Author: Baghdasarian Karlen

RULING REPUBLICAN PARTY OF ARMENIA SEES NO SENSE IN DEBATES

news.am
May 02, 2012 | 16:15

YEREVAN. – Republican Party of Armenia (RPA) have nothing to argue
with the ARF Dashnaktsutyun, RPA deputy head Galust Sahakyan said
commenting on the ARFD member Vahan Hovhannisyan’s offer to debate
with any Republicans.

“We are arguing with them all day long. Why we should promote the
increase of tensions in the end of the election campaign,” Sahakyan
said at a press conference on Wednesday adding he does not reject
debating but he has no mood to argue with anybody.

The Republican Party of Armenia (RPA) is a ruling conservative party
in Armenia founded on 2 April, 1990, and registered on 14 May, 1991,
being the first officially registered socio-political organization
in the independent Republic of Armenia.

Since 2003, the Republican Party is a core member of the ruling
coalition along with the Prosperous Armenia and Orinats Yerkir
parties. RPA has majority of seats in the Armenian parliament since
2003.

The Republican Party of Armenia will run in the parliamentary
elections under its new slogan: “Let us believe to change!” The
Party’s proportional list includes 253 names.

RPA has also nominated MP candidates with the majority election system
in 33 electoral districts.

From: Baghdasarian

NKR GOVERNMENT APPROVES 62 MLN-DRAM PROGRAM ON MINERAL RESOURCES EXPLORATION AND UTILIZATION

ARKA
APRIL 28, 2012
STEPANAKERT

STEPANAKERT, April 28. /ARKA/. The government of Nagorno-Karabakh
republic approved on its regular session yesterday the 62-million-dram
program on exploring and utilizing mineral resources in the country
in 2012, NKR government’s press service reports ARKA.

The program will be implemented by Geological expedition of Artsakh
NGO.

In particular, the program’s goals are to launch search for precious
metals and ore minerals in Taghavard and Zardanashen zones of Martuni
region in NKR, and Mets Tagher zone of Gadrut region.

The source also says that ore zone of Kovsakan will be explored,
and geological fund’s data will be detailed.

From: Baghdasarian

PRESIDENT VISITS MASHTOTS PARK: WILL THE BOOTHS BE REMOVED?

14:11 . 01/05

Today RA President Serzh Sargysan has unexpectedly visited Mashtots
park accompanied by Yerevan Mayor Taron Markaryan.

It is still unknown what the president’s visit was conditioned by. Did
he visit to follow how the park improvement work is going on? Or did
he suddenly become concerned with the events going on in the park
for already 3 months.

Activists informed yerkir.am correspondent from Mashtots park they
didn’t know about the unexpected visit, either: “the police were also
surprised”. Taking the opportunity, the ecologists have inquired
about the president’s opinion on the park’s problem. The president
has said that Yerevan Mayor Taron Markaryan has already ordered to
deconstruct the booths within law.

“We are still waiting for official information on how the press
departments of the president and Yerevan city hall will comment on
the president’s unexpected visit,” the activists who keep the park
under control day and night told us.

From: Baghdasarian

EXPERTS CONSIDER THAT THE RECOGNITION OF ARMENIAN GENOCIDE MUST BE DISCUSSED AT GEORGIAN PARLIAMENT

Expert of Javakh issue Ghevond Lazarian met journalists today. “I
consider that Azerbaijani deputies have obvious authority in the
Georgian Parliament, but we can not say the same about Armenian
deputies”, the expert said. According to him the dispute between
Azerbaijani and Georgian deputies over the recognition of Armenian
Genocide on April 24 proves this.

According to Lazarian Armenian deputies do not say words “Armenian
Genocide” even in whisper. The speaker considers that the issue
of Armenian Genocide recognition must be raised in the Georgian
Parliament. The latter must decide itself to recognize the Genocide
or not.

Remind that on April 24 representative of the Georgian opposition
party “Georgian council” Jondi Bagaturia and the deputy from the
leading party “United National Movement” Azer Suleymanov argued.

Azerbaijani deputy called his colleague “Bagaturyan” and advised him
not to be involved in “the issue where he had no tie”. After it they
threw some things towards each other and then started to beat.

Another participant of the press-conference, expert on Georgia Alik
Eroyants noted that Azerbaijani deputy acted not correct. And despite
the latter apologized it did not justify him at all.

“I would ask Armenian Community in Georgia to be more active and to
be more united in the issue of recognition of Armenian Genocide”, A.
Eroyants noted.

From: Baghdasarian

IN AZERBAIJAN’S DOCTRINE ARMENIA IS ENEMY – EXPERT

news.am
May 01, 2012 | 05:12

The response of the international community to the events of April
25-27 occurring on the Armenian -Azerbaijani border will be only
negative, the head of Russian Centre for Military Forecast Anatoly
Tsyganok announced.

According to him, Azerbaijan’s increased activity does not mean
anything good.

“The last 2 years Azerbaijan has been stating that it is planning
to start military actions in the Karabakh region as during the last
20 years it was not able to get what it wanted,” he said adding that
war threatens Nagorno-Karabakh. “The military doctrine of Azerbaijan
should not be forgotten according to which Armenia is the enemy,
the only enemy. Baku has already forgotten that there may be other
enemies besides Armenia.”

As Armenian News-NEWS.am informed earlier, Armenia’s Dovegh village’s
kindergarten was under fire of Azerbaijani military units on Thursday,
while on Friday Azerbaijanis fired at VAZ 2107 vehicle on the road
section between the Aygepar and Movses villages, killing three Armenian
passengers of the car.

From: Baghdasarian

ARMENIA MARKS INTERNATIONAL WORKERS DAY

armradio.am
01.05.2012 11:25

Today Armenia marks International Workers Day. It is celebrated in
more than 140 countries of the world.

International Workers’ Day is the commemoration of the 1886 Haymarket
Massacre in Chicago, which occurred after an unknown person threw a
dynamite bomb at police as they dispersed a public assembly during a
general strike for the eight-hour workday. In response, the Chicago
police fired on the workers killing dozens of demonstrators and
several of their own officers.

In 1889, the first congress of theSecond International, meeting in
Paris for the centennial of the French Revolution and the Exposition
Universelle, following a proposal by Raymond Lavigne, called for
international demonstrations on the 1890 anniversary of the Chicago
protests. May Day was formally recognized as an annual event at the
International’s second congress in 1891.

Subsequently, the May Day Riots of 1894 occurred. In 1904, the
International Socialist Conference meeting in Amsterdam called on “all
Social Democratic Party organizations and trade unions of all countries
to demonstrate energetically on May First for the legal establishment
of the 8-hour day, for the class demands of the proletariat, and for
universal peace.” The congress made it “mandatory upon the proletarian
organizations of all countries to stop work on May 1, wherever it is
possible without injury to the workers.”

From: Baghdasarian

ARMENIA’S MOD REPRESENTATIVE AFFIRMS COUNTRY’S READINESS TO WITHDRAW SNIPERS

news.am
May 01, 2012 | 13:47

The Armenian side is prepared to pull out its snipers, if the
Azerbaijani side likewise expresses such readiness. Colonel Andranik
Mkrtumyan-representative of the General Staff of the Armenian Armed
Forces-informed this to OSCE Chairman-in-Office field assistants
Hristo Hristov and Irji Aberle, during the OSCE monitoring on Monday.

“We are prepared to withdraw the snipers, but the Azerbaijani side
is categorically against this,” Mkrtumyan recalled.

In his words, around 2,600 Azerbaijani sniper shots were recorded
in the year past, and 850 such shots already were registered in the
first four months of this year.

“We are ready to pull out the snipers, but we will not take this step
unilaterally,” he stressed.

As a result Azerbaijan’s violation of the ceasefire, five Armenian
military servicemen died and seven were wounded since the beginning
of 2012.

From: Baghdasarian

YEREVAN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY PRO-RECTOR DENIES RAPING STUDENT

hetq.am
10:35, May 1, 2012

According to the newspaper Zhoghovurd, a student at the Mkhitar
Heratsi Medical University claimed she was raped by Pro-Rector Samvel
Avetisyan.

The incident is alleged to have taken place on April 26. The paper
reports that a female student with ripped clothes exited Avetisyan’s
office and began shouting that the official had raped her.

The newspaper says it contacted Rector Derenik Dumanyan who laughed
when he heard the story.

“Where the heck do you get your information? How can such a thing
happen? Our pro-rector is a very well balanced and civil person,”
Dumanyan allegedly told the newspaper.

The paper also got in touch with Pro-Rector Avetisyan who said that
there was a female in the halls shouting that she had been raped
but that the person had graduated in 1993 and that she was a known
schizophrenic.

From: Baghdasarian

AREVIK MARTIROSYAN’S DOCUMENTARY FILM “BE A CITIZEN” TO PREMIER TODAY AT 8PM IN MASHTOTS PARK.

hetq.am
00:01, May 1, 2012

Arevik Martirosyan’s documentary film “Be a Citizen” will premier
today at 8pm in Mashtots Park.

The 31 minute film is all about showing citizens the inherent power
they have to change things based on their own resources – simply put:
if there is a will there is a way.

The documentary highlights citizen initiatives that have sprouted in
Armenia during the past few years in an attempt to create alternate
public spaces for discussion, debate and action.

From: Baghdasarian

EXHIBITION ON ELECTION BRIBE TO BE HELD IN YEREVAN

news.am
May 01, 2012 | 11:17

YEREVAN. – The Art Laboratory artists’ group will organize a political
exhibition-action in Armenian capital Yerevan’s Tumanyan Museum
on Wednesday.

The event is devoted to election bribe, which is widespread in Armenia,
and whose symbol is the AMD 5,000 (approx. US$ 13) banknote with the
image of the great Armenian poet Hovhannes Tumanyan.

From: Baghdasarian