidency in PACE, the minister
said that during this period Azerbaijan will hold several major
international events.

“The country will host 18 international events in the next six months,”
he added. “We intend to demonstrate maximum transparency and openness,
as European countries must try to understand each other, rather
than argue.”

Mammadyarov added that during its presidency in PACE, Azerbaijan will
coordinate its activity with European partners.

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ARMENIAN GENOCIDE MEMORIAL TO BE BUILT AT FRESNO STATE

The Fresno Bee, CA
May 23 2014

By Katie Elwood

A monument marking 100 years since the Armenian genocide will be
built on the Fresno State campus in April 2015, the university said.

The monument will be funded through private contributions to the
Armenian Genocide Centennial Committee and approved by the Campus
Planning Committee.

Historians estimate that up to 1.5 million Armenians were killed by
Ottoman Turks around the time of World War I, an event widely viewed
by scholars as the first genocide of the 20th century.

The monument will be placed near the east end of the Rose Garden. It
will be designed by Paul Halajian, a Fresno architect.

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FRIDAY FIVE: EATING KU CROW, MU’S SEARCH, KSU’S PETTINESS, DUFFY’S RESURGENCE

Kansas City Star
May 23 2014

By VAHE GREGORIAN
The Kansas City Star

Former Kansas athletic director Bob Frederick was a true gentleman,
and he once sent me a book we had discussed embellished with a touching
inscription that I treasure.

Even several years since his death, I often think of his kind,
measured voice as representative of KU.

And he’s been on my mind in the aftermath of a column I wrote last
Sunday reiterating my belief that something is lost when Missouri and
Kansas don’t play and that it’s important the schools find a way to
overcome their differences and make it work.

As much as I do want to see it happen, I’m now persuaded that
my argument for its imminent revival actually has been shallow,
a checkers mentality in a game of 3D chess.

With a few heated exceptions, I’ve received a lot of polite, logical
input in the spirit of Frederick from both strangers and friends with
allegiances to KU that make me feel like my rationale has been flimsy.

Among Kansas constituents, the sense of toxicity in the rivalry
is exceeded now only by the sense of duplicity in MU’s departure,
particularly because then-chancellor and Big 12 chairman Brady Deaton
had insisted in the months before resigning the Big 12 role that he
was “working every day to keep the Big 12 together.”

It’s easy for me to say “get over it,” but I think now that was
tone-deaf and actually hardens the stance against it.

Another ill-considered element of my latest case: I was so drawn
Saturday to the color I found at the scene of the KU-MU softball game,
the Tiger fan who cherishes Quantrill’s savage attack on Lawrence,
that I really didn’t frame that in the proper context of absurdity …

151 years ago or not, disputes about cause-and-effect notwithstanding.

And, really, it wasn’t so much evidence that the rivalry lives as
the sound of one hand clapping.

Plenty of people made these points to me a year ago when I wrote
about the rivalry, and you might think some of that would have gotten
through then.

But, hey, as my father likes to say, “You can fool an Armenian once,
you can fool an Armenian twice, but you can’t fool an Armenian
indefinitely.”

So I still hope this heals sooner than later, and I still think what’s
lost is a shame.

But what will be will be when it will be, and thanks to all who took
the time to explain why in such a reasonable way that evoked someone
I think of with such admiration.

* Meanwhile, MU’s Evan Boehm (Lee’s Summit West) perhaps best summed
up the state of Mizzou’s search for a rival in the Southeastern
Conference as he considered that Arkansas has been designated as such.

OK, but … “We don’t mind Arkansas,” he said earlier this week. “Right
now, it’s like we haven’t done anything to them, and they haven’t
done anything to us.”

Their football teams on Nov. 29 in Columbia will meet in the
regular-season for the first time since 1963. They split two bowl
games in between.

* Come on, Kansas State. Free Leticia Romero. No matter what triggered
putting the squeeze on the basketball player, it’s mean-spirited
and petty to not release her to receive an immediate scholarship
elsewhere. Really, there’s no way to override a sacred committee’s
“final and binding” ruling on this?

* Danny Duffy tonight in Anaheim makes his first start since last
Saturday when he was perfect until Baltimore’s Adam Jones singled
with two outs in the seventh.

Earlier this week, Duffy said he hadn’t gotten distracted by the
possibility of pitching the first perfect game in franchise history.

“I was conscious of it, but I wasn’t thinking about it,” he said,
making a subtle but important distinction. “Cliche as it sounds,
I was just trying to get outs. … Lot of fun, lot of fun.

“Got to build on that and take it to Anaheim with us.”

Duffy’s season has been a microcosm of his career, marked by ups and
downs and highs and lows but still on trajectory to big possibilities.

After Yordano Ventura outperformed him in spring to earn the final
spot in the rotation, Duffy struggled as a bullpen possibility and
was assigned to Class AAA Omaha.

But injuries paved his way back, Duffy’s stuff appears as compelling
as it’s ever been and he’s showing signs of maturing emotionally.

“Got to build on everything you do, good and bad,” he said. “Got to
stay calm out there, and don’t let one bad pitch turn into another.

That’s what we did the other day.”

The native of southern California will be challenged on that in a new
way tonight in his first career appearance in Anaheim, where he’ll have
“probably about 50 to 70” relatives and friends on hand to watch him.

“No pressure,” he said, smiling. “It’s just baseball at the end
of the day. If you put pressure on yourself, that’s when you start
thinking about failing, so I’m just going to go out there and try
to take what we had here into there. Simple as can be. Just keep it
simple and be happy.”

* I’ve heard a lot of theories about what has been ailing Royals third
baseman Mike Moustakas, who was sent to Class AAA Omaha on Thursday.

Maybe it’s his vision. Maybe it’s the wad of gum he’s chomping on.

Maybe the wad of gum he’s chomping on is affecting his vision?

And then there’s this offering from George Ferris, who believes
Moustakas (and Billy Butler) need to lose weight:

“I’ve worked out a mathematical formula that proves as a players
weight goes down his batting average goes up proportionately.

“I also have a plan for players that appear “lost at the plate”,
but that’s completely different equation, it involves GPS.”

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RUSSIA MAY LAUNCH PEACE OPERATIONS IN ARMENIA AFTER UKRAINE EVENTS

15:05 * 23.05.14

The developments in Ukraine may cause Russia to decide on
peace operations in Armenia in case of possible tensions over
Nagorno-Karabaakh, an Armenian politician has said, ruling out the
likelihood of a renewed Armenian-Azerbaijani war.

According to Ashot Manucharyan, a former member of the Karabakh
Committee, such peace operations are in Russia’s interests in light of
the United States’ activeness in the country. “While in the past, the
Nagorno-Karabakh issue required combining big countries’ interests in
the region, today we see Russia’s rebellion against the social system.

Russia is getting its punishment in Ukraine, but one of its rebels
may be here. This is why the war threat has emerged. On the other
hand, Georgia today is allured into making steps which aren’t in
his interests at all. The relations with Russia had eased off after
[former Prime Minister Bidzina] Ivanishvili came to power, but they
now again speak on the need of NATO troops’ presence. It’s like
beating a furious bear. Hence, Georgia now may suffer the blow,”
the politician told reporters on Friday.

Commenting on the OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs’ recent regional tour
(to Armenia, Nagorno-Karabakh and Azerbaijan), Manucharyan said the
mediators’ decision to choose Lachin and Karvachar as their first
stops was a kind of gesture to give Azerbaijan to understand that
important sites are under control.

“Azerbaijan always expresses complaints about the Minsk Group; that’s
part of its policies. Such a posture is because it has been offered
the confrontation model: that the Armenians are loathsome etc.

Azerbaijan today arms itself against Iran, but that doesn’t mean it
can be used against Armenia at any moment. For that, it needs to hate
Armenia to make it look as though everything is against the country.

But as a matter of fact, it is against Iran, and against Russia,”
he added.

Asked whether he thinks there may be a new format or new ways of
resolving the conflict, Manucharyan said he doesn’t expect Azerbaijan
to ever abandon the existing format. “That format, in fact, has nothing
to do with the problem’s solution. A conflict is resolved when the
people in the region decide to take action. Karabakh has a youth which
does not accept oligarchy. But it does not yet understand many things;
once it does, I will then expect new actions and a new role,” he added.

Armenian News – Tert.am

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ARMENIA, RUSSIA DEVELOPING AGREEMENTS TO FACILITATE IMMIGRATION AND EMPLOYMENT RULES FOR ARMENIANS WORKING IN RUSSIA

YEREVAN, May 23. /ARKA/. Armenia and Russia are developing agreements
to be signed for facilitation of immigration and employment rules
for Armenians working in Russia, the press office of the Armenian
Territorial Administration Ministry reported on Friday after Armen
Gevorgyan, Armenian territorial administration minister, met with
Konstantin Romodanovsky, head of the Russia’s Federal Migration
Service.

At their meeting, the two countries’ officials pointed out the
necessity of bringing their countries’ laws to harmony with each other.

One day earlier, Romodanovsky said that Armenian labor migrants
in Russia will enjoy the same rights as citizens of Belarus and
Kazakhstan. He also said that these legislative changes will be made
before Armenia joins the Customs Union..-0—-

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