Author: Kalantarian Kevo

Armenian companies participating in Bahrain’s international
entrepreneurs investment forum

YEREVAN, JANUARY 19. / ARKA /. Fifteen Armenian companies are
participating in the first International Entrepreneurs Investment
Forum being held in Bahrain’s capital city Manama from January 19 to
21.

The major focus of the Forum is to promote investment and facilitate
business linkages between entrepreneurs from around the world to
exchange experiences and above all, develop business partnerships
among themselves.

The Forum is a joint effort of the United Nations Industrial
Development Organization, (UNIDO), the Center for International
Entrepreneurship and Investment in Bahrain, the Arab Chamber of
Commerce, Industry and Agriculture, the Islamic Development Bank, the
Arab Bank of Economic Development in Africa, the European Investment
Bank, Kaufman Foundation and some other organizations.

The Armenian participation is secured by the Armenian Development
Agency and the Centre for International Industrial Cooperation. The
participating Armenian companies are engaged in food processing,
pharmaceuticals, information technology, jewelry, agriculture and
other sectors.

The forum provides the participants with an opportunity to acquire the
latest expertise in the field, expand networks, build partnerships and
develop new joint projects. It is expected that the recommendations
made at the forum will lead to the adoption of a Bahrain Declaration
on Entrepreneurship Development. More than 1000 stakeholders are
participating from all over the world, including high-level
delegations from international organizations and institutions.

The forum’s sessions will focus on fostering entrepreneurship
development, financial models to support entrepreneurs, women
entrepreneurs, and support institutions for entrepreneurs.

In addition, parallel panels will showcase entrepreneurship
development examples in Africa, Asia, Europe and Latin America,
including the BRICS countries: Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South
Africa.-0-

No emotions should guide Armenian-Russian relations – Republican MP

09:35 * 19.01.15

Emotions should be ruled out in the Armenian Russian relations, a
former prime minister and a current lawmaker of the ruling Republican
Party of Armenia has said, commenting upon the recent tragic murder
committed by a Russian army private in Gyumri.

In an interview with Tert.am, Khosrov Harutyunyan called for a serious
approach by the Russian and Armenian law enforcement bodies to what he
called a foreign trace behind the tragic incident.

“Emotional motives should be ruled out when it comes to the
Russian-Armenian relations – sad and even tragic though they may be.
What I mean are the long-term strategic interests. And from this point
of view, this incident can never and will never be treated or become a
touchstone. I just have an understanding approach to both the concerns
and tensions that evolved in the public opinion.”

Considering the discussions in social networks not sufficiently
unbiased and comprehensive, Harutyunyan said he doesn’t think that the
political and public sentiments they develop should be preferred to
long-term policies and interests.

He said that the condolences and condemning statements issued by the
Russian Embassy to Armenia, the command of the 102nd military base in
Gyumri, the Russian General Prosecutor’s Office, and different
politicians are what really reflect the country’s official position.

“So what was the demand of the demonstrators who went to the Russian
Embassy? They are obviously looking for an occasion to provoke tension
in the Armenian-Russian relations by such approaches. Isn’t that
clear? What did they demand, for example, from the Russian Consulate
in Gyumri. What is it supposed to do?

“It is due to these steps – not quite responsible, unintentional or
perhaps intentional – that they are trying to drive a wedge in the
Russian Armenian relations. That’s all,” he said.

Asked what questions will be discussed at the National Assembly’s
closed-door meeting (set to to take place on Thursday), Harutyunyan
said he doesn’t clearly know the agenda.

“We’ll see it in the course of the discussion. We’ll try to make out
and analyze the information and draw our conclusions. I find it
difficult to say it at the moment. But the main goal is to consider
the key motives behind the crime,” he replied.

Breitbart News
Jan 19 2015

Armenians Decry Erdogan’s Gallipoli Celebration as a “Provocation”

by Thomas D. Williams, Ph.D.19 Jan 20153

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has invited world leaders,
including Armenian President Serzh Sarkysian, to participate in
festivities to be held in Turkey to celebrate the anniversary of the
Battle of Gallipoli on April 24. Coincidentally, that is the very day
when Armenians are preparing to commemorate the hundredth anniversary
of the Armenian Genocide, perpetrated by the Ottoman Turks.

Christian Armenians living in Turkey have dubbed Erdogan’s move a
“provocation.” According to the newspaper Agos, the bilingual Armenian
weekly published in Istanbul, local sources have defined Erdogan’s
invitation as “the dishonest action of an ill-mannered person.”

For some time now, Armenia has been planning an international event
dedicated to the memory of the Armenian victims, for April 24, 2015,
the centennial of the genocide.

Armenians observe April 24, 1915 as the start of the Armenian
Genocide. On that day, several hundred Armenian intellectuals were
rounded up, arrested, and later executed.

Figures compiled by the University of Minnesota’s Center for Holocaust
and Genocide Studies show that there were 2,133,190 Armenians in the
empire in 1914 and only about 387,800 by 1922, a loss of some 1.75
million lives.

In a sternly worded letter, Armenia’s President has responded to
Erdogan, condemning Turkey’s “traditional policy of denialism” and
assuring him that before he organizes commemorative events, he should
publicly recognize and denounce the genocide.

“Leaving aside the well-known meaning of the Battle of Gallipoli or
the questionable role of Turkey in World War I and World War II,”
Sarkysian writes, “one shall recall that peace and friendship first
and foremost shall be based on the courage to confront the past, on
the historical justice, as well as on recognition of full-fledged
universal memory but never on selective approach.”

Why suddenly commemorate the Battle of Gallipoli on April 24, when “it
began on March 18, 1915 and lasted till late January, 1916”? Sarkysian
asks.

Moreover, Sarkysian notes, the allies’ land campaign–the Gallipoli
land battle–took place on April 25, 1915.

“What purpose does it serve if not a simple-minded goal to distract
the attention of the international community from the events dedicated
to the centennial of the Armenian Genocide?” he asks.

According to Sarkysian, “before organizing a commemorative event,
Turkey has a much more important obligation towards its own people and
the entire humanity, namely the recognition and condemnation of the
Armenian Genocide.”

In a “PS” to the letter, Sarkysian reminds Erdogan that already “a few
months ago I invited you to join us in commemoration of memory of the
innocent victims of the Armenian Genocide in Yerevan on the 24th of
April.” Sarkysian retorts that it is not “common practice” to receive
back an invitation for the same date “without receiving a response to
our invitation.”

Vestnik Kavkaza, Russia
Jan 19 2015

Gerard Araud: “Armenian genocide” is an opinion, not a fact

19 January 2015 – 3:33pm

The Holocaust is a fact, the “Armenian genocide” is just an opinion,
the French Ambassador to the US Gerard Araud said in an interview with
US cable channel MSNBC.

The diplomat recalled that in France there is no law criminalizing
denial of the Armenian interpretation of the events of the First World
War. The denial of the Holocaust as a fact is a criminal offense.

The European Court of Human Rights imposed a sentence with similar
content on December 17th 2013 in Dogu Perincek’s suit against
Switzerland. The ECHR considered that the Armenian version of the
events of 1915 was not only deprived of the verdict of an
international tribunal as a condition for establishing the fact of
genocide, but even a consensus in the academic environment, AzerTac
reported.

After the verdict the Swiss government filed an appeal under pressure
from the Armenian lobby, which will be considered by the supreme
authority of the ECHR on January 28 this year.

“I am not the lawyer of Valeri Permyakov anymore”: why the lawyer
refused (video)

12:28 | January 17,2015 | Social

“I am not the lawyer of Valeri Permyakov anymore”: this is the
statement made on January 16 by Tamara Yayloyan, member of the RA
Chamber of Advocates. She noted that after the events, on January 13
she took over the defense of Valeri Permyakov charged with the murder
of 6 citizens of Gyumri. During that time Permyakov didn’t have a
lawyer but Russian side needed to end the documentation activities.
During the first part of testimony Tamara Yayloyan was present and
heard about how Permyakov reached the house of the Avetisyan family
and how entered, heard noise and fired.

During the testimony, when Permyakov started speaking about the murder
of the child, the lawyer wasn’t able to keep her emotions and left the
room. Tamara Yayloyan notes that her emotional state doesn’t let her
continue her work. There are no other reasons for the refusal,”- she
announced.

The video by “Tsayg” TV- below

Azerbaijani sniper kills an Armenian soldier

20:36, 17 Jan 2015

Armenian serviceman, the inhabitant of Voskevan village (Tavush
region), Arman Hovhannisyan, was killed as a result of ceasefire
violation on the front line on January 17, the Spokesperson of the
Minister of Defense of the Republic of Armenia Artsrun Hovhannisyan
informed.

French-Armenians concerned over Erdogan’s message to Armenian leader

14:48 * 17.01.15

The Coordinating Council of French-Armenian Organization (CCAF) has
expressed its concerns over the Turkish president’s recent move to
invite the Armenian leader to the country in April for participating
in the commemoration events dedicated to the Gallipoli Battle’s 100th
anniversary.

In a statement published in the French-Armenian magazine Nouvelle
d’Armenie, the Council has describes the move as an attempt by Ankara
to derail the commemoration of the Armenian Genocide centennial.

The Council members note that the anniversary, traditionally
celebrated in Turkey on April 25, has been rescheduled to April 24
this year to coincide with the Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day.

“Ankara seeks to maximum diminish the international reaction to April
24. This tactics falls within the Turks’ denial policies, which are
nothing more than a continuation [of Genocide] through other means.

“”The Coordinating Council of French-Armenian Organizations has
expressed hope that the sates will manage to wreck the Turkish
authorities’ trap – which is becoming more and more cynical – in an
effort to uphold the international diplomacy’s moral norms in this
region,” reads the statement.

In his response to Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s invitation letter, Armenian
President Serzh Sargsyan practically declined the invitation offer by
stating that it isn’t a commonly accepted practice in Armenia to be
hosted by a guest “without receiving an answer to our invitation”.

Armen Martirosyan: Permyakov can and must be transferred to Armenian law-enforcement

by Nana Martirosyan
Saturday, January 17, 15:16

All the demands over the transfer of Russian serviceman Valery
Permyakov, the suspect of the murder of the Armenian family in Gyumri,
to the Armenian law-enforcement structures should be addressed to the
authorities of Armenia, Armen Martirosyan, Deputy Head of Heritage
Party, said at a press conference in Yerevan.

He thinks it unacceptable that the country’s authorities are
instigating the displeased people to storm the Russian Consulate to
shift the responsibility for the situation to the Russian officials.
“We should direct our demands to the authorities of Armenia, first of
all, to the President, who has been silent since January 13, to the
Foreign Ministry, to the Prime Minister, because their posts oblige
them to protect the rights of the country’s citizens”, he said.

Martirosyan also thinks that the further behavior of the Russian side
depends on the actions of the Armenian side. “The international
agreements have supremacy over the countries’ laws, so, according to
Provisions 4 and 5 of the Agreement on deployment of the 102nd Russian
military base in Armenia, Permyakov can and must be transferred to the
Armenian side. All the obstacles are artificial”, he said.

To recall, a family of six was murdered in Gyumri on January 12. The
suspect, Russian serviceman Valery Permyakov, is still in the
territory of the 102nd Russian military base in Gyumri. The residents
of Gyumri are holding actions of protest and demand transferring
Permyakov to the Armenian law-enforcers.

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Newly built territory has become a reason for collapse of 5 shops:
photos (video)

14:37 | January 17,2015 | Social

The reason for collapse in the territory of former “Erebuni” market is
still unknown. According to preliminary information there has been
landslide of the foundation dug for the construction of a new building
near the territory of these shops, as a result of which 5 shops slid
into the pit (about 15 meters). There is also danger that 3 shops may
also slide.

Some of the residents claim that the owners of the shops have been
previously warned about the danger of collapse and some of them
evacuated some belongings. “I always pass this part and I have seen
that it is dangerous. Two days before I entered the shops and warned.
Yesterday many shops took out the products,”- noted a local resident,
constructor Andranik Minasyan.

MES received a call at 06:30 in the morning. “A firefighting brigade
and CMC OG immediately went on the scene. The territory has been
demarcated and safe zone has been formed on the spot,”- informed MES
Yerevan Rescue Department Erebuni department head Sargis Avetisyan.

Residents are angry. “Before the construction the project must receive
the permission of relevant institutions, but there isn’t any
permission,”- stressed local resident, engineer Nshan Avagyan.

Rumors have been spread among the residents that the newly built
territory will be a trade center and belongs to NA HHK Deputy Samvel
Aleksanyan.

Watch video later.

ARMENIE
Serioja, seul survivant de la famille Avetisyan décimée à Gumri, opéré à Erévan

Le nourrisson Serioja, dernier survivant de la tuerie de Gumri qui
decima 6 membres de la famille Avetisyan assassinés par un soldat
Russe, a été transféré à l’hôpital Sourp Asdvadzamayr à Erévan.

L’enfant grièvement blessé était en réanimation et son état était jugé
grave. L’opération qui dura une vingtaine de minutes -sans doute dans
la zone de sa colonne vertébrale- se serait bien passée. Son état
continue de rester néanmoins grave. Lors de l’opération, les
chirurgiens arméniens étaient supervisés par vidéo depuis Saint
Petersbourg par le Professeur William Khachatourian, directeur de la
clinique pour enfants Polenov de Saint Petersbourg.

Krikor Amirzayan

samedi 17 janvier 2015,
Krikor Amirzayan (c)armenews.com