Author: Kalantarian Kevo

Armenian general suggests delivering a series of preventive surgical
strikes at Azeri army’s combat positions

by Ashot Safaryan

ARMINFO
Tuesday, August 26, 15:32

The Armenian army can and should deliver a series of preventive
surgical strikes at the Azeri army’s positions, Major-General Arkady
Ter- Tadevosyan (Kommandos), an Artsakh war hero, said at today’s
press conference in Yerevan.

He said that over the past 20 years Azerbaijan has regularly
threatened to unleash war, made sabotage attacks and kept Armenia
blocked, but in fact, Azerbaijan has no combat effective army. “We
should not sit on our hands and let the enemy get on our nerves all
the time. Unfortunately, today it is Azerbaijan that gives tone to
the talks, blackmailing and threatening to launch military actions.
Armenia should be the first to strike”, he said. He added that after
receiving the necessary effect of these strikes, Armenia may even
break the blockade and get an access to Russia’s borders at the
expense of northern territories of Azerbaijan.

In the meantime, Ter-Tadevosyan stressed the need to coordinate the
issue of the strikes with the Armenian public. “Azerbaijan must see
that Armenia and its citizens are ready to take extreme measures to
ensure long-lasting security and stability of their border”, he said.

As regards the possible response of the international community,
Ter-Tadevosyan thinks that the OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs are also
responsible for the current deadlock situation by shutting their eyes
to Baku’s permanent attempts to destabilize the situation. He is not
afraid of large- scale military actions as a result of the strikes.
“The western countries are afraid for their oil and gas pipes and will
not allow Azerbaijan to unleash war”, he said.

Kansas Air National Guard, UAF Provide $4.1 Million of Aid to Armenia

Monday, August 25th, 2014

A U.S. Air Force KC-135 aircraft providing delivery of aid supplies

GLENDALE–The Kansas Air National Guard, in cooperation with the United
Armenian Fund (UAF), delivered $4.1 million of medicines and medical
supplies to Armenia on Aug. 16.

The National Guard provided the free air transport as part of its
Humanitarian Assistance Airlift on board a KC-135 aircraft. Kansas is
a partner state with the Republic of Armenia.

The UAF collected the $4.1 million of humanitarian aid from AmeriCares
($3.9 million) and Direct Relief International ($267,000).

In the past 25 years, the UAF has delivered to Armenia and Artsakh a
total of $696 million worth of relief supplies on board 159 airlifts
and 2,185 sea containers.

The UAF is the collective effort of the Armenian General Benevolent
Union, Armenian Missionary Association of America, Armenian Relief
Society, Diocese of the Armenian Church of America, and Prelacy of the
Armenian Apostolic Church of America.

For more information, contact the UAF office at 1101 North Pacific
Avenue, Suite 204, Glendale, CA 91202 or call (818) 241-8900.

Sponsorship Needed for Mamikon Grigoryan at Gyumri Social Childcare
Center (GSCC)

SOCIETY FOR ORPHANED ARMENIAN RELIEF (SOAR)

1060 First Avenue, Suite 400, King of Prussia, PA 19406

Office: 610.213.3452 Fax: 610.229.5168

Email: [email protected] Web:

The Sponsorship Program is the primary mechanism through which SOAR
provides support to specific orphaned Armenian children. Each week we
highlight an orphaned Armenian child. This week, we highlight Eduard
Toroyan at Gyumri Social Childcare Center, a day center in Gyumri that
has serviced more than 250 children since 2006.

Name: Mamikon Grigoryan

Orphanage: Gyumri Social Childcare Center

Gender: Male

DOB: August 26, 2007

Father’s Name/Occupation: Khachik Grigoryan/Unknown

Mother’s Name/Occupation: Irina Asatryan/Unknown

Siblings: One brother

Family History: Mamikon’s family lives in poor conditions. His father
was a military servant, but a year ago left for the Russia and has not
kept in contact with his wife and children. Mamikon’s mother is
unemployed and takes care of the children. The family’s income is from
a poverty pension.

Health:

Mamikon has speech and developmental problems along with a physical
(glandular) problem. He is need of medical treatment related to
allergies.

Special interests, talents, hobbies, and future aspirations:

Mamikon likes to play with toy cars and listen to music.

If you would like to sponsor Mamikon, please contact George S.
Yacoubian, Jr., at [email protected] or enroll through the
Sponsorship Program by selecting Mamikon at the Gyumri Social
Childcare Center.

Thank you in advance for your support!

The Society for Orphaned Armenian Relief (SOAR) is a 501(c)(3)
nonprofit organization dedicated to providing humanitarian relief to
orphaned Armenian children and adults. Working with a loyal donor base
and a trusted network of partners, SOAR distributes clothing,
educational supplies, medicine, and other essential resources to
orphaned Armenians throughout the world.

Armenia can triple its exports to Russia, Tatul Manaseryan says

YEREVAN, August 25. / ARKA /. Armenia can triple its exports to Russia
by adding products of military-industrial complex to the export of
traditional agricultural products, according to Tatul Manaseryan, the
head of Yerevan-based think-tank called Alternative.

Earlier this month Russian president Vladimir Putin ordered one-year
limitations on food and agricultural imports from countries that have
issued sanctions against Russia over its actions in Ukraine. The ban
extends to all U.S. agricultural imports and to fruits and vegetables
from the European Union.

Speaking at a news conference today Manaseryan argued that if Armenia
manages to integrate into the military-industrial complex of Russia by
offering its scientific and technical products ‘because Western
sanctions against Russia include also technology’, it will succeed
dramatically because ‘of unlimited demand for high-tech products in
Russia.”.

According to Manaseryan, all these questions should be raised and
discussed during a visit by Russian prime minister Dmitry Medvedev to
Armenia, scheduled for September 8-9.

In a related development Gagik Makaryan, the chairman of the National
Union of Employers, said today the Russian market may help Armenian
companies to increase production of wines, juices, mineral water and
canned food by 30 percent this year alone and to double the output in
2015.

According to the National Statistical Service, Armenia’s trade
turnover with Russia in the first half of 2014 amounted to $596
million, a decrease of 0.5 percent compared to the same period last
year. Exports from Armenia to Russia dropped by 6.4 percent to $133.9
million, while imports from Russia grew by 1.4 percent to $462
million.-0-

Why did the government’s promised 50 thousand dollars to Yezidis
become 100 thousand?

August 25 2014

Did the Azerbaijani entrepreneur hit the dignity of the RA
authorities? Yesterday, the RA Government decided to provide an
assistance of 100 thousand dollars to deprived and affected Yezidis
due to the events in Iraq. The aid was provided to the Yezidis after
the bid protest of Yezidis in front of the government building, last
Thursday, by bringing charges against the Government of Armenia of
indifference. They urged the RA authorities to come up with statements
at the international organizations against the massacre in Iraq
against Yezidi people. The financial support, according to preliminary
arrangement, was 50 thousand US dollars, but yesterday, the government
changed its mind and doubled the amount. The amount was to be
transferred to Iraq by “Sinjar” Yezidi National Union, but as told by
the Chairman of the Union, Boris Murazi, in conversation with
“Aravot,” for security reasons, the government was suggested to convey
the money through the UN High Commissioner for Refugees. As to why 50
thousand became 100 thousand dollars, Boris Murazi comments as
follows, “Hours prior to the meeting with the president and the prime
minister, it became clear that an Azerbaijani entrepreneur had sent
his aid to Iraqi Kurdish refugees. He has a field kitchen that
prepares food for 4 thousand people in an hour. After that, Armenia
appeared in a bad situation and decided to double the amount of aid.
In other words, with this move, Azerbaijan subjected the Armenian
authorities to diplomatic defeat. I am sure that the Azerbaijani
entrepreneur could not do anything like this without the permission by
their government, and since Azerbaijan was also aware of the
indifference by our government on this matter, made a diplomatic move.
I cannot tell that Azerbaijanis are our friends, because, as one of
Iraqi Yezidis has said, it would be better for the Republic of
Azerbaijan to withdraw its terrorist citizens from Islamic terrorist
groups and thus would demonstrate a great support.” Lately, Boris
Murazi, with regard to the statement by the President’s Office, in
which the president particularly had expressed concern about the
continuous massive violence against the Yezidi population in northern
Iraq and the fact of numerous casualties affected thereof, said, “It
remains to act in compliance with the spirit of the statement made by
the RA authorities and not just a statement. Be made in conformity to
the reality and actions be taken and that the Armenian diplomats work
on this matter both in the UN, PACE and other international
organizations.”

Lusine BUDAGHYAN
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“The Syrian-Armenian doctor should understand that one should not go
against the mayors in Armenia.” Orientalist

August 25 2014

In the conversation with Aravot.am, the orientalist, who lived in
Syria for two years, Artak Avetisyan, referring to the story of Boris
Aghoyan, who moved from Syria to Armenia two years ago and works as a
cardiologist in the hospital in the city of Talin, and being beaten by
the relatives of Talin city mayor, half-jokingly and half-serious
said, “Apparently, perhaps, there is no difference whom they beat, it
could be me or a Georgian-Armenian doctor or another doctor instead of
this Syrian-Armenian doctor, simply with the differences that is the
one being beaten in an known person, not notable with anything, is not
a person of distinguished circles, does not affiliate to certain
wings, does not have a support or a backup, etc., this person can be
beaten, regardless of whether he is immigrated from Syria, it does not
matter that he has brought some equipment for Talin city. I,
certainly, do not justify a man beating, but I think that in this case
they were supposed to differentiate that he is a Syrian-Armenian and
not to beat him.” To our observation that the doctor had escaped
unscathed from the wartime turmoil in Syria, now is beaten in the
homeland, our interlocutor said, “Sometimes, our war veterans are
beaten in our country, the wife of a war veteran was beaten to death,
the value field in our country is so mixed up, whom and when caught is
beaten, it is not only beating, they do more complex actions:
plundering, seize the business… This has become an ordinary thing in
our country, an Armenian ordinary classical reality.” To our question
of whether it would be wrong for the Syrian-Armenian doctor, who is
going to leave Armenia, get packed, the orientalists said, “Frankly
speaking, let him go, if he thinks that he is much better than the
Armenian living in Armenia, who likewise is beaten in Syunik, Yerevan
and everywhere in Armenia. If the Syrian-Armenian has come to Armenia
and wants to live in Armenia, then he must live with our problems and
our pain, tomorrow there might be firings on the Armenian border and
we face a war, so he that has escaped the shootings there and has come
here, should not go to war? Homeland is equal for everyone, if you
have come here, so be ready to share the daily routine with the
citizen of the homeland. If they think that they should be privileged
in this country, then good-bye to everyone from the beginning to the
end… What was required in the beginning was done, good people helped
them to find job, in short as much as…” You’re saying that it turns
out that the Syrian-Armenian should understand where he has come, in
response to our question, our interlocutor continued, “Of course,
anyone must understand that if he had come to live… I’ve lived in
Syria for two years, in the beginning I also had these kind of
problems, there is a time when you make a mistake, or make a mistakes
to the extent of that these are their traditions, in other words, you
could not do such a thing, you cannot do it there but you can do it
here… After that, he will quickly understand what to do, you will
understand that one cannot displace the mayors’ cars, this is Armenia,
you must endure, if needed you should wait for hours until the mayor
has the kindness to do it, one should not go against the mayor, that’s
for sure. ”

Nune AREVSHATYAN
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Armenian President: Not everybody is glad that Armenia is joining the
Customs Union

by Alexandr Avanesov

arminfo
Monday, August 25, 14:09

The Customs Union is not one country and I agree with the opinion
that not everybody is glad that Armenia is joining it, Armenian
President Serzh Sargsyan said while closing Baze 2014 Youth Camp on
Saturday.

“Any country’s membership to any union implies certain problems for
the other members. But on the other hand, I can’t say that the Customs
Union members do not want Armenia to join them. Otherwise, they would
prevent us from doing it. Those saying that we are being forced to
join the Customs Union are not right. If a certain part of our society
blames us for being in too much haste to join the Union, this does not
mean that somebody is forcing us to do it. This is a normal process.
We are entering a crucial stage of our development and we will face
lots of changes. It is hard to have a consensus on such an issue. I
have no problems with either those criticizing us or those supporting
our initiative. Time will show who was right,” Sargsyan said

Trout hatchery program to help restore fish population in Armenia’s Sevan

YEREVAN, August 25. /ARKA/. Armenia’s government will appropriate some
3.6 billion drams for a trout hatchery in Sevan Lake, the country’s
minister of agriculture Sergo Karapetyan said last week.

The aim of the complex program is to restore Sevan’s trout population,
the minister said.

The money will be spent to build a streamside fish-rearing facility
and a fish-processing factory at Sevan, 3 billion drams and 600
million drams respectively, Karapetyan said. Young fish will be
released then into the lake. The first stage of the program will cost
about 2 billion drams.

According to official information, total fish resources are now over
420 tons in Sevan, including 324 tons of sig (whitefish). In the
beginning of 1990ies fish population totaled 28-30,000 tons.

Sevan is one of the largest mountainous lakes in Europe and Asia. It
sits in the middle of Armenian Highland at an altitude of 1914 meters
and is the main source of drinking water in the region. ($1-
407.79drams). -0–

FOOTBALL
Seconde opération pour Araz Ozbiliz qui reviendra sur les terrains en mars 2015

Complications pour l’international arménien et milieu de terrain du
Spartak Moscou Araz Ozbiliz. Blessé au genou lors du match amical
Algérie-Arménie en Suisse fin mai, Araz Ozbiliz avait subi le 11 juin
une opération chirurgicale à Rome. Il devait revenir sur les terrains
à la fin de l’année. Mais après un contrôle il y a quelques jours, il
s’avérait qu’une seconde opération chirurgicale s’imposait pour
l’international arménien. Araz Ozbiliz sera réopéré le 15 septembre à
Rome a affirmé Mikhaïl Vartabedov le médecin du Spartak Moscou,
également d’origine arménienne. Si tout se déroule normalement, après
une longue période de rééducation, Araz Ozbiliz devrait revenir sur
les terrains en mars prochain.

Krikor Amirzayan

lundi 25 août 2014,
Krikor Amirzayan (c)armenews.com

COMMUNIQUÉ DU MAFP
Le MAFP condamne la campagne de calomnies contre Mourad Papazian

Bien que démissionnaire du CCAF,l’association MAFP qui fut un des
membres fondateurs de cette organisation condamne sévèrement les
propos tenus par un auteur anonyme à l’égard de son co-président.

Issue de la Résistance, MAFP s’opposera toujours aux lettres anonymes,
aux propos diffamatoires et aux dénonciations dont fut victime Missak
Manouchian.

Notre objectif a toujours été l’unité et la cohésion de la communauté
arménienne de France ce qui n’exclue pas des divergences de vue. Plus
que jamais à la veille de la commémoration du centenaire du Génocide
des Arméniens, nous devons nous montrer solidaires et unis.

Nersès Durman
Président
Paris 24 août 2014

Qui cherche à semer la discorde ?

A la veille de la commémoration du centenaire du génocide des
Arméniens, la propagation de mails insultants envers Mourad Papazian
est scandaleuse. Nous protestons contre le procédé utilisé par cet
individu qui n’a pour but que de semer le trouble dans l’esprit des
Arméniens ainsi le choix de son nom nemesis nemesissian puis justicier
arménien n’est probablement pas anodin.

Nemesis est le pseudonyme que je me suis choisi depuis déjà quelques
années pour signer mes articles. Nous pouvons nous opposer aux idées,
aux prises de position mais nous ne nous attaquons pas à l’intégrité
des personnes. Nous respectons les règles de la déontologie qui
stipulent entre autres le respect de la vie privée et l’interdiction
de la diffamation. Ma plume peut être parfois acérée ou virulente mais
elle ne provient en aucun cas d’un corbeau.

La délation et les lettres anonymes nous renvoient à un passé peu
glorieux de l’Histoire de France celui de l’occupation et de la
collaboration.

Les idéaux que nous avons l’honneur de défendre sont ceux la
Résistance et de la démocratie, ils sont donc diamétralement opposés
avec ceux de ce calomniateur.

Cependant la question reste encore en suspend >

Nemesis
Paris 24 août 2014

lundi 25 août 2014,
Ara (c)armenews.com