Author: Kajoyan Gevork

SOURCE: MUNICIPALITY OF YEREVAN CURRENTLY DISCUSSES ISSUE OF RESIGNATION OF ALL DEPUTY MAYORS AND ADVISORS TO MAYOR TARON MARGARYAN
by Nana Martirosyan

Friday, July 26, 15:31

At the moment the Municipality of Yerevan is holding an emergency
meeting.

ArmInfo’s source in the Municipality says that the meeting covers
the issue of resignation of all deputy mayors and advisors to Mayor
Taron Margaryan.

Earlier on Friday, ArmInfo reported with reference to the same
source that Head of the Municipality’s Transport Department
Henrik Navasardyan, Head of the Public Relations Department Artur
Gevorgyan, as well as Head of Yerevantrans Misak Hambardzumyan sent
in their resignation on Thursday. Maria Baragamyan, employee at the
Municipality’s Tourism Department, will replace Artur Gevorgyan. The
Municipality will officially announce their resignation later.

The resignations are conditioned by the situation that arose following
the mayor’s decision to raise the public transport fare. Despite Taron
Margaryan’s July 25 statement about suspension of the decision on
public transport fare rise, the Let’s Pay 100 AMD movement participants
have organized an action of protest in front of the Municipality of
Yerevan. They demand that the decision on the public transport fare
rise should be cancelled, not suspended. In addition, they demand
resignation of Head of the Municipality’s Transport Department
Henrik Navasardyan and Head of Yerevantrans Misak Hambardzumyan. The
protesters also demand improving the quality of transport services and
reducing the fare to 50 AMD within the next 7 days so as to compensate
for the Yerevan residents’ expenses over the past few days, because
the fare was raised illegally.

ACTIVISTS HOLD PROTEST IN FRONT OF YEREVAN MUNICIPALITY

14:35 26/07/2013 ” SOCIETY

A group of activists are holding a protest in front of Yerevan
Municipality. The protesters demand the resignation of those officials
who are responsible for the increase of the public transport fares,
a Panorama.am correspondent reports.

We must note that Yerevan Mayor Taron Margaryan temporarily suspended
the decision on the increase of the public transport fares yesterday.

Source: Panorama.am

SOUTH CAUCASUS RAILWAY OFFERING NEW SERVICES TO ITS “ARMENIA” TRAIN PASSENGERS

YEREVAN, July 26. /ARKA/

The South Caucasus Railway, together with VivaCell-MTS mobile
operator, is offering a new service to passengers of its “Armenia”
Yerevan-Batumi-Yerevan brand train.

Now night coach passengers will get a free SIM cards with roaming
service activated. The “call to Armenia” service will cost 55 drams
per minute only.

The high comfort carriages and night coaches of the train have also
free Wi-Fi. The company continues making efforts to enhance the level
of comfort and service in its trains. South Caucasus Railway cjsc is
a 100% subsidiary of Russian Railways open joint stock company that
is operating Armenian railways under a 30-year concession contract
signed in 2008. The contract can be extended for another 10 years. -0–

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APA, Azerbaijan
July 27 2013

Yusif Halacoglu: `Armenians aim to continue the occupation of Karabakh
by demanding lands and compensation from Turkey’

[ 27 July 2013 15:04 ]

`Turkey and Azerbaijan should unite more closely and take joint steps
against open and secret plans’

Istanbul. Mayis Alizadeh – APA. `Turkish ethnos should be dominant in
the Middle East and Caucasus,” Kayseri Member of Parliament from
Turkey’s Nationalist Movement Party, professor Yusif Halacoglu told
APA’s Turkey bureau.

Answering APA’s question `The processes taking place in northern
Syria create the possibility of the emergence of new political
structures in the region. In parallel with the processes Armenia is
making territorial claims on Turkey more frequently. How do you assess
ongoing events?’ MP Yusif Halacoglu said: `Ongoing processes in the
region are the manifestation of the intent to implement some of
doctrines adopted in the past. As you know, in the 1930s, the British,
French and Italians held secret meetings and adopted doctrines to
establish the Armenian-Kurdish alliance in the region in the future.
In fact, a significant part of the population changed their ethnic
origin after Dersim rebellion in the region and they are trying to
divide Turkey by terrorist acts today. This is the reason of the
territorial claims made by Armenia along with processes taking place
in the north of Iraq and Syria. The main goal is to break up Turkey by
distracting the country’s attention on several fronts and demand land
and compensation. Armenia also aims to continue the occupation of
Karabakh by these demands. All processes aim to weaken Turkey and
Azerbaijan. Therefore, Turkey and Azerbaijan should unite more closely
and take joint steps against open and secret plans at this stage. The
Middle East and Caucasus should be ruled by Turkey which is the
dominant ethnos of the region, otherwise it will be impossible to
achieve stability and prosperity in the region.’

Armenian Diaspora declared Yusuf Halacoglu – president of the Turkish
Historical Society in 1993-2008, as a `man undermining normalization
of relations between Turkey and Armenia’ due to his fight against the
Armenian claims against Turkey on the so-called “genocide” with
archival documents and he was dismissed in June 2008. Professor Yusuf
Halacoglu elected as a Kayseri Member of Parliament from the
Nationalist Movement Party on June 12, 2011 continues to fight against
“Armenian genocide” claims in the international arena.

Levon Ananyan re-elected as President of Writer’s Union of Armenia

14:51, 27 July, 2013

YEREVAN, JULY 27, ARMENPRESS: In the 16th special session of Writers’
Union of Armenia Levon Ananyan was re-elected unanimously as a
President of the Union. `Armenpress’ reports that he was the only
candidate. `It is not important whether I will be elected or not, the
works which have been done and will be done are important. During
previous four years Writers’ Union of Armenia did a large-scale work,
many books have been published and translated, Armenian writers
participated in competitions and were awarded with monetary awards,
`New book’ store was opened, and soon `Meeting’ literary cafe will
operate where meetings with writers will take place,’ said Levon
Ananyan. The work of previous four years was estimated as satisfactory.
Levon Ananyan’s colleagues expressed their satisfaction on occasion
of his re-election. Writer Seyranuhi Geghamyan mentioned that the true
word of writer has always been heard in our lives. `He paid attention
to all good and valuable works. His literary heritage also was paid
with attention,’ stressed the writer.

Writers’ Union of Armenia was founded in parallel with USSR writers’
Union. Its first session took place in 1934. Leveon Ananyan holds his
office since 2001.

Azg: Azeri sabotage attempts prevented

13:28 27/07/2013 » DAILY PRESS

Azerbaijan – through subversive groups – tries to maintain a tense
situation at the border, NKR Defense Minister Movses Hakobyan was
quoted as saying by Azg newspaper.

`The number of provocations has decreased this year. Two sabotage
attempts were prevented, with the enemy thrown back. The number of
shots has decreased by 2,000,’ he said.

According to him, in response to actions of Azerbaijani snipers, the
Armenian side caused major losses to the enemy who `has not yet
overcome the stress.’

`Azerbaijan has no possibility to start a war and win it. The fact of
that country’s armament is worrying, and we are working in that
direction,’ Mr Hakobyan said.

He also said that a new system of military duty has been introduced,
with servicemen now given 4 hours rest instead of previous 2 hours.

Source: Panorama.am

MOODY’S EXPERTS IN ARMENIA FOR REVIEW OF SOVEREIGN RATINGS

YEREVAN, July 26. /ARKA/. Experts of Moody`s Investors Service are
currently in Armenia for a regular review of the country’s sovereign
ratings.

Thursday the experts Eliza Parissi Capone and Lucy Villa were received
by Armenia’s minister of agriculture Sergo Karapetyan who briefed them
on key indicators and trends in the field and priority directions in
food safety.

The minister also touched upon introduction of new technologies in
transferring to industrial agriculture. -0–

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ANI KOCHAR. “TARON MARGARYAN WAS SIMPLY DISCREDITED AND HIS REPUTATION WAS RUINED” (VIDEO)

[ Part 2.2: “Attached Text” ]

July 25 2013

While talking about the increase in the transport fare, many draw
parallels with the campaign against the Mayor of Yerevan Taron
Margaryan. There are opinions voiced that the authorities are trying to
make Taron Margaryan a scapegoat. In a conversation with Aravot.am, Ani
Kochar, founder of “Yes” magazine included in the list of council of
“Hello Yerevan” union, said that she feels sorry for Taron Margaryan,
and to our question of whether she really believes that people are
trying to make T. Margaryan a scapegoat, so answered, – “I don’t have
anything personal neither against Taron Margaryan, nor anyone. He
entered politics as a very positive and bright character. People
believed in him, he was attributed things that he had not yet done,
or had done, but they were not so positive.

But people of Yerevan in every way wanted to see a good thing in
everything he does, in which his name had also a big role.”

Referring to ‘current Taron Margaryan’s’ character, A. Kochar said,-
“Today, I can not miss seeing the fact that this young politician
was simply discredited and his reputation was ruined.

Taron Margaryan of that time, whom people perceived and saw, and Taron
of current days, are not the same. People as a collective character,
like to create idols in one day and overthrow those idols.

The authorities and outstanding figures of the authority do not like
it when there are a lot more positive, respected and authoritative
figures beside them, and thus undermining want to make sure that
everyone is on the same plane. In this case, I am very sorry for
Taron Margaryan that he, yes, somehow became a scapegoat. Perhaps
he as a person being in the focus of this development is still hot,
and does not realize what is going on around him and does not perceive
its own people and enemies. I do not speak against him, I do not speak
against his policy. I would be very happy that the positive character
that people had created for themselves would see, and with Taron
Margaryan’s deeds we see the Mayor whom people really wanted to see.” 

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CIVIL ACTIVISTS CELEBRATING VICTORY, REMAIN WARY OF FURTHER SNAGS AS MAYOR SUSPENDS DECISION ON BUS FARE HIKE – VIDEO

SOCIETY | 26.07.13 | 10:25

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By SIRANUYSH GEVORGYAN
ArmeniaNow reporter

As civil activists and ordinary people celebrated yesterday’s
announcement by Mayor Taron Margaryan that the rise in bus fares
would be suspended, many also realized that it is just a temporary
respite and more efforts are still needed to complete what has been
described as another civil society victory in Armenia.

“Mayor Taron Margaryan simply announced the suspension and not
cancellation of his two decisions of July 19, 2013. It means that
the two mentioned decisions may become valid again when the wave of
public protest subsides and the commission to be set up finds that
the ‘frozen’ decisions should be revitalized,” said Stepan Safaryan,
a member of the Yerevan Council of Elders with the opposition Hello
Yerevan faction.

Safaryan said that a group of their lawyers would continue to work
in this direction, and he did not exclude the possibility that these
‘frozen’ decisions will be disputed in court.

In an address to the public on Thursday Mayor Margaryan, in fact,
bowed to pressure from civil activists, who have been demonstrating
against bus fare hikes for days. He said that while the decision
remained suspended a commission of specialists will be set up to work
on mechanisms to ensure that the socially vulnerable groups of the
population are not affected.

Still, the mayor described the unpopular measure as beneficial for
the city and its transport system in the long term.

He said that increasing the public transport fare from 100 drams
(about 25 cents) to 150 drams is the price that has to be paid. “We
simply have no alternative,” he underscored.

After the announcement of the suspension of the decision many young
men and women in Yerevan again took to the streets but this time to
celebrate their victory. Armenian users of Facebook and other online
social networks were also celebrating the success of the movement that
was dubbed ‘100 Drams’ congratulating each other by sharing posts,
photographs and videos of memorable moments.

Meanwhile, lawyer Vahe Grigoryan said that what the mayor did was
simply avoiding responsibility. Had he canceled his decision instead
of suspending it he and all persons who enforced its application
would have had to take the consequences for it, he said.

“This decision must be invalidated, if not by him then by court. The
rest is just empty talk. The only way to finish this case is to achieve
the invalidation of this decision and to bring those who made it and
enforced it to account,” said the well-known lawyer.

Members of the ‘We Pay 100 Dram’ civil initiative plan to gather near
the municipality building later today to make their demands to the
mayor regarding transportation system reforms, including the demand
that his controversial decision to raise bus fares be invalidated
rather than just suspended.

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anatolienne de presse. Hrant Dink, militant de la reconnaissance du
genocide armenien de 1915, dirigeait l’hebdomadaire Agos, publication
bilingue en turc et en armenien. Il a ete abattu en plein jour alors
qu’il quittait son bureau a Istanbul.”

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Assaut de rebelles du Darfour dans le centre du Soudan Des rebelles
originaire du Darfour ont lance mercredi une attaque dans l’Etat
soudanais du Kordofan du Nord, une region touchee par les affrontements
depuis avril, a-t-on appris auprès de combatants et de temoins.

Forte baisse du tourisme en Turquie durant les troubles de juin Les
manifestations de juin en Turquie ont fortement pese sur l’industrie
touristique, avec un plus bas de sept mois pour le nombre de visiteurs
etrangers, mais les stations balneaires ont ete moins gravement
affectees.

Syrie : combats entre commandos de l’opposition et milices kurdes
Le ministère russe des AE a qualifie de provocations sanglantes les
operations des commandos de l’opposition syrienne contre les civils
kurdes dans le Nord-Est du pays où se deroulent pendant la troisième
journee consecutive des combats entre les extremistes et les milices
populaires kurdes.

Le representant special de l’ONU s’inquiète de la recrudescence des
violences au Darfour Le representant special de l’Operation hybride
Union africaine-Nations Unies au Darfour (MINUAD), Mohamad Ibn
Chambas, a exprime mercredi ses inquietudes envers la recrudescence
des violences interethniques dans la region soudanaise.

Des balles perdues syriennes tuent un adolescent en Turquie Un
adolescent turc a ete tue dans la nuit de mercredi a jeudi par des
balles perdues tirees lors de combats en Syrie entre militants kurdes
et rebelles islamistes en lutte contre le president Bachar al Assad,
apprend-on de sources medicales.

Wikipedia : le genocide armenien parmi les pages les plus controversees
Wikipedia n’est pas seulement un encyclopedie collaborative, accessible
a tous sur Internet. Wikipedia, c’est aussi une guerre. Une bataille
editoriale entre des utilisateurs qui modifient chacun leur tour des
pages polemiques.

La complicite internationale avec Al-Qaida Sous le silence
international, des groupes lies a Al-Qaïda attaquent les Kurdes
syriens depuis plus d’une semaine, meme s’ils sont incapables de
gagner cette bataille. Seule la Russie a condamne ” resolument ”
les attaques visant la population kurde. Depuis 16 juillet, près de
200 membres d’Al-Qaïda ont ete tues par des forces kurdes.

Deux Armeniens du Karabagh condamnes pour espionnage Deux residents
armeniens du Haut-Karabakh reconnus coupables d’espionnage pour
l’Azerbaïdjan a travers l’Internet ont ete condamnes a de longues
peines de prison mardi. Un tribunal de Stepanakert a juge Rafael
Avagian, un soldat armenien de 22 ans ne au Haut Karabagh, et son
ami Davit Barseghian coupable de haute trahison et d’espionnage,
et les a condamnes respectivement a 11 et 10 ans de prison.

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