Author: Kanayan Tamar

Heritage Party Vice Chairman refrains from making detailed comment on
Raffi Hovannisian’s meeting with Gagik Tsarukyan

by Nana Martirosyan

ARMINFO
Saturday, March 15, 11:35

Heritage Party Vice Chairman Armen Martirosyan refrains from making
detailed comment on Heritage Paryt Leader Raffi Hovannisian’s meeting
with Gagik Tsarukyan, Leader of Prosperous Armenia Party, as
discussions on many issues are continued so far.

The two party leaders met on 14 March to discuss the political
situation in Armenia and the way to make changes in the country
through consolidation of broad layers of the population and political
forces. The sides agreed to continue the consultations.

Talking to ArmInfo, Martirosyan said that Hovannisian and Tsarukyan
agreed on a range of issues and faced no intractable disagreements.

“Both the sides realize that to find a solution to the current heavy
social, economic and political situation, we need consolidation of the
political forces and the civil society,” he said. The politician could
not say if the political forces will refuse from their ambitions to
achieve a full consensus. “Anyway, all the parties have already
realized that to save Armenia they must combine efforts. They are
determined to work constructively,” he said.

The 4 non-coalition parliamentary forces are holding debates to form a
single political agenda and conduct a vote of no confidence to the
Armenian Government. On March 11 Gagik Tsarukyan met with ANC
representatives. Earlier, he met with members of ARFD. Such meetings
of the four parties are continuous.

Leonid Yengibarov would be 79 today

13:03 15/03/2014 >> SOCIETY

March 15 is the birthday of famous Armenian clown and actor Leonid
Yengibarov. He would have turned 79 today.

Leonid Yengibarov was born in Moscow to an Armenian father and a
Russian mother. He started his career as a boxer. In 1955, he joined
the State School of Circus Art, Clownship department. After graduation
in 1959, he moved to Yerevan and joined the Armenian state circus.

He was one of the first Soviet clowns to create the poetic,
intellectual clownery, which made spectators think, not only laugh.
After initial incomprehension, his popularity grew immensely. After
that, he was invited to work in cinema. His first film, A Path to the
Arena, was in fact about himself.

By the end of the 1960s, he was known as one of the best clowns in the
country and in the countries of the Eastern bloc, where he was
permitted to travel. His circus career came to a halt in 1971: he left
the State Circus when his partner was banned from international
touring. He created a Pantomime Theatre instead. However, officially
he was forbidden to call his company “theatre,” only allowed to use
the term “troupe.” He managed to stage only a single piece, “Star
Rain,” before his untimely death.

Source: Panorama.am

Jews turned tragedy into culture, unlike Armenians – Armenian literary
critic on Genocide

14:26 * 15.03.14

The Jewish nation’s success in the Holocaust recognition efforts was
due to its talent of turning the tragedy into culture, a literary
critic has said, expressing regret that the Armenians did follow suit.

“The Jews had a success because they made culture and art the basic
tool of propaganda. They gained thanks to turning that experience into
culture. But ours [Genocide recognition attempts] remained limited to
wails,” Arkmenik Nikoghosyan told reporters on Saturday.

He said one literary work devoted to the topic has now been translated
into dofferent languages and submitted for an international contest.

“If a piece [of literature] is honored with a prize, it will attract a
public attention. We will thus facilitate the recognition process.
Hence, literature can be really useful. Instead of translating foreign
writers’ works, we must have our well-known samples translated into
different languages and later spread them. We know all about this now,
so it is necessary to introduce them to the public,” Nikoghosyan
added.

Istanbul to Host Conference on Armenian Genocide

By MassisPost
Updated: March 14, 2014

ISTANBUL ‘ A Turkish civic group composed of journalists, lawyers and
human rights activists is going to hold a conference devoted to the
100th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide.

The event, entitled `One Minute to 2015′, is set to take place on
March 16 in Istanbul. The organizers invite all interested sides to
join their initiative.

Mehmet Gojekli, the editor of the Turkish website Demokrat Haber, has
called on the Turkish nation to look into its past ahead of the tragic
anniversary.

The group says that the state has already started preparing for the
Genocide centennial. `If they are preparing [for the anniversary], we
too are preparing to speak the truth and confront our past,’ Gokceli
said, adding that the topic is too important to be trusted to the
government.

He said it is the duty of any person residing in Turkey’s territory
ask himself or herself, what happened in 1915?.

`One hundred years ago, half of Hakkari’s population was Assyrian,
with half of those residing in Van being Armenians. Where did those
people go and why? Is it of no interest to you?’ he said, calling for
efforts to prevent tragedies in future.

The conference will be held at Ismail Besikçi Foundation building in
Beyoglu. The first session is titled `Women Face of 1915³, authors
Gavrilof Kayus Caliman, Takuhi Tovmasian and Gülçiçek Günel are the
speakers. This session will be moderated by journalist Müjgan Halis.

The second session of the Conference is titled, `1915 Genocide Law’.
The moderator of the session is attorney Eren Keskin. In this session
the speakers are attorney Erdal Dogan, attorney Ercan Kanar, Rita
Ender and attorney Ramazan Demir.

The third session of the Conference is titles `Armenian Genocide and
the Media’. In this session moderated by Cafer Solgun, the speakers
are Ergun Babahan, Serdar Ranger, Pakrat Estukian of Agos, Sedat
Yilmaz, Mehmet Göcekl.

ARMENIE
Le projet d’un chemin de fer vers le Sud dépend de la position de l’Iran

Joseph Borkowski, le président de la société Rasia FZE Investment
Company basée à Dubai qui s’est vu accordé en 2012 une concession de
50 ans par le gouvernement arménien pour construire et gérer le chemin
de fer de 305 kilomètres de l’Arménie vers l’Iran nommé le chemin de
fer du Sud Arménien (SAR) a déclaré que la mise en oeuvre de ce projet
dépend en grande partie sur la position de l’Iran.

Joseph Borkowski a rencontré à Erevan le Premier ministre arménien
Tigran Sarkissian afin de présenter les résultats définitifs d’une
étude de faisabilité du projet dont le coût estimatif est d’environ
3,2 milliards de dollars.

S’exprimant lors d’une conférence de presse Borkowski a dit qu’il y a
un projet concurrent – un chemin de fer qui peut être construit à
partir de la ville iranienne de Kazvin vers la ville azérie d’Astara.

ARMENIE
Erevan accuse Bakou de nouveau de fausser

LITTERATURE ARMENIENNE
Une plaque à l’entrée du domicile de l’écrivain Raffi à Tbilissi

A l’initiative de l’Ambassade d’Arménie en Géorgie, en coopération
avec la ville de Tbilissi, le 13 mars fut déposée devant l’entrée du
domicile de l’écrivain arménien Raffi (Hagop Mélik-Hagopian,
1835-1888), au numéro 3 de la rue Djonkadzé dans le quartier Sololag
-ou il vécut les huit dernières années de sa vie-, une plaque
rappelant le souvenir de Raffi. Dans son discours, Hovhannés
Manoukian, l’Ambassadeur d’Arménie à Tbilissi a rappelé >. Il a
également insisté sur l’importance de l’oeuvre de Raffi sur l’éducation
patriotique de générations de jeunes lecteurs qui firent la popularité
de l’auteur tant en Arménie qu’en Géorgie où il a habité durant de
nombreuses années. Le représentant de la ville de Tbilissi, Mamouka
Katsarava, le président de l’Union des écrivains de Géorgie Makvala
Konashvilli, le président de l’Union des Arméniens de Tbilissi Mikhaïl
Tatevos et la traductrice Anahit Bostandjian ont également salué dans
leurs discours, l’importance de l’oeuvre de Raffi. Etaient présents
parmi les invités, Rouslan Boghossian député au Parlement géorgien, le
représentant de l’Eglise apostolique arménienne de Géorgie, le père
Narég Ghouchian, le rédacteur en chef du journal arménien de Géorgie,
> Van Baïbourt ainsi que des personnalités du monde de la
culture et de la société civile.

Krikor Amirzayan

samedi 15 mars 2014,
Krikor Amirzayan (c)armenews.com

ARMENIE
Monastères arméniens en péril

Le monastère Saint Grégoire de Bardzrakash dans la localité de Dsegh,
en Arménie figure au nombre des 11 monuments et sites nominés au
programme 2014 des “7 chefs-oeuvres en péril” de l’organisation
européenne majeure de défense du patrimoine, Europa Nostra, soutenue
financièrement par la Banque européenne d’investissement.

Ce complexe monastique, dédié à Saint Grégoire l’illuminateur,
l’évangélisateur de l’Arménie, et le premier prélat de l’Eglise
autocéphale arménienne, a été construit entre les 10e et 13e siècles.
Situé aux abords du village de Dsegh – où naquit le célèbre écrivain
arménien Hovhannes Toumanian et qui a inspire de nombreux écrivains et
artistes – au fond d’une gorge verdoyante, cet édifice de grosses
pierres volcaniques a l’aspect d’une ruine ; les façades, qui ne sont
plus protégées par la toiture et la coupole, effondrées depuis fort
longtemps, sont rongées par la végétation qui menacent de les faire
s’effondrer à leur tour.

La réhabilitation de ce monument médiéval d’un grand intérêt
architectural permettrait aussi d’encourager le tourisme dans Dsegh,
situé dans un cadre naturel d’une grande beauté, et de doper
l’économie locale. Pourtant, une telle initiative ne saurait se passer
d’une expertise et d’un soutien internationaux.

Le ministère arménien de la culture a nominé le monument pour qu’il
figure au programme des “7 chefs d’oeuvre les plus en péril”. Cette
année, des groupes civiques ainsi que des organismes publics de toute
l’ Europe avaient proposé les sites à monuments dignes selon eux de
bénéficier de ce programme.

En tout onze sites ont été retenus par une commission international
compose de spécialistes de l’histoire, de l’archéologie, de
l’architecture, de la restauration et des finances. La liste finale
des 7 sites sera décidée par le conseil d’administration de Europa
Nostra.

“Les 7 chefs-d’oeuvre les plus en péril” pour 2014 seront révélés au
public lors d’une conférence de presse le 5 Mai à la Maison de
l’Europe de Vienne par de hauts responsables de Europa Nostra ainsi
que de l’Institut de la Banque européenne d’investissement.

samedi 15 mars 2014,
Gari (c)armenews.com

PAP was directed by Serzh Sargsyan – Armenia opposition member

March 15, 2014 | 11:02

YEREVAN. – The Prosperous Armenia Party was directed by, and continues
to be dependent on, Serzh Sargsyan.

Karabakh War veteran, opposition Pre-Parliament initiative member
Jirair Sefilian wrote the aforesaid on his Facebook account.

“There is a widespread belief that Prosperous Armenia is a Russian
project, but I am convinced that this is not so. Prosperous Armenia
was directed by, and continues to be dependent on, the person who
today occupies the seat of the president [of Armenia], [that is,]
Serzh Sargsyan, at present. I believe he succeeded in playing on two
wires–both the West and Kremlin–for long years.

“[But] not pinning any hope on these processes, our people will have
to realize that the way out of the situation is forming a parallel
authority outside the current system, [and] by way of
self-organization,” Sefilian wrote, in particular.

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His Holiness Aram I meets young artists from Artzakh (Karabagh)

Antelias – 10 March 2014. On Monday, a group of young artists from
Artzakh, accompanied by the Vice-Minister for Culture and Youth and
representatives of the Lebanon Artzakh fund, met with His Holiness Aram I.
The group had come to take part in the programme of the Artzakh Cultural
Week organized by the Fund in Lebanon.

After a short concert of music, songs and poetry, His Holiness expressed
his joy at their presentation and praised them as talented ambassadors
communicating the hopes and dreams of the people of Artzakh. The Catholicos
then urged all Armenians to contribute towards the sustainable development
of the young republic.

The Minister of Public Health of Lebanon, Wael Abou Faour, meets with His
Holiness Aram I

Antelias – On Thursday 13 March 2014, His Holiness Aram I received
Minister Abou Faour, accompanied by Hagop Pakradouni Member of Parliament
and Ziad Chaya, Director of the Office of the Ministry.

After discussing the situation in Lebanon, particularly the difficulties
of the newly appointed government, Catholicos Aram I asked the minister,
within the framework of governmental subsidies, to pay special attention to
the Azounieh Hospital, the Elderly Home and all other social institutions
belonging to the community.

At the end of the meeting, Minister Faour thanked the Catholicos for the
constructive conversation and promised to respond positively to his request.

Celebrating 2014, Year of the Elderly, one hundred elderly women and men
invited guests for lunch with His Holiness Aram

Antelias – 14 March 2014. On the occasion of 2014, the Year of the
Elderly, instituted by Catholicos Aram I, one hundred elderly people visited
Antelias. They first attended the Lenten Sunrise service (Arevakal) at St.
Gregory the Illuminator Cathedral and then met with His Holiness Aram I.
After welcoming them, His Holiness said, “After the tragic Genocide one
hundred years ago, by virtue of your determination to live, your deep faith
and hard work, you set the foundation for our survival and resurrection as a
nation. We shall not forget your hardship and sacrifice. By celebrating 2014
as the Year of the Elderly, we pay honor and respect to your generation;
because of you we are here today.”

The guests visited the library, the museum and the offices of the
Catholicosate, where they were introduced to the spirituality, the mission
and the vocation of the Catholiosate.
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