Author: Kalashian Nyrie

ARMENIA, LITHUANIA INTERESTED IN DEEPENING MUTUALLY BENEFICIAL COOPERATION

armradio.am
29.10.2009 18:07

On October 29 the Foreign Minister of Armenia, Edward Nalbandian,
received the Deputy Foreign Minister of Lithuania, Evaldas
Ignatavicius.

Greeting the guest, Minister Nalbandian expressed appreciation for
the dynamically developing bilateral relations and underlined that
Armenia was interested in deepening and reinforcing the mutually
beneficial cooperation.

Evaldas Ignatavicius also rated highly the friendly relations between
the two countries and noted that Lithuania intended to take practical
steps towards development of multifaceted cooperation with Armenia.

The parties attached importance to the effective cooperation between
the two countries. The interlocutors talked about the Armenia-EU
cooperation and exchanged views on the EU Eastern Partnership
Initiative.

During the meeting reference was made to a number of regional and
international issues of mutual interest.

EDWARD NALBANDYAN RECEIVES DIRECTOR-GENERAL OF ORGANIZATION FOR THE PROHIBITION OF CHEMICAL WEAPONS ROGELIO PFIRTER

ARMENPRESS
Oct 29, 2009

YEREVAN, OCTOBER 29, ARMENPRESS: Armenian Foreign Minister Edward
Nalbandyan received today Director-General of Organization for the
Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) Rogelio Pfirter.

Armenian Foreign Ministry’s Media and Information Department told
Armenpress that greeting the guest E. Nalbandyan positively assessed
the activity of OPCW and Pfirter’s contribution to the implementation
of the goals of the organization. The minister pointed out that the
activity of OPCW corresponds to the efforts of the international
community to confront the contemporary challenges, particularly in
preventing dissemination of weapon of mass destruction.

The interlocutors referred in details to the Armenia-OPCW cooperation
issues. Rogelio Pfirter said he is glad with the support of Armenia
to the efforts of the organization directed toward comprehensive
applying of the Convention on Chemical Weapon.

Referring to the regional issues, the sides expressed assurance that
the joining of all the countries to the Convention will be an important
factor for consolidation of stability and security in the region.

THE SHAPE SHIFTER
By Richard Lacayo

TIME Magazine
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Oct 29 2009

Is there another life in American art to compare to Arshile Gorky’s?

His arc from struggle to breakthrough to tragedy is slow, then swift,
then dazzling and finally devastating. In the seven or so years before
he took his life in 1948, he produced some of the greatest, most
explosive works of the 20th century, a synthesis of Surrealism and
abstraction that unlocked voluptuous new possibilities for painting
and opened the way to Abstract Expressionism. It wasn’t a long life,
but it was lit by fire.

Though it’s been almost three decades since the last Gorky
retrospective, the big new show at the Philadelphia Museum of Art
was worth the wait. Organized by Michael R. Taylor, the museum’s
curator of modern art, it has final galleries so triumphant, you want
to throw your hat in the air, even though you know–and how could
you forget?–that this is a story that will end where it began,
in darkness.

Gorky was born Vosdanig Adoian in Khorkom, a village in Turkish
Armenia. In his early 20s he adopted a new name–Arshile (Russian for
Achilles) Gorky (in homage to the Russian writer Maxim Gorky). He
may not have known that gorky means bitter in Russian, but he was
certainly acquainted with bitterness. He had arrived in New York
City in 1920 as an 18-year-old refugee from the Turkish campaign
of atrocities against Armenians. One year earlier, his mother had
died of starvation in his arms. In adulthood, from 1926 to 1942, he
obsessively reworked two haunting double portraits that showed them
side by side–he the tentative 10-year-old; she an impassive totem,
forever out of reach beneath waves of nostalgia.

All through his 20s and 30s, Gorky devoted himself to a complete,
nearly self-annihilating immersion in the work of one master after
another. Cézanne, Picasso, Miró, Léger–he sometimes channeled their
voices like a ventriloquist’s dummy, but he learned their language.

His breakthrough came in the 1940s, partly by way of his contact with
the Surrealists in wartime exile in New York City, especially André
Breton and Roberto Matta. Gorky had been borrowing Surrealist imagery
for years, and he flourished in their company. It was through Matta
that he renewed his interest in the Surrealist notion of automatism,
a means of relinquishing conscious control of the hand to let it
discover images that flowed from the unconscious. With that, some key
turned inside him, allowing him to translate impressions of nature and
the body and childhood memories of Armenia into an abstract language
of longing and release.

Where once there had been something congested and strenuous about
Gorky’s paint application, his clotted surfaces began to give way to
Matta’s thin washes of color. And now there’s a slender, buoyant new
line that darts all around the canvas, lightly defining swelling forms,
with borders as thin as soap bubbles’, just tight enough to create
a sense of release when bursts of red or yellow pop them. You sense
that this is the bouncing, eternal line of freedom and pleasure,
one that traces back to the airborne arcs of those young women on
swings in Fragonard.

For most of his last years, Gorky went from strength to strength,
making lush, abundant pictures like The Liver Is the Cock’s Comb,
his 1944 masterpiece in which pools of color supply a world where
turbulent figures claw the air. But once the bad times began, they
never quit. In 1946 a fire in his Connecticut studio destroyed more
than 20 paintings. Then came rectal cancer and a car accident that
left his painting arm temporarily immobilized. Then his wife left him,
taking the kids. In despair and constant pain, he hanged himself. He
was only 46–a short life, but long enough to be a hinge that history
turned on.

EU PRESIDENCY CALLS FOR SOONEST RATIFICATION OF ARMENIAN-TURKISH PROTOCOLS

/ ARKA /
October 27, 2009
YEREVAN

YEREVAN, October 27, /ARKA/. Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt,
speaking for the current EU Presidency, welcomed the signing of
Turkish-Armenian protocols, expressing hope that Armenia and Turkey
will ratify the protocols as soon as possible and will get down to
their unconditional implementation, the Armenian foreign ministry
said in a press release.

It said Carl Bildt made the statement during a joint news conference
in Luxemburg with foreign ministers of Armenia, Azerbaijan
and Georgia.Benita Ferrero-Waldner, EU Commissioner for External
Relations and European Neighbourhood Policy, was also present at the
news conference.

Armenian and Turkish foreign ministers Edward Nalbandian and Ahmet
Davutoglu signed October 10 in Zurich two protocols on establishment
of diplomatic relations and development of bilateral relations. The
protocols need to be ratified by the parliaments of both countries.

The foreign ministry’s press release said Carl Bildt also assessed
highly the progress achieved between Armenia and the EU.

It also quoted Benita Ferrero-Waldner as saying that the 100 euro
assistance promised by the European Union to Armenia, designed to
alleviate its worst economic downturn, will help the government to
put the economy back on track.

Before the news conference Edward Nalbandian had a meeting with EU
Foreign Policy and Security chief Javier Solana to discuss EU-Armenia
and regional issues.

PURCHASE AND SALE TRANSACTIONS OF 1.15 MILLION DOLLARS CARRIED OUT AT NASDAQ OEMEX ARMENIA OJSC ON OCTOBER 26

Noyan Tapan
Oct 26, 2009

YEREVAN, OCTOBER 26, NOYAN TAPAN. Purchase and sale transactions of
1 million 150 thousand dollars at the weighted average exchange rate
of 385.25 drams per dollar were carried out at Nasdaq Oemex Armenia
OJSC on October 26. According to the press center of the Central Bank
of Armenia, the closing price was 385.25 drams.

ARMENIAN DEFENSE MINISTER PARTICIPATED IN THE WORKING MEETING OF THE DEFENSE MINISTERS OF ISSF IN BRATISLAVA

ARMENPRESS
Oct 26, 2009

YEREVAN, OCTOBER 26, ARMENPRESS: Armenian Defense Minister Seyran
Ohanyan as head of delegation of a country providing a troop to the
International Security Support Forces (ISSF) participated October 23
in the working meeting of the defense ministers of ISSF in Bratislava.

Spokesman for the defense minister Seyran Shahsuvaryan told Armenpress
that defense minister of Afghanistan, special representative of the
UN Secretary General in Afghanistan also participated in the meeting.

In his opening speech NATO Secretary General Anders Rasmusen greeted
the participation of the Armenian Defense Minister as Armenia as
participant of ISSF but not member of NATO and participated in such
meeting for the first time: and now the number of countries providing
forces for activities in Afghanistan will be 43.

NATO Secretary General promised to continue close dialogue and
cooperation during the activities.

During the meeting the defense ministers of ISSF agreed over the
transition strategy of Afghanistan and other issues.

, Turkey
Oct 24 2009

Israel sends warm message to Turkey after "temporary" status quo

A senior Israeli official signaled warm ties with Turkey after a
"temporary" status quo that got worst after a Turkish series crisis.
Saturday, 24 October 2009 10:52
World Bulletin / News Desk

A senior Israeli official signaled warm ties with Turkey after a
"temporary" status quo that got worst after a Turkish series showed an
Israeli soldier shot dead a Palestinian child, the state-run Anadolu
Agency said.

Israeli Vice Prime Minister, Silvan Shalom, said Friday the recent bad
developments between Turkey and Israel were temporary.

Turkey’s public broadcaster TRT has removed scenes of Israeli violence
against Palestinians from the TV series " Separation" that caused a
diplomatic row with Israel.

Speaking to Turkish reporters on his country’s recent relations with
Turkey, Shalom said that Israel wanted to go back to times of good
relations with Turkey.

"Turkish President Abdullah Gul is a very good friend of mine, Shalom
said, "Turkey and Israel should go back to the times of good will and
good relations."

The two countries have many common points and interests, Shalom stressed.

The status quo between Turkey and Israel is temporary and I want to
believe that we will overcome the present situation, Shalom said.

Asked about what caused the recent tension between Turkey and Israel,
Shalom indicated that he did not know what triggered the tension.

The tension was not caused by the Israeli side, Shalom said.

I believe that the two countries will find ways to overcome the
difficulties, Shalom also said.

TRT is sponsoring the 13-episodes series with the motto "7 countries,
7 headliners".

"Separation" underlines that the believe will not dissappear in the
holy territory which becomes symbol of the humanitarian joint place
for both Palestinians and Israelis without discrimination between
Muslims or Jews.

Series crisis

First episode, titled "Palestine in Love and War", was shot in the
first qibla (direction of the Muslim prayers) Al-Aqsa mosque and the
most important place for Jewish believers, Wailing Wall.

Other episodes of "Separation" was shot in Armenia, Chechnya, Iran,
Ozbekstan, Azerbaijan and Turkmenistan alongside Turkey.

The first episode portrayed Israeli forces as shooting innocent
Palestinian civilians, insulting and ridiculing them.

Israeli soldiers were shown killing a newborn baby, a little girl and
an elderly man on his way to pilgramage in Mecca.

Observers say the series was inspired by true events and actions
carried out by Israeli soldiers.

Earlier, Turkey has said bilateral ties will continue to suffer unless
Israel ends the humanitarian tragedy in the Gaza Strip and revives
peace talks with the Palestinians.

Earlier this year, outspoken Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip
Erdogan has harshly criticised Israeli war in Gaza in Dec-Jan during
Davos Summit. He also critised Israeli nuclear arms during the last
meeting of United Nations Security Council.

Aysor, Armenia
Oct 24 2009

Armenian countrymen prefer Chinese tractors

At the beginning of 2009 in August an agreement was signed between the
Belarusian `Babruski’ car factory and Vanadzor `ChinVan’ company. They
are planning to import from Byelorussia the parts of the tractors and
to prepare them here forming a joint company.

Till now there are imported parts for 4 tractors and have prepared the
product. As Samvel Najaryan the director of `ChinVan’ company told to
Aysor.am that the amount of the future production depends on the sale.
The Belarusian tractors cost 2000 ` 25 000 USD dollars.

S. Najaryan also told that since 2003 they have gathered and sold out
around 300 Chinese tractors.

MINISTER NALBANDIAN TO VISIT LUXEMBURG

armradio.am
24.10.2009 12:12

The Foreign Minister of Armenia, Edward Nalbandian, will leave for
Luxemburg on October 26 to participate in the 10th sitting of the
Armenia-EU Cooperation Council.

Minister Nalbandian is expected to have a number of bilateral meetings
in Luxemburg, Press and Information Department of the Ministry of
Foreign Affairs reported.

TURKEY MEDIATES IN KARABAKH PEACE PROCESS: KARAPETYAN

Information-Analytic Agency NEWS.am
Oct 22 2009
Armenia

Turkey took a stance of mediator in Karabakh conflict settlement
along with OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs, ANC Foreign Relations
coordinator Vladimir Karapetyan told journalists at the October 22
press-conference.

According to him, Ankara had never been obviously involved throughout
the conflict history. "Turks spoke little of Karabakh, while today
Ankara discusses the issue with everyone, including great power
leaders," he underlined, saying that Armenian side gave them a chance
to do so.

Karapetyan considers that it started after the intensification of
Armenia-Turkey talks, in particular when RA President made a statement
in Moscow and agreed to create sub-commission of historians. The ANC
coordinator pointed out that Ankara took advantage of that opportunity
and uses today Armenia-Turkey reconciliation for Karabakh conflict
settlement.

Speaking of Armenian side keeping on asserting that the Protocols do
not contain provisions indicating the linkage between two processes,
Karapetyan said that they should not necessarily say it baldly.

According to him, one should just listen attentively what Turkish
officials say, whereas they speak directly of Karabakh.