Author: Kalantarian Kevo

Armenian-Australians raise $40,000 in weekend for #SaveKessab

Tuesday, 15 April 2014
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Source:armenia.com.au
Tags:kessab, ayf australia, australia, syria, #savekessab

SYDNEY and MELBOURNE: The Armenian-Australian community raised over
$40,000 for #SaveKessab at gatherings in Sydney and Melbourne over the
weekend of 5-6 April, 2014.

On March 21st, armed rebel groups attacked the heavily
Armenian-populated region of Kessab, Syria, by crossing the Turkish
border into Syria. Under the threat of slaughter, the entire Armenian
population of the region was forced to flee their homes into
neighbouring towns, including Latakia and Bassit. Some were not so
lucky and have reportedly been taken hostage, while churches and homes
have been destroyed.

As a follow-on from the 1,000-person midweek Protest at the Turkish
Consulate in Sydney, over 150 community members gathered to raise over
$10,000 at the Armenian Cultural Centre in Willoughby – organised by
the Armenian Youth Federation of Australia and supported by the
Armenian Relief Society, Homenetmen and Hamazkaine.

The Armenian community of Melbourne also raised an impressive $18,000.
The Armenian Relief Society of Australia, along with its chapters,
contributed $12,000.

The MC at the luncheon held in Sydney on the 6th of April was AYF
Australia member, Narine Akillian, who said: “We thank
Armenian-Australians for donating both their time at the protest and
now digging deep into their pockets to support the Armenians of
Kessab.”

Narine also outlined the significant role that Armenian diaspora have
in ensuring the long-term safety and well-being of their brothers and
sisters in less fortunate surrounds.

Nishan Basmajian, spokesperson of the joint Kessab relief in
Australia, then gave the community a recent update about the current
climate in Kessab, stating that those who are affected believe that
they will return to their homes in the future.

As well as collecting donations, AYF Australia sold #SaveKessab
wristbands, with all proceeds going towards the total raised.

AYF Australia ended the Luncheon by thanking all individuals and
organisations, who generously donated and supported their work in
order to raise awareness and funds for the Armenians in Kessab.

Australia’s Armenia Media Inc. names inaugural Managing Editor and
English Editor

Sunday, 20 April 2014
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Source:armenia.com.au

Tags:armenia magazine, armenia radio, armenia mobile, armenia tv,
armenia online, australia, armenia media

SYDNEY: Exciting new entity, Armenia Media Inc. has revealed its
inaugural staff, with Nerses Baliozian taking on the Managing Editor’s
role and Caroline Geroyan being named the organisation’s English
Editor.

Baliozian, 25, who recently moved to Sydney from Aleppo, Syria, has a
rich history working in community media and organisations. He holds a
Bachelor’s degree in Telecommunications Engineering and is continuing
his studies in Australia.

Geroyan, 25, is a graduate of Galstaun College and completed her
Bachelor’s in Media and Cultural Studies at Macquarie University. She
is currently completing her Master’s in Journalism at UTS while
working at the ABC, and has been involved in the community since a
very young age.

Chairman of Armenia Media Inc., Kaylar Michaelian said was delighted
with the talent that has been chosen to lead this bold, new project.

“We were inundated with some fantastic applicants for these roles, and
are delighted that our interview process has led to the hires of
Nerses and Caroline – both fantastic community assets now committed to
making Armenia Media the success we all expect it to be,” Michaelian
said.

Armenia Media Inc. was recently announced as the publisher of several
new and exciting media products, including Armenia TV, Armenia Online,
Armenia Mobile, Armenia Magazine and Armenia Radio (see original press
release by clicking here).

It will be officially launched at a Luncheon at Miramare Gardens on
May 4th (click here for details).

Today’s Zaman, Turkey
April 20 2014

The Armenian diaspora project

April 20, 2014, Sunday/ 02:51:31/ SCOUT TUFANKJIAN

The story of the Armenians has always been one of upheaval. For the
past 3,000 years, waves of migrants left their ancestral homes in
modern-day eastern Turkey and northern Syria following ancient trade
and pilgrimage routes and fleeing countless revolutions, civil wars
and massacres.

Despite these centuries of displacement, however, today’s Armenian
diaspora is strong and vibrant — with 8 million Armenians living in
over 85 countries around the globe. As a child, I spent hours poring
through my grandmother’s magazines looking for stories of my fellow
Armenians in far-flung cities like Addis Ababa, Buenos Aires, Calcutta
and Damascus, but I could only catch fleeting glimpses of their faces
in school pictures. The only books I could ever find were about the
massacres — as if the events of 1915 had successfully ended the
Armenian story.

In 2009, after the success of my first book “Yes We Can,” which was
about the first Barack Obama campaign, I finally set out to find and
document these Armenian communities that I had wondered about as a
small child and to create a book that would tell the story of a people
largely known outside of our community only for our role as the
victims of the “Meds Yeghern” (Great Tragedy).

This project is not, however, about victimhood. It is a portrait of survival.

Since beginning this project, I have photographed drag racers in Los
Angeles and a village on the Syrian-Lebanese border that keeps all of
the same Old Country traditions my grandmother would reminisce about.
I have met seminarians in Jerusalem, mixed-race altar boys in Addis
Ababa and card playing revolutionaries in Beirut. I have waited in the
wings with Armenian ballet dancers and swam with resettled
Syrian-Armenian refugees. I have seen children thriving in the only
Armenian village left in Turkey and I have met repatriates and
Birthright Armenian volunteers in Yerevan.

I’ve also done over 200 interviews to make sure that people’s stories
about their past and hopes for their future are not lost.

As I struggle to complete this work before the centennial of 2015, I
realize that I am documenting a particularly important and fragile
moment in Armenian history. Moreover, for many people, the story I am
telling is an unknown one as too many people only have access to the
story of our tragedy. While many of the challenges our communities
face do have their roots in the events of 1915, Meds Yeghern was not
the end of the Armenian story.

American Thinker
April 20 2014

Say Goodbye to Egypt

By David Archibald

In 2011, the clerical intellects in Egypt proposed that the pyramids
be destroyed because they were idolatrous reminders of Egypt’s
pre-Islamic past. Egypt’s real problem is more prosaic — the
mismatch between an agricultural system that can feed 40 million and a
population of 84 million. Egypt had been a grain exporter for
thousands of years. It is estimated to have had a population of 4
million at the time Napoleon Bonaparte visited its shores in 1798. By
1960, the population had risen to 28 million and they were importing
one million tons per year of wheat. Grain imports, wheat and corn,
are now running at 15 million tons per year.

With a population growth rate estimated at 1.8 percent per year,
another 1.5 million Egyptians are created every year. On a spare,
almost completely vegetarian diet of 350 kg per year of grain, each
year’s cohort of new Egyptians will require over half a million metric
tons of grain as adults. Thus Egypt’s grain requirement ratchets up
by half a million metric tons every year. Egypt’s ability to grow
grain has peaked, limited by the available water from the Nile. The
switch from high-water-consumption crops such as rice and cotton to
wheat has already taken place. On the current trajectory of rising
demand, the import requirement will be 28 million metric tons of grain
by 2030.

The situation may very well be worse than that. There has been a
population explosion in the last three years after the Arab Spring.
Between 2006 and 2012 there was a 40% increase in the number of births
in Egypt, with births in 2012 560,000 higher than in 2010.

What holds Egyptian society together for the moment is subsidized
bread. Three-quarters of the population have ration cards that
entitle the holders to subsidized bread, sugar, cooking oil, propane,
and gasoline. The total food subsidy system costs about $4.4 billion
per year. With the bulk of the population’s calories provided by
subsidized bread from effectively communal bakeries, there is almost
no resilience in the food supply system in Egypt. If the imports or
the subsidies stop, Egyptians will starve.

Whatever his failings as a fair and just ruler, Hosni Mubarak, the
former president of Egypt, ran the country as an ongoing concern. By
late 2010 the country’s foreign exchange reserves had risen to $35
billion. Following his resignation, Egypt’s foreign exchange reserves
began to fall at the rate of $2 billion per month. By early 2013,
they had fallen to $13 billion. President Morsi was overthrown in a
military coup not so much because he is an Islamist but because
Egypt’s only potential savior, Saudi Arabia, would not contribute to
Egypt’s treasury while the Muslim Brotherhood was in charge. The
Saudis duly tipped in $5 billion within a fortnight of Morsi’s
overthrow.

Even the Sun is ganging up on Egypt. NASA researchers have found some
clear links between solar activity and Nile River levels. The Nile
water levels and aurora records tracking solar radiation have two
somewhat regularly occurring variations in common — one with a period
of about eighty-eight years, known as the Gleissberg cycle, and the
second with a period of about two hundred years, called the de Vries
cycle. Solar activity is now declining to levels last seen in the
17th century. That decline will result in drought in East Africa at
the headwaters of the Nile.

Egyptian society has a number of unpleasant features. The female
genital mutilation rate is 90 per cent. The rate of consanguineous
marriage is very high, at 35 per cent, giving rise to a high incidence
of congenital defects. Christian Copts, who constitute about 10
percent of the population, are less inbred than the Moslem Egyptians.
As happened to the Armenians in Turkey on the collapse of the Ottoman
Empire nearly a century ago, the Copts are likely to be slaughtered
first during the collapse of Egyptian society — forfeiting Egypt the
sympathy of the West in its plight.

President Obama’s backstabbing of President Mubarak and his support of
the subsequent Muslim Brotherhood regime, which earned the United
States a reputation for double-dealing and the enmity of the Egyptian
people, happened just in time. If Egypt had stayed in the nominally
pro-Western camp, there would have been a period during which the
United States and perhaps other Western nations would have thrown
money into the black hole that will be Egypt in collapse. The Mubarak
regime collapsed in part because of withdrawal of support by the Obama
Administration. This is a case of the right result for the wrong
reasons.

David Archibald, a Visiting Fellow at the Institute of World Politics
in Washington, D.C., is the author of The Twilight of Abundance: Why
Life in the 21st Century Will Be Nasty, Brutish, and Short (Regnery,
2014).

The Fresno Bee, CA
April 19 2014

Debate over Armenian museum will continue at D.C. hearing

By Michael Doyle

The bitter wrangling over a proposed Armenian Genocide Museum and
Memorial will soon reach a crucial crossroads.

On Monday, in a courthouse about 10 blocks from the site of the
proposed museum, three appellate judges will sort through the dispute,
which has outlasted several of the key parties. The museum’s future
might hang in the balance.

“There is no doubt we are committed to building the museum in
Washington, D.C.,” says Edele Hovnanian, the treasurer of the Armenian
Assembly of America’s board of trustees.

The case before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia
Circuit is still called Armenian Genocide Museum and Memorial v.
Gerard L. Cafesjian, though this has become a misnomer. Cafesjian, the
businessman and philanthropist who won an earlier round, died last
year in Naples, Fla., at the age of 88.

Another man once at the center of the dispute, former Cafesjian
lieutenant John J. Waters Jr., was convicted last month in Minneapolis
of 25 felony counts relating to embezzlement from Cafesjian. Waters is
awaiting sentencing.

Years ago, Cafesjian, Waters and the Armenian Assembly of America
leadership were allies. They wanted to build a center marking the
period from 1915 to 1923, when by some estimates upward of 1.5 million
Armenians died at the hands of the Ottoman Empire.

In downtown Washington, project supporters bought a four-story
National Bank of Washington building in 2000. Cafesjian provided
funding and bought adjacent properties, with a clause that the
properties would revert to his control if the project wasn’t finished
by Dec. 31, 2010.

Relations eventually collapsed and the first in a series of suits and
countersuits was filed in 2007. In 2011, U.S. District Judge Colleen
Kollar-Kotelly ruled that the property belonged to Cafesjian’s
foundation, of which Waters once served as vice president.

“The court sincerely hopes that after years of fighting legal battles,
the parties can put aside their differences and accomplish the
laudable goal of creating an Armenian genocide museum and memorial,”
Kollar-Kotelly wrote in January 2011.

That hasn’t happened.

Instead, the fight that Kollar-Kotelly said “quickly escalated into an
unfortunate exchange of accusations and allegations grounded in
suspicion and mistrust” has ground ever onward. Though the museum has
plans prepared and an online exhibit posted, the litigation has
hindered efforts to raise the $100 million or so needed for
construction and operations.

The Armenian Assembly of America has appealed its trial-court loss,
contending in part that Kollar-Kotelly had previously undisclosed
“ties” to the Cafesjian side. Kollar-Kotelly had contributed, as had
Cafesjian, to the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s purchase of expensive
modern glass art by an artist whom Cafesjian also sought for the
Armenian genocide museum.

“If the assembly had known of the shared and beneficial interest
between Judge Kollar-Kotelly and Cafesjian as investors in
contemporary studio glass art, it would have moved for Judge
Kollar-Kotelly’s disqualification,” attorneys for the Armenian
Assembly of America declared in an appellate brief.

Attorneys for the Cafesjian Family Foundation didn’t address the
judicial recusal question in their appellate brief, which focused on
other parts of the dispute.

“I hope that the (appellate) decision will finally resolve the case,”
the foundation’s attorney, John B. Williams, said Friday, while noting
that “there is always the Supreme Court.”

The 30-minute oral argument Monday comes three days before the events
that traditionally recognize the genocide. In this, Congress has
likewise continued to struggle.

By a 12-5 vote, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee approved a
resolution April 10 that’s intended to “remember and observe the
anniversary of the Armenian genocide.” That may be the resolution’s
high-water mark.

Vigorously opposed by the Turkish government, and historically viewed
skeptically within the State Department and the Pentagon, this
genocide resolution has an uncertain future. Senate rules will make it
easy for a single lawmaker to block the measure.

Turkey questions the casualty count and denies there was a systematic
effort to exterminate the Armenian people. Some American diplomats and
military professionals fear antagonizing Turkey, a key NATO ally.

A like-minded resolution in the House of Representatives, authored by
Rep. David Valadao, R-Hanford, and backed by 50 co-sponsors, hasn’t
moved since it was introduced last year. Visiting Turkey this month,
House Speaker John Boehner effectively called the measure dead.

“Don’t worry,” the Ohio Republican said, according to Turkish news
accounts. “Our Congress will not get involved in this issue.”

In the meantime, lawmakers are participating in Armenian-American
community events, with Valadao and Rep. Jim Costa, D-Fresno, expected
at a flag-raising ceremony Thursday at Fresno City Hall and Rep. Adam
Schiff, D-Burbank, joining the annual march through the Los
Angeles-area Little Armenia.

Armenian genocide commemoration events planned in Fresno area

A series of events are planned this week in the Valley to mark the
99th anniversary of the Armenian genocide:

* Two showings of the movie, “Music to Madness: The Story of Komitas,”
will be held Monday at the Tower Theater, 815 E. Olive Ave. in Fresno.
One showing is at 2:30 p.m., the second at 7:30 p.m. The movie
portrays an Armenian boy with a perfect singing voice who becomes a
great performer as an adult, but who gets caught up in the genocide
and ultimately falls into madness.

* On Wednesday at 5:30 p.m. at Ararat Cemetery, 1925 W. Belmont Ave.
in Fresno, wreaths and flowers can be laid at the monument of the
Remains of the Unknown Martyr of the Armenian Genocide. A requiem
service will be officiated by Armenian clergy from throughout the San
Joaquin Valley.

* At 9:30 a.m. Thursday, there will be a commemoration and flag
raising at Fresno City Hall, 2600 Fresno St. Among the speakers will
be Mayor Ashley Swearengin and Reps. Jim Costa, D-Fresno, and David
Valadao, R-Hanford. Special attention will be paid to recent attacks
by Syrian rebels on the city of Kessab, where many Armenians were
living and have been uprooted in the fighting.

* A commemoration of the genocide will start at 7 p.m. Thursday at St.
Gregory the Illuminator Armenian Church, 220 Third St. in Fowler.
Fresno County Superior Court Judge Debra Kazanjian will be the
featured speaker.

* And for the months of April and May, there is a photo exhibition at
the UC Merced Center, 550 E. Shaw Ave. in Fresno, called “The Living
Martyrs,” which shows children who survived the genocide.

ARMENIA-ECONOMY
Hrant Vardanyan, the owner of “Grand Kendy” and “Tobacco Grant” is dead

One of the greatest businessmen of Armenia Hrant Vardanyan, the owner
of the famous confectionery brands “Grand Kendy” and tobacco “Tobacco
Grant” died. He was 65. Last night at 22:45 following a cardiac
arrest, he was rushed to the “Nairi” hospital of Yerevan. The doctors
fought for more than an hour to resuscitate him. In vain.Loussiné
Aghababian director of the hospital “Nairi” said Vardanyan qu’Hrant
suffered from heart problems and other “chronic” health. “Great Kendy”
and “Tobacco Grant” are among the largest exporters of Armenia.

Krikor Amirzayan

Sunday, April 20, 2014,
Krikor Amirzayan © armenews.com

Pques-Jérusalem-chrétiens-religion-orthodoxes-Grèce-Russie
Les chrétiens orthodoxes célèbrent le samedi des lumières à Jérusalem

(AFP) – Des milliers de pèlerins ont participé avec ferveur à la
traditionnelle cérémonie du `samedi des lumières` de la Pque
orthodoxe samedi dans la basilique du Saint-Sépulcre à Jérusalem, sous
haute surveillance policière.

Selon la police israélienne, des dizaines de milliers de fidèles ont
afflué au Saint-Sépulcre, où selon la tradition chrétienne Jésus a été
crucifié avant d’être mis au tombeau et ressusciter.

Toutes les portes d’accès à la Vieille ville ont été fermées pendant
plusieurs heures à l’exception de la porte de Damas, où la foule des
pèlerins surtout des russes s’est engouffrée avec difficulté.

Ce dispositif a contraint de très nombreux fidèles à patienter Ã
l’extérieur des murailles de la Vieille ville, dans le secteur Ã
majorité arabe de la Ville sainte occupé et annexé par Israël.

Moment fort du christianisme oriental, ce rite millénaire ‘symbole
d’éternité, de paix et de renouveau’ a été suivi dans une église
bondée, comme chaque année, prise d’assaut par les pèlerins, en
majorité d’Europe de l’Est mais aussi de la communauté arabe orthodoxe
de Terre sainte.

Ce rituel remonte au moins au 4e siècle.

Au milieu de la liesse populaire, les pèlerins se sont pressés pour
recueillir la flamme qui, transmise de cierge en cierge, a parcouru
les ruelles de la Vieille ville.

Le `feu sacré` ou `feu nouveau` devait être ensuite porté en
procession à Bethléem (Cisjordanie), lieu de naissance de Jésus
d’après la tradition, tandis qu’une autre flamme sera embarquée à bord
d’un avion pour la Grèce et les pays orthodoxes.

La majorité des chrétiens de Terre sainte est de rite grec-orthodoxe.

Le Saint-Sépulcre est géré par six Églises chrétiennes, les Grecs
orthodoxes, les Catholiques de rite latin, les Arméniens apostoliques,
les Coptes égyptiens, les Syriaques orthodoxes et les Éthiopiens
orthodoxes.

Chacune des Églises contrôle une partie soigneusement délimitée du btiment.

Dimanche, les orthodoxes et les protestants doivent célébrer Pques et
la résurrection de Jésus, selon la tradition chrétienne.

Le coordinateur spécial des Nations Unies pour le processus de paix au
Moyen Orient, Robert Serry a pour sa part dénoncé un `incident` durant
la procession.

`Le coordinateur spécial avec d’autres dignitaires du corps
diplomatique ont assisté Ã une procession pascale de la Porte Neuve
(de la Vieille ville) au Saint-Sépulcre à l’invitation de la
communauté des Palestiniens chrétiens`, a indiqué M. Perry dans un
communiqué.

`La procession a été arrêtée au quatrième point de contrôle (de la
police israélienne) avant l’entrée sur le parvis de l’église. Malgré
des assurances qui avaient été données à la communauté chrétienne
palestinienne de Jérusalem sur la liberté d’accès à l’église du
Saint-Sépulcre à l’occasion des célébrations pascales, la police
israélienne a refusé cette entrée en expliquant qu’elle avait des
ordres. A l’issue d’un face-Ã-face tendu, la foule en colère s’est
frayée un chemin`, dans le btiment, a ajouté le communiqué.

dimanche 20 avril 2014,
Stéphane ©armenews.com

ARMENIE
L’autoroute Vardenis-Martakert en cours de construction

Les routes. Elles ont relié les bords de l’Empire romain, permettant
aux armées et le commerce de voyager librement, avec une relative
facilité, selon les besoins.

Aujourd’hui, l’Arménie a besoin d’un réseau routier qui permettra de
développer son économie, d’assurer sa sécurité nationale et, Ã son
tour, cela permettra à la population de croître .Le Fonds Arménie
travaille à ces objectifs par la construction de l’autoroute
Vardenis-Martakert.

L’autoroute sera un réseau de transport intégré ouvert à tout type de
circulation de véhicules. Une fois terminé, les routes reliant la
République d’Arménie et la République d’Artsakh permettront la libre
circulation des personnes et des biens entre les communautés.

Basé sur l’expérience de la route Goris-Stepanakert – le premier
effort pan-arménien majeur à la reconstruction du pays – l’impact
positif sur les communautés locales sera important.

Seul lien de l’Artsakh vers l’extérieur jusqu’Ã ce que l’aéroport de
Stepanakert soit ouvert, les routes sont indispensables Ã
l’amélioration de l’économie de zones difficiles à atteindre du pays.

La route va rendre plus facile la circulation des produits agricoles
des régions du nord de l’Artsakh, y compris les 30 villages le long de
la route, pour rejoindre le centre économique d’Erevan et au-delÃ.
Alors qu’il faut actuellement environ 6h30 pour atteindre Erevan de la
région frontalière de Martakert, cela va maintenant prendre moins de
4h30.

En se connectant au réseau routier de l’Arménie, les biens de
l’Artsakh auront plus de facilité Ã atteindre le port de la mer Noire
de Poti, en Géorgie pour une exportation vers les marchés étrangers.

Dès la première semaine de Mars 2014, 150 personnes ont été employées
et en période estivale, ce nombre va doubler à environ 300 personnes
travaillant sur le projet. Au total, avant que la route soit encore
ouverte au public, plus de 30 millions de dollars ont été injectés
dans l’économie de l’Arménie.

Symboliquement, la route Vardenis-Martakert, une fois relié aux autres
artères de transport en Arménie et dans la région, va former un
cercle. Elle sera l’aboutissement d’un effort pluriannuel,
pan-arménien pour renforcer et développer l’Arménie – un effort qui
est la source de fierté et de confiance nationale renouvelée. Grce Ã
la vision et l’unité des Arméniens du monde et au Fonds Arménie, le
pays est plus fort – et les choses semblent seulement être devenir
plus lumineuses.

dimanche 20 avril 2014,
Stéphane ©armenews.com

Philharmonic to direct proceeds from concert devoted to Armenian Genocide
to Kessab- Armenians

11:29, 19 April, 2014

YEREVAN, APRIL 19, ARMENPRESS. The Armenian State Philharmonic
Orchestra will pay tribute to the memory of the victims of the
Armenian Genocide. The Press Service of the Armenian State
Philharmonic Orchestra informed Armenpress that the Orchestra led by
the principal conductor of Berlin Symphonic Orchestra Lior Shambadal,
on April 24 will introduce `Requiem’ by Mozart in `Aram Khachaturian’
Concert Hall. During the evening the world premiere of the work by
Anna Segal created for `Collage to Sergei Parajanov’ Symphonic
Orchestra and reciters will be held.

Aram Hovhannisyan will recite. `Hover’ symphonic orchestra and
Armenia’s state symphonic orchestra will participate in the concert.

Soprano Irina Zakyan, mezzo-soprano Kristine Sahakyan, tenor Liparit
Avetisyan and bass-singer Sargis Bazhbeuk- Melikayn will perform as
soloists. All proceeds from the concert will be directed to
Kessab-Armenians.

ARMENIE
L’ombudsman d’Arménie intrigué par la décision de la Cour
constitutionnelle sur le droit des retraites

La décision de la Cour constitutionnelle d’Arménie sur le droit des
retraites par capitalisation a laissé perplexe l’ombudsman d’Arménie
Karen Andreassyan.

Le 2 avril la Cour constitutionnelle d’Arménie a déclaré qu’un certain
nombre de dispositions de la nouvelle loi sur les régimes de retraite
par capitalisation étaient en conflit avec la Constitution du pays et,
par conséquent invalide. La Cour a fixé au 30 Septembre comme date
limite pour l’harmonisation de la législation en matière de retraite
par capitalisation avec sa décision. Tous les paiements aux fonds de
pension en vertu de la nouvelle loi sur les retraites par
capitalisation avant la décision doivent être remboursés.

L’ombudsman a dit qu’il a du mal à comprendre pleinement la décision
que les gens devraient payer pour leur retraite de façon obligatoire
ou non.

« Moi-même, ayant un diplôme de droit, et quelque 40 autres avocats
travaillant dans le bureau, nous ne savons pas comment interpréter les
divers articles de la décision de la Cour constitutionnelle » a
déclaré Andreasyan.

Les adversaires de la loi affirment que les versements devraient être
remboursés, mais les organismes gouvernementaux se réfèrent à un autre
article de la décision disent que la loi sera en vigueur jusqu’Ã la
fin de Septembre a dit l’ombudsman.

« Je suis très inquiet en tant qu’avocat, je ne peux pas comprendre
quel article de la décision de la Cour constitutionnelle est une
priorité. Il vaudrait mieux que les décisions de la CC ne nécessitent
pas de commentaires et éclaircissements » a déclaré le défenseur des
droits humains.

Selon un sondage Gallup International Association, plus de 88% des
1066 sondés à Erevan ne soutiennent pas le nouveau régime de retraite
par capitalisation.

samedi 19 avril 2014,
Stéphane ©armenews.com