Author: Kanayan Tamar

International Friendly: Algeria 3 Armenia 1

22:07 31.05.2014

The Armenian national team lost 1-3 to Algeria in a friendly held in
Syon, Switzerland.

All of Algeria’s goals came in the first half, defender Essaid
Belkalem putting them in front early with a scrappy close-range
finish.

Nabil Ghilas then doubled the advantage before Islam Slimani
effectively made sure of victory with Algeria’s third.

Armenia, 33rd in the FIFA rankings compared to Algeria’s 25, pulled
one back within a minute of the re-start when halftime substitute
Artur Sarkisov burst clear and beat Mohamed Lamine Zemmamouche with a
low shot.

Armenian National Committee of Canada
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Minister Jason Kenney joined MP Harold Albrecht and Members of Canada’s
Armenian Community to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the passage of
Motion M-380 as well as the founding of the First Armenian Republic

On May 27, 2014 Minister Kenney was pleased to join his colleague Harold
Albrecht, Member of Parliament for Kitchener-Conestoga and Chair of the
Canada-Armenia Parliamentary Friendship Group in welcoming members of
Canada’s Armenian Community to Parliament Hill to commemorate two important
anniversaries:

– The 10th anniversary of the passage of parliamentary motion M-380,
which recognized the tragic events of 1915 as a Genocide and a crime
against humanity; and

– The 96th anniversary of the establishment of the First Republic of
Armenia.

MP Harold Albrecht delivered a statement in the House of Commons
acknowledging these two significant anniversaries, and acknowledging
the significant contributions that Armenian Canadians have made to the
building of our country. For video of MP Albrecht’s statement, please
click here:

In the evening, the Armenian National Committee of Canada (ANCC) hosted a
reception for Parliamentarians, where the Minister had the opportunity to
speak with Archbishop Meghrig Parikian, Dr. Girair Basmadjian, President of
the Armenian National Committee of Canada, and many other members of the
Armenian Community. He was also honoured to receive a commemorative
certificate thanking him for his personal support of M-380 in 2004.

Photos:

Le Ministre Jason Kenney s’est joint au député Harold Albrecht et des
membres de la communauté arménienne du Canada pour commémorer le 10e
anniversaire de l’adoption de la motion M-380, ainsi que la fondation de la
Première République d’Arménie

Le 27 mai 2014, le Ministre Kenney a eu le plaisir de se joindre à son
collègue Harold Albrecht, député de Kitchener-Conestoga et Président du
Groupe d’amitié parlementaire Canada-Arménie pour accueillir des membres de
la communauté arménienne du Canada sur la Colline du Parlement pour
célébrer deux anniversaires importants :

– Le 10e anniversaire de l’adoption de la motion parlementaire M-380, qui
a reconnu les tragiques événements de 1915 comme un génocide et un crime
contre l’humanité; et

– Le 96e anniversaire de la création de la Première République d’Arménie.

Le député Harold Albrecht a fait une déclaration à la Chambre des communes
reconnaissant ces deux anniversaires importants et reconnaissant les
contributions importantes que les Canadiens arméniens ont apportées à la
construction de notre pays. Pour la vidéo de la déclaration du député
Albrecht, s’il vous plaît cliquez ici :

Dans la soirée, le Comité National Arménien du Canada (CNAC) a organisé une
réception pour les parlementaires, où le ministre a eu l’occasion de parler
avec l’archevêque Meghrig Parikian, le Dr Girair Basmadjian, le Président
du Comité National Arménien du Canada, et de nombreux autres membres de la
communauté arménienne. Il a également été honoré de recevoir un certificat
commémoratif pour le remercier de son soutien personnel de M-380 en 2004.

Photos:

1. L’archevêque Meghrig Parikian et l’Hon. Jason Kenney, Ministre de
l’Emploi et du Développement social et Ministre responsable du
Multiculturalisme, avec un certificat commémorant le 10e anniversaire de
la motion M-380. / Archbishop Meghrig Parikian and the Hon. Jason
Kenney, Minster of Employment & Social Development & Minister for
Multiculturalism, with a certificate commemorating the 10th Anniversary
of motion M-380.

2. Le député Harold Albrecht et le Dr Girair Basmadjian, président du
Comité National Arménien du Canada. / MP Harold Albrecht and Dr. Girair
Basmadjian, President of the Armenian National Committee of Canada.

3. Le Ministre Kenney et le député Harold Albrecht avec des
membres du CNAC. / Minister Kenney and MP Harold Albrecht with members
of the ANCC.

4. Archbishop Meghrig Parikian, le Ministre Kenney, le député Harold
Albrecht et des membres de la communauté arménienne. / Archbishop Meghrig
Parikian, Minister Kenney, MP Harold Albrecht, and members of the Armenian
Community.

5. Le Sénateur Leo Housakos, le député Harold Albrecht, l’archevêque
Meghrig Parikian, le Ministre Kenney et des membres de la communauté
arménienne. / Senator Leo Housakos, MP Harold Albrecht, Archbishop
Meghrig Parikian, Minister Kenney and members of the Armenian Community

Pour obtenir des exemplaires individuels de ces photos, s’il vous plait
écrivez un courriel à [email protected]
To request high resolution copies of these photographs please e-mail
[email protected]

As always, I invite you to share this with your friends and family.
Sincerely, Hon. Jason Kenney, PC, MP
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President Hollande has made concrete proposal to the sides: Ambassador

16:12 31.05.2014

The main purpose of the OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs’ visit to Baku is
to introduce the newly-appointed French Co-Chair Pierre Andrieux to
the President of Azerbaijan, said the French Ambassador to Azerbaijan
Pascal Meunier, APA reports.

Meunier added that concrete steps should be taken to reach the
peaceful settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict after 20-year
ceasefire. He said “peace between Azerbaijan and Armenia will have a
positive effect on stability in the region.”

“President François Hollande has said he’s ready to receive the
presidents of Azerbaijan and Armenia together with the co-chairs in
France. And the presidents just need to accept this proposal. Hollande
has made concrete proposal to the sides to achieve peace, and
presidents may discuss these proposals in France,” the Ambassador
said.

Touching upon the recent ceasefire violations on the front line, the
diplomat said he is seriously concerned about what’s going on. “We
remain loyal to the acquisition of peace between Azerbaijan and
Armenia, and are trying to create grounds for the two countries to
live in peace, not war.”

The Minsk Group Co-Chairs met with Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev today.

Lacking major natural resources Armenia should focus on IT industry,
Ripple Labs Inc.

YEREVAN, May 31. / ARKA /. Lacking major natural resources Armenia
should place focus on information technology development, Stefan
Thomas from Ripple Labs Inc., told ARKA. Stefan

Thomas has been invited to participate in the sixth “BarCamp Yerevan-
2014” informal gathering.

In this context, he highlighted the importance of events like
BarCamps, which represent the potential of Armenia’s IT industry. He
also praised the organizers of this event saying the participating
young people are well informed.

About two thousand IT specialists, including programmers, bloggers,
online journalists, have gathered in Yerevan for the event.

Armenia’s information technology industry has been growing 20 percent
on average over the last years. Some 380 IT firms are said to employ
over 10,000 mostly well-paid engineers and other specialists. Of them
159 are foreign-owned or act as representative offices of large
international companies.

The IT industry accounts today for 3.8 percent of the national GDP.
According to an IT development strategy, its turnover is to surge to
$1 billion by 2018.

BarCamp is a series of events initiated first in the U.S. Silicon
Valley in 2005. BarCamp events focuse on information technology,
global network and media. It is often called an unofficial meeting
with a series of informal presentations and reports.

The participants place various issues on the agenda and jot down the
topics of their reports and their schedules on a blackboard. The first
post-Soviet state to organize a BarCamp was Ukraine in 2007.

In February 2008, BarCamp Baltics took place in Riga, followed by
BarCamp Caucasus in Tbilisi in June 2008. The first BarCamp Yerevan
took place in 2009 April. -0-

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ARMENIE
La dissidence silencieuse : les partis non-gouvernementaux
s’abstiennent de voter sur le plan du RPA

Le Parti républicain d’Arménie devra procéder à son plan de
gouvernement seul et prendre la responsabilité en cas d’erreurs, parce
que les quatre partis non-gouvernementaux ainsi que le parti Orinats
Yerkir, ont refusé d’y participer.

> a déclaré
l’analyste politique Armen Badalyan à ArmeniaNow.

Les partis d’opposition – Arménie Prospère, Héritage, la Fédération
Révolutionnaire Arménienne, l’ANC – et le parti OrinatsYerkir, qui a
récemment rejoint les rangs politiques des partis hors gouvernement,
n’ont pas participé au vote sur le plan lors de la session de
l’Assemblée nationale.

Le porte-parole du RPA Eduard Sharmazanov a déclaré aux journalistes
que le RPA ne pouvait pas obliger ou inciter les partis non
gouvernementaux à voter pour leur projet > ajoute Badalyan.

samedi 31 mai 2014,
Stéphane (c)armenews.com

168 Hours: Why Serzh Sargsyan didn’t respond to Nazarbayev?

Saturday, May 31, 2014

“Various officials have already made numerous comments on your
questions,” Armenian president’s spokesman Arman Saghatelyan said in
response to the written questions of ‘168 Hours’ paper.

The paper asked him why during the Astana meeting of Supreme Eurasian
Economic Council Serzh Sargsyan did not react, or to be more precise,
did not respond to Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev’s remark and
his quotes from Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev’s letter and if
Nazarbayev’s statement came as a surprise to Serzh Sargsyan.

In response to the paper’s another question “If the member states of
the Customs Union/Eurasian Economic Union (EaEU) – Russia, Belarus and
Kazakhstan continue to insist on Nazarbayev’s condition, is Armenia
ready to join EaEU on such conditions”, Arman Saghatelyan wrote: “As
for other questions related to Armenia’s accession to Eurasian
Economic Union, I want to inform you that President Serzh Sargsyan
will soon have an occasion to address them”.

TODAY, 10:59
Aysor.am

HRAPARAK: UKRAINIAN AMBASSADOR TO RETURN TO ARMENIA SOON

10:20 30/05/2014 ” DAILY PRESS

The Ukrainian Ambassador to Armenia will return to Armenia soon to
continue his diplomatic mission, Andranik Manukyan told Hraparak. He
added that he has no plans to become Ambassador to Russia.

Citing sources in the Foreign Ministry, Hraparak notes that Serzh
Sargsyan is inclined to appoint Deputy Foreign Minister Shavarsh
Kocharyan as Ambassador of Armenia to Russia.

Source: Panorama.am

AZERBAIJANI ARMED FORCES CONDUCT LARGE-SCALE EXERCISES IN FRONT ZONE

Trend, Azerbaijan
May 28 2014

Baku, Azerbaijan, May 28

By Ilkin Izzet – Trend:

The units of the Azerbaijani Armed Forces led by Minister of Defense,
Colonel-General Zakir Hasanov are holding military exercises in the
front zone, the Azerbaijani defense ministry said on May 28. The
exercises are conducted in accordance with the combat training
plan-2014.

The practical firearm and armored vehicle, mortar and rocket-artillery
shooting, using modern methods of warfare was demonstrated during
the exercises. The military aviation and air defense system were
also observed.

The combat training level of military units was tested during the
exercises. Special attention was paid to the rapid and effective
implementation of the tasks, preparing the staffs’ operations, mutual
coordination of actions and a task performance level.

The conflict between two South Caucasus countries began in 1988 when
Armenia made territorial claims against Azerbaijan. As a result of
the ensuing war, in 1992 Armenian armed forces occupied 20 percent
of Azerbaijan, including the Nagorno-Karabakh region and seven
surrounding districts.

The two countries signed a ceasefire agreement in 1994. The co-chairs
of the OSCE Minsk Group, Russia, France and the U.S. are currently
holding peace negotiations.

Armenia has not yet implemented the U.N. Security Council’s four
resolutions on the liberation of the Nagorno-Karabakh and the
surrounding regions.

edited by CN

UAE GO DOWN FIGHTING TO ARMENIA IN FRIENDLY

Khaleej Times, UAE
May 29 2014

Hisham Al Gizouli / 29 May 2014

Emirati team put up valiant performance in seven-goal thriller.

UAE’s Ahmed Khalil vies for the ball with an Armenian player during
their friendly match on Tuesday. — Supplied photo

Armenia earned a narrow 4-3 victory over UAE senior football national
team in a friendly at the Stade de La Fontenette Carouge in Switzerland
on Tuesday night.

The clash is the first of nine warm ups for the squad ahead of the
22nd Gulf Cup (Khaliji 22) scheduled in Riyadh, KSA in November and
the AFC Asian Cup finals Australia 2015 early next year.

Ismail Ahmed (40), Omer Abdul Rahman (51) and Muhanad Al Enazi (85)
struck for the UAE as Levon Hayrapetyan (38), Henrikh Mkhitaryan (42,
67) and Rumyan Hovsepyan scored for the European side.

Ali Mabkhout squandered the first scoring opportunity for the UAE in
the second minute from the fast start after the Al Jazira international
made a major breakthrough, but the ‘keeper blocked his move into a
corner. Towards the 8th minute, the Armenian defenders cleared two
attempts by Omer Abdul Rahman and Ismail Al Hammadi. Ali Mabkhout tried
his luck with a long range shot, but his effort went few inches past
the left pole. At this stage, the Armenians managed to redeploy their
squad and began to pose a real threat against the UAE ‘keeper Khalid
Essa thanks to the helpful assistance of Henrikh Mkhitaryan. However,
the European’s hard work paid dividends and Levon broke the deadlock
in the 38th minute of the first half with a fast counterattack.

The UAE head coach Mahdi Ali was forced to pull out injured libro
Hamdan Al Kamali and send in Muhanad Al Enazi after the Whites were
0-1 down to Armenia. One minute later, Al Ain’s international defender
Ismail Ahmed headed home the Omer Abdul Rahman’s perfect croner kick
to level for the UAE with three minutes remaining from the end of
the first period. But, Mkhitaryan spoiled the party with a lovely
rebound to end the first half ahead.

On resumption the two sides managed to play total football to the
delight of the few fans. Mahdi Ali sent in Essa Ahmed to replace Abdul
Aziz Haikal to stop the endless trouble caused on the right flank.

Once again, the UAE lads battled back and Omer Abdul Rahman fired
home the equaliser in the 51st minute thanks to a spoon-fed through
from Ali Mabkhout.

Thereafter, Mohammed Abdul Rahman and Mohammed Ahmed substituted
Ismail Al Hammadi and Ismail Ahmed. And while the Whites began to
set their pace, Mkhitaryan came again with a strong run to beat UAE
defenders and keeper and make it 3-2 for Armenia in the 67th minute
before Rumyan has headed home the fourth goal.

The UAE boys struggled hard to reduce the deficit and Mahdi Ali pulled
out Ahmed Khalil and replaced him with Salem Saleh as Ali Salmin took
the place of Khamis Ismail. Towards the 85th minute, Al Enazi made it
3-4 with a lovely header, but all their efforts to level the result
were in vain until the final whistle.

Meanwhile, this was the first defeat for the UAE since September 2012
when they were defeated 0-1 by Japan in the first test for Mahdi Ali
after taking over the senior national team. Ali led the boys in white
to 20 wins in official and friendly starts plus two draws and three
defeats. Korea beat UAE 1-0 in their China’s tour in preparation for
the AFC Asian Cup Qualifiers, but the match was not played on the
Fifa days.

Salem Al Enazi scored for the first time for the UAE against Armenia
and Ali Salmin made his international debut as substitute for Khamis
Ismail in the second half.

SERZH SARGSYAN: ARMENIA IS READY TO JOIN TO AGREEMENT ON FORMING OF EURASIAN ECONOMIC UNION TILL JUNE 15

24.kg, Kyrgyzstan
May 29 2014

29/05/14 12:44, Astana – 24.kg news agency, by Julia KOSTENKO

“Armenia is ready to join the agreement on forming of the Eurasian
Economic Union till June 15,” the President of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan
said today at the session of the Supreme Eurasian Economic Council.

According to him, the draft document is ready. “We ask to set a date
for the signing of the Treaty of Accession of the Republic of Armenia
to the Agreement on the Eurasian Economic Union till June 15. For
two or three days one can find mutually acceptable solutions on left
issues,” he said.

Recall, the members of the Customs Union approved the Roadmap for
Armenia’s accession to the union at the end of December 2013.