Author: Kajoyan Gevork

Publishers from 17 countries attend int’l book fair in Moscow

Moscow, Dec 3, IRNA — Publishers from 17 countries including Iran
took part in the 13th International Book Fair on non-fiction subjects
in Moscow on Saturday.

IRNA reporter in Moscow said that 290 publishers from 17 countries
including Russia, Iran, Ukraine, Belarus, Armenia and China have taken
part in the book fair which will work for five days.

Non-fiction literary books in education, arts, architecture,
designing, business letters and literature for children and the young
adults are on display in the international book fair.

Iranian cultural attache’ in Moscow told IRNA that Iranian publishers
have presented more than 85 titles of books on Quranic studies in
addition to literary books in Persian.

Islamic Republic News Agency/IRNA NewsCode: 30696242

Expert: Caucasus is Russia’s shield against ill-wishing forces

December 3, 2011 – 14:05 AMT

PanARMENIAN.Net – Russia’s stance on the Caucasus remains unchanged,
political analyst Sergey Shakaryants said.

`The Caucasus has been and remains Moscow’s shield for against
ill-wishing forces,’ he said adding that Russia has long perceived
Iran as its main regional enemy.

In this context, Shakaryants noted that Russia takes more interest in
Armenian foreign rather than domestic policy issues.

According to the expert, the fact that Russia always recognized
Armenian elections legitimate testifies to the aforesaid.

Armenian trucks stuck in the Upper Lars started moving

ARMENPRESS NEWS AGENCY
11:50, 3 December, 2011

The Armenian trucks that have stuck in the Upper Lars border-check
point have started moving thanks to the special heavy carriers
provided by the Armenian side. Spokeswoman for the Armenian Transport
and Communication Minister Susanna Tonoyan told Armenpress that it was
stated by the Georgia’s infrastructures and territorial development
minister Ramaz Nikolayishvili at the phone conversation with Manuk
Vardanyan.

About 200 Armenian trucks have stuck in the border check point. Soon
the vehicles will fully be transported. For the settlement of the road
issues a joint Armenian-Georgian company has been created and talks
between Armenian and Georgian specialists are ongoing.

Armenian writer calls for intellectuals’ activeness ahead of elections

14:11 – 03.12.11

The Armenian intelligentsia must have its say in electoral processes,
according to prominent poet and publicist Razmik Davoyan.

“We are going to call for a free, fair and transparent election. But a
fair and transparent voting does not imply a right election,” he told
a news conference on Saturday.

Emphasizing the importance of intellectuals’ role in the upcoming
elections, Davoyan said a right electoral process would entail the
presence of individuals [in parliament and cabinet] who would think
about the people.

“There are different expectations. Some expect to assume an office or
become parliament members by joining parties and so on and so forth.
But such people can never determine the activities of a political
party; that’s out of the question,” he said.

Davoyan added that he pins much hope on the Armenian youth, highly
praising the young environmentalists recent campaigns aimed at
rescuing different the natural monuments across Armenia.

Speaking further on the issue, Deputy Director of Literature Institute
Vardan Devrikyan stressed the importance of intelligentsia’s moral and
social responsibility for electoral processes.

“Intellectuals’ representation in different political parties’
electoral rolls seems to be conformism or time-serving at first sight,
but I consider that useful anyway,” he said, adding that he would
prefer to see educated people rather than nicknamed figures in
parliament.

Tert.am

SARGIS HATSPANIAN COMPARES ROBERT KOCHARYAN TO 1915 YOUNG TURKS

hetq
10:52, December 3, 2011

Yesterday, Sargis Hatspanyan, a French citizen and veteran of the
Artsakh War, who has been fighting to obtain RA citizenship, compared
former Armenian President Robert Kocharyan to the Young Turks.

“I have lived in Armenia for the past 22 years and have put down roots
here,” said Hatspanyan, a native of Turkey. “Now they are pulling up
those roots by not granting me residency status”

Hatspanyan recounted that while serving time in an Armenian prison
after being found guilty of false denunciation, he read a book stating
that in 1915 the Young Turks only gave the Armenians of Kharberd five
days before exiling them.

“The order handed down by Kocharyan, in the aftermath of the March 1
events, to banish me from Armenia sounds a lot like the Young Turks’
order. I am from a generation that was exiled in 1915. How can those
who have tried to exile me twice from Armenia be called Armenians? Is
it possible for anyone to debase themselves to the level of the Young
Turks?” noted Hatspanyan.

The aravot.am news website contacted Robert Kocharyan’s press secretary
Viktor Soghomonyants for comment. He never answered their telephone
calls.

Hatspanyan was a bit embarrassed to confess that, from a legal
perspective, it’s his son that has kept him in Armenia.

“My son goes around school boasting that ‘I am keeping my father
here’. International law states that you cannot exile a person whose
children are still minors. My son is eight and I don;t want him to
grow up.”

NATIONAL HERO MOVSES GORGOSYAN WOULD TURN 50 TODAY (VIDEOS)

Tert.am
03.12.11

Today marks the 50th birthday of Armenian National Hero Movses
Gorgisyan.

One of the most outstanding personalities in the history of Armenia’s
third republic, Gorgisyan had an unforgettable role in the late 1980’s
nationalistic movement and struggle for independence. He was known
as a true hero and a warrior never tolerating the evil and always
struggling for justice. “Mourning is forever if there’s no struggle”
was Gorgisyan’s motto that characterized him best.

Movses Gorgisyan was born in 1961 in Yerevan. In 1984, he graduated
from the Armenian Teacher Training University’s Culture Department,
receiving the qualification of a stage director and producer. From
1986 till 1987, Gorgisyan worked at the Drama Theatre of Goris town.

In 1987, he joined the nationalistic movement, becoming a member of
the National Self-determination Union. He was the first person to hoist
Armenia’s tricolor flag on Liberty Square on Armenia’s First Republic
anniversary in 1988. One of the founders of the Independence Army,
Gorgisyan is widely known for his speeches on the re-establishment
of Armenia’s independent statehood. Since the start of the Artsakh
(Ngorno-Karabakh) movement, he was among the champions of Artsakh
Armenians’ fight for independence. On January 18, 1990, border villages
in Ararat region came under Azeri militants’ armed attack. A day later
the Armenian fighters eliminated one of the enemy’s detachments,
seizing a large quantity of weapons. Together with his warriors,
Goorgisyan launched attacked and silenced the enemy’s weapon
emplacement on a hill but he died a hero’s death in the battle.

Gorgisyan’s body is buried in Yerevan’s Tsitsernakaberd Park.

VARTAN SIRMAKES FUTUR CONSUL GENERAL D’ARMENIE A MARSEILLE : ” AU SERVICE DE L’ARMENIE ”
Krikor Amirzayan

armenews.com
samedi 3 decembre 2011

D’après nos informations de source diplomatique Vartan Sirmakes, le
proprietaire des montres de luxe Franck Muller sera nomme au poste
de Consul general d’Armenie a Marseille. Vartan Sirmakes est ne a
Istanbul, venu en 1976 il y a 35 ans en Suisse en compagnie de sa
famille. Il avait 17 ans. Sertisseur, puis horloger il a fait diplôme
d’une ecole de bijouterie très connu a Istanbul, Vartan Sirmakes monte
en Suisse son atelier d’horlogerie. Puis in intègre le groupe Franck
Muller et devient l’actionnaire majoritaire. Aujourd’hui Frank Muller
emploie 800 salaries a travers le monde. Le groupe qui a acquis une
autre marque de montres a Minsk en Bielorussie souhaite egalement
a se developper en Armenie où Franck Muller s’est installe dès 1991
avec une superbe boutique a Erevan.

Interroge par ” Les Nouvelles d’Armenie Magazine “, Vartan Sirmakes
nous confie ” l’Armenie de nos livres et de nos reves etait devenue une
realite. Nous devions aider cette patrie renaissante car elle avait
besoin de nous “. Celui qui s’est rendu a de nombreuses reprises
en Armenie et au Haut Karabagh ajoute ” l’Armenie n’a que 20 ans,
et elle avance. Notre devoir est de l’aider “. Vartan Sirmakes dit
qu’il gèrera le Consulat general d’Armenie de Marseille en meme
temps que ses affaires. L’activite du Consulat devant couvrir le
territoire s’etendant des Midi-Pyrenees au grand Sud-Est avec la
Paca de Marseille a Nice. Devant la charge de travail de ce futur
consulat, Vartan Sirmakes dit ” je m’entourai pour cette mission de
gens competents qui me conseilleront et m’epauleront tout au long
de ma mission. A l’exemple de Didier Parakian, Adjoint au Maire ou
d’autres representants de la communaute armenienne de Marseille et de
la region “.Vartan Sirmakes est decide a mener a bien ce challenge
au service du rayonnement de la Republique d’Armenie et les quelque
150 000 Armeniens de la region.

PLUSIEURS HOTELS EN CONSTRUCTION A EREVAN
Krikor Amirzayan

armenews.com
samedi 3 decembre 2011

L’Armenie escompte franchir le seul d’un million de touristes en 2013.

Tigrane Davidian, le ministre de l’Economie a affirme que l’Armenie
va redoubler ses efforts pour developper le nombre des hôtels avec
des chaînes hôtelières qui s’installeront dans le pays au cours des
prochaines annees. En 2012 Djermouk accueillera un hôtel Hyatt. C’est
donc l’Armenie qui est choisie par la chaîne Hyatt -presente dans 45
pays- qui construira ainsi son premier etablissement du Sud Caucase.

Par ailleurs a Erevan sur la rue Amirian, un hôtel cinq etoiles du nom
de la chaîne Kempinski ouvrira ses portes en 2013. Le geant hôtelier
Wyndham Hotel Group construira dans la chaîne des hôtels Ramada, le
Ramada Yerevan dans le quartier ” Noy ” de la capitale armenienne a
trois kilomètres de l’aeroport international ” Zvartnots “.

L’exploitation du Ramada Yerevan est prevue pour 2013. Enfin sur le
site du Palais de la Jeunesse -la tour circulaire d’Erevan, aujourd’hui
detruit- sera construit par les Allemands, l’InterContinental Hôtel.

VARTAN SIRMAKES DEVRAIT ETRE NOMME CONSUL GENERAL D’ARMENIE A MARSEILLE
Krikor Amirzayan

armenews.com
samedi 3 decembre 2011

L’Armenie s’apprete a ouvrir un Consulat general a Marseille.

L’annonce de cette ouverture devrait etre effectuee par le president
armenien Serge Sarkissian mercredi 7 decembre lors d’une reception
avec la communaute armenienne a la Mairie de Marseille. Il sera
accompagne d’Edouard Nalbadian le chef de la diplomatie armenienne
et S.E. Vicken Tchitetchian l’Ambassadeur d’Armenie en France.

L’inauguration du consulat general d’Armenie a Marseille près du
square Monticelli (8e) dans un ” quartier diplomatique ” non loin du
Consulat de Russie devrait se realiser dans les semaines a venir.

Jeudi 8 decembre en presence du president armenien et de nombreux
ministres, une visite des lieux sera effectuee avec les officiels.

L’homme d’affaires suisse d’origine armenienne Vartan Sirmakes
proprietaire du groupe des montres de luxe Franck Muller devrait
etre nomme Consul general. Il y a quelques jours, Vartan Sirmakes
et Vicken Tchitetchian etaient recus par Didier Parakian, adjoint
au Maire de Marseille au developpement international et charge des
relations avec le corps consulaire. ” Nouvelles d’Armenie Magazine ”
etait egalement invitee a cette rencontre qui s’est deroule dans un
cadre très chaleureux.

DISCUSSION OF ARMENIAN ‘GENOCIDE’ RECOGNITION IN ISRAEL’S KNESSET POSTPONED

news.az
Dec 2 2011
Azerbaijan

Discussion of ‘genocide’ recognition was postponed because the speaker
of the Knesset was out of the country.

The Education Committee of the Israeli Knesset postponed the discussion
of the issue on the recognition of the Armenian ‘genocide’ and will
discuss it after December 20.

The head of the Armenian National Committee of Jerusalem, Georgette
Avagyan, said this in the interview to Mediamax. She noted that the
discussion was postponed because the speaker of the Knesset was out of
the country. The issue was earlier expected to be discussed this week.

This August, Deputy Foreign Minister of Israel Danny Ayalon said in
the exclusive interview to Mediamax:

” It is no secret that the mass murder of the Armenian people during
the First World War is a most sensitive matter and as a people that
also suffered from persecution and murder we are especially sensitive
to that. However, since the subject, most regrettably, has become
political, it needs to be handled with great care. Israel has never
denied the Armenian tragedy, but we do not wish to become party to
the confrontation between Turkey and Armenian on this important issue.”