ANDREA BOCELLI TO PERFORM IN ARMENIA
news.am
April 11, 2012 | 14:13
YEREVAN. – World famous Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli will give a
concert in Yerevan’s Liberty Square on April 22.
He will be accompanied by the Armenian Philharmonic Orchestra
(conductor Marcello Rota), Armenia State Chamber Choir and “Hover”
Chamber Choir,
ARMENIAN FM TO MEET MINSK GROUP CO-CHAIRS IN WARSAW
armradio.am
11.04.2012 15:06
Armenian Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian will visit Warsaw on
April 12. Within the framework of the visit Minister Nalbandian is
scheduled to meet with the Co-Chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group in Warsaw,
Press and Information Department of the Armenian Ministry of Foreign
Affairs reported.
MISS ARMENIA 2012 TO ATTEND MISS WORLD CONTEST (PHOTOS)
11.04.12
Anna Arakelyan won the Miss Armenia 2012 title at yesterday’s contest
held in Yerevan’s Gabriel Sundukyan Theatre.
This success paves her way to the Miss World contest in which Armenia
will have its first ever participation this year.
Yesterday’s event had brought together 17 participants aged 18-24.
Katerina Abrahamyan, 18, and Anita Gabrielyan, 17, were awarded the
second and third prizes, respectively. It was the first Miss Armenia
contest in the past five years. In 2007, Margarita Sarukhanyan was
declared Armenia’s miss beauty.
Miss Armenia participants have also represented the country at
international beauty contests, including Miss Europe, Miss Asia and
Oceania, Miss Transcaucasus, and Miss CIS.
KARO PAILAN: DISCRIMINATION KILLS ‘HRANTS’ IN TURKEY
Panorama.am
11/04/2012
Discrimination against national minorities in Turkey deserves state
support in Turkey, Karo Pailan, headmaster at Armenian school in
Yesilkoy and coordinator of education commission founded by foundations
adjacent to schools, said.
Speaking to Turkish daily Radikal, Pailan described the interior
social situation in Turkey.
“Unfortunately, the state alienates those who are not of Turkish
identity, who bear different identities. Because of these
discriminations Hrants are killed in this country,” said Karo Pailan.
SAMVEL NIKOYAN RECEIVES THE DELEGATION OF THE PACE BUREAU PRE-ELECTORAL OBSERVATION MISSION
11.04.2012
Today the National Assembly Speaker Samvel Nikoyan received the
Delegation of the Pre-Electoral Observation Mission of the Bureau of
the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe led by Baroness
Emma Nicholson (United Kingdom).
The Head of the RA Parliament thanked for accepting his invitation to
take part in the elections to be held in Armenia with the Observation
Mission, as well as for the PACE and RA NA cooperation. The members
of the RA NA Delegation to PACE were also taking part in the meeting.
The Head of the Parliament has presented the preparational works,
which are going on to hold the NA upcoming elections with democratic
principles and international standards. In this respect he has
emphasized the positive atmosphere that today has been formed
in the inner-political field of the country. In the NA Speaker’s
word big efforts were required for regulating the inner-political
situation and shaping favorable, tolerable atmosphere. Mr Nikoyan
has also highlighted the improvement of the Electoral Code, where
the approaches of all concerning parties have been taken account,
including international structures. “Our task is to hold free,
democratic, transparent elections in compliance with international
standards, and the society of Armenia and international community
will assess their outcomes as such,” the NA Speaker noted.
At the request of Baroness and member of the Observation Mission
Delegation Pjotr Wach (Poland) Mr Nikoyan presented the structure and
functions of the Monitoring Working Group created at the NA Speaker.
Emma Nicholson assessed this initiative as a very interesting and
good idea. He also noted the noticeable positive work that was going
on in holding the elections at due level, highlighted the role of
the Observations Missions in providing their democratic nature. The
Baroness ensured that the international Observation Missions would
be represented in big number in Armenia.
Zaruhi Postanjyan (Heritage), Armen Rustamyan (ARF), Davit Harutyunyan
(RPA), Hermine Naghdalyan (RPA) also presented their approaches in
connection with pre-electoral processes and organization of elections.
MARXIST PARTY LEADER RULES OUT KOCHARYAN’S RETURN
Tert.am
12.04.12
The leader of the Marxist Party, David Hakobyan, rules out any
possibility that the second president, Robert Kocharyan, may return
to power.
At a news conference on Thursday, David Hakobyan said that only a
few political forces in Armenia like beating the drum of Kocharyan,
without having any real grounds.
“I don’t see real chances of return,” he said.
“I follow them all. What I see is nonsense in the strictest sense
of the word, a new political coquetry, political demagogy, without
any keynote provision. There’s nothing about new economic policies,
and I don’t see a serious force that has to make a breakthrough on
the ideological front.”
As for Serzh Sargsyan’s statement on free and fair polls, the Marxist
leader said he is skeptical about such promises.
“If a fair election is what he wanted, he should have cleared the
list of the oligarchic waste,” he noted.
Nonetheless, Hakobyan expressed hope that violations in the upcoming
election will be less obvious compared to the previous time.
“They have no chances of rigging this time. The conflicts between the
political will force each of them to concentrate their potential on
the ballot stealing,” he said.
ARMENIA, ARGENTINA TO SIGN ECONOMIC COOPERATION AGREEMENT
news.am
April 12, 2012 | 14:37
YEREVAN. – The Government of Armenia on Thursday approved the proposal
to authorize an economic cooperation agreement with Argentina.
The aforesaid proposal was received from the Argentinean side.
The two countries had signed-in Buenos Aires in 1994-an agreement on
trade and economic cooperation, but the document’s term had expired
in 2010. So, there was a need to sign a new agreement.
This is a standard document, and the Armenian government has signed
similar agreements with numerous countries.
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Armenia, Argentina to sign economic cooperation agreement
news.am
April 12, 2012 | 14:37
YEREVAN. ? The Government of Armenia on Thursday approved the proposal
to authorize an economic cooperation agreement with Argentina.
The aforesaid proposal was received from the Argentinean side.
The two countries had signed?in Buenos Aires in 1994?an agreement on
trade and economic cooperation, but the document?s term had expired in
2010. So, there was a need to sign a new agreement.
This is a standard document, and the Armenian government has signed
similar agreements with numerous countries.
KHZMALYAN’S LIES EXPOSED
Panorama.am
12/04/2012
In response to a written inquiry from Haykakan Zhamanak, Rector of
Yerevan State Medical University Derenik Dumanyan claimed that film
director Tigran Khzmalyan’s wife herself had expressed a wish to be
included in RPA’s candidate list.
“Dumanyan’s response in essence said directly that Tigran Khzmalyan
knew in advance that his wife will be included in the proportional
representation list headed by Serzh Sargsyan, and gave his consent
to it,” says the paper.
Also, CEC denied the report of withdrawal spread by Khzmalyan earlier.
AZERBAIJANI FILM FESTIVAL NOT TO BE CONDUCTED IN GYUMRI
ARMENPRESS
APRIL 12, 2012
YEREVAN
YEREVAN, APRIL 12, ARMENPRESS. Azerbaijani film festival “Stop”
will not take place. The participants of protest rally blockaded
the entrance of the Gyumri’s “Asparez” club where the festival was
to be conduced today at 3 pm. Armenpress correspondent reports from
Gyumri that Georgi Vanyan, director of “Caucasian Center of Peaceful
Initiatives” stated.
The demonstrations on banning the conduction of the festival were
held for three days.
Early in the morning of April 12 when organizer Vanyan tried to enter
the club, he faced the confrontation of protestants.
Vanyan refused to give interview to the reporters saying he will speak
after the festival. Later he met with the wives of deceased freedom
fighters, members of Yerkrapah volunteer union. Accompanied with the
police Vanyan was moved to a safer room. The protestants said they
will stay at the entrance till Vanyan departs from Gyumri.
ARMENIAN GENOCIDE SPARKS SCANDAL BETWEEN TURKEY, AZERBAIJAN AND SLOVAKIA
PanARMENIAN.Net
April 12, 2012 – 14:08 AMT
PanARMENIAN.Net – According to the Forum of Armenian Associations in
Europe (FAAE), a political scandal is flaring up in Azerbaijan and
Turkey with regard to Slovakia.
Many Turkish and Azerbaijani media outlets denied in November 2011 the
statement of Slovakia’s Supreme Council chairman Stefan Harabin who
said Slovakia has been criminalizing the denial of Armenian Genocide
since September 2009.
The point is that Harabin had personally finalized the text of the
relevant law and submitted it to his country’s parliament during his
office as Slovakia’s Justice Minister and Deputy Prime Minister.
The media referred to the incorrect statement by Slovakian
ambassador to Armenia and Azerbaijan Josef MigaÅ¡ saying that “the
law criminalizing the Armenian Genocide was never put in force in
Slovakia and it was not even discussed in the parliament.”
FAAE head Ashot Grigoryan addressed Migaš demanding that the latter
should explain his blunder and warned him that this can cause a
serious scandal.
However, the ambassador never commented on this. Later, FAAE
representatives published an open letter to the ambassador of Slovakia
to Armenia and Azerbaijan saying that “necessary moves should be
undertaken to prevent the looming political scandal”.