Author: Kajoyan Gevork

L’ARMENIE PRETE A RECEVOIR DES MATCHS DU CHAMPIONNAT D’EUROPE DE FOOTBALL DE 2020

Les autorites du football en Armenie ont annonce leur intention de
soumissionner pour accueillir plusieurs matchs de l’Euro 2020 que que
l’UEFA, pourrait decider de mettre en scène dans plus d’une douzaine
de villes a travers le continent.

Ruben Hayrapetian, le chef de la Federation armenienne de football
(FAF), a declare vendredi lors d’une conference de presse a Erevan
que le stade a Erevan qui a deja subi une reconstruction ces derniers
temps va encore etre ajuste aux normes internationales afin de devenir
l’une des meilleures arènes du football en Europe.

Le Stade Hrazdan a une capacite d’accueillir de près de 54000
spectateurs, mais il a rarement ete utilise pour des matchs de football
internationaux ces dernières annees pour une variete de raisons,
y compris des problèmes avec le terrain et les tribunes.

Le stade a connu une certaine amelioration l’an dernier avant le
debut de la campagne de qualification pour la Coupe du Monde 2014.

Ruben Hayrapetian a dit que meme maintenant, il voulait que l’equipe
nationale joue tous ses matchs au stade Hrazdan et pas un autre,
beaucoup plus petit où elle a joue la plupart de ses matchs ces
dernières annees.

Il a dit que la reconstruction prevue au stade Hrazdan sera egalement
en ligne avec les plans de l’Armenie de faire une offre pour accueillir
certains matchs du championnat europeen en 2020.

“Le president a fixe une tâche qui nous attend de reconstruire le
Stade Hrazdan au cours des cinq prochaines annees “, a declare le
chef de la FAF.

” Nous voulons en faire un stade repondant a toutes les normes
internationales, puis faire une offre pour la tenue de matchs de
championnat en Armenie.”

vendredi 5 avril 2013, Stephane ©armenews.com

HIKMET CETIN: “ARMENIA’S NATIONALIST POLICY ISOLATES THIS COUNTRY FROM THE REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMS”

APA, Azerbaijan
April 4 2013

“Suggesting new ideas, Turkey wants to revitalize the settlement of
the Nagorno Karabakh conflict”

Baku. Rashad Suleymanov – APA. “The nationalist policy of Armenia
isolates this country from the regional development programs and
leads to the population decrease,” said former Foreign Minister of
Turkey Hikmet Cetin addressing the conference entitled “NATO’s role in
framing the geopolitical situation in the South Caucasus and beyond”
in Baku, APA reports.

Cetin said that the settlement of the conflict will create a lot of
opportunities for both Armenia and region: “The Nagorno Karabakh
conflict is one of the most serious problems in the region, after
the cold war. This problem has long historical roots left from the
Soviet Union. Nagorno Karabakh is an integral part of Azerbaijan”.

Mentioning that there are no concrete results in OSCE Minsk Group
activity, the former minister said that the conflict must be solved
within the international law. He underlined that this unsolved
conflict poses a threat to the international security: “At present,
suggesting new ideas, Turkey wants to revitalize the settlement of
the Nagorno Karabakh conflict.”

Cetin called on NATO and other international organizations to make
contributions to the security in the South Caucasus.

ARMENIA: 32,000 TONS OF FRUITS AND VEGETABLES EXPORTED IN 2012

Fresh Plaza, Netherlands
April 4 2013

Armenia exported 32,000 tons of fruits and vegetables in 2012,
Armenian Deputy Agriculture Minister Robert Makaryan said.

“This is more than in 2011, when 16,800 tons were exported,” he said.

The deputy minister also said that the export of fruits and vegetables
in Jan-March 2013 grew as well, compared with the same period a
year before.

“Some 1,042 tons of fresh fruits and vegetables were exported in the
first quarter of 2012, and 4,000 were exported in this year’s first
quarter,” he said.

Makaryan said potatoes dominated the export in the first quarter –
about 500 tons were shipped in Jan-March 2013 against 25 tons over
the same period a year earlier.

“Some 24,300 tons were exported to Russia, 6,000 tons to Georgia and
660 tons to Ukraine in 2012,” the deputy agriculture minister said.

He said that Armenia has already sent 3,300 tons of fruits and
vegetables to Russia, 564 tons to Georgia and 80 tons to the United
Arab Emirates since the beginning of this year.

AIR DEFENSE UNITS OF RUSSIAN MILITARY BASE IN ARMENIA CONDUCTED TRAINING ON REPELLING AIR STRIKES

BSR Russia
April 4 2013

Posted by Jezreel Jann Villaruel Yañez on Thursday, 04 April 2013
19:08 | Published in Defence

Servicemen of antiaircraft missile units of Russian C-300B
military base in Armenia held a training session without live
firing on repelling attacks of single and multiple air targets of an
imaginary enemy, as well as support of flights of their own aircraft,
News-Armenia wrote referring to the press service of the Southern
Military District.

The training was held in Kamhud highland training center.

“In general 100 servicemen and dozens of weapons and military equipment
were involved in the training. During the event they worked out
gaining and masking positions, organization of communication systems
and governance in mountain terrain conditions, bringing the equipment
from the marching to combat order. They also worked out on detection
and extermination of a conditional enemy.

During the exercise, the anti-aircraft gunners implemented regulations
on transfer of units into different degrees of readiness, loading
and unloading of launchers by anti-aircraft guided missiles, testing
functional control of equipment.

More than 40 different tasks were worked out during the training,
and over 30 air targets discovered, accompanied and conditionally
destroyed.

“Battery tactical exercises, including crediting target practice
and combat coordination await the anti-aircraft gunners. During the
second half of April, air defence experts will participate in special
tactical exercises with live fire at the interspecific firing ground
Kapustin Yar (the Astrakhan region),” according to the press-service.

In the 2012 academic year, the personnel of the air defence units
of the Russian military base in Armenia held more than 800 training
sessions and performed nearly 150 combat shootings and crediting
target practice.

TWO TOO MANY? FORMER COUNCIL CANDIDATE SUBMITS HIS OWN IDEAS FOR ARMENIAN GENOCIDE MEMORIAL

Pasadena Weekly, CA
April 4 2013

By Nick Smith 04/04/2013

As members of a Pasadena committee prepare to unveil a proposed
memorial honoring those killed in the Armenian Genocide, an alternative
memorial design has been put forward by another group headed by former
City Council candidate Chris Chahinian.

According to City Councilman Gene Masuda, the Pasadena Armenian
Genocide Memorial Committee was formed to explore ways to commemorate
the deaths of 1.5 million Armenians at the hands of Ottoman Turks
between 1915 and 1923. The group, which has selected a work created
by Art Center College of Design student Catherine Menard, includes
prominent Pasadena architect Stefanos Polyzoides and former Pasadena
Mayor Bill Paparian.

According to Masuda, however, Chahinian, who ran against Masuda in
2010, broke off from that committee and formed the Armenian Community
Coalition (ACC), laying the groundwork for a separate memorial design.

The ACC met in March with city officials to discuss the design,
maintenance and upkeep of that memorial, which is expected to be
completed by 2015. Also at the meeting was the project’s designer,
Vahram Hovagimyan.

According to Paparian, who chairs Masuda’s memorial committee,
Menard’s design concept was the first choice among 17 entrants,
which included Hovagimyan’s work.

“The design Chahinian submitted is a warmed-over reject,” Paparian
told the Weekly. “Basically, it’s a memorial tombstone. We didn’t
think it was consistent with the excellence and design standards that
we were striving for and we think we found with Catherine’s design.”

Menard’s design will be formally unveiled April 15 at Art Center.

Chahinian remembers things differently.

“We had been working on this project for more than two years. City
officials were very cooperative with [the ACC],” said Chahinian. “We
should give credit to the ACC for their vision and commitment to
this project.”

Both nonprofit organizations plan to pay for the memorials through
private donations. Masuda’s committee hopes to place Menard’s work
in Memorial Park in Old Pasadena.

In the end, the city will choose which design to erect, a difficult
task considering the sensitivity of the matter.

“I think the city will look at which organization did it the right way
[and] followed the process,” Masuda said.

SERZH SARGSYAN RECEIVES EXECUTIVE CHAIRMAN OF ROSNEFT IGOR SECHIN

Vestnik Kavkaza, Russia
April 4 2013

During a meeting today with Igor Sechin, head of Russian Rosneft
company, Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan welcomed its arrival in
the Armenian market, according to the presidential press office.

“The arrival of Rosneft in the Armenian economy will give a great
stimulus to the development of bilateral economic cooperation,”
Sargsyan was quoted by his press service as saying, ARKA reports.

During the meeting the two men discussed chances of long-term
Russian-Armenian cooperation in economy, including the energy sector.

“The sides noted the importance of the economic component in the
consistent efforts to deepen and strengthen relations between the
two strategic partners”, the press service said.

AZERBAIJANI ACTIVISTS TO CONDUCT PROTEST RALLIES AGAINST AUTHORITIES IN FRONT OF PACE BUILDING

17:46 ~U 05.04.13

Azerbaijani Democratic Movement NGO, set up in February 2013 and
uniting Azerbaijani refugees living abroad, bloggers, activists
and journalists, is going to held a protest rally in France against
Azerbaijani authorities.

According to Azerbaijani contact.az, in this way the movement will
express its protest against the arrests in Azerbaijan and pressures
of protest rallies.

The actions will start from April 22. On this day the activists will
start hunger strike in front of PACE building in Strasburg, on the
next day the protest rally will be held.

Armenian News – Tert.am

SEFILYAN: OPPOSITION FORCES HAVE ALWAYS ACTED

04:31 PM | TODAY | POLITICS

Coordinator of Sardarapat movement initiative group, Zhirayr Sefilyan,
says the ineffective steps of Armenian opposition have resulted
in stalemate.

“Once every five years, during presidential elections, people are
mobilized, knowing that everything depends on one person. Up to
nowadays, all opposition forces have always acted in the same way:
after the elections they rely on the Constitutional Court to invalidate
the results of the vote but after receiving a negative reply they
lead post-election street protests without a prior plan. As a result,
they are unable to avoid collisions,” said Sefilyan.

CANDLES TO BE BURNT IN LIBERTY SQUARE IN MEMORY OF PROSHYAN VILLAGE HEAD

11:17, 4 April, 2013

YEREVAN, APRIL 4, ARMENPRESS: Candles will be burnt at 20:00pm on
April 4 in the Liberty Square in the memory of the murdered Village
Head of Proshyan Hrach Muradyan. As reported by Armenpress, it is
stated in the announcement of the initiative group, that during the
candle lighting a film would be shown, devoted to Hrach Muradyan.

To take part in the funeral ceremony of the freedom fighter, a
procession will be held on April 5 to Proshyan Village at 11:30.

The announcement of the initiative group says: “The Village Head of
Proshyan, freedom fighter Hrach Muradyan was an honest, incorruptible
person fighting against illegality. He lived with the troubles of
his village and the community”.

In the framework of the investigation of the criminal case instituted
on the fact of murder of the Village Head of Proshyan of Kotayk Marz
Hrach Muradyan on April 2, several tens of people were questioned,
complex investigative experiments and additional study of the case
area were carried out.

As Armenpress was informed by the PR and Information Department of
the Police of the Republic of Armenia, in the result of cooperation
actions of different subdepartments of the Police there are arrested
people suspected in completion of the murder.

Necessary operative and investigative activities are being carried out
to identify all the circumstances of the assassination. The criminal
investigation continues.

FRANCE: DES DEPUTES CREENT UN CERCLE D’AMITIE DU HAUT KARABAGH

Publie le : 04-04-2013

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par la Representation de la Republique du Haut-Karabagh en France.

Representation du Haut-Karabagh en France

Des elus francais creent un Cercle d’amitie de la Republique du
Haut Karabagh

Le 19 mars, se reunissait pour la première fois a Paris le Cercle
d’amitie de la Republique du Haut Karabagh, reunissant des responsables
politiques, deputes et senateurs francais. Depassant les clivages
politiques, cette instance nouvelle vise a soutenir les efforts des
autorites de l’Artsakh en vue de developper une societe democratique
et a encourager le processus de paix au Sud du Caucase.

Le Cercle d’amitie du Haut Karabagh est bien sûr ouvert a toute
personnalite animee par les memes ambitions.

Comme le groupe d’amitie parlementaire Lituanie-Artsakh cree le 26
fevrier au Parlement lituanien, le Cercle d’amitie de la Republique du
Haut Karabagh, cree le 19 mars par des elus et responsables politiques
francais, participe d’une meme volonte politique au service d’un Haut
Karabagh democratique et de la paix au Sud du Caucase. Les responsables
politiques, deputes et senateurs francais a l’origine de ce Cercle
d’amitie ont prefere l’encre a la craie pour inscrire dans la duree
leur engagement a soutenir les efforts de democratisation des autorites
du Haut Karabagh et a contribuer au processus de paix dans la region,
et au-dela, resserrer les liens entre la France et la Republique du
Haut Karabagh. Le soutien a l’action du Groupe de Minsk de l’OSCE,
copreside par la France, aux côtes de la Russie et des Etats-Unis, la
securite des peuples de la region du Sud Caucase, le developpement d’un
espace d’echanges et de dialogue entre les peuples de cette region,
ainsi que la rupture de l’isolement du peuple du Karabagh sur la scène
internationale, qui constitue un obstacle majeur a l’instauration de
la paix et de la securite regionales, figurent au rang des priorites
de ce Cercle, comme l’a souligne son porte-parole, le depute de la
Loire Francois Rochebloine, qui en a appele a la Charte universelle
des droits de l’homme et aux valeurs superieures de liberte et de
democratie au c~ur de la lutte du peuple de l’Artsakh pour son droit
a l’autodetermination. L’Artsakh enrichit donc son cercle d’amis et
le Representant du Haut Karabagh en France, Hovhannes Guevorkian,
s’en est felicite, saluant une intiative qui ” a pour objectif de
soutenir le droit a l’autodetermination de la population du Haut
Karabagh et de promouvoir le dialogue et la paix entre les peuples
du Caucase du Sud “. Depassant les clivages politiques, le Cercle
d’amitie de la Republique d’Artsakh est amene a s’elargir et reste
ouvert a tous les responsables politiques francais animes par les
memes valeurs et desireux de soutenir les efforts du peuple du Haut
Karabagh. Il leur suffira d’ajouter leurs signatures au bas de la
Declaration relative a la creation du Cercle d’amitie telle qu’elle
a ete diffusee par ses promoteurs et dont le texte indique:

1. S’appuyant sur l’importance absolue des valeurs de liberte et
de democratie inscrites dans la Declaration des Droits de l’Homme,
2. Soutenant le droit a l’autodetermination de tous les peuples, y
compris celui du Haut-Karabagh (Artsakh), 3. Conscients de l’exigence
d’etablir une paix durable et de parvenir a une stabilite dans la
region du Caucase du Sud, 4. Soutenant l’action des copresidents du
Groupe de Minsk de l’OSCE en vue du règlement du conflit du Karabagh
et les efforts deployes par la Republique francaise a cet effet,
5. Saluant les efforts constants du peuple et des autorites de
la Republique d’Artsakh (Haut-Karabagh) pour bâtir et consolider
une societe libre et democratique, 6. Persuades que l’isolement du
peuple d’Artsakh et sa mise a l’ecart des processus internationaux
ne favorisent pas le dialogue entre les peuples et l’etablissement
d’une paix definitive,

Nous, responsables politiques, deputes et senateurs francais, avons
pris la decision de creer un Cercle d’amitie de la Republique du
Haut-Karabagh (Artsakh).

Signatures : BLUM Roland – ancien depute, 1er adjoint au maire de
Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône BOYER Valerie – deputee, Bouches-du-Rhône
COLOMBIER Georges – ancien depute, Isère CROZON Pascale – deputee,
Rhône FOURNIER Bernard – senateur, Loire JOISSAINS Sophie – senatrice,
Bouches-du-Rhône MALLIE Richard – ancien depute, Bouches-du-Rhône
MARINI Philippe – senateur, Oise PUPPONI Francois- depute, Val-d’Oise
REMILLER Jacques – ancien depute, maire de Vienne, Isère ROCHEBLOINE
Francois – depute, Loire ROUQUET Rene – depute, Val-de-Marne SAUGEY
Bernard – senateur, Isère TEISSIER Guy – depute, Bouches-du-Rhône

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