ARMINFO News Agency, Armenia November 13, 2017 Monday Sharmazanov to Azerbaijani colleague: To draw parallels between Karabakh, Kurdish and Catalan processes is illogical and illiterate Yerevan November 13 Tatevik Shahunyan. To draw parallels between the Karabakh conflict and the Kurdish and Catalan processes is not only illogical, but also illiterate. Vice Speaker of the Armenian Parliament Eduard Sharmazanov said in a conversation with ArmInfo correspondent in response to the statement of his Azerbaijani colleague Bahar Muradova that the international community should apply identical approaches to all these three processes, rather than being guided by double standards. "How it is possible to draw parallels between these processes , these are three completely different problems: the process of self-determination of Nagorno-Karabakh is exclusively legal and legitimate, it fully corresponds to the letter and norms of both the Constitution of the Soviet Union and international law." Nagorno-Karabakh at one time was self-determined in accordance with the same legal norms of the Constitution of the USSR as the 15 republics.The Constitution of the USSR gave the right to autonomous subjects on the basis of a referendum to determine their fate, which was done. I Azerbaijan casts doubt on the legality of the self-determination of Artsakh, it means that calls into question the legitimacy and independence and the independence of other former Soviet republics, "Sharmazanov explained. Regarding the dissatisfaction with the activities of OSCE Minsk Group and the need to change the mediation format, the Armenian vice-speaker stressed that Azerbaijan is pouring water into the mill of Turkey, which is trying in every possible way to become a mediator in the Karabakh settlement. "But this will never happen, Turkey does not have a place in the OSCE MG format, since this country frankly supports one of the conflicting parties - Azerbaijan, which casts doubt on its objectivity as an intermediary, moreover, Ankara is known for its destabilizing policies in the region. I'm not talking about this, right after the April war in the zone of the Karabakh conflict, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov stated that Turkey voiced calls not to peace but to war, "he said, stressing that Baku in the current situation AI should not blame the OSCE Minsk Group, and himself, since he does not fulfill its obligations, thereby torpedoing the negotiation process.
Author: Jane Topchian
How Armenia’s winemaking heritage is being rejuvenated: The Spectator
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Life.spectator.co.uk wrote: Every 100 metres or so on the main road to Iran that runs through the Vayots Dzor province of Armenia there is a stall selling tomatoes, watermelons and Coca-Cola. I was with an Italian-Armenian businessman Zorik Gharibian and his wife Yeraz, and they suggested we stop at one. On closer inspection those bottles didn’t contain Coke, it was red wine cunningly packaged to smuggle into the Islamic Republic of Iran. We went into the nearby house and there was the winemaker, Haykaz Karapetyan, cigarette in mouth making that year’s wine in plastic bins. ‘No chemicals,’ he said. This was proper natural wine. It smelt good, like a young Beaujolais with the same floral quality. We then went into his cellar to try some older vintages. The 2015 had a distinct tang of vinegar. The 2012 tasted of old socks.
The Gharibians make wine too and from the same grape, Areni Noir, but it is rather different. Their nearby winery is called Zorah and their red, Karasi, costs about £25 in London shops. They are both diaspora Armenians, Zorik brought up in Italy and Yeraz in London and New York. They wanted to buy a vineyard in Tuscany but following a visit to the mother country in 1998 decided to make wine in Armenia. ‘It was like I’d come home,’ Zorik tells me. In 2000 they came across the region around the town of Areni (after which the variety is named) which turned out to be a viticultural paradise. It’s phylloxera (a pest of commercial grapevines) free – though other parts of Armenia are not; there’s plenty of sunshine but the grapes preserve their acidity. ‘Freshness comes naturally because of altitude,’ Zorik explains.
The landscape with its precipitous cliffs, caves and ancient monasteries would be the perfect setting for a new Indiana Jones film. The arid mountains are peppered with bright spots of cultivation, including Zorah’s main vineyard thanks to a recently constructed irrigation pipe built with money from the World Bank. After they bought the land, experts in Armenia and back in Italy advised them to plant Cabernet Sauvignon. ‘When we said we wanted to do something with local varieties people were laughing at us,’ Zorik says. Italian oenologist Alberto Antonini, though, saw the potential in Areni Noir. After years of experimentation with different Areni clones, they planted the vineyard in 2006.
The first vintage was 2010. Straight away they knew that they had made something exceptional, but it hasn’t been easy. In the early years they made wine in a garage. It took an age to build their new winery because in Zorik’s words ‘the locals still have a Soviet mentality’. Apparently in their province there is only one cement mixer. In order to make wines to their exacting standards, they import almost everything from Italy; the presses, the fermentation tanks, the barrels, even the bottles, labels and the boxes. The Gharibians had no idea how much they have spent on the project. ‘In winemaking you don’t do the maths,’ as Zorik put it.
As well as local varieties, they wanted to use traditional Armenian winemaking techniques including ageing in amphora clay pots (karasi in Armenian). Initially they aged some of the wine in barriques, which impart flavours from the wood, but now they just use amphora and Italian botti (giant wooden barrels that don’t add any flavour). You can taste the results. The recent vintages have a whole new vivacity. Zorah make a special cuvee, called Yeraz (after his wife, the word means dream in Armenian), from an unirrigated abandoned vineyard 1600 metres above sea level and around a 100 years old. It’s a good 45 minute drive up the mountain in a 4×4. Actually vineyard isn’t quite the right world as the Areni vines are basically growing wild amongst boulders and walnut trees. ‘So exciting when we discovered the vineyard. Zorik and Alberto were like kids in a sweet shop,’ Yeraz says. The yet to be released 2014 is undoubtedly one of the finest wines I have tried this year.
From the Zorah winery you can see a gaping cave in the cliffside. Here archaeologist Boris Gasparyan has found evidence of winemaking from about 4,000 BC. He showed me around the partially excavated site, it is not open to the public, and pointed out the jars that looked uncannily like Zorik’s amphora. He then pointed to other jars which contained traces of bones and blood probably from human sacrifice. Or a party that got out of hand. Evidence of Armenia’s ancient wine culture is everywhere. There are grape motifs on monasteries, churches and even on Soviet era buildings. I saw wild vines, vitis sylvestris, growing by a river and dotted around the country, by the side of the road, in restaurants and family houses, are amphora like the ones at Zorah winery.
Nobody uses them for making wine anymore. Nobody even knows how to make them so the Gharibians dig them out of people’s basements. Armenia has lost touch with its vinous roots. Following World War One and the massacres by the Turks, Armenians scattered around the world or were reduced to this mountainous country which was then invaded by the Bolsheviks. Armenia ‘caught between the hammer and the anvil’, as the saying goes. It gives you some idea of how the Armenians suffered under the Ottomans that they aren’t particular bitter about Russian rule. But it was disastrous for wine. ‘Soviets broke the link completely,’ says Zorik. Central planning designated Georgia for wine and Armenia for brandy. Zorah have an amphora made in 1957 but shortly afterwards people stopped making them and then their own wine.
There was more misery to come (something of a theme in Armenian history) in the shape of the 1988 earthquake, and, following the collapse of the Soviet Union, war with Azerbaijan over Nagorno-Karabakh. It still feels like a precarious country. People half expect Turks, Mongols or Persians to come charging through at any moment. Nevertheless, Yerevan does have much of the trapping of a modern city with free wi-fi, craft beer and wine bars. At one, Wine Republic, I tried a selection of good simple wines from small producers including Van Ardi and Sarduri. Quality wine of this sort has only been made in Armenia recently. ‘You couldn’t drink this stuff five years ago,’ Zorik says, pointing to a bottle. Wine bars, though, are only for the well off. Bottled wine is too expensive for most people.
The Gharibians aren’t the only diaspora Armenians involved with the wine business. Vahe Keushguerian, originally from Lebanon with spells making wine in Italy, runs a wine consulting company based in Yerevan called Semina Consulting. They have recently set up a nursery to supply Armenian winemakers with native varieties. But his biggest project, Karas, is based largely on international grapes and despite the name does not use amphora. It was set up by Eduardo Eurnekian, an Argentine-Armenian who made his fortune in airports including Yerevan’s. Superstar French oenologist Michel Rolland is also involved. The 2013 Reserve, made from Petit Verdot, Montepulciano and Tannat, I tried was not one of his finer efforts being grotesquely overripe and over-oaked.
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Photos by Life.spectator.co.uk
Statement by Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian at General Policy Debate of the 39th Session of the UNESCO General Conference
Honorable Madame President of the General Conference
Madame Director General
Ladies and Gentlemen,
I would like to congratulate Mrs. Audrey Azoulay for the nomination by the Executive Board for the post of the next Director-General of UNESCO.
Madame President,
The strong leadership of UNESCO is essential in guiding our joint efforts for meeting the objectives of this organisation. Education plays a crucial role in this regard. Armenia has co-authored and supported several education-related initiatives both within the UN and UNESCO. We also closely cooperate with the UNESCO Education Sector in developing our Higher Education Strategy for 2017-2030.
Education, science and search for knowledge have deep roots in the Armenian society. In two years the State University of our capital Yerevan will mark its 100th anniversary. However, already 800 years ago the capital of the Cilician Armenian kingdom used to have a secular higher education institute, the University of Sis. Armenians have carried out these traditions throughout the centuries, including by founding schools in many places worldwide. This year marks the 300th anniversary of the Armenian Mekhitarist Congregation of San Lazzaro in Venice that was recognized as an academy by Emperor Napoleon. More than 200 years ago another famous school – the Lazarian Seminary opened its doors in Moscow and later became one of the two founding institutions of Moscow State Institute of International Relations.
Ladies and Gentlemen,
The education is a strongest tool for boosting the values that this Organization adheres to. It is regrettable that some states abuse the education for contrary objectives, exploiting it for dissemination of nationalist hatred especially among the youth. There are many such examples in the textbooks of Azerbaijan, one of them teaching the children that Armenians are their genetic enemies. The 2016 report of the European Commission Against Racism and Intolerance states: “Political leaders, educational institutions and media have continued using hate speech against Armenians; an entire generation of Azerbaijanis has now grown up listening to this hateful rhetoric”. It is rightly described in the Constitution of UNESCO that “wars begin in the minds of men”. The societies will not be prepared for reconciliation unless the defense of peace is constructed in their minds.
As great German writer Heinrich Heine wrote “Where they burn books, they will ultimately burn people”. The books of the renowned Azerbaijani novelist were burnt on the streets of Baku just for speaking the truth about Armenian massacres and calling for reconciliation. He wrote а story about his home village in Nakhijevan that during his childhood used to have twelve churches. All of them, together with numerous other Armenian sacred sites and cemeteries in Nakhijevan and all over Azerbaijan were wiped out in 1990s and 2000s. In the same manner thousands delicately carved medieval cross-stones of the Armenian cemetery in Jugha were bulldozed under the watchful eyes of the Azerbaijani authorities.The site was transformed to a shooting range.
After ethnically cleansing the Armenian population of Azerbaijan, now Baku aims at wiping out even the memory of several millennia old Armenian presence, every traces of the indigenous Armenian culture and history of the region. Baku erases the past merely because it does not fit the present day self-portrayed image of Azerbaijan, probably following George Orwell’s famous words on “who controls the present, controls the past”. Those who control Azerbaijan today think they can rewrite the history to legitimize their present xenophobic policies.
Ladies and Gentlemen,
Historically being situated on the crossroads of different civilizations Armenia has cultivated deeply rooted traditions of coexistence and respect towards other cultures and religions. That is why Armenia preserves a rich cultural heritage that includes among others the Hellenistic era temple, some of the oldest churches in the world, medieval Jewish cemetery, 18th century mosque and soon will host the world’s largest Yazidi temple.
The cooperation on preservation of the cultural heritage, that has been among the main pillars proclaimed by UNESCO. It has a very special meaning for the Armenian nation, since we have monuments all over the world built by the Armenians communities in about one hundred countries and particularly many in the countries of the region.
Our neighbors have displayed different approaches towards the preservation of Armenian historical heritage. There is a good cooperation with Iran that takes proper care of the Armenian monuments situated on its territory in a sharp contrast with neighboring Azerbaijan, but also Turkey, where numerous cultural monuments that were of universal value, have been lost forever. In this regard I would like to reiterate Armenia’s interest for the participation of our experts in the excavation and restoration of archaeological sites in Turkey, in such places as Ani, the Armenian medieval capital.
We are also very much concerned of the attacks on the Armenian monuments and sacred sites in war-torn Syria. We strongly believe that the post conflict rehabilitation in Syria should reaffirm the rights of ethnic minorities, including Armenians, on their religious and cultural heritage.
This year the UN Security Council unanimously adopted the resolution 2347, which deplores and condemns the unlawful destruction of cultural heritage, including of religious sites notably by terrorist groups. We hope that the international community will continue to vigorously purcue such efforts.
Madame President,
I would also like to draw the attention on two anniversaries proposed by Armenia to the UNESCO calendar.
For 2016 with the support of France and Netherlands we have nominated 350th anniversary of the first printed Bible in Armenian. This is indeed a remarkable event not just for the 500 years long history of the Armenian book printing, but also it is symbolic for a nation that was first adopted Christianity as a state religion more than 1700 years ago and whose translation of the Holy Bible was one of the first in the world.
For 2017 jointly with Russian Federation and supported by Italy we have nominated the 200th anniversary of the birth of Hovhannes (Ivan) Aivazovsky, the world famous marine artist.
Ladies and Gentlemen,
Nowadays there is a higher demand of such efforts that build and consolidate peace in the minds of people, that turn our differences into our strengths, that preserve and use our common heritage as a bridge between generations, cultures and peoples. Armenia strongly believes in this mission of UNESCO and stands ready to continue its contribution to the realization of these goals.
Thank you.
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Sports: Davit Hovhannisyan claims silver at the European Weightlifting Championships
Panorama, Armenia
Oct 19 2017
Armenia’s weightlifting team member Davit Hovhannisyan has become the vice-champion of the U-20 European Weightlifting Championships underway in Durres, Albania.
Competing in the 85kg weight category, Hovhannisyan scored a total of 343kg, taking the silver, while another representative of Armenia Karen Avagyan took the fourth place with a total of 339kg.
As the National Olympic Committee reported, Hovhannisyan won another silver in the snatch holding overhead 158kg, while Avagyan lifter 156kg and was placed the fourth.
In the U-20 women’s competition the representative of Armenia Sona Poghosyan is set to compete on Thursday.
Azerbaijani Press: “Trentino-Alto Adige autonomy may be model for autonomous status of Nagorno-Karabakh within Azerbaijan”
Trend, Azerbaijan
Oct 19 2017
Baku, Azerbaijan, Oct. 19
Trend:
The model of autonomy of Trentino-Alto Adige in Italy may become one of the successful models to be studied in the context of the autonomous status of the Nagorno-Karabakh region within Azerbaijan, Hikmat Hajiyev, spokesman for Azerbaijan’s Foreign Ministry, said in an interview with chief researcher of the Nodo di Gordio think tank Andrea Marcigliano.
In his interview, Hajiyev touched upon the prospects of development of cooperation between Azerbaijan and the EU, and Italy.
Speaking of Azerbaijan's close ties with Europe, its important role in the fight against terrorism, illegal migration, extremism and radicalism, the contribution to the energy security of Europe, Hajiyev noted that Azerbaijan is a "natural partner" of the European Union, including Italy.
He noted that intensive talks are underway to conclude an agreement on strategic partnership between Azerbaijan and the EU, and that this deal will play an important role in the development of comprehensive cooperation between Azerbaijan and the EU in the coming years.
Answering the question about the steps that can be taken to resolve the Armenia-Azerbaijan Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, Hajiyev said that the political and legal bases for the settlement of the conflict and the steps which should be taken are known.
"The four resolutions adopted by the UN Security Council in connection with the settlement of the conflict, once again confirming the territorial integrity and sovereignty of Azerbaijan, require the complete and unconditional withdrawal of the Armenian troops from the occupied Azerbaijani territories," he said.
As for the contribution that Italy can make to the conflict settlement, Hajiyev said that the model of autonomy of Trentino-Alto Adige region in Italy can become one of the successful models for considering in the context of the autonomous status of the Nagorno-Karabakh region within Azerbaijan.
Taking into account Italy's membership in the OSCE Minsk Group and Italy’s 2018 OSCE chairmanship, the consideration of this model could be very useful within the OSCE Minsk Group and Italy’s experience.
During the interview Hajiyev also touched upon such issues as diversification of the Azerbaijani economy, development of the non-oil sector, stabilization of oil prices in the world market.
The interview was published in Il Giornale authoritative Italian newspaper.
The conflict between the two South Caucasus countries began in 1988 when Armenia made territorial claims against Azerbaijan. As a result of the ensuing war, in 1992 Armenian armed forces occupied 20 percent of Azerbaijan, including the Nagorno-Karabakh region and seven surrounding districts.
The 1994 ceasefire agreement was followed by peace negotiations. Armenia has not yet implemented four UN Security Council resolutions on withdrawal of its armed forces from the Nagorno-Karabakh and the surrounding districts.
MONDAY OCT. 16: ANCA Announces Congressional Call-In Day for H.Res.220
ANCA announces Congressional call-In day for H.Res.220 on Oct. 16
Genocide Prevention Measure Draws on Lessons of the Armenian Genocide
WASHINGTON—With support growing for H.Res.220, and amid broad-based outrage over Turkey’s escalating anti-American actions, the Armenian National Committee of America is organizing a country-wide call in day, Monday, October 16 for this bipartisan genocide prevention measure that draws upon the lessons of the Armenian Genocide.
To take part in the ANCA Call-In Day, simply visit www.anca.org/call and to use the ANCA’s Quick Connect Call feature.
ANCA Executive Director Aram Hamparian issued a video call-to-action, urging genocide prevention advocates to ask their U.S. Representatives: “Why does Turkey get a veto over honest American remembrance of the Armenian Genocide?” Watch Hamparian’s appeal here:
H.Res.220 currently has over 100 cosponsors from 25 U.S. states. The measure, spearheaded by Reps. David Trott (R-MI) and Adam Schiff (D-CA), seeks to help prevent ongoing atrocities across the Middle East by drawing upon the lessons of the Armenian Genocide. In recent weeks, more than two dozen U.S. Representatives have joined as supporters of this measure.
Key points in support of H.Res.220 are provided below:
- The U.S. government should draw upon the lessons of the U.S. response to the Armenian Genocide to inform and inspire our modern-day genocide prevention efforts in the Middle East and around the world.
- The genocidal crimes being committed against Christians, Yezidis and others across the Middle East are, in many ways, part of a pattern that began, a century ago, with the Ottoman Empire’s campaign to destroy Armenians, Assyrians, Chaldeans, Syriacs, Greeks, Pontians, and other religious minorities upon their biblical era homelands.
- The increasingly anti-American and undemocratic government of Turkey has no right to impose a gag-rule against honest American remembrance of the Armenian Genocide.
- An honest understanding of the history of the Armenian Genocide and a truthful appreciation of the genocidal nature of this crime can help save innocent lives today in the Middle East, and, more broadly, will strengthen America’s standing in preventing genocides all around the world.
- H.Res.220 builds upon the official U.S. designation – by both the Legislative and Executive branches – that the atrocities perpetrated by ISIL against Christians, Yezidis, and other religious and ethnic minorities in Iraq and Syria constitute war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide.
- The adoption of H.Res.220 would be consistent with the recognition of the Armenian Genocide by 47 U.S. states and nearly a dozen of our NATO allies.
Zara Hovhannisyan: NGO failed the discussion because of their fears (video)
Today, the topic “Domestic Violence: The work carried out and subsequent steps ” discussed at the Matenadaran hall, made a stir.
NGO representatives and individual citizens complained that the organizers of the discussion, the Ministry of Justice, did not let them speak because they did not want to hear the opposite oppinion.
A1 + invited Zara Hovhannisyan, a representative of the Against Violence Towards Women Coalition,who also had participated in the discussion.
Why is the so-called uproar raised to the discussion of the law authored by the Ministry of Justice?
Details of the interview are available in the video
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AYF Crescenta Valley Juniors Win First Place at Annual Song Competition
MONTROSE, Calif. – On September 9, the Crescenta Valley “Garegin Njdeh” AYF Juniors hosted the annual Juniors Song Competition at the Armenian Sisters Academy in Montrose, CA.
The five chapters in attendance were Montebello “Vahan Cardashian,” Burbank “Gaidzag,” CV “Garegin Njdeh,” Pasadena “Nigol Touman,” and North Valley “Hrayr Maroukhian.”
The judges were Dr. Garineh Avakian Akkus, an assistant professor in music, voice and choral at Pierce College who made her Walt Disney Concert Hall solo debut in 2016. Varand Avanesian, a professional Armenian and Farsi singer who has been in the music industry for 10 years recording, performing, and producing music. And finally, Armen Adamyan who received his undergraduate education in the fields of psychology and music composition and worked on an experimental music performance program with kids at TUMO in Armenia. He is currently working towards a PhD in ethnomusicology from UCLA.
The day started with a short educational about Kedashen, given by the AYF CV “Garegin Njdeh” Juniors, followed with the chapters singing their chapter chosen song, and the mandatory song, “Kedashen.” Each chapter did a remarkable job, including a solo performed by Stella Ghevondyan (12) from the Burbank “Gaidzag” chapter. The judges made a difficult decision deciding the winners and awarded the titles to the AYF Pasadena “Nigol Touman” Juniors for third place, AYF Montebello “Vahan Cardashian” Juniors in second, and AYF CV “Garegin Njdeh” Juniors in first.
While the event was executed by the CV chapter, they wanted to make it unique and different for the first time. For over couple of months, the juniors we’re practicing two patriotic songs directed by Unger Arick Gevorkian and traditional Armenian folk dances taught by Unger Alex Avaneszadeh. Their goal was to have a flash mob at the end of song competition. They successfully surprised all the participants, and many of them joined in the “shurjbar.”
Judge Varand Avanesian said, “Our youth are the future of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation. Hearing their passionate performances made me proud, and I had tears of joy.”
“The event was a great success, chapters did an amazing job singing the songs, and I am very proud of all of our juniors,” said Hripsik Shatikian, the long-standing AYF Juniors Director for the “Garegin Njdeh” juniors. The CV juniors worked very hard by themselves in the organizing, executing, and hosting this event.”
The AYF CV “Garegin Njdeh” Juniors would like to give special thanks to ARF Zavarian Gomideh for their unconditional support and sponsoring the competition, Unger Arick Gevorkian for his time and artistic input, and Armenian Sisters Academy for opening their school to our juniors.