Author: Kajoyan Gevork

Alain Terzian
Les Nouvelles d’Arménie, c’est un magazine indispensable

Les Nouvelles d’Arménie, c’est un magazine indispensable, pour les
Arméniens de France et bien au-delà. Les Nouvelles d’Arménie, c’est le
seul journal arménien auquel je sois abonné. Je le lis au bureau dès
que je le reçois car il me rappelle constamment mes racines, il me
rattache à mon enfance, à des valeurs de ma jeunesse que ma grand-mère
m’a transmises. J’entretiens avec les Nouvelles d’Arménie un lien
vraiment affectif. Il m’apporte également une information et un regard
sur l’avancée du travail, de la construction, du développement de ce
pays magique qui est en train de se bâtir un brillant avenir dans un
environnement difficile et complexe. J’éprouve d’ailleurs une grande
admiration et un énorme respect pour tous ceux qui, quotidiennement,
participent à cette construction. Je pense en particulier à mes amis
proches comme Charles Aznavour ou Lévon Sayan.
Durant ces 20 ans, j’ai aussi retrouvé avec plaisir dans ces pages
tous ces Arméniens célèbres et moins célèbres présentés dans la
couleur de leurs racines. Je n’oublie pas non plus les absents mais
toujours présents dans nos cœurs, Henri Verneuil par exemple.
Vingt ans, c’est une première étape. J’espère être là pour fêter les
cent ans ! Et je me réjouis du fond du cœur de la réélection du
Président Serge Sargsyan, dont l’action politique éclaire le chemin de
l’Arménie de demain et garantit la sécurité et la démocratie de notre
grand pays, tout à la fois terre de culture et d’histoire d’une
insondable richesse. Son ambition imprime notre destin et celui de la
diaspora.
Merci aux Nouvelles d’Arménie d’en être un lien indispensable.

mercredi 15 mai 2013,
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Criminal Case in Relation to Illegal Turnover of Mercury Sent to Syuniq Court

14:49, May 14, 2013

The prosecutor supervising the criminal case confirmed the bill of
indictment of the criminal case initiated for committing illegal
turnover of metallic mercury, which is a toxic substance, for the
purpose of sale by a group of persons with prior agreement.

According to the factual data obtained during the pre-trial proceeding
V. Grigoryan procuring metallic mercury and keeping it for the purpose
of sale, on February 9, 2013 reached a prior agreement with his cousin
M. Grigoryan then with the latter’s friend G. Hakobyan and decided to
transmit it to Yerevan and sell. For that purpose, on February 10,
2013 they transmitted the metallic mercury from Kapan to Yerevan.

On the base of the sufficient data obtained on the criminal case
initiated in RA Police Investigation Division of Syuniq adjunct to
government M. Grigoryan, G. Hakobyan and V. Grigoryan were accused
according to the Point 1 of the Part 2 of the Article 275 of RA
Criminal Code. Prosecutor General’s Office of RA reports that the
criminal case with the bill of indictment was sent to the Court of
First Instance of Syuniq.

APA, Azerbaijan
May 14 2013

Azerbaijani Army renders harmless Russian serviceman who trained
Armenian snipers and subversive groups on frontline

[ 14 May 2013 11:49 ]

Bolotnikov, who was awarded by Armenian Defense Minister Seyran
Ohanyan for his activities in Nagorno Karabakh, was shot in Marzili
village of Aghdam region on April 25

Baku – APA. A Russian serviceman, who trained Armenian subversive
groups and snipers on the frontline, has been rendered harmless by
Azerbaijan.

APA reports quoting its military sources that it happened in Marzili
village of Aghdam region on April 25. The Russian serviceman
Bolotnikov, who trained Armenian snipers and subversive groups in
Nagorno Karabakh, was seriously wounded by an accurate fire opened by
Azerbaijani snipers.

Following researches found out that the Russian officer trained
Armenian snipers in Nagorno Karabakh for a long time and shot several
Azerbaijani servicemen up to now. Last year he was awarded by Armenian
Defense Minister Seyran Seyran Ohanyan for his activities in Nagorno
Karabakh.

This is the first Russian serviceman, who fought in the Armenian army
and was rendered harmless in the occupied Azerbaijani territories, on
the frontline in the past 10 years. Earlier, a lot of Russian
servicemen, who participated in the training of Armenian army and
armed groups in Nagorno Karabakh, were rendered harmless in 1992-1994
during the 1st Karabakh war.

Totally, 8 Armenian servicemen were rendered harmless in April. 4 of
them were reportedly killed. Moreover, Niva and ZIL belonging to
Armenians were also shot in the direction of Aghdam village of Tovuz
region.

Dancer and the Dance

Monday, May 13th, 2013

BY PAUL CHADERJIAN

On the edge of this multicultural metropolis, miles shy of the
suburban promises of Americana in Orange County, thousands of cars
have come to a halt on a massive multilaned interstate in Buena Park.
Cars, new and old, foreign and domestic, weave an incomprehensible
tale of multicultural harmony in our globalized 21st century.

Inside the inner sanctum of isolated metal boxes on rubber wheels,
radios blare the latest sensational headlines. A young Chechen is
charged with heinous crimes that morning. The son of a dictator is
threatening to make war in the Korean peninsula. Anonymous is shutting
down the Internet in protest of unconstitutional reversals of privacy
laws.

A Bruno Mars mix sounds from the woofers of a fancy black SUV driven
by a young lawyer. A cancer surgeon listens to the Oprah network on
Sirius XM broadcasting Dr. Phil’s talk on marginalization and
belonging. Meanwhile a traffic reporter in a chopper above tells his
TV audience about the Babylonian congestion tying up the southbound
lanes.

One of the drivers making his way to an evening dance class keeps
checking the digital clock in his Ford Windstar. The 20-year-old is on
his weekly journey from North Hollywood to the Forty Martyrs Church
complex in Santa Ana, where 40 dance students giddily anticipate their
weekly rehearsal.

Donning fashionable, black sunglasses, a tight black t-shirt and black
jeans, the young dancer and dance coach is weaving through the
pastiche of tongues and histories, languages and ethnicities, tastes
and journeys toward an untraditional career for the son of a
traditionally conservative people.

Artur Aleksanyan

Artur Aleksanyan is a professional dancer, a rising star in the
Armenian world with recognition for his talents from the Israeli,
Russian, ballet and modern dance communities.

He’s danced since he learned to walk, performing with Hamazkayin’s
renowned Ani Dance Company and in dozens of mainstream American
productions like `The Nutcracker,’ `Snow White’ and `Peter Pan’
across the US and abroad over the past 15 years.

This is how the dancer is bringing his dance, his passion and skills
to the kids and teens gathered as part of the Orange County
Hamazkayin’s Yeraz dance group, which has inspired its small but
tight-knit community for the past ten years.

Artur is teaching back-to-back classes with dancers between the ages
of four and 19 as the group prepares for its June 2nd recital
featuring various production numbers interwoven through a narrative.

`The story is of a boy who falls asleep after a long day at school and
dreams of traveling to Armenia,’ explains Artur. `He gets lost along
the way and encounters several foreign cultures.’

The main character in the upcoming production heeds the advice of a
few friendly gypsy boys, who point him in the right direction.

`The boy spends the remainder of his dream marveling in awe of the
stories that the music and movement tell,’ says Artur. `This is the
first show that I am fully directing, and I am excited and anxious to
see the final product.’

Rehearsal Hall
A month earlier, soccer moms have brought their most precious cargo to
the Harut Barsamian Armenian Center in extremely large but safe SUVs.
It’s midway through Lent, and volunteers are preparing vegan dishes
for the `Meechink’ meal two days later.

On a card table in the entrance to the hall, Lebanese-Armenian
grandmothers on a break from kitchen duty distress exercising their
math skills with a game of cards. While they keep track of their
cards, they also keep an eye on the young souls milling around and
socializing ahead of their class.

Artur is coaching 13-year-old Sofia Sakzlyan as she gracefully moves
her hands and fingers over her head to melody titled `Deer of
Karabakh.’ She’s beckoning the past from a faraway place and
recreating the golden age of her ancestors’ culture in a new land, a
new stretch of diaspora.

Community organizer and head of the Hamazkayin Siamanto chapter,
Shoushig Arslanian, says when the first instructor of the dance group
moved to Boston, she `knocked on Ani Dance group’s door, and they were
nice enough to send us one of their lead dancers.’

That’s how Artur began his relationship with the Orange County
community last September, accepting the challenge of weekly 2-hour
roundtrip drives every Monday night and marathon four-hour coaching
gig, broken down into 60-minute sessions, individualized by gender and
age groups.

`The best part of the experience is seeing the progress,’ says Artur.
`I do it because it’s a new challenge. I try to not only teach dance
but to also teach our culture to our students through the one thing
I’m able to communicate best with – dance.’

Passing The Torch
Khachaturian’s Sabre Dance plays loud from speakers connected to
Artur’s iPhone. Young boys move to the rapid succession of notes,
mimicking a choreography passed down from generation to generation in
rooms like this all over the Armenian Diaspora.

8-year-old Armen Andekian moves rapidly across the floor with a sword
in his hand. Artur instructs Armen and the other boys to watch one
another and keep the proper distance as they move across Ghazarian
Hall.

`Seeing the development of mental and physical strength, seeing the
smiles after class,’ are what Artur says motivate him. `I love to see
them push through struggle. `

Artur says while he pushes his students to reach their best potential,
he also realizes `not everyone’s born a dancer.’ He says he doesn’t
expect his students to pursue careers in dance but gains great
satisfaction watching them improve artistically, physically and
collectively over the previous week’s class.

Choreographing A Future
`I can’t say I was the one to discover a desire to dance,’ explains
Artur. `That’s a credit I must give to my folks. They signed me up for
my first dance class at the age of 3. I guess it was a good parenting
move I will forever be grateful for.’

It’s well past nine on another Monday night, and Artur is back in his
Windstar on an hour-long drive back to the San Fernando Valley. It’s
been an exhausting but gratifying night. He has belted out
instructions, made the kids sweat, laugh and celebrate their
ancestor’s arts.

He is teaching the kids lessons he’s learned and the disciplines he
has acquired along the way, inspiring younger dancers the way the Ani
Dance Company has inspired him since 2008.

`I love being part of a group where passion and devotion are eminent,’
he says. `My directors, Yeghia Hasholian and Suzy
Barseghian-Tarpinian, have been dedicated to keeping a fire lit for
the Armenian culture through dance for close to 40 years.’

Artur says for dancers, it’s incredibly gratifying to have the
opportunity to be on stage with a company like Ani.

`We don’t just dance,’ he says, `we tell stories. We wear the
costumes, we step to the rhythm, and we embrace the culture.
Representing not just our culture, but our heritage.’

On a freeway that can lead one to any direction that can be punched up
on a navigator, to any neighborhood, subculture or no culture at all,
Artur has got his route planned.

`I’d like to better myself and improve my craft with further study, he
says. `Possibly on the East Coast or overseas. Europe? Perhaps even in
my homeland?’

Whichever direction his career takes him, Artur says he intends `to
make the absolute best of it.’

And three apples fell from heaven: one for the storyteller, one for
him who made him tell it, and one for you the reader.

Paul Chaderjian is a television news producer at the ABC station
serving the Hawaiian Islands. He began his career at Horizon Armenian
Television and has worked at ABC News in New York as a writer-producer
for `World News Now’ and as a reporter in Fresno. He served as the
Arts & Culture and West Coast Editor of the Armenian Reporter,
anchored English-language news at Armenia TV and has hosted the annual
Armenia Fund Telethon. He may be reached via [email protected]

19 years of Karabakh ceasefire: Expert says Armenia will have neither
war, nor peace with Azerbaijan in foreseeable future

KARABAKH | 14.05.13 | 16:42

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Nearly two decades after ceasefire in Karabakh the Armenian side still
has to rely on itself to maintain fragile peace in the volatile
region, a local expert says.

In 1994, Armenia, Nagorno-Karabakh and Azerbaijan signed a
Russia-brokered agreement that went into effect on May 12 putting an
end to years of hostilities (the Karabakh movement started in 1988
grew into a full-blown war in 1992-1994). While ceasefire has largely
held till today, the situation on the Armenian-Azeri border and along
the line of contact in Karabakh has remained tense, with sporadic
clashes killing or wounding soldiers on both sides.

Military expert and psychologist David Jamalyan believes that as
compared to 1994, Azerbaijan has recently been demonstrating bigger
trends aimed at defending territorial integrity (Nagorno-Karabakh with
a predominantly ethnic Armenian population was an autonomous region in
Soviet Azerbaijan), and over the past 19 years has become more
aggressive, and if anything has changed in that country, certainly,
not in favor of a peaceful settlement of the conflict.

`We will keep facing the issue of forcing peace upon our enemy for as
long as the Turks of the Transcaucasus have not come to terms with the
situation. With each passing year Artsakh’s [Karabakh’s historic name]
statehood gets more and more viable, making Baku’s claims for it more
unrealistic. I believe time is on our side and with time passing
Artsakh’s Armenian identity is becoming more and more obvious to the
world,’ Jamalyan told the press on Tuesday.

Jamalyan argued that despite Baku’s bellicose rhetoric, the Azeri army
is not ready for war, hence presently there is no possibility that
hostilities will resume, neither that the conflict might be settled.

`Domestic tensions in Azerbaijan theoretically can trigger a new war,
however, potentially, the first ever failure in the battlefield would
further aggravate the situation,’ said Jamalyan.

The military expert also believes the ceasefire regime will be
`keeping Armenia a company’ for a long time to come.

`We are condemned to living and developing under ceasefire. We have no
right to deceive ourselves, ceasefire is what we’ll have in our
foreseeable future. And in making peace last we can depend only upon
our own strength – the armed forces of Armenia are the most reliable
to us,’ he said.

The United States, France and Russia co-chaired OSCE Minsk Group
spearheads international efforts to broker a solution to the
protracted conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh. The foreign ministers of
Armenia and Azerbaijan are due to meet in Krakow, Poland, later this
month in a new effort to kick-start what appears to be a stalled
process.

Baroness Caroline Cox and Mourad Topalian: A Detroit Evening Written in Gold
By Betty Apigian-Kessel

May 14, 2013

It was a powerhouse event featuring a dynamic duo, ANCA Eastern Region
Freedom Award winners Baroness Caroline Cox and firebrand national
community leader Mourad Topalian who willingly electrified an overflow
crowd of 400 people on the evening of April 27 at Livonia Stevenson
High School. The stellar evening was presented with the cooperation of
the Armenian Genocide Commemorative Committee of Greater Detroit.

A beautiful sight was the Homenetmen presentation of the United States
flag, the Armenian tri-color, and the Michigan state and Artsakh flags
during the singing of the national anthems, and the AYF singing of the
National Anthems (with Helen Mempreian Movsesianon playing the piano).
The youth actively participated in the event.

As co-chair Michael Hagopian indicated, `We are here to commemorate
the 98th year of the Armenian Genocide of 1915-23 perpetrated by the
Ottoman Empire and still denied by the present-day Turkish government
regardless of positive proof to the opposite. Our martyrs say don’t
mourn us avenge us, and our youth must start taking the lead. All
Armenians lost loved ones.’ To the Turkish state Hagopian said
emphatically, `We are here and we are here to stay.’

Hagopian introduced the keynote speaker Baroness Caroline Cox.
Baroness Cox is like Eleanor Roosevelt and Mother Theresa rolled into
one. Mourad Topalian is reminiscent of Detroit’s late Hagop Mouradian
and Arthur Giragosian of Providence, who with their fiery oratory
could shake the very foundation of any venue. No better compliment
could be given to any man and when told this Mourad showed a broad
smile, knowing he was in great company. Together, Baroness Cox and
Topalian gave the Metro Detroit audience an evening to remember – one
that rallied them to become more involved in the fight for Armenian
justice, and awakened them to the existing danger by the growing bully
strength of present-day Turkey and Azerbaijan.

Baroness Cox was accompanied by good friends and area residents Robert
and Gayane Kachadourian. She greeted the audience with `Parev tsez,’
and spoke of her `tribute to a Nation whose people not only survive
but create beauty from the ashes of destruction.’ She has made 78
remarkable visits to Armenia and Karabagh, strongly believing in the
right to self-determination of the Armenians of Karabagh. She is the
chair of the British Armenia All-Party Parliamentary Group.

When I asked her how to properly address her, she replied in a down to
earth manner, `Call me by my Christian name, Caroline.’ She endeared
herself to all by being involved in the rehabilitation of the disabled
through the Humanitarian Aid Relief Trust (HART), which has become an
internationally recognized `Center of Excellence.’

She told her horror stories of the Karabagh War and bombed out homes,
of families hiding in basements with no light or heat, of children
being born in basements, but said their spirit always carried them
through ordeals valiantly. She told of a lack of medication and legs
amputated without the aid of anesthesia, and how she loaded up in
London on the proper drugs to take to the injured in Artsakh
(Karabagh). `The pogroms were horribly reminiscent of 1915. The Azeris
must be held accountable.’

While trying to get to Sissian on a cold and icy Christmas Eve, her
bus was stuck in the dark of night on the mountain pass with other
cars. Zory Balayan rescued the others, putting his life in danger in
the below 50-degree temperatures to transfer people into the
baroness’s bus. `What a privilege to be of help,’ she said modestly.

I told her afterwards, `God has taken much from the Armenians, but he
has given us you,’ and she graciously thanked me. Baroness Cox has no
air of importance or superiority about her. She has even taken 8 of
her 10 grandchildren to Karabagh without fearing for their lives. She
has even climbed down to the pit of Khor Virab, where St. Gregory was
imprisoned for years. If each Armenian took the initiative to do
1/10th of what she does, how quickly we could advance justice!

She reminded the audience of HART’s motto: `I cannot do everything,
but I must not do anything.’

The ARF presented HART with a very generous donation to carry on its
fine rehabilitation work.

It was when thirty fatigue clad Hamazkayin Arax Dance Ensemble youth
performed a spirited precision drill type dance called `Ariunod Trosh’
(bloody flag) with audible Hoo Ha’s, the Armenian fighting spirit came
through clearly.

Adi Asadoorian represented the Armenian Youth Federation and gave an
encouraging account of how the youth intend to carry on the mantle of
their elders in the quest for justice.

A letter of support was read sent by Michigan Senator Debbie Stabenow,
Reading of proclamation was accomplished by Ms. Anya Bieciuk
representing Gov. Rick Snyder, Klint Kesto state representative from
the 39th District was in attendance.

Co-chair Raffi Ourlian then read Mourad Topalian’s biography,
describing him as a prominent member and political activist of the
Armenian community. Topalian was chairman of the ANCA and the
International Hye Tahd Committee for 12 years. He was awarded the
Freedom Award for his dedication to advancing the Armenian Cause. With
several master’s degrees to his credit, Topalian has also taught
college level courses.

Mourad Topalian is a true and loyal patriot of Armenia and justice. He
says, `We don’t have to ask for the genocide to be recognized by any
president. It was already done years ago. We know the genocide
happened, most of the world knows it happened.’

`Detroit, you stood by me during difficult times,’ he said,
emotionally. `My daughter had cancer, but now is healthy and a college
student.’ He quoted from the US Constitution, Abraham Lincoln, and
Patrick Henry: `Give me liberty or give me death.’

`The killers took everything we own. They took our farms, our lands,
our businesses, our orchards, raped our girls, went on a killing
rampage, sent us into the desert barefooted, naked, and starving. They
destroyed our villages. We want reparations, we want restitution, we
want our lands, we want our bank accounts, we want justice! We want
what is ours!’ He spoke of Simon Vratzian, saying our martyrs did not
die needlessly.

Topalian is passionate man who leads the way with his knowledge of the
Armenian situation and how things work in Washington. He had access to
the White House, Congress, and the powers to be. He remains an
outspoken humanitarian for Armenian justice. Can each of us not give
him our backing, can we not give a little more of ourselves when we
have to stand up now, more than ever before, for Armenian rights and
our martyrs?

`We the diaspora have to be the second army,’ he said. `There are 80
million Turks. They fear the diaspora. A recent poll taken in Turkey
showed 80 percent of them hate Americans, and yet we allow them to
build over 200 charter schools here in our country. What is our nation
thinking? They are out to eliminate every one of us, you and me.’

`Return our churches,’ he continued. `More than 2,500 churches were
turned into stables or barracks or were otherwise destroyed. Where are
the American principles? We must do more, get angry. We seek nothing
more than what is ours, the restoration of our homes, lands, farms,
our dignity, and churches. Where are American principles concerning
Armenians?’ He added, `Our dreams were written on the blood of the
Lisbon Five and others.’ Topalian, like many, still carries on his
shoulders the weight of the Armenian Genocide. He is a man on a
mission. Many of us in the audience had attended a Mid-West conference
in the late 1950’s in his hometown of Cleveland, where his family,
with roots in Malatya, were working on the Armenian Cause.

The evening concluded to standing ovations with the speakers being
thronged by a congratulatory crowd.

The commemorative committee consisted of the Armenian Revolutionary
Federation, Armenian Youth Federation, Armenian Relief Society, ANCA
of Michigan, Armenian Community Center, Homenetmen of Detroit,
Hamazkayin Arm. Ed. & Cultural Society, St.Sarkis Armenian Apostolic
Church, Armenian Congregational Church, and St. Vartan Armenian
Catholic church.

Benediction was given by Rev. Fr. Hrant Kevorkian and Badveli Rev. Dr.
Vahan Tootikian.

An afterglow was held at George’s Senate Coney Island in Northville
where guests were hosted to convivial conversation and a marvelous
buffet dinner.

In recent years the Detroit Armenian community has returned to its
former strength and greatness under youthful leadership injecting new
life into the spirit established by the survivor generation. The
committee is to be commended for providing the community with an
exceptional evening. Comments from supporters were nothing but
positive.

`Armenians of Syria must be deported’
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01:49 PM | TODAY | POLITICS

If Bashar Al Assad resigns and extremists come to power, possibility of
repetition of St. Bartholomew’s Day massacres will be quite big. Former
ambassador to Lebanon Arman Navasardyan told journalists about it today.

According to him, there are two ways for the Armenians of Syria. The first
is to negotiate on state level with key powers in Syria.

“Even if this key power are the extremists. They must understand that
Armenians are protected by a state. Those negotiations may be behind the
scenes”.

For the other variant, he says, he has been even criticized. “I think, we
must be ready for a mass deportation of Armenians. They must go anywhere,
even to Antarctica if it is about physical safety of a human being”.

As for Armenian diplomacy, he thinks, that it must be aggressively active.
“The passing years showed that the passive diplomacy had its bad results in
Nagorno-Karabakh issue”.

Mr. Navasardyan does not agree with the Minister of Foreign Affairs Edward
Nalbandyan’s opinion, that Armenia should not discuss the Nagorno-Karabakh
problem when it takes the presidency in European Council Chairmen
Committee, as there is the Minsk group format.

“We should use all possible occasions and means to say to the world what we
want to say. Azerbaijan raises that issue in such countries which du not
even know the map”, he said.

Casino Three Presidents

Today a real cowboy film will be shot in Armenia. One of the heroes
will try to achieve conciliation of the three presidents of Armenia.
For this purpose he has built a casino which could be named `Casino
Three Presidents’.

Serzh Sargsyan and Robert Kocharyan have already confirmed their
attendance. Levon Ter-Petrosyan has not responded yet. Whether he will
go or not, Gagik Tsarukyan has assumed the role of great conciliator.
After all, one cannot be hostile for so many years, especially that
all the tokens have been distributed, everyone insists on their
opinion, and peace poker will reinforce the alliance.

The presidential triangle is the axis of the domestic fight. Different
arrangements of the sides of the triangle determined the course of the
struggle. First Serzh Sargsyan and Robert Kocharyan fought against
Levon Ter-Petrosyan, leading the developments to March 1, then Serzh
Sargsyan and Levon Ter-Petrosyan entered into a dialogue to block
Kocharyan’s entry to government, then Levon Ter-Petrosyan and
Kocharyan joined to crush the monolith of Serzh Sargsyan.

All the configurations have been tried out, and the triangle is still
intact. Now it is urgent to unite against people, and most
importantly, save the triangle till the next election cycle not to
allow anyone step into this `circle’.

Proceeding from the logic of the latest configuration, Ter-Petrosyan
must respond to Tsarukyan’s invitation – their relations have been
closer recently. It could have been the preparation for the great
conciliation of the presidents. Gagik Tsarukyan plays the role of the
joker.

Naira Hayrumyan
12:40 14/05/2013
Story from Lragir.am News:

Senor Hasratyan: NKR Defense Army does not need hirelings

13:15 14/05/2013 » SOCIETY

The Azerbaijan Press Agency (APA) has released information saying that
a Russian serviceman, who trained Armenian snipers on the frontline,
in the territory of Aghdam region, has been rendered harmless by
Azerbaijan.

Head of NKR Defense Army press service Senor Hasratyan has commented
on this information to Panorama.am.

`Today, like during the Karabakh war, the NKR Defense Army is
battleworthy enough, and it does not need hirelings. Special units
operate in the NKR Defense Army which are able to prevent any
subversions by the enemy as well as to respond to them adequately. The
mentioned information is nothing else than a mere creation of the
Azerbaijani propaganda machine,’ Hasratyan said.

Source: Panorama.am

TVR, Belarus
May 13 2013

Development of bilateral cooperation with Armenia corresponds to
long-term foreign policy and foreign economic priorities of Belarus

This was stated today inYerevanby the President of Belarus Alexander
Lukashenko following the results of the negotiations with his Armenian
colleague Serzh Sargsyan. The official visit of the Head of
theBelarusianStateis taking place in advance of the 20th anniversary
of diplomatic relations between the two countries. According to the
Head of the State, the parties are approaching this date having gained
great positive experience. The Presidents discussed the whole range of
bilateral relations and agreed on serious activation of cooperation of
the foreign policy departments, parliaments, as well as on the
continuation of mutual support within the framework of international
organizations. Thus, according toSerzh Sargsyan,Armeniais ready to
supportBelarusin ensuring its successful chairmanship in the
Commonwealth of Independent States this year.