Author: Kajoyan Gevork

Journalists should be well informed about the characteristics of
police work: Head of the Armenian Police

14:16, 20 October, 2012

YEREVAN, OCTOBER 20, ARMENPRESS: Encouraging effective partnerships
between the police and the media is the aim of a two-day workshop that
started in Tsakhkadzor, Armenia today. The two-day event is
co-organized by the OSCE Office in Yerevan and the Armenian police.

As OCSE Office in Yerevan informed Armenpress , some 30 media
representatives and 20 police officers will discuss media coverage of
sensitive areas, such as pre-trial investigation of criminal cases,
cases involving juveniles and drug trafficking.” Effective
co-operation between the police and the media is essential for society
to be better informed about police activities and the overall security
situation in the country, which in turn can help police fight
crime”said Ambassador Andrey Sorokin, Head of the OSCE Office in
Yerevan.

Dusko Zavisic, an expert from the OSCE Mission in Kosovo, will
participate in a workshop to share his experience of police-media
co-operation with Armenian counterparts. Lieutenant-General Vladimir
Gasparyan, the Head of the Armenian Police, welcomed the initiative:
Enhancing co-operation with the media is in line with our efforts to
raise the transparency of police work. Journalists should be well
informed about the specifics of police activities in order to provide
objective and correct information to people. The goal of today’s event
is also to discuss the problems and general concerns with finding
common solutions.

The OSCE Office in Yerevan has been implementing a number of
activities to promote better police-media co-operation since 2009.
This includes roundtable discussions between police officers and media
representatives in Armenian regions, the production of a guidebook for
the police on how to deal with the media, training for police officers
involved in press and public affairs and the modernization of the
police website to provide up-to-date information to the public.

Expert: foods with fake eco markings sold in Armenia

YEREVAN, October 19. /ARKA/. One can find goods with fake markings,
such as `Eco’, `Bio’and `Free from genetically modified organisms’, at
Armenia’s food market, Nune Darbinyan, ECOGLOBE Llc CEO Nune Darbinyan
said on Friday.

She said there are only there apiaries, 34 farms and seven processing
enterprises have licenses for producing organic foods.

Darbinyan said that in addition to Eco or Bio markings, the label must
contain information about the company from which the license has been
received. She said in Armenia only ECOGLOBE provides such licenses.

She also said that the government should tighten grip upon the matter.

`Those companies which have asked us for licenses are inspected at
least once a year – we oversee the entire process of production for
providing them licenses later,’ Darbinya said.

She also said that organic foods production is a very promising
industry for Armenia.-0–

Two Armenians, including child, killed in Beirut blast

October 20, 2012 – 13:04 AMT

PanARMENIAN.Net – Two Armenians, a woman and a child, were killed in
the Oct 19 blast in the Lebanese capital of Beirut.

According to Nouvelles d’Armenie, the victims were identified as
Georgette Sargisian and 9-year-old Noy Dodelian.

Earlier, Aztag paper editor-in-chief Shahan Kandaharian told
PanARMENIAN.Net that a 9-year-old Armenian child was wounded in the
explosion, but the information was not confirmed.

A huge car bomb that took lives of 8 people exploded in a busy street
in central Beirut, in the predominantly Christian district of
Ashrafiya. Witnesses said it was heard several kilometers away. It was
the deadliest attack in Beirut since 2008. No group said it carried
out the bombing. The intended target was unclear.

Tensions in Lebanon have been rising over the conflict in Syria.

A bomb fell near Armenian Gulbenkyan hospital in Aleppo

11:49, 20 October, 2012

YEREVAN, OCTOBER 20, ARMENPRESS: Heated clashes have been resumed
between Government loyal forces and rebels in several Aleppo districts
on October 19 mornings. As Jirayr Reisyan,Berio National Primacy press
secretary informed Armenpress, the militants made attempts to
penetrate into Armenian New Village. ”The military situation remained
tense and unstable during the day, the voices of shooting could be
heard ”the interlocutor stated.

According to the spokesman a number of buildings have collapsed. To
Armenpress reporter question whether buildings belonging to Armenians
have been damaged, press secretary was quoted as saying ”everybody
has suffered losses regardless nationality”. Simultaneously Reisyan
stated there is still no information available about human losses.

By security reasons Armenian nursing home residents were moved to
Gulbenkian hospital building previous week. One of the bombs just fell
near the hospital in the course of October 19 clashes, fortunately
nobody was injured.

Over 30 thousand people were killed in the course of 18 months lasting
clashes in Syria, including four dozen Armenians.

AZERBAÏDJAN-HONGRIE
Album photo : « Aghdam Hiroshima du Caucase » publié à Budapest

Les agences de presse d’Azerbaïdjan publient une information selon
laquelle un album photo a été publié à Budapest montrant la ville
d’Aghdam détruite par les forces arméniennes lors de la guerre qui a
opposé l’Azerbaïdjan à l’Arménie (1988-1994).

Intitulé « Aghdam : Hiroshima du Caucase », le livre, édité à
l’initiative de l’ambassade d’Azerbaïdjan en Hongrie, contiendrait des
« photos de la ville d’Aghdam totalement détruite, et dont la plus
grande partie est encore sous occupation arménienne. », déclare
News.az.

En avant-propos de l’ouvrage, l’ambassadeur en Hongrie, Vilayat
Guliyev, écrit « Aghdam : Ville blanche au destin noir`.

L’album en question aurait été distribué à tous les ambassadeurs
accrédités en Hongrie, aux instituts sociaux politiques du pays et
présenté à plus de 200 bibliothèques de Hongrie.

La région d’Aghdam est riche en minéraux, mines de cuivre et de zinc,
ainsi que de vastes carrières de marbre et de sources d’eau minérale.

samedi 20 octobre 2012,
Jean Eckian ©armenews.com

AFFAIRE SAFAROV
Budapest essaie une nouvelle fois de se justifier à Washington pour
l’affaire Safarov

La Hongrie continue selon le journal Politics de revenir et condamner
la libération de Ramil Safarov par l’Azerbaïdjan. A Washington, lors
de la rencontre avec la Secrétaire d’Etat américain Hillary Clinton,
le ministre hongrois des Affaires étrangères Janos Martonyi a une
nouvelle fois dit regretter que Bakou ait libéré Safarov malgré ses
garanties sous forme de promesses données à Budapest. Le chef de la
diplomatie hongroise a essayé ainsi de justifier le geste du
gouvernement hongrois qui fut rappelons-le fermement condamné par
Washington.

Krikor Amirzayan

samedi 20 octobre 2012,
Krikor Amirzayan ©armenews.com

MARSEILLE-ARMENIE
L’avant-première du film documentaire « J’ai rêvé d’Arménie » fait
salle comble à l’Alcazar de Marseille

Jeudi 18 octobre à 19 heures, la Ville de Marseille, devant une salle
comble de plus de 300 personnes, l’association Marseille-Arménie et «
Publicité par l’image » présentait, en avant-première, le film
documentaire de 52 minutes « J’ai rêvé d’Arménie » réalisé par
Jean-Pierre Carlon, à la Bibliothèque de Marseille à vocation
régionale de l’Alcazar. En présence de Didier Parakian, président
délégué de Marseille-Arménie, Adjoint au Maire représentant
Jean-Claude Gaudin, Maire de Marseille et Sénateur des
Bouches-du-Rhône, le réalisateur Jean-Pierre Carlon Valérie Dupin,
productrice (Les Productions du Lagon), Patrick Labarrière, Directeur
de France 3 Sud-Est. Avant la projection du documentaire, Didier
Parakian a salué les invités -dont le vice-consul d’Arménie à
Marseille Lévon Davtyan présent dans la salle- ainsi que l’ensemble de
l’équipe pour cette réalisation « qui place Marseille au centre de la
mémoire arménienne et proche de l’Arménie (…) Marseille, cette terre
de liberté et d’espoir pour des générations de réfugiés Arméniens ».
Didier Parakian a également rappelé que cette soirée était dédiée au
21e anniversaire de l’Indépendance de la République d’Arménie. Il a
ensuite donné la parole à l’équipe de la réalisation.

« J’ai rêvé d’Arménie » oscille entre le souvenir et le devenir. Le
capital commun de tous les personnages du film, c’est l’arménité, un
souffle qui tente de trouver un équilibre entre une histoire
douloureuse et sa projection vers le futur. C’est le combat d’un
peuple dispersé à travers le monde après le terrible génocide, jamais
reconnu par ses auteurs. C’est enfin un attachement à ce dernier petit
bout de terre, la toute nouvelle Arménie ».

Un tonnerre d’applaudissements suivit la projection de ce
documentaire. Puis le public posa de nombreuses questions au
réalisateur. Enfin, un cocktail fut servi à l’issue de la projection.

Ce documentaire sera par ailleurs diffusé sur France 3 Provence-Alpes
& France 3 Côte d’Azur, aujourd’hui samedi 20 octobre à 15h20, ainsi
que sur France 3 lundi 17 décembre vers minuit.

Texte et reportage-photo Krikor Amirzayan à Marseille

samedi 20 octobre 2012,
Krikor Amirzayan ©armenews.com

Archbishop Yeghishe Gizirian Celebrates 65th Anniversary of Joining Priesthood

Archbishop Gizirian

This year Archbishop Yeghishe Gizirian is celebrating the 65th
Anniversary of his being ordained into priesthood of the Holy Armenian
Orthodox Church. British Armenians remember the Archbishop with deep
fondness and affection, as between 1982 and 2002, he served as Primate
of the Armenian Churches in the United Kingdom.

Archbishop Gizirian was much loved and respected by all British
Armenians. He was wholly dedicated to his duties as Primate, and full
of humility. As a humble clergyman, he had no qualms at all to serve
the community by wholeheartedly supporting and working with the
Armenian Community and Church Council of Great Britain (ACCC), and
almost every Sunday he would serve Mass at the ACCC’s community
church, the St Peter’s Church (later re-consecrated the St Yeghiche
Church) in South Kensington.

A native of Damascus, Syria, Archbishop Gizirian studied at the
Seminary of the Catholicosate of Cilicia in Antelias, Lebanon. He was
ordained a celibate priest in 1947 by the late Bishop Terenig
Poladian.

He moved to the United States in 1951, where he served as the Pastor
of the Holy Cross Church of New York City; St. John the Baptist Church
of Miami; Holy Mother of God Church of Newark, N.J.; the Holy Saviour
Church of Worcester, Mass.; St. John the Baptist Church of Detroit,
Michigan.; Sts. Sahag and Mesrob Church of Wynnewood, Pennsylvania;
and Holy Trinity Church of Cambridge, Massachusetts.

In 1982, Fr. Gizirian was ordained a Bishop in the Cathedral of Holy
Etchmiadzin by His Holiness Vasken I, the late Supreme Patriarch and
Catholicos of All Armenians. In March of that year he was elected by
the ACCC of Great Britain as Primate of the United Kingdom and at
their request, His Holiness Vasken I appointed him Primate and
Pontifical Legate of the Armenian Churches of the United Kingdom.

In 1993, he was elevated to the rank of Archbishop.

After 20 years of service in the United Kingdom, he retired from the
position of Primate, and returned to the United States, where he now
divides his time between visiting parishes, representing the Diocese
at official functions, and serving as the spiritual father of St.
Nersess Armenian Seminary in New Rochelle, N.Y.

The Armenian Community and Church Council of Great Britain will always
be grateful to Archbishop Gizirian for his support and cooperation,
and on behalf of the British Armenian community, the ACCC was pleased
to send a letter of congratulations and good wished to the Archbishop.

Archbishop Gizirian’ response to congratulations from ACCC
By Ara Palamoudian/ACCC of GB

Witness: Erdoðan assassination attempt stirred up Ergenekon trial

October 19, 2012 – 15:46 AMT

PanARMENIAN.Net – A statement from a secret witness alleged that an
assassination attempt set up against Prime Minster Recep Tayyip
Erdoðan in 2004-2005 has stirred up the Ergenekon trial, Hurriyet
Daily News reported.

The 248th trial in the ongoing Ergenekon case opened in Istanbul with
the statements of “Secret witness Selçuk,” who claimed that defendants
Arif Doðan, Veli Küçük, Levent Ersöz and Muzaffer Tekin were involved
in an attempt to assassinate Erdoðan by planting C4 explosives in his
car.

He claimed that a Lieutenant Colonel had requested the help of a
carwash attendant near Erdoðan’s home for the assassination attempt,
but added that the worker did not want to get involved.

The witness said he was in charge between 1991 and 1999 as an
intelligence officer in the gendarmerie, adding that during this time
Ersöz and Küçük had connections with Russian military intelligence
services.

“They were sending narcotic substances abroad and they were claiming
to be patriots,” he said.

Küçük’s daughter, acting as his lawyer, fainted in the court following
these allegations.

ARMENIAN MANUFACTURERS ENCOUNTER THE SAME PROBLEM

06:59 pm | Today | Economy

Representatives of at least 50 companies engaged in the manufacturing,
processing and trading of food are participating in the ArmProd EXPO
2012 annual exhibition underway in the RA government building. Food and
beverage producers and suppliers from Artsakh are also participating
in the exhibition.

Entrepreneurs from Armenia and Artsakh face the same problems
connected with the consumption market. “We have our special place
in the market and we are not going to yield it to some other company
that enjoys monopoly,” said Arthur Asryan, Director of the Yerevan
branch of Stepanakert Brandy Company.

Representatives of small and middle-sized businesses say confess that
they cannot expand their activities because of heavy taxes.

This year visitors have to pay AMD 500 to walked round the exhibition
halls and get acquainted with the products. The organizers say the
money will be used for charitable purposes.

The exhibition is organized by the Ministry of Agriculture in
cooperation with the Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs
(Employers) of Armenia and LOGOS EXPO Center.