Author: Kanayan Tamar

HAUT-KARABAKH : BAKOU VEUT SAISIR LE CONSEIL DE SECURITE DE L’ONU
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armenews.com
samedi 29 octobre 2011

KARABAGH

L’Azerbaïdjan, elu membre non permanent du Conseil de securite de
l’Onu, envisage d’evoquer la situation dans le Haut-Karabakh avec
les membres permanents avant de soumettre cette question a l’examen
du Conseil de securite, a declare mercredi le chef de la diplomatie
azerbaïdjanaise, Elmar Mamedyarov.

“Avant de soumettre une initiative au Conseil de securite, il faut
obtenir le soutien prealable des cinq membres permanents du Conseil.

Trois d’entre eux sont copresidents du Groupe de Minsk de l’OSCE”
a indique M. Mamedyarov.

“Nous evoquerons necessairement cette question avec tous les membres
permanents du Conseil de securite”, a-t-il ajoute.

Le ministre a encore repete la position de Bakou, selon laquelle
le retrait des troupes armeniennes des territoires azerbaïdjanais
occupes devait constituer le premier pas vers un règlement du conflit.

“Si les troupes armeniennes sont retirees, il n’y aura plus de tireurs
d’elite operant des deux côtes et donc plus de personnes tuees. Nous
en avons parle a plusieurs reprises aux copresidents [du Groupe de
Minsk]. Pour commencer, les troupes armeniennes doivent etre retirees,
ne serait-ce que des sept regions azerbaïdjanaises situees en dehors
du Haut-Karabakh”, a souligne M. Mamedyarov.

Bakou, qui ne reconnaît pas l’independance de cette republique
autoproclamee, estime que les unites armeniennes engagees dans la
region font partie des Forces armees d’Armenie. Erevan considère pour
sa part que ces unites sont distinctes des Forces armees armeniennes
et qu’elles relèvent de l’Armee du Haut-Karabakh.

Le conflit dans le Haut-Karabakh remonte a fevrier 1988, lorsque
cette region autonome principalement peuplee d’Armeniens a annonce son
intention de se separer de l’Azerbaïdjan. Cette demarche a provoque
des combats entre les troupes armeniennes et azerbaïdjanaises, a
la suite desquels Bakou a perdu le contrôle du Haut-Karabakh et de
sept regions adjacentes. Le cessez-le-feu decrete le 12 mai 1994 est
regulièrement viole par les deux parties.

Afin de trouver une issue negociee au conflit, un Groupe de Minsk
copreside par la Russie, la France et les Etats-Unis a ete cree en
1992 dans le cadre de l’Organisation pour la securite et la cooperation
en Europe (OSCE).

L’Azerbaïdjan insiste sur la preservation de son integrite
territoriale, tandis que l’Armenie defend les interets du
Haut-Karabakh, ce dernier n’etant pas partie aux negociations.

CIS AGREEMENT DOES NOT HINDER ARMENIA’S EURO INTEGRATION

The Messenger, Georgia
Oct 28 2011

Armenian Prime Minister Tigran Sarkisian announced on October 26
that the agreement signed in St. Petersburg on Free Trade between
CIS countries does not contradict his country’s participation in the
World Trade Organization or Armenia’s European integration process. The
Prime Minister underlined the fact that the St. Petersburg treaty is
a step forward, opening more markets for Armenia. According to the Mr.

Sarkisian Armenia has previously informed all partners about
Armenia’s intentions to sign this agreement and neither expressed
their dissatisfaction.

ARMENIAN NUCLEAR SPECIALISTS MOVE TO IRAN FOR BETTER LIFE
by T.Konyayeva

Trend, Azerbaijan
Oct 28 2011

Oct. 28–The Armenian nuclear engineers are moving to Iran in search
of high salaries, the Metsamor NPP’s chief engineer Movses Vardanyan
told in an interview with A+1 agency, Armenia Today reported.

They are mostly employed at the nuclear power plant (NPP) at Bushehr,
he added.

“Over the recent years, about 20 people have left the Armenian NPP
due to low salaries and found a job at the Bushehr NPP in Iran,
where they receive high salaries,” Vardanyan said. “Unfortunately,
high-skilled specialists are leaving for Iran.”

Bushehr is the first nuclear power plant in Iran and throughout the
Middle East. The plant began to be built by the German Kraftwerk Union
in 1974. In 1980 the contract was terminated during the Western German
government’s accession to the U.S. embargo on supplying equipment
to Iran.

On Aug. 25, 1992, Russia and Iran signed an agreement to continue
construction of the nuclear power plant. In January 1995, a contract
to complete work on the first power unit was signed, and in 1998
construction management was transferred to AtomStroyExport. Bushehr NPP
has been connected to Iran’s electricity network on Sept. 4 and has
supplied about 60 megawatt of electricity to the country’s electric
network since its connection to the grid.

EUROPE HAS SMALL CHANCE OF SETTLING KARABAKH CONFLICT – FORMER FM

news.am, Armenia
Oct 28 2011

YEREVAN. – OSCE (Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe)
Minsk Group Co-Chairs symbolize the balance of external forces,
Karabakh’s former FM and Armenian President’s former adviser Arman
Melikyan stated, during a press conference on Friday, in response
to a question referring to Russia’s role in the Minsk Group and the
chances for replacing this role with that of France.

According to Melikyan, the Minsk Group could enlarge, but, in reality,
the policy is conducted by those who are behind this group.

If the Russia-sponsored meetings between the Armenian and Azerbaijani
presidents stop, this would not mean a diminishment of Russia’s
interests.

At the same time, as per Arman Melikyan, Europe has a small chance
of settling the Karabakh conflict. Europe has interests, but not
levers, in the region. A result might come about should US decide to
cooperate with Europe, but it would hardly wish to split with Europe,
Melikyan maintained.

MOVEMENT OF MIND, BODY AND SOUL
By Kelly Corrigan, [email protected]

Burbank Leader , CA
Oct 28 2011

A born dancer and a choreographer create an emotion-packed show for
the Alex Theatre

To celebrate its 10th anniversary, the dancers of Karavan Dance
Studio are collaborating with the Los Angeles Ballet Theatre, Israel
National Ballet, National Ballet of Armenia and Burbank’s Creations
Dance Theatre in a show featuring nearly 100 dancers. Some are as
young as 3 years old, under artistic director Edgar Nikolian, who
also started dancing as a child.

Nikolian’s first dance teacher was his father, Rouben Nikolian,
who founded the dance studio. The elder Nikolian fathered two sons,
raised them in Yerevan, Armenia, and taught them dance despite
initial resistance.

“Because my father is a dancer, my family said, ‘You have to dance,'”
Nikolian, 25, recalled on a recent afternoon, as he rehearsed a ballet
duet with 21-year-old Amara Baptist at the South Glendale studio.

“First I thought, ‘I’m not going to dance. Ballet is for girls. It’s
not for me.'”

At 8 years old, with a body sculpted from five years of gymnastics
classes, Nikolian was left with no choice but to try. By age 16, he
was granted a full scholarship to an elite ballet academy in Munich
and went on to perform for the Bavarian State Ballet and Vienna
State Ballet.

His family and his wife, Karine Nikolian, brought him back to Glendale,
where he divides half of the day dancing and the other to teaching
in the studio he now oversees. When asked what it takes to perform
a dance brimming with both emotion and remarkable physicality, he
replies with another question, “Hard work?”

Then he consults with Karine in words just above a whisper. “He wants
me to translate, if you don’t mind,” she said. “Something along the
lines of ‘Mind, body and soul have to be in sync. It’s a portrayal
of your thoughts, your emotions, your physical ability.'”

The show, on Nov. 12 at the Alex Theatre in Glendale, is sure to pack
an emotional punch. One of its dancers and choreographers is Raquel
Cordova, of Burbank, who choreographed a piece titled “Faces of
Regret,” inspired by the aftermath of her father’s death from cancer.

Her Burbank studio, Creations Dance Studio, was in part established by
Cordova to cope with her father’s loss. She needed to express herself
through movement. “Especially dancers, they can’t express with words,”
she said.

A year prior to his passing, Cordova moved her family to Texas to
care for him, yet when he died she still thought to herself, “‘I could
have done this better, I could have done that better,'” she remembers.

“That’s what this piece means to me – trying to go back in time and
then realizing you can’t.”

The first time her dancers rehearsed the piece at Creations Dance
Theatre, they were in tears when the music finished. They knew
Cordova’s inspiration for the piece but as she had requested, they
each performed it with their own regrets in mind.

When they perform it before an audience, bracelets on each of the
dancers arms signify those personal regrets.

“I don’t like to place movement on dancers,” Cordova said. “It
became theirs.”

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INFO BOX

Karavan Dance Studio performs at 7:30 p.m. on Nov. 12 at the Alex
Theatre, 216 N. Brand Blvd., Glendale.

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HE WAS NOT OF THAT KIND

yerkir.am
16:46 – 28.10.2011

I evaluate highly the work Karen Karapetyan had done, I myself and
the entire city had big hopes from him, said head of ARF fraction
Vahan Hovhannisyan during his interview to “Yerkir” daily.

“The only thing that makes me angry is the rumor that ally media of
Levon and the authorities try to make about him, as if he received
a job offer with higher salary abroad and that is the reason he
is leaving.

They try to mock that person in any possible way. Why? Because none
of this authority wants to accept that a professional and literate
person will be able to work with them, which is very sad”, said he.

He believes that Karen Karapetyan couldn’t work as he was a noble
person. He was told to make regulation in the city but was also told to
not touch many establishments, as most of them belong to the members
of today’s authorities.

“No major can work in such conditions, as he was not of that kind”,
said Vahan Hovhannisyan.

WINE-MAKING FARM IN NATIONAL TRADITIONS TO BE ESTABLISHED IN ARMENIA

ARKA
Oct 28, 2011

YEREVAN, October 28. /ARKA/. Wine-making farm in national Armenian
traditions will be established in the village Sasunik of Aragatsotn
region of Armenia, press-service of the President’s Office informed
ARKA News Agency.

Serzh Sargsyan visited on Friday “Wine making plant “Armenia wine”
located in the community Sasunik.

Sargsyan was introduced to the works of the plant, production capcities
and development programs, as well as participated in the ceremony of
laying plant extracts.

The President was reported that construction works of the wine-making
plant which is 5 ha have started in 2008, and according to the business
plan, it will last seven years.

Due to the construction program of production units of brandy blending
and ripening and tourism center, including hotels and restaurants,
as well as workshops and wine-making museum.

“Armenia Wine” will remind an old Armenian castle. With this purpose
all the buildings of the plant will be decorated with curved out
ornaments typical for Armenian classic architecture.

The company “Armenia Wine” is rehabilitation of wine-making traditions
in Armenia.

Production units of the plant are equipped with modern equipment in
wine production sphere.

Technological processes are conducted in accordance with European
standards.

Sargsyan wished success in the implementation of the development
program of the plant.

EX-PM SLAMS ARMENIAN GOVERNMENT’S ECONOMIC POLICY AS “MARASMIC”

PanARMENIAN.Net
October 28, 2011 – 19:31 AMT

PanARMENIAN.Net – A member of Armenian National Congress (ANC)
opposition bloc, ex-PM Hrant Bagratyan slammed the government’s
economic policy as “marasmic”.

In his statement at ANC rally, Bagratyan referred to the strike of
Armenian NPP staff, 2012 state budget and government-provided economic
growth indices. The ex-PM accused the government of providing false
data, with only metal mining industry to account for possible growth.

In September 2011, 160 members of NPP engineering staff submitted
letters of resignation, demanding 50% pay increase. On October 24,
the Minister of Energy offered a 10% raise, which was agreed to,
with the employees returning to their work.

ANC URGES SERZH SARGSYAN TO FOLLOW KAREN KARAPETYAN’S SUIT

PanARMENIAN.Net
October 28, 2011 – 19:35 AMT

PanARMENIAN.Net – Haykakan Zhamanak editor-in-chief commented on
resignation of Yerevan Mayor Karen Karapetyan.

As Nikol Pashinyan noted at Armenian National Congress (ANC) opposition
bloc rally, “the sooner representatives of this criminal regime resign,
the better the country will do without them. It’s now President Serzh
Sargsyan’s turn to follow their suit.”

On October 28, 2011 Yerevan Mayor Karen Karapetyan announced his
resignation, citing another position to be assumed and personal
reasons behind the decision.

MODERN-DAY AZERBAIJAN REPRESENTS A QUASI-MONARCHIC SULTANATE – ARTICLE

PanARMENIAN.Net
October 28, 2011 – 16:44 AMT

PanARMENIAN.Net – The year of 2011 has been marked for the
Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR, or Artsakh as Armenians were calling
it for centuries) with the 20th anniversary of its independence from
the Soviet Union, Aram Avetisyan and Hovhannes Nikoghosyan write in
an article posted in Foreign Policy Journal.

“One of the toughest challenges for the NKR since restoring its
sovereignty remains convincing those against Artsakh’s freedom,
and first of all – neighboring Azerbaijan, that the world has
changed since 1991, and that decolonization processes take place
much smoother with the adequate reaction by former members of a
single political-administrative entity. Unfortunately, few capitals
of former Soviet republics refuse to accept the new realities, and
cherish a partial and selective retention of infamous Stalin’s deeds,”
says the article titled Nagorno-Karabakh Republic: The First 20 Years
of de-facto Independence.

“Relations between NKR and Azerbaijan remain complicated and hostile,
which impedes the whole region’s comprehensive development and
undermine stability and security of the South Caucasus. To promote a
proper and unbiased understanding of the situation and, therefore, the
search for a lasting peace and a predictable region, it is extremely
important to set the facts straight,” it says.

“During the last decade, Artsakh, being deprived of international
financial assistance except for the annual humanitarian assistance by
U.S. Congress, proved to be able to restore from ruins its economy
and infrastructure. Deepening of the democratic values remains the
essential task for the republic’s authorities, which were elected
through a voting monitored and assessed by international observers
as free, democratic and transparent.”

The article goes on to say that “Artsakh and Azerbaijan are
incompatibly different in their views and implementation of the
sovereignty. The modern-day Azerbaijan represents a quasi-monarchic
sultanate. The ruling Aliyev family suppresses any slight sign of
freedom or disobedience in their country. Global human rights and
economy watchdogs including Transparency International, Freedom House
and Forbes journal traditionally mention Azerbaijan among the world’s
most corrupted and non-free countries. Recently, discussions around
the ruling family’s properties have swept world media outlets.”

“Baku’s foreign policy is nothing better. Besotted by easy
petrodollars, Azerbaijan’s position on Karabakh remains far from
constructive. Azeris deviate from the previous agreements, undermine
international efforts to broker a peace deal. Instead of preparing
its people for compromises and peace, warmongering and anti-Armenian
takes the majority of the republic’s official communication. Clearly,
bellicose statements by Azeri top and high-level officials and
increasing military spendings jeopardize international efforts,
including American, with regards to the Azerbaijan-Artsakh
confrontation,” it emphasizes.

“Unlike Azerbaijan, the NKR remains committed to the peaceful
resolution of the conflict. The position of Artsakh coincides with that
of the international mediators in support for NKR’s resumed full-scale
participation in the negotiations process. Restoring the proper format
of negotiations and international recognition of the republic became
an imperative need for achieving progress in the peace talks. Any
positive settlement requires direct participation of the NKR.

And this is the least Azerbaijan must do for the sake of the South
Caucasus’ future,” the article concludes.