12 130 TONS OF APRICOTS EXPORTED FROM ARMENIA
PanARMENIAN.Net
July 26, 2012 – 14:40 AMT
PanARMENIAN.Net – This year Armenia’s apricot harvest is abundant,
with 12 130 tons having already been exported from the country against
last year’s 7300 tons, Agriculture Minister said.
“In 2011, 2 830 tons of apricots was bought by processing companies,
with the number totaling 6 150 tons this year,” Sergo Karapetyan said,
forecasting rich harvest of peaches and apples.
LEVON TOKMAJYAN CELEBRATES 75TH BIRTHDAY
Artak Barseghyan
“Radiolur”
25.07.2012 18:15
This year RA People’s Artist Levon Tokmajyan celebrates his 75th
birthday and the 50th anniversary of his creative activity. His
sculptures decorate not only Yerevan, but also many cities on different
continents of the world.
Tokmajyan is the author of the statues of Martiros Saryan, Vahram
Papazyan, Hrant Matevosyan, Gevorg Chavush, Tigran the Great, King
Argishti, Noah, Leonid Yengibarov, Kara Bala and others.
On the occasion of the jubilee the sculptor was awarded by the Ministry
of Culture and the Yerevan City Hall.
Tokmajyan carved his first sculpture on dry trees in Yerevan and
Etchmiadzin.
ARMENIAN ARCHEOLOGISTS HAVE DISCOVERED PALEOLITHIC ERA MONUMENT
ARMENPRESS
26 July, 2012
YEREVAN
YEREVAN, JULY 26, ARMENPRESS: Armenian expedition group has discovered
smart monument in the course of the excavations carried in Armavir
province, Republic of Armenia by. As Archeology and Ethnography
Institute, National Academy of Sciences , fellow scientist, expedition
leader Boris Gasparyan assumes the monument dates Paleolithic era,
over 250-300 years.’~R The monument discovered by our efforts, has
not yet been numbered’~R the interlocutor noted.
In the words of Gasparyan current year Armenian expedition group has
carried out more research- investigation works than main excavation,
Armenpress reports.
The archeologist informs Armenian -German joint expedition group is
scheduled to commission excavations in August 2012 in Sisian to find
out whether the process of Neanderthal man transformation into Homo
sapiens , that’s to say into a rational person has occurred in the
area of Armenia.
” Each launched excavation is aimed for special purpose, yet the issue
of protection of discovered samples and monuments also stems from
it. The researches carried out abroad as well as numbering analysis
cost much money” Gasparyan concluded.
MEETING WITH A GROUP OF STUDENTS STUDYING ABROAD WITH THE ASSISTANCE OF THE “LUYS” FUND
On 24 July Artsakh Republic President Bako Sahakayan received a
group of Armenian students studying abroad with the assistance of the
“Luys” fund.
The Head of the State noted with satisfaction that our compatriots
who have studied in leading foreign universities already work in
different departments and organizations of the republic.
According to Bako Sahakyan the number of Artsakh students studying
abroad increases year by year and the country will continue to assist
them in this process.
The President also discussed with the students issues related to the
domestic and foreign policies of Artsakh.
Artsakh Republic minister of education and science Vladik Khachatryan
was present at the meeting.
LEBANESE AND SYRIAN ARMENIANS CAN GET RA PASSPORTS AT ARMENIA’S DIPLOMATIC REPRESENTATIONS
Liana Yeghiazaryan
“Radiolur”
26.07.2012 15:18
Lebanese and Syrian Armenians, who have applied for citizenship of the
Republic of Armenia, will have an opportunity to get their passports
from RA diplomatic representations in their respective countries.
Visiting Armenia and applying to Police will not be obligatory any
more. The government adopted the decision during today’s sitting,
taking into consideration the necessity to organize the unimpeded
repatriation of Syrian Armenians.
The issue is urgent, as thousands of Syrian Armenians have applied
for RA citizenship, Minister of Diaspora Hranush Hakobyan said at
the sitting.
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Sunday School Events
YOUTH SONG CONTEST II, DISCOVERING NEW TALENT
26 July 2012. On Friday 13 July 2012, the second song contest organized by
the directorate of Sunday Schools began at the Der-Melkonian Theatre at
Bourj Hammoud (Beirut). The contest will take place every Friday during the
next four weeks.
The results of the contest will be announced during the final concert on
Friday 3 October 2012, held at the Der-Melkonian Theater.
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SYRIAN-ARMENIAN PEOPLE PREDICT: A GREAT STREAM OF ARMENIANS WILL COME TO ARMENIA FROM SYRIA
ARMENPRESS
26 July, 2012
YEREVAN
YEREVAN, JULY 26, ARMENPRESS: The Syrian-Armenians are positively
appreciating the support of the Armenian authorities and
non-governmental organizations. Tigran Gaboyan, a Syrian-Armenian
writer informed Armenpress, that the situation in Syria is very
indefinite, and that the Syrian-Armenians are trying to avoid the
processes in Syria. He also mentioned, that he had arrived in Armenia
with the aim of obtaining the Armenian citizenship and launch a
business activity.
Syrian-Armenian Karlos Gasparayn , who is a pharmacist by profession,
also wants to obtain the Armenian citizenship. Syrian-Armenian Vazgen
Mesropyan mentioned, that they had some visa problems, and it would
be great to make the process of getting visas easier. He also noted,
that it would be better to obtain the citizenship in shorter deadlines,
meanwhile they usually got it within 6 months.
The ones, who have already returned from Syria, said that the
situation is very tensed especially in Aleppo, therefore the stream
of Syrian-Armenians to the motherland will continue.
According to the Human Rights Defense Organization in Syria more
than 18 000 people have been killed, during the ongoing clashes. In
Armenia the applications on the status of refugee from Syria are
being observed in an accelerated way.
On July 26 the Armenian Government made a modification in a decision,
according to which Armenians from Syria and Lebanon, in the case of
obtaining the Armenian citizenship, could get their passports from
the diplomatic representations. According to another decision, the
Executive Body confirmed that Armenian foreign citizens could have
an opportunity to obtain an Armenian visa in the crossings of the
Armenian border.
SILENCE IS ALSO ELOQUENT
ARAM ABRAHAMYAN
July 26, 2012 13:09
The fact that Vano Siradeghyan’s topic starts to concern our society
from time to time is absolutely logical – this figure is one of the
founders of our state. Who wants to see only the bad things in that
state, naturally, will make a few biting remarks on this issue.
However, I am trying to notice both the positive and the negative
things in both the state and the founders of it and since Vano is
not around, at the moment I would like to join those who stress his
qualities, realizing, however, that the person who worked as the
Minister of Interior in the hardest transition period could not be a
little lower than the angels in all respects. I started to communicate
with Vano unofficially in the fall of 1994 and I can assert that he
noticed the drawbacks that were there in embryo at the time already
and today they have become a hundred, a thousand times bigger. And, for
example, his “Shamiram” pre-election program, which has been severely
criticized, in my opinion, is an attempt to oppose first of all those
manifestations of the government – did women fit the parliament more
than Karamels, Kombikers and Nver Chakhoyan? You would say, certainly,
the parliament should be elected by the people and the Ministry
of Interior should not establish artificial parliamentary groups –
in theory, it is right, but in practice, politics is the art of the
possible. Let those who put Karamels and Kombikers in the parliament
for the first time in 1995 not pretend that they have always been
for fair elections.
Generally, I have had many opportunities to become convinced that Vano
was farsighted and already predicted many of today’s vices at the
time, when the change of power hadn’t taken place yet and he hadn’t
published his publicistic articles. Vazgen Sargsyan once told me
“many people praise Vano’s intuition, but they don’t understand that
he just thinks very much about important things.” Now, I am convinced,
he continues thinking. And if he doesn’t speak, sometimes silence is
more eloquent than words.
I share the wishes of those who want him back. However, that he comes
back to Armenia, not to politics. His and all his Karabakh Committee
colleagues’ hour of triumph was years 1988-90 – their perceptions of
the political struggle are connected to that period whether they want
it or not. And today we live in absolutely different Armenia and in
an absolutely different world. I think that there is no need to prove
it thoroughly and highly appreciating those people’s contribution,
I think that their approaches are obsolete.
>From the moral perspective, Vano’s return will certainly play a
positive role. Not to mention, how much the literature will gain
from that.
YEREVAN UNDERWORLD LEADER THREATENS TO KIDNAP VANO’S SON, SIRUNYAN TELLS THE STORY
Hripsime JEBEJYAN
July 25, 2012 17:36
Did you close streets during Vano Siradeghyan’s tenure, did you
impede traffic with an escort, terrify pedestrians with horns, when
Vano Siradeghyan went somewhere? In response to this question of
, Suren Sirunyan, the former chief of his security said,
“At that time, there were no such things. There were just flashers,
which we put on the cars, that’s all. We always accompanied Vano in
two cars, at most, sometimes, in one.”
In response to our observation that there were people who had seen
what a huge escort had accompanied Suren Khachatryan, the governor
of Syunik, to the National Assembly, it had closed whole Demirchyan
Street, in 12 cars, Suren Sirunyan said, “Perhaps, Suren Khachatryan
wants to show his friends’ cars in Yerevan or his friends want to
show that Suren Khchatryan has a lot of friends. Otherwise, it is
pointless.”
We inquired whether he would like to be someone’s bodyguard today,
if he was offered a high salary, he assured that he had received
many offers, “How do you think it will be after working for Vano
Siradeghyan? I have received a lot of offers. I cannot say from whom.
I was offered a job in the state apparatus in 2000, also after that
there have been offers to work for different people as a bodyguard,
a chief of security, but I refused, because if there had been a man
after Vano Siradeghyan, if I had felt that this man was bigger than
Vano Siradeghyan, perhaps I would have agreed.”
According to S. Sirunyan, it doesn’t matter that Vano Siradeghyan is
not around now and he has no job, “I would never try to turn the work
he has done into nothing.”
In response to our question whether there had been a case at the time,
when he was the chief of Vano Siradeghyan’s security, that someone
would like to approach his boss and he would pinion him and put him
in the car, he said, “Perhaps, it is hard to believe, but no.
There were many cases of defending him. There is a story about Vano
Siradeghyan – when one of Yerevan underworld leaders was arrested,
we received a letter that if that person had not been released,
they would have kidnapped Vano Siradeghyan’s son. We received that
unequivocal letter; they gave the letter to me. Since one of the sons
was by my side, we first of all tried to guarantee the security of
the other one immediately, then I reported to Vano Siradehyan. After
reading the letter, he just laughed, dropped the letter and didn’t
treat it seriously. Only after 15 minutes had passed, he said to
me that two of us only – the other guys would stay at the office –
would go to such-and-such place. It was the place where the given
underworld leader lived and we knew that the road to that place was
closed. I am talking about the beginning of 1995. We went there,
there were 300 people there; they had closed the street. Only Vano
Siradeghyan and I went. When we got to the place, only 12 people
out of 300 stayed there. Eventually, they asked Vano Siradeghyan to
meet them halfway, in order that this underworld leader got as mild
a punishment as possible. Not to release him, but to impose a mild
punishment. They confiscated two guns from that person.”
Suren Sirunyan told that story to show how selflessly bodyguards
should really work.
SERZH SARGSYAN TO MEET THE REPRESENTATIVES OF ARMENIAN COMMUNITY IN GREAT BRITAIN
ARMENPRESS
27 July, 2012
YEREVAN
YEREVAN, JULY 27, ARMENPRESS: President of the Republic of Armenia
Serzh Sargsyan during his visit to Great Britain will hold meetings
with the representatives of Armenian community of Great Britain.
Armenpress was informed about this from the representative of Armenian
National Committee of Great Britain Sevan Artin.
“In the meeting will take part different sportsmen representing
other countries during the Olympic Games. A banquet will take place
and ambassadors will be present at it. It has been organized by
Church board of Armenian Community” informed Artin. In the agenda
there are not included concrete issues that will be discussed
with the President. “The main goal of the meeting is the stressing
of importance of Armenian sportsmen during the Olympiad. However
it is not excluded that the representatives of the community will
introduce to the President their problems and concerns. This is the
first meeting of the President with the Armenian community of Great
Britain” highlighted Artin.