Protesting Karabakh War Heroes Speak Of Future Plans (Video)

PROTESTING KARABAKH WAR HEROES SPEAK OF FUTURE PLANS (VIDEO)

20:53 ~U 03.10.13

At the Nagorno-Karabakh war heroes’ latest rally in Yerevan, one of the
veterans, Khachik Avetisyan, spoke of the protesting group’s future
plans aimed at the protection of their rights and the reinstatement
of social justice.

“We’ll decide the next step at the next rally when our
companions-in-arms come here with their detachment flags and uniforms
– but without weapons – and force everybody, shoulder to shoulder, to
gather here to solve the ptoblems of our present and future,” he said.

As for the past activities, Avetisyan said they have heard many
interesting and extremely important proposals by intellectuals,
as well as seen success in their work with the youth. Asked about
any plans for meeting representatives of political parties for joint
discussions, the war veteran answered, ” In the present circumstances,
a round table is not even a matter of desire; it’s an absolute must.

This has to be a demand by not only the freedom fighters [war veterans]
but also the nation that has joined the home-guard.”

The former political prisoner Vardan Malkhasyan later delivered a
speech to express his evaluation of the Armenian authorities’ policies.

“Every single day, these [people] desecrate our traditional, national
values; it is now time for us to announce the start of the Armenian
people’s national-liberation struggle. The Artsakh liberation war
has not finished; it continues in a tenfold intriguing manner. Any
Armenian in this struggle has to realize – setting aside ambitions –
that the country’s salvation depends on him or her,” he said. “Our
goal is not just to topple the authorities; the next thing is build
a state and a government which will be called Armenia.”

The veterans’ next rally is due next Thursday.

http://www.tert.am/en/news/2013/10/03/freedomfight/
http://www.tert.am/en/video/UwmvfkJ7JQc/

The Old Terminal In Yerevan Zvartnots Airport

THE OLD TERMINAL IN YEREVAN ZVARTNOTS AIRPORT

As from June 2002, under a 30-year-long concession contract signed
between the Armenian Government and Argentine “Corporacion America”,
Zvartnots International Airport has been handed over to “Armenia”
International Airports” Closed Joint Stock Company.

>From the beginning our main goal and responsibility has been the
security and safety of passengers and flights. In accordance with
those principles, in 2004 the Armenian government approved our new
Master Plan by which a fresh new terminal was to be constructed,
complying with anti-seismic technology, with intelligent heat-light
control systems, and state of the art devices for passengers’ safety.

The new premises were built close to the old building, laid-out in
1982, no longer in use and without appropriate anti-seismic design
and regulatory safety lay-out as currently required.

In 2007 we launched the first terminal; in 2011 the whole new airport
was inaugurated. Strategically located at the crossroads of Europe
and Asia, Zvartnots International Airport has become a regional hub
with capacity to handle over 3 million passengers per year. “Armenia”
International Airports” Closed Joint Stock Company has built a new
departures and arrivals terminal (sterile area) of over 19,000 sqm,
commercial premises, VIP lounges, and remote boarding positions.

As regards the old terminal, it actually presents a very dangerous
structure. “Armenia” International Airports will not allocate resources
for maintaining an obsolete building and will also not bear any
responsibility in case of any accident. We are willing and ready to
continue with the modernization of Zvartnots International Airport
but will not spend resources and time in maintaining a hazardous and
fallen into disuse building that does not fit with modern aeronautical
standards.

“Armenia” International Airports” Closed Joint Stock Company

14:42 03/10/2013 Story from Lragir.am News:

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‘Nune Yesayan’s Concert Probably Healed Sick People’

‘NUNE YESAYAN’S CONCERT PROBABLY HEALED SICK PEOPLE’

‘Hraparak’ daily discussed the recent concert of Nune Yesayan in
Republic Square on the occasion of Armenia’s Independence Day and had
a talk with the deputy of Republican Party of Armenia parliamentary
faction Ms. Ruzanna Muradian.

– 54 million drams was allocated from the state budget for Nune
Yesayan’s concert on Independence Day. Was it reasonable to spend so
much money?

– I think there are values which are worth spending money on… I am
convinced that those expenses were within reasonable limits.

– When will people become the most important value in Armenia so
that as few hungry and sick people as possible could watch the scenes
mentioned by you?

– An ill child will get positive emotions, which will help him
to recover.

– Do you mean that patients will recover after attending such events?

– Why not? Don’t you know that music can heal sick people and that
positive emotions have a healing effect? We suffer from spiritual
hunger today and we should spare no expense to satisfy our spiritual
hunger.

http://www.aysor.am/en/news/2013/10/03/hraparak/

President Sargsyan Introduces New Prosecutor General To Staff

PRESIDENT SARGSYAN INTRODUCES NEW PROSECUTOR GENERAL TO STAFF

15:42 03.10.2013

President Serzh Sargsyan today visited the RA Prosecutor’s Office and
introduced the newly appointed Prosecutor General Gevork Kostanian
to the Board members, President’s Press Office reports.

The President of Armenia congratulated Gevork Kostanian on assuming
this responsible position and wished him every success. Serzh
Sargsyan expressed hope that through his new approaches and work
style, the new Prosecutor General assisted by the employees of the
RA Prosecutor Office will be able to efficiently fulfill all tasks
set before the structure.

The President also expressed thanks to the former Prosecutor General
Aghvan Hovsepian for his years-long work and underlined that Aghvan
Hovsepian has still things to do in our country’s judicial and
legal system.

http://www.armradio.am/en/2013/10/03/president-sargsyan-introduces-new-prosecutor-general-to-staff/

Kamaz-Armenia Center To Open Under CSTO Program

KAMAZ-ARMENIA CENTER TO OPEN UNDER CSTO PROGRAM

Thursday,
October
03

The 11th sitting of the Interstate Commission on Military and Economic
Cooperation (ICMEC) of the member states of the Collective Security
Treaty Organization (CSTO) started in Yerevan today.

The sitting was attended by Secretary of Armenia’s National Security
Council Arthur Baghdasarian, CSTO Secretary General Nikolai Bordyuzha,
as well as delegations of ICMEC national structures from Russia,
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Tajikistan.

In his opening speech, CSTO Secretary General Nikolay Bordyuzha spoke
about the achievements made within the CSTO framework, stressing that
the creation of service centers for repairs of weapons and military
equipment in the territory of CSTO member states will henceforth
become one of the main directions of cooperation.

In his words, taking into account that priority, the opening ceremony
of Kamaz-Armenia service center will be held in Armenia tomorrow. The
center will provide Armenia’s Defense Ministry and security and law
enforcement agencies with necessary technical equipment and also
repair that equipment.

TODAY, 14:49

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Armenia’s Domestic Trade Turnover Rose To 1,333.9 Billion Drams In J

ARMENIA’S DOMESTIC TRADE TURNOVER ROSE TO 1,333.9 BILLION DRAMS IN JANUARY-AUGUST

YEREVAN, October 3. /ARKA/. Armenia’s domestic trade turnover amounted
to a total of 1,333.9 billion drams in January-August, a 2.5% increase
from the same period of the year before, ArmStat reported.

Retail trade only totaled 818.1 billion drams (2.2% increase) and
constituted 61.3% of the overall turnover, according to the report.

Wholesale accounted for 35% of the turnover and amounted to about
466.9 billion drams.

According to the statistics, most part of the retail trade (69.4% or
568bln drams) was shop sale. Consumer goods market trading amounted
to about 51.8bln drams or 6.4%. ($1=405.40drams).-0- – See more at:

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Turquie : Le Projet De Democratisation Annonce Par Erdogan Ne Fait P

TURQUIE : LE PROJET DE DEMOCRATISATION ANNONCE PAR ERDOGAN NE FAIT PAS RECETTE

TURQUIE

(AFP) – Partis d’opposition et mouvement kurde ont fustige mardi
le projet de reformes annonce la veille par le Premier ministre
islamo-conservateur Recep Tayyip Erdogan pour renforcer la democratie
en Turquie, denoncant l’absence de vraies solutions aux problèmes
du pays.

Alors que d’importantes avancees en faveur de la majorite kurde
etaient attendues dans ce paquet de reformes, dans un contexte de
pourparlers de paix entre Ankara et Abdullah Ocalan, le chef emprisonne
des rebelles kurdes du Parti des travailleurs du Kurdistan (PKK),
ces derniers ne cachaient pas mardi leur deception.

“Le paquet de reformes qui a ete annonce demontre que l’AKP (Parti de
la justice et du developpement, au pouvoir) a adopte une politique
de non resolution” de la question kurde, a affirme la direction
du PKK dans un communique cite par l’agence de presse kurde Firat,
porte-voix de la rebellion.

“On comprend avec ces annonces (…) que rien d’autre n’a ete pris
en consideration que la recherche d’un nouveau succès electoral”,
a-t-elle poursuivi.

L’annonce de cette serie de reformes intervient alors que des elections
locales sont prevues en mars 2014, puis une presidentielle en août
et des legislatives en 2015.

Le PKK a entame au printemps un retrait de ses combattants vers le
nord de l’Irak, mais a interrompu ce mouvement debut septembre en
reclamant des mesures concrètes du gouvernement pour la minorite kurde.

Les rebelles revendiquent notamment le droit a un enseignement public
en kurde, une forme d’autonomie pour les regions kurdes de l’est
et du sud-est de la Turquie, une revision de la loi antiterroriste
pour permettre la liberation de milliers de militants kurdes et
l’inscription d’une reference explicite a l’identite kurde dans
la Constitution.

M. Erdogan n’a que partiellement repondu a ces attentes lundi en
annoncant un enseignement en langues maternelles dans les seuls
etablissements prives et des mesures d’ordre symbolique comme la
possibilite pour des localites kurdes debaptisees après le coup d’Etat
de 1980 de reprendre leur nom kurde.

Les reformes n’ont pas d’avantage convaincu les principaux partis
d’opposition.

“Le gouvernement a deserte face aux principaux problèmes de ce pays
et nous a presente ces reformes pour echapper aux pressions de la
societe”, a accuse Kemal Kilicdaroglu, le chef du principal parti
d’opposition, le Parti republicain du peuple (CHP, social-democrate).

“Contre-attaque”

Le chef du CHP n’a pas en revanche commente la reforme la plus concrète
du “paquet de democratisation” : la fin de l’interdiction du voile
islamique dans la fonction publique, a l’exception de la police,
de l’armee et de la justice.

Tout au plus a-t-il denonce une mainmise de l’AKP sur l’Etat et
son autoritarisme. “Ils considèrent la moindre objection comme une
resistance a l’Etat”, a-t-il commente, “le principal obstacle a la
progression de la democratie en Turquie est l’AKP lui-meme”.

Depuis son arrivee au pouvoir en 2002, l’AKP a fait de la levee de
l’interdiction dans la fonction publique du foulard islamique, un
symbole de la Turquie musulmane mais laïque voulue par le fondateur de
la Republique Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, l’un de ses chevaux de bataille.

Le chef du Parti de l’action nationaliste (MHP, nationaliste),
Devlet Bahceli, a pour sa part denonce l’absence de consultation qui
a entoure la preparation de ce projet.

“Le peuple turc est absent de ce paquet, ses attentes n’y sont pas. La
volonte du Parlement n’y est pas”, a-t-il declare.

Pour nombre de commentateurs, les annonces du Premier ministre visent
d’abord a rehabiliter son image, ecornee par la repression de la
vague de contestation qui a agite la Turquie en juin.

Pendant près d’un mois, des dizaines de milliers de manifestants ont
defile dans les grandes villes de Turquie, surtout Istanbul, Ankara
et Izmir (ouest) en accusant M. Erdogan de derive autoritaire et de
vouloir “islamiser” la societe turque.

“Le +paquet democratique+ peut ainsi etre considere comme la
contre-attaque du gouvernement”, a declare a l’AFP Sinan Ulgen, expert
a la fondation Carnegie Europe a Bruxelles. “Il serait naïf d’attendre
que la democratie emerge de ce +paquet+” après les manifestations de
juin, a juge pour sa part le quotidien liberal Radikal.

jeudi 3 octobre 2013, Stephane ©armenews.com

Anna Astvatsaturian Turcotte Awarded Armenia’s ‘Mkhitar Gosh’ Medal

ANNA ASTVATSATURIAN TURCOTTE AWARDED ARMENIA’S ‘MKHITAR GOSH’ MEDAL

Anna Astvatsaturian Turcotte

YEREVAN-On the occasion of the 22nd anniversary of the declaration
of the independence of the Republic of Armenia, President Serzh
Sarkissian signed a decree dated September 16, awarding Anna
Astvatsaturian-Turcotte the “Mkhitar Gosh” medal for her services
aiming at strengthening relations between Armenia and the Diaspora
as well as her contributions to maintain Armenian identity.

The Mkhitar Gosh Medal rewards exceptional achievements in the
political-social spheres, as well as outstanding efforts in the fields
of diplomacy, law and political science.

In 1988, Anna was a ten year-old girl living in the city of Baku. But
her life was swept away as the majority Azeri population drove the
Armenians out of the country using terror and violence. Her family was
forced to flee for their lives to Armenia, which was still reeling
from the massive earthquake of 1986 and an economic and political
blockade imposed on it by its neighbors, and was unprepared for the
hundreds of thousands of refugees fleeing Azeri-orchestrated pogroms.

In Armenia, the Astvatsaturians faced harsh conditions living in an
unheated basement until 1992, when the family moved to the United
States. During these years Anna kept a diary that she published in
June 2012 in a book titled Nowhere, a Story of Exile. In 2013, Anna
Astvatsaturian-Turcotte played an important role in the official
recognition of the Nagorno Karabagh Republic by the US State of Maine.

Electronic or print copies of Anna Astvatsaturian Turcotte’s
book Nowhere, a Story of Silence can be obtained by writing
[email protected] or through Amazon.com.

http://asbarez.com/114580/anna-astvatsaturian-turcotte-awarded-armenia%E2%80%99s-%E2%80%98mkhitar-gosh%E2%80%99-medal/

CSTO Defense Cooperation Program To Be Discussed In Yerevan On Octob

CSTO DEFENSE COOPERATION PROGRAM TO BE DISCUSSED IN YEREVAN ON OCTOBER 3

YEREVAN, October 2. /ARKA/. The eleventh session of the Collective
Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) intergovernmental commission for
military and economic cooperation will be held in Yerevan on October 3,
the press office of Armenian ministry of economy reported.

OSCE defense program for up to 2015, as well as a number of agreements
and other documents will be discussed at the meeting.

CSTO Secretary General Nikolay Bordiuja and Secretary of Armenia’s
Security Council Artur Baghdasaryan are expected to take the floor
at the meeting. Delegations from Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan,
Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan have arrived in Armenia to participate in
the meeting.-0-

13:22 02.10.2013

http://arka.am/en/news/politics/csto_defense_cooperation_program_to_be_discussed_in_yerevan_on_october_3/

BAKU: Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict To Be Discussed At Caspian Forum In

NAGORNO-KARABAKH CONFLICT TO BE DISCUSSED AT CASPIAN FORUM IN TURKEY

Trend, Azerbaijan
Oct 2 2013

Turkey, Ankara, October 2 /Trend, E. Huseynov/

The Nagorno-Karabakh conflict will be discussed during the upcoming
international conferences of the Caspian Forum held by the Caspian
Strategy Institute (HASEN), the Secretary General of HASEN Haldun
Yavash said on Wednesday during a meeting with Azerbaijani journalists
in Istanbul.

According to him, HASEN has already held the Caspian Forum in
Istanbul, as well as in New York in late September during which the
presentation of large economic regional projects such as the “Southern
gas corridor”, TANAP and TAP were given to important officials.

The Institute’s plans include similar forums in Brussels, Moscow,
Baku, as well as again in New York and Istanbul,” he stressed.

According to the Secretary General of HASEN, the Nagorno-Karabakh
conflict will be brought up during discussion of regional security
issues.

“We are presenting large economic projects initiated by Azerbaijan
from all angles. Their implementation will lead to the strengthening
of Azerbaijan’s positions in the international arena. And this will
eventually contribute to the just solution of the Nagorno-Karabakh
conflict,” Yavash said.

The conflict between the two South Caucasus countries began in 1988
when Armenia made territorial claims against Azerbaijan. Armenian
armed forces have occupied 20 per cent of Azerbaijan since 1992,
including the Nagorno-Karabakh region and seven surrounding districts.

Azerbaijan and Armenia 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 Nagorno-Karabakh and the surrounding
regions.