Author: Kanayan Tamar

MERCOSUR WANTS TO EXPAND COOPERATION WITH EURASIAN ECONOMIC UNION

12:26, 06 Feb 2015
Siranush Ghazanchyan

Argentine Ambassador to Russia Pablo Anselmo Tettamanti says the
Eurasian Economic Union (EEU) is an important partner for Argentina,
and Mercosur wants to continue developing cooperation with their
Eurasian partners. He also added that Russia is discussing new
investment opportunities with Argentina.

Mercosur countries see the Eurasian Economic Union (EEU) as an
important partner and will continue to develop cooperation with it,
Argentine Ambassador to Russia Pablo Anselmo Tettamanti told RIA
Novosti.

According to the ambassador, Argentina facilitated significant
progress in reaching an agreement between Mercosur and the Eurasian
Economic Union in the last six months of 2014. A number of meetings
held in Moscow and Buenos Aires have led to the creation of a draft
cooperation agreement in the economic and trade spheres between the
two regional trading blocs.

“The EEU is an important partner for us and we are certain that
Mercosur will continue along the line of cooperation development. A
memorandum on mutual understanding will allow us to sit down and
discuss in more detail what exactly we want to achieve,” Tettamanti
told RIA Novosti.

GYUMRI MURDER: LAWYER SAYS HE IS TAKING SPECIFIC ACTIONS (VIDEO)

16:58 | February 6,2015 | Politics

Lawyer Yerem Sargsyan, who represents the interests of legal successors
of the slain Avetisyan family, said he is taking specific actions
within the framework of the criminal case.

Talking to Azdarar news agency, the lawyer said he is considering
all possible and impossible hypotheses regarding the case.

Six members of the Avetisyan family, including a two-year-old child,
were shot dead in their house in Gyumri in the morning of January 12.

A six-month-old baby, Seryozha Avetisyan, was hospitalized with stab
wounds. He died in hospital a week later. The main suspect of the
crime, Valery Permyakov, a serviceman of Russian Military Base N 102
stationed in Gyumri, was detained by Russian border guards late in
the same day while attempting to cross the Armenian-Turkish border
near Yerazgavors village in Armenia’s Shirak province.

HOW KIM KARDASHIANAN’S ANCESTORS ESCAPED THE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE – PHOTOS

13:51, 06 Feb 2015
Siranush Ghazanchyan

The extraordinary escape from the Armenian Genocide of Kim Kardashian’s
ancestors – thanks to a ‘prophet’ who urged them to uproot to America –
can be revealed today for the first time.

The Daily Mail presents images showing the reality TV star’s ethnic
Armenian forebears who fled the tsarist Russian empire in the early
20th century, many of whom obeyed the advice of the sage.

Known at the time as the Kardaschoffs, in Russian style, the family
made their way from their home village of Karakale in the late 19th
Century to German ports. From there, they travelled to a new life in
America on the passenger vessels SS Brandenberg and SS Koln.

By doing so, they escaped the triple horror of the First World War
from 1914-18, the Armenian Genocide starting in 1915 – exactly a
century ago this year – and the Russian Revolution in 1917.

History: Kim Kardashian’s great great grandparents Hovhannes Miroyan
(left, front row) and Luciag Chorbajian (second from left, front row)
fled Armenia in the early 1900s with their daughter Vartanoosh Miroyan
(second from right in back row)

Belief: Kim’s great great grandmother Luciag (seated) was part of
the Molokan faith. It means ‘milk drinkers’ because followers of the
Christian sect drank milk on traditional Russian Orthodox fast days

Meet the family: Luciag (centre in front row) and Hovhannes took
their daughter Vartanoosh Miroyan (first on the left in back row)
to America, where their legacy has thrived

Glamorous: It is quite possible that Kim Kardashian got her star
power from her ‘dynamic’ grandmother Helen (daughter of Vartanoosh)
who is pictured left on her wedding day

One hundred years after the deadly holocaust decimated their ancestral
home, the Kardashians have become one of the most influential families
in America.

The most famous of which is Kim who has chosen this year, on the
hundredth anniversary of the atrocity, to visit Armenia for the
first time.

But her lavish lifestyle, the expensive houses, an army of followers
who hang on her every tweet, the marriage to a musical superstar
would not exist if her ancestors had ignored the warning of a child
‘prophet’.

Among those fleeing Erzurum – then in Armenia, and ruled by last
Russian Tsar Nicholas II was family patriarch Hovhannes Miroyan and
Kim’s great great grandfather, born in 1844. He married the doughty
Luciag Chorbajian, born in 1853.

The couple wed in Erzurum, which is now in Turkey, in 1867 but escaped
along with their daughter Vartanoosh Mironyan, born in 1886, in the
early 20th century.

Vartanoosh’s distinctly blonde daughter Haigoohi Arakelian – known
as Helen, born in America in 1917, the year the Bolshevik Revolution
rocked the Russian Empire – was Kim’s grandmother, who later married
into the Kardashian clan.

The glamorous and ‘dynamic’ Helen wed Arthur who ran the largest
meat-packing business in southern California.

Helen’s son Robert, a celebrity lawyer who died of oesophageal cancer
in 2003, married Kris Houghton and fathered the 21st Century’s biggest
reality TV stars Kourtney, Khloe, Robert Jr and most famous of all
– Kim.

Ties that bind: The Kardashian family tree that traces back to two
Molokan Armenian families

Family tree: Luciag’s (centre in a dark dress) daughter Vartanoosh
Miroyan (left, front row) eventually gave birth to Helen Arakelian,
whose own marriage joined two immigrant families who fled the same
atrocity

Slaughter: Many Armenians who refused to heed the warnings of impending
war and revolution were killed

Flight: Luciag (pictured, centre) and Hovhannes wed in Erzurum,
which is now in Turkey, in 1867 but escaped along with their daughter
Vartanoosh Mironyan, born in 1886, in the early 20th century

Their mother Kris eventually married Olympic gold medalist Bruce Jenner
and together they raised two more TV personalities, Kendall and Kylie.

The flight to freedom of Arthur’s parents and grandparents from
the village of Karakale – today a snow-covered and entirely Muslim
outpost in eastern Turkey where the stone ruins of the old Armenian
homes still stand – came later than many in this community.

It was as if they had sought to cling on against the rising ethnic
violence and persecution.

The Kardashians – or Kardaschoffs – like other branches of Kim’s
paternal kith and kin were ethnic Armenian, but they were also
religious rebels, at odds with the orthodox faith in their homeland.

They had already fled persecution once before, from another location
deeper in Armenia.

‘The village bullies harassed and insulted them, dug into their tombs
and (violated) the corpses of the deceased – hanging them on trees,’
explained Joyce Keosababian-Bivin, whose ancestors also came from
Karalala, and whose family is linked by marriage to the Kardashians.

‘Because of that they wrote a letter of complaint to Nicholas II.’

The tsar decreed that they could move to Karakale, close to the
Russian military settlement, where initially they were safe in what
was ‘a modern village, with beautiful buildings and wide streets’.

Here, they became close to incoming Russian protestants against the
Russian Orthodox Church.

They were a sect called the Molokans, literally translated as
‘milk-lovers’, so-called because they drank milk, and other banned
foods, on fast days.

Some were known as Jumpers, who leapt in the air, raising their hands
high, during church services. They were pacifists and, crucially,
adhered to the power of prophecy.

Safe: Vartanoosh Miroyan (back row, left) married Arakel Arakelian
(back row, right). Their daughter Helen (front, centre), was born
in America in 1917, the year the Bolshevik Revolution rocked the
Russian Empire

Destiny: By leaving their native Armenia, Vartanoosh (front, left),
Arakel Arakelian (front, right) and their daughter Helen (second
from right, back row) escaped the triple horror of the First World
War from 1914-18, the ‘Armenian Genocide’ starting in 1915, exactly
a century ago this year, and the Russian Revolution

The legend has it that in the 1850s, an 11-year-old Efil Klubnikin
penned an apocalyptic forecast despite being apparently illiterate.

‘Those who believe in this will go on a journey to a far land, while
the unbelievers will remain in place,’ the boy prophesied. ‘Our people
will go on a long journey over the great and deep waters…people
from all countries will go there.

‘There will be a great war. All kings will shed blood like great
rivers. Two steamships will leave to cross the impassable ocean.’

In the first years of the 20th century, Efim renewed the warning
that he made to stunned believers in Karakale as a child, saying his
premonition was now coming to pass.

‘Efim called a meeting, he invited the elders from all the Molokan
villages including the two elders of the Armenian Molokan church. He
prophesied this was the time for them to leave Russia as there
were terrible times coming, especially for the Armenians,’ said Ms
Keosababian-Bivin.

Images he scrawled led locals to believe they should cross the
Atlantic to the United States, but this young diviner also indicated
they should not stop there, but trek to the west coast. He pointed
them towards Los Angeles.

LE PRESIDENT SERGE SARKISSIAN ASSISTE A L’INAUGURATION DU MUSEE-INSTITUT KOMITAS

ARMENIE

Le president de la Republique d’Armenie et President de la Commission
nationale de coordination des manifestations pour la commemoration du
100e anniversaire du genocide armenien, Serge Sarkissian, a assiste
a l’ouverture du Musee-Institut Komitas au Parc Komitas. Selon la
proposition du President, la resolution de construire le musee a
ete adoptee par le conseil d’administration du Fonds armenien le 30
mai 2013. Avant l’ouverture du musee, Serge Sarkissian, en compagnie
des membres et invites de la Commission d’Etat a visite le Pantheon
Komitas et place des fleurs sur la tombe du Vardapet.

Le president armenien a ecrit dans le livre des invites d’honneur :
“Le Musee-Institut Komitas est le symbole de l’unite et du renouveau
du peuple armenien. Le Vardapet Komitas a reuni ce qui est spirituel
et temporel, noble et paysan, l’armenien occidental et l’armenien
oriental, prouvant ainsi le caractère artificiel de ceux-ci, ainsi que
de nombreuses autres lignes de demarcation. En cela, il est devenu
le pionnier et le garant de la nouvelle marche du peuple armenien
en tant survivants du genocide, nous transmettant une immense couche
de civilisation.

Je suis heureux que, grâce a ce musee, l’heritage exemplaire de
Komitas puisse maintenant devenir un sujet d’etude systematique et
obtenir une large reconnaissance a la fois en Armenie et dans le
monde. Komitas est la partie vivante de notre vie culturelle qui
continue de nous conduire a travers les chemins croises complexes du
troisième millenaire desormais.

L’ouverture du Musee-Institut Komitas est un evenement important pour
notre pays et notre peuple “.

A l’occasion de l’ouverture, une ceremonie solennelle a eu lieu dans
la salle de concert du musee recemment ouverte.

vendredi 6 fevrier 2015, Stephane (c)armenews.com

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January 30, 2015

Armenian Genocide thriller `1915′ to be released in 2015

Yerevan–Production companies Bloodvine Media and Strongman announced
on January 28 their co-production of 1915, a psychological thriller
set against one of the most terrifying events of modern history.

1915 is the feature film debut of writer-directors Garin Hovannisian
and Alec Mouhibian. Together with producer Terry Leonard (Before I
Disappear, Cold Comes the Night, Amira & Sam, Hounddog) and an
international cast including Simon Abkarian (Casino Royale, The Cut,
Gett), Angela Sarafyan (The Immigrant, Twilight), Sam Page (Mad Men,
House of Cards), Nikolai Kinski (Aeon Flux), and Jim Piddock (HBO’s
Family Tree, The Prestige), 1915 was filmed on location in Los
Angeles.

Set on the single day of April 24, 2015–the 100th anniversary of the
Armenian Genocide–the film follows one man’s controversial and
dangerous mission to bring the ghosts of a forgotten tragedy back to
life. The movie will play a leading role in the global movement this
spring to shed light on all genocides of the past century. “1915” was
produced in partnership with the Armenian Center for National and
International Studies (ACNIS).

Grammy Award winning musician and human rights activist Serj Tankian
(System of a Down) has composed the cutting-edge original score for
1915. For more information, visit and our social
media pages.

`We expect 1915 to be more than a movie,’ said co-director
Garin
Hovannisian. `We have made this movie to serve not only as art or
entertainment, but also as an act of defiance against the continuing
silence, indifference, and denial that have fueled an entire century
of genocide.’

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PHOTOS

PRESS KIT
Directors’ Statement

In 1915, under the cover of a world war, millions of Armenians were quietly
taken out of their homes and marched to their deaths in the deserts of
Ottoman Turkey. Their towns and villages were burned to the ground. Their
churches were dismantled, too; the crime was to be denied forever.

It was a crime so new, it did not even have a name.

Those who escaped 1915 tried to find new lives across the world. Many
survivors, like our great-grandparents, never spoke of what they had seen.
But some nights, we would hear them crying and screaming in their sleep.

In April 2015, millions of Armenians across the world will commemorate the
100th anniversary of those nightmares–what historians now call the
Armenian Genocide–the first genocide of modern history and the blueprint
of the genocides that followed: the Holocaust, Rwanda, Cambodia, the Sudan.
They will march in commemoration but also in protest against the silence,
indifference, and ongoing denial that have fueled an entire century of
genocide.

Our movie takes place one hundred years after 1915, on the other side of
the world. It is about denial: what happens when the past is ignored; what
happens when it is confronted. It tells the story of a man who is on a
mission to bring the unrecognized ghosts of 1915 back to life.

How can something that happened 100 years ago possibly matter today? How
does any past tragedy, individual or historic, continue to affect our
lives? What does it mean to `move on’? These are some of the questions we
pursue in 1915.

As we face the centennial of the Armenian Genocide, we are grateful for
your support and friendship.

Warmly,
Garin K. Hovannisian, co-writer/director
Alec Mouhibian, co-writer/director

AMNESTY FOR ARMENIAN PRISONERS IS STILL A BIG QUESTION

Vestnik Kavkaza, Russia
Feb 5 2015

5 February 2015 – 2:24pm

The issue of an amnesty for Armenian prisoners in connection with the
100th anniversary of the so-called “Armenian genocide” has not been
solved completely. Moreover, experts oppose this step, as it may cause
an increase in crime, resulting in those amnestied returning to prison.

“Sources close to the authorities have informed that the expectations,
with respect to declaring an amnesty in Armenia and on the occasion of
the centenary of the Genocide, may not be met; many in the country’s
law-enforcement system are against such a decision,” Tert.am cited
the Haykakan Zhamanak daily’s article.

“The problem is that, after the previous amnesty, the criminogenic
situation has become substantially more strained in Armenia, and
numerous people released from prison were arrested again one week,
one month later,” the newspaper remains.

“According to some experts, at present, when the economic situation is
quite complicated, the chances of adaptation of those released have
reduced more, and the application of amnesty in these conditions may
seriously aggravate the criminogenic situation in Armenia, and bring
about unwanted consequences,” the author warns.

“The National Assembly corridors, however, are saying that Serzh
Sargsyan still has no final decision on this matter,” Haykakan
Zhamanak wrote.

SAMANTHA POWER, GENOCIDE ENABLER

American Thinker
Feb 5 2015

By James Lewis

Genocides happen when the civilized world shuts its eyes and does
nothing while some gang of barbarians slaughters human beings by
the thousands. Civilized silence promises safety to the killers and
demoralizes their victims.

Samantha Power, Obama’s U.N. ambassador, has made a career criticizing
U.S. government passivity in the face of genocide. She has written
Pulitzer Prize-winning books like A Problem From Hell: America and
the Age of Genocide.

Now she has been U.N. ambassador – a major power position in the
Obama administration, the most powerful political job she is ever
likely to have to do what she wants.

What has Dr. Power done about genocide? What has she actually done to
stop, or even to complain in public about, groups and regimes that
thirst after genocide, like Iran, ISIS, the Taliban, the Wahhabi
priesthood of Saudi Arabia, the mass killing rulers of the Sudan?

What about Boko Haram killing, enslaving, and selling children in
Nigeria? What about the Kenya massacres? What has she done?

Samuel Totten studies genocide as a disease of dysfunctional politics
and has now written a report on Samantha Power’s actions against
genocide.

They are zero, just like her boss’s achievements.

But let’s be more modest. It may be hard to get things done in the
real world. So let’s just ask: what has Samantha Power even said in
her highly public position as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations?

Has Power even spoken out, in private or public, against the horrors
we can all see today?

Like Obama himself, Dr. Power refuses even to call the real thing
by its proper name. Somehow, after a career of assaulting previous
administrations for their moral failures to even name genocide,
she is now struck deaf and dumb.

Samantha Power is symbolic of all the simple moral failures of the
Obama years. She has sold her soul for a mess of pottage. Like her
boss, Dr. Power talks a good game.

The Rwanda genocide happened because Kofi Annan, who was a U.N.

“observer,” knew all about it but never made a public fuss. The
Armenian genocide of 1.5 million Christians happened because ethnic and
religious genocide is what the Turks did during the four centuries of
the Ottoman Caliphate, and nobody in the more civilized world wanted
to even publicize it. The same is true of the Holocaust and Stalin’s
Ukrainian starvation campaign.

The American left still celebrates American abandonment of South
Vietnam as a great moral victory. But it was not. It was a profound
moral defeat, which began a long, enormous genocide in the South, as
we saw from years and years of Vietnamese boat people who in despair
took to boats and rafts, hoping to be saved by the U.S. Navy. U.S.

withdrawal led to Pol Pot in Cambodia, who killed three to four
million Khmer people in the usual merciless fashion.

In Vietnam, in Korea, in Greece, in Germany, the United States tried
valiantly to stop the tide of totalitarian Communism. No doubt we
saved millions of lives from Stalin and his murder battalions.

The civilized world is not obligated to sacrifice precious lives,
even for a profoundly moral cause. We are not infinitely powerful. But
we have an elementary right and duty to tell the truth, and to act
on it when we can. Obama’s abandonment of millions and millions of
people is a cruel defeat for elementary morality. Those who don’t get
that are sociopaths, and those who twist it are liars. Abandoning
Afghanistan is not, as the delusional left will say, some sort of
victory. The rise of barbarian sadistic regimes, those who routinely
oppress all women and girls because they can, is not – repeat: not –
a wonderful moral victory.

But Obama and his media lackeys will try to paint it that way.

Today we don’t even allow ourselves to think that the Cold War was a
noble and civilizing effort by the United States and its allies against
the kind of barbarism that we see today being practiced by ISIS – and
we know about ISIS only because social media make it impossible for the
left to censor it. The left cares only about power, and the resulting
millions of dead and wounded are simply the price to pay for Progress.

(Today they are doing it with third-trimester abortions here at home.

The domestic left is exactly the international left. They have
no mercy.)

Now Obama is willingly – maybe joyously – retreating from lands
where we made a difference. We gave and sacrificed precious lives
and treasure in Afghanistan, in Iraq, and elsewhere. It was the right
thing to do after 9/11/01 for our national security, and it was the
moral thing to do. Today Obama is turning Afghanistan over to the
barbaric Taliban, just as we seem to be turning Iraq over to ISIS
and an Iranian proxy regime in Baghdad.

Obama is knowingly running away from the worst war ideology in the
world: war-making Islam. Since he is constitutionally unable to
tell the truth, he has to lie about it. Suddenly the Wahhabi torture
theology of ISIS – identical to that of the Taliban – no longer makes
for a “terrorist” gang. No, they are an “indigenous insurgency,”
following the most shameful lie of the left today, the corrupt
idea that one man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom-fighter. We
should have realized that when Obama allowed the young people’s Green
Revolution in Tehran to be killed and tortured into silence at the
very beginning of this administration.

We have lost our moral bearings, and the left likes it that way.

Obama is a typical leftist horror story, just as merciless as Lenin,
Chavez, and Pol Pot. Since we’ve exhausted the English vocabulary
for describing him and his gang, I suggest we borrow his own lies to
describe him.

He is Obama the Merciful, the Compassionate, the Servant of the most
ruthless war theology in history.

He is not my president, and in a moral sense, he is not an American
president at all.

ARMENIAN CHURCH COULD CANONISE 1.5 MILLION VICTIMS OF ARMENIAN GENOCIDE

Christian Today
Feb 5 2015

Ruth Gledhill

In what could stand as the biggest saint-making service in history,
the Armenian Church is preparing to canonise up to 1.5 million victims
of the Armenian genocide in one go.

The Armenian Apostolic Church is to mark the 100th anniversary of
the atrocity, which saw Turkey stripped of its Armenian population
in 1915, with a liturgy on April 23 at the Patriarchal See of the
Catholicosate in Echmiadzin Cathedral, the extraordinarily beautiful
mother church of the denomination at Vagharshapat in Armenia.

The announcement was made during a press conference held on 3 February
at the Patriarchal See.

Patriarch Karekin said in a statement: “The Armenian Church does not
sanctify. It recognizes the sanctity of saints or of those people that
is already common among people or has been shown with evidence. The
Church recognizes only what happened, that is, the genocide”.

The decision to recognise the victims of the genocide as saints was
made in September 2013, during a meeting at Echmiadzin.

In the liturgy on the April 23 the Psalm “martyrs of April”, composed
by the late Bishop Zareh Aznavourian, will be used as the psalm for
the canonization. The canonization will be attended by heads of sister
Oriental Churches and delegations of other Churches.

Soon after he became Pope in 2013, Pope Francis canonised 800 martyrs
killed in the 15th century by Ottoman Turks for refusing to convert
to Islam known as the “martyrs of Otranto”.

Fr Alexander Lucie-Smith wrote in The Catholic Herald this week of
how on April 24 1915 the Ottoman government began to arrest and deport
Armenians who had been living in Anatolia “from time immemorial”.

The organised campaign of arrest, deportation, massacre and
extermination led to the deaths of up to 1.5 million Armenians. “It
is for this reason that visitors to Turkey today will find plenty of
Armenian history but no actual Armenian people, or at least very few.”

He added: “The Armenian genocide is commemorated all over the world,
but not in Turkey and not much in Britain, which studiously avoids
mentioning the genocide in order not to jeopardise relations with
Turkey.”

He cited Hitler’s view of the Armenian genocide: “Our strength is
our quickness and our brutality… Who still talks nowadays of the
extermination of the Armenians?”

ARTAK ZAKARYAN: “ARMENIAN GENOCIDE RECOGNITION SHOULD BECOME AN ISSUE FOR THE UN AND ALL MANKIND”

February 5, 2015 17:44

The provisions stated in the Pan-Armenian Declaration prepare legal
ground for future dialogue between countries of the world since,
according to the provisions different countries may politically
recognize the Armenian Genocide.

STEPANAKERT, FEBRUARY 5, ARTSAKHPRESS: This is what member of the
faction of the Republican Party of Armenia in the National Assembly,
Chair of the Standing Committee on Foreign Relations of the National
Assembly Artak Zakaryan said during a February 5 press conference.

“This Declaration is the expression of a collective position, the legal
and political formulations of which are targeted at international
recognition and condemnation of the Armenian Genocide and are aimed
at prohibiting the repetition of such crimes,” he said, adding that
recognition of the Armenian Genocide should become an issue for the
United Nations and all mankind, as “Armenpress” reports.

“The Pan-Armenian Declaration serves as the basis for the just
struggle of the Armenian people, and the struggle for recognition of
the Armenian Genocide must never be limited to the 100th anniversary,”
he assured.

ARMENIANS MUST BE UNANIMOUS ON ARMENIAN GENOCIDE ISSUE

15:49 * 05.02.15

According to political figure Azat Arshakyan, Armenia is part of the
Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR).

“Armenia is part of Artsakh. We joined Artsakh, but not Artsakh joined
us, and we are united,” he told reporters on Thursday.

He slammed separation of Armenia from Nagorno-Karabakh.

Gagik Ginosyan, Art Director of the Karin song and dance group, noted
that only one Armenian state exists for him, which is called Hayk,
and there must be no partition for Armenians.

“Armenia cannot be partitioned and have separate authorities,” he said.

It is treason to drive a wedge between Armenians, Mr Ginosyan added.

Styopa Safaryan, Head of the Armenian Institute of International and
Security Affairs (AIISA), shares the opinion. Armenian citizens have
a right to disseminate ideas in Nagorno-Karabakh, he said.

As to the opinion that presenting Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh
as one state affects the Nagorno-Karabakh peace process because
Nagorno-Karabakh should be an independent negotiator, and the
Nagorno-Karabakh people elect their authorities by means of democratic
elections, Mr Arshakyan warned against any splits within the Armenian
people.

“Our aim is Great Hayk, and we must restore it step by step.”

Safaryan said they are now heading to Tavush to introduce their own
ideas to the population.

Asked how they treat the civic group’s slogan, Centennial without the
Regime, Mr Arshakyan said he finds the measure extreme regardless of
the objective.

He further stressed the need of considering the Genocide issue
beyond the scope of all political processes and in an atmosphere of
a pan-national solidarity.