Author: Kanayan Tamar

SENIOR EBRD DELEGATION VISITS ARMENIA

Tendersinfo News
November 4, 2011 Friday 6:30 AM EST

A high-level delegation from the European Bank for Reconstruction
and Development is in Armenia this week for consultations with the
country s leadership and key members of civil society on the Bank s
new three-year Country Strategy for Armenia.

Led by Jan Fischer, Vice-President, Operational Policies and Paul-Henri
Forestier, Director, Caucasus, Moldova and Belarus, the EBRD team
will meet the President of the Republic of Armenia, Serzh Sargsian;
Prime Minister Tigran Sargsian; the Minister of Economy and EBRD
Governor Tigran Davtyan; and other cabinet members.

The delegation will also hold discussions with representatives of
various political parties, leading figures from the business world,
staff of non-governmental organisations and think-tanks, as well
as members of the diplomatic community and representatives of other
international financial institutions.

The new country strategy for Armenia is expected to be approved in
early 2012 for a three-year period (2012-15).

The EBRD delegation will take stock of the current state of the
economic, political and social development of Armenia, discuss the
country s mid-term reform priorities and assess how the EBRD can
assist Armenia in its transition to a market-based economy.

Among the areas for discussion will be support for small and
medium-sized businesses in Armenia in the upcoming strategy period,
especially in the agricultural and high value-added sectors. The
development of the financial sector will remain a priority for the
EBRD, as well as reforms in the municipal sector and addressing
energy efficiency.

The EBRD began operations in Armenia in 1992. To date it has invested
over 450 million in more than 100 projects.

PREMIER GIVES MINISTERS ONE WEEK TO SUBMIT 2012 ACTION PLAN

Tert.am
10.11.11

Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan has asked the ministers to follow the
timeframes for elaborating and submitting the government-approved
2012 action plan.

At the cabinet meeting on Thursday, the premier said the ministries
need to establish the priorities to complete the process in a week’s
time.

“All the ministries should submit the action plan by the end of next
week so as we could finalize them,” he said.

FLORIDA FEST TO HOST ARMENIAN OUD PLAYER JOE ZEYTOONIAN

PanARMENIAN.Net
November 10, 2011 – 13:06 AMT

PanARMENIAN.Net – Traditional folk music that once reverberated
through fishing camps, orange groves and cypress swamps of rural
Florida and villages around the world will be heard again during the
inaugural Gulf Coast Folklife Festival in downtown Tarpon Springs,
The Sun Coast News reported.

The festival, an “eclectic array of music and dance performances,”
including presentations and workshops by folk crafters, will be held
from noon to 10 p.m. Nov. 19, according to a news release.

The Gulf Coast Folklife Festival is supported in part by a grant from
the National Endowment for the Arts’ Folk and Traditional Arts Program.

The event will end with a street dance to the rhythms of Middle
Eastern, Cuban and Haitian music.

Among famed folk performers will be: National Heritage fellow Ezequiel
Torres, recognized for his Afro-Cuban drumming; James Kelly, master of
the Irish fiddle; Henry Ohumukini, expert on Hawaiian ukulele, chants
and instrument making; and George Soffos, a Greek bouzouki player. The
Philippine Performing Arts Company dancers will also perform.

Other master folk artists and groups will include: Papaloko and Loray
Mistik, Haitian pop; the Middle Harmonic Motion, with Joe Zeytoonian,
Myriam Eli and Elias Kilzi, Eastern dance music; and the Greek and
Irish fiddle tunes, Panayotis “Paddy” League.

Crafters will demonstrate folk traditions, including: Cracker cow
whips, George Altman; Hawaiian quilting, Ginger LaVoie; chair canning,
Doris Graves and Harold Woodall; Thai food carving, Kanlaya Reneau;
Haitian painting, Jude Thegenus; sponge diving helmets, Nicholas Toth;
duck decoys, Michael Berg; Puerto Rican bobbin lace, Aida Etchegoyen;
Hungarian embroidery, Margaret Horvath; and Haitian sculpture,
Almann Ulysse.

A festival highlight will be a folk master’s forum. It will showcase
four of Florida’s best traditional musicians: James Kelly, Irish
fiddle; George Soffos, Greek bouzouki; Ezequiel Torres, Afro-Cuban
drums; and Joe Zeytoonian, Armenian oud.

SISIAN-GORIS SECTOR OF THE YEREVAN-MEGHRI INTER-STATE ROAD OPEN FOR TRAFFIC

ARMENPRESS
NOVEMBER 10, 2011
GORIS

The Sisian-Goris sector of the Yerevan-Meghri inter-state road
continues being difficult for traffic. The strong wind brings snow
from nearby mountains to the roads which complicates the traffic.

Nerses Asryan, architecture from the “Vosmar” company told Armenpress
correspondent that in spite of the strong wind the traffic is open,
the visibility is normal. During the night the road was also passable
but cars have been left on road because of going wrong.

AMERIABANK PRESENTS ADVANTAGES OF BROKERAGE OPERATIONS AND ITS FUTURES AND OPTIONS

/ARKA/
November 10, 2011
YEREVAN

YEREVAN, November 10. /ARKA/. During a presentation seminar held
October 28-November 8 Armenian Ameriabank presented to its business
and potential customers the advantages of brokerage operations,
as well as its futures and options.

The bank said in a press release that the purpose of the presentation
seminar was to introduce its new services and financial instruments at
the local market, including futures and options of the largest North
American and European countries, to present brokerage operations,
in particular, with investment services on international stock and
commodity markets, as well as to introduce the capacities of Ameria
Global Trading system.

According to the press release, during the workshop presented were the
benefits of having brokerage accounts in Ameriabank, which provides
its clients with access to 80 largest stock exchanges in 19 countries,
such as NYSE, NASDAQ, AMEX, ARGA, GBOT and others.

The ample opportunities of Ameria Global Trading system were also
presented in detail which offers a wide range of trading instruments
(shares, depositary receipts, futures, options) with the possibility
of implementing margin trading.

According to the report, export-oriented enterprises were presented
a set of mechanisms and financial tools enabling the best ways to
manage risk of price fluctuations of goods through international
commodity exchanges.

“The two-day seminar presentation aroused great interest among those
present, bringing hopes of further mutually beneficial cooperation”,
the press release says.

Ameriabank is a universal bank that provides corporate and retail
banking services in an integrated package of banking solutions. It
is owned by Troika Dialog, one of the largest investment companies
in Russia.

ZHOGHOVURD: NEW DISMISSAL IN ARMENIA’S POLICE

Tert.am
10.11.11

The newspaper’s sources report the dismissal of Nazaret Mnatsakanyan,
Chief of the Division for Drug Trafficking Control, Organized Crime
control Department.

Nazaret Mnatsakanyan is brother of the Talin Mayor Mnatsakan
Mnatsakanyan. Levon Khachatryan, Chief of the Drug Control Division
at the Yerevan City Police Department, was appointed to the post.

Khachatryan is believed to be in close relations with Chief of the
Yerevan City Police Department Nerses Nazaryan.

COLLECTIF VAN : L’EPHEMERIDE DU 9 NOVEMBRE 2011

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9 novembre 1938 — Dans la nuit du 9 au 10 novembre, la celèbre ”
Nuit de cristal “,synagogues, des oratoires dans les cimetières,
7 500 magasins juifs sont detruits et incendies en Allemagne et
dans l’Autriche annexee. Il s’agit de represailles consecutives a
l’attentat contre le secretaire de l’ambassade allemande a Paris,
E.von Rath, commis par Herschel Grynszpan. C’est un pogrom antijuif.

Goebbels donne des instructions pour que des ” manifestations
spontanees ” soient organisees. Heydrich, de meme ordonne a la Gestapo
de ne pas reprimer ces manifestations, d’arreter le plus possible de
Juifs (surtout les riches) et de les deporter dans des camps. les nazis
de la SA arretent 25.000 Juifs (internes a Buchenwald, Sachsenhausen
et Dachau ; environ 2.000 mourront). Près de 267 synagogues sont
pillees et incendiees.

Ca s’est passe un 9 novembre (les evenements sont classes du plus
ancien au plus recent) :

9 et 10 novembre 1915 — Empire ottoman : Smyrne. 300 Armeniens
catholiques de Smyrne, Cordelio et Karatas sont deportes vers
Afionkarahisar, suivis par 3 a 400 personnes issues des milieux aises.

** (Kevorkian, 2006 :708).

Mass violence : Chronologie de l’extermination des Armeniens de
l’Empire ottoman par le regime jeune-turc (1915-1916)

9 novembre 1921 — Turquie : lettre de l’officier Vahan Portoukalian
a Kourken Tahmazian.

” Nos pauvres chretiens sont comme des noyes qui s’accrochent a
tous les buissons de la rive. La nouvelle que l’Angleterre fait des
objections a l’accord d’Angora leur donne l’espoir que l’evacuation
sera suspendue. Le boycottage n’a pu tenir devant l’avidite des
fellahs qui trouvent leur compte a remonter leurs maisons pillees a
peu de frais “.

© Revue d’Histoire Armenienne Contemporaine pour toutes les editions |
© Yves Ternon pour le texte Mardin 1915 Imprescriptible : L’evacuation
francaise de la Cilicie en 1921 vue par l’officier Vahan Portoukalian

9 novembre 1925 — La creation du SchutzStaffel, un groupe de
protection dont les membres sont mieux connus sous le nom de “SS”. Il
s’agissait generalement de très jeunes gens, recrutes pour constituer
des sections paramilitaires. A l’origine charges de la protection
rapprochee d’Hitler, ils devinrent, par la volonte d’Himmler, un corps
de volontaires d’elite charges de la securite du parti. En 1933, ils
etaient 50.000. Tries sur le volet, ils se demarquèrent peu a peu des
SturmAbteilung (SA), dont ils n’etaient a l’origine qu’une fraction.

Cette organisation paramilitaire, au recrutement beaucoup plus large
que la SS, s’opposait au rapprochement d’Hitler avec les milieux
d’affaires. Fort de plusieurs centaines de milliers d’hommes, le
corps des SA poursuivait l’espoir de fusionner avec l’armee jusqu’a
ce qu’Hitler ne mette un terme a leur influence avec la sanglante
“Nuit des Longs couteaux” le 30 juin 1934. Une fois leurs plus hauts
dignitaires elimines, parmi lesquels le vieux compagnon de route
d’Hitler Ernst Rohm, Heinrich Himmler reussira pour sa part une
association etroite entre la SS et l’armee…

Yahoo : L’ephemeride du mercredi 9 novembre 2011

9 novembre 1938 — Dans la nuit du 9 au 10 novembre, la celèbre ”
Nuit de cristal “,synagogues, des oratoires dans les cimetières,
7 500 magasins juifs sont detruits et incendies en Allemagne et
dans l’Autriche annexee. Il s’agit de represailles consecutives a
l’attentat contre le secretaire de l’ambassade allemande a Paris,
E.von Rath, commis par Herschel Grynszpan.

C’est un pogrom antijuif. Goebbels donne des instructions pour que
des ” manifestations spontanees ” soient organisees. Heydrich, de
meme ordonne a la Gestapo de ne pas reprimer ces manifestations,
d’arreter le plus possible de Juifs (surtout les riches) et de les
deporter dans des camps. les nazis de la SA arretent 25.000 Juifs
(internes a Buchenwald, Sachsenhausen et Dachau ; environ 2.000
mourront). Près de 267 synagogues sont pillees et incendiees.

Skynet : 9 novembre, ce jour-la, n’oubliez pas

9 novembre 1941 — Les nazis font sortir 1 500 juifs de la ville de
Mir (district de Grodno, R.S.S. de Bielorussie) et les assassinent.

Les 850 juifs restants sont enfermes dans un ghetto.

Israelvivra.com

9 novembre 1942 — La deuxième deportation des juifs de Dzialoszyce
(province de Cracovie) commence par la liquidation de plusieurs
centaines de juifs qui s’y trouvent. Un certain nombre parvient a
fuir dans les bois, où ils se joignent a la resistance polonaise.

1 100 juifs du ghetto de Skalat (province de Tarnopol, R.S.S.

d’Ukraine) sont deportes au camp d’extermination de Belzec.

4 000 juifs du ghetto de Piaski (R.S.S. d’Ukraine) sont deportes
au camp d’extermination de Maïdanek, où ils sont assassines dès
leur arrivee.

Israelvivra.com

9 novembre 1942 — Un convoi de 1.000 deportes part du camp de transit
de Drancy pour le camp d’extermination d’Auschwitz, 900 seront
assassines dans les chambres a gazes, et 5 seront encore vivant a
la liberation.

Skynet : 9 novembre, ce jour-la, n’oubliez pas

9 novembre 1943 — Les SS assassinent 600 juifs a Postavy, près de
Vilna (R.S.S. de Lituanie).

Israelvivra.com

9 novembre 1943 — Italie : 400 Juifs de Florence et de Bologne sont
deportes a Birkenau.

Ajpn : Repères chronologiques 1905 a 1945

9 novembre 1999 — Le Comite du Conseil de l’Europe des Ministres a
decide d’accepter l’Armenie comme un membre a part entière du Conseil
de l’Europe.

American University of Armenia : This day in Armenian history

9 novembre 2005 — Belgique : reunie le 9 novembre 2005 a Bruxelles
pour evaluer les progrès effectues par les pays candidats a l’adhesion,
la Commission europeenne a estime que la Turquie pouvait etre
consideree comme une “economie de marche viable”, a condition qu’elle
poursuive sa stabilisation economique et ses reformes. La commission
rapporte aussi que le rythme des reformes en Turquie s’est “ralenti
en 2005” et appelle Ankara a faire des “efforts supplementaires”.

CDCA : Turquie : la commission europeenne rend son rapport de
suivi 2005

9 Novembre 2006 — France : a Paris, dans le procès en appel du CDCA
contre le Consul General de Turquie a Paris et France Telecom-Wanadoo,
le jugement du TGI (du 15 novembre 2004) est confirme. L’argumentation
du Tribunal pour ne pas donner suite a la demande a l’encontre
de l’hebergeur Wanadoo est la suivante : 1) le TGI indique que le
genocide armenien ne fait pas partie des crimes dont la contestation
est punissable 2) la loi du 29 janvier 2001, reconnaissant l’existence
du genocide armenien de 1915, ne cree pas de delit de contestation
de ce genocide.

Collectif VAN – Procès en appel du CDCA contre le Consul General de
Turquie a Paris et France Telecom-Wanadoo : le jugement du TGI confirme

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AUTHORITIES ARE FOR NEGOTIATIONS

yerkir.am
16:41 – 10.11.2011

Press speaker of the ministry of foreign affairs of NKR Marsel
Poghosyan commenting on Rovshan Rzaev’s announcement made in Berlin
as if “Another meeting of Armenian and Azerbaijan communities is to
take place”, announced that if Azerbaijan wants to negotiate with
Karabakh then they should sit by the negotiation table.

“It’s a misinformation. There’s nothing of that sort. What do they
mean saying Armenian and Azerbaijan communities? That’s just their
wish. Authorities are the ones to talk about negotiations”.

PROFESSOR HARUTYUN MESROPYAN DISCUSSES ARMENIA’S FINANCIAL SITUATION

PanARMENIAN.Net
November 10, 2011 – 16:19 AMT

PanARMENIAN.Net – Earlier last month, the Armenian Assembly’s Yerevan
office, as part of its ongoing Youth Club lecture series, hosted a
special lecture on “Armenia and the global financial crisis.”

Professor Harutyun Mesropyan, a management expert and doctoral
candidate in economic studies, discussed Armenia’s financial situation,
including the impact of the global financial crisis, as well as ideas
and solutions for overcoming the current challenges.

Mesropyan highlighted the fact that even in a non G-20 country like
Armenia, the crisis progresses in the same pattern as in any other
country. He gave specific examples of places like Korea, Singapore,
and others that have overcome economic hardships and turned into
financially stable countries with leading economies.

In addition, Mesropyan emphasized that the financial crisis is a
widespread phenomenon, and methods for addressing such a crisis have
been developed over the years. He pointed out that Armenia still has
an opportunity to draw the right lessons and take the appropriate
steps to not only prevail over the financial crisis, but to also have
an exceptionally strong economic system.

“Taking into account the importance of the topic at hand I find that
it is vital that the youth be given the aforementioned knowledge on
the subject,” stated the Assembly’s Country Director Armina Darbinian.

“It is the current youth that is going to be the coming generation
that will pull our nation out of the crisis and build a prosperous
Armenia. It is for this reason that the Assembly Yerevan office has
initiated the Youth Club for our young professionals. It provides them
with the knowledge that is necessary for building a better country,
a country we can truly be proud of,” she added.

Professor Mesropyan’s presentation was followed by an informative
question and answer session during which the young audience was given
an opportunity to express their point of view and learn more about
the strategies of overcoming the economic challenges Armenia faces.

BUSINESSMEN WANT TO ELIMINATE OLIGARCHY

It is necessary to eliminate oligarchic monopolies from the Armenian
market, reduce the shade in the economy and ensure free and equal
conditions for competition, said Arsen Ghazaryan, Chairman of the Union
of Manufacturers and Businessmen (Employers) of Armenia (UMB(E)A).

The UMB(E)A today convened its recurrent conference which was attended
by top officials and Serzh Sargsyan.

“Businessmen should realize that they have definite tax commitments,
i.e. they should be socially bound and ensure economic growth. They
should realize that the problems the country once faced have changed
already. This is they should guarantee for economic sustainability,”
said Ghazaryan.

Addressing the conference participants the UMB(E)A chairman expressed
hope that the burden of toughened tax administration should be
shouldered by big businessmen working in the shade. The UMB(E)A
chairman is confident that export-oriented economy is Armenia’s future.

“during the conference we discussed current and pending problems as
well as the opportunity of reinforcing the UMB(E)A with specialized
groups in order to make the dispute between the Union and its opponents
more effective,” said Ghazaryan.

Asked who their opponents were, the UMB(E)A chairman said local and
international experts frequently challenge their opinions.