PM Erdogan to discuss Nagorno-Karabakh issue on visit to Baku
May 16, 2010 – 17:25 AMT 12:25 GMT
PanARMENIAN.Net –
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s visit to Baku, scheduled
for May 16, will focus on several areas, including a natural gas price
agreement and a visa deal. Discussion on Nagorno-Karabakh issue are
also on Prime Minister’s agenda, Sunday’s Zaman reported.
HULIQ.com, SC
May 15 2010
Eurovision 2010: Armenia’s Eva Rivas To Stage Magic
Armenian delegation will head to Oslo to participate in Eurovision
2010 song festival on May 17, Tert.am learned from the Director of the
Special Projects of Armenian Public TV Diana Mnatsakanyan.
The representative of Armenia will have her first rehersal before the
Eurovision 2010 contest on May 18 at 8AM local time. The show is
completely ready. All the details are prepared. However, Ms.
Mnatsakanyan did not want to reveal what will be staged during the
actual competition. Armenia has been keeping it all secret.
Mnatsakanyan also said that not revealing the details is part of the
rules of the competition, but also added the interest will diminish if
the details were to be revealed.
Yet, she still revealed some details of what Eva Rivas will actually
stage when she sings her already high-rated song Apricot Stone.
* Watch Eva Rivas Performing Apricot Stone
Mnatsakanyan said that Eva Rivas’ performance during the Eurovision
2010 contest will have some theatrical aspects. It also will have a
small surprise. There will be an element of magic performed on the
stage while Rivas sings Apricot Stone.
Her costume will have open and soft tones. The dress will have some
Apricot colors.
Eva Rivas will have her first performance on May 27th, during
Eurovision 2010 festival’s 2nd semi-final. She already has had very
successful promo tours in Armenia, Germany, Belgium and Ukraine. Her
tours were particularly successful in Greece, Cyprus and Russia as
Rivas is half Armenian half Greek. She lived most of her life in the
Souther Russia and is from Rostov on Don.
Before heading to Eurovision 2010 Rivas will also spend a day in Lyon,
France where she will participate in a concert with top Armenian
singer Arman Hovhannisyan. Rivas is considered one of the favorites to
win the 2010 Eurovision song festival as she has had very high
rankings in winner odds.
Written by Armen Hareyan
HULIQ.com
Environmentalists `embrace’ trees
ction
05:30 pm | May 14, 2010 | Social
Numerous young environmentalists today chained a building plot in
Yerevan’s Student Garden in protest of a construction threatening one
of the city’s few green spaces.
Some protesters were wearing gas-masks and carrying placards, "We are
the Owners of This City," "Stop," "Return Us Our Gardens," "WE Say No
to Concreting."
Commenting on the action, activist Mariam Sukhudyan told A1+ that they
wanted to show their solidarity and willpower, they wanted the
authorities to realize that the "city is not ownerless."
"We have formed a live barrier on the pavement showing our readiness
to protect the park at any cost. We are against vandalism and we are
for nature," said Sukhudyan.
The protesters left black ribbons and white carnations on the site
area which, according to them, symbolized the dead conscience and lost
mankind. They also laid flowers in clay pots at the statue of
academician Victor Hambardzumanyan and stood in silence for a moment.
A dump truck trying to exit the site was turned back when it came upon
the citizen activists determined to halt the further destruction of
Yerevan’s green spaces.
At the end of the action, the protesters "embraced" the trees and
burnt incense near the trees and stumps.
Passers-by sign the environmentalists’ petition to halt construction
at the site.
The Messenger
May 14 2010
Georgia
Migration issues in Armenia
The UN office in Yerevan has presented its report on migration and
human development perspectives and challenges which shows that since
the collapse of the Soviet Union 19 years ago between 700,000 and
1.3 million people from Armenia have emigrated for mostly social,
economic and employment reasons. The report says that between 1998
and 2001 the population of Armenia decreased 30%, around one million
people leaving the country at that time.
If the programme for facilitating the return of labour migrants to
Armenia does not start working efficiently in the near future Armenia
will be left by extra 2-300 thousand people. Of course such a tendency
negatively affects the country’s overall social and economic situation
and development.
R. SAFRASTYAN, "RUSSIA WILL NEVER UNDERTAKE SUCH STEPS WHICH WILL DESTABILIZE THE SITUATION IN ARMENIA"
ARMENPRESS
MAY 14, 2010
YEREVAN
YEREVAN, MAY 14, ARMENPRESS: "Russia will never undertake such steps
which will destabilize the situation in Armenia," Ruben Safrastyan,
director of the Oriental Studies Institute of the National Academy
of Sciences, said today at a meeting with journalists. He noted that
Russia is not the allied of Armenia only by words; actually it is
Armenia’s military allied and has economic profits.
R. Safrastyan, referring to the cooperation of Russia and Turkey,
noted that the main reason of rapprochement is the change of the
balance after the Russian-Georgian war.
"The role of the USA fell, and the role of Russia grew, in those
conditions Turkey almost stayed out of regional processes, and the
attempts of that country to create a union with Tbilisi and Baku
were not successful, and it is one of the reasons why Turkey tries
to improve the relations with Armenia," the specialist of Turkish
studies noted.
R. Safrastyan considered the relations of Turkey and Russia
an economic, but not a political rapprochement. In regard to the
Karabakh process, the speaker said the involvement of Turkey in that
process does not stem from the profits of Russia, as Russia is the
only regional country which is involved in it, and the involvement
of another regional country is not profitable for the latter. In
this respect R. Safrastyan also stressed the position of the Minsk
group co-chairs.
Referring to the possible influence of the Russian cooperation with
Turkey on Turkish-American relations, the speaker said that Turkey
has quite serious relations with the USA, and the USA in its turn
knows that Turkey is its important allied in the region. "But having
relations with Russia Turkey tries to raise its reputation," R.
Safrastyan said.
"I think it is high time for raising the issue on the Armenian
Genocide; Armenia must move that issue to the legal field," the
speaker said, and referring to the Armenian-Turkish relations he
stressed that Turkey is interested in regulating the interstate
relations with Armenia and in opening the borders, but it wants to
make a profit on it as much as possible.
"The undertaking of the negotiation process and its suspension by us
spoke of the independent diplomatic line in the Armenian diplomacy."
the specialist of Turkish studies said noting that Turkey is planning
interstate relations with Armenia taking into consideration the global
geological-political shifts.
MOVSES HAKOBYAN: ‘THE NKR DEFENSE ARMY HAS BEEN ENSURING THE SECURITY OF ARTSAKH QUITE EFFICIENTLY’
ARMENPRESS
MAY 12, 2010
STEPANAKERT
STEPANAKERT, MAY 12, ARMENPRESS: ‘Within the 16 years of the
cease-fire, the Defense Army of the Nagorno Karabakh Republic has been
safeguarding the security of the people of Karabakh quite efficiently:
this is our greatest achievement,’ RA Defense deputy Minster Lieutenant
General Movses Hakobyan told journalists today. During the meeting
with the group of journalists, who went to the front line of the
borders between Karabakh and Azerbaijan on the 16th anniversary of
declaration of cease-fire, Movses Hakobyan mentioned that no serious
cases have been registered in the front lines within this period,
except for cases of breaking the cease-fire by Azerbaijan by using
various types of small weapon.
‘The level of fighting readiness of the NKR Armed Forces is quite
high: planned and sudden tests restate this,’ Lieutenant General
Movses Hakobyan said. He says a slew of works have been carried
out to raise the safety of front lines for ‘ensuring the defense of
lives of the soldiers in the fronts’. He also informed that strong
efforts are currently being exerted in the direction of improving
the educational base of the Armed Forces. The issue of enriching the
arms is on focus as well. The NKR Defense Army has bought a slew of
arms, especially anti-aircraft defense system means, which give an
opportunity to hit low-flying helicopters and planes. Autopark of
the Armed Forces is being enriched as well: it is as big as that
of the Russian Federation.’We do our best to raise the level of
moral-psychological readiness of our army,’ Movses Hakobyan added.
As to the cases of breaking the cease-fire by Azerbaijan, Movses
Hakobyan mentioned that the cases are connected with ceremonies held
in Nagorno Karabakh, among them May 9, recruitment ceremonies, etc.
‘These actions are the result of fear of the Azerbaijani Army,’
Movses Hakobyan said. He added that it is quite important for Armenian
journalists not to attribute to any Azerbaijani source in order to
avoid their participation in the Azerbaijani propaganda. As to the
possibilities of breaking of a war, he said: ‘As an individual I am
against any war, but as a deputy Minister I will go on punishing the
enemy for that Azerbaijan understands a war is something negative
and stopps holding the machinegun soldiers in the front lines,’
RA Defense deputy Minster Lieutenant General Movses Hakobyan said.
Movses Hakobyan says the Armenain Armed Forces do not need recruiting;
the army is being replensihed with soldiers serving on a cantractual
basis.
ERDOGAN DEMANDS PUNISHING ANTI-ARMENIAN CALLS
Tert.am
13.05.10
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has published a special
circle that demands to take all the necessary measures within the
bounds of the law to hold responsible all those who will incite hatred
and enmity towards national minorities living in Turkey among them
also the Armenians, the Jews and the Greeks.
According to the Turkish media Erdogan’s circle also stipulates to
take measures to prevent the publications of those materials that will
incite hatred and enmity towards national minorities in Turkey too.
MEMOIRES DU GENOCIDE ARMENIEN. HERITAGE TRAUMATIQUE ET TRAVAIL ANALYTIQUE
par Stephane
armenews
.php3?id_article=60782
jeudi13 mai 2010
Memorial de la Shoah
dimanche 23 mai 2010, 15 h 30
Memoires du genocide armenien. Heritage traumatique et travail
analytique
de Vahram et Janine Altounian
Avec la contribution de Krikor Beledian, Jean-Francois Chiantaretto,
Manuela Fraire, Yolanda Gampel, Rene Kaës et Regine Waintrater. (ed.
PUF, 2009)
Cet ouvrage a plusieurs voix porte sur la question de la transmission
d’un heritage traumatique a partir du manuscrit du Journal de
deportation de Vahram Altounian, debutant a Boursa " un mercredi 10
août 1915 ".
En presence de Janine Altounian, fille de l’auteur du manuscrit,
traductrice et essayiste, Krikor Beledian, traducteur du manuscrit,
ecrivain armenien, maître de conferences a l’INALCO, Jean Francois
Chiantaretto, psychanalyste, professeur de psychopathologie a
l’universite Paris XIII-Nord, Regine Waintrater, psychanalyste,
maître de conference a l’universite Paris VII-Denis-Diderot.
Animee par Anny Dayan-Rosenman, maître de conferences en litterature
a l’universite Paris VII-Denis Diderot.
Lieu : auditorium Edmond J. Safra
Entree libre
reservation : 01 53 01 17 42
Memoires_du_genocide_arme nien_-_23_mai.pdf
KIM KARDASHIAN : IL EST TEMPS DE RECONNAITRE LE GENOCIDE ARMENIEN
Stephane
armenews
12 mai 2010
USA
Le quotidien turc HaberTurk a annonce dans un article en première
page le 25 avril que la celebre armeno-americaine Kim Kardashian a
repondu a un negationniste du genocide en disant, " le temps est venu
de reconnaître le genocide armenien. "
Les mots de Kardashian etaient en reponse a une femme turque,
employant le nom de "meraals", qui a dit sur la page Twitter de
Kardashian qu’il n’y avait eu aucun genocide contre les armeniens.
La page de Kardashian est une des plus populaires sur Twitter avec
plusieurs millions de fans.
BELGIUM HAILS ARMENIA’S EFFORTS FOR NORMALIZATION OF RELATIONS WITH TURKEY
PanARMENIAN.Net
May 11, 2010 – 16:00 AMT 11:00 GMT
Newly appointed Belgian Ambassador to Armenia Stephane De Loecker
handed his credentials to Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan.
The Armenian President congratulated the Ambassador on his appointment,
expressing hope that he will contribute to the development of the
Armenian-Belgian relations. The sides emphasized the importance of
cooperation within the framework of the Eastern Partnership.
The two men also referred to regional problems. Specifically, Amb. de
Locker said that the Belgian government welcomes Armenia’s efforts
aimed at normalization of relations with Turkey and supports this
complicated process. At the diplomat’s request, Mr. Sargsyan briefed
on Yerevan approaches to the Karabakh conflict settlement.
Besides, the parties discussed the Armenian President’s upcoming
visit to Brussels, expressing hope that it will serve as a new impetus
for boosting the Armenian-Belgian relations, the presidential press
service reported.