Author: Kanayan Tamar

WATER RESOURCES OF RESERVOIRS SHOULD NOT BE USED FOR ENERGY PURPOSES

Wednesday,June 19

25% of Armenia’s territory is under threat of desertification and
over 80% of the country’s territory is subject to various risks
of desertification. The coordinator of the UN Convention to Combat
Desertification (UNCCD) Ashot Vardevarian announced that data at the
meeting with journalists today.

Discussing the problem of water resources in Armenia, he noted that
the republic has enough water resources which, however, are not used
economically. Besides, in Vardevarian’s opinion, the water resources
of water-storage reservoirs should not be used for energy purposes.

“Water does not collect in reservoirs not because of weather
conditions, but because of a technical problem. If we really want,
we can save water instead of using it fully for hydropower plants,”
the expert stressed.

Vardevarian also spoke about the absence of fish passes in hydropower
plants. According to him, the Ministry of Nature Protection is
responsible for the sphere, but it lacks resources to reveal violations
in each hydropower plant.

The UNCCD coordinator underlined the need for measures to ensure the
operation of hydropower plants and at the same time the environment’s
protection.

LFIK SAMO DIDN’T LEAVE CARREFOUR PLACE EMPTY

There are rumors that Yerevan City Supermarket will be soon opened at
Dalma Garden Mall. Recall Dalma Garden belongs to Samvel Karapetyan,
Yerevan City supermarkets to Samvel Alexanyan.

French Carrefour was said to open at Dalma Garden Mall, but as the
Armenian press reported Samvel Alexanyan and other Armenian importers,
oligarchs did everything not to allow Carrefour into the Armenian
market because it would have created competition in the market harming
their monopolistic positions.

The press also reported that the issue was discussed with the owner
of Dalma Garden Mall who told Samvel Alexanyan that if he does not
want Carrefour to come to Armenia, he will have to rent the place
that was offered to Carrefour at Dalma Garden Mall.

Apparently, they reached an agreement. As to Carrefour, it was stated
that it was unable to come to terms with Dalma Garden Mall.

The Carrefour issue is international: the U.S. ambassador also spoke
about it many times. The Armenian authorities had to state a few
times that Carrefour would come to Armenia. In the meantime Samvel
Alexanyan was acting.

There were rumors that Carrefour was sold to its UAE branch completely,
and that the French didn’t own it any more. The UAE branch was rumored
to have an Armenian shareholder, State Revenue Committee Head Gagik
Khachatryan, who, according to the press, is also involved in import.

So, it comes out that even if Carrefour comes to Armenia, it will
probably be another business of an Armenian oligarchic family.

17:32 19/06/2013 Story from Lragir.am News:

VIRTUALLY ALL SOCIAL NETWORKS ARE TAPPED – ARMENIAN EXPERT

June 19, 2013 | 13:25

YEREVAN. – The disclosure of secret documents by an employee of the
largest national security service of the United States showed that
virtually all social networks are tapped.

Information security expert Samvel Martirosyan stated the aforesaid
during a press conference on Wednesday. In his words, however,
Twitter is the sole large network that was not in this list.

“It was found out that there is a system that enables secret agency
staff to penetrate into the internal activity space of the users,”
the expert noted.

He added that the countries are painted from green to red in the
respective documents.

“Green is less activity, red is more. Armenia was yellow; that is,
the interest toward us was the same color as the US. Georgia and
Azerbaijan, for example, are green,” Martirosyan informed.

And as for the special services of Armenia, the expert specifically
said:

“I doubt that our NSS [i.e., the National Security Service] can
monitor Facebook because Facebook is a closed system.”

In terms of social networking protection, Samvel Martirosyan advised
to always be alert and have a long password.

News from Armenia – NEWS.am

“GRANDMA’S TATTOOS” SCREENED IN THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT

17:20 19.06.2013
Grandma’s Tattoos

On Monday 17th June, 2013, the European Armenian Federation for
Justice and Democracy (EAFJD) co-organized the “Grandma’s Tattoos”
movie screening in the presence of Swedish – Armenian director Suzanne
Khardalian in the European Parliament. The screening was co-hosted
by two Swedish Members of the Euroepan Parliament, Carl Schlyter
(Group of the Greens/European Free Alliance) and Cecilia Wikstrom
(Group of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe).

120 attendants were present – a very diverse audience of old and young
women and men. After the Welcoming and short introduction of EAFJD
President Kaspar Karampetian, “Grandma’s Tattoos” was screened. The
audience was electrified, and emotionally touched, from the subject
matter – of Armenian girls and women abducted and enslaved during
the Armenian Genocide, and marked by tattoos as the properties of
their captors.

After the screening, MEP Cecilia Wikstrom, and director Suzanne
Khardalian responded to the questions of the audience. Questions
about the violation of women in wartime, and not only, the shame and
humiliation carried with it. MEP Cecilia Wikstrom mentioned that
“a woman’s body is a battleship” and expressed her concerns about
violated women, and that the EU Parliament should send a strong
message against it.

Director Suzanne Khardalian informed the audience that her aunt Lucia
– main character in the documentary – did not have the chance to see
the movie, since she passed away before the completion of the movie.

However, the director feels “lucky”, only because a significant number
of Armenian women had already been interviewed by her, as if they were
“waiting to tell their stories before leaving this world”. Khardalian
mentioned that like her grandmother, “I also feel violated and ashamed
because the stigma of rape passed on from generation to generation”.

Co-host of the screening, MEP Carl Schlyter, in his closing remarks
mentioned that the fate of women, especially during, mass crimes,
during both World Wars, and even before and after shall be told to the
coming generations, and that we shall be vigilant against such acts,
as to never be repeated again.

THIS YEAR THE SYRIAN ARMENIANS OF ARTSAKH WILL ALSO PARTICIPATE IN CAMPS

Monday, 17 June 2013 13:54

This year as usual the NKR representative office of the Armenian
Evangelical Association of America is going to organize a summer camp
in Shoushi.

As NKR representative of the association Arsen Manasyan told
Karabakh-open.info this year the camp will be organized from June 23
till the end of July and will be participated by children and youths
from Artsakh and Syunik aged from 8 to 25 years old.

The camp will be organized in 5 stages, 3 of which for children from
8 to 12 years old, the next two will be participated by teenagers from
13 to 16 years old, and the last stage will involve young people from
16 to 25 years old. Arsen Manasyan also added that this year Syrian
Armenian young people will also take part in the camp.

The Armenian Aid Union is also going to organize a camp. As head of
the Artsakh AAU office Karine Dadayan said the ten-day camp which
will be organized in Gandzasar will start on June 26. Nearly 100
participants the greater part of them Syrian Armenian children of
the age group between 10 to 15 years old from Berdzor, Kovsakan and
a number of residences of Qashatagh will have their vacation there.

CONTROL CHAMBER CHARGED GOVERNMENT WITH MISAPPROPRIATION

Member of Parliament Artsvik Minasyan of ARF said during the
extraordinary meeting of parliament that the Control Chamber has
actually put forth serious charges to the government. The government
admits that there are gaps but denies that those are crimes. It is
unacceptable that misappropriation is revealed but no one is held
responsible.

12:47 18/06/2013 Story from Lragir.am News:

REVUE DE PRESSE No2 – 17/06/13 – COLLECTIF VAN

Publie le : 17-06-2013

Info Collectif VAN – – Le Collectif VAN [Vigilance
Armenienne contre le Negationnisme] vous propose une revue de presse
des informations parues dans la presse francophone, sur les thèmes
concernant la Turquie, le genocide armenien, la Shoah, le genocide
des Tutsi, le Darfour, le negationnisme, l’Union europeenne, Chypre,
etc… Nous vous suggerons egalement de prendre le temps de lire ou
de relire les informations et traductions mises en ligne dans notre
rubrique

Par ailleurs, certains articles en anglais, allemand, turc, etc,
ne sont disponibles que dans la newsletter Word que nous generons
chaque jour. Pour la recevoir, abonnez-vous a la Veille-Media : c’est
gratuit ! Vous recevrez le document du lundi au vendredi dans votre
boîte email. Bonne lecture.

Paris : conference-debat exceptionnel “Un 24 avril a Istanbul” Info
Collectif VAN – – “Quelles perspectives pour la
reconnaissance du Genocide des Armeniens en Turque ? Une conference –
debat exceptionnel organisee par l’UGAB PAris/IDF. Le mercredi 19 juin
2013 a 20h00. Au Centre Culturel Alec Manoogian”. Le Collectif VAN
vous presente cette information publiee sur le site de l’UGAB Europe.

Collectif VAN : l’ephemeride du 17 juin Info Collectif VAN –
– La rubrique “Ephemeride” du Collectif VAN a
ete lancee le 6 decembre 2010. Elle recense la liste d’evenements
survenus a une date donnee, a differentes epoques de l’Histoire, sur
les thematiques que l’association suit au quotidien. L’ephemeride du
Collectif VAN repose sur des informations en ligne sur de nombreux
sites (les sources sont specifiees sous chaque entree). “17 juin 2006
— France : a Valentigney dans le Doubs, une exposition d’Antoine
Agoudjian, comportant deux photos dont la legende fait reference au
genocide armenien, est annulee par la Mairie, en butte aux pressions
des responsables de la communaute turque de la ville qui menacent de
saccager l’exposition. Par un curieux hasard, 5 ans après presque
jour pour jour, l’UNESCO a censure a son tour ce 15 juin 2011 les
legendes d’une exposition-photo de Khatchkars (pierres armeniennes
avec des croix ciselees) qui se tient jusqu’au 24 juin a son siège
de Paris. Toute mention du lieu où ces Khatchkars sont ou ont ete
presents (Armenie, Turquie, Azerbaïdjan, etc.) est supprimee. Sans
doute suite a des pressions d’Ankara et de Bakou”.

#OccupyGezi – Des negociations aux violences, trois jours en crescendo
Recep Tayyip Erdogan n’avait cesse d’insister ces derniers jours pour
que les manifestations qui secouent la Turquie depuis le 31 mai se
terminent ce week-end. Renouvelant les avertissements jusqu’a samedi,
le Premier ministre turc a ordonne aux forces de l’ordre de deloger
les nouveaux locataires qui s’y etaient installes.

La Turquie fait son Mai 68 La revolte s’etale sur les murs d’Istanbul,
meme si la police antiemeute a repris et “nettoye” la place Taksim, le
11 juin. Les pochoirs et les slogans traces a la bombe rouge ou noire
tournent en ridicule la police et son “chef de brigade”, le premier
ministre Recep Tayyip Erdogan, cible de toutes les critiques. Dans
les rassemblements, les slogans fusent joyeusement. Ce n’est pas
“Sous les paves, la plage” ou “Il est interdit d’interdire” mais
“A ta sante Tayyip”, “Le gaz lacrymogène est bon pour la peau” ou
“Deux choses me manquent : la grasse matinee et la democratie”…

“Les hashtags racistes ne doivent plus exister sur Twitter” Twitter
devra desormais transmettre les informations concernant les auteurs de
tweets racistes. Jonathan Hayoun, president de l’Union des Etudiants
Juifs de France, s’en rejouit.

Turquie. “Erdogan a raison d’etre sevère” Dans le quartier Fatih,
fief du parti du Premier ministre, le soutien est unanime. Et depasse
meme les limites de l’electorat traditionnel.

Reportage.

Azerbaïdjan : le parti au pouvoir designe Aliev comme candidat
presidentiel Le Nouveau parti d’Azerbaïdjan (YAP), actuellement
au pouvoir en Azerbaïdjan, a nomme vendredi le president sortant
Ilham Aliev comme son candidat a l’election presidentielle d’octobre
prochain.

Le Premier ministre turc mobilise massivement ses partisans a Istanbul
En Turquie, le Premier ministre voulait faire une demonstration de
force. Objectif atteint, avec ce grand rassemblement organise ce
dimanche a Istanbul, a quelques kilomètres a peine du parc Gezi,
bastion de la contestation.

Turquie : Le Premier ministre Erdogan met en gade les emeutiers
Le Premier ministre turc Recept Tayyip Erdogan a menace dimanche de
punir sevèrement les responsables de la poursuite des troubles dans le
pays. “Ceux qui ont terrorise la population pendant 18 jours paieront
le prix dans les limites de la loi”, a dit M. Erdogan samedi devant
plus de 100.000 de ses partisans reunis a Istanbul.

Turquie, le Premier ministre Erdogan bien decide a reprendre la main
Après 15 jours de contestation dans la rue, les opposants restent
mobilises malgre la demonstration de force de milliers de partisans du
pouvoir ce dimanche a Istanbul. C’est a une veritable demonstration de
force reussie a laquelle Recep Tayyip Erdogan s’est livre ce dimanche
devant une maree humaine toute acquise a sa cause, des milliers de
partisans du pouvoir rassembles en plein coeur d’Istanbul brandissant
le drapeau national.

Avertissement lance a la Conference de la Banque mondiale et du
FMI en Azerbaïdjan Des representants de la Banque mondiale, du FMI
et des deputes de 70 Etats participant a une conference organisee
en Azerbaïdjan ont ete avertis de ne pas oublier le conflit du
Haut-Karabakh qui fait rage depuis deux decennies alors qu’ils ~uvrent
a la resolution de problèmes ailleurs dans le monde.

L’Entrevue de Karen Mirzoyan Ministre des Affaires Etrangères du
Haut-Karabagh sur France 24 Le conflit non resolu entre l’Azerbaïdjan
et les Armeniens secessionnistes vivant dans le territoire enclave du
Haut-Karabagh est souvent qualifie de ” conflit gele “. Mais tandis
que dans la region, les tensions deviennent de plus en plus fortes,
certains craignent qu’elle ne serve de poudrière pour une guerre plus
large a plus grande echelle. Douglas Herbert demande au Ministre des
Affaires etrangères du Haut-Karabagh s’il craint que nous soyons a
la veille d’autres combats.

Vu du Senat #33: debut de guerre civile en Turquie?

Les deux derniers meetings d’Erdogan, samedi a Ankara et dimanche
a Istanbul, leurs dizaines de milliers de supporters venus (amenes)
de toute la Turquie et les discours enflammes d’un Premier ministre
fort de ses scores electoraux n’augurent rien de rejouissant pour
les jours a venir.

Antisemitisme en Grèce : bras de fer entre un homme d’affaires
greco-israelien et le parti neo nazi Aube doree Parce qu’il a refuse
de temoigner devant la commission du Parlement grec dans laquelle
siège un elu du parti neonazi Aube Doree, l’homme d’affaires grec
Sabby Mionis (photo), emigre depuis 2006 en Israël, a entame un bras
de fer avec les autorites du pays.

Turquie. La rue fait plier Erdogan Le calme est revenu sur la place
Taksim a Istanbul. Au terme d’une longue reunion, qui s’est tenue
dans la nuit de jeudi a vendredi, le Premier ministre s’est engage
a suspendre le projet de construction d ?un centre commercial a la
place du parc Gezi, lequel reste occupe. Un tribunal a ete saisi.

L’un des derniers criminels nazis identifie aux Etats-Unis Age de 94
ans, il est soupconne d’avoir ete un commandant SS ukrainien durant
la seconde guerre mondiale. Il a finalement ete rattrape par son
passe. Le Centre Simon Wiesenthal a appele samedi 15 juin le ministère
americain de la Justice a enqueter sur un homme de 94 ans, Michael
Karkoc, demeurant dans le Minnesota (Etats-Unis). Il est soupconne
d’avoir ete le commandant SS ukrainien d’une unite responsable de
crimes contre des civils durant la seconde guerre mondiale.

Erdogan est un dictateur fasciste, selon des Gauchistes tunisiens Des
partis de la Gauche tunisienne tels que le Parti des Travailleurs,
le PPDR et Al Watad ont organise, aujourd’hui 6 juin 2013, un
rassemblement en face du siège de l’UTICA, afin d’exprimer leur
contestation de la presence du chef du gouvernement Turc en Tunisie.

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LE MINISTRE DES AFFAIRES ETRANGERES DU KARABAGH A RENCONTRE DES MEMBRES DU PARLEMENT EUROPEEN A BRUXELLES

Le ministre des Affaires etrangères de la Republique du Haut-Karabagh
Karen Mirzoyan eu des entretiens avec des deputes du Parlement europeen
au cours de sa visite de courte duree a Bruxelles.

Karen Mirzoyan a egalement rencontre le chef du groupe d’amitie
UE-Armenie, membre de la commission des affaires etrangères Eleni
Teokharus et Michèle Rivazi du Groupe des Verts/Alliance libre
europeenne.

ARMENIAN YOUTH VISITED THE JEWISH SYNAGOGUE AND THE MUSLIM MOSQUE IN TBILISI

Diocese of Armenian Apostolic Orthodox Holy Church in Georgia

On 14 June, 2013 the “Hayartun” Cultural Center of the Diocese of
the Armenian Apostolic Church in Georgia organized the visit of
young representatives of the Armenian community in Georgia to the
Synagogue and the Mosque in Tbilisi. The aim of the visit was to
familiarize young Armenians of Georgia with the history and traditions
of the monotheistic religions like Judaism and Islam. The spiritual
principal of the “Hayartun” Cultural Center Deacon Gevorg Antonyan,
the Adviser to the Head of the Diocese Levon Isakhanyan and the Head
of the “Hayartun” Cultural Center Technical Department Valera Badalyan
accompanied the youth.

The Rabbi of Georgian Jewish Community Avimelekh Rosenblatt welcomed
the Armenian youth at the Synagogue; he presented the Synagogue
architecture and interior design, which was followed by a conversation
about the religion, traditions and customs of the Jewish people.

After a visit to the Synagogue young people visited the Armenian
Church Norashen, which is located near the Synagogue. It should be
noted that preparation for the reconstruction works at this Armenian
Church, which is in poor condition, has already begun.

In the afternoon the young representatives of the Armenian community
visited the Mosque, where they met Sheikh of All Georgia Vagif
Akperov. Sheikh Vagif presented the history and traditions of the
Shia Muslims, the history of the Islamic community in Tbilisi, as
well as architecture and interior of the Mosque.

Photos are available at:

Press service of the Armenian Diocese in Georgia 18, Armazi Street,
0103, Tbilisi, Georgia Phone: +995322546411 Cell: +995593397170
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UNLOCK! LIVERPOOL TO ACTIVATE MKHITARYAN RELEASE CLAUSE

Anfield Online, UK
June 17 2013

by Anfield Online | Monday 17th June 2013

Liverpool will activate the £20M release clause in Henrikh Mkhitaryan’s
contract with Shakhtar Donetsk.

Speculation has intensified in the past 24 hours about the deal to
secure what could be Liverpool’s biggest summer signing.

The reds hierachy have identified a goalscoring midfielder as one
of the major pieces of the summer’s jigsaw, and will meet the £20M
release clause after Donetsk have played hardball with the reds over
the last 3 weeks.

The Armenian midfielder has been a goalscoring sensation in the
relatively weak Ukrainian league – with 25 goals from 29 appearances
in the last season. He had also scored 13 times in the previous 42
league appearances since joining Shakhtar 3 years ago.

Liverpool Managing Director Ian Ayre has pulled out of a proposed
trip to Rio for a football finance conference. According to Bloomberg,
sources highlighted the Mkhitaryan deal as the key reason behind the
MD’s cancelled trip.