Armenian Minister Proposes Renaming Country

ARMENIAN MINISTER PROPOSES RENAMING COUNTRY

Vestnik Kavkaza, Russia
Jan 17 2014

17 January 2014 – 1:51pm

Armenian Minister for Education and Science Armen Ashotyan has proposed
renaming the country to restore historic justice, inspire patriotism
and justify legal demands, News Armenia reports.

Armenia can be recognized as Western in Turkey and Eastern where the
modern country is located.

Armenian Minister for Education and Science Armen Ashotyan has proposed
renaming the country to restore historic justice, inspire patriotism
and justify legal demands, News Armenia reports.

Armenia can be recognized as Western in Turkey and Eastern where the
modern country is located.

From: Baghdasarian

Armenia Approves Sale Of 20% Stake In ArmRosGazprom To Gazprom

ARMENIA APPROVES SALE OF 20% STAKE IN ARMROSGAZPROM TO GAZPROM

Interfax, Russia
Jan 16 2014

YEREVAN. Jan 16

The Armenian government approved the sale of 20% stake in CJSC
ArmRosGazprom to Russia’s Gazprom (MOEX: GAZP) on Thursday.

Presenting a draft of the sales agreement, Armenian Deputy Energy
Minister Joseph Isayan said that the agreement is in line with the
previous agreement signed during Russian President Vladimir Putin’s
visit to Armenia on December 2, 2013.

Isayan said that the agreement provides for the sale of 20.0007%
of ordinary shares, or 12.6 million shares with total par value of
63.333 billion dram, or $155.6 million at the current exchange rate.

The Armenian government has authorized Isayan to sign the agreement
with Russia, which is to be signed by January 17, 2014.

The agreement on the terms of the purchase-sale and future activities
of ArmRosGazprom was signed in Yerevan on December 2, 2013.

The agreement stipulates that Gazprom, which owns 80% of ArmRosGazprom,
will receive the remaining 20% owned by the Armenian government.

Armenian Energy and Natural Resources Minister Armen Movsisyan has said
that the government is transferring its 20% stake in ArmRosGazprom
to Gazprom in exchange for the settling the country’s $155 million
debt for Russian gas delivered to the country.

The agreement on the terms of the purchase-sale and future activities
of ArmRosGazprom and an intergovernmental agreement on cooperation
in supplies of natural gas to Armenia were approved by the Armenian
parliament on December 23, 2013.

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Zaruhi Postanjyan Welcomes First Joint Rally Of 2014

ZARUHI POSTANJYAN WELCOMES FIRST JOINT RALLY OF 2014

January 17, 2014 | 18:17

YEREVAN. – Head of the Heritage parliamentary faction Zaruhi Postanjyan
issued a message welcoming the first joint rally in 2014.

“The great public influence of the expected rally will finally lead
to victory,” she wrote on Facebook.

A large gathering-march is expected to be held Saturday at Yerevan’s
Liberty Square. Those fighting against the new cumulative pension
plan and the representatives from the four non-ruling-coalition
factions-specifically, the Armenian National Congress, Prosperous
Armenia, ARF Dashnaktsutyun, and Heritage-of the Armenian National
Assembly will take part in this event.

The pension plan, which came into force on January 1, 2014,
is mandatory for those born in and after 1974 and voluntary for
those born before 1974. In line with this plan, 5 to 10 percent of
the monthly salaries in Armenia will be deducted and mandatorily be
allocated to cumulative pension funds; the latter will be reimbursed
as pensions once a person turns 63 years old.

News from Armenia – NEWS.am

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Armenian-Georgian Border As Demarcation Line Between The European Un

ARMENIAN-GEORGIAN BORDER AS DEMARCATION LINE BETWEEN THE EUROPEAN UNION AND CUSTOMS UNION

Friday, 17 January 2014 11:51

Predictions about the possible geopolitical changes in the Middle
East andSouth Caucasus were made still in the first half of 2013,
the axis of which was mainly the Syrian crisis and the so-called
thaw in the Iranian-American relations. The arrangement between the
USA and Russia on the Syrian chemical weapon couldn’t but have its
impact on the political processes in the noted regions.

The achieved arrangement was a message to, first of all, Turkey,
the far-reaching goals of which both in the Middle East and South
Caucasus are quite obvious.

Special interest in the political developments in the South Caucasus
region is caused by the Russian-Georgian relations.

There is no turning point in the current relations between the
two countries, but they have been improved in holding a political
dialogue, which is conditioned by dismissing former president Michael
Saakashvili. The current stage of the Russian-Georgian relations is
described the best by the present level of trade and economic relations
and their development trends. According to the News-Georgia website,
for 11 months of 2013, the circulation of commodity turnover between
Georgia and Russiaincreased by 43%, amounting to $680 million and the
export of commodity from Georgia toRussia in the noted period made
over $161 million. In this context, the Russin Federation yields to
Turkey, Azerbaijan, and Ukraine. According to Georgian President
Georgy Margvelashvili, the considerable progress in the economic
sphere creates a positive background for discussing political issues.

The president expressed his confidence that the Georgian authorities
had chosen the right policy for the relations with Russia. “I think
our current policy is on a true track”, he said.

The Georgian President was continued by RF President Vladimir Putin –
according to him, the visa regime between Russia and Georgia should
be reconsidered and the issue should be discussed at an expert
level. The leaders of the two states seem to be interested in raising
the inter-state relations to a certain level.

The issue of possible reopening of the Abkhazian railway is discussed
in the context of the Russian-Georgian relations, the resolution of
which will mean fail of some expansionist plans of Turkey. It will
make review the strategy of the Azerbaijan-Georgia-Turkey trilateral
alliance. Let’s remind that the issue of the Abkhazian railway was
discussed at the last year meeting of RA President Serzh Sargsyan with
RF President Vladimir Putin in Moscow. The Armenian leader stressed
the significance of the railway, noting that he expected positive
shifts in that sphere. Reopening of the railway will greatly benefit
Armenia’s economy and not only it.

According to him, currently about $190 is spent for transporting one
ton of cargo from Moscow to Yerevan, which is quite a lot of money.

The problems in the relations between Russia and Georgia are the
Abkhazia andSouth Ossetia conflicts. Former Prime Minister of Georgia
Bidzina Ivanishvili expressed his viewpoint on this in late December,
noting that the territories had been separated fromGeorgia with the
support of Russia. Yet, Ivanishvili called hopeful Vladimir Putin’s
public speech, in which he noted that peoples should themselves
determine their relations andRussia wouldn’t interfere with this. And
though Georgia’s President Margvelashvili once again reminded of the
territorial integrity within the internationally recognized borders,
however, he spoke for the discussion of issues of mutual interest.

The Armenian-Georgian relations couldn’t be dropped from the context
of theSouth Caucasus developments. In this regard, we should
note the conference titled ‘The Prospects of Armenian-Georgian
Inter-Parliamentary Cooperation’, which took place in mid-December,
2013, in Lory district’s Alaverdi town and the first issue of the
agenda of which was reopening the Abkhazian railway. Another important
issue related to the economic zones around the RA and Georgia, which
followed Armenian’s steps on joining the Customs Union and Georgia’s
signing the Association Agreement with the European Union. RA and
Georgian Parliaments Speakers Hovik Abrahamian and Davit Usupashvili
were present at the opening of the conference. According to the
Armenian mass media, the sides admitted that for the last eight or nine
years, no meetings had taken place between the Armenian and Georgian
MPs. Both the Armenian and Georgian MPs explained the situation with
the fact that the foreign policy of these states had differed from
each other in the noted period.

The current situation became the keynote issue of discussions –
the Armenian-Georgian border will be further considered as a border
between the European Association and Customs Union states.

As is known, Georgia signed preliminarily the Association Agreement
with the European Union at the Vilnius Summit. In this context,
as the conference participants noted, overcoming the inevitable
obstacles at two different platforms becomes urgent, which requires
great readiness by both parties. And these problems are connected with
transport, commodity turnover, economic, and other processes. The RA
NA Standing Committee on Foreign Relations stressed the importance
of the parties’ readiness to develop the relations. The conference
participants also noted that within the international format the
Armenian and Georgian MPs should be able to take, at least, neutral
positions in the opposite dimensions.

Thus, the improvement of the Armenian-Georgian and Russian-Georgian
relations in the conditions of widening the Customs Union is
gaining new sounding. Armenia has certain expectations from the
Customs Union, which can be realized under favorable developments
in the region. Surely, time will show how realizable the three
parties’ leaders’ assurances are. But, one thing is clear – The
Armenia-Georgia-Russia economic cooperation and especially the
Russia-Georgia political dialogue will contribute to maintaining
stability and security in the South Caucasus.

Ruzan ISHKHANIAN

From: Baghdasarian

http://artsakhtert.com/eng/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1332:armenian-georgian-border-as-demarcation-line-between-the-european-union-and-customs-union&catid=5:politics&Itemid=17

Discredited Meyer Denying Armenian Genocide Defends Plagiarist-Orien

DISCREDITED MEYER DENYING ARMENIAN GENOCIDE DEFENDS PLAGIARIST-ORIENTALIST

19:29 17/01/2014 ” REGION

In the Russia scientific community a new scandal erupted – acting
IAAS MSU director, member of Expert Council of the Higher Attestation
Commission Professor I. I. Abylgaziev was accused of plagiarism. It
turned out that the basis of his doctoral thesis served several pieces
of foreign dissertations and other sources.

In response to accusations in plagiarism, Abylgazieva called an
assembly of IAAS academic council and asked to vote on a confidence
towards him. “At first they discussed the importance of studying
the problems of Soviet internationalism and solidarity, in which the
director is engaged, also that there are similar ideas in different
theses, that it does not matter how good scientist the director is,
if he is a good administrator instead, and also that the “media
campaign” is a scheming against V.A. Sadovnichego and is not worth
paying attention. It was also suggested that some certain fragments
of the not yet published dissertation of professor Abylgaziev were
stolen and hastily published by his enemies or protected by them before
he had time to complete his research. That was the statement of the
former director of IAAC scientist in Turkish studies M.S. Meyer and
scientist in Vietnam studies D.V. Deopik which was somewhat unexpected:
they both have a reputation of decent people,” notes the member of RAS,
historian Askold Ivanchik in his blog on “Echo of Moscow.”

As the author notes, the issue of trust was put to a secret voting.

Results: 21 board members trust the director, 10 have no trust towards
him, 7 invalid ballots.

“Well, the Russian orientalists chose the option of the disgrace quite
consciously. None of them could say that he didn’t know for whom
he or she is voting. Moreover, as it was a secret vote, it can be
stated that the academic council of IAAS chose its director freely;
no one can claim that he is imposed from the top. This means that
the IAAS professors themselves, quite well realizing what they are
doing decided that the retired official with its compiled dissertation
(but real colonel) deserves the place of the director of one of the
Russian main centers, where future orientalists are being prepared,”
Ivanchik writes.

It is not accidental that when talking about the corporate reputation
of RSU the author in connection with the scandal mentions Meyer,
expert of Turkish studies. Meyer was also a participant of another
sensational scandal in academic community.

Note that the head of the Institute of Asian and African countries
at RSU named after Lomonosov, member of Russian-Turkish Commission
of historians Mikhail Meyer made a speech on a channel “Kultura”,
in a series of “Turkish March” of a program “Power of fact.” When
commenting on the historical facts concerning the Armenian Genocide
in the Ottoman Empire, he made cynical statements.

In particular, he stated that there was “slaughter on both sides”,
“a certain number of Armenians” managed to survive and “it is not
genocide and one million and a half Armenians were not killed.”

In fact, Meyer’s statements denying the Armenian Genocide, coincided
with the Turkey’s new arguments, where the fact of planed destruction
of the ethnic groups is replaced by the arguments, completely not
related to the Armenians, about the parallel suffering of Muslims in
the breakaway colonies of the Empire and during the First World War.

After, the representatives of Armenian Diaspora, Armenian organizations
of Russia, the representatives of the Russian intelligentsia and the
mass media harshly criticized Meyer’s statements, the host of the
“Power of fact” program on the “Kultura” channel in a written form
apologized for the statements of Meyer.

It’s also noteworthy that Meyer as well participated in a scandalous
presentation of Oleg Kuznetsov’s book “Truth about the “myths” of
Nagorno Karabakh Conflict” held at the press center “AIF.”

Note, that the presentation of the book revealed that from the very
first page it is full of historical inaccuracies, misinformation and
in some cases there are even obvious falsification of the facts about
the history of Armenian people.

The video record of dispute between Vadim Gomoz, the editor of
“Wikipedia” and Oleg Kuznetsov was distributed on the Internet. It
clearly shows that the author of the book admits his pro- Azerbaijani
bias, thus depreciating the academic value of his book.

From: Baghdasarian

http://www.panorama.am/en/politics/2014/01/17/meyer-azer-arm/

Book On Armenian Amiras Published In Turkish

BOOK ON ARMENIAN AMIRAS PUBLISHED IN TURKISH

By Contributor // January 16, 2014

ISTANBUL, Turkey (A.W.)–On Dec. 25, 2013, Istanbul’s Aras Publishing
published the Turkish translation of Hagop L. Barsoumian’s The
Armenian Amira Class of Istanbul (Ýstanbul’un Ermeni Amiralar Sýnýfý,
in Turkish). Human rights activist Ayse Gunaysu, who is also a
professional translator and a columnist for the Armenian Weekly,
edited the book and prepared it for publication.

Cover of the Turkish translation of The Armenian Amira Class of
Istanbul

Originally published by the American University of Armenia (AUA)
in 2007, The Armenian Amira Class of Istanbul was Barsoumian’s 1980
doctoral dissertation at Columbia University.

The book opens with a heartfelt tribute to the author by his wife,
Anais, who brought about the publication 21 years after Hagop
Barsoumian’s disappearance during the Lebanese civil war in 1986.

Khachig Tololyan, professor of English and chair of the English
department at Wesleyan University, and a longtime friend of the author,
notes in the preface, “At the time of its completion around 1979
it was, as it remains now, the most thorough study of the Armenian
amiras of the Ottoman Empire.”

The Armenian Amira Class of Istanbul provides the story of the
powerful elite group known as the amiras, tracing their rise,
dominance, and, ultimately, decline. Barsoumian’s research also
draws the genealogical connections between these elite families,
and the role these relationships played in maintaining power.

“No one has done this for the amiras with anything remotely approaching
Barsoumian’s thoroughness. His grasp of these connections of descent
and marriage enables him to write confidently about the ways in which
a dominant elite constructed and sustained itself,” writes Tololyan.

Born in Aleppo in 1936 to Ayntabtsi parents and genocide survivors,
Barsoumian attended the Karen Jeppe Jemaran. In 1960, he settled in the
San Francisco, Calif. He attended San Francisco State College, where
he earned a B.S. (1964), followed by an M.A. (1969) in international
trade, focusing on the European common market. In 1972, he relocated
to New York. In 1975, he earned another M.A. in Middle East history
from New York University and, five years later, earned his Ph.D. from
Columbia University in Ottoman history. Barsoumian then moved to
Beirut, where he taught history and Middle East politics at Haigazian
University. On Jan. 31, 1986, he was kidnapped, and was not seen again.

From: Baghdasarian

http://www.armenianweekly.com/2014/01/16/amiras/

Ex-President Robert Kocharyan’s Office Responds To Energy Minister’s

EX-PRESIDENT ROBERT KOCHARYAN’S OFFICE RESPONDS TO ENERGY MINISTER’S INTERVIEW

16:00 ~U 17.01.14

Armenian ex-president Robert Kocharyan’s office has responded to
Armenian Minister of Energy and Natural Resources Armen Movsisyan’s
interview about the ArmRusgasprom deal the Property for Debt agreement.

The office’s statement reads in particular:

The idea of settling the debt by transferring property was suggested
by the Armenian and Russian presidents. The relevant negotiations were
conducted within the Armenian-Russian intergovernmental commission
co-chaired by Serzh Sargsyan and Ilya Klebanov. All the agreements
were reached within the commission, with relevant protocols drawn up.

As Minister of Energy, Armen Movsisyan was a key participant in
the process with respect to energy assets. The final results were
submitted to the Armenian and Russian presidents for approval.

“Robert Kocharyan still believes that was a mutually advantageous
agreement and that the intergovernmental commission had worked well.

Judging by his interview, Mr Movsisyan reviewed the work and his
personal contribution to the agreement. That is what concerns the
2002 agreement,” says the statement.

Minister Movsisyan seems to have mixed the details of the 2002 and 2006
agreements. The main point of the latter was Gazprom’s involvement
in the Iran-Armenia gas pipeline construction project and completion
of the 5th power unit of the Hrazdan HPP. The unfinished 5th power
unit was estimated at $250 million. The construction was under way
in 1995-1996 on an EBRD credit and was suspended, with a total of
$60 million spent. Gazprom agreed to that estimate to enable the
Armenian side to subsidize the gas prices. With hardly any expenses,
Armenia got a modern power unit and Iran-Armenia gas pipeline, as
well as funds for subsidizing the gas prices, without a burden on
the budget or exclusive rights for any side.

Robert Kocharyan’s office also addresses statements by Vice-Chairman
of the ruling Republican Party of Armenia, (RPA), Minister of Education
and Science Armen Ashotyan.

“Paying tribute to a statesman is not visiting his or her tomb, but
respecting his or her political heritage. The core of the debate
is some officials’ attempts to reappraise the former authorities’
economic policy to justify present-day problems. The years 2001-2007
are mainly in question.

“Robert Kocharyan could have remained silent pleading the government’s
constitutional responsibility for the economy. But he defended the
achievements not for himself, but for the team that worked hard
to achieve the goals. The team included the premier, ministries,
municipalities of Yerevan and other cities, tens of thousands
of builders that built up the country. And the fruits – highways,
bridges, tunnels, museums and theaters – are now enjoyed by everyone,
including our forgetful officials. Unfortunately, we have to defend
the achievements from young RPA members, who launched their career
under and due to [late Armenian premier] Andranik Margaryan.”

From: Baghdasarian

http://www.tert.am/en/news/2014/01/17/Robert-qocharyan-response/

Political Science Association of Armenia slams Azerbaijan’s policy o

Political Science Association of Armenia slams Azerbaijan’s policy of
distorting the truth

14:29 18.01.2014

The Political Science Association of Armenia has adopted a statement
on the `Azerbaijani Authorities’ Policy of Distorting the Truth about
the Anti-Armenian Pogroms and Subsequent Deployment of Troops in Baku
in January 1990.’ The statement reads:

`January 2014 marks the 24th anniversary of the massacres of Armenians
in Baku. These tragic events were organized by the Azerbaijani Popular
Front with the criminal connivance of the Azerbaijan SSR and USSR
leadership. In the capital city of Azerbaijan hundreds of Armenians
were killed by extremely brutal methods. They were doused with petrol
and to the applause of the fanatic mob publicly burnt alive in the
streets of Baku, defenseless children, women and elderly people were
thrown from the upper floors of houses with the seizure of their
apartments and property etc. The Armenian community of Baku, by 1988
numbering around 300 thousand people and playing a prominent role in
Azerbaijan’s economic and cultural life, ceased to exist, its
surviving members lost everything and became refugees. Apart from
Armenians, there were Russians, Ukrainians, Jews, as well as
Azerbaijanis having dared to save some Armenians who suffered from the
Azerbaijani brutalized thugs.

These egregious crimes against humanity were never condemned.
Moreover, the Azerbaijan SSR leadership, entering into criminal
conspiracy with the central authorities, refused to investigate them.
Baku declined to publish the archival materials on the January events,
and subsequently – under Aliyev father and son – did not venture, at
least formally, to call for responsibility and institute court
proceedings against whoever it may be.

Official Baku continues its targeted policy of falsifying the history
and tries, playing up to anti-Russian sentiments, to depict the
above-mentioned events as an end-in-itself attempt by the Union center
`to drown in the blood the national liberation movement of the
Azerbaijani nation for its secession from the USSR’. Meanwhile, the
results of the USSR-wide referendum of 17 March, 1991, when more than
70 % of all the Azerbaijan SSR population voted in favor of
maintaining the Soviet Union, are indicative of the contradiction of
this postulate to historical facts and elementary logic.

The `Plan of activities on commemorating the 24th anniversary of the
January 20 tragedy’, recently approved by the Head of Administration
of the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan is a symptomatic
manifestation of the Azerbaijani authorities’ falsification policy. It
is based on the attempt by the direct successor of the criminal state
to exploit the traditions and rites of commemorating victims of
genocides so as to hide the horrific truth about the mass atrocities
by the thugs from the Azerbaijani Popular Front towards the peaceful
Armenian population of Baku in January 1990. Thereby, the victims are
cynically put on a par with their torturers, many of whom at present
are among the key actors in the political life of the Republic of
Azerbaijan.

This approach organically stems from Azerbaijan’s unconstructive
policy, a vivid example of which is the statement by Ilham Aliyev at a
Government Session of Azerbaijan on January 9, 2014 on the use of
Azerbaijan’s military machine for the resolution of the Karabakh
conflict, in case Armenia refuses to make unilateral concessions
imposed by Baku. At the same time, the arms race initiated by Baku
authorities forces the Armenian sides to take measures to maintain the
guaranteed balance of power. Meanwhile, the only reasonable way to
resolve the Karabakh conflict is the creation of an atmosphere of
mutual trust among the Republic of Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh
Republic and the Republic of Azerbaijan, based – as is the case with
the proposal for the Palestinian-Israeli conflict – on the mutual
recognition of the Republic of Azerbaijan and Nagorno-Karabakh
Republic established as a result of the 1991 law-governed referendum
in accordance with Perestroika Law `On Procedures for Regulation of
Issues Related to Separation of Soviet Republics from the USSR’ –
before the Alma-Ata Declaration on the official dissolution of the
USSR, and the return of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic to the
negotiation table as a full party.

Paying tribute to the memory of the innocent victims of the January
pogroms and massacres, the Political Science Association of Armenia
condemns the sacrilegious policy by the Azerbaijani leadership of
distorting the truth about the January massacres of Armenians in 1990,
as well as the subsequent deployment of troops, and urges the
international community not to succumb to the propaganda fabrications
and manipulations by the Azerbaijani authorities. The Political
Science Association of Armenia draws the attention of the UN, the
Council of Europe, the European Union, the OSCE, Heads of the member
states of these international organizations and, first and foremost,
the OCSE Minsk Group co-Chairs to preventing the malicious perversions
by the Azerbaijani authorities of the historical truth with
profanation of the memory of the true victims of the January 1990
bloody events in Baku. We also appeal to all the honest sons and
daughters of the Azerbaijani nation to face their own history, thus
paving the way for the democratic development of Azerbaijan and the
establishment of lasting peace between the Armenian and Azerbaijani
peoples on the basis of principles of international law and universal
human values.’

From: Baghdasarian

http://www.armradio.am/en/2014/01/18/political-science-association-of-armenia-slams-azerbaijans-policy-of-distorting-the-truth/

CNN consacre un reportage-photo à l’église Sainte-Croix d’Akhtamar s

MEDIAS-PATRIOMOINE ARMENIEN
CNN consacre un reportage-photo à l’église Sainte-Croix d’Akhtamar sur
le lac de Van

La chaine américaine de télévision CNN a placé sur son site des photos
de six lieux touristiques de Turquie qui restent encore inconnus du
grand public. L’un de ces reportages est consacré à l’église
arménienne Sainte-Croix de l’île d’Akhtamar sur le lac de Van. « De
nombreux touristes se rendent en Turquie pour ses bords très
fréquentés de la Méditerranée ou visitent les grande mosquées ou le
palais d’Istanbul. Mais le pays est grand, il y a d’autres lieux qui
méritent le regard » écrit le site de la CNN. Le reportage lié au lac
de Van, le site affirme que le lac a une profondeur maximale de 400
mètres, sa longueur est de 120 km et il ressemble à une mer
intérieure. « Le lac de Van ne communique pas avec la mer, mais ses
eaux sont riches en sels minéraux qui lui donnent une couleur bleue
teintée de blanc. Il y a plus de 1000 ans, le lac faisait partie du
royaume d’Arménie. L’ancienne église arménienne Sainte-Croix se trouve
sur l’île d’Akhtamar qui se trouve à 3 km de la côte est décorée de
bas reliefs merveilleux et des constructions qui furent récemment
rénovées » commente CNN.

Krikor Amirzayan

samedi 18 janvier 2014,
Krikor Amirzayan ©armenews.com

From: Baghdasarian

http://www.armenews.com/article.php3?id_article-518

Une femme sur seize serait atteinte du cancer du sein en Arménie

ARMENIE-SANTE
Une femme sur seize serait atteinte du cancer du sein en Arménie

En Arménie, une femme sur seize souffre du cancer du sein. Affirmation
de Khatchanouch Hagopian, le directrice du Centre se santé
arméno-américain lors d’une conférence de presse à Erévan le 15
janvier. Kh. Hagopian a informé que son centre recevait entre 35 000
et 36 000 malades par an. Lors des 17 années de son activité, le
Centre de santé arméno-américain a accueilli 325 164 personnes dont
182 831 pour examen des seins. Parmi ces dernières furent révélés 8
000 cas de cancers. Selon Kh. Hagopian les cas de cancers du sein sont
en augmentation constante en Arménie. Ses services rendent également
visite dans les régions d’Arménie pour dépister les cas de cancers du
sein. La région de Kégharkounik recensant le plus fort taux de cas.
Kh. Hagopian a également confié que les Arméniennes et les Juives sont
les plus exposées à cette maladie avant l’ge de 25 ans. Selon elle,
comme la « maladie d’Erévan » les facteurs génétiques sont importants
dans cette maladie. Les plus affectées sont les femmes de 35 à 60 ans.
Le Centre de santé arméno-américain n’étant pas un établissement
public, les examens médicaux ne sont pas gratuits et vont de 20 000
drams pour la mammographie à près de 1000 dollars pour des contrôles
plus poussés. « Mais chaque jour nous recevons une douzaine de malades
pour des examens gratuits » confie Kh. Hagopian et de conclure « le
dépistage précoce est l’un des gages de succès de traitement ».

Krikor Amirzayan

samedi 18 janvier 2014,
Krikor Amirzayan ©armenews.com

From: Baghdasarian