Author: Kanayan Tamar

ARMENIA EXPANDS TEA EXPORT

20:58, 15 August, 2013

YEREVAN, AUGUST 15, ARMENPRESS: The tea export from Armenia has
increased 12 times in the first six months of 2013 compared to the
same period of the previous year. The coffee export for the same
period has decreased by 20 percent. According to data of State Revenue
Committee during first six months of 2013 from Armenia was exported
515.7 tones of coffee (a638.8 tones in 2012) and 1703,3 kg tea (137.3
kg in 2012). “Armenpress” reports that coffee exported from Armenia
was bought by Russia (255 tones), Georgia (258 tones) and Spain (200
tones). The main buyers of tea from exported from Armenia are again
Georgia (462 kg) and Russia (1200kg).

During 2012 from Armenia was exported 1346.1 tones of coffee compared
with 1437 tones in 2011 and tea export volume was 4.1 tones in 2012
(8.1 tones in 2011).

YEREVAN STATE CIRCUS WILL GIVE CHARITY CONCERTS IN LORI PROVINCE

YEREVAN, August 15. / ARKA /. The Yerevan State Circus will perform
charity concerts in the northern province of Lori , its director, Sos
Petrosyan, told ARKA. He said during the five-day tour of the region
the circus will perform for military units and local rural population.

He said the troupe had already given charity concerts in June and July
in Tavush region of Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh.

The building of Yerevan Circus was demolished in September 2012 to
build in its lieu a modern complex in accordance with international
standards. The new building will have more seats. Their number will
increase from previous 1563 to 2050, and the height of the dome will
be 21 meters, instead of the previous 16. The old building was built
in 1962. -0-

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EUROSTAT: NUMBER OF ARMENIAN CITIZEN SEEKING ASYLUM IN EU DOWN 12% FOR Q1 2013

by Ashot Safaryan

Thursday, August 15, 11:54

Eurostart, a leading provider of high quality statistics on Europe,
has published data of the persons seeking shelter in the EU for
Q1 2013, Radio Liberty Armenian service said. Thus, the number of
Armenian citizens seeking refuge in Europe fell 12% in Q1 2013 as
compared to the same period of 2012 (by some 200 people).

Within the first three months of this year, 1,355 residents of Armenia
asked for asylum in Europe. For comparison, 10% more citizens of
Georgia (2310 people) applied for refuge in Europe in the period
under review.

Data on Azerbaijan are not available in the list of 30 countries
wherefrom people most of migrate to the EU countries. Nevertheless,
by Eurostat’s data, 650 people from Azerbaijan have applied for asylum
in Q1 2013 – half as much as from Armenia.

For the last 12 months 5,300 people from Armenia, 11,035 people from
Georgia, about 6,300 from Turkey, and around 14,000 people from Iran
have sought asylum in Europe.

Nearly 40 percent of the Armenian citizens seeking refuge in Europe
are at the age of 18-34, while another 32% are at the age of 35-64.

Only 3% of the Armenian citizens appealing for refuge are above 65
and another 25% are minors.

France and Germany are among the most attractive countries for the
Armenian citizens. In Q1 2013 48% of the Armenian citizens seeking
asylum in Europe left for France. Armenian citizens are the second
after the citizens of Congo to receive most rejections from the French
authorities. 18% of Armenian citizens have appealed for asylum to
the German authorities in the period under review. Then go Belgium
(9%), Poland (6%), and Sweden (5%).

Most of the appeals by Armenian citizens were rejected in Europe in
Q1 2013: only 125 out of 1500 decisions on the appeals were positive.

HAKOB SANASARYAN: MINING MAFIA KEEPS SECRET THAT THERE ARE URANIUM AND THORIUM DEPOSITS IN ARMENIA

by Karina Manukyan

Thursday, August 15, 14:58

Our mining mafia keeps secret that there are uranium and thorium
deposits in the country, says Hakob Sanasaryan, President of the
Green Union of Armenia.

He points to the Nature Protection Ministry’s reply to the Meghri
City Council’s complaint to the President that despite bad ecological
conditions in the Meghri region, the Ministry has issued exploration
and development licenses for 14 more deposits.

“The Ministry refuted the Council’s warning that the Lichq, Tashtun
and Lichtqvaz-Tey deposits have high content of uranium and thorium.

But there are lots of materials confirming the presence of uranium
deposits in Armenia. One of them is the uranium exploration and
extraction agreement signed by Armenia and Russia. All this proves
that the Ministry is trying to mislead the public so as to be able to
develop deposits containing scattered uranium despite their potential
risks for human health and nature,” Sanasaryan said.

BRAZIL’S DIEGO LOMBA JOINS ARMENIAN TEAM

14:34 15.08.13

Brazilian soccer player Diego Lomba has signed a contract with the
Armenian football club Alashkert, Armsport.am reported, citing the
club’s press service.

The sportsman has a previous experience in Armenia. He has successfully
played with the Gandzasar football club which he left earlier this
year.

Diego may make his debut at Alashkert at an August 18 match with
FC Shirak.

Armenian News – Tert.am

LOSING ARTSAKH, WE WILL LOSE ARMENIA AND ENDANGER EUROPE’S FUTURE: SLOVAKIAN NATIONAL COUNCIL FIRST PRESIDENT

13:05, 15 August, 2013

YEREVAN, AUGUST 15, ARMENPRESS: The Azerbaijan’s blacklist includes
from Slovakia the President of the Forum of Armenian Associations of
Europe (FAAE) and the President of the Armenian community of Slovakia
Ashot Grigoryan, as well as the First President of the Slovakian
National Council František Mikloško. As reported by Armenpress,
the Forum of Armenian Associations of Europe touched upon this issue,
the press release of which says in particular:

“Years ago Ashot Grigoryan paid an official visit to Baku with high
ranking officials of Slovakia. Grigoryan has not planned the second
visit to Baku and considers it to be a loss of time. Today we would
like to talk about the book of FrantiÅ¡ek MikloÅ¡ko “Signs of the Time”
published in May 2013 in Bratislava.

František Mikloško included in the book two articles about Armenia
and Artsakh, where he expressed his admiration towards the Armenians
and especially those, who live in Nagorno Karabakh.

MikloÅ¡ko evaluates Armenia and the Armenian Church as the “lungs” of
the Eastern Europe, without which Europe would not have been Europe and
concentrates on the fact that the base of the 20th century’s genocides
was the Armenian Genocide of 1915. The author emphasizes clearly that
the Armenian Cause is considered to be the entire Europe’s issue,
as well as Slovakia’s.

According to FrantiÅ¡ek MikloÅ¡ko, the Europe’s Christian and cultural
values are seriously endangered and Europe is obliged to protect them
and the protection should be started from Artsakh. “Losing Artsakh,
we will lose Armenia and endanger the Europe’s future”, – this is the
credo of František Mikloško, which is expressed in his activities
of the latest years”.

As there are more than two million Armenians in Europe, forming
significant local communities in 26 different countries, the Forum of
Armenian Associations of Europe (FAAE) was founded in Geneva in 1998.

Its goal is to facilitate co-operation and solidarity among Armenian
communities in Europe in order to meet the changing needs of the
European Diaspora and to promote the interests of Armenia and
Karabakh. FAAE membership is open to any Armenian association in
Europe that has democratically elected representatives and which
agrees to adhere to the FAAE charter.

Included in the FAAE today are Armenian communities and organizations
from 18 countries of Eastern and Western Europe. The Forum is
pluralistic and deals with all issues of interest to its member
organizations, including international relations, human rights issues,
economic co-operation and cultural matters.

The Armenian Business Forum of Europe is organised in such a way
to respond to the needs of Armenian businessmen in Europe to meet,
discuss their common interests and create the necessary network of
contacts to their respective businesses. Representatives of the US
and Russian business communities are also present at these meetings.

(THE FULL ARTICLE IS AVAILABLE IN ARMENIAN)

ASBAREZ TURNS 105 TODAY

Wednesday, August 14th, 2013

by Ara Khachatourian

The first issue of Asbarez published on Aug. 14, 1908 in Fresno

Asbarez newspaper marks its 105th anniversary today, Wednesday August
14, 2013. We wish our readers a happy anniversary. Without you our
newspaper would not have survived for more than a century. Pictured
is the front page of our first edition published on Aug. 14, 1908
in Fresno

>From our Archives Read a first-person account of how Asbarez was
founded (Published, August 14, 2008)

Read a retrospective of the newspaper by Paul Chaderjian (Published
August, 2003)

NEW HEAD OF UN INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT ORGANIZATION IS INVITED TO ARMENIA

August 15, 2013 | 10:58

YEREVAN. – Ambassador Arman Kirakosyan, Armenia’s permanent
representative to the international organizations in Vienna,
on Wednesday met with Li Yong, new Director-General of the United
Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO).

Kirakosyan presented to Li Armenian PM Tigran Sargsyan’s letter
of congratulations for being elected UNIDO Director-General and,
on behalf of the Government of Armenia, invited him for a visit to
Armenia, the Armenian MFA press service informs.

Giving a high evaluation to Armenia’s cooperation with UNIDO,
Ambassador Kirakosyan reflected on the respective programs and
pointed to their vital importance for the industrial development of
the country.

In turn Li Yong noted with satisfaction the implementation of the
Armenian government’s commitments before the United Nations Industrial
Development Organization.

News from Armenia – NEWS.am

SONDAGE : 78,5% DES JEUNES QUITTERAIENT L’ARMENIE S’ILS EN AVAIENT LA POSSIBILITE

ARMENIE

Un sondage sur la jeunesse indique que 78,5 pour cent des sondes
quitteraient l’Armenie a diverses fins s’ils en avaient la possibilite
tandis que 36,8 pour cent d’entre eux quitteraient definitivement
le pays.

Ce thème de la migration des jeunes a ete discute a la Maison des
Nations Unies a Erevan en Armenie.

jeudi 15 août 2013, Stephane ©armenews.com

HAUT-KARABAKH : UN SOLDAT ARMENIEN ENLEVE PAR LES AZERIS

Publie le : 14-08-2013

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propose une information reecrite a partir de depeches d’agences.

Le 8 août, les forces de l’armee azerbaïdjanaise ont enleve un soldat
armenien dans la region du Haut-Karabakh, republique autonome peuplee
d’Armeniens, a annonce le ministère de la Defense de la Republique.

Le communique du ministère de la Defense indique que le jeune
soldat Hakob Indjigoulian, âge de 22 ans, s’est perdu et a franchi
la frontière entre le territoire autonome et l’Azerbaïdjan, où les
forces ennemies l’ont capture.

Des tirs reguliers opposent les forces armees armeniennes et
azerbaïdjanaises. Ils alimentent la polemique entre Bakou et Erevan.

Le Haut-Karabakh fait l’objet d’un conflit entre l’Armenie et
l’Azerbaïdjan depuis 1988.

A l’epoque sovietique, les Armeniens formaient la majorite de la
population du Karabakh. Cette region a pourtant ete rattachee a
l’Azerbaïdjan par Staline. La population armenienne du Haut-Karabagh
a vote l’union avec l’Armenie lors d’un referendum en 1988. La
communaute armenienne du Haut-Karabagh ne voulait plus supporter les
limitations imposees par les autorites sovietiques et azerbaïdjanaises
concernant les libertes culturelle et religieuse. Cette demande
d’union du Haut-Karabagh avec l’Armenie, ayant debute pacifiquement
vers la fin des annees 1980, s’est convertie en un conflit violent
entre les deux groupes ethniques. A partir de 1988, les Azeris ont
commence des pogroms anti-Armeniens a Soumgaït, Kirovabad et Bakou,
où habitaient les Armeniens. Les appartements des Armeniens ont ete
saccages. Des dizaines, voire des centaines d’Armeniens d’Azerbaïdjan
ont ete attaques, tortures, brûles vifs.

La guerre pour la possession de la region du Haut-Karabagh s’est
deroulee de 1988 a 1994. Elle a fait des milliers de morts et des
centaines de milliers de refugies de part et d’autre.

En 1994, un cessez-le-feu a ete signe entre l’Armenie et l’Azerbaïdjan,
mais les deux pays ne peuvent toujours pas trouver de solution
pacifique au conflit. Cette question reste toujours un objet de
discorde et la cause d’une situation tendue dans la region. La
mediation internationale de plusieurs groupes comme l’OSCE n’a
jusqu’a present pas debouche sur une resolution satisfaisante pour
les deux parties.

Info Collectif VAN – D’après depeches.

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