Dutch Official Hails Armenian Authorities For The Resoluteness To Im

DUTCH OFFICIAL HAILS ARMENIAN AUTHORITIES FOR THE RESOLUTENESS TO IMPLEMENT REFORMS

armradio.am
15.02.2012 12:17

Secretary of the Armenian National Security Council Arthur Baghdasaryan
received the delegation headed by Klaas van der Tempel, Special
Representative for the Eastern Partnership at Ministry of Foreign
Affairs of the Netherlands.

The parties discussed the possibilities of joint programs and
initiatives within the framework of the process of implementation of
reforms in Armenia in accordance with EU standards.

According to Arthur Baghdasaryan, the rich agenda of Armenia-EU
cooperation is reflected in the new Action Plan for 2012-2013. The
Secretary of the National Security Council attached importance to
the necessity of implementing separate programs with EU member states
including the Netherlands and come forth with new initiatives.

Mr. Tempel appreciated the resoluteness of the Armenian authorities to
implement reforms in different spheres, which has been reiterated in
different spheres. He also emphasized the importance to the activity
of the EU Advisory Group and expressed willingness to get involved
in that process.

A broad framework of regional and international issues was discussed.

Pour La Premiere Fois La Turquie Agit Calmement

POUR LA PREMIERE FOIS LA TURQUIE AGIT CALMEMENT
Stephane

armenews.com
mercredi 15 fevrier 2012

A present, ce qui est fait est fait et le resultat auquel on
s’attendait s’est produit. Un vase ancien a ete brise en morceaux.

La proposition de loi votee en France est entièrement de nature
politique. Independamment de la durete de la reaction que nous avons
pu montrer, de l’etendue de notre condamnation, et meme si nous les
traînons dans la boue, Sarkozy a eu ce qu’il voulait.

Il a tout a la fois empeche les votes armeniens de se reporter sur
les socialistes avant les elections, et il a egalement fait un clin
d’~il aux electeurs d’extreme droite comme le president qui se dresse
contre la Turquie. Et aussi, en meme temps, il a bloque encore plus
la route d’Ankara vers l’Union Europeenne. En d’autres termes, il a
atteint plus qu’un seul oiseau – dans le cadre de sa propre politique –
avec une seule pierre.

Je suis sûr que cela vous a frappe au cours des debats a l’Assemblee
Nationale Francaise et au Senat. Presque tous les orateurs ont convenu
qu’un “genocide” avait eu lieu et que la Turquie en est responsable.

Aucun d’entre eux n’a pris la parole et n’a rien dit contre cela.

C’est cette perception qui nous echappe. Pas seulement la France,
malheureusement, mais l’entière opinion publique internationale a
convenu que nous avons commis un “genocide”. Ce qui est discute a
present, ce sont les points inherents a la facon qu’il sera puni.

2015 est une annee très importante pour les Armeniens. Selon eux,
c’est le 100ème anniversaire du “genocide”, dès lors, il faut que le
monde entier accepte le “genocide”, la Turquie devrait etre blâmee
et punie. C’est donc aussi une echeance vraiment importante a notre
point de vue.

Les reactions que nous allons avoir aujourd’hui et les mesures que nous
allons prendre aujourd’hui devraient etre concues avec en tete l’annee
2015 ; nous devrions faire nos calculs sur cette base. Nos reactions
seront percues comme des indications sur nos reactions futures.

Sur-reagir nous isolera, nous fera apparaître injustes et infligera
a nous-memes des blessures.

Tâchons de ne pas oublier, demain, ce sera le tour des Etats-Unis.

Peut-etre le jour suivant l’Allemagne et l’Espagne se joindront-elles
au convoi. Nous devrions calculer aujourd’hui ce que nous ferons alors.

Tel que je vois cet etroit chemin devant nous, je pense que la reaction
d’hier du premier ministre Erdogan etait très saine. Je pense qu’il
convient beaucoup mieux de reagir calmement plutôt que de hurler et de
s’enerver, plutôt que de decider des embargos qui nous causeront du
tort. Il y aura bien sûr des reactions et des mesures seront prises,
mais l’attitude doit etre “europeenne”.

Les reactions inappropriees ne font que nous diminuer.

Mes plus grandes craintes, ce sont ces municipalites, ces partis
politiques, organisations non gouvernementales, associations, etc.,
qui ignoreraient l’attitude calme du premier ministre et n’en feraient
qu’a leur tete.

Nous avons vu de telles scènes precedemment ; ils descendent dans la
rue, il marche sur les representations francaises tenant drapeaux et
couronnes mortuaires dans les mains ; ils brûlent des drapeaux, les
pietinent frenetiquement, et profèrent des insultes grossières. Les
tanneurs, qui veulent eclipser l’association des bouchers, ensemble
avec tel ou tel syndicat envahissent la rue et une competition
est commencee. Lorsque les municipalites s’en melent, la situation
devient calamiteuse.

Le changement du nom des rues, meme si les Algeriens s’y opposent,
eriger des statues algeriennes… Plus etrange, de telles “reactions”
se sont traduites, comme cela s’est produit recemment, par l’envoi
d’inspecteurs dans les ecoles francaises.

Comme l’a dit Ylim Eralp hier sur CNN Turk, reagir en poussant des
hurlements, au-dela d’un certain point, nous rend moins credibles dans
l’opinion internationale. Nous n’avons jamais pense a cela auparavant.

Nous etions habitue a produire des spectacles pour nous-memes.

Pour toutes ces raisons, l’approche generale du premier ministre est
sans aucun doute correcte.

Traduction et commentaire de Gilbert Beguian

Mehmet Ali Birand repète ce qu’il soutient depuis quelques temps :
2015 est une annee critique et il faut que la Turquie s’y prepare. Si
on ne voit pas très bien où il veut en venir, on s’apercoit a la
lecture de cet article que les Turcs viennent seulement de decouvrir
ce qui est admis dans le monde entier : il y a eu un genocide en 1915.

Une pierre dans le jardin de ceux qui ont tout fait pour que cette
proposition de loi ne voit pas le jour.

Yerkir Newspaper: Wolves Hunted In Yerevan

YERKIR NEWSPAPER: WOLVES HUNTED IN YEREVAN

PanARMENIAN.Net
February 15, 2012 – 10:38 AMT

PanARMENIAN.Net – Armenian Ministry of Nature Protection has proposed
to bring the number of killed wolves to 200 against 100 in 2011,
considering the outcomes of studies conducted in Armenia’s provinces
in 2011.

Ministry expects government to allocate USD 20 mln from its reserve
funds to provide AMD 100 thous. monetary awards for each wolf.

According to statistics, most wolves were hunted in Aragatsotn province
in 2011, the figure reaching 17. One wolf was also hunted in Yerevan.

However, it is still vague how the wolf appeared in the capital city.

Yerevan Zoo is to be contacted to shed light on the issue.

Education Minister Happy To See Kuwaiti Students In Armenian Univers

EDUCATION MINISTER HAPPY TO SEE KUWAITI STUDENTS IN ARMENIAN UNIVERSITIES

PanARMENIAN.Net
February 15, 2012 – 15:49 AMT

PanARMENIAN.Net – Armenian Minister of Education and Science Armen
Ashotyan received Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador of
Kuwait to the Republic of Armenia Bassam Mohammed Al-Qabandi.

The Minister and the Ambassador marked the importance of developing
joint programs in the sphere of education and science, as well as
expansion and development of bilateral ties, says the press office
of the Ministry of Education.

Armenian Minister mentioned traditional and historic interest towards
Arabic studies in Armenia saying they plan to establish a center for
Arabic and Islamic studies in Yerevan State University.

The Ambassador thanked the Minister for reception and noted that
Armenia and Kuwait have great perspectives for cooperation in different
fields, and the sphere of education can take a lead in this.

The parties also touched upon ratification of a memorandum of
cooperation in the education sphere between the two countries,
scholarship programs in the sphere of higher education, student
exchange and other issues.

Armenia Honors Memory Of Afghan War Heroes

ARMENIA HONORS MEMORY OF AFGHAN WAR HEROES

PanARMENIAN.Net
February 15, 2012 – 16:04 AMT

PanARMENIAN.Net – A memorial rally to commemorate the 23rd anniversary
of withdrawal of Soviet troops from Afghanistan took place in Yerevan’s
Victory Park on February 15.

Representatives of the Afghan war veterans union of Armenia headed
by the chairman, deputy of the National Assembly of Armenia, reserve
colonel A. Mkhitaryan, Afghan war veteran, Armenian armed forces
general staff chief Yuri Khachaturov were among the participants.

3762 people including 400 Armenian officers were sent to Afghanistan in
1979-89. 128 died in hostilities, no one is considered to be missing.

Armenian And Iranian Officials Met: Bilateral Relations Were Discuss

ARMENIAN AND IRANIAN OFFICIALS MET: BILATERAL RELATIONS WERE DISCUSSED

15.02.12, 16:32

On February 14 delegation led by Armenian deputy Minister of Foreign
Affairs Shavarsh Qocharyan left for Iran to hold the next political
councils between Armenian and Iranian MFAs. The delegation had
meeting with the deputy of Iranian MFA on Asian and CIS countries
Seyed Abbas Araghchi. Press and information department of the RA
Ministry of foreign Affair informs about this.

Armenian and Iranian deputy MFAs rated the frequent meetings between
two Ministries of Foreign Affairs the importance to expand the legal
sphere of cooperation.

Both sides expressed their satisfactions about the developing
cooperation between two countries and underlined the importance of
bilateral visits of Armenian and Iranian Presidents and MFAs. Armenian
and Iranian officials also discussed the plan of the economical
programs’ fulfillment.

On the same day Shavarsh Qocharyan met Iranian MFA Ali Aqbar Salehi.

Armenian deputy MFA transferred warm greetings to the Iranian MFA
from his Armenian counterpart Edward Nalbandyan. Minister Salehi
underlined that Iran paid great importance to the relations with
Armenia and asked to transfer his warm greetings to Edward Nalbandyan.

http://times.am/?l=en&p=4804

Bernard Slade’s Romantic Comedy To Be Staged In Yerevan

BERNARD SLADE’S ROMANTIC COMEDY TO BE STAGED IN YEREVAN

PanARMENIAN.Net
February 15, 2012 – 14:01 AMT

PanARMENIAN.Net – Bernard Slade’s tragic comedy, Romantic Comedy,
will be for the first time staged at Yerevan’s Hrachya Ghaplanyan
Drama Theatre (artistic director Armen Khandikyan) on March 25.

Zhan Nshanyan will be the director of the performance; Guzh Manukyan,
people’s artist of Armenia and Evelina Shahiryan, honored artist
of Armenia will play the leading parts. Vahagn Tevanyan will be in
charge of stage designer.

The play was first staged on November 8, 1979 in Ethel Barrymore
Theatre, starring Mia Farrow, Anthony Perkins, Carole Cook and others.

Director Arthur Hiller produced a movie in 1983 in U.S. basing on
the play, with Dudley Moore, Mary Steenburgen and others.

French Senators Express Indignation At Behavior Of Turkish Ambassado

FRENCH SENATORS EXPRESS INDIGNATION AT BEHAVIOR OF TURKISH AMBASSADOR TO FRANCE

ARMENPRESS
FEBRUARY 15, 2012
YEREVAN

YEREVAN, FEBRUARY 15, ARMENPRESS: French senators Luc Carvounas and
Philippe Kaltenbach expressed their indignation at the behavior of
Turkish ambassador to France Tahsin Burcuoglu, the statement released
by the senators runs.

“We consider the attempts of the Turkish ambassador to affect the
legislative processes ongoing in our country unacceptable,” the
senators have stated.

Tahsin Burcuoglu addressed letters to the members of the National
Assembly and Senate of France calling upon them to boycott the bill
criminalizing the denial of the genocides. “We register with pain
that 77 senators and 65 MPs heard the call of the Turkish ambassador,”
the socialist senators stressed.

Carvounas and Kaltenbach insist that the calls of the Turkish
ambassador were accompanied with threats that the adoption of the bill
will have negative impact on the future of Turkish-French relations.

“Contrary to such behavior of the Turkish ambassador we once again
express our support to the bill and reiterate that it fully fits
the Human Rights Concept adopted by us,” the senators wrote in their
statement.

Carvounas and Kaltenbach voiced hope that the Constitutional Council
of France will recognize the bill constitutional.

Delegation Of The National Assembly Of The Republic Of Belarus Visit

DELEGATION OF THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY OF THE REPUBLIC OF BELARUS VISITS TSITSERNAKABERD

14.02.2012

On February 14 the Belarus delegation of the Inter-Parliamentary
Committee on Cooperation of the National Assemblies of the Republic
of Armenia and the Republic of Belarus (RB) led by Viktor Guminsky,
Co-Chair of the Committee, Deputy Speaker of the RB NA House of
Representatives being in Yerevan and Hrayr Karapetyan, Co-Chair
of the Inter-Parliamentary Committee on Cooperation between the
RA NA and RB NA, Chairman of the NA Standing Committee on Defense,
National Security and Internal Affairs visited Tsitsernakaberd and
laid flowers and a wreath to the Memorial Complex perpetuating the
memory of the 1915 Armenian Genocide victims, honored in silence and
bow the memory of one and a million innocent victims.

The high-ranking guests have been in the Genocide Museum-Institute,
got acquainted with documents ensuring the Armenian Genocide.

The Deputy Speaker of the Belarus Parliament left a note in the
Commemoration Book.

“It’s hard to speak about this fact, it reminds us the years of the
Great Patriotic War, when in Belarus three million people died. I
thank all the people, who built this Memorial Complex, in order to
perpetuate the memory of the Armenians, who were perished in Ottoman
Turkey in 1915. There is such Memorial Complex in Khatyn of Belarus.

We should pass the memory from generation to generation in order
such tragedies not to be repeated,” presenting his impressions,
noted Viktor Guminsky.

Touching upon the issue of recognition of the Armenian Genocide
by the Belarus Parliament, Mr Guminsky opined that the time would
come and they would refer to that issue. “But it is very serious,
we should approach it in a balanced way and make a decision worth to
our country,” he noted.

http://www.parliament.am/news.php?cat_id=2&NewsID=5008&year=2012&month=02&day=14

Young Armenian Singer From Turkey To Perform In NY

YOUNG ARMENIAN SINGER FROM TURKEY TO PERFORM IN NY

PanARMENIAN.Net
February 15, 2012 – 15:38 AMT

PanARMENIAN.Net – Young Armenian singer from Turkey, Sibil, will make
her debut in the New York Metropolitan Area on March 31.

According to The Armenian Mirror-Spectator, she will perform at the
Bergen County Academies in Hackensack. The evening is being sponsored
by Constantinople Armenian Relief Society (CARS). Co-chairs of the
event are Tamar Kayserian and Hilda Nisanyan.

“It is a major undertaking that requires a lot of organization and
planning. That evening, Sibil will be accompanied on stage by musicians
both from Turkey and the United States. Members of the Shushi Dance
Ensemble will also appear on the stage to interpret the songs through
dance and to enrich the evening’s program,” said Kayserian, president
of CARS. “Bergen County Academies’ Auditorium has 1,192 seats and we
are confident that we will have a sold-out evening.”

Sibil was born in Istanbul with a family name that was changed from
Torosyan to Pektorosoglu. She was named after the well-known Armenian
writer Zabelle Asadour, whose penname was Sibil. Her father, Garbis,
a goldsmith, was born in Istanbul while her mother, Mari, has a
Sepastatsi/Tokatsi background.

The first music notes that Sibil was exposed to were the prayers
and hymns of the Armenian Church, since her father would take her to
church every Sunday morning as a child. Her talent and love for music
were discovered by her parents when Sibil would come home and sing
and recite the prayers she had just heard during the church services.