Author: Baghdasarian Karlen

ARMENIAN PM STARTS OFFICIAL VISIT TO KUWAIT WEDNESDAY

MENA English (Middle East and North Africa Financial Network)
March 10, 2015 Tuesday

Armenian Prime Minister Hovik Abrahamyan will start an official one-day
visit to Kuwait on Wednesday aimed at bolstering ties on all possible
domains with the State of Kuwait.

Speaking on the occasion, Armenian Ambassador to Kuwait Fadi
Sharshogliyan told KUNA that the visit would be important to boost
the diplomatic relations which began in 1994.

The visit, called for by an invitation of His Highness the Prime
Minister Sheikh Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah, will hopefully
include meetings with His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad
Al-Jaber Al-Sabah and other senior Kuwaiti officials, said the
Ambassador, adding that the signing of agreements would probably
take place.

On his part, Kuwaiti Ambassador to Armenia Bassam Al-Qabandi said
that his meeting with the Prime Minister a few days ago focused
on the upcoming visit aimed at further boosting relations on all
possible domains.

During the visit by Armenia’s President Serzh Sargsyan to Kuwait in
2009, relations were considerably boosted with several agreements
signed between Kuwait and Armenia.

The visit, which was the first by an Armenian leader, led to the
bolstering of ties within several spheres.

From: Baghdasarian

FUNDRAISER TO SAVE VARDAN ZILFUGHARYAN’S LIFE CONTINUES

18:56, 11 March, 2015

YEREVAN, 11 MARCH, ARMENPRESS. German doctors have sent director
of photography Vardan Zilfugharyan back to Moscow, and now he is in
need of help. The talented Armenian cameraman, who has been working
for MosFilm for several years now, was undergoing chemotherapy to
fight against leukemia in Germany. However, he doesn’t have enough
funding for treatment and needs nearly $250,000 dollars for a spinal
cord transplant.

In an interview with “Armenpress”, Vardan’s sister, Anna, said her
brother is currently in Moscow and is waiting for funds to be raised
so that he can continue treatment.

To help Vardan Zilfugharyan, VivaCell-MTS subscribers can send the
word Help to SMS 7000 and donate AMD 500.

The following bank accounts have been opened for money transfers
within the Republic of Armenia:

Bank name: ACBA-CREDIT AGRICOLE BANK CJSC

Name, last name: Ruzanna Pertshyan

Account number:

220009204516001 USD

220009208897000 AMD

Card account number:

220004372052000 AMD

For transfers in USD:

Correspondent bank: DEAUTSCHE BANK TRUST COMPANY AMERICAS

SWIFT: BKTRUS33

Beneficiary bank:

ACBA-CREDIT AGRICOLE BANK

SWIFT AGCAAM22

Correspondent account n. 04422200 (DO NOT use as beneficiary account
number)

Beneficiary name: Ruzanna Pertshyan

Beneficiary account number: 220009204516001

From: Baghdasarian

L’HOLOCAUSTE ARMENIEN : UN GENOCIDE QUI SE PERPETUE DANS L’INDIFFERENCE

Publie le : 11-03-2015

Info Collectif VAN – – Des articles signes par
des intellectuels hispanophones a propos du genocide armenien,
sont reunis sur le site genocidoarmenio par Artur Ghukasyan, un
journaliste espagnol d’origine armenienne. Le Collectif VAN vous
invite a lire la traduction d’un de ces articles, faite a partir
d’une première transcription en anglais publiee sur le site Armenian
Genocide Centennial le 4 mars 2015.

Legende photo: Jorge Rubiani, ecrivain, historien et architecte
paraguayen

Armenian Genocide Centennial

Extraits traduits d’après l’article publie sur le site Genocido Armenio

100 ans après le genocide armenien

Un genocide qui se perpetue dans l’indifference

L’holocauste armenien

Par Jorge Rubiani

Le 3 mars 2015

Artur Ghukasyan, journaliste espagnol d’origine armenienne, continue
a presenter des articles d’intellectuels hispanophones, concernant le
genocide armenien. Le site Genocidoarmenio a publie [le 25 fevrier
2015] l’article de Jorge Rubiani, ecrivain, historien et architecte
paraguayen.

qui est encourage a se repandre. Il n’y a pas de sympathie ou de
reconnaissance, et encore moins de condamnation et de punition des
Etats ou des groupes auteurs de ces crimes…

Cent ans après son martyre, le peuple armenien attend toujours avec
le meme espoir et la meme douleur… >>.

(c)Traduction de l’anglais Collectif VAN – 10 mars 2015 –

Lire l’article en entier en espagnol :

UN GENOCIDIO QUE SE PERPETÚA CON LA INDIFERENCIA

Source/Lien : Armenian Genocide Centennial

From: Baghdasarian

NEW TAX CODE TO BE UNVEILED BY SUMMER IN ARMENIA

YEREVAN, March 11. /ARKA/. Armenia’s new tax code will be unveiled
before the beginning of this year’s summer, Naren Chanmugam, head of
USAID Economic Office in Armenia, told journalists on Wednesday.

There are separate tax laws in Armenia now, which makes tax evasion
possible, he said. Pointing out that some large companies pay less
taxes than they ought to do, the expert stressed the necessity of
formation of a tax system that will live no room for maneuvering.

In his opinion, if tax law is clearer in Armenia, it will be free
from faults and income and taxable amounts will be clear and things
will be put right.

Chanmugam said USAID is carried out a joint work with Armenia’s finance
ministry for that and a new tax code is planned to be released to
public before the beginning of the summer.

He said even property taxes alone can increase tax revenue a great
deal, but an effective mechanism is needed to force tax dodgers to pay.

Unlike income or profits, immovable property can be easily controlled,
since it is visible.

Therefore it is necessary to improve application of immovable property
taxation mechanisms.

In 2013, USAID surveyed 1,448 households in Armenia’s capital and
provinces over tax environment and the results of the survey prompted
experts to propose elaboration of a new tax code.

A national program is also being worked out now to combat tax evasion
in the country. —0—–

From: Baghdasarian

HOVHANNES MARGARYAN: YOUNG PEOPLE EITHER GET INVOLVED WITH DRUG ABUSE OR VISIT CASINOS (VIDEO)

10:07 | March 11,2015 | Interview

A1+ Company has interviewed Hovhannes Margaryan, a lawmaker of the
National Assembly from Gyumri city.

He accounts the new wave of violence in Gyumri for the grave social
conditions. “Intolerance prevails throughout the country; young people
across the country are unemployed; it makes them more vulnerable to
addiction; they get involved with drug abuse or visit casinos and
Vivaros,” he said.

In addition to the socio-economic conditions and moral and
psychological atmosphere, Mr Margaryan also points to the youth
unemployment rate as another reason for violence. “Suicides are mostly
committed by young people,” he stressed.

Details are available in the video.

From: Baghdasarian

PRAGUE ACCUEILLE UNE EXPOSITION SUR LE GENOCIDE ARMENIEN

GENOCIDE ARMENIEN

Une delegation de l’Assemblee nationale armenienne dirigee par le
vice-president Eduard Sharmazanov a assiste a l’ouverture d’une
exposition a Prague consacre au centenaire du genocide armenien et
la couverture du genocide dans la presse mondiale.

Eduard Sharmazanov, l’ambassadeur d’Armenie en Republique tchèque
Tigran Seiranian, et des officiels tchèques ont prononce des discours.

“La Republique tchèque est le premier pays où les deux parlements
organisent une exposition commemorant le 100 e anniversaire du genocide
armenien, “a mentionne le vice-president.

mercredi 11 mars 2015, Stephane (c)armenews.com

From: Baghdasarian

ARMENIA CONFIRMS PARTICIPATION IN EURO GAMES IN AZERBAIJAN

Associated Press International
March 11, 2015 Wednesday 12:40 PM GMT

ROME

ROME (AP) – Organizers of the inaugural European Games say they have
received final confirmation that Armenia will send a team to the
multi-sport event in Azerbaijan.

Armenia’s participation in the June 12-18 games in Baku comes amid
the two nations’ continuing differences over Nagorno-Karabakh.

Azerbaijan’s Nagorno-Karabakh region and some adjacent territory have
been under the control of Armenian soldiers and local Armenian forces
since a 1994 cease-fire that ended a six-year war.

Armenian Olympic Committee head Gagik Tsarukyan says the decision to
compete was “based on sporting reasons alone.”

He says “it is important to keep sport independent from politics.”

Armenia plans to compete in six of the 20 sports on the program.

European Olympic Committees President Patrick Hickey says “this is
great news for the European Games and for Armenian sport.”

From: Baghdasarian

JUVENTUS TARGET HENRIKH MKHITARYAN ‘FEELS GREAT’ AT BORUSSIA DORTMUND

16:16, 11 Mar 2015
Siranush Ghazanchyan

Henrikh Mkhitaryan is happy at Borussia Dortmund and wants to stay
with the club, according to his agent Mino Raiola, espnfc.com reports.

Mkhitaryan was linked with a move to Juventus in the January transfer
window but a move failed to materialise.

The Armenia international, who signed for Dortmund from Shakhtar
Donetsk in 2013, struggled for form during the first half of the
Bundesliga season, as Jurgen Klopp’s team languished low down the
table.

Raiola recently claimed that the “feeling” between his client and
Dortmund “has broken down,” but the representative has now indicated
Mkhitaryan sees his future with the German side.

“Henrikh feels great at Dortmund. It is not for nothing that we signed
a five-year-deal [in 2013, when he joined BVB from Shakthar Donetsk]
here. It was a well-considered decision to opt for Jurgen Klopp,”
Raiola told Bild.

“Even though ‘Micki’ did not start every match after the winter break,
I don’t have the impression that he wants to leave. Quite the contrary,
he wants to achieve great things with Dortmund.”

Earlier this week, kicker reported that this summer Dortmund are not
planning to spend more money in the transfer market than they earn
through sales.

Regarding potential rebuilding of the BVB squad, Raiola said: “Should
they plan without him in the summer, we can still see what’s best
for both sides.”

From: Baghdasarian

SAMTSKHE-JAVAKHETI TEACHERS TO TAKE ADVANCED TRAINING IN MOTHER TONGUE

March 11, 2015 13:49

Minister of Education and Science of Georgia Tamar Sanikidze

Photo:

Yerevan/Mediamax/. Minister of Education and Science of Georgia Tamar
Sanikidze held meetings in Samtskhe-Javakheti speaking about the
reforms in the Ministry envisaging improved options for professional
development and career growth of teachers.

Representatives of the teaching staff of the local university as
well as directors of schools from rural communities took part in
the meetings.

Given the fact that the region is settled by national minorities,
the meetings focused on the benefits the teachers can get during the
reforms in the system, the Georgian Ministry of Science reports.

Earlier, the teachers of comprehensive schools didn’t take qualifying
exams in their mother tongue which affected their professional
activities and motivation, the Ministry stressed.

Now, within the new policy of professional growth of teachers,
teachers of schools in regions populated with national minorities can
have facilitated options of studying the Georgian language. They will
also take advanced training in their mother tongue.

Also, bilingual teachers will be given new opportunities, the
Ministry notes.

All the programs will be available from the new academic year, in
the University of Samtskhe-Javakheti as well.

From: Baghdasarian

CITY OF GLENDALE DESIGNATES APRIL 2015 AS “ARMENIAN GENOCIDE COMMEMORATION MONTH”

By MassisPost
Updated: March 10, 2015

GLENDALE – The Glendale City Council Tuesday presented a proclamation
designating the Month of April 2015 as “Armenian Genocide Commemoration
Month.” Mayor Zareh Sinanyan presented the proclamation during
the regular session of the City Council to representatives of the
Armenian-Genocide Centennial Committee of Western United States.

The Glendale City Council also unanimously passed a Resolution
designating April 2015 as the “Month of Commemoration of Centennial
Anniversary of the Armenian Genocide”; and Taking Actions Necessary
to Ensure the City and its Institutions Including Schools, Libraries
and Publicly Owned Museums Properly Commemorate, Inform and Provide
Education About the Genocide.

Below is the text of the Resolution:

RESOLUTION OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF GLENDALE DESIGNATING APRIL
2015 AS THE “MONTH OF COMMEMORATION OF THE CENTENNIAL ANNIVERSARY
OF THE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE”; AND TAKING ACTIONSNECESSARY TO ENSURE THE
CITY AND ITS INSTITUTIONS INCLUDING SCHOOLS, LIBRARIES AND PUBLICLY
OWNED MUSEUMS PROPERLY COMMEMORATE, INFORM AND PROVIDE EDUCATION
ABOUT THE GENOCIDE

WHEREAS, the Armenian people were subjects of a systematic and
premeditated Genocidal campaign which began on April 24, 1915, at
the hands of the Young Turk Government of the Ottoman Empire from
1915-1919, and which continued at the hands of the Kemalist Movement
of Turkey from 1920-1923 whereby over 1.5 million Armenian men, women
and children were slaughtered or marched to their deaths in an effort
to annihilate the Armenian Nation in the First modem Genocide of the
20th century, while thousands of surviving Armenian women and children
were forcibly converted and Islamized, and hundreds of thousands more
were subjected to ethnic cleansing during the period of the modern
Republic of Turkey from 1924-1937; and

WHEREAS, during the genocides of the Christians living in the Ottoman
Empire and surrounding regions which occurred during the first half
of the 20th Century, hundreds of thousands of Assyrians, Greeks
and other Christians, lost their lives at the hands of the Ottoman
Turkish Empire and the Republic of Turkey, and WHEREAS, these crimes
against humanity also had the consequence of permanently removing all
traces of the Armenians and other targeted people from their historic
homelands of more than four millennia, and enriching the perpetrators
with the lands and other property of the victims of these crimes,
including the usurpation of several thousand churches; and

WHEREAS, in response to the Genocide and at the behest of the
President Woodrow Wilson and the U.S. State Department, the
Near East Relief organization was founded, and became the first
Congressionally-sanctioned American philanthropic effort created
exclusively to provide humanitarian assistance and to rescue the
Armenian Nation and other Christian minorities from annihilation,
who went on to survive and thrive outside of their ancestral homeland
all over the world and specifically in the State of California; and

WHEREAS, the planning and implementation of Genocide is indisputably
recognized in international law as a Crime Against Humanity and is
punishable as such, yet has remained unpunished for nearly one hundred
years, as the government of Turkey is allowed with impunity to distort
history and to deny the Genocide and its consequences perpetrated
both by its Ottoman predecessor and its subsequent regimes despite
international recognition of the Armenian Genocide by 23 countries,
including the United States of America; and

WHEREAS, the Republic of Turkey inexplicably and adamantly has
denied the occurrence of the crimes against humanity committed by
the Ottoman and Young Turk rulers for many years, and continues to
do so a full century since the first crimes constituting genocide
occurred despite the Turkish governments’ earlier admissions and the
overwhelming proof of genocidal intent; and

WHEREAS, the Republic of Turkey has escalated its international
campaign of Genocide denial; it maintains its illegal blockade of
humanitarian aid to the Republic of Armenia, and steadily increases its
pressure on any movement in Turkey acknowledging the Armenian Genocide
and seeking justice for its victims and other persecuted indigenous
minorities; and WHEREAS, this resolution declares that the Glendale
City Council deplores the persistent, ongoing efforts by any person,
in this country or abroad, to deny the historical fact of the Armenian
Genocide and its related atrocities; and WHEREAS, every person should
be made aware of and educated about the Armenian Genocide and other
crimes against humanity, and know that April 24, 1915 is globally
recognized as the commencement of the Armenian Genocide and that 2015
marks the centennial anniversary since its commencement.

NOW THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF GLENDALE
AS FOLLOWS:

1. That April 2015 is hereby designated as the “City of Glendale Month
of Commemoration of the Centennial Anniversary of the Armenian Genocide
of 1915-1923â~@³, in order to ensure that the Armenian Genocide is
properly commemorated and taught to the community at large, to the
schools, their faculty and student body, and to visitors to Glendale
through educational and cultural events.

2. That the Glendale City Council hereby commends the extraordinary
service which was delivered by Near East Relief to the survivors of
the Armenian Genocide and Assyrian Genocide, including thousands of
direct beneficiaries of American philanthropy who are the parents,
grandparents, and great-grandparents of many Californian residents,
and the City Council reaffirms its commitment to working with
community groups, nonprofit organizations, City personnel, and the
Glendale Unified School District to host campus wide educational
events dedicated specifically to these efforts as an important part
of American history.

3. That the Glendale City Council calls upon the President of
the United States to work toward equitable, constructive, stable,
and durable Armenian-Turkish relations based upon the Republic of
Turkey’s full acknowledgment of the facts and ongoing consequences
of the Armenian Genocide, and toward a fair, just, and comprehensive
international resolution of this crime against humanity, including
reparations to the Armenian nation.

4. That the Glendale City Council transmit copies of this Resolution to
the President and Vice President of the United States, to the Speaker
of the United States House of Representatives, to the Majority Leader
of the United States Senate, to each United States Senator and Member
of Congress from California, to the Governor of California, and every
member of the California State Legislature, to the California State
Superintendent of Instruction, and to the Turkish Ambassador to the
United States.

From: Baghdasarian