Author: Kanayan Tamar

LE HAUT KARABAKH POURRAIT-IL FAIRE PARTIE DE L’UNION ECONOMIQUE EURASIATIQUE ?

ARMENIE

A la question de savoir pourquoi la Crimee peut adherer a l’Union
eurasiatique et pas le Haut Karabakh, Nikolaï Rijkov, copresident de la
Commission interparlementaire armeno-russe, a repondu que le statut du
HK n’etait pas encore determine, alors que la Crimee a ete rattachee
a la Russie par un referendum. >. Le problème du Haut Karabakh etait considere comme
un grave obstacle pour l’adhesion de l’Armenie a l’Union economique
eurasiatique, ecrit RFE/RL, rappelant que lors du Sommet de l’UEE,
le 29 mai, le President Kazakh avait declare que l’Armenie pourrait
adherer a cette Union avec ses frontières internationalement reconnues,
tandis que le 10 octobre a Minsk, il a declare qu’on etait parvenu
a un consensus >.

Extrait de la revue de presse de l’Ambassade de France en Armenie en
date du 31 octobre 2014

vendredi 7 novembre 2014, Stephane (c)armenews.com

L’ARMENIE INTERESSEE A APPROFONDIR LA COOPERATION AVEC L’UE

ARMENIE

Alors que l’Armenie s’est jointe a l’Union economique eurasiatique
(UEE), elle est egalement interessee par l’approfondissement de
la cooperation avec l’Union europeenne (UE), avec des engagements
qui ne sont pas contraires aux principes de l’UEE a declare le
vice-ministre des affaires etrangères Shavarsh Kotcharian lors d’un
debat parlementaire

L’Union europeenne reste le principal partenaire de l’Armenie, a-t-il
ajoute, selon Tert.am .

Le president de la commission permanente de l’Assemblee nationale sur
l’integration europeenne Naira Zohrabyan a demande des precisions
quant aux domaines dans lesquels l’Armenie ne va pas continuer la
cooperation avec l’UE.

“Cette question ne peut avoir de reponse maintenant parce que nous
avons signe un traite relatif a l’adhesion de l’Armenie a l’UEE
que recemment. Le traite n’a pas encore ete applique >>, a declare
Kotcharian.

“Les experts doivent maintenant definir les limites que l’Armenie ne
peut pas depasser dans le cadre de ses engagements. La chose la plus
importante est que nos partenaires europeens veulent savoir le cadre
dans lequel ils peuvent se sentir libres “.

vendredi 7 novembre 2014, Stephane (c)armenews.com

OFFICIEL RUSSE : LE KARABAKH POURAIT DEVENIR MEMBRE DE L’UEE DES QUE SON STATUT SERA DETERMINE

ARMENIE

Cette semaine au Parlement, lors de la 25e Commission
intergouvernementale armeno-russe le chef de la commission, membre
du Conseil de la Federation russe Nikolay Ryzhkov a indique que
le Haut-Karabagh pourrait devenir membre de l’Union economique
eurasiatique (UEE) seulement après avoir clarifie son statut.

En reponse a la question d’un journaliste de pourquoi la Russie peut
entrer dans l’UEE avec la Crimee, et l’Armenie ne peut pas faire la
meme chose avec le Karabagh, Ryzhkov a repondu : “Vous essayez de
comparer la Crimee avec le Karabagh … Je comprends que le Karabagh
est un sujet douloureux pour l’Armenie, pour nous – aussi, mais dans
le cas de la Crimee je ne suis pas d’accord avec vous. La Crimee est
historiquement une terre russe, pendant des siècles, nous etions
sur ce territoire, et nous savons sans faute le fait que [Nikita]
Khrouchtchev etait ivre quand il l’a remise a l’Ukraine. ”

Il a indique que la population de Crimee a volontairement decide de
rejoindre la Russie, qu’etaient-ils censes faire alors ? Dire non ?

“Mettons-nous d’abord d’accord sur le statut du Karabagh et ensuite
nous discuterons de cette question. Si c’est une terre armenienne,
nous serons heureux de la voir dans l’UEE. Pour l’instant cette
question est suspendue. Par exemple, de meme que la Transnistrie …

ils ne peuvent pas devenir membre de l’UEE parce que vous connaissez
les règles, si certaines questions territoriales et frontalières
ne sont pas resolus alors l’adhesion ne peut avoir lieu. Ainsi,
lorsque la question du Karabagh sera resolu, nous serons heureux de
l’avoir pour membre. Et la facon dont elle sera resolue – comme un
Etat separe, ou sous la forme de l’Armenie, la vie va le montrer “,
a declare Nikolay Ryzhkov.

Abordant la question concernant les declarations controversees de
Dmitry Kiselev, qui lors d’une reunion avec un groupe de deputes
armeniens l’ete dernier a regrette que le langue russe soit en train
de disparaître en Armenie, appelant a lui attribuer un tatut officiel,
Nikolay Ryzhkov a declare que Moscou n’a officiellement jamais souleve
la question de la langue russe devenant la langue de l’Etat d’Armenie.

“Franchement, ceci est la première fois que j’entends cela a l’egard
du statut de la langue russe, d’ailleurs parfois le Russe s’est
vu attribue le statut de la deuxième langue d’Etat. L’Armenie a une
langue d’Etat ; En outre, c’est un etat mono-ethnique. Quelqu’un peut
dire quelque chose. Ne l’ecoutez pas >>, a declare Ryjkov.

Nikolay Ryzhkov, 85 ans, est considere comme un politicien
pro-armenien, sur la scène internationale, il se distingue par
ses discours pro-armeniens, la valorisation de la necessite de la
strategie armeno-russe. Dans Gyumri il y a un monument dedie a Nikolay
Ryzhkov avec son visage sculpte sur lui et a Spitak – sa statue en
reconnaissance de sa contribution personnelle a la reconstruction
a la suite d’un tremblement de terre devastateur de 1988. En 2008,
le gouvernement armenien lui a decerne la plus haute decoration
armenienne celle de Heros national.

Gayane Lazarian

ArmeniaNow

vendredi 7 novembre 2014, Stephane (c)armenews.com

MANEUVERS OF THE ARMED FORCES OF ARMENIA AND ARTSAKH

DEFENSE

Armenian armed forces of Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh are engaged
in maneuvers, military excercises large-scale multi-day, confirmed
Thursday, November 6th spokesman of the Armenian Defense Ministry in
Yerevan. Artsrun Hovhannisian said that these exercises followed a
well-established organizational structure and were designed to assess
the fighting Armenian forces. “Year after year, these exercises fool
ever more sophisticated in their form and in the skills they require,
and reflect a professionalism meets the requirements of the time,”
he has said.

Responsible of the Department of Defense designated the military
exercises as “multifaceted and diverse,” adding that they involved
both the size of the armed reservists forces. “The goal of any such
exercise is to enhance the combat capability of the armed forces”
and test their responsiveness, added Mr. Hovhannisian. However,
the spokesman of the Ministry neither confirmed nor denied reports
circulating in the press concerning the mobilization of reservists,
merely designate the reserves as an integral part of the armed forces.

Moreover, it has to link these Avitus manouevres to observed tensions
for several months on the border between Armenia and Azerbaijan. He
even believed that the border situation could be currently considered
relatively quiet. Azerbaijan, meanwhile, regularly conducts military
exercises extensive along the contact line between Armenian forces in
Karabakh and Azerbaijani armed forces. The Baku authorities regularly
threaten recpurir the use of force to regain control of areas that
have been freed from the control of Azerbaijan in favor of the war in
early 1990. While uttering threats and developing his martial rhetoric,
Baku pretends to solve the conflict through diplomatic channels, by
continuing the dialogue with the Armenian side under the auspices of
the Minsk Group of the OSCE.

In early August, after renewed tensions in the conflict zone, which
caused the death of twenty soldiers, especially in the ranks Azeri,
Armenia and Azerbaijan were about to restart hostilities when meeting
between Presidents Aliyev and Sarkissain led by Putin in Sochi has
helped bring relative calm. The two leaders sat at the table a few
weeks later, on October 27, this time in Paris, under the auspices of
French President Francois Hollande, who threw them an invitation to
this effect at its South Caucasus tour in May. During the party talks
in Paris, international mediators have urged the warring parties to
demonstrate their ‘political will’ to overcome their differences and
prepare their peoples to embark on the path of sustainable peace.

While the Armenian armed forces are involved in these maneuvers to
avert the possibility of a conflict with neighboring Azerbaijan,
a group of parents of Armenian soldiers killed in their barracks,
away from the battlefield, said that the problem abuse within the
national army still called a solution. The Armenian government had
considered this problem and implemented measures to limit abuse and
mistreatment in the ranks of the army, with some success as figures
show a reduction in the number of soldiers killed out of combat .

However, the associations of relatives of soldiers killed in these
circumstances threatened on November 6 to start a protest campaign,
with a sit-in near the presidential palace in Yerevan if the head
of state does not receive personally. These associations, which had
alerted the public to this problem by mobilizing for several weeks,
in the years before the ministries and agencies, indicated that
they had lost all hope of having their applications reviewed by the
government and were more important than the president for justice. The
main issues defended by these associations relate to complaints from
angry mothers of soldiers killed in the armed forces, including the
suspicious death was assigned by the military hierarchy to suicides
or accidents. Disputed by relatives of the victims, some of whom may
have been driven to suicide because of the abuse and humiliation they
suffered when their death was not disguised as suicide or accident,
in their versions for cover the “blunders” of officers or fellow
soldiers tarnishing the image of the military.

Nana Muradian, the mother of one of these conscripts Valerik
Muradian, who died five years before, had said after a meeting with
Prime Minister Hovik Abrahamyan last summer that it had obtained the
promise that President Serzh Sarkisian and receive the other mothers
of soldiers. “Qannd we showed Abrahamian photographs and highlighted
the contradictions of investigations, he showed surprise as simple
as files have not been a serious investigation and have not been
resolved,” she had then reported, adding that the Prime Minister had
promised his personal mediation in order to organize the meeting with
President Sargsyan, who is the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces
selo the Armenian Constitution.

Gohar Sargsyan (no relation to the president), who is the mother of
Tigran Ohanjanian died in suspicious circinstances the army in 2007,
on his part said the government had indicated that such a meeting was
already placed on the president’s agenda and mothers of dead soldiers
would soon be invited to meet the president in his office. “That
leaves the commander-in-chief of the armed forces to bring us a
response and tell us why our son’s killers have not been brought to
justice.” The police allowed the mothers of soldiers gather near the
presidential palace, but at a distance, however, forbidding them to
approach. President Sargsyan was that day working visit to Moscow.

Friday, November 7, 2014, Gari © armenews.com

ARMENIA’S PREMIER DEEPLY CONCERNED OVER SEX-SELECTIVE ABORTIONS

13:39 * 06.11.14

At a cabinet meeting on Thursday, Armenia’s Prime Minister Hovik
Abrahamyan stated that Armenia is the last in the world in terms of
reproduction of population.

He dwelt on the issue of sex ratio during pregnancy and childbirth.

“As a citizen, Armenia’s premier, and as father of two daughters I
am extremely concerned over the social environment which results in
our losing thousands of future mothers now,” Mr Abrahamyan said.

The premier instructed the Ministry of Social Affairs and the Ministry
of Health to prepare a comprehensive program to resolve the problem
and submit it to the government by next March.

Armenian News – Tert.am

UNE CARICATURE D’ERDOGAN EN ALLEMAGNE SUSCITE LA COLORE D’ANKARA

TURQUIE

Le ministère turc des Affaires etrangères a convoque lundi
l’ambassadeur d’Allemagne a Ankara pour denoncer la publication dans
un livre scolaire allemand d’une caricature du president turc Recep
Tayyip Erdogan le representant en chien.

Ce dessin, initialement publie en 2011 dans le quotidien allemand des
affaires Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, a ete repris dans un livre
destine aux lyceens de l’Etat regional (Land) du Bade-Wurtemberg.

Sous le titre “les Turcs en Allemagne, une histoire reussie”, il
represente M. Erdogan en chien de garde, tous crocs dehors, devant
une niche barree de son nom.

“Nous condamnons fermement la publication dans un livre scolaire d’un
dessin qui insulte notre respecte president et tous les Turcs qui
vivent en Allemagne”, s’est insurge le ministère turc des Affaires
etrangères dans un communique.

“Il n’y a pas de place dans les democraties pour ce type d’incitation
a la haine, a la xenophobie et a l’islamophobie”, a ajoute le texte.

Sollicite par l’AFP, un porte-parole de ce ministère a indique que
l’ambassadeur d’Allemagne Eberhard Pohl y avait ete convoque pour
s’expliquer.

M. Erdogan a fait traduire a plusieurs reprises en justice des auteurs
de caricatures jugees offensantes. Le mois dernier, Musa Kart,
caricaturiste au quotidien d’opposition Cumhuriyet, a ete relaxe
après avoir ete mis en cause pour un de ses dessins.

L’actuel chef de l’Etat, qui a dirige sans partage le gouvernement
pendant onze ans avant son election a la presidence en août dernier,
est regulièrement denonce par ses adversaires pour ses “derives
autoritaires”.

jeudi 6 novembre 2014, Stephane (c)armenews.com

KAREN MIRZOYAN: PROGRESS IN NAGORNO-KARABAKH PEACE PROCESS WILL BE POSSIBLE ONLY WHEN NAGORNO-KARABAKH IS INVOLVED IN THE TALKS

by Ashot Safaryan

arminfo
Thursday, November 6, 09:42

Progress in the Nagorno-Karabakh peace process will be possible only
when Nagorno- Karabakh is involved in the talks, Nagorno-Karabakh’s
Foreign Minister Karen Mirzoryan said in an interview with Atsakhpress

He said that the meetings of the Armenian and Azeri presidents are
important as they help to preserve stability in the region. “The key
message of these meetings is that the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict must be
resolved peacefully. And this is in line with the position of the OSCE
Minsk Group co-chairs, Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh,” Mirzoyan said.

He stressed the importance of the recognition of Nagorno-Karabakh’s
independence by California (the United States), New South Wales
(Australia) and Gipuzkoa (Spain) and said that Nagorno-Karabakh
continues building parliamentary and other ties with other countries.

He also stressed the importance of the decision to form Nagorno-
Karabakh-European Union Friendship Group.

RELIGIOUS FREEDOM 2014: AZERBAIJAN IS AMONG COUNTRIES WITH HIGH LEVEL OF RELIGIOUS INTOLERANCE

18:09 05/11/2014 >> POLITICS

Azerbaijan shows a high level of religious intolerance. This is stated
in the report “Religious Freedom 2014,” prepared by Aid to the Church
in Need (ACN). The report is published in CatholicCulture.org.

According to the report, among 20 countries that show a “high”
level of religious intolerance, 14 are Islamic states: Afghanistan,
Central African Republic, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Libya, Maldives, Nigeria,
Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, and Yemen.

The other six of them – Azerbaijan, Myanmar, China, Eritrea, North
Korea and Uzbekistan – are ruled by authoritarian regimes where
Muslims are prominent among the victims of religious persecution.

ACN studied 196 nations. The report found a high level of religious
intolerance in 20 countries. The situation is deteriorating in 55
countries, and only 6 countries have shown improvement.

CHURCH WON’T BACK ANY ELECTORAL LIST IN ELECTIONS, SAYS EGYPT’S POPE

Al Ahram, Egypt
Nov 5 2014

Pope Tawadros II speaks upcoming parliamentary polls and why now is
the not the right time to talk about Maspero

Ahram Online , Wednesday 5 Nov 2014

Egypt’s Coptic Orthodox Church won’t support a specific electoral
list in upcoming elections as all the lists include Christians,
said Pope Tawadros II, the country’s highest Coptic leader.

In an interview with Al-Hayat TV channel on Tuesday, Tawadros denounced
accusations that the church was mobilising Christian votes towards
specific candidates and parties, insisting that the church was only
encouraging Christians in Egypt to vote in the elections, scheduled
to take place by the end of the year.

Despite warning of a return to power from the Muslim Brotherhood,
from which ousted president Mohamed Morsi hailed, the pope said he
did not believe members of the National Democratic Party or toppled
autocrat Hosni Mubarak’s regime would return to parliament.

However, the pope added “We should not generalise and say that
all people were corrupt before the 25 January revolution because
generalisation is wrong.”

Regarding the Maspero clashes and criticism that the Coptic Church
is not following up on the case after three years, Tawadros II said
that it wasn’t wise to raise the matter now, and that the Church was
following the case’s legal progression.

On 9 October 2011, 27 Coptic protesters were killed when a peaceful
march against the destruction of a church in Aswan and the authorities’
subsequent inaction was confronted by the military near the state
radio and television building at Maspero in downtown Cairo.

“The current circumstances in Egypt don’t allow for this matter to be
raised, especially now that the army is wounded, the police are wounded
and the economy is weak,” he said, adding that the Maspero clashes
took place in different time with different government and officials.

“Nevertheless we do not accept the way our children died at Maspero
and we hold an annual memorial mass in our churches for them. At the
same time we should be wise so we don’t waste their rights,” he added.

Tawadros said that though the Armenian genocide took place in 1915 by
the Turkish Ottoman army, until this day Armenians are still demanding
the rights of victims.

“The case and the rights of the victims won’t be forgotten, but how
and when we raise these matters are important,” he said.

Two years ago Tawadros was chosen as the pope of the Egyptian Coptic
Church, succeeding the late Pope Shenouda III.

He said his “hardest moment” so far has been the April 2013 attack on
Abassiya’s Coptic Cathedral, the main Coptic church in the country,
during Morsi’s rule.

He also mentioned the attacks on churches and related buildings across
Egypt following the violent dispersal of two pro-Morsi sit-ins in
Cairo in August 2013.

The pope accused the west of remaining silent.

“The west and the United States used to publish statements if one
single church door in Egypt was torched and so many people think
churches are protected by the US, but this is untrue,” said the pope.

Tawadros also denounced claims from the Brotherhood that he is a “coup
supporter” for backing Morsi’s ouster, asking how the president’s
removal could be a coup if the process was started by the Egyptian
people with protests on 30 June 2013 – and not by the army.

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MIGRANTS MIGHT RETURN TO ARMENIA BECAUSE OF SANCTIONS AGAINST THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION

Vestnik Kavkaza, Russia
Nov 5 2014

5 November 2014 – 8:00pm

The sanctions imposed by Western countries against Russia could lead
to the return of Armenian citizens working there.

“Today we notice a tendency towards a fall in the volume of private
money transfers being sent to Armenia, meaning that a return of labor
migrants to Armenia isn’t excluded,” the chairman of the Union of
Employers of Armenia Gagik Makaryan declared.

According to his estimates, the developing situation will raise the
unemployment rate and poverty in the country.