Author: Kajoyan Gevork

Decreased number of ceasefire violations by Azeris reported Oct 13-19

October 19, 2013 – 15:28 AMT

PanARMENIAN.Net – 180 ceasefire violations by the Azeri armed forces
were reported at the line of contact between Nagorno Karabakh and
Azerbaijan from Oct 13-19.

Azerbaijan fired over 800 shots from various caliber weapons towards
Karabakh positions, NKR defense army’s press service said. The defense
army continued with their military duty in line with ceasefire
principles, taking necessary measures to protect the frontline.

Over 14000 ceasefire violations by Azeri armed forces were reported at
the contact line in 2012.

Azerbaijan fired over 68700 shots from various caliber weapons towards
Karabakh positions, with intensified instances of ceasefire violations
reported during state holidays and special events.

914 ceasefire violations were registered in December 2012 when
Azerbaijan fired over 170 shots from sniper weapons, with 6 shots
fired from large-caliber sniper weapons.

About 1000 ceasefire violations by Azerbaijan were reported in
November, with 210 shots fired from sniper weapons.

The number of ceasefire violations by Azeris in October totaled 1050,
in September – 1185, in August – 1161 and over 1300 and 3750 in July
and June respectively.

Interfax, Russia
Oct 18 2013

NATO to carry on cooperation with Armenia in military reforms

YEREVAN. Oct 18

NATO is ready to broaden cooperation with Armenia, the NATO Secretary
General’s Special Representative for the Caucasus and Central Asia
James Appathurai told a press conference in Yerevan on Friday.

He said the alliance realized that Russia was a strategic partner of
Armenia and no one doubted that. But the alliance was ready to expand
cooperation and to continue assisting Armenia in its military reforms,
including the reform of military education, Appathurai said.

He also stressed the importance of a peaceful solution of the Karabakh conflict.

NATO supports the OSCE Minsk Group; it has partner relations with
Armenia and Azerbaijan and attaches importance to the peaceful
settlement of that conflict, Appathurai said.

Europe Starts Deporting Armenians

An Armenian young man Khachik Khachatryan and a gipsy woman of Kosovo
have been deported from France, and hundreds of students took to the
streets to protest. Interestingly, an Armenian and a gipsy become the
faces of the new European migration policy.

Armenia has not signed a readmission agreement with France according
to which France can deport illegal immigrants. Now they can deport
Armenians in case they break the law. Khachik was accused of stealing
and was deported.

The Armenian MFA has not reacted to this scandal. Moreover, Armenia
has signed the readmission agreement, and hundreds of illegal
immigrants could return to their home country.

Is Armenia ready for such a turn? After all, those who return will not
be silent like those who have stayed in Armenia. These people will put
forth claims to the government for both the past and the present.

It is interesting whether the Armenian would have been deported if
Serzh Sargsyan had not made the statement on September 3. The
Armenians will not be wanted in Europe, and evidence is that an
Armenian is deported, not an Arab. Without September 3 Russia’s new
migration policy would have had an Armenian face. Hrachya Harutiunyan
could be that face but Serzh Sargsyan and Azerbaijani Zeinalov saved
the Armenian community.

The issue of migration is becoming urgent, and the tendency of
cleansing is gradually becoming evident, division on ethnic, religious
and other grounds. Social and economic differences between countries
cause a flow of people from poor to rich countries. The process
culminates at some point when the newcomers make up a minority which
does not assimilate with the host society.

Every country whose people prefer emigrating to staying, working and
fighting in their home country must be ready for the return of a big
number of angry people. But first of all they must be ready to protect
their people abroad.

Naira Hayrumyan
19:15 19/10/2013
Story from Lragir.am News:

Krikor Sevag Mekhitarian wins chess tournament in Forquilhinha

13:47 19/10/2013 » SPORT

Armenian GM Krikor Sevag Mekhitarian (Brazil) had a new victory. After
the tournament in Mogi das Cruze, he won the open chess tournament
held in Forquilhinha, Brazil.

He suffered no defeat, scored 6 points out of 7 and finished first
among 46 participants, armchess.am said.

Source: Panorama.am

LA TURQUIE APPELEE A AMELIORER LE SORT DES MINEURS DANS SES PRISONS

TURQUIE

Les autorites turques sont appelees a ameliorer le traitement des
detenus mineurs dans plusieurs prisons, dans un rapport publie jeudi
au Conseil de l’Europe.

Des membres de son Comite pour la prevention de la torture et des
peines ou traitements inhumains ou degradants (CPT) avaient effectue
une visite a ce sujet en juin 2012 en Turquie.

Celle-ci avait ete “provoquee par des allegations recues plus tôt
concernant des mauvais traitements du personnel penitentiaire sur des
detenus mineurs et des violences entre mineurs a la prison de Pozanti”
(sud), selon leur rapport.

La delegation du CPT a confirme que “de nombreux mineurs auparavant
detenus a Pozanti” ont formule devant elle “des allegations coherentes
et credibles selon lesquelles ils auraient ete victimes dans cet
etablissement d’actes de violence frequents et graves de la part
de codetenus. En outre, de nombreux mineurs ont affirme avoir ete
maltraites physiquement par des surveillants penitentiaires a leur
arrivee a la prison de Pozanti”.

Les autorites turques ont fourni en reponse des informations concernant
des poursuites penales et enquetes administratives declenchees a ce
sujet contre des membres du personnel penitentiaire et des mineurs.

Le CPT a aussi recueilli “un nombre considerable d’allegations
coherentes et credibles de mauvais traitements physiques infliges
deliberement par des membres du personnel penitentiaire a des mineurs
detenus a la prison pour mineurs de Sincan”, près d’Ankara.

“De nombreuses allegations similaires ont egalement ete recueillies
auprès de mineurs a la prison de type E de Gaziantep” (sud-est),
deplore-t-il encore.

A celle de Maltepe (Istanbul), la delegation a recueilli “un
certain nombre d’allegations de recours excessif a la force par des
surveillants penitentiaires lors de leurs interventions pour mettre
un terme a la violence entre detenus”.

Le CPT se felicite qu’en revanche sa delegation n’ait recueilli
“quasiment aucune allegation de mauvais traitements physiques dont
auraient pu faire l’objet des mineurs a la prison de type E de
Diyarbakir” (sud-est).

Il indique aussi que “deux projets pilotes mis en oeuvre dans plusieurs
quartiers des prisons de Sincan et de Maltepe, afin d’ameliorer la
prise en charge et la reinsertion sociale des detenus mineurs, lui
ont fait dans l’ensemble bonne impression, (avec) pour resultat une
diminution notable du niveau de la violence entre detenus”.

Les autorites turques ont evoque en reponse “l’extension progressive
des deux projets pilotes a toutes les prisons pour mineurs” du pays.

La Turquie est membre du Conseil de l’Europe depuis sa creation, 1949.

samedi 19 octobre 2013, Stephane ©armenews.com

LA CHANTEUSE ARMENO-RUSSE EVA RIVAS VA SE MARIER

STARS-PEOPLE

Eva Rivas (26 ans) de son vrai nom Valeriya Reshetnikov-Tsaturyan,
nee a Rostov-sur-le-Don (Russie), chanteuse qui representa l’Armenie a
l’Eurovision 2010 où elle prit sous les couleurs de l’Armenie la 7ème
place avec sa chanson ” Apricot stone ” va se marier. Elle vient de
presenter sur un site la robe de mariee qu’elle s’est confectionnee
est qui est dit-elle ” a 1000% a mon goût “. Difficile de faire mieux
! Elle a egalement adresse a l’heureux elu un message d’amour. ” Chaque
seconde je pense a toi qui est loin de moi, tu es toujours dans ma
tete et j’attends ton retour ” dit-elle. De ce chanceux, on ne connait
rien. Eva Rivas desire cacher le nom de son futur mari jusqu’au bout !

Krikor Amirzayan

samedi 19 octobre 2013, Krikor Amirzayan ©armenews.com

KASPERSKY LAB CEO WARNS OF GROWING NUMBER OF CYBER THREATS

October 18, 2013 – 17:20 AMT

PanARMENIAN.Net – Yerevan is hosting a Week of Friendship with
Kaspersky Lab October 14 through 19, on the occasion of the 80th
anniversary of the State Engineering University.

Eugene Kaspersky, Chairman and CEO of Kaspersky Lab, who arrived
in Yerevan to participate in the events, attended the opening
of Kaspersky Lab Training and Certification Center at the State
Engineering University.

The Center will help bridge the gap between theoretical and practical
education. It also provides future IT security professionals with
the necessary knowledge of contemporary technologies, enabling them
to gain Kaspersky Lab certification while studying at the university.

At the event, Kaspersky welcomed the choice of Kaspersky Lab as
the main IT security provider and urged students to work harder
since they’ll have to face rigid exams to receive the Kaspersky Lab
education certificate.

Also, Kaspersky received an honorary doctorate from the State
Engineering University for his outstanding services to science.

Kaspersky and the company’s top IT security experts met representatives
of the education and the business community, as well as students from
local technical universities. They spoke about current cyber threats
in Armenia and the wider world and discussed ways to combat them.

“The number of cyber threats is constantly growing, so it is especially
important to train more experts who can combat them. The world’s
next generation of specialists needs more than just good knowledge
of the IT security field and strong practical skills – they also
need to be able to think one step ahead and come up with something
really new. I am glad to see that today’s students in Armenia are
interested in cyber security and are willing to improve and develop
in this area. And I’ll be doubly happy if Kaspersky Lab can help them
do that,” said Eugene Kaspersky.

Kaspersky Lab is the world’s largest privately held vendor of endpoint
protection solutions. The company is ranked among the world’s top
four vendors of security solutions for endpoint users. Throughout its
more than 16-year history Kaspersky Lab has remained an innovator
in IT security and provides effective digital security solutions
for large enterprises, SMBs and consumers. Kaspersky Lab, with its
holding company registered in the United Kingdom, currently operates
in almost 200 countries and territories across the globe, providing
protection for over 300 million users worldwide.

PARLIAMENTARY HEARINGS ON THE THEME “PARLIAMENTARY ETHICS: THE MP’S BEHAVIOR RULES”

17.10.2013

On October 17 the RA NA Standing Committee on State and Legal Affairs
jointly organized parliamentary hearings by the USAID-funded Support
Program to the Armenian National Assembly (SANAP) and the Organisation
for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) Yerevan Office on the
theme “Parliamentary Ethics: The MP’s Behavior Rules.”

The RA NA Vice President Hermine Naghdalyan, deputies, representatives
of the RA state bodies, local and international organizations, civil
society and experts were taking part in the hearings.

The Committee Chairman Davit Harutyunyan has informed the attendees
that during its activity the NA Committee on Ethics has received 21
applications, and 16 of them have been refused, all the materials
are posted on the NA website and are accessible for the public. Davit
Harutyunyan has introduced the functions and problems of the Committee
and noticed that problems have been emerged, which will be solved. He
expressed hope that the hearings would help to improve the legislation
of the sphere.

Rick Stapenhurst, a consultant/advisor to the governance/parliamentary
program and a Professor of Practice at McGill University’s Institute
for the Study of International Development of Canada delivered a
speech “The International Standards in the Sphere Parliamentary
Ethics and the General Tendencies of Development.” He has noticed
that during the last decades in the whole world the trust towards
the parliament decreases, except Sweden and Denmark. The reasons
are numerous: lack of democracy, change of value systems, increase
of education, etc, thus system changes are necessary to be made,
which will control the MPs’ behavior and will boost the rise of the
trust towards parliaments. According to the expert, it is necessary
to have a Behavior Code, where the MP’s behavior rules are affirmed
and in case of their violation the applying punitive measures, which
in different countries are very diverse.

John Lyon, the British expert on Parliamentary Ethics delivered a
report “The Main Principles of the Regulation: Some Issues of the
Practical Use of the Rules.” Sharing his experience and knowledge
during his activity he has said that in Great Britain, for example,
the Behavior Code is changed every 4-5 years. Its goal is to have a
strong, reliable parliament, raise the trust of the public towards
the parliament. It was noted that 6-7 countries have officially
approved Behavior Codes. The expert has noted that in the Commission
for Standards in Great Britain the cases, when the MP’s behavior
negatively reflects on the prestige of the parliament become a matter
of examination.

Armen Khudaverdyan, the member of the Ethics Commission of the RA High
Ranking Officials delivered a speech on the theme “The Declaration
of the Property and Incomes: the Practice and the Problems.”

An exchange of thoughts was conducted, and the participants presented
their recommendations and positions through their speeches and
questions.

Summing up the hearings Davit Harutyunyan noted that the hearings
went on in the atmosphere of concerned and effective debates,
recommendations were sounded, which would promote the improvement of
the legislative sphere.

BOOK PRESENTATION IN THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY

17.10.2013

On October 17 in the RA National Assembly the presentation of the book
“Armenia: Path of Millennia” by the member of the Federal Council of
the RF Federal Assembly Rafayil Zinurov was conducted.

The NA Vice President Eduard Shahnazarov presented the author and his
work to the presentation guests. He noted that Rafayil Zinurov with
historian’s skill and thoroughness has presented the History of the
Armenian People from the ancient times until our days being a lawyer.

The author is Bashkir by his origin, however the book “Armenia: Path
of Millennia” was born from big love towards the Armenian people. Mr
Sharmazanov highlighted the fact that for the creation of his book the
author made use of the works by Movses Khorenatsi, Koryun, Yeghishe,
Movses Kaghankatvatsi.

Presenting the author the Director of the RA NAS Institute of History
Ashot Melkonyan has noted that he has written the introduction of the
book and he thinks that Rafayil Zinurov is one of the best friends
of the Armenian people, the greatest connoisseur of the History of
the Armneian People and the propagator of the Armenian civilization.

The member of the Federal Council of the RF Federal Assembly Rafayil
Zinurov talked in Armenian about his book, noting that it had been a
great honour for him to write and speak about the Armenian people. In
his word, the book which is written in verse is a gift to the Armenian
people as a sign of love. He has said that the Mountain Ararat and
the Armenian people are synonyms.

The guests has noted that Rafayil Zinurov’s book has received a great
response in the Russian Federation, and has been discussed by the
intellectuals, historians and journalists.

ARMENIA’S PM POINTS ON NEGATIVE AFTERMATH OF NOT JOINING CUSTOMS UNION

14:42, 18 October, 2013

YEREVAN, OCTOBER 18, ARMENPRESS. Joining the Customs Union will
enable Armenia to establish strategic relations with Russia on a more
fundamental platform. The Prime Minister of the Republic of Armenia
Tigran Sargsyan stated this at the course of the meeting with the
participants of international media-forum held in Yerevan on October
17-20 under the slogan “On the Foot of Ararat”.

As reports “Armenpress” among other things the Prime Minister of
the Republic of Armenia Tigran Sargsyan underscored: “It enables us
to get rid of a number of limitations, which may arise, if Armenia
stays out of the Customs Union. Recently intensive procedures are
ongoing within the framework of the Customs Union and it will course
new limitations between the Russian and Armenian economic entities,
if we are not integrated to the Customs Union.

We cannot afford ourselves such a luxury.”

In the result of the negotiations on September 3, 2013 in Moscow
the Presidents Sargsyan and Putin confirmed the aim of the Republic
of Armenia and the Russian Federation in the direction of further
development of economic integration processes in the Eurasian
territory. In that context the President of the Republic of Armenia
Serzh Sargsyan announced about the Armenia’s decision to join the
Customs Union and the necessity of implementation corresponding steps
for that aim and in future about participating in formation of the
Eurasian economic union. The President of the Russian Federation
Vladimir Putin expressed his support to the abovementioned decision
of Armenia and informed about the readiness of the Russian side to
support the process.