Author: Felekian Ara

PRESS RELEASE
Clark University
University Communications
Angela M. Bazydlo, Associate Director of Media Relations
ph: 508-793-7635
cell: 508-365-8736

August 7, 2008

Clark University’s Strassler Family Center for
Holocaust and Genocide Studies announces fall events

WORCESTER, MA- Below is a list of Fall 2008 events sponsored by the
Strassler Family Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Clark
University. All events are free and open to the public and are
followed by public receptions. Call 508-793-8897 for further
information on any of these events.

Lecture
Wednesday, September 10, 2008
"In Search of an Arab Schindler"
Robert Satloff
Executive Director, The Washington Institute of Near East Policy
Tilton Hall, 2nd floor, Higgins University Center, 950 Main St., Worcester
7:30 p.m.

Lecture
Wednesday, September 17, 2008
"Jewish ‘Headships’ (Judenräte and Judenvereininungen): The Emergence
and Application of an Administrative Concept in Nazi Anti-Jewish
Policies"
Dan Michman
Professor of Modern Jewish History and Chair, Finkler Institute of
Holocaust Research, Bar-Ilan University; Chief Historian, Yad Vashem,
Jerusalem, Israel Rose Library, Cohen-Lasry House, 11 Hawthorne
Street, Clark University Campus
4 p.m.

Lecture
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
"Integrating the Holocaust into a European History of Violence"
Donald Bloxam
Professor of Modern History, The University of Edinburgh, Scotland
Rose Library, Cohen-Lasry House, 11 Hawthorne Street, Clark University Campus
4 p.m.

Lecture
Thursday, October 23, 2008
"Death and the Maydl: Jewish Femininity and the Denial of Beauty in
the Art of Marc Chagall"
Olga Litvak, The Michael and Lisa Leffell Chair in Modern Jewish
History, Clark University
Tilton Hall, 2nd floor, Higgins University Center, 950 Main Street, Worcester
7:30 p.m.

Wednesday, November 12, 2008
A New Book: The Holocaust on German-Occupied Soviet Territory and the
Response by Soviet Jewish Intellectuals
Joshua Rubenstein, Northeast Regional Director, Amnesty International;
Associate, Davis Center for Eurasia and Russian Studies, Harvard
University
Rose Library, Cohen-Lasry House, 11 Hawthorne Street, Clark University campus
4 p.m.

The Strassler Family Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at
Clark University is an exciting forum for education about the
Holocaust, the Armenian Genocide, and other genocides around the
globe. Dedicated to teaching, research, and public service, the Center
trains the Holocaust historians and genocide studies scholars of the
future. The mission of the Center reaches beyond the boundaries of the
University: to provide a lecture series free of charge and open to the
public; to educate professionals of many fields about genocide and the
Holocaust; to use scholarship to address current problems stemming
from the murderous past; and to engage the world in which we live by
providing an educated voice in the public arena.
Clark University is a private, co-educational liberal-arts research
university with 2,200 undergraduate and 800 graduate students. Since
its founding in 1887 as the first all-graduate school in the United
States, Clark has challenged convention with innovative programs such
as the International Studies Stream, the Strassler Family Center for
Holocaust and Genocide Studies and the accelerated BA/MA programs with
the fifth year tuition-free for eligible students. The University is
featured in Loren Pope’s book, "Colleges That Change Lives."
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KARABAKH DISMISSES REPORTS ON AZERI EFFORTS TO SET UP NEW CAPITAL

ArmInfo News Agency (in Russian)
Aug 6 2008
Armenia

A spokesman for the breakaway region of Nagornyy Karabakh has dismissed
as ridiculous reports about Azerbaijan preparing to establish a new
capital for Karabakh and populate it with Azerbaijanis.

The flights of human imagination can be funny, the spokesman for
the separatist government of Nagornyy Karabakh, Vardges Hovyan, told
Arminfo. "They came up with a new kind of amusement in Baku – they
drew a map on paper, outlined the ‘boundaries’ of Nagornyy Karabakh
at their discretion, marked some point there and announced that
‘Azerbaijan has created a new capital of Nagornyy Karabakh’," Hovyan
said. "The people of Nagornyy Karabakh will never allow Azerbaijan
to turn into reality its colonial programmes," he added.

The spokesman ruled out the possibility of ethnic Azerbaijanis
returning to Nagornyy Karabakh. "Two peoples who are enemies cannot
co-exist in one state. Azerbaijanis cannot have any hopes for
returning, just as 400,000 Armenian refugees will never be able to
return to Azerbaijan. In the best case Azerbaijanis will be able to
visit Nagornyy Karabakh as tourists," Arminfo quoted Hovyan as saying.

AUGUST 11 DAY OF ARMENIA IN BEIJING

ARMENPRESS
Aug 4, 2008

YEREVAN, AUGUST 4, ARMENPRESS; Armenian delegation to the Olympic
Games in Beijing and Armenian embassy in China will organize Day of
Armenia on August 11.

Sport and Youth Affairs Minister Armen Grigorian told Armenpress that
they expect many visitors to the event who will have an opportunity
to learn about Armenian sport, culture, traditions, history and
its present.

ARMENIAN TRADE DEFICIT CONTINUES GROWTH DURING H1
by Diego Iscaro

World Markets Research Centre
Global Insight
August 1, 2008

Latest data show that Armenian external imbalances continued to
deteriorate during the fist six months of 2008. Indeed, according
to data from the country’s National Statistical Service reported by
ARMNIFO, the trade deficit stood at $1US.387 billion during the fist
half of 2008, as exports fell by 0.8% year-on-year (y/y) to $520US
million and the total value of imports increased by 40.3% y/y to
$1US.908 billion. Geographical trade data show that Armenia’s trade
deficit with countries from the European Union (EU) was widened by
57.0% y/y to $331US.0 million, while the deficit with other countries
of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) rose by 52.5% y/y to
$433US.0 million. Furthermore, detailed data revealed that exports of
precious and semiprecious stones waned by 23.3% y/y to $82US.0 million,
while exports of rough ore rose by 25.9% y/y to $85US.0 million.

Significance:Strong domestic demand is fuelling import growth, while
export potential remains mainly dependent on the diamond trade. Global
Insight believes that these factors are likely to remain in place
during the rest of 2008. Indeed, the value of imports is set to be
boosted by a combination of robust demand for investment goods and high
international oil prices. Nevertheless, strong output growth should
result in a waning of the deficit-to-GDP ratio in 2008 as a whole.

OSCE MINSK GROUP CO-CHAIRMEN TO MEET IN MOSCOW

Panorama.am
18:40 31/07/2008

The Co-chairmen of the OSCE Minsk Group Mattew Bryza (USA), Bernard
Fassier (France), and Yuri Merzliakov (Russia) dealing with the NKR
conflict has had a meeting in Moscow, reported APA agency referring
to the French co-chairman.

According to the source it was a meeting-discussion. The results of
the recent visit of the co-chairmen to regional countries have been
discussed, as well as a few question connected with the meeting of
the Foreign Ministers of Armenia and Azerbaijan.

Remind that on 1 August Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandyan will have a
meeting with his Azerbaijani counterpart Elmar Mamediarov. OSCE Minsk
Group co-chairmen will be present at the meeting, but the Foreign
Ministers will have a vis-a-vis meeting.

THE XVIII AGBU WORLD GAMES TOOK PLACE IN MONTEVIDEO

Noyan Tapan

Ju ly 31, 2008

MONTEVIDEO, JULY 31, ARMENIANS TODAY – NOYAN TAPAN. The XVIII AGBU
World Games took place in Montevideo, Uruguay, from July 7 to 13, 2008.

Approximately 1,000 individuals participated in this biennial event
aimed at providing a platform for the organization’s athletic groups
to engage in friendly competitions and bringing together Armenian
youth on a global level.

MOST PART OF RA MIGRANTS ENGAGED IN CONSTRUCTION SPHERE ABROAD

Noyan Tapan

Ju ly 30, 2008

YEREVAN, JULY 30, NOYAN TAPAN. The RA National Statistical Service and
the RA Ministry of Labor and Social Issues with the support of the
UN Population’s Fund conducted a study to clear up the foreign and
domestic migration tendences recorded in the past years in Armenia
in consequence of socio-economic reforms. As Garik Hayrapetian, the
Deputy Representative of UN Population’s Fund in Armenia, said on
July 29, during the presentation of the study results, the report
under the title Selective Study of Foreign and Domestic Migration
reflects changes recorded in migration processes in 2002-2007, its
main quantitative and qualitative indices.

8.5% of 2500 households taking part in the selective study was
involved in foreign migration processes. 30.1% of them had returned
from abroad. 41.9% of those returning from abroad has secondary
education, 24.8% vocational education, 21.1% higher education. 56.7%
of migrants returning from abroad was engaged in the sphere of
construction abroad and 15.3% in the sphere of trade. The most part,
80.8% returning migrants had arrived from RF.

3.2% members of households taking part in the study were involved in
domestic migration processes.

IRANIAN MEDIATION IN ARMENIAN-TURKISH RELATIONS REMAINS VALID
By Hakob Chakrian

AZG Armenian Daily
31/07/2008

Iran-Armenia-Turkey

In its July 23 issue "Azg" daily informed under heading "Iranian
initiative in Armenian-Turkish relations" that Iranian Foreign Minister
Mannucher Mottaki while being on an official visit to Ankara on July
18 had a telephone conversation with his Armenian counterpart Edward
Nalbandian, and IRNA assessed the conversation as an initiative in
Armenian-Turkish relations.

CNN-Turk touched upon the issue while speaking of the Turkish Foreign
Minister Ali Babajan’s visit to Iran. Babajan left for Tehran to
discuss the details of the Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinedzad’s
visit to Turkey on August 14.

What about the mediation, CNN-Turk cited from the speech of the
Co-chairman of Turkish-Armenian Business Union Kaan Soyak, who
highly qualified this initiative of Iran. According to Soyak, Iran
wants to contribute to the development of Armenian relations with
Turkey. Though a small but influential Armenian community exists
in Iran, and Iran does not want to be impartial to the political
developments of the region.

Underlining the unprecedented "new beginning" of Armenia-Turkey
relations Soyak added, "It’s first time that the regional countries
including Iran, OSCE Minsk Group Co-chairs USA, Russia and France have
united through the common denominator of opening of Armenian-Turkish
border and settling of available issues, and they try to regulate
the relations of the two countries with joint efforts".

IRAN HAILS NAM PEACE INITIATIVES

press tv
Wed, 30 Jul 2008 14:21:21

NAM foreign ministerial conference, Tehran

Iran’s Foreign Minister Mottaki has underscored the importance of
peace initiatives brought up at the Non-Aligned Movement conference.

"New ideas about peace, the prevention of war and the economic
development of member countries are introduced during NAM gatherings,"
Manouchehr Mottaki said in a Wednesday meeting with Armenian Deputy
Foreign Minister Gegham Gharibjanian.

"These ideas can be very important for the international community,"
he added.

The meeting was held on the sidelines of the 15th Foreign Ministerial
Conference of the Non-Aligned Movement in Tehran which has brought
together representatives from over 110 member countries and officials
from several other observer countries, such as Armenia.

During the meeting, Mottaki also described Iran, Armenia, Turkey,
and Azerbaijan as key regional states, while Gharibjanian of Armenia,
a mainly Christian country, thanked Iran for its efforts to have three
historic Iranian churches included on the UNESCO World Heritage List.

On the sidelines of the conference, Mottaki also met with his Turkmen
counterpart Rasit Meredow, where he put forward a proposal to transfer
Turkmenistan’s gas to Europe via Iran.

Meredow also said Tehran and Ashgabat are working together on various
economic, trade, energy, and transport ventures.

SERZH SARGSYAN: CELEBRATION OF 650TH ANNIVERSARY OF SURB KHACH MONASTERY HAS BECOME AN EVENT UNITING ALL OF US

arminfo
2008-07-30 14:59:00

ArmInfo. ‘Celebration of the 650th Anniversary of Surb Khach Monastery
has become an event uniting all of us’, President of Armenia Serzh
Sargsyan said at the celebration of the monastery located in the
Crimea. The Armenian President left for the Crimea especially on the
given occasion.

The presidential press-service reports that Armenian President asked
his Ukrainian counterpart Viktor Yuschenko to contribute to the
monument’s inclusion into the UNESCO Heritage List. Serzh Sargsyan
said that together with V. Yuschenko they discussed the importance
of preservation of the national monument on July 29 at lunch in
Simferopol. ‘I offered President of Ukraine Viktor Yuschenko to
instruct our foreign ministries to make joint steps to include Surb
Khach Monastery in UNESCO heritage List’, Sargsyan.

He said that three Armenian monuments in the territory of Iran have
already been included in the UNESCO Heritage List.