Author: Kanayan Tamar

Nagorno-Karabakh Republic will become party to negotiations – Armenian
Rule of Law Party

news.am
January 05, 2013 | 15:12

In a conversation with Armenian News-NEWS.am, the head of the
parliamentary faction of Armenian Rule of Law Party Heghine Bisharyan
said that if before the representatives of international organizations
discussed the Karabakh issue only with Armenia and Azerbaijan, today
they also consider the opinion of the Nagorno Karabakh Republic,
noting that the visits of international delegations to Nagorno
Karabakh were very important.

According to Bisharyan holding parliamentary and presidential
elections is a process of becoming an independent state, and it gives
the representatives of the international community an opportunity to
visit the country.

`In this regard, the Nagorno Karabakh Republic has progressed much,
and it is thanks to this progress the international community has an
interest in resolving the issue,’ Bisharyan said.

On the issue of participation of Nagorno Karabakh as the third party
in settlement of the Karabakh conflict, Bisharyan stressed that she
considers unacceptable the settlement without the participation of
Karabakh in the negotiations.

`Time will come and the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic will become party to
the negotiations,’ she noted.

Putin tops list of most powerful people

14:04 04.01.2013

An article in leading US magazine Foreign Policy has named Putin as
the most powerful person in the world, with the top spot left empty.

The author, Ian Bremmer, President of the Eurasia Group, explains why
no one is ranked first as being because `in a G-Zero world, everyone
is waiting for someone else to shoulder responsibility for the world’s
toughest and most dangerous challenges.’

He based the ranking on `a quick, informal survey around Eurasia Group
on power and global politics.’

`The leaders you’ll see named further down this list are preoccupied
with local and regional problems and don’t have the interest and
leverage needed to take on a growing list of transnational problems,’
he wrote.

After the top spot’s empty chair, Putin comes in second. `In Russia’s
personalized system, this is still the person who counts. He isn’t as
popular as he used to be, and his country has no Soviet-scale clout or
influence, but no one on the planet has consolidated more domestic and
regional power than Putin,’ the magazine said.

The Russian president is followed by US Federal Reserve chairman Ben
Bernanke, who is ranked third, German Chancellor Angela Merkel (4) and
US President Barack Obama in fifth place.

Then come European Central Bank head Mario Draghi (6), Chinese
Communist Party Secretary General Xi Jinping (7), Iran’s Supreme
Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei (8), International Monetary Fund chief
Christine Lagarde (also 8) and Saudi King Abdullah Bin Abd al-Aziz
(10).

Turkey Parliamentarians Argue Over Who Killed Armenians

January 4, 2013

ANKARA, Turkey (A.W.) – The Grand National Assembly of Turkey (TGNA)
witnessed an argument between parliamentarians over who killed the
Armenians in the Ottoman Empire in 1915, Turkish newspapers reported
on Jan. 3.

`Your history is the history of massacres.’
`Your history is a history of massacres. You know very well how the
grandparents of those who are struggling today were killed,’ said
parliamentarian Sirri Sakik (Mush), from the pro-Kurdish Peace and
Democracy Party (BDP), according to the Turkish newspaper Radikal.

In the ensuing argument, parliamentarian Yusuf Halacoglu, from the
Nationalist Movement Party (MHP), addressed Kurdish members of the
National Assembly asking, `Then tell me frankly – and I, in turn, will
show you all the documents – who killed the Armenians?’

Halacoglu is the former director of the Turkish Historical Society.

Other members of parliament pointed to massacres committed against
Kurds, while parliamentarians from the ruling Justice and Development
Party (AKP) argued that it is the Kurdish guerilla group PKK that has
committed atrocities in Turkey, and that Turkish history is
genocide-free.

Nurettin Canikli, head of AKP parliamentary group said, `There is no
massacre, genocide, and assimilation in this nation’s history.’

PRESS RELEASE
Ararat-Eskijian Museum
15105 Mission Hills Rd
Mission Hills CA, 91345
Email: [email protected]
Tel: 818-838-4862

RUBINA PEROOMIAN TO SPEAK AT ARARAT-ESKIJIAN
THE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE IN LITERATURE

Dr. Rubina Peroomian will give a lecture entitled “The Armenian Genocide in
Literature: Perceptions of Those Who Lived Through the Years of Calamity” on
Sunday, January 13, 2013, at 4:00 p.m. at the Ararat-Eskijian Museum, Hasmik
Mgrdichian Gallery, 15105 Mission Hills Road, Mission Hills, CA. The
lecture, based on Dr. Peroomian’s most recent book, is sponsored by the
Ararat-Eskijian Museum and the National Association for Armenian Studies and
Research (NAASR). There will be a reception and book signing to follow the
lecture.

The Armenian Genocide that took place almost a century ago is now sliding
into the past, but justice has not been rendered. Obsession with the past
fueled by denial of the crime, the deniers’ distortion of history, and the
image of a lost homeland that kindles a sense of deprivation are hallmarks
of the literature produced in the Armenian Diaspora.

Dr. Rubina Peroomian’s present volume begins with the response of the
first-generation writers who survived, complementing her work Literary
Responses to Catastrophe (1993) and demonstrating more emphatically the
depth of the initial psychological shock of the traumatic experience as well
as the soul-consuming struggle in dispersion. It then proceeds to discuss
the literary response of the orphan generation, anapati serund, in its
diversity and complexity and as a stark departure from the worldviews and
literary traditions of the past with, nevertheless, the Genocide at its
core. The final chapter is devoted to the memoirs of the aging survivors,
ordinary men and women who, without a claim to artistry but with an urge to
record their harrowing past experiences for posterity, have put their
personal stories in writing.

Dr. Rubina Peroomian holds a Ph.D. in Near Eastern Languages and Cultures
from UCLA. She has taught Armenian studies courses, lectured widely,
participated in international symposia, authored books, and contributed
chapters to scholarly volumes.

For more information contact the Ararat-Eskijian Museum at 818-838-4862 or

[email protected] or NAASR at 617-489-1610 or [email protected].

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December 27, 2012

Car crash in Armenia; 3 reported dead

tert.am
17:32 – 02.01.13

Two drivers and a passenger died earlier today after a crash on the
Tsahkadzor-Hankavan highway.

The incident was reported to the Ministry of Emergency Situations at
12:47 pm local time. Ambulance and police services were also
contacted.

The cars, a BMW and a GAZ 24, crashed into each other on the 2nd km of
the highway. The driver of the latter vehicle, H. Panosyan (56) and
one passenger, K Arakelyan (54), died immediately. The other driver,
A. Khachatryan, died after being hospitalized. The passenger of the
GAZ 24, A. Panosyan, was taken to the Hrazdan Medical Center.

400 could be out of work as NC carpet plants close

The Associated Press
Posted: Tuesday, Jan. 01, 2013

ABERDEEN, N.C. A carpet company says it is closing two plants this
summer, leaving almost 400 workers without jobs in Moore and Scotland
counties.

Gulistan Carpet told employees in a letter Friday it will file for
bankruptcy and close its plants in Aberdeen and Wagram.

On its website, Gulistan traces its roots back to an Armenian textile
importer who founded his business in Turkey in 1818. The company
bought the carpet plant in Aberdeen in 1957 and is now owned by
Hampton Capital Partners LLC.

Moore County Chamber of Commerce President Patrick Coughlin says his
group is doing everything it can to help Gulistan find a buyer and try
to save jobs.

Moore County’s unemployment rate was 8 percent in October, while
Scotland County’s rate was 15.7 percent.

Armenian freedom fighter sees New Year in at home

tert.am
13:30 – 03.01.13

Haik Mailyan, a freedom fighter and member of the Special Regiment,
has seen the New Year in with his family this time.

Since the war in Nagorno-Karabakh ended, he has been serving in
Kalbajar, where he has seen several New Years in.

`This is the first time I have seen the New Year in at home during my
service,’ Haik told Tert.am.

After serving in the Soviet army, 20-year-old Haik returned to Armenia
1989 and immediately left for Yeraskh. He fought in Kalbajar, Omar,
Karachinar, Shahumyan, Lachin, Kovsakan and Kubatlu.

He is a contract serviceman now.

The freedom fighter’s family is living in Yerevan, in a flat presented
by Vazgen Sargsyan (Armenia’s premier killed on October 27, 1999).

`In some cases, my wife and children visited me and we saw the New
Year in together,’ Haik says.

He wishes all Armenians, especially Armenia’s armed forces, peace and
stability. `Let no Armenian youth see what we had to see when we were
young,’ Haik says.

Boyer Introduces New Genocide Denial Criminalization Law in France

January 3, 2013

PARIS, France – French Parliament Member Valerie Boyer, who spearheaded
last year’s effort to pass a bill criminalizing the denial of the
Armenian Genocide, submitted a new draft of the bill last week.

Boyer
The bill stipulates the introduction of amendments to the 1881 law on
freedom of press, setting legal foundation for countering racism and
denial of Genocide.

The bill envisions a 45,000 euro fine and a year in prison for denial
of crimes against humanity, including the Armenian Genocide, reported
the Paris-based Nouvelles d’Arménie.

After successful passage of the bill in the French Parliament in
December 2011, on January 23 of last year, the French Senate passed
the bill criminalizing the Armenian Genocide.

Later, the French Constitutional Council ruled that the bill was
unconstitutional.

However, in July 2012, French President Francois Hollande confirmed
plans for a new law criminalizing denial of the Armenian Genocide with
representatives of the Armenian community.

ARMENIE
Elections présidentielles : le parti Dachnak ne participe pas non plus
aux élections présidentielles

Le parti Fédération révolutionnaire arménienne a déclaré qu’il ne
désignera pas de candidat au scrutin du 18 février. Le parti n’exclut
pas de soutenir l’un des candidats mais certainement pas le candidat
du pouvoir. Le parti estime inopportun de prendre part à un scrutin
dont l’issue est connue d’avance. Le parti Dachnak regrette de n’avoir
pas réussi à former un front uni d’opposition, ni obtenu des
aménagements électoraux en vue des présidentielles. Le parti a précisé
toutefois que la non-participation ne signifie pas l’absence de suivi
attentif de la bonne tenue et de la transparence du scrutin.

A l’heure actuelle, quatre candidats ont déposé les documents requis à
la Commission électorale centrale : le Président sortant, Serge
Sarkissian ; le Président du parti Autodétermination nationale,
Parouyr Hayrikian ; un spécialiste de chansons épiques, Vardan
Sedrakian ; et un physicien, actuellement au chômage, Mher
Hayrapetian, sans affiliation politique. Rappelons que le Président du
parti Héritage, Raffi Hovhannissian, et le député du CNA, Hrant
Bagratian, ancien PM, ont également annoncé leur participation.

Suite au refus de Levon Ter-Petrossian de se porter candidat, il est
attendu du CNA qu’il annonce aujourd’hui sa décision en vue de sa
participation au scrutin. Selon Hraparak, le CNA aurait décidé de
boycotter le scrutin et de ne soutenir personne, ni même Hrant
Bagration, dont le parti Liberté lui est affilié.

Poursuivant sur le thème des élections, Hayots Achkhar et Hayastani
Hanrapetoutioun relèvent que la Commission électorale centrale
invitera, entre autres, le Centre international d’expertise des
systèmes électoraux (ICES) qui avait désigné 20 observateurs pour le
scrutin législatif de mai dernier et prévoit de dépêcher 35
observateurs en février 2013 dont quelques-uns de long terme.

Extrait de la revue de presse de l’Ambassade de France en Arménie en
date du 27 décembre 2012

jeudi 3 janvier 2013,
Stéphane ©armenews.com

REVUE DE PRESSE
Rajak Ohanian évoque la mémoire arménienne à la galerie Artae

Rajak Ohanian mêle histoires individuelle et collective en
photographiant les lieux vraisemblablement traversés par son père,
déporté arménien en Syrie à l’ge de onze ans, durant le génocide. Il
en résulte une série de paysages en noir et blanc presque intemporels,
dont la vision est contrariée par des textes se rapportant à
l’événement tragique, rédigés par des historiens ou des commanditaires
du génocide, que l’artiste a superposés aux images.

En abolissant les espaces entre les mots et en quadrillant les images
par des lignes d’écriture, Ohanian crée simultanément l’illisibilité
et l’invisibilité, évoquant inévitablement la perte, la disparition et
la dissolution de la mémoire avec le temps… Au nouvel étage de la
galerie, sont exposées les séries plus anciennes de Rajak Ohanian,
notamment celle sur les gitans, Les Fils du vent, ou À Chicago.

AD

Alep 1915… Témoignages, exposition de Rajak Ohanian. À voir jusqu’au
12 janvier, à la galerie Artae, 11 rue Aimé-Collomb, Lyon 3e

jeudi 3 janvier 2013,
Stéphane ©armenews.com