Author: Hovhannisian John

TURKISH PREMIER TO MEET WITH ARMENIAN PRESIDENT

Anadolu Agency
April 12 2010
Turkey

ANKARA (A.A) -Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan will meet
with President Serzh Sargsian of Armenia on Monday on the sidelines
of the nuclear security summit in the United States.

The meeting will take place at the Washington Convention Centre.

Earlier, Prime Minister Erdogan sent Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Undersecretary Feridun Sinirlioglu to Yerevan, Armenia as his special
envoy.

During Sinirlioglu’s talks with Armenian authorities, the parties
agreed that Prime Minister Erdogan and President Sargsian would
meet on the sidelines of the nuclear security summit in Washington,
D.C. on April 12.

Turkey and Armenia signed protocols on October 10, 2009 to normalize
their bilateral ties and establish diplomatic relations.

DM SEYRAN OHANYAN TO ATTEND THE MEETING OF CIS DEFENSE MINISTERS IN MOSCOW

armradio.am
13.04.2010 11:51

The delegation headed by Armenian Defense Minister Seyran Ohanyan will
leave for Moscow on April 14 to participate in the recurrent sitting
of the Council of Defense Ministers of CIS participating states.

A number of documents on military cooperation will be discussed and
signed during the meeting.

Minister Ohanyan is expected to have bilateral meetings with the
Defense Minister of Russia Anatoly Serdyukov, the Defense Minister
of the Republic of Belarus, Lieutenant General Yuri Zhadobin.

‘ARMENIA IS MY HOMELAND AND ARMENIAN – MY MOTHER LANGUAGE’: MINSK

Tert.am
12.04.10

On April 11, on the occasion of the Day of Beauty and Motherhood, the
Armenian Sunday school in Minsk organized a literary-musical evening
titled "Armenia is My Homeland, and Armenian is My Mother Language,"
according to a release issued by RA Ministry of Culture.

Another pleasant surprise for the Armenian students in Minsk has
been the meeting with the Armenian weightlifters in Minsk who were
participating in the European Weightlifting Championship 2010.

The event was attended by Minsk-based Armenians, representatives of
Armenia’s embassy in Belarus and community bodies and others.

The students of the Armenian school performed Armenian folk songs,
dances and recited poems dedicated to their the homeland and mothers.

TV LICENSE COMPETITION WILL TAKE PLACE ON JULY: GRIGOR AMALYAN

Tert.am
12.04.10

As defined by the law the competition of providing the Armenian TV
companies broadcasting licenses will take place on July 20, 2010,
Head of National Commission on Television and Radio (NCTR) Grigor
Amalyan told journalists at a press conference today.

Amalyan mentioned that the competition is open to any company, both
those which want to provide broadcasting services for the first time
and the ones that already do so.

Amalyan also said there will be equal conditions for all the
participants.

As what concerns the new order of carrying out the competition
(the government is in the process of designing a new procedure,
including also conditions for digital broadcasters), it is not
clear yet whether or not the government will manage to complete the
legislative initiative before July 20.

"The point is whether we will manage to carry out the competition with
the renewed law, for the digital TV, or whether will we carry out the
competition as before, i.e. for analogous broadcasting," said Amalyan.

ARMENIA MUST PASS THE WAY THAT WILL FINALLY BRING IT TO EUROPE

ArmInfo
2010-04-12 16:46:00

ArmInfo. "We believe that Armenia must pass the way that will finally
bring it to Europe. This is where we see the future of our country. As
part of the European Liberal Democrat and Reform Party (ELDR), we will
try our best to contribute to this process," says Ararat Zurabyan,
Chairman of the Armenian Pan-National Movement Party, in an interview
with ArmInfo.

"Represented at PACE, and at the governments of a number of countries,
the ELDR is a very influential force. A new neighborhood program was
approved in Europe and Armenia as a member of the Council of Europe and
located not so far from Europe is perceived there quite adequately,"
he says. In addition, Zurabyan believes that this membership allows
the APNM to raise a number of domestic problems that still exist in
Armenia at a new political level. This will help expanding democratic
and liberal views in our country. The Armenian Pan-National Movement
has become a full member of the European Liberal Democrat and Reform
Party. Becoming members of the ELDR Board, two APNM representatives
will participate in all discussions. This makes the APNM a serious
force represented at the Council of Europe and the European Union at
the level of parliaments and the executive power.

The decision to admit the APNM to the ELDR was adopted on March 12
in Rome. The ELDR Congress is scheduled for autumn and nearly 10 APNM
representatives will participate in it, he says.

‘THE SITUATION AT THE FRONT LINE REMAINS STABLE’, – DEFENCE MINISTER OF ARMENIA

ArmInfo
2010-04-12 10:10:00

ArmInfo. ‘The situation at the front line has not changed much,
it remains stable. The process on improvement of the defence line
is developing normally in line with our plans ‘, – Defence Minister
of Armenia Seyran Ohanyan said within the frames of the Armenian
governmental delegation’s visit to Nagornyy Karabakh when visiting
several military units of the NKR and some sectors of he line of
contact between the armed forces of the NKR and Azerbaijan.

‘We have concluded that year by year, day by say our positions are
strengthening and the Armenian soldier is serving in more reliable and
secure conditions. Today one can say for sure that a soldier of the
Defence Army is able to protect the borders and in case of invasion
he will show himself as a perfect Armenian soldier just the same way
as he did during the Karabakh war’, – Seyran Ohanyan said.

news.am, Armenia
April 10 2010

U.S. has important bilateral relationship with Armenia: White House

11:31 / 04/10/2010U.S. has important bilateral relationship with
Armenia, U.S. National Security Council Spokesman Mike Hammer said in
Friday briefing, commenting on forthcoming Sargsyan-Obama meeting.

He also underlined importance of the issues related to Armenia-Turkey
Protocols that Washington seeks to encourage in terms of normalization
between Armenia and Turkey.

RA President Serzh Sargsyan is also scheduled to hold a meeting with
Turkish Premier Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Washington.

According to Turkish media, the sides will discuss the Protocols and
issues on Armenian Genocide.

A.G.

Spanish tenor Vahram Tadevosyan will perform in Yerevan and Stepanakert

April 10, 2010 – 16:10 AMT 11:10 GMT
PanARMENIAN.Net –

Spanish tenor Vanno Tadeo (Vahram Tadevosyan) will perform concerts in
Yerevan and Stepanakert on April 13 and May 7.

`First part of the concert will feature compositions of Verdi and
Puccini, with second part covering solely Armenian music,’ Vahram
Tadevosyan told a news conference in Yerevan.

As he noted, concert profits will be allocated to reconstruction of
Vahram Papazyan Dramatic Theater in Stepanakert.

Concerts are organized by RA Diaspora Ministry.

In 1996 Vanno Tadeo was invited to Barcelona to participate in
international tournament, where he was awarded with diploma and Verdi
Prize. He has lived in Spain for the past 8 years, performing on major
European stages.

RA government approves schedule of measures aimed at developing light industry

April 8, 2010 – 13:42 AMT 08:42 GMT
PanARMENIAN.Net –

Armenian Minister of Economy Nerses Yeritsyan said that the RA
government approved a schedule of measures aimed at solving the light
industry problems during the April 8 session.

According to him, the schedule offers an opportunity to reveal the
existing problems within two years and to conduct an analysis, the
results of which will serve as a ground for long-term programs for
improving Armenia’s competitiveness at international markets.

Besides, Mr. Yeritsyan said that application of simplified tax regime
and establishment of design institute of clothes and leather goods are
foreseen to develop the field.

SOUHAYR BELHASSEN, A APPELE A LA LIBERATION IMMEDIATE DES PRISONNIERS POLITIQUES EN ARMENIE
Stephane

armenews
vendredi9 avril 2010

Le 37ème congrès de la FIDH, par la voix de sa presidente, Souhayr
Belhassen, a appele aujourd’hui a la liberation immediate des
prisonniers politiques en Armenie. La FIDH a egalement reitere sa
demande d’une enquete independante et credible sur les evènements de
mars 2008 et sur l’usage disproportionne de la force par les services
de securite. Enfin, la FIDH a exprime ses preoccupations sur les
conditions d’organisation et de tenue des scrutins electoraux et sur
les obstacles a la liberte de l’information.

" Nous avons exprime ces preoccupations a plusieurs reprises ces
derniers mois aux autorites armeniennes au plus haut niveau – et ce
matin encore au President de la Republique, comme nous l’avons promis
hier aux familles des victimes et des prisonniers politiques ", a
declare Souhayr Belhassen. " L’ensemble de ces points preoccupent
le congrès de la FIDH tout entier qui aujourd’hui, par ma voix,
lance un appel aux autorites : nous esperons des reponses concrètes
a ces preoccupations. Nous persisterons jusqu’a les obtenir ",
a-t-elle ajoute.

"Liberer tous les prisonniers politiques et poursuivre en justice les
responsables de la mort de dix personnes lors des evenements du 1er
mars, sont deux des conditions essentielles pour une justice efficace
en Armenie", a conclu Artak Kirakosyan, representant du Civil Society
Institute, organisation membre de la FIDH en Armenie.