Author: Kalantarian Kevo

ARMENIA MAY DECLARE DEC 9 GENOCIDES VICTIMS REMEMBRANCE DAY

October 21, 2014 – 17:42 AMT

PanARMENIAN.Net – A member of Heritage opposition party Zaruhi
Postanjyan submitted to parliamentary consideration a package of
bills on condemnation of the genocides of Pontic Greeks, Assyrians,
Yezidis and other ethnicities in the Ottoman Empire, with the draft
laws latters included on the agenda of the Cabinet of Ministers’
next session.

The government, however, suggested instead declaring December 9 a
commemoration day for the victims of genocides, to mark the United
Nations Convention for the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of
Genocide adopted December 9, 1948.

“Based on the abovementioned, the government will consider the
initiative acceptable in case its suggestion is approved, with Deputy
Foreign Minister Shavarsh Kocharyan to be appointed as a co-rapporteur
in consideration of the initiative,” the government’s statement said.

ARMENIA SEEKS INVESTORS IN IRAN-ARMENIA RAILWAY

00:16, 23.10.2014

YEREVAN. – Armenian government continues to seek investors in the
Iran – Armenia railway, announced the Prime Minister of Armenia Hovik
Abrahamyan in parliament on Wednesday, commenting on the results of
his visit to Iran, Armenian News – NEWS.am reports.

The PM reminded that Dubai-based Rasia FZE investment company
was already interested in the project and currently Armenia seeks
additional investors.

“This project, as you know, is very important for our country. The
Iranian leadership is ready to cooperate, and as soon as we find
funding for the project, will help us to implement it,” the Prime
Minister said.

The construction of the railway, according to preliminary data,
is estimated at $3.2 billion, and Rasia FZE is ready to invest 60%
of the required amount. Construction is expected to last up to 6 years.

According to the document, which the company introduced in February
to the Armenian Government, the construction could start in 2016 and
end in 2022.

Armenia News – NEWS.am

DORTMUND EASES TO 4-0 WIN OVER GALATASARAY IN CHAMPIONS LEAGUE

13:19, 23 Oct 2014

Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang scored twice as Borussia Dortmund exploited
poor defending to beat Galatasaray 4-0 in the Champions League on Oct.

22.

Dortmund’s third victory in three matches strengthened its grip on
Group D with nine points. Arsenal beat Anderlecht 2-1 and is second
with six. Anderlecht and Galatasaray have one each.

Aubameyang opened the scoring in the sixth minute, when he tapped in a
cross from Marco Reus, and doubled the lead in the 18th with another
simple strike from close range. Reus scored the third in the 41st by
curling in a spectacular shot from more than 20 meters.

Adrian Ramos added the fourth in the 83rd, one minute after coming
on for Shinji Kagawa, who had set up Reus.

All four goals came after woeful defending by Galatasaray. “We were
very efficient,” Dortmund’s captain Mats Hummels said. “We had two
early chances and we scored from both of them, and then of course
it’s easier to play. We also wanted to play good defense and we did.”

Aubameyang was left with a simple tap-in on the first goal when Reus
had plenty of space to cross. On the second, Henrikh Mkhitaryan sent
Lukasz Piszczek racing and the defender had plenty of time to find
Aubameyang.

Neven Subotic made a big clearance in front of Burak Yılmaz, then
Aubameyang hit the post from close range from another Mkhitaryan pass.

Reus was left unchallenged when he fired his goal and Ramos also
had plenty of space to place his shot after a good through ball from
Ä°lkay Gundogan, another substitute who is coming back after missing
14 months with a back injury.

Borussia Dortmund coach Jurgen Klopp believes his side still have a
lot to work to do to in the Champions League, despite their 4-0 win
at Galatasaray.

Dortmund sit top of Group D and are potentially only a point away
from qualifying for the last 16, but Klopp was still not completely
happy as they bounced back from successive Bundesliga defeats on
Wednesday night.

“I wouldn’t say it was as easy as it looked,” he said at the post-match
press conference. “We scored the goals at the right time, but it
certainly wasn’t easy tonight. We’re light years from perfection,
even if it is extraordinary to win 4-0 away from home in the Champions
League.”

Klopp now hopes his side can replicate their European form
domestically, where in eight games this season they have picked up
two points fewer than in just three Champions League outings.

“Certainly we’re not going to give away any more room, or at least
that’s the plan,” Klopp added. “We must not concede such easy goals
any more. We’ve got to be ready to get dirty wins, and that is going
to be the case from now on.”

TURKISH JUSTICE MINISTRY CLEARS WAY FOR PROBE OF EX-POLICE CHIEF IN DINK MURDER CASE

12:33, 23 Oct 2014

The Justice Ministry has cleared the path for investigations into
nine civil servants, including the former police chief of Istanbul
Celalettin Cerrah, who are accused of negligence in the murder of the
Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink in 2007, the Hurriyet Daily
News reports.

Lawyers representing Dink’s family had long requested an investigation
into the nine civil servants, but their initial demand was rejected
by the Istanbul Governor’s Office.

However, a high criminal court in the city later upheld the family’s
appeal and lifted the nonsuit ruling, prompting prosecutors to file
an appeal to the Justice Ministry.

The ministry eventually rejected the prosecutors’ appeal on Oct. 22
with a decision that caps a long legal battle and which may prove
substantial in the retrial as the investigation process has been
stalled, despite a recent Constitutional Court decision ruling that
the murder case was not efficiently investigated.

Along with Cerrah, Ergun Gungör and Istanbul Police Department
Intelligence Head Ahmet Ä°lhan Guler are among the nine individuals
requested to be investigated by Dink’s lawyers.

Dink was shot dead by Ogun Samast in broad daylight on a busy street
outside the offices of the bilingual Turkish-Armenian newspaper
Agos, which he edited, in central Istanbul on Jan. 19, 2007, in an
assassination that sent shockwaves throughout Turkey.

Samast was sentenced to over 22 years in jail for the murder, but
lawyers representing the Dink family have repeatedly expressed their
dismay over the lack of investigation regarding the individuals or
groups who allegedly commissioned the murder.

Lawyers representing Dink’s family have said the retrial, which started
a year ago, could bring progress to the investigation. But one of the
key suspects of the case, Erhan Tuncel, a former police informant,
was recently released pending the trial.

Backing up widespread accusations of a state conspiracy, Tuncel
claimed in December 2013 that he had informed the police of the plan,
but his warnings went unheeded.

The investigations of the key former police officers may bring to
light many aspects of the murder that have remained unknown.

According to reports, Dink was called to a police department and
“warned” about the plot against him, fueling the belief that the
murder was known by some institutions within the state beforehand.

One of Dink’s lawyers, Fehriye Cetin, argued in a book published
last year on the case that the order to kill was given by Turkey’s
National Intelligence Organization (MÄ°T) via an encrypted message.

SOMMET SUR LE HAUT KARABAKH LUNDI A L’ELYSEE

Diplomatie-sommet-France-Armenie-Azerbaïdjan

Paris, 22 oct 2014 (AFP) – Les presidents d’Azerbaïdjan et d’Armenie,
Ilham Aliev et Serge Sarkissian, seront lundi a l’Elysee a l’invitation
de Francois Hollande pour un sommet sur le Haut Karabakh, region
separatiste que se disputent les deux pays depuis des decennies,
a-t-on appris mercredi dans l’entourage du chef de l’Etat.

Ce sommet est destine a faire en sorte que le dialogue reprenne entre
les deux parties dans la recherche d’une solution au conflit, alors
que les accrochages se sont multiplies ces derniers mois autour de
cette region.

En août, les attaques entre les deux camps ont fait au moins 23 morts.

Organise a la suite de la visite de M. Hollande en Azerbaïdjan, Armenie
et Georgie les 11, 12 et 13 mai derniers, ce sommet reunira aussi
les representants du groupe de Minsk, co-preside par les Etats-Unis,
la France et la Russie, et mediateur pour l’OSCE dans ce conflit.

M. Hollande s’entretiendra separement avec les presidents Aliev et
Sarkissian, qui pourront ensuite se rencontrer en tete-a-tete s’ils
le souhaitent, ce qui n’a pas eu lieu depuis novembre 2013.

Un dîner dans la soiree ouvert plus largement sur l’avenir du Caucase
conclura ce sommet.

Rattache a l’Azerbaïdjan a l’epoque sovietique, le Nagorny-Karabakh –
une region separatiste en majorite armenienne – a ete l’enjeu d’une
guerre qui a fait 30.000 morts et des centaines de milliers de refugies
entre 1988 et 1994.

Un cessez-le-feu a ete signe en 1994, mais Bakou et Erevan n’arrivent
pas a se mettre d’accord sur le statut de la region, qui reste une
source de tension dans le Caucase du Sud, une zone strategique situee
entre l’Iran, la Russie et la Turquie.

jeudi 23 octobre 2014, Stephane (c)armenews.com

HOW IT HAPPENED THAT THE MOST PRESTIGIOUS ARMENIAN DOCTOR OF NEW YORK “MARRIED” TO GYUMRI?PHOTOS-VIDEO

October 23 2014

On October 22, the official opening of “Varduhi” art School built
in Gyumri “Textile” neighborhood and initiated and sponsored by
American-Armenian doctor Hovhannes Oyunjyan was launched in Gyumri. As
we have informed, the school is named after the benefactor’s sister,
Varduhi, who as described by Hovhannes Oyunjyan, “had given life
to him.” Hovhannes Oyunjyan, born in Constantinople’s neighborhood
Chilingar village, in the conversation with us told that he was 15
days from birth, when the neighboring Turks attacked the village by
shooting into the air. Armenians left their house in panic forgetting
the little Hovhannes in the cradle. The sister, Varduhi, remembering
that her little brother is in the cradle, returned through these
shooting, took the brother from the cradle and hugged him in a
position that when shooting the Turkish bullet would him her and
not her brother. 94 – year-old doctor expressed his gratitude to her
sister by building a hypermodern and luxurious art school equipped
with all conveniences in the center of Gyumri. Here, according to
Hovhannes Oyunjyan, people will learn ballet, European tango, music,
sculpture, art history, theater, poetry and so on… The teachers
financial costs will also be covered by the 94 – year-old benefactor.

The art school named after his father and mother “Armenak and Elizabeth
Oyunjyans school-college” will be free for the schoolchildren, and for
the other children, the cost would be symbolic, a tiny amount, let’s
say, 500 drams per month. He benefactor admits that he is actually not
tied to Gyumri, but married to this city. “I was not tied to Gyumri,
but married, if Gyumri likes me, I will live in Gyumri, if not,
I will devorce,” said Hovhannes Oyunjyan.

He spends half a year in New York and half a year in Armenia, feeling
better in the homeland. We asked the doctor whether the rumors in
Gyumri are true that the benefactor had sold his house in Istanbul to
build an art school in Armenia. He said, “No, it’s not true. My house
in Istanbul was a wonderful house, I could sell it at a very high
price, but I sold it at a very small amount and left. So, the amount
I got it from here is nothing here, just a drop in the sea.” And as
to why the doctor did not want to keep the house in Istanbul, he says
that it’s a secret. He informed that he is also planning to build a
school of crafts, again another beautiful building, so that children
would learn crafts. Note that the doctor is doing a charity in Gyumri
for 16 years. He built the secondary school No. 21 in the “Textile”
neighborhood in Gyumri naming it in honor of his parents “Armenak and
Elizabeth Oyunjyanns school-college”. More than 50 children studying
here receive ongoing scholarships, and he laso transfers the education
fee for 100 students. The size of his investments in Gyumri amounts
to up to 6 million dollars.

Nune AREVSHATYAN

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DELEGATION OF THE ALL-CHINA WOMEN’S FEDERATION IN THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY

23.10.2014

On October 23 the RA NA Deputy Speaker Hermine Naghdalyan, the NA
deputies Naira Zohrabyan, Ruzanna Muradyan, Heghine Bisharyan,
Elinar Vardanyan, Margarit Yesayan, Ruzanna Muradyan and Karine
Atshemyan met with the Delegation of the All-China Women’s Federation
headed by Yu Hongqiu member of the All-China Assembly of the People’s
Representatives of the People’s Republic of China (PRC), the Deputy
Chair of the All-China Women’s Federation and the member of the
Secretariat.

The NA Deputy Speaker Hermine Naghdalyan welcomed the guests’ visit
to Armenia and highlighted the further development and strengthening
of the inter-parliamentary relations. She has noted that Armenia
attaches a great importance to the deepening of multilateral
cooperation with the People’s Republic of China. She has underlined
that the Armenia-China Friendship Group led by her works effectively
in the Armenian Parliament. Mrs Naghdalyan has emphasized the closer
cooperation of the parliaments of the two countries, particularly,
of the women MPs in different spheres, the mutual visits, which,
according to her, will give an opportunity to find new ways and
formats of cooperation. In the context of women’s role and importance
in Armenia, their participation in the political processes and their
representation in the parliament, Mrs Naghdalyan touched upon the
legislation concerning the gender equality, the activities of the
NGOs involved in women’s problems.

The women MPs representing the Armenian Parliament in their speeches
also highlighted the active cooperation of the women parliamentarians,
as well as presented the Armenian woman’s role in the social-political
processes of our country.

The Deputy Chair of the All-China Women’s Federation and the member of
the Secretariat Yu Hongqiu in her turn thanked for the warm reception
and has expressed conviction that such meetings further contribute to
the deepening of cooperation. She has also briefly presented the data
of the women’s involvement in the political local authorities in China,
according to which, only in the rural communities the women’s number
is approximately 93%, and in the parliament 23%. To Mrs Yu Hongqiu’s
conviction this is already a big power, and it is the evidence that
the women’s role and assessment gradually grows.

The parties have also discussed issues regarding women’s cooperation
in social and political activities of the two countries and the
directions of the joint work.

ARMENIA’S ACCESSION TO EEU TO FACILITATE COOPERATION BETWEEN ARMENIAN AND RUSSIAN COMPANIES

14:51 23/10/2014 >> ECONOMY

Armenia’s membership in the Eurasian Economic Union (EEU) will boost
development of economic relations, Armenian Development Agency
(ADA) head Robert Harutyunyan told reporters on the sidelines of
Expo Russia-Armenia 2014 Sixth International Industrial Exhibition
in Yerevan.

“Today’s event is very important in this aspect, and the number of
companies presented here bears evidence to it,” he said.

Oleg Mizerkov, deputy head of the department of economic cooperation
with the Customs Union and CIS states, for his part, expressed
hope that economic cooperation with Armenia will reach the level of
cooperation between Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan, particularly in
the aspect of development of small and medium-sized businesses.

“Russian and Armenian companies are willing to expand cooperation
beyond the framework of this exhibition and I think Armenia’s accession
to the EEU Treaty will contribute to it,” Mizerkov said.

Source: Panorama.am

ERICSSON CONSIDERS ARMENIA AS POTENTIAL PARTNER IN TERMS OF DEVELOPMENT OF COMMUNICATIONS

YEREVAN, October 21. /ARKA/. Ericsson considers Armenia as potential
partner in terms of development of communications, Charlotta Sund,
Head of Ericsson’s Region Northern Europe and Central Asia, told
journalists on Tuesday.

In her words, Ericsson considers Armenia as a quite serious and strong
partner in information technology area and Armenia’s market may be
called a developed electronic society.

Armenia’s fast-developing communications, she said, give grounds for
recognizing the country as a full partner to Ericsson. –0–

GERMAN COMMUNISTS DEMAND REPORT ON KARABAKH FROM THEIR GOVERNMENT

Vestnik Kavkaza, Russia
Oct 21 2014

21 October 2014 – 2:41pm

Orkhan Sattarov, the head of the European Bureau of Vestnik Kavkaza

According to information from a German parliamentary source, the
communist party Die Linke has requested a detailed report on the
settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict and the role of Germany
in the process from the German federal government.

The faction’s request stresses that according to resolutions of the UN
SC (822, 853, 874, 884), the UN General Assembly (62/243), the Council
of Europe, and other international organizations, Nagorno-Karabakh
is an integral part of Azerbaijan. The request specially notes that
the seven occupied regions near Nagorno-Karabakh were populated by
Azerbaijanis before the war.

Die Linke points out the particular role of Moscow in the process of
settlement of the Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict, as Russia supports
intensive relations with Armenia and Azerbaijan. “Russia has
significantly developed economic and political ties with Azerbaijan.

Both sides cooperate in the sphere of joint preservation of borders and
prevention of penetration of armed militants from abroad to Dagestan,”
the request says.

“Azerbaijan joined the Nonaligned Movement in 2011. Unlike Georgia,
it doesn’t find membership in NATO interesting. In this context
Russia began to make more active efforts to find a balance between
the interests of the conflicting sides and settlement of the conflict
within international law,” Die Linke thinks. As an example of Moscow’s
special status and its influence on the conflicting sides, German MPs
speak about tension on the front line between Armenian and Azerbaijani
troops in August: “A trilateral meeting of the presidents of Armenia,
Azerbaijan and Russia, which was initiated by the Russian side, was
aimed at stabilization in the front line and de-escalation of further
violence.” Considering these facts, the German communists are asking
the German government how Berlin, being a member of the Minsk Group,
supports peaceful efforts of Russia in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.

Die Linke voiced 40 questions and sub-items in the letter, which are
connected with settlement of the Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict. Among
others, German communists are interested in final results of an
investigation of the murder of an Azerbaijani boy Fariz Badalov
by an Armenian shooter on March 8th, 2011, in the village of Orta
Garvand near the front line. Moreover, the request touches on illegal
settlement of people in the occupied Azerbaijani territories, attempts
to open an airport in Nagorno-Karabakh, and direct financial support
of the unrecognized Karabakh regime by the U.S.

According to German laws, the government is obliged to respond to
the parliamentary request within 14 days. However, considering the
broad character of the Nagorno-Karabakh issue, Die Linke agreed to
prolong the period of its processing. Vestnik Kavkaza will inform
its readers on the response of the German government to the request.