Author: Kanayan Tamar

TIGRAN SARGSYAN WAS PRESENT AT THE OPENING OF HANQAVAN “ANI RESORT” HOTEL

Noyan Tapan

17.06.2011

(Noyan Tapan – 17.06.2011) On June 16, RA Prime Minister Tigran
Sargsyan was present at the opening of Hanqavan “Ani Resort” hotel.

The Prime Minister got acquainted with the conditions and offered
services of the hotel.

Congratulating the participants on behalf of the government, the
Prime Minister Sargsyan gave importance to the Armenian-American
businessmen Sedrak Achemyan’s investment in Armenia.

The head of the government noted that the investment was done not in
Yerevan, but in the region which will promote the regional balanced
development.

TRABZON POLICE CHIEFS WON’T BE PROSECUTED FOR DINK MURDER

PanARMENIAN.Net
June 17, 2011 – 12:55 AMT

PanARMENIAN.Net – The High Criminal Court of Rize (eastern Black Sea
coast) dismissed the appeal against the decision to drop procedures
related to the assassination of Turkish-Armenian journalist,
editor-in-chief of the Armenian Agos newspaper Hrant Dink, Bianet
agency reported

The joint attorneys of the family of the slain journalist had filed an
appeal with the Rize Court against the decision given by the Trabzon
High Criminal Court.

Accordingly, Faruk Sarı and Engin Dinc, on duty for the Chief of
the Trabzon Police Intelligence Branch; the two former Chiefs of the
Trabzon Police, Ramazan Akyurek and ReÅ~_at Altay; Muhettin Zenit
who was responsible for the communication with assistant intelligence
staff member Erhan Tuncel; Ozkan Mumcu, Mehmet Ayhan and Onur Karakaya,
Department Chief Inspector Ercan Demir and the Chief of the Trabzon
Anti-Terror Branch, Yahya Ozturk, will not be prosecuted in the
context of the Dink murder.

The Dink family lawyers demanded the investigation of the above
mentioned persons and later on appealed the decision for the closing
of procedures. Both their petition and the appeal put forward that
the officials of the Trabzon police at the time were responsible for
the killing of Hrant Dink.

COURT THROWS OUT 2 SLANDER SUITS AGAINST MEDIA
Mariam Chakhoyan

hetq
19:43, June 16, 2011

Today, in a welcome reversal for the media, a Yerevan court threw out
two slander suits filed against the Kentron TV station. Many however,
do not view the judge’s verdict as free from outside influence.

The suits were filed by Ashot Harutyunyan and Gevorg Hayrapetyan. They
had gone to the court, demanding that the TV station issue a retraction
of reports aired by Kentron TV. At issue were “recreations” of an
alleged crime the two have been charged with.

The plaintiffs argued that the broadcast was aired to sow confusion
in the minds of the viewers and reinforcing the credibility of the
charges.

Seda Safaryan, the attorney for both plaintiffs, told Hetq that the
court’s verdicts were not free of outside influence.

EDWARD NALBANDIAN MEETS FRENCH MINISTER FOR COOPERATION

Armradio.am
17.06.2011 11:06

Armenian Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian received Henri de
Raincourt, French Minister for Cooperation.

Greeting the guest, Minister Nalbandian noted that Armenia attaches
special importance to multifaceted cooperation with France and the
development of friendly relations.

Ministers Nalbandian and de Raincourt praised the high-level political
dialogue established between the two countries. Reference was made
to issues of economic, inter-parliamentary, cultural and educational
cooperation.

The interlocutors discussed the cooperation within the framework of
the International Organization for the Francophonie, emphasizing
the importance of the conduct of the meeting of the International
Association of Francophonie Mayors in Yerevan this fall.

The parties discussed Armenia-EU cooperation, the positive progress
registered in the negotiations on the Association Agreement,
preparation for the talks on visa facilitation.

Edward Nalbandian and Henri de Raincourt exchanged views on the
peace process on the Karabakh conflict settlement. In that context
Minister Nalbandian underlined the positive involvement of France as
OSCE Minsk Group co-chair.

TCA PASADENA-GLENDALE PRESENTS PROGRAM ON LEVON ZAVEN SURMELIAN

Posted on June 16, 2011 by Editor

Zareh Sapszian and Sona Khandjian

PASADENA, Calif. – Tekeyan Cultural Association’s Pasadena-Glendale
Chapter organized an evening dedicated to the life and literature
of the Armenian-American author Levon Zaven Surmelian on Thursday,
May 26, at the Beshgeturian Center in Altadena.

Zareh Sapszian, a fiction writer and contributor to Nor Or,
was invited to deliver the lecture. Sapszian was born in Aleppo,
Syria. He graduated from Karen Yeppe High School, and became a teacher
of Armenian language and literature at the Armenian Evangelical High
School in Ainjar, Lebanon. He then moved to the United States, due
to the civil war in Lebanon and settled in Los Angeles. He is married
and has one daughter.

Sapszian first presented a biographical sketch of the late Surmelian,
who was born in Trabzon, Turkey in 1905. Surmelian’s father, Garabed,
was a pharmacist and had three other children. He lost his parents
during the Armenian Genocide.

When Russia occupied Trabzon in 1916, Surmelian escaped to Batumi,
Georgia. In 1918, he moved to Istanbul, Turkey, which was under the
control of the Allied Nations, and studied rural economy at Armash. In
1920, he traveled to Armenia with his classmates, to help improve
Armenian agriculture. Disappointed in the Soviet regime, he fled back
to Batumi, and then returned to Istanbul.

Finally in 1922, Surmelian immigrated to the United States and
settled in Kansas. His first order of business was to study English,
then further his studies in rural economy. Two years later, he became
infected with tuberculosis and traveled to Los Angeles, where he spent
four years in a sanitarium to recover from his emaciating disease. He
married Zarmig Geurdjian in 1957, but had no children. His wife passed
away in 1992 and only two years later, he died.

Introducing Surmelian, Sapszian noted that first and foremost, he was
a poet. His first book of poems, titled Joyous Light, was published
in 1924. At this point, Sona Khandjian presented a poetic recitation
of some of his most famous poems, leaving a lasting impression on
the audience.

Surmelian’s first book in English, titled I Ask You Ladies and
Gentlemen, was published in 1945 by E. P. Dutton. This autobiographical
book became a best seller quickly. His second book, titled 98.6,
was published in 1950. The title, 98.6, refers to the temperature
of the human body and it tells the story of a young man suffering
from tuberculosis.

In 1968, Surmelian published two more books, Apples of Immorality
and Techniques of Fiction Writing. The latter became a textbook for
literature in universities throughout the United States.

It’s noteworthy to mention that Surmelian’s library and entire wealth
was bequeathed to the Armenian General Benevolent Union, which in
turn dedicated a state-of-the-art printing facility to honor him in
Yerevan, to be used by the writers’ union.

– Kevork Keushkerian

ARMENIAN, GEORGIAN CHURCH LEADERS REACH IMPASSE

asbarez
Thursday, June 16th, 2011

Karekin II and Ilia II in Georgia

YEREVAN (RFE/RL)-The spiritual leaders of Armenia and Georgia have
failed to reach any concrete agreements on disputes between their
state-backed churches after nearly one week of negotiations held
during Catholicos Karekin II’s visit to Georgia.

The supreme head of the Armenian Apostolic Church and
Catholicos-Patriarch Ilia II of the Georgian Orthodox Church publicly
disagreed on the main sticking points as they wrapped up the talks
late on Wednesday.

Karekin II began the trip last Friday in the hope of convincing
Georgia’s political and religious leadership to grant an official
status to the Georgia Diocese of the Armenian Church and return
several churches in and outside Tbilisi to the latter. Karekin II’s
office said after his weekend meeting with Georgian President Mikheil
Saakashvili that the Georgian side agreed to register the diocese and
pledged to preserve the churches “until their return to the diocese.”

However, no agreements or joint declarations were signed as a result.

Speaking to journalists in Georgia’s Javakheti region mostly populated
by ethnic Armenians, the two pontiffs said they failed to work out
a mutually acceptable document. “I think that we are saying the same
things but with different wordings,” said Ilia.

Ilia insisted that the Armenian Church should gain official recognition
in Georgia only if the Georgian Church is granted the same status in
Armenia. Karekin II countered that Armenia’s small ethnic Georgian
community, numbering less than 1,000 people, never applied for such a
status. He argued that Armenian law provides for the easy registration
of religious minorities.

Contradicting Saakashvili’s assurances reportedly given to Karekin II,
Ilia also stated that “Armenian churches will be repaired in case
of the restoration of Georgian churches in Armenia.” “If Georgia
restores Armenian churches, then Armenia must repair and preserve
Georgian churches as well,” he said.

The elderly patriarch referred to several medieval and mostly abandoned
churches located in Armenia’s northern Lori province. The area was
for centuries controlled by Georgian kings through their Armenian
vassals. Some of those noble families were members of the Georgian
Church.

The Armenian Church disputes Georgian claims to these worship sites,
saying that they were built and always used by Armenian adherents of
the Greek Orthodox faith.

“Of course, restoration of historical monuments must be an obligation
of the two states, but one must first of all ascertain their origin,”
said Karekin II.

Asked by RFE/RL’s Armenian service whether the Georgian Church is ready
to substantiate its claims with documentary evidence, Ilia replied,
“Yes, we are ready.”

The Georgian Church proposed that the two sides form a joint commission
of scholars and historians for that purpose. The proposal was not
accepted by Karekin II.

“We replied that they should first present necessary facts as to
what exactly the commission should investigate,” said the Armenian
Catholicos. “An appropriate decision [on whether to set up such a body]
would be made after that.”

Both religious leaders stressed that the two churches will continue
to seek a negotiated solution to these disputes.

ARMENIAN CATHOLICOS MET CHAKHALYAN’S PARENTS
By Aghavni Haroutyunian

AZG DAILY
17-06-2011

The Catholicos of All Armenians Garegin II on a patriachal visit in
Javakhk, met with the parents of the Javakhk-based political activist
of Armenian origin Vahagn Chakhalyan in Akhalkalak.

According to a press service by Yerkir union, the Catholicos told
Chakhalyan’s family that he is aware of the problem and had discussed
the issue of releasing the activist with Georgian patriarch Ilia II.

“The third year of Vahagn Chakhalyan’s confinement will be completed on
June 17, 2011. Armenian activist in Javakhk is imprisoned by Georgian
authorities with obvious illegal court trials and fake accusation. He
is accused for 10 years,” the union statement reports.

Ahead of the Catholicos’ visit to Georgia, over 1,200 Armenians
from Javakhk called on the patriarch to voice Chakhalyan’s problem
at meetings with the Georgian religious and state leaders. “Azg”
daily also informed about the last.

ISSUE OF PEACEKEEPERS
JAMES HAKOBYAN

Story from Lragir.am News:

Published: 20:21:00 – 16/06/2011

The foreign minister of Armenia Edward Nalbandyan has announced
recently that for the past three years the issue of peacekeepers has
not been discussed in the peaceful settlement of the Karabakh conflict.

On June 15 the Haykakan Zhamanak Daily published the Basic Principles
of Madrid which had been introduced to the sides in November 2007. One
of the principles is that the Armenian forces are withdrawn from the
liberated territories, and peacekeeping forces are deployed there.

Since November 2007 Armenia has accepted the Basic Principles as the
framework of the talks. Replacing the Kocharyan-Oskanyan tandem, the
Sargsyan-Nalbandyan tandem has never rejected the so-called Madrid or
Basic Principles. It means they continue to negotiate in the framework
of these principles. If one of the points of this framework is the
issue of peacekeepers, it means this issue is also negotiated.

And it is not important whether this issue was specified or not because
Armenia has never announced for the past three years that Armenia
disagrees to the principle on the peacekeepers. Moreover, if Armenia
announces ready to return some territories to Azerbaijan, receiving a
distinct status instead, it means Armenia agrees to peacekeepers. And
for the past three years Armenia has announced ready to return the
territories for several times although one of these times is enough,
considering its highly simple and eloquent content.

~SDespite Azerbaijan~Rs claims, this area is neither populated nor used
by us. As soon as the people of Karabakh get a real opportunity to
exercise their right to self-determination, and practical mechanisms
of security and development are created, the return to Azerbaijan of
the territories surrounding Karabakh, keeping Nagorno-Karabakh and the
corridor with Armenia, it can be considered as a compromise on behalf
of the Armenian side. I have announced this for a number of times.

However, the key notion of ~Scompromise~T is mutuality, and one
should be aware that in such situations unilateral concessions only
aggravate the existing dangers and threats,~T Serzh Sargsyan said in
an interview with the Syria-based Al Vatan Newspaper on March 22, 2010.

The U.S. ambassador to Azerbaijan Matthew Bryza stated that the issue
is on the agenda of talks where there is no place for deviousness and
there is a serious discussion. So said the reports of the Azerbaijani
media. Although in this case the Armenian foreign ministry may claim
the Azerbaijanis had distorted Bryza~Rs words.

Also, it should be noted that the foreign minister of Armenia is,
nevertheless, honest when he says the issue has not been discussed
for the past three years. Agreeing to the Basic Principles of Madrid
in November 2007, Armenia has never needed to discuss the issue of
peacekeepers and has never had any objection regarding this issue. And
in this case, discussing would be pointless. Why discuss something
on which everyone has agreed, including Armenia?

PRINCE CHARLES AND YEREVAN’S KEY PROBLEM
YEGHISHEH METSARENTS

Story from Lragir.am News:

Published: 12:18:41 – 16/06/2011

It’s the second year since the ex-prime minister of Armenia Armen
Sargsyan and Prince Charles of the United Kingdom have held fundraising
events for the program entitled Yerevan My Love. The goal of the
program is to preserve the historical and cultural heritage of Yerevan.

I wonder if Prince Charles who is trying to sponsor Yerevan My Love
knows that the chief architect of Yerevan Narek Sargsyan also loves
Yerevan. And does he know about the expressions which that love has
had and continues to have?

Has Prince Charles been exposed to what was done to Yerevan in the
past 5 or 6 years? I think the prince should visit Yerevan to see
what especially he loves about Yerevan.

The initiative is good indeed, it is even touching that a member of
the royal family of one of the great powers of the world cares about
the capital of a state which hardly occupies 29 thousand square km.

However, it may look too artificial when the representatives of the
government who attend the ceremonies held under the aegis of the prince
get back to Yerevan and agree, in writing or orally, to projects which
distort the architectural concept of the city and destroy green parks.

There is no need to save the history of Yerevan, As a city, Yerevan
does not even have a proper history. Moreover, for the past decades
it has been in a constant search for its future as a city. However,
it fails to find its future because those who assume the operation
of this “search engine” under beautiful titles and declarations are
in reality in the quest for the welfare of their present. Today,
more than its past and present, Yerevan has a problem of becoming a
real city, an urban system, with urban culture and thinking, where
everyone who moves in should obey the urban rules rather than bring
along their own rules.

Meanwhile, we are used to smearing responsibility for the past,
present and future under the artificial worship of history.

Yesterday’s Yerevan or Yerevan of 1970s or Yerevan of 1980s are but
episodes of search rather than history. Yerevan has been regularly
looking for its image, its future, and has never found it.

Perhaps this is the key issue of Yerevan. And the solution of the
problem is complicated because everyone imposes on Yerevan whatever
they want, and as time passes, there is more and more rubbish, and
it is becoming more and more difficult to clear this rubbish.

AZERBAIDJAN : LA POLITIQUE OTTOMANE DU GENOCIDE ARMENIEN
Publie le : 15-06-2011

Asbarez

Info Collectif VAN – – SYDNEY- Le depute le
plus ancien du Parlement de l’Etat de la Nouvelle-Galles du Sud, le
Reverend Fred Nile, a declare dans une allocution parlementaire que
la persecution azerbaïdjanaise des Armeniens du Karabagh, se basait
sur la politique genocidaire adoptee par le gouvernement turc ottoman
a l’encontre des Armeniens, au debut du 20ème siècle : ” Le manque
de sanctions appropriees pour les criminels ottomans a pousse leurs
frères turcs en Azerbaïdjan a adopter sans vergogne la meme politique
genocidaire vis-a-vis des Armeniens du Nagorno Karabagh “, a-t-il dit.

Si l’analyse est juste, on aurait prefere que les prises de position
de ce type n’emanent pas d’un homme politique et homme d’eglise
essentiellement connu pour ses prises de position a l’encontre de la
pornographie, de l’avortement et de l’homosexualite… Le Collectif
VAN vous propose la traduction d’un article en anglais paru le 9 juin
2011 dans le journal armeno-americain Asbarez.

Photo : le Reverend Fred Nile

Un membre du Parlement australien dit que l’Azerbaïdjan a adopte la
politique ottomane du genocide

SYDNEY- Le depute le plus ancien du Parlement de l’Etat de la
Nouvelle-Galles du Sud, le Reverend Fred Nile, a declare dans une
allocution parlementaire que la persecution azerbaïdjanaise des
Armeniens du Nagorno Karabagh, se basait sur la politique genocidaire
adoptee par le gouvernement turc ottoman a l’encontre des Armeniens,
au debut du 20ème siècle.

Nile, qui a recemment assiste a la commemoration nationale du genocide
armenien a Sydney, s’est adresse au Parlement pour decrire l’heritage
affreux de ce crime contre l’humanite.

” Le manque de sanctions appropriees pour les criminels ottomans a
pousse leurs frères turcs en Azerbaïdjan a adopter sans vergogne la
meme politique genocidaire vis-a-vis des Armeniens du Nagorno Karabagh
“, a-t-il dit.

Nile a ensuite decrit les menaces continuelles de l’Azerbaïdjan a
l’encontre de la population armenienne civile de la Republique du
Nagorno Karabagh, concluant que le seul moyen d’empecher un deuxième
genocide armenien etait que le monde reconnaisse l’independance
du Karabagh.

” Ce soir, dans le Parlement de la Nouvelle-Galles du Sud, j’affirme
mon soutien a l’application du principe du droit a l’autodetermination
du peuple et de la Republique du Nagorno Karabagh. ”

” Le gouvernement azerbaidjanais a annonce qu’il abattrait les avions
civils au Nagorno Karabagh, et le president azerbaidjanais Ilham Allyev
a declare que l’Azerbaïdjan continuerait sur la voie militaire pour
resoudre la question du Nagorno Karabagh. Ces agissements et menaces
prouvent qu’afin de prevenir un deuxième genocide armenien et assurer
une paix durable, la Republique du Nagorno Karabagh ne doit en aucun
cas etre placee sous le contrôle de l’Azerbaïdjan. ”

” Le peuple armenien, et en particulier les Armeniens chretiens,
ne doit plus jamais avoir a subir de menace de genocide ou en faire
l’experience sous quelque forme que ce soit. J’appelle les nations du
monde a soutenir le peuple de la Republique du Nagorno Karabagh qui
revendique l’autodetermination et la liberte de vivre et pratiquer
sa religion, la foi chretienne. ”

Le directeur executif du Comite national armenien d’Australie, Varant
Meguerditchian, a applaudi le courage du depute qui a souleve cette
question.

Il a dit : “Nous saluons la position de principe du Reverend Nile
qui exprime son soutien au droit du peuple du Nagorno Karabagh a la
securite et a l’autodetermination.

” La rhetorique anti armenienne de l’Azerbaïdjan, les menaces
constantes de guerre et les developpements militaires de Bakou sont
une cause serieuse d’inquietude pour la securite du peuple du Nagorno
Karabakh et la stabilite regionale. ”

” Les efforts du Reverend Nile sont une contribution significative
pour le mouvement de reconnaissance internationale du droit a
l’autodetermination de la Republique du Nagorno Karabagh. ”

Dans sa declaration, Nile a egalement decrit les massacres des Grecs
et des Assyriens au debut du 20e siècle, qui constituent un exemple
defini de genocide ouvrant la voie au Parlement a l’adoption d’une
resolution reconnaissant cette realite historique.

Nile, que l’on surnomme “Le père de la Chambre” car il est membre du
Parlement depuis 1981, etait egalement present a la session de 1997
lorsque le Parlement de la Nouvelle-Galles du Sud adopte la resolution
sur le genocide armenien.

Texte complet de l’allocution du Reverend Fred Nile

Le genocide armenien et la Republique du Nagorno Karabagh

Reverend Fred Nile :

J’aimerais parler ce soir du genocide armenien et de la Republique
du Nagorno Karabagh. Le lundi 18 avril de cette annee j’ai assiste
a Sydney a une commemoration du genocide armenien au Ryde Civic Centre.

Les representants des gouvernements federaux et d’Etat et des
oppositions ainsi que plus de 1000 membres de la communaute armenienne
d’Australie etaient presents. Pendant la commemoration, on m’a rappele
le meurtre de plus de 1.5 million d’hommes armeniens, de femmes et
d’enfants innocents, ainsi que de nombreux Grecs et Assyriens, qui ont
peri entre 1915 et 1922 suite a un plan orchestre par le gouvernement
turc ottoman de l’epoque, pour chasser de leurs terres ancestrales
ces peuples chretiens. Tristement, on m’a egalement rappele que si
le juriste international Raphael Lemkin, avait cite l’extermination
des Armeniens, des Grecs et des Assyriens comme un exemple defini de
genocide, la Republique de Turquie, successeur de l’Empire ottoman
continue a nier que ces evenements sont jamais arrives.

Ce soir, je me lève ici pour discuter de l’heritage de la politique
de genocide du gouvernement turc ottoman. Le manque de sanctions
appropriees pour les criminels ottomans a pousse leurs frères turcs
en Azerbaïdjan a adopter sans vergogne la meme politique de genocide
envers les Armeniens du Nagorno Karabagh. La Republique du Nagorno
Karabagh est une region situee entre la Republique d’Armenie et la
Republique d’Azerbaïdjan. La presence historique de la population
armenienne remonte au sixième siècle av. J.-C. Dirige par des
puissances etrangères pour une grande partie de son histoire, le
Nagorno Karabagh, comme l’Armenie et l’Azerbaïdjan, a ete envahi par
l’Union sovietique dans la première partie du 20ème siècle et malgre
sa population chretienne principalement armenienne, Joseph Staline
l’a place sous l’autorite de l’Azerbaïdjan en 1921. Pendant les 70
ans qui ont suivi, les Armeniens du Nagorno Karabagh ont ete soumis a
des massacres, des pogroms, a la guerre et la devastation, perpetres
par les pouvoirs sovietiques de l’Azerbaïdjan, peu differents des
persecutions que les Armeniens avaient subies de la part des autorites
ottomanes tuques pendant le genocide de 1915.

Après des annees de persecution, qui s’est intensifiee a la fin
des annees 1980, les forces azeries ont lance une attaque massive
contre la population armenienne civile du Nagorno Karabagh. Pret a
tout pour empecher un deuxième genocide armenien, les habitants du
Nagorno Karabagh se sont rassembles pour defendre leurs maisons,
leur terre et leur culture ancienne. Ils se sont battus pour leur
survie et le droit a l’autodetermination et, finalement, en 1991,
sous la constitution sovietique, le Nagorno Karabakh a declare son
independance. S’en est suivie une guerre entre le Nagorno Karabagh
et la Republique d’Azerbaïdjan jusqu’en 1994, date a laquelle un
cessez-le-feu a ete negocie par l’Organisation pour la securite et la
cooperation en Europe. Ensuite l’OSCE – copresidee par les Etats-Unis
d’Amerique, la Russie et la France – a ete chargee de la negociation
d’un règlement complet et pacifique.

Depuis la declaration d’independance et le cessez-le-feu, la
Republique du Nagorno Karabagh a tenu des elections democratiques,
permettant aux habitants d’elire leurs dirigeants, de pratiquer leur
religion chretienne et de vivre selon leur culture sans etre menaces
de persecution. Malgre cela, cependant, le danger pour la population
armenienne civile de la Republique du Nagorno reste reel. Recemment,
un tireur isole azerbaïdjanais a tue un innocent fermier armenien près
de la frontière entre le Karabagh et l’Azerbaïdjan. Le gouvernement
azerbaïdjanais a annonce qu’il abattrait tout avion civil au Karabagh
et le President azerbaïdjanais Ilham Allyev a declare que l’Azerbaïdjan
continuerait sur la voie militaire pour resoudre la question du
Nagorno Karabagh. Ces agissements et menaces prouvent qu’afin de
prevenir un deuxième genocide armenien et assurer une paix durable,
la Republique du Nagorno Karabagh ne doit en aucun cas etre placee
sous le contrôle de l’Azerbaïdjan. Le droit des Armeniens du Nagorno
Karabagh a l’independance est fonde sur l’article VIII de l’Acte
final (Accords d’Helsinki) de l’Organisation pour la securite et la
cooperation en Europe, qui stipule une egalite de droits des peuples
et l’autodetermination.

…Tous les peuples ont toujours le droit, en toute liberte, de
determiner, lorsqu’ils le desirent et comme ils le desirent, leur
statut politique interne et externe, sans ingerence exterieure, et
de poursuivre a leur gre leur developpement politique, economique,
social et culturel.

Ce soir, dans le Parlement de la Nouvelle-Galles du Sud, j’affirme
mon soutien a la demande d’application du principe du droit a
l’autodetermination pour le peuple de la Republique du Nagorno
Karabagh. Le peuple armenien, et en particulier les Armeniens
chretiens, ne doit plus jamais avoir a subir de menace de genocide ou
en faire l’experience sous quelque forme que ce soit. J’appelle les
nations du monde a soutenir le peuple de la Republique du Nagorno
Karabagh qui revendique l’autodetermination et la liberte de vivre
et pratiquer sa religion, la foi chretienne.

©Traduction de l’anglais C.Gardon pour le Collectif VAN – 15 juin
2011 – 07:17 –

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