Author: Hambardsumian Paul

THE MEMORANDUM OF ARMENIAN – RUSSIAN COOPERATION SIGNED

Aysor
Nov 17 2009
Armenia

Today in the frameworks of the Days of the Russian Television
in Armenia a memorandum was signed between the Armenian central
TV channels and the President of the Russian Television Academy
Foundation Mikhail Shvydkoy, the director of the "Public Television"
Armen Arzumanyan, director of the "H2 TVchannel" Samvel Mayrapetyan,
director of the "Shant-TV" Arthur Yezekyan, director of the "Armenia –
TV" Gagik Lazarian.

During the interview with the journalists Mikhail Svydkoy informed
about some of the agreements achieved during the meetings with the
Armenian TV channels.

According to the chairman of the fund an agreement has been
reached with the TV channels on retraining 20 journalists and other
professionals in TV sphere in the Russian premium TV channels each
year. They have also reached agreement on shooting a film about
Sergey Parajanov.

The speaker also touched upon the issue of license for spreading the
Armenian channels over the Russian territories. He mentioned that
the Russian side is ready to solve all the problems connected with it.

CASH TRANSACTIONS WITH ARCA CARDS IN PROCESSING NETWORK OF AREXIMBANK – GAZPROMBANK GROUP REDUCE BY 1% IN OCTOBER

ArmInfo
2009-11-17 15:58:00

ArmInfo. The volume of cash transactions with ArCa cards in the
processing network of Areximbank – Gazprombank Group reduced by 1%
in October, 2009, as compared to September, and the number of cash
transactions – by 5%. As Armenian Card CJSC told ArmInfo, the volume
of transactions with ArCa cards through Areximbank – Gazprombank
Group processing system made up 38 mln drams, and their number –
1920, including cashless transactions were carried out to the sum of
3.2 bln drams (165 transactions).

To recall, ArCa cards, within the frames of the agreement with
Armenian Card, have been served through Areximbank – Gazprombank Group
processing system since April, 2009. As of July 1, 2009, Areximbank
– Gazprombank Group numbered 16075 active plastic cards, the lion’s
share of which fell on Visa cards – 90% (14480 cards), the remaining
part fell on the cards of MasterCard system – 10% (1595 cards).

Areximbank has been member of VISA International since 2002, and
member of MasterCard – since 2005.

DELEGATIONS OF ARMENIA AND NAGORNO KARABAKH TAKE PART IN WORLD TRAVEL MARKETi

Noyan Tapan
Nov 13, 2009

LONDON, NOVEMBER 13, NOYAN TAPAN. The World Travel Market (WTM) tourism
exhibition was held on November 9-12. According to the RA MFA Press
and Information Department, representatives of the Armenian Tourism
Development Agency (ATDA) and a number of famous tourist companies
from Armenia took part in WTM.

The NKR delegation headed by Sergey Shahverdian, Head of the Tourism
Department adjunct to the NKR government, participated in WTM for the
first time. On the first day of the exhibition, the Armenian Ambassador
to the UK Vahe Gabrielian visited the pavilions of Armenia and the
NKR. He had a conversation with the participants and discussed the
opportunities of presenting Armenia and the Nagorno Karbakh Republic
most efficiently in the British market.

ARMENIAN FESTIVAL PROMOTES UNDERSTANDING

Times and Transcript
ewstoday/article/856237
Nov 13 2009
Canada

Four days of events look at legendary composer Komitas

Stumble Upondel.icio.usDiggFacebookPrintEmailSpeak UpThe Third Moncton
Armenian Festival is set to get under way in the city November 26 to
29, and this year the focus will be on Komitas, Armenia’s legendary
composer, ethnographer, poet and specialist in folk dance and the
study of music.

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Dariush Zarbafian plays a santur, an ancestor of the piano, at a press
conference yesterday announcing the Third Moncton Armenian Festival,
which runs Nov. 26-29. RON WARD/TIMES & TRANSCRIPTDariush Zarbafian
plays a santur, an ancestor of the piano, at a press conference
yesterday announcing the Third Moncton Armenian Festival, which runs
Nov. 26-29. Four days will be filled with activities and discoveries
of the world of Komitas: a big opening show, three exhibitions,
two concerts and a mini-film festival.

Organizers are promising a feast for the senses leading to
understanding, sharing and communicating about Armenia, whose rich
but tormented history dates back at least 2,000 years.

The festival was initiated by members of the Maritimes Armenian
Association, which unites about 200 families in the Maritime provinces.

Each year’s festival has been planned to take the public on a different
voyage of discovery — from the origins of the great historical Armenia
to the contemporary Republic of Armenia and the grand Armenian diaspora
in the world.

* For more information, e-mail: [email protected], go to
festivalarmenien.com or call Sylvia Kasparian at (506) 853-6031.

ARMENIA THANKS SWISS FOR DEAL WITH TURKEY

AZG DAILY
13-11-2009

According to swissinfo.ch, Armenia has thanked Switzerland for the
"very important" role it played in brokering a landmark accord between
the Caucasus state and Turkey.

During a visit to Bern on Tuesday, Armenian Foreign Minister Eduard
Nalbandian said he hoped his country’s parliament would soon ratify
the agreement normalising relations with Ankara.

The news agency reports that the accord was signed in Zurich last
month and it calls for the opening of borders between the former foes,
and for the establishment of diplomatic ties.

Nalbandian, speaking at a news conference alongside his Swiss
counterpart, Micheline Calmy-Rey, said Switzerland’s mediation
efforts required "determination and restraint, imagination, prudence
and patience".

For her part, Calmy-Rey thanked Nalbandian for showing "political
will and engagement" and hoped that Armenian-Turkish relations would
soon be normalised.

Turkey and Armenia are pursuing rapprochement after almost a century of
animosity stemming from the First World War mass killings of Armenians
by Ottoman Turks.

Their common border was closed 16 years ago while Armenia fought a
war with Azerbaijan, a state with close ties to Turkey.

Nalbandian and Calmy-Rey signed two bilateral agreements during the
Armenian foreign minister’s visit – a treaty on air traffic and a
deal doing away with the necessity for diplomats to apply for visas,
the Swiss news agency reports.

RA GOVERNMENT DISAPPROVES BILL ON RECOGNIZING NAGORNO KARABAKH REPUBLIC

Noyan Tapan
Nov 12, 2009

YEREVAN, NOVEMBER 12, NOYAN TAPAN. RA government at the November
12 session disapproved RA bill On Recognizing the Nagorno Karabakh
Republic. As RA Deputy Foreign Minister Shavarsh Kocharian declared
at the session, "recognition of the NKR independence is inexpedient
at present."

TURKEY TO CANCEL VISA REGULATIONS WITH AZERBAIJAN

PanARMENIAN.Net
12.11.2009 12:38 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Turkey intends to cancel visa regulations with
Azerbaijan.

"Cancellation of visa regulations is essential to alleviate current
tensions in the Turkish-Azerbaijani relations," Turkish Prime Minister
and leader of the ruling AK Party Recep Tayyip Erdogan said. "The
issue will be finally coordinated during the impending visit of
Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov to Ankara."

Visa regulations will also be cancelled with Jordan, Sabah reported.

ROBERT HOVHANNISYAN FILLED IN THE GRAND MASTER’S NORM

Aysor
Nov 10 2009
Armenia

We have already informed before that Levon Babujyan, an international
master from Yerevan has filled in the norm of Grand Master in the
Chigorin chess tournament taken place in St. Petersburg. And so
there is information that in the same tournament Robert Hovhannisyan,
international Master has succeeded too, informs the Armenian Chess
Federation.

In that tournament the victory was with the Armenian Grand Master
Hrant Melqumyan who had gained 7 points. Robert Hovhannisyan had
gained 6.5 points.

FOREIGN MINISTERS OF HUNGARY, ARMENIA MEET

Aysor
Nov 10 2009
Armenia

Armenia’s Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandyan met with his Hungarian
counterpart Peter Balazs in Budapest. The parties agreed that visit of
Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan to Hungary creates a platform for
deepening and strengthening of bilateral friendly relations between
the two countries, press office of Foreign Ministry reports. Foreign
Ministers mentioned signed agreements and stressed that realization of
these agreements will bring into being new developments in relations.

During the meeting the parties also discussed current political
situation on Caucasus as well as EU activities.

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THE EUROPEAN ARMENIAN FEDERATION CALLS UPON THE UK GOVERNMENT TO
RECOGNISE THE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE

– IN HIS RECENTLY LAUNCHED REPORT, GEOFFREY ROBERTSON QC
CALLS UPON UK TO GIVE AN END TO THE BRITISH POLICY OF DENIAL REGARDING
THE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE

– HE DENOUNCES THE WAY THE FOREIGN OFFICE DELIBERATELY
MISLED FOR YEARS THE BRITISH MINISTERS, MPS AND PUBLIC OPINION ON THIS
ISSUE

Internationally-recognised human rights lawyer Geoffrey Robertson QC
released a legal opinion slamming the Foreign and Commonwealth Office
(FCO) [4] for having deliberately misled the British Ministers,
Parliament and People about the Armenian Genocide.

Taking ground on the declarative value of the 1948 Convention, Mr
Robertson categorically rejects the foundations of the official
British position which are deceitfully supported by the FCO and
especially the allegation according to which there is no written
document giving evidence of any governmental decision to exterminate
the Armenians. With the help of the jurisprudence from the
International Criminal Tribunals for Rwanda and former Yugoslavia, Mr.
Robertson recalls that such documents are absolutely not required in
establishing the genocidal intent and that it is generally impossible
to provide these kinds of documents, even for the Holocaust.

On this point, the lawyer blasts the FCO’s manipulation which
would require `sufficiently unequivocal evidences’, as a
`meaningless’ concept forged to be never complied with and which
encroaches the clear principles of both the civil and criminal
standard of proof.

Examining the FCO’s internal documents, Mr Robertson shows that by
appeasing the Turkish State’s campaign of denial, the genuine
concern of British diplomacy is `to evade truthful answers because
the Truth would discomfort’ Turkey where UK has economical
interests, Turkey being `neuralgic’ to the whole genocide issue.

Mr. Robertson ends his analysis by recommending the UK to end this
denial policy and by clearly calling upon it to recognise the Armenian
Genocide. Mr Robertson concludes `_if these same events occurred
today, in a country with a history similar to Turkey’s in 1915,
there can be no doubt that prosecutions for genocide would be
warranted and indeed required by the Genocide Convention’._

The legal opinion shows that in giving priority to economical
considerations, the FCO departed from its mission and severely warped
its objectives.

« If true, the United Kingdom must seriously discipline this
administration’ stated Laurent Leylekian. `This is the
international credibility of UK as a State of Law which is challenged
by this legal opinion’ he added.

Furthermore, this study is an outstanding disavowal of the official
British position about the Armenian Genocide.

`We call upon the British government to recognize the Armenian
Genocide and to clearly state that this recognition by Ankara is a
condition for the continuation of the negotiations between Turkey and
the EU’ concluded Leylekian.

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