Author: Kajoyan Gevork

EGLISE ARMENIENNE
Le Catholicos Karékine II inaugure l’église Sourp Hovhannés de Bert
dans la région du Tavouche

Dimanche 14 septembre à l’occasion de la fête du >, le
Catholicos Karékine II a inauguré l’église Sourp Hovhannés (Saint
Jean) de la ville de Bert dans la région du Tavouche. La première
pierre de cette église de Bert avait été posée le 20 mai 2012. Une
église dont l’architecte et Ardak Ghoulian et le bienfaiteur est John
Stevens (Fresno, Etats-Unis). La construction fut assurée par la
société >. Le Catholicos Karékine II accompagné de nombre
de représentants de l’Eglise arménienne dont l’archevêque de Tavouche,
Mgr Yéznig Bedrossian, ont béni les 16 colonnes qui portent la
construction. La première messe inaugurale fut alors prononcée.

Krikor Amirzayan

samedi 20 septembre 2014,
Krikor Amirzayan (c)armenews.com

ARMENIE-ECONOMIE
Une société de fabrication de verre va créer une nouvelle usine avec 100 emplois

La société > spécialisée dans la production de
verre va créer en Arménie une nouvelle entité de fabrication avec 100
emplois qui seront crées. Annonce effectuée le 18 septembre à Erévan
par Karen Djshmaridian, le ministre arménien de l’Economie. Selon ce
dernier la société qui sera exonérée durant trois ans de nombre de
taxes et charges, investira 1,74 milliard de drams (4,3 millions de
dollars) en trois ans. Le salaire moyen de chaque salarié sera
d’environ 200 000 drams ce qui est très correct. L’usine sera
construite au village d’Arzni dans la région de Kodaïk. La moitié de
la production de verre sera exporté vers les Etats-Unis, le Belarus et
la Géorgie. L’autre moitié étant pour le marché arménien.

Krikor Amirzayan

samedi 20 septembre 2014,
Krikor Amirzayan (c)armenews.com

EGLISE ARMENIENNE
Aram Ier exige le retour du Catholicosat de Sis (Cilicie) par la Turquie

Annonce inattendu vendredi 19 septembre à Erévan lors de la 5ème
conférence Arménie-Diaspora. Le Catholicos Aram Ier de la Grande
Maison de Cilicie a annoncé qu’il demanderait au Tribunal
constitutionnel de Turquie, de rendre le siège et les domaines
confisqués du catholicosat arménien de Sis (Cilicie).

PRESS RELEASE
National Association for Armenian Studies and Research
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Clark University and Worcester State University to Host
`Manufacturing Denial and the Assault on Scholarship and Truth’

The conference `Manufacturing Denial and the Assault on Scholarship
and Truth’ will take place on Friday and Saturday, October 24-25,
2014, at Worcester State University and Clark University in Worcester.
The conference is co-sponsored and organized by the Strassler Center
for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Clark University; the Robert
Aram and Marianne Kaloosdian and Stephen and Marion Mugar Chair at the
Strassler Center; the Armenian Genocide Program at the Center for the
Study of Genocide and Human Rights at Rutgers University; the National
Association for Armenian Studies and Research; and Worcester State
University (Office of Diversity, Inclusion, and Equal Opportunity, and
other departments and offices).

The academic conference represents the first time that social
scientists and natural scientists will meet to analyze the analogous
and interrelated, though not always identical, phenomena of genocide
denial – of the Armenian Genocide, Holocaust, Rwandan, and other cases
– and the denial of scientific truth – from evolution to climate
change.

Since the 1980s, genocide denial, particularly of the Holocaust and
the Armenian Genocide, has generated a substantial body of literature
analyzing and documenting the methods and rhetoric of those who seek
to negate or obscure documented cases of mass violence. More
recently, an impressive amount of literature has explored the ways in
which various industries and political operatives have used the
strategy of `manufacturing doubt’ to undermine the scientific
consensus on smoking, pollution, evolution, and global warming.
Nonetheless, the corruption and co-opting of scholarship for the
purposes of fomenting denial continues.

The conference will open at Worcester State University’s Ghosh
Auditorium on Friday, October 24, at 7:00 p.m., with a keynote address
by Prof. Brendan J. Nyhan, professor in the Department of Government
at Dartmouth College, entitled `The Challenge of Denial: Why People
Refuse to Accept Unwelcome Facts,’ and a response by Prof. Henry
Theriault, chairman of the Department of Philosophy at Worcester State
University. Khatchig Mouradian, Ph.D. candidate at Clark’s Strassler
Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies and Coordinator of the
Armenian Genocide Program at the CGHR at Rutgers University, will
offer welcoming remarks. This event is open to the general public.

On Saturday, April 25, beginning at 8:30 a.m., there will be four
two-hour sessions held at Clark University. These sessions are
primarily for conference participants but a limited number of seats
are available to the public by reservation only.

Session 1, `Modern Strategies and Rhetoric of Denial,’ will be chaired
by Dr. Lou Ann Matossian (independent scholar) and will include
presentations by Marc A. Mamigonian (National Association for Armenian
Studies and Research), Sara Brown (Clark University), and Shawn Olson
(Utah State University).

Session 2, chaired by Dr. Taner Akçam (Clark University), will examine
`The Political Uses of Denial.’ Participating in the session will be
Dr. Jennifer Dixon (Villanova University), Dr. Alex Hinton (Rutgers
University), and Dr. Mark Gottleib (Northeastern University).

Session 3 will take up the question `Countering Denial: How and When?’
with Dr. Dikran Kaligian (Worcester State University) as chairman.
The panelists will be Dr. Keith Watenpaugh (University of California,
Davis), Dr.

Ken Maclean (Clark University), and Emma Bloomfield (University of
Southern California).

The conference will conclude with a summing up panel featuring
Dr. Debórah Dwork (Clark University), Dr. Richard G. Hovannisian
(University of California, Los Angeles), and Dr. Massimo Pigliucci
(City University of New York-Lehman College), followed by open
discussion.

For more information, please contact Sarah Cushman, Strassler Center
Academic Program Liaison Officer, at 508-793-7764 or
[email protected].

INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY NEVER RESPONDED TO DESTRUCTION OF ARMENIAN CULTURAL HERITAGE IN AZERBAIJAN – SERZH SARGSYAN

13:16 * 19.09.14

Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan has arrived in Vatican for an
official visit.

Armenia’s leader participated in the opening of the photo exhibition
“Parables of the Orient. Christianity and the Challenge of the New
Millennium” at the Vittoriano Museum Complex in Rome.

Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan made a speech at the opening of
the exhibition. He particularly dwelt on the destruction of Armenian
cultural monuments in Nakhijevan and throughout Azerbaijan.

Armenia’s leader noted that the international community has never
adequately responded to Azerbaijan’s actions.

“Recently we could see consistent destruction of medieval Armenian
khachkars in Jugha – records of culture and faith. The destruction of
the centuries-old cemetery in Jugha, which dates back to the 9th-16th
centuries, was a manifestation of the policy of complete eradication
of Armenian cultural heritage in Nakhijevan and Azerbaijan over the
past two decades. And the international community has never adequately
responded to that.”

ARMENIA’S SARGSYAN ATTENDS PHOTO EXHIBITION ABOUT MIDDLE EAST CHRISTIANS IN ROME

YEREVAN, September 19. /ARKA/. Armenia’s president Serzh Sargsyan who
is in Vatikan on official visit has attended the opening of the photo
exhibition entitled “Parables of the Orient. The Christianity and the
Challenge of the New Millennium” held in Vittoriano museum complex,
the presidential press office reported.

The exhibition aims at focusing the attention of the global community
on the protection of the rich architectural and artistic legacy that,
from centuries, represents a fundamental part of the Christian culture.

The exhibition includes photographs from nine Middle-East countries,
as well as a documentary about destruction of Armenian cross-stones
in Jugha, Azerbaijan.

“I was carefully and silently considering every item at this unique
exhibition, and I am still under impression. If not the honor to
take the floor, I may have kept silence for long like those photos
had. In speaking about the exhibition, our ambassador called it a
“mute outcry” telling about the blows that the Christianity suffered
and is still suffering in its cradle, the Middle East”, Sargsyan said.

Sargsyan said genocides, xenophobia and barbarian destruction of
cultural heritage that is not condemned, clearly and unambiguously,
leads to new crimes. There are lots of examples and one of them is
purposeful destruction of Armenian cross-stones in Jugha and uprooting
of the Armenian Christian cultural heritage across Nakhichevan and
Azerbaijan over the last 20 years, Sargsyan said.

The centennial of the Armenian genocide will be observed next year, but
it has not been adequately condemned yet, the Armenian president said.

According to the president, the power of the religion should be used
to reach peace and tolerance all over the world.

The photo exhibition was initiated by the Armenian Embassy to the Holy
See as part of a friendship festival in Rome and will travel also to
other European cities. In their talks Armenian ambassador to the Holy
See Mickael Minasyan, head of San Egidio community Marco Impaliacco
and chairman of the Pontifical Council for Culture Janfranco Ravazi
spoke about the current status of Christians in the Middle East and
need for protection of social and cultural legacy there.

Sargsyan has also visited San-Bartolomeo church and paid tribute to
Christian martyrs, including victims of the Armenian genocide.

On the same day the Christian community of San Egidio gave a dinner
in the honor of the Armenian president. -0–

POPE FRANCIS TO VISIT ARMENIA IN 2015

11:34, 19 September, 2014

YEREVAN, SEPTEMBER 19, ARMENPRESS. The Armenian Apostolic Church
will introduce a number of significant initiatives along with the
sister churches on the 100th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide in
Etchmiadzin and worldwide. “Armenpress” News Agency had a conversation
regarding this and the upcoming event with His Eminence Archbishop
Hovnan Derderian, the Primate of the Western Diocese of the Armenian
Church of North America. “The row of events dedicated to the 100th
anniversary of the Armenian Genocide is vast and comprehensive. But
the most noteworthy and significant from the historical viewpoint
is the ceremony of canonization of the Armenian Genocide victims,
which will be held in Holy Etchmiadzin on April 23.

This ceremony is of a certain importance, as the heads of our sister
churches and other religious institutions have been invited to the
event,” Archbishop Hovnan Derderian noted.

Among other things, His Eminence Archbishop Hovnan Derderian, the
Primate of the Western Diocese of the Armenian Church of North America,
underscored: “The visit of the Pope of Rome to Armenia is also of a
great importance, as we all are aware that the whole world will react
at this event.”

The fact of the Armenian Genocide by the Ottoman government has
been documented, recognized, and affirmed in the form of media
and eyewitness reports, laws, resolutions, and statements by many
states and international organizations. The complete catalogue
of all documents categorizing the 1915 wholesale massacre of the
Armenian population in Ottoman Empire as a premeditated and thoroughly
executed act of genocide, is extensive. Uruguay was the first country
to officially recognize the Armenian Genocide in 1965. The massacres
of the Armenian people were officially condemned and recognized as
genocide in accordance with the international law by France, Germany,
Italy, Belgium, Netherlands, Switzerland, Sweden, Russia, Poland,
Lithuania, Greece, Slovakia, Cyprus, Lebanon, Uruguay, Argentina,
Venezuela, Chile, Canada, Vatican and Australia.

PRESIDENT: AZERBAIJAN’S DEMOLITION OF ARMENIAN CULTURAL AND HISTORICAL MONUMENTS HAS NOT RECEIVED APPROPRIATE RESPONSE OF INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY

by Ashot Safaryan

ARMINFO
Friday, September 19, 11:28

Azerbaijan’s demolition of Armenian cultural and historical monuments
has received no appropriate response of the international community,
Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan said at an exhibition in Vatican.

“One thing is clear – the xenophobia, racism, genocide, demolition of
cultural heritage, which have not been harshly assessed or condemned
in due time, lead to occurrence of new similar crimes. There are
numerous examples. At the exhibition we have just seen the facts
confirming the demolition of the Armenian medieval cemetery in Jugha.

The cemetery had thousands of unique khachkars (cross-stones) of
IX-XVI centuries. In late XX century the Azeri vandals destroyed that
rare cultural site within some 20 years. Meanwhile, this fact has not
been properly assessed by the world community, but numerous people
have realized that they can easily destroy the centuries-old cultural
heritage of an entire nation with pickaxes and remain unpunished. No
wonder that similar cases now occur in Syria, Iraq and other places”,
said Sargsyan.

In the meantime, he pointed out opposite examples as well. “For
instance, Lebanon gives shelter and protects millions of Christians”,
he said. Sargsyan also stressed the need to stop the dictator, who
enslaves his own people and is out for blood of his neighbors.

Otherwise, it will be impossible to prevent re-occurrence of the
crimes of the past, Sargsyan added.

REFERENDUM ECOSSAIS : LE VOTE EN ECOSSE SUR L’INDEPENDANCE VA DEFINIR UN NOUVEAU PRECEDENT POUR L’AUTODETERMINATION

ARMENIE

Le referendum du 18 Septembre sur l’independance en Ecosse est
surveille de près bien au-dela du pays car les resultats peuvent avoir
une influence significative sur de nombreuses affaires regionales
dans un monde parseme de mouvements pour l’autodetermination.

Le Haut-Karabagh est juste l’une des regions du monde où les gens ont
longtemps prône le droit a l’autodetermination, a la recherche d’une
reconnaissance officielle de leur statut de pays independant. Après la
tenue d’un referendum en 1991, le Haut-Karabagh a dû se battre pendant
plus de deux ans afin de remporter de facto sa souverainete face a
l’Azerbaïdjan sur le champ de bataille. Mais plus de deux decennies
après la creation de sa vie comme une entite independante le pays doit
faire valoir ses droits en tant que tels sur la scène internationale.

Pour certains, le referendum sur l’independance ecossaise va
devenir un nouveau jalon pour les peuples a travers le monde, y
compris pour le peuple du Haut-Karabagh, a faire valoir leur droit a
l’autodetermination a l’echelle internationale. D’autres, cependant,
citent les particularites du vote en Ecosse et font valoir qu’il ne
peut pas etre considere comme un evenement qui pourrait avoir un impact
significatif sur les conflits sur les droits a l’autodetermination
dans le reste du monde.

Le resultat du referendum en Ecosse est difficilement previsible
car les sondages d’opinion montrent que le nombre de partisans et
adversaires de l’independance sont presque divise en deux. Mais de
toute facon le Royaume-Uni va gagner – si l’Ecosse vote pour continuer
a faire partie du Royaume, cela signifie que la Grande-Bretagne va
preserver son integrite territoriale par la volonte des Ecossais,
si les Ecossais votent pour la secession, le Royaume-Uni va obtenir
l’image du pays le plus democratique du monde où tout est decide par
la volonte du peuple.

Mais de nombreux observateurs disent que le referendum en Ecosse,
en tout cas pourrait devenir le detonateur de certains processus
mondiaux. En Novembre, la Catalogne, une province en Espagne, va tenir
un referendum sur l’independance contre la volonte du gouvernement
central de Madrid. Les experts estiment qu’il y a plus de 10 regions
d’Europe où les gens peuvent egalement souhaiter decider de leur futur
statut par voie de referendum. L’Ecosse peut devenir un precedent
d’une secession pacifique d’un pays et cela aura aussi son influence
sur le règlement du conflit du Karabagh.

Le referendum de 1991 du Karabagh n’a pas ete reconnu par Bakou et
la communaute internationale. Maintenant les mediateurs en charge
de trouver une solution au conflit prolonge suggèrent la tenue d’un
nouveau referendum dans le cadre de l’accord de règlement. Cependant,
au Karabagh et en Armenie, les gens croient que les resultats du
referendum deja tenu devraient etre reconnus a la place. Ils disent
qu’a la difference en Ecosse, il y a eu et il y a encore un consensus
en ce qui concerne le droit a l’autodetermination du Karabagh.

Le referendum en Ecosse sera suivi de près aussi en Russie, qui a
un differend avec l’Ukraine sur la Crimee, une peninsule ukrainienne
qui a tenu un referendum non reconnu en Mars pour rejoindre la Russie.

Ainsi, le precedent en Ecosse peut donner aux autorites russes un
argument puissant en faveur de la reconnaissance internationale des
resultats du referendum, et non seulement en Crimee.

Il y a aussi un litige similaire en Ukraine orientale sur des partis du
territoire où les separatistes pro-russes ont proclame des republiques
dites populaires ou Novorossia (Nouvelle Russie). Les referendums
qui ont eu lieu dans les regions de Donetsk et Lougansk en Ukraine
n’ont pas encore ete reconnues meme par la Russie, mais si elle le
juge approprie, elles pourraient l’etre pour rester dans les memoires
comme la volonte primordiale du peuple.

En ce sens, le referendum en Ecosse deviendra un precedent historique –
il est l’un des rares procedes pacifiques de secession. Et bien qu’il
y ait aussi une histoire de separatisme ecossais, le gouvernement
central a Londres n’a pas recouru a des methodes de pression. Après le
referendum pacifique en Ecosse, Madrid perdra le droit moral d’utiliser
la force en Catalogne ou de ne pas accepter le resultat du referendum.

Un referendum pacifique permettra au Royaume-Uni et en Ecosse, dans
le cas de la secession de ce dernier, de maintenir une communication
normale et eviter la confrontation. Dans de nombreux autres cas, des
referendums finissent dans les conflits, la rupture des relations et
dans le cas du Karabagh dans la segregation ethnique. L’Azerbaïdjan
refuse de delivrer des visas d’entree, meme pour les personnes ayant
un nom armenien.

L’Ecosse est souvent appele l’avant-dernier eclat de l’Empire
britannique (Irlande du Nord est encore considere comme l’ultime).

Cependant, les analystes internationaux parlent aussi de la
construction d’un empire d’un nouveau type de la part de la
Grande-Bretagne aujourd’hui – un empire de système energetique
commun et des systèmes financiers où les entites ne sont pas des pays
distincts, mais les societes. En ce sens, l’integrite territoriale
n’a qu’un sens que secondaire.

La Russie, quant a elle, adhère a la vieille philosophie imperiale de
la collecte de terres. Il est important pour Moscou d’avoir autant
de domaines que possible que de territoire contrôle par lui et cela
est contraire a la philosophie du nouvel ordre mondial. La nouvelle
philosophie sera de redefinir la notion meme d’integrite territoriale.

Et c’est alors, peut-etre, que les differends territoriaux seront
finalement resolus.

Par Naira Hayrumyan

ArmeniaNow

jeudi 18 septembre 2014, Stephane (c)armenews.com

SHAVARSH KOTCHARIAN REPOND A CAVUSOGLU : LA TURQUIE CONTINUE LA NEGATION DE FAITS HISTORIQUES

ARMENIE

Dans une interview avec la television publique d’Armenie, le
vice-ministre des affaires etrangères Shavarsh Kotcharian a fait
des observations sur la declaration du ministre turc des Affaires
etrangères Mevlut Cavusoglu nouvellement nomme.

le Chef de la diplomatie de la Turquie reprochait a l’Armenie ses
relations instables avec la Turquie, affirmant que l’Armenie n’a meme
pas repondu a la lettre du Premier ministre turc datant de 2005.

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jeudi 18 septembre 2014, Stephane (c)armenews.com