Author: Kalantarian Kevo

“HELP YOUR BROTHER” RECEIVES BIG MONEY TRANSFERS

10:07, 11 January, 2013

YEREVAN, JANUARY 11, ARMENPRESS. “Help Your Brother” Civil Initiative
will continue supporting the Syrian people in 2013 too. The Chairperson
of All-National Foundation Lilit Galstyan stated this in a conversation
with “Armenpress”. Lilit Galstyan stated: “The bank account of
“Help Your Brother” Civil Initiative keeps receiving new and big
money transfers. From now on we shall focus on sending Syria money,
as transfers via aircraft cause a lot of troubles.

Notwithstanding the Syrian Airlines, did not perform any flights last
week.” In addition Lilit Galstyan stated that there are medicines of
about 200 kilos, which must be sent to Syria.

Among other things Lilit Galstyan noted that there are certain entities
from Europe and the United States, who are willing to send medicines
to Syria. The Chairperson of All-National Foundation underscored:
“We shall continue our activity this year too.”

“Help Your Brother” Civil Initiative launched on September 18. Clashes
in Syria had evidently tragic consequences for both the Syrian people
and our compatriots as well. The war caused a lot of casualties to
the local population and it still has a devastating impact for the
Armenian community in Syria, which is one of the most vivid communities
of the Armenian Diaspora.

BRUTAL YEREVAN MURDER IS SOLVED

NEWS.AM
January 11, 2013 | 11:44

YEREVAN. – Armenia’s Police have solved the case of a brutal murder
that had occurred recently.

As Police Media Department had informed earlier, capital city Yerevan
police received a call from a citizen, on January 4, informing that
his son, Ara H., 48, had left home on January 3 but had not returned.

As a result of subsequent police search, Ara H.’s dismembered body
was discovered Tuesday in the area of a gardening company, at the
back of a shack belonging to Sergo Yeremyan.

A forensic medical examination was commissioned, and a criminal case
was launched.

As a result, Sergo Yeremyan-who is born in 1960 and was previously
convicted for murder-was detained Thursday on suspicion of murder. He
confessed to having hit Ara H. with different objects, during an
argument at his shack on January 3, and that Ara H. had died. He
further informed that he had dismembered the body and hid it at the
back of his shack.

Yeremyan is arrested, and the criminal investigation is in progress.

ARMENIAN CAUSE OFFICE IN PARIS SENT CONDOLENCES IN CONNECTION WITH THE MURDER OF KURDISH ACTIVIST WOMEN

11:04, 11 January, 2013

YEREVAN, JANUARY 11, ARMENPRESS: French mass media dubbed the
assassination orchestrated in Kurdistan Workers’ Party office
in Paris on January 10 a political murder. Director of the ARF
Armenian Cause Office in Paris Hrach Varzhapetyan told Armenpress
the crime was doubtless political murder. The Kurds are organizing
big demonstrations, reportedly authorities demand quick discovering
of the committed crime. According to the interlocutor if the crime
is revealed soon, reportedly by the help of Kurdish intervention,
the stakeholders will only then be” satisfied”.

Mr. Varzhapetyan assures the consequences will be rather grave:
hot atmosphere will prevail both in capital Paris and outskirts for
rather long time. French Interior Minister has already visited the
scene and promised to reveal the crime. Armenian Cause Office in Paris
after launching consultation with relevant Armenian organizations
has issued a message in French press expressing their condolences in
connection with the victims. Further on the message run the demand:
protection of Kurdish and Armenian atavistic organizations should
become stronger by the French government.

Three corpses of Kurd women were found in Kurdish center of Paris on
January 10. Victims were members of Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK).

One of the victims was Sakine Cansiz, co-founder of the Kurdistan
Workers’ Party.

EP PRESIDENT: ARMENIA IS A MAJOR PARTNER FOR THE EU

12:02 11.01.2013

The President of the European Parliament, Martin Schulz, met with
the Speaker of the National Assembly of Armenia, Hoavik Abrahamyan.

Armenia makes part of the European Neighborhood Policy. Among others,
they discussed the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict and the negotiations
for the deeper comprehensive association agreement between the EU and
Armenia. After their meeting, both Presidents offered a press point.

“Armenia is a major partner for the EU. The cooperation between our
two parliaments is vital for the future developments. We discussed
about the parliamentarian election of spring last year, we discussed
the presidential elections ahead, evaluated the conformity of the
elections to the European standards last year and we discussed about
our observation mission for the presidential election. We discussed
the necessity to go ahead and to develop the negotiation for a deeper
comprehensive free trade agreement,” Mr. Schulz said following the
meeting.

“The Nagorno-Karabakh conflict is unsustainable, it’s quite clear.

Both sides should do efforts towards a solution. Both sides are
invited by the EP to avoid any statement which could lead to more
tensions and more conflicts,” EP President added.

Armenian Speaker Hovik Abrahamyan said, in turn, that “both sides
(EU and Armenia) are keen on concluding the Association agreement and
the EFTA talks during 2013.” “We emphasized the positive influence of
this process on Armenia’s economic development and domestic reforms
and in the consolidation of democracy,” he added.

“Armenia adheres to her promise, enabling citizens of the EU to enter
the Republic of Armenia, without a visa,” he noted.

“The criteria of the EU concerning the rule of law, transparency,
democracy, democratic accountability of executive action; this is in
the frame on the ongoing negotiations about the deeper comprehensive
free-trade agreement. Without any doubt the co-item of our role as EP
to look, is that beside the economical and technical negotiations,
these questions of values and democratic standards are a co-element
of the negotiations. And this was clearly discussed and agreed between
us,” President of eth European Parliament concluded.

MEURTRE DE TROIS KURDES A PARIS : STUPEUR ET CONSTERNATION DU PS
Stephane

armenews.com
vendredi 11 janvier 2013

Le Parti socialiste a exprime jeudi “stupeur et consternation” après
le meurtre de trois militantes kurdes, tuees d’une balle dans la tete
dans les locaux d’une association de leur communaute a Paris.

“C’est avec stupeur et consternation que j’ai appris le lâche
assassinat dont ont ete victimes trois jeunes femmes kurdes au coeur
de Paris la nuit dernière”, ecrit Axelle Lemaire, secretaire nationale
du PS aux droits de l’Homme, dans un communique.

Trois militantes kurdes liees au Parti des travailleurs du Kurdistan
(PKK) ont ete tuees par balles a Paris, dont une proche du chef de
ce mouvement independantiste arme, Abdullah Ocalan, emprisonne en
Turquie. Leurs corps ont ete retrouves dans la nuit de mercredi a
jeudi dans les locaux d’une association kurde.

“Cet acte d’une extreme violence est totalement inacceptable sur
le territoire de la Republique”, a estime la responsable PS. “Sans
prejuger des resultats de l’enquete policière, le meurtre de ces
militantes politiques vient nous rappeler notre profond attachement
a la liberte de conscience politique et a sa protection sur le sol
francais”.

“Les auteurs de ce crime odieux doivent etre recherches et condamnes
avec la plus grande severite. Toute la lumière doit etre faite sur
ces evenements”, a conclu Mme Lemaire, qui est aussi deputee des
Francais etablis hors de France.

vendredi 11 janvier 2013, Stephane ©armenews.com

HUNGARY’S OMBUDSMAN FAULTS GOVERNMENT ON HANDOVER OF AZERI MURDERER SAFAROV

13:23 11.01.2013

Hungary’s ombudsman for fundamental rights said on Friday that whereas
the Hungarian state did not break international law and acted within
its scope of authority when it transferred home an Azeri officer
convicted for the murder of an Armenian, it should have exercised
more caution.

Ombudsman Mate Szabo told MTI on Friday that after concluding an
investigation in the case, he found that the Hungarian government
should have been clearly aware that Azerbaijan was likely to think
Ramil Safarov had committed a “patriotic duty” when “he brutally
murdered his defenceless Armenian fellow officer attending a NATO
seminar in Budapest.”

It could certainly be expected that once the murderer is transferred
to Azerbaijan, he would be pardoned and freed, Szabo said, politics.hu
reports.

The Hungarian government failed to act with due foresight by failing
to seek a guarantee from Azerbaijan that the officer would not be
pardoned, Szabo added. This threatened legal certainty, Szabo said.

Hungary repatriated Safarov in late August on the understanding that
he would continue to serve the life sentence he received in Hungary
in February 2004 for murdering the Armenian. Armenia decided to break
diplomatic ties with Hungary on the day of Safarov’s release.

LE COLLECTIF VAN CONDAMNE L’EXECUTION DES TROIS MILITANTES KURDES

Publie le : 10-01-2013

Info Collectif VAN –

Communique de presse du Collectif VAN – Jeudi 10 janvier 2013 – 19:15

Legende photo : De gauche a droite, Sakine Cansýz, l’une des
fondatrices du PKK, Fidan Dogan, permanente du Centre d’informations
du Kurdistan, et Leyla Soylemez, militante kurde

Un crime politique odieux vient de se produire en plein Paris. Trois
femmes, trois militantes kurdes, ont ete assassinees dans les bureaux
du Centre d’informations du Kurdistan, au 147 de la rue Lafayette,
dans le 10e arrondissement de Paris. Il s’agit de Fidan Dogan,
permanente du centre, de Sakine Cansýz, l’une des fondatrices du PKK,
et de Leyla Soylemez : toutes trois ont ete executees sans doute en
fin d’après-midi ce mercredi 9 janvier, dont deux d’une balle dans
la nuque. Ce triple assassinat, qui vise des responsables kurdes
parmi lesquelles des figures connues de la communaute, provoque
l’indignation et soulève des interrogations.

Faut-il voir dans ce > la main des services secrets turcs
ou de leurs allies ?

Rien n’est a exclure mais cela semble peu probable, meme si Ankara
n’en est pas a une contradiction près et que la Turquie manie a
merveille le double-langage. Rappelons que le quotidien Radikal a
rapporte le mardi 8 janvier que les autorites turques et le leader du
PKK, Abdullah Ocalan, condamne a la prison a vie, etaient parvenus
a un accord-cadre sur les modalites de règlement d’un conflit qui a
fait plus de 40.000 morts depuis 1984. A l’heure où s’amorcent des
negociations entre le PKK et l’AKP, ce crime politique risquerait
donc de mettre un coup d’arret a la normalisation des relations
turco-kurdes a laquelle semble tenir Erdogan.

Interviewe au telephone sur iTele, Didier Billion, Directeur adjoint
de l’Iris, declare pour sa part :

ARMENIAN PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE MAY BOYCOTT ELECTIONS

11 January 2013 – 11:07am

Andrias Gukasyan, a political analyst and chairman of the Radio Ay,
sent a letter to all presidential candidates to form a common civil
front against Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan.

Gukasyan says that they should all quit the presidential campaign
on January 15. He believes that a civil political movement against
Sargsyan should be under the leadership of Paruyr Ayrikyan, head
of the National Identity Association, Raffi Ovannisyan, head of the
Heritage Party, and Grant Bagratyan, head of the Freedom Party.

Besides the three names mentioned by the Gukasyan, the presidential
candidates are leader of the Republican Party and President of Armenia
Serzh Sargsyan, former Foreign Minister of Nagorno-Karabakh Arman
Melikyan, unemployed researcher of epos Vardan Sedrakyan, head of
the National Consent Party Aram Arutyunyan and Gukasyan himself.

Registration of candidates will end on January 14. Official agitation
will start on January 21 and the elections will be held on February 18.

SEANCE DE CLETURE DU COMITE ARMENIEN DES CAPTIFS, DES PRISONNIERS ET DES DISPARUS
Stephane

armenews.com
vendredi 11 janvier 2013

Le 25 decembre a eu lieu la seance de clôture de la session du
comite armenien des captifs, des prisonniers et des disparus au
sein du ministère de la Defense. La session a ete dirigee par le
ministre armenien de la Defense Seyran Ohanian. Pendant la session,
les participants ont discute des travaux realises en 2012 et parle
du plan de travail pour 2013.

Les membres du comite ont presente les travaux qui ont ete faits et
ont souligne que les travaux seraient plus efficaces si la partie
azerbaïdjanaise apportait egalement son assistance.

Le ministre armenien de la Defense a souligne que l’annee 2013
permettra a l’Armenie d’approfondir la cooperation avec les
organisations internationales.

vendredi 11 janvier 2013, Stephane ©armenews.com

LE CHRISTIANISME N’EST PLUS UNE RELIGION SELON UN MINISTRE TURC
Stephane

armenews.com
vendredi 11 janvier 2013

Le christianisme a cesse d’etre une religion, mais est devenu une
culture a declare le ministre turc de l’environnement et de l’urbanisme
Erdogan Bayraktar lors d’une recente conference organisee par le
groupe des femmes du parti Justice et Developpement (AKP).

” Les trois plus grands pays du monde ne sont pas des pays musulmans.

La Chine, l’Inde – et seuls les Etats-Unis croit en un Dieu unique. La
spiritualite et les sentiments religieux s’affaiblissent ” a dit
Erdogan Bayraktar.

” Il y a 2,5 milliards de chretiens dans le monde ” a declare
M.Bayraktar.

” Le christianisme n’est plus une religion. C’est une culture
aujourd’hui. Mais ce n’est pas ce que devrait etre une religion. Une
religion enseigne, c’est une forme de vie qui donne la paix et le
bonheur. C’est ce qu’ils veulent faire [de l’Islam] “.

vendredi 11 janvier 2013, Stephane ©armenews.com