SPIELBERG TO MAKE ARMENIAN “GENOCIDE” FILM
Hurriyet Daily News
Feb 14 2012
Turkey
Armenian Pulse
Film director Steven Spielberg and Schindler’s List writer Steven
Zaillan are in negotiations to develop a film on the Armenian
“Genocide,” with support from the Armenian National Cinema Center.
The film, which plans to feature both Armenian and foreign actors,
is set to premiere in 2015 for the 100th Anniversary of its chosen
historical subject, according to the wesite Armenian Pulse.
ARMENIA IS NOT PART OF PRO-WESTERN LEAGUE OF FORMER SOVIET – STARTFOR
news.am
February 14, 2012 | 03:33
Armenia is Moscow’s bridgehead in the Caucasus, states the article
of the research center Startfor dedicated to the South Caucasus.
The researchers point out that Armenia is a buffer zone in the Caucasus
for Russia.
It is mentioned in the article that Armenia is a bridgehead for Russia
in the South Caucasus as it borders with Azerbaijan and Georgia as well
as Turkey and Iran. The next aim of Russia is Armenia’s integration
to the Common Economic Space and Eurasian Union.
According to experts, Russia can influence Armenia with economic and
political factors.
Of course there is the factor of the Armenian Diaspora in the USA and
France, but their influence is only economic. Armenia is not part of
the pro-Western league of former Soviet countries and will continue
to be loyal to the Kremlin, the article says.
ARMENIA TO OPEN CONSULATE IN UKRAINE’S ODESSA
news.am
February 14, 2012 | 12:34
YEREVAN. – President Serzh Sargsyan signed a decree, whereby Armenia’s
Consulate General will be established in Odessa, Ukraine, Office of
the President informed Armenian News-NEWS.am.
STRATFOR: ARMENIA – BRIDGEHEAD OF MOSCOW IN THE CENTER OF THE CAUCASUS
yerkir.am
13:30 – 14.02.2012
Armenia – bridgehead of Moscow, and also its buffer zone in the
Caucasus, it is spoken in the dedicated to the South Caucasus article
of the research center Of stratfor.
As transfers AZE.az, the research center Of stratfor published a
sequential series of materials with the analysis of the relations of
Russia and republics of the former USSR by the name revival of Russia.
Analysts Stratfor in a study emphasize that about Armenia it is buffer
zone for Russia in the Caucasus.
Armenia – bridgehead of Moscow in the center of the Caucasus. It
borders on Azerbaijan and Georgia, and also on Turkey and Iran. Russia
has as a goal during the present year – to prepare Armenia for the
possible integration into the united economic space and the Eurasian
union, note researchers Stratfor. Also they emphasize that Russia
has political, economic levers of influence in Armenia. Analyst they
indicate that official Moscow lends support to the Armenian President
and to the ruling Republican Party of Armenia.
Experts emphasize that Armenia, in view of the geographical location
and the absence of strategically important natural resources, she
also willingly selected by his influential patron Russia. There is
influential Armenian diaspore in the USA and France; however, its
involvement bears faster economic nature.
Armenia enters into the orbit of Russia, and partly the pro-Western
camp of the ex-USSR it is not, note analysts. Also they the conclusion
that Armenia will be accurate to Moscow and will continue participation
in the initiatives of Moscow in the region. The only version, when
Armenia goes away from Russia – weakening the geopolitical positions
of Russia in the region.
Le Ministere Des Situations D’Urgence Et La Compagnie Des Chemins De Fer Du Sud Caucase Signent Un Memorandum De Cooperation
Stephane
armenews.com
lundi 13 fevrier 2012
Le ministre des situations d’urgence, Armen Yeritsyan et Shevket
Shaidullin, PDG des Chemins de fer du Sud Caucase, ont signe a Erevan
un memorandum de cooperation.
Le ministère des situations d’urgence et la Compagnie des Chemins
de fer du Sud Caucase vont cooperer dans divers domaines, plus
particulièrement, dans la prevention des catastrophes d’origine
humaine, la mise en ~uvre des mesures contre les catastrophes
naturelles, la reduction et l’elimination de leurs consequences
possibles.
Les deux parties coopereront egalement dans le domaine de la prevision,
de la surveillance et des alertes precoces en cas de catastrophes
d’origine humaine, les catastrophes naturelles, ainsi que dans la
sensibilisation du public.
Selon Armen Yeritsyan le memorandum est très important, car il
identifie les activites specifiques du ministère et de l’entreprise.
” C’est l’une des premières etapes. Dans le cadre de la plate-forme
nationale pour la reduction des risques de catastrophes, nous devons
cooperer avec tous les ministères et les departements” a declare
le ministre.
” Le memorandum d’aujourd’hui n’est pas seulement une interaction, mais
aussi un grand pas en avant dans le developpement et l’elaboration
de normes communes, la reglementation et la cooperation dans les
situations d’urgence specifiques” a dit Shevket Shaidullin.
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HIS HOLINESS ARAM I TEKES PART IN THE CHRISTIAN-MUSLIM SUMMIT OF RELIGIOUS
LEADERS IN LEBANON
On Tuesday 7 February 2012, His Holiness Aram I attended a meeting held at
the Maronite Archbishopric in Beirut, in the presence of the Maronite
Patriarch Béchara Raï and the Heads of Christian and Muslim communities.
At the end of the meeting, the Religious Leaders issued a statement asking
the politicians to safeguard the internal peace of the country, by adopting
a united national position against the divisive challenges presented by
current uprisings in the region.
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10 February 2011
HERITAGE STATEMENT ON EPP OBSERVER STATUS AND POLITICAL CORRUPTION IN
ARMENIA
The Heritage Party is pleased to have been granted observer membership
in the European People’s Party by decision of its Political Assembly
meeting in Brussels.
Heritage has been an ideological carrier of EPP values from its
inception, and to date has taken consistent part in the activities of
the EPP group at the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe,
Euronest, OSCE and elsewhere.
We are encouraged by the opportunities afforded us by the achievement
of observer status, which also is shared by the ruling Republican
Party and its coalition partner the Country of Laws Party.
At the same time we are deeply concerned, on this eve of parliamentary
and presidential elections in our country, by the unprecedented level
of political corruption prevalent here.
In addition to the flagrant examples of conflicts of interest between
public duty and partisan gain as outlined in Heritage chairman Raffi
K. Hovannisian’s good-faith letter (),
dated 21 November 2011, to Republican Party chairman and incumbent
president Serzh Sargsyan, together with his unresponsive outburst in
reaction thereto, the National Assembly–in which all three EPP
observer members are represented–continues to offer haven to
electoral theft and political forgery.
One recurrent episode took place on the very day EPP observer status
was conferred and the three parties acceded to a common declaration of
intentions and principles. In keeping with a long tradition of voting
fraud both at the polls and in parliament, various individuals
representing the EPP-observing coalition, with the conscious assent
and attempted cover-up of the legislature’s leadership (again observer
party members), were complicit in the commission of outright
falsification, that is, the unlawful casting of votes in the place of
absent colleagues and in plain view of fellow MPs, journalists, and
the public. On this occasion, the foregoing was done for the
parliamentary majority’s illegitimate securing first of a quorum and
then of their desired outcomes on several measures of substance.
In the event of even one further instance of this criminal conduct–in
the National Assembly, at the Presidency, or during the upcoming
elections–the Heritage Party will be unable to reconcile, whether
politically, ethically or otherwise, its participation in the great
family of European parties known as EPP with the presence of those
responsible for such anti-democratic, anti-Armenian, and anti-European
demeanor.
In this connection, but as a matter to be treated separately, we
cannot but express our consternation upon the Armenian prime
minister’s recent public endorsement
() of a serving
foreign official’s candidacy for his country’s presidency.
At this critical juncture, we are at once extremely proud of our EPP
belonging and extremely troubled–for Armenia and for all Europe–by
the endless divide between the words and deeds of the Republic’s de
facto rulers.
And we so very much regret that this statement has become necessary.
The Heritage Party
10 February 2012
Yerevan
Mossad is using Azerbaijan to spy on Iran: reports
Sunday, 12 February 2012
By Sara Ghasemilee
Al Arabiya
Israel is using Azerbaijan, a former soviet republic bordering Iran,
as a base to spy on the regime in Tehran, the London Times reported
Saturday.
The newspaper cited testimony from an anonymous Mossad agent, referred
to only as Shimon.
`This is ground zero for intelligence work,’ Shimon told The
Times. `Our presence here is quiet, but substantial. We have increased
our presence in the past year, and it gets us very close to Iran. This
is a wonderfully porous country.’
According to Shimon the Azerbaijan-Iran border, just a few hours south
of the capital Baku, is prime territory for the Israeli intelligence
service to gather information on Tehran’s activities.
However, there are even more members of Iran’s elite Revolutionary
Guards operating in Azerbaijan than Israeli agents, but their methods
are different than those used by Mossad.
`There is a great deal of information there from people who regularly
and freely travel across the borders. It is unregulated –
almost. Except for the Iranians who are watching us watch them,’ said
Shimon.
Azerbaijan, a secular Muslim country with a Shiite majority, is home
to more than 9,000 Jews and has friendly ties with Israel and the
United States. The country is a major energy producer, and exports oil
to Israel and imports weapons and military hardware in return from the
Jewish state
Israel has also been able to capitalize on a decline in relations
between Azerbaijan and Iran.
There are several possible reasons for the strained relations between
the two neighbors. Baku has often complained of an institutionalized
discrimination against ethnic Azeris by the Persian majority in the
Islamic republic.
In a move likely to irk Tehran, a group of Azerbaijani lawmakers have
recently proposed the country changes its name to Northern Azerbaijan,
to emphasize the fact that the Azeri nation is split between an
independent state, the Republic of Azerbaijan, and a province in
northern Iran, known to many Azerbaijanis as Southern Azerbaijan.
Iran has also recently strengthened its ties with Azerbaijan’s
regional rival, Armenia. Baku and Yerevan have been locked in conflict
of the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh territory since the early 1990s.
Sixteen years after a truce was signed, more than 20,000 Armenian and
Azerbaijani continue troops stare at each other from trenches on
either side of the cease-fire line.
However, not all Azerbaijanis have a positive view of improving ties
with Israel.
In January authorities arrested two men suspected of plotting to
attack targets including Israel’s ambassador and a local rabbi.
Azerbaijan’s National Security Ministry said the men were connected to
an Iranian citizen who had links with his country’s intelligence.
`Citizens of Azerbaijan – Rasim Aliyev and Ali Huseynov – were
preparing an attack on public figures, who are foreign citizens,’ the
National Security Ministry said at the time in a statement.
The ministry said the Iranian citizen, identified as Balagardash
Dadashev, had helped the two buy weapons Iran and smuggle them to
Azerbaijan.
The announcement came after several state websites in Azerbaijan were
rendered inaccessible for hours by hackers who posted images of the
devil over photographs of the Azeri and Israeli presidents, alongside
messages saying `Servants of Jews’ and `Enemies of Islam.’
Despite the cooling of ties between Iran and Azerbaijan, Iranian
companies continue to operate and have stakes in oil contracts in the
Caspian Sea state, which exports around 1 million barrels of crude a
day (bpd) westward through a pipeline operated by a consortium led by
British Petroleum.
Armenian Parliament Chief of Staff to be appointed as FM adviser
news.am
February 12, 2012 | 12:52
YEREVAN. – Armenian Parliament Chief of Staff Gegham Gharibjanian who
was on holiday, will not return to parliament anymore. As reliable
sources inform Armenian News-NEWS.am on Friday he moved to the MFA and
will work as the adviser of Armenian FM Edward Nalbandyan.
After that Gegham Gharibjanian will be appointed as an Ambassador but
it is not known yet in which country.
To note, information appeared in the media about Gegham Gharibjanian’s
appointment as an Ambassador. It has been mentioned that he is to be
appointed as an Ambassador in the United Arab Emirates.
He did not make any comments on his appointment to the UAE when asked
by our reporter.
Sitting of the Armenian-Belarusian Inter-Parliamentary Cooperation
Committee to be held in Yerevan
armradio.am
11.02.2012 14:09
The sitting of the Inter-Parliamentary Committee on Cooperation
between the National Assemblies of the Republic of Armenia and the
Republic of Belarus will be held in Yerevan.
The Belarusian delegation led by Viktor Guminsky, Co-Chair of the
Committee, Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives of Belarus
will visit Armenia February 13-16 to participate in the sitting.
Members of the delegation will have meetings with Armenian National
Assembly Speaker Samvel Nikoyan and the Deputy Speaker Edward
Sharmazanov.
The sitting of the Inter-Parliamentary Committee will be held on
February 13. Within the framework of the visit members of the
Belarusian delegation will have meetings with members of Armenian
delegations in different international organizations, as well as with
the heads of a number of agencies. They will visit the Tsitsernakaberd
Memorial Complex and will lay a wreath at the monument to the victims
of the 1915 Armenian Genocide.