Akhalkalak City Council Pushes For Armenian As Regional Language

AKHALKALAK CITY COUNCIL PUSHES FOR ARMENIAN AS REGIONAL LANGUAGE

10:30, March 21, 2013

The Akhalkalak City Council has filed a request with the Georgian
Parliament to grant Armenian the status of a regional language,
this according to The Messenger Online.

City Council member Sargis Uzounyan proposed the initiative,
arguing that since Georgia supports EU integration it must adhere
to policies aimed at protecting and encouraging the languages of
national minorities.

The Akhalkalak City Council is mostly made up of Armenians.

http://hetq.am/eng/news/24668/akhalkalak-city-council-pushes-for-armenian-as-regional-language.html

Shoots Of Dual Power

SHOOTS OF DUAL POWER
Aghassi Matevosyan

12:14 20/03/2013
Story from Lragir.am News:

The first sketches of the idea of a shadow government are already
shown to the society. Those are responsible steps which need a
thorough analysis and elaboration. One must admit that the future of
the movement will depend on the steps taken in this direction. The
time of political statements and calls has already passed. The society
expects real steps, successful ones, small steps which will, however,
produce results.

In this transition period the main goal of the movement is to establish
dual power which is visible and tangible. Different calls on abrupt
activities for change of power will continue to be heard in the
political field and different algorithms may be offered. But everyone
understands that if the word “velvet” is often heard in these calls,
the word “velvet” is dual power, and the viability and resources
of the illegitimate government will be neutralized in parallel with
forming a legitimate government with its resources (including by way
of gradual redistribution of resources).

Forming dual power is a complicated process. A government that has
usurped state resources is not sleeping, and the resource will be used
to smother its clone and executor as soon as it is born. Creation
of a strong and healthy embryo will be the guarantee that the child
will leave. A sick embryo will be attacked by viruses overwhelming
the environment.

Now a circumstance of inefficiency is noticed. In order to sustain
the power of BAREV along with the government which has usurped power
and ensure continuity of the resource of confidence received from
people it is necessity to stress not only human resource but also
structural change. It is necessary to change people’s attitude to
public administration systems. In other words, before announcing
names of shadow ministers it is necessary to prove that the given
ministry or institution is needed for optimal public administration
or provision of public services.

Why? Because one of the weaknesses of the government is that it is
a mess. Institutions have been established not on the basis of the
principle of optimization of public services but out of the desire to
appoint their friends or acquaintances to one position or another. The
government is a worn patchwork, and it cannot be mended, it must be
thrown away and replaced by a comfortable and nicely dress made to
measure for the government.

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Genocide Des Tutsi : Agathe Habyarimana Deboutee En Appel

GENOCIDE DES TUTSI : AGATHE HABYARIMANA DEBOUTEE EN APPEL

Publie le : 20-03-2013

Info Collectif VAN – – “Le travail des experts
designes par les juges Nathalie Poux et Marc Trevidic a ete confirme
ce 19 mars 2013 par la chambre d’instruction de la Cour d’Appel de
Paris. La defense avait demande a la Cour de confirmer l’ordonnance
des juges d’instruction Nathalie Poux et Marc Trevidic et de rejeter
l’appel interjete par Agathe Habyarimana. Telle etait egalement la
position de l’Avocat general qui avait clairement pris position pour
le respect du travail des experts et des juges d’instruction. Ce 19
mars 2013, la Cour d’Appel de Paris a suivi la position de l’Avocat
general et de la defense. Elle a declare l’appel de madame Agathe
Habyarimana et de ses proches non fonde. La defense rappelle que
cet arret s’inscrit dans la continuite de l’instruction qui a mis
en evidence le caractère fantaisiste des accusations formulees a
l’encontre des militaires du Front patriotique rwandais, l’absence de
preuve fiable et des manipulations graves de la justice francaise. Les
developpements recents montrent en outre que desormais les recherches
doivent s’orienter vers les extremistes hutus voire dans certains
cercles en France, proches de ceux-ci.” Le Collectif VAN relaye ici
le communique de presse diffuse par l’Ambassade du Rwanda en France
le 19 mars 2013.

Legende photo: Mme A. Habyarimana avec sa famille

La cour d’Appel de Paris deboute l’appel d’Agathe Habyarimana et
ses proches

COMMUNIQUE DE PRESSE -Ambassade du Rwanda en France

Mardi 19 mars 2013

Rwanda – 6 avril 1994 : ce 19 mars, le travail des experts designes
par les juges Nathalie Poux et Marc Trevidic est confirme par la
chambre de l’instruction de la Cour d’Appel de Paris. Reaction des
personnes visees par l’ordonnance de Monsieur Bruguière.

Retroacte :

Les juges Marc Trevidic et Nathalie Poux ont designe un collège
d’experts charges de verifier les hypothèses des sites de lancement
qui pouvaient servir au depart des missiles ayant abattu le 6 avril
1994 en soiree le Falcon ayant a son bord les presidents rwandais et
burundais. Le collège d’experts s’etait rendu au Rwanda en 2010 et
le 10 janvier 2012, avait conclu que le site le plus vraisemblable
pour le tir des missiles etait situe au camp Kanombe, ecartant du
meme coup l’hypothèse d’un tir provenant de Masaka, contrairement a
l’ordonnance de Monsieur Bruguière.

Certaines parties civiles essentiellement liees a Madame Agathe
Habyarimana, ont tente, et pour cause, ecarter ce rapport qui etait
totalement defavorable a leur thèse. Elles ont essaye de provoquer
la nullite de la mesure d’expertise voire d’obtenir une nouvelle et
seconde expertise ou encore des complements d’enquetes. Toutes ces
demandes avaient ete rejetees par ordonnance des juges Trevidic et
Poux prononcee en juin 2012. Les juges avaient cependant ordonne
aux experts de fournir des eclaircissements sur un point technique
concernant l’impact de la trajectoire des avions sur le tir des
missiles, ce que la defense avait accepte. La majorite des parties
civiles avaient accepte l’ordonnance du juge. Seul le meme groupe
minoritaire proche d’Agathe Habyarimana avait interjete appel devant
la chambre d’instruction de la Cour d’Appel de Paris.

Les parties ont longuement plaide le 29 janvier 2013.

La defense avait demande a la Cour de confirmer l’ordonnance des juges
d’instruction Nathalie Poux et Marc Trevidic et de rejeter l’appel
interjete. Telle etait egalement la position de l’Avocat general qui
avait clairement pris position pour le respect du travail des experts
et des juges d’instruction.

Ce 19 mars 2013, la Cour d’Appel de Paris a suivi la position de
l’Avocat general et de la defense. Elle a declare l’appel de madame
Agathe Habyarimana et de ses proches non fonde.

La defense rappelle que cet arret s’inscrit dans la continuite de
l’instruction qui a mis en evidence le caractère fantaisiste des
accusations formulees a l’encontre des militaires du Front patriotique
rwandais, l’absence de preuve fiable et des manipulations graves de
la justice francaise. Les developpements recents montrent en outre
que desormais les recherches doivent s’orienter vers les extremistes
hutus voire dans certains cercles en France, proches de ceux-ci.

Pour les personnes visees a tort par l’ordonnance du magistrat
Jean-Louis Bruguière, cette decision doit faciliter le prononce
d’une ordonnance de non-lieu a leur benefice. Le prononce du non-lieu
n’exclut pas la poursuite des recherches dans les milieux extremistes
hutus et dans les cercles qui les soutenaient, ce a quoi les magistrats
se sont d’ailleurs deja atteles.

Pour les militaires injustement vises par l’ordonnance de Monsieur
Bruguière,

Leurs avocats

Leon Lef Forster, Avocat au barreau de Paris

Bernard Maingain Avocat au barreau de Bruxelles

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Arg Va Obtenir 142 Millions De Drams A Titre De Compensation

ARG VA OBTENIR 142 MILLIONS DE DRAMS A TITRE DE COMPENSATION

Le gouvernement armenien a annonce qu’il versera 142,2 millions de
drams a ArmRosGazporm (ARG), l’operateur en chargde de la distribution
du gaz naturel a titre de compensation pour le gaz qu’elle a fourni
a des familles en situation difficile.

Des dizaines de milliers de familles a faible revenu en Armenie
beneficient d’une reduction de 30 pour cent du prix du gaz naturel
depuis avril 2011.

La remise sera en vigueur jusqu’au 31 mars 2013. Les familles qui
utilisent moins de 300 mètres cubes de gaz par mois payent 100 drams
par mètre cube. Les autres consommateurs paient 132 drams.

Le Premier ministre Tigran Sarkissian a declare que le gouvernement
devrait accroître considerablement l’aide ciblee aux familles
vulnerables en 2013-2014.

” Notre politique sociale a change au cours des dernières annees,
nous n’avons pas augmente les prestations sociales mais nous devons
donner les moyens de permettre a ces personnes d’obtenir une education
et un emploi “, a-t-il dit.

mercredi 20 mars 2013, Stephane ©armenews.com

Davit Safaryan Became Champion Of Europe. 2:0 Win Scored Over Turkis

DAVIT SAFARYAN BECAME CHAMPION OF EUROPE. 2:0 WIN SCORED OVER TURKISH WRESTLER

20:09, 19 March, 2013

YEREVAN, MARCH 19, ARMENPRESS: Wrestler of Armenia National Wrestling
Team of 66kg Davit Safaryan became Champion of Europe. As reports
Armenpress, in the final of European Freestyle Wrestling Championship
held in Tbilisi, Davit Safaryan scored 2:0 win over Turkish wrestler
Gor Yakup.

Aleksandr Kontoev and Ilya Bekbulatov accordingly from Belarus and
Russia got bronze medals in this weight category.

This is the first medal of Armenia in European Freestyle Wrestling
Championship.

Armenia Participated In Event On 10th Anniversary Of Convention For

ARMENIA PARTICIPATED IN EVENT ON 10TH ANNIVERSARY OF CONVENTION FOR THE SAFEGUARDING OF INTANGIBLE CULTURAL HERITAGE

18:06, 19 March, 2013

YEREVAN, MARCH 19, ARMENPRESS: On initiation of group of UNESCO
Francophone countries, Armenia, Lithuania and Bulgaria have presented
their national cultural values included in the List of the Intangible
Cultural Heritage of Humanity during March 18 concert in Great hall of
Paris. As Armenpress was informed from press, informational and public
relations department of Armenian Foreign Ministry, at the concert
Armenia was presented by prominent French-Armenian musician, duduk
player Levon Minassian, whose unique performance amazed the audience.

Intangible Heritage provides direct access to living memory, it is a
gateway to the identities of the people,” said the Director-General
of UNESCO, Irina Bokova, at the evening event on 18 March, which
saw a representation of Armenian, Lithuanian and Bulgarian cultural
expressions. The event was organized at UNESCO Headquarters to
celebrate International Francophonie Day and the tenth anniversary
of the UNESCO Convention for the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural
Heritage.

This evening was an initiative of the President of the francophone
group to UNESCO, Ambassador Jean-Pierre Blackburn, and Permanent
Delegate of Canada.

Musicians and dancers performed masterpieces of the Armenian Duduk,
the Bulgarian Bistritsa Babi and the Lithuanian SutartinÄ-s, all of
which are inscribed on UNESCO’s Representative List of the Intangible
Cultural Heritage, reflecting the wealth of these cultures, their
common influences and their interactions, handed down from generation
to generation, forging close ties between peoples throughout history.

Turks Want To Erect A Turkish Monument In Bratislava

TURKS WANT TO ERECT A TURKISH MONUMENT IN BRATISLAVA

14:37, March 20, 2013

The Forum of Armenian Associations in Europe reports that the
Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs has launched a campaign to build
a Turkish monument next to an Armenian Genocide memorial in the heart
of Bratislava, the capital of Slovakia.

Recently, Forum President Ashot Grigoryan met with Bratislava Mayor
Milan Ftacnik regarding the issue.

Mayor Ftacnik told Grigoryan that he was categorically opposed to
a Turkish request to erect a Turkish monument of comparable size in
his city.

http://hetq.am/eng/news/24639/turks-want-to-erect-a-turkish-monument-in-bratislava.html

Georgian Murderer Of Ethnic Armenian Family Arrested In France

GEORGIAN MURDERER OF ETHNIC ARMENIAN FAMILY ARRESTED IN FRANCE

TERT.AM
17:32 ~U 20.03.13

Vakhtang Gvritishvili accused of the murder of three Armenians has
been arrested in France.

According to Georgia Online, Gvritishvili, 47, appeared in the
International Police’s Fugitives list years ago for the crime committed
19 years ago.

In 1994 he and his accomplices (Georgi Otarashvili, Revaz Demetrashvili
and Alexander Revazishvili) kidnapped in Georgia ethnic Armenian
businessman Nshan Minasyan’s son Khoren demanding ransom.

After getting $75,000 the criminals freed the child but after they
found out that Nshan Minasyan learnt who they were, they attacked
Minasyan’s home in Georgia killing the businessman, his wife and son
Vazgen Minasyan. Minasyan’s daughter received a grave gun wound.

Russian Regnum news agency reports that the organizer and the main
criminal was Gvritishvili. A criminal case was filed against him in
2011 for kidnapping, demanding ransom, intentional murder of two and
more people with special brutality.

Currently the issue of extraditing him to Georgia is being discussed.

This murder was disclosed only after 17 years, in September 2011. The
Georgian law enforcers arrested in the same year Revaz Demetrashvili,
Georgi Otarashvili and Alexander Revazishvili. The Tbilisi court
sentenced the latter just to 14 years in jail. The other two criminals
have not been punished yet.

I Made A Speech In Freedom Square On Friday And Received A Phone Cal

I MADE A SPEECH IN FREEDOM SQUARE ON FRIDAY AND RECEIVED A PHONE CALL FROM THE NATIONAL SECURITY SERVICE (NSS) ON MONDAY, SUREN ZOLYAN SAYS

March 19 2013

We find out from the statement released by University Freedom that
Professor Suren Zolyan, a former rector of Yerevan State Linguistic
University, was summoned to the National Security Service for a few
times under different pretexts. asked Mr. Zolyan to
clear up when and why he was invited to the NSS. The former rector
of Yerevan State Linguistic University after Bryusov stated that he
had received only one call from the NSS and asked to which address
they should send the notice. “By the way, I made a speech in Freedom
Square on Friday and received a phone call on Monday.” Gohar HAKOBYAN

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Lawyer: Those Behind Assassination Attempt Against Hayrikyan Still I

LAWYER: THOSE BEHIND ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT AGAINST HAYRIKYAN STILL IN FREEDOM

ARMINFO
Wednesday, March 20, 14:01

Those behind the assassination attempt against former candidate for
president Paruyr Hayrikyan has not been detained yet, Hayrikyan’s
lawyer Levon Baghdasaryan told media, Tuesday. He said that Hayrikyan
believes that the persons detained over suspicion in the assassination
attempt against him were just executors of the crime.

He said that Hayrikyan casts no doubt on professionalism of the
law-enforcers and hopes for timely exposure of the crime.

Touching upon Hayrikyan’s health, he said that the bullet damaged
some nerves and his further treatment in Armenia is impossible for
lack of the necessary equipment. So, Hayrikyan will probably leave
abroad for further treatment.

The assassination attempt against Paruyr Hayrikyan, candidate
for president of Armenia, Leader of the Union for National
Self-Determination Party, was made in the Tpagrichnery Street in
Yerevan on Jan 31. Hayrikyan was hospitalized with a gunshot wound
in shoulder and underwent surgery. On Feb 8 the National Security
Service of Armenia detained two men: Albert Poghosyan (1966) and
Samvel Haroutiunyan (1972), who have already pled guilty. In addition,
former candidate for president Vardan Sedrakyan was also detained
over the case and arrested for a period of 2 months.

A criminal case was initiated on Article 34-305 of the Criminal Code
of Armenia (assassination attempt against a statesman, political
figure or public worker in order to stop his activity). The case is
in charge of the National Security Service.