Author: Kanayan Tamar

news.am, Armenia
Aug 26 2011

Marshals brought relics of missing WW II soldiers from Russia to Armenia

August 26, 2011 | 20:56

YEREVAN. – Armenian marshals of the court returned with medals from
Russia. They participated in the events devoted to `Memory relay 2011′
searching works of missing soldiers during the World War II, press
service of the Compulsory Enforcement Service of Judicial Acts informs
Armenian News-NEWS.am.

Representatives from Armenia participated actively in the searching
works. The marshals of the court of two states implemented searching
works for 10 days. They found relics of the missing soldiers and
buried them honorary.

According to the Armenian Chief Compulsory Enforcement Officer Mihran
Poghosyan, the archives of the Committee of WWII veterans and
documents of WWII at the Museum of History have already been studied.
These studies clarified and helped to pinpoint the fighting spots of
the Armenian military units. The relics will be placed at appropriate
museums.

ADL Applauds U.S. Directive on Preventing Mass Atrocities

23.08.2011 | 14:18 | | Noyan Tapan | Politics

(Noyan Tapan – 23.08.2011) The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) today
welcomed an executive order issued by President Barack Obama that
enhances America’s ability to prevent and respond to mass atrocities.
The presidential directive also bars perpetrators of war crimes,
crimes against humanity and other serious human rights violators from
legally entering the United States.

According to the Aug. 4 Presidential Study Directive/PSD-10,
“Preventing mass atrocities and genocide is a core national security
interest and a core moral responsibility of the United States.”

Abraham H. Foxman, ADL National Director and a Holocaust survivor,
issued the following statement:�

We are pleased that President Obama has made averting genocide and
mass atrocities a core part of American policy and launched a process
to assemble a comprehensive set of tools toward that vision.

As a community that experienced first-hand the indifference of a world
that failed to avert Hitler’s genocidal campaign, we know that if
responsible governments had mobilized the full range of diplomatic,
economic and humanitarian tools, the outcome could have been very
different.

The president’s announcement is all the more poignant in the face of
an ongoing and violent Syrian crackdown against its own population.

ADL works at the community and leadership level to promote the lessons
of the Holocaust for genocide prevention and the safeguarding of human
and civil rights across the globe.� The League provides education
curricula on the Holocaust and genocide prevention designed to engage
students in humanitarian projects and social activism to instill moral
decision-making skills and a lifelong commitment to activism against
hatred and inhumanity.

Two Agricultural credit programs have been implemented

armradio.am
22.08.2011 17:13

20 and 16 million dollars in new loans are going to change
significantly from today the image of this hope, the government has
taken the OPEC Fund loan in the first, second, the International
Development Association toward the development of agricultural
communities in capacity building programs and competition for the
first program designed to establish new orchards and not to abuse the
use of credit resources, this is the only one to manage,
specially-created “the fruit” company, says Finance Minister Vardan
Aramyan.

His formulation, working under the current land 31.7 thousand hectares
of fruit, and about 700 thousand hectares of gardens in the program
are to create the new gardens were chosen for establishing the poor
communities, said Deputy and that the nuts and fruit orchards himnvogh
production will be competitive and economically viable.

All gardens are going to be, so let’s study: If everything goes
normally, then later to teach in rural economies is how to set up a
rural gardens, this does not fade in the next breeding: International
Development Association credit from the year 2016 to be used in that
direction. This project provided support to the high mountain and
border communities, where animal husbandry is the main means of
living, says Agriculture Minister Sergo Karapetyan.

The feature of these two loans is that the amounts received are not
creditate individual farms, other new structures created by the
community for general use, another factor is that in the
above-mentioned loans are discounted, therefore, the government
relaxed that the external debt burden of these loans are not
significant.

Women MPs in Armenia ensure least quantity of females in parliament – WikiLeaks

10:42 – 28.08.11

A US diplomat said in a leaked cable to the US Department of State
that women in Armenia are not largely involved in the government and
that their presence looks artificial.

Rudolph Perina, the acting US Ambassador to Armenia, wrote in a report
in 2007 that there are only three women deputy ministers in the new
government and one minister (or culture).

“Though the May 12 parliamentary elections increased women’s presence
in the parliament to some extent (from seven to 12), women MPs make
only 9.1% of the parliament,” wrote the diplomat, adding that they all
were elected through proportional representation.

Further, he said that women compete hard to be accepted in Armenia’s
political life predominantly represented by men.

As a result, the diplomat explained, perhaps with the exception of
Hranush Hakobyan, the majority of women MPs representing
pro-government parties are to ensure the least quantity of women MPs.

They keep silent and avoid attracting attention on them, the diplomat added.

The diplomat also said that unlike the pro-government woman MPs that
are a few active and courageous woman MPs (including Larisa
Alaverdyan) who represent the opposition party Heritage.

“These women have the potential of improving the image of a woman
politician,” read the cable.

Tert.am

GEORGIE
Livres scolaires en géorgien mais avec un alphabet arménien !
jusqu’où ira le pays de Staline pour assimiler ses minorités ?

Les autorités géorgiennes ont mis en place des livres en géorgien avec
des alphabets arméniens et azéris spécialement préparé pour les
minorités arménienne et azérie du pays. Le ministre de la Culture et
des sciences de Géorgie, Dimitri Chachkine a informé le 26 août lors
d’une conférence de presse à Tbilissi qu’à partir du lundi 29 août ces
alphabets ouvrages scolaires avec ses spécificités destinées aux
Arméniens et Azéris seront mis en circulation dans les écoles. La
Géorgie règle le problème de ses minorités par une géorgianisation !

Krikor Amirzayan

dimanche 28 août 2011,
Krikor [email protected]

Today, Azerbaijan
Aug 27 2011

Georgia creates alphabet for local Azerbaijani and Armenian citizens

27 August 2011 [14:53] – Today.Az

A new alphabet of Georgian language “Deda Ena” was elaborated for
Azerbaijani and Armenian citizens living in that country, Georgian
Education and Science Minister Dmitriy Shahkin said, Georgia Online
reports.

“On Monday the first book in Azerbaijani and Armenian languages “Deda
ena” will be sent to the printing house. Foreign and local specialists
took part in the realization of this book.

This is a modern textbook with audio and video materials”, the minister said.

/Vesti.az/

SMEDNC to present Armenia in Project “Black Sea Tradenet (B.S.T.)”

arminfo
Saturday, August 27, 15:23

SME Development National Centre of Armenia (SMEDNC) has entered in
project “Black Sea Tradenet (B.S.T.)”.

As press-service of SMEDNC reported, general objective of the project
is to encourage and facilitate intra-regional partnerships and
cross-border cooperation aiming at sustainable development in the
Black Sea Basin, based on combined resources, activities and networks
of common interest. Duration of the activities is 18 months, from June
2011 to November 2012. Total budget is 379.975 Euro, of which EU
contribution is 90%.

Constanta Chamber of Commerce, Industry, Shipping and Agriculture, as
lead partner, together with Chamber of Commerce and Industry Dobrich,
Bulgaria, Hellenic Foreign Trade Board (HEPO) Thessaloniki and Chamber
of Commerce and Industry Kavala, Greece, SME Development National
Centre of Armenia, Chamber of Commerce and Industry Trabzon and
Chamber of Commerce and Industry Zonguldak, Turkey, have started the
implementation of the project “Black Sea Tradenet (B.S.T.)”, financed
by the Joint Operational Programme Black Sea Basin 2007-2013. Main
activities include creation and promotion of the Black Sea Commercial
Atlas presenting economic and trade environment in 5 countries
(Romania, Bulgaria, Greece, Armenia, Turkey); a website with
information on economic and trade development with an online database
(DB) for business opportunities and an online stock market exchange;
organisation of 7 workshops fostering understanding and stimulation of
interest in Basin cooperation, addressing local businesses in all
partners’ cities; organisation of a brokerage event (in Greece) for
SMEs from all 5 countries; creation of the Black Sea Tradenet network
(B.S.T.) with 7 contact points hosted by the project partners, one for
each region/area, so that the local business communities to have
access to relevant information and services.

Cycle race is organized within the campaign “Clean country” and “clean water

armradio.am
27.08.2011 14:39

Within the campaign “Clean country” and “clean water” a cycle race is
organized in direction of the 1 public beach of Sevan lake.
Approximately 30 members of cycle race were headed by Minister of
Environment of Armenia Aram Harutyunyan and the head of Gegharkunik
marz Never Poghosyan. At the cycle race took part also the
representatives of the Republican Party and youth movement “Together

Iran launches carbon fiber production amid sanctions

August 27, 2011 – 15:33 AMT

PanARMENIAN.Net – Iran has inaugurated its own production of carbon
fiber, a material under U.N. embargo because of its potential use in
the country’s controversial nuclear program, AP reported citing
official IRNA news agency.

Defense Minister Gen. Ahmad Vahidi said Iran decided to manufacture
the strategic material domestically since it could no longer access
carbon fiber on foreign markets because of the international
sanctions.

“Because of the restrictions imposed by the enemies, Iran faced
challenges in getting access to carbon fiber,” Vahidi said. “That had
caused a bottleneck in Iran’s production of advanced and smart defense
systems,” he said, claiming Iran has mastered the entire process of
carbon fiber production.

Iran uses carbon fiber for more advanced centrifuges, which spin
uranium gas to produce enriched uranium. Low-enriched uranium can be
used as nuclear fuel while highly enriched uranium can be used in a
warhead.

Carbon fiber is extremely strong, light and flexible, with high
tolerance for heat. It can be used in aerospace and civil engineering,
as well as for military purposes. Its production is extremely complex.

Because of the UN ban on sales of carbon fiber to Iran, Tehran has
previously had to buy it on foreign markets, presumably through
middlemen. It has not disclosed where it obtained previous batches.

Dialog Suspended: Parties Exchange Accusations of Deception

hetq
12:50, August 27, 2011

In a tirade of charges and counter-charges, the faltering dialog
between the Armenian government and the opposition based HAK (Armenian
National Congress) ground to a halt on Friday.

The HAK pulled out of the next scheduled meeting yesterday at the last
minute, claiming that they could not continue to “dialog” when Tigran
Arakelyan, one of their young activists, arrested earlier this month,
remains in police detention.

In a statement, the HAK accused the government of going back on its
pledge to work for the immediate release of the activist.

In turn, the government’s delegation to the talks said that it had
never made such a pledge and accused the HAK of intentionally
spreading lies.

“We regret not so much your lies as the fact that we have started not
trusting in you,” the coalition’s negotiating team stated.

The coalition team said the issue of the continued arrest of the HAK
activist was a legal matter and not one to be discussed during the
ongoing political process.

“We will repeat what we said during the previous meetings: we did not,
do not and will not link the issue of the young man involved in the
incident with this important political process because it completely
lies on a legal plane,” read the coalition statement.

HAK representative Levon Zurabyan continues to argue that the activist
remains in custody “contrary to mutual understandings and assurances.”