Author: Kajoyan Gevork

PATRICIA FLOR EN VISITE EN ARMENIE
Stephane

armenews.com
vendredi 20 mai 2011

Patricia Flor, representante speciale de l’Auswartiges Amt pour
l’Europe orientale, le Caucase et l’Asie centrale, en visite en
Armenie dans le cadre des consultations politiques, a ete recue
par le Secretaire du Conseil de la Securite Nationale (SCN) Arthur
Bagdassarian. S’agissant du conflit du HK, M. Bagdassarian a note
que l’Armenie a toujours ete pour un règlement pacifique, remarquant
qu’une ” concession mutuelle est plus raisonnable qu’un affrontement
insense “. Quant a la normalisation des relations avec la Turquie,
la position de l’Armenie reste ouverte et claire. Les relations avec
l’UE, selon le SCN, se developpent a un rythme rapide dans le cadre du
partenariat oriental. La presse rend egalement compte des rencontres
de Mme Flor avec les representants du gouvernement, des ONG et des
societes civiles.

Ambassade de France en Armenie

Service de presse

OMBUDSMAN: ISSUES OF SUSTENANCE AND JUSTICE ARE ARMENIAN POPULATION’S MAIN PRIORITY

PanARMENIAN.Net
May 18, 2011 – 17:40 AMT

On May 18, Yerevan’s Armenia Marriott hosted a Right to Fair Trial
forum, organised by the Armenian Ombudsman office and the Chamber
of Advocates of Armenia, with the financial support of Friedrich
Ebert Foundation.

As Armenian Ombudsman Karen Andreasyan stressed during the event, the
issues of sustenance and justice are currently Armenian population’s
main priority.

According to the Ombudsman, unfair judges must be persecuted, while
in current reality those who do not deserve punishment are the ones
called to responsibility.

“Today, fair judges deserve to be appreciated and called heroes. Their
work should serve as an example for everyone to follow,” Mr.
Andreasyan stressed.

NAMES OF THOSE INJURED IN CAR ACCIDENT IN YEREVAN PUBLISHED

PanARMENIAN.Net
May 18, 2011 – 10:56 AMT

The Armenian Ministry of Emergency Situations (MES) published the
names of those who were injured in the May 17 car accident in Yerevan.

According to the MES press service, nine passengers were taken to
Erebuni medical center: Valeriy Petrosyan (born in 1957), Hovsep
Papazyan (1957), Anna Khachatryan (1978), Marianna Muradyan (1996),
Hripsime Stepanyan (1991), Gor Hayrapetyan (2004), Gegham Gabrielyan
(1990), Mushegh Gevorgyan (1984) and Gor Papoyan (1993).

With the assistance of rescuers, bodies of those killed in the
accident were taken out from the cars to be transferred to employees
of ambulance.

Gor Hayrapetyan was delivered to a burn center; he is estimated to
be in a grave condition. Hayrapetyan has got burns of lower body (25%).

According to doctors, Hayrapetyan, Papoyan, Stepanyan and Muradyan
are in a stable grave condition, while health state of the rest
is satisfactory.

A #76 minibus and a Mercedes collided in Artsakh street of Yerevan on
May 17 evening, killing 4 and injuring 9 people. As the RA Police told
a PanARMENIAN.Net reporter, the investigation is under way. According
to preliminary data, as result of the collision a fire burst out.

L’INTERVIEW DU DEUXIEME PRESIDENT ROBERT KOTCHARIAN A L’AGENCE MEDIAMAX
Stephane

armenews.com
mercredi 18 mai 2011

L’interview du deuxième President Robert Kotcharian a l’agence
Mediamax, a propos des evenements du 1er mars 2008, est largement
commentee par la presse. ” Les evenements du 1er mars n’etaient
dans les interets ni des precedentes ni des actuelles autorites,
mais de ceux qui n’arretent pas d’en abuser pour leur propre profit ”
a-t-il declare. Accusant ” le candidat battu ” [Levon Ter-Petrossian]
qui voulait occuper le siège presidentiel, il affirme avoir pris la
decision, après consultation du PM et du President de l’AN de l’epoque,
de decreter l’etat d’urgence afin d’eviter le pire. ” Cette decision a
ete prise au moment où la situation etait incontrôlable avec plusieurs
voitures incendiees, des magasins cambrioles et les premiers victimes
de part et d’autre “. Il a par ailleurs declare de ne pas avoir donne
l’ordre de tirer sur les gens, ni lui, ni quelqu’un d’autre. S’agissant
du dialogue entre les autorites et le CNA, il le soutiendrait ” s’il
s’agissait de l’etablissement de règles civilisees dans la lutte
politique. ” Cependant ” s’il ne constitue qu’un simulacre de lutte
politique, il s’agit, selon lui, d’un complot derrière le dos des
electeurs “. La reaction de Victor Dallakian, depute independant,
a cette interview de Kotcharian pourrait etre la reponse de Serge
Sarkissian, ecrit Haykakan Jamanak : ” Le seul homme politique a qui
le 1er mars ne profitait pas etait Serge Sarkissian.

Le père spirituel et physique du 1er mars, c’est Robert Kotcharian
” a-t-il declare lors de la session de l’AN. Selon le coordinateur
du CNA, Kotcharian tente de se justifier, de se debarrasser des
responsabilites du ” crime du 1er mars “. ” Kotcharian a pris très au
serieux la reprise du dossier du 1er mars. On lit dans les interlignes
de cette interview des messages adresses a Serge Sarkissian. ”
a declare Gaguik Djehanguirian, ancien vice procureur general et
membre actuel du CNA.

Titres : ” Nouvelle apparition de Kotcharian “/Azg

” Kotcharian cherche a se defausser “/Jamanak

” Confession “/Haykakan Jamanak

Ambassade de France en Armenie

ASSASSINAT DE HRANT DINK – RAMAZAN AKYUREK REHABILITE
Stephane

armenews.com
mercredi 18 mai 2011

Une cour d’Ankara a decide de rehabiliter Ramazan Akyurek, l’ancien
chef de l’Unite des Renseignements de la Police Centrale, a son poste,
ecartant les accusations de negligence dans le meurtre de Hrant Dink
en 2007.

” L’enquete conduite par les inspecteurs n’a pas prouve de fautes de
Ramazan Akyure ” affirme la cour dans sa decision.

La cour a aussi annule la nomination d’Akyurek comme expert a la
division de developpement de la strategie de la Direction General
de la Securite en raison de l’echec du Ministère de l’Interieur de
fournir des informations sur son remplacement.

Erhan Tuncel, un ancien informateur de la police de Trabzon, avait
dit qu’il a avertit continuellement la police de Trabzon des menaces
a l’encontre de la vie de Hrant Dink avant son meurtre a Istanbul. Il
a ete par la suite trouve qu’Akyurek, le chef de la police a Trabzon
a l’epoque a transmis seulement un avertissement au Departement de
Police d’Istanbul.

Le Ministère de l’Interieur a retire d’Akyurek de son poste en
octobre. Akyurek a fait appel a la cour d’Ankara, affirmant que la
decision du ministère etait illegal, injuste et peu raisonnable.

‘ARMENIA-TURKEY: POLITICS AND PRESS’ DISCUSSION TO BE HELD IN YEREVAN

news.am
May 17 2011
Armenia

YEREVAN. – Discussion on the topic ‘Armenia-Turkey: Politics and press’
will be held in Yerevan on May 17-18. Public figures and journalists
from both countries will attend the event.

The participants will analyze the latest trends in Armenian-Turkish
relations and their reflection in the media of the two countries.

The experts of Yerevan Press Club and Izmir University will present the
preliminary results of research on undisclosed capacities stimulating
Armenia-Turkey dialogue and the findings of research about media
bias. Star Daily correspondent Elif Shagin will present the report
“Situation in Turkey and forthcoming parliamentary elections.”

The discussion will be concluded on May 18 with award ceremony for
active and qualitative coverage of Armenian-Turkish relations.

The event is organized by Eurasia Partnership Foundation, Yerevan
Press Club, International Center for Human Development, and the Union
of Industrials and Entrepreneurs of Armenia. The project is funded
by USAID.

Panorama
May 17 2011
Armenia

French football federation is concerned about the assistant coach
Alian Boghossian’s statement in the opening of the Grozny stadium.

“L’Equipe” says Boghossian, a former player who is now assistant coach
for the French national team, told Friday that he “didn’t take a euro
and had nothing to reproach himself with” after the match. “It’s a
private initiative, independent of the French Football Federation.

Several days ago, a player called me and proposed I participate in a
match in Chechnya for a humanitarian cause. I come from Armenia, where
the people suffered like the people in this very close region. So I
responded that I would go. I took vacation days and went. For free,
clearly.”

POGHOSYAN FEATURED IN THE GREATER NEWBURGH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

Armenian Weekly
Tue, May 17 2011

NEWBURGH, N.Y.-On May 14, the Greater Newburgh Symphony Orchestra,
directed and conducted by Woomyung Choe, presented “Tonight We Love”
at Aquinas Hall, Mount Saint Mary College, Newburgh. Acclaimed
Armenian-American pianist Karine Poghosyan performed Tchaikovsky’s
(1840-1893) popular Concerto for Piano No. 1 in B-flat minor. The
other enduringly popular crowd-pleaser to be performed was Bruckner’s
magnificent Symphony No. 4 in E-flat major, “Romantic.”

Poghosyan during the performance.

Concerto for Piano No. 1 in B-flat minor, Opus 23 is very likely the
most beloved work in its category ever set before the public. When
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893) composed it, he could not have
dreamed it would have its premiere in America, where he was then
entirely unknown. But it did, and Hans von Bulow triumphed with the
work in its 1875 Boston premiere. That enthusiasm has been sustained
ever since-for more than 130 years. Listeners of sufficient antiquity
will remember that the theme of the introduction flourished in the
early forties as a pop song, “Tonight We Love.” Poghosyan, with her
passionate musicality, was the perfect choice for the passionate
Tchaikovsky Concerto.

Karine Poghosyan Ms. Poghosyan’s music studies began in her native
Yerevan, Armenia and continued in the United States after her arrival
in 1998. She made her orchestral debut at 14 playing Beethoven’s
Piano Concerto No. 1 and her solo Carnegie Hall debut at 23. Karine is
the winner of a very long list of competitions. Recently, she helped
organize the “Requiem and Resurrection” concert in commemoration of the
95th Anniversary of the Armenian Genocide at the Saint Vartan Armenian
Cathedral in New York, where her performance of the Piano Sonata by
Khachaturian received a standing ovation. In addition to performing,
Ms. Poghosyan teaches at her alma mater, the Manhattan School of Music.

Austrian composer Anton Bruckner (1824-1896) was at his most individual
in his magnificent symphonies in spite of extensive revisions driven
more by external pressures than inner conviction.

Symphony No. 4 in E-flat major, “Romantic,” was his first great
success. Romantic, in this case, does not have the modern meaning
but refers to imaginative, unrestrained and mysterious or perhaps to
nostalgic reverie. According to the program, which Bruckner wasn’t all
that serious about, the beginning paints a medieval city at sunrise,
reveille sounding from the tower, gates opening, knights sallying forth
into the countryside on spirited horses surrounded by the magic of
nature, complete with forest murmurs and bird song. All this entails
brilliant spotlighting of the instruments, particularly the horns.

BAKU SEES TURKEY AS BETRAYER OF ITS INTERESTS, EXPERT SAYS

PanARMENIAN.Net
May 17, 2011 – 17:28 AMT

Richard Giragosian, the director of the Armenian Center for National
and International Studies (ACNIS) believes the danger of a new war
in Karabakh is high.

As the expert noted in a conversation with a PanARMENIAN.Net reporter,
there are two possible solutions to Karabakh issue – military and
diplomatic, yet none of those can be used. “Baku is purchasing
ammunition, establishing partnerships based on weapon supplies.

Azerbaijan-Turkey, relations, however, have cooled, as Baku believes
Turkey is betraying its interests,” Giragosian stressed.

“Baku sets no hopes on Iran currently engaged in its own problems:
internal political struggle and preparations for a possible U.S.
aggression caused by nuclear issues,” the expert noted, adding that
Baku won’t be allowed to start a war in foreseeable future.

ANDROID MARKET AVAILABLE IN ARMENIA

PanARMENIAN.Net
May 17, 2011 – 16:46 AMT

Orange Armenia has announced full availability of Android Market in
Armenia, offering its customers to use paid services, for example
buy applications on Android Market using VISA, MasterCard.

Orange offers in its shops a large variety of Android-based
smartphones, such as HTC, Samsung, Sony Ericsson, as well as Samsung
Galaxy Tab.

Orange Armenia, 100% subsidiary of France Telecom, launched its
mobile voice and internet services on November 5, 2009 throughout
the republic.