Author: Kanayan Tamar

Lurer.com, Armenia
Aug 24 2012

Explosive plant alarm at Passport Department

A little while ago Lurer.com was informed, that at about 17:40
citizens have been evacuated from the building of passport and visa
department of Police and from the surrounding area, because of the
received information that explosive is planted in the building.

The head of Media and Public Relations Department of RA Police, Ashot
Aharonyan confirmed the information and said that the police is taking
appropriate measures to verify the authenticity of the call.
Details soon.

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August 24, 2012

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Helping the Armenian Community of Syria

In response to a directive issued by the Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin
calling on all dioceses to initiate efforts for Syrian relief, Archbishop
Khajag Barsamian, Primate of the Diocese of the Armenian Church of America
(Eastern), is asking the faithful of the Eastern Diocese to take part in the
relief effort.

As fighting in Syria continues, the local Armenian community has been beset
by increasing difficulties-including heightened threats to safety and
financial stability. The Armenian community of Homs and many Armenian
families living in Aleppo and Damascus have fled their homes to find refuge
with relatives. Local Armenian institutions have been struggling to continue
operations.

Bishop Armash Nalbandyan, the Primate of the Armenian Diocese of Damascus,
informed Holy Etchmiadzin that a Syrian-Armenian emergency aid organization
has been formed to provide refugees with housing and medical assistance, and
to meet other immediate needs of the community. In addition, the aid
organization supports local churches, schools, and cultural institutions,
which strive to preserve the historic Armenian presence in Syria.

Individuals and parishes can make checks out to the Diocese of the Armenian
Church of America (please write “Syrian Relief” in the memo). All funds
collected should be sent to the Diocesan Center (630 Second Avenue, New
York, NY 10016) no later than Monday, October 1.

Individuals can also contribute online at (Please
click on “Make a Donation” on the homepage. In the lower part of the online
information entry form, select the button “In Memory of,” and type “Syrian
Relief” in the memo bar that appears.)

All the proceeds collected will go to the relief efforts, to be distributed
through the Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin.

“Above all, we ask everyone to include the people of Syria in your prayers,
and to ask our Lord to bestow peace on the victims and consolation on their
families,” Archbishop Barsamian wrote in his message.

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Lebanese deputy of Armenian origin is for stability in the north of country

16:43, 24 August, 2012

YEREVAN, AUGUST 24, ARMENPRESS: The events in Syria leave their
influence also on neighbor Lebanon where during the last period the
situation has become rather tensioned between the supporters of Bashar
Assad and Sunnis. Deputy of Lebanese Parliament of Armenian origin
Hakob Bagratuni confirmed that now armed clashes take place in the
northern parts of Lebanon and in Akkar are recorded cases of weapon
distribution. Besides, the armed forces enter into Syria from Lebanon.
Armenpress reports calling Lebanese-Armenian asdagdaily.com site that
Bagratuni hoped that the army would have control over the situation in
the north of Lebanon which will be a final solution for the clashes.

Armenian legislator considered predictable the spread of Syrian events
not only in Lebanon but also in Jordan and other neighbor states.

During the last few days in Tripoli city of Lebanon in result of
clashes 11 people have died and 80 have been wounded.

Armenia’s State Youth Orchestra goes on tour of Nagorno-Karabakh

tert.am
15:06 – 24.08.12

Tweet The State Youth Orchestra of Armenia, under the baton of Art
Director Sergey Smbatyan, is going on a concert tour of
Nagorno-Karabakh capital Stepanakert.

The tour will mark the 21st anniversary of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR).

The concert is to take place in Stepanakert’s Revival Square, at
9:00pm, Aug. 27. The Artsakh State Choir will give a concert as well.

The soloists Mary Movsisyan (soprano), Marianna Martirosyan (soprano)
and Gevorg Hakobyan (baritone) will perform.

The orchestras will perform compositions by Armenian and foreign composers.

Fitch: Serzh Sargsyan may probably win the presidential election

12:43 24/08/2012 » Politics

Fitch global rating agency made predictions about the rating in Armenia.

According to that in the elections that are to be held on February, in
2013 it is rather than possible that the current president may win if
he runs for the president’s position on the second term.

Referring to the fact that the RPA has got much more places at the
Parliament the agency concludes that the results of the presidential
elections will be also adopted.

Source: Panorama.am

Some intellectuals demand Armenian Genocide Museum Director’s removal
from office – newspaper

news.am
August 24, 2012 | 09:08

YEREVAN. – A group of Armenia’s historians, men and women of the arts
and letters, writers, and philologists expressed a concern over the
National Academy of Sciences’ Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute
Director Hayk Demoyan’s Russian-language thesis, and his overall
activities, Haykakan Zhamanak daily writes.

`They gathered yesterday [Thursday] at a cultural center. The
objective was to discuss the mistakes in Demoyan’s thesis.

Literary critic, translator Albert Musheghyan was invited to the
meeting as speaker. And he presented the linguistic and ideological
distortions [in Demoyan’s thesis].

As a result [of the gathering], it was decided to send an open letter
to the administration of the National Academy of Sciences, and demand
the dismissal of the Genocide Museum-Institute Director for his
cynicism as well as for his serious distortions and disgraceful
guidance manifested in the thesis,’ Haykakan Zhamanak writes.

Syria opposition issues threats to Armenians

tert.am
11:21 – 24.08.12

The Supreme Council of the Syrian Revolution has threatened the
Armenian community in a recently released statement.

According to Sham Times, the oppositionists have particularly promised
`disaster and ravages’ to the local Armenians. The threats are
reported to be real, with Turkey having given them the green light to
attack the community.

The Council has accused several young Armenians of `collaborating with
Assad forces’, `taking part in operations which claimed lives’ and
`providing military support to the Syrian regime’.

The rebels claim that the Armenians backed the Syrian government
forces in the cities of Latakia and Kessab.

The group warns of the consequences of the operations and military
support, promising to find what it calls the dangerous elements.

Fund for Syrian-Armenian Relief established

August 24, 2012 – 11:44 AMT

PanARMENIAN.Net – In a joint announcement made on Aug 23, the Eastern
Prelacy of the Armenian Apostolic Church of America, the Armenian
Catholic Exarchate, the Armenian Missionary Association of America,
the Armenian Revolutionary Federation, and the Armenian Relief Society
announced the formation of the `Fund for Syrian-Armenian Relief,’ that
will offer urgently needed assistance to the historic Armenian
communities of Syria, The Armenian Weekly reported.

During the past week the heavily Armenian populated areas of Aleppo,
Kessab, Damascus, and Kamishli have been under siege by both state and
opposing forces and the physical safety of the people, as well as
their economic livelihood, are in great jeopardy.

The joining of the Armenian Orthodox, Evangelical, and Catholic
churches with the political and charitable organizations in the United
States, follows the pattern set in Aleppo where the three churches,
the three political parties, and all social and charitable
organizations have joined together to face the growing crisis.

Efforts are underway to reach out to other organizations to join the
joint committee. Fundraising efforts will be undertaken by this newly
formed joint U.S committee, together with their affiliates, to raise
funds to help the immediate needs of the Armenian community in Syria,
as well as for long-range efforts to maintain and restore the
community.

At present, assistance will come mainly through fundraising for
schools and other community institutions, which face severe shortfalls
as the crisis restricts their own financial capabilities. A portion of
the funds will also assist needy individuals directly affected by the
unrest.

The formation of a coordinating committee, with representation from
each of the participating organizations, will be announced imminently.

RWB concerned over aggressive Turkish paper campaign

August 24, 2012 – 12:20 AMT

PanARMENIAN.Net – Reporters Without Borders is very disturbed by the
aggressive smear campaign that the Islamist and nationalist daily Yeni
Akit (New Agreement) and its website, Habervaktim.com, have been
waging in recent days against four leading journalists – Ali
Bayramoglu, Cengiz Candar, Hasan Cemal and Yasemin Congar – because of
their views on Turkey’s Kurdish issue, the organization said on its
website.

“By targeting people committed to tolerance and peace, this campaign
is trying to block any evolution in Turkish society,” Reporters
Without Borders said. “Experience has shown the degree to which this
kind of prejudiced, xenophobic and paranoid discourse is not just
harmful but also dangerous. Words have meaning and the accusations
levelled against these journalists expose them to real peril. This
virulent hate campaign must stop at once and everything possible must
be done to protect its targets.”

Yeni Akit has been attacking the well-known columnist Ali Bayramoglu
for several weeks, accusing him of being an Armenian who “defends
Armenian ideas with a racist basis.” A defender of minority rights and
friend of Hrant Dink, the Turkish-Armenian Agos newspaper editor
murdered in 2007, Bayramoglu has been branded by Yeni Akit as a
“despicable enemy of the Turks’ and as one who “even hides the fact
that he is Armenian from his friends.”

Alluding to the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), the newspaper
said Bayramoglu’s “support for the terrorist organization” had been
demonstrated by his participation in a conference in London entitled
“In search of solutions to the Kurdish issue.”

The demands of Turkey’s Kurdish minority continue to be one of the
most sensitive issues for the Turkish media to cover. The crackdown on
peaceful Kurdish activists and Kurdish media has intensified in recent
months and the trial of 44 pro-Kurdish journalists, of whom 36 are in
preventive detention, is due to open on September 10.

AZERBAIDJAN
Des villageois azéris ont mis le feu à des drapeaux israéliens et arméniens

Un rassemblement a eu lieu le 17 août dans le village de Nardaran
[Près de Bakou] pour commémorer la Journée de Jérusalem.

Le rassemblement a eu lieu sur la place du village et a été présidé
par Haci Atamali, le chef de la mosquée du village.

Il a parlé de la Journée de Jérusalem et a dit qu’Israël et le
sionisme international voulaient garder le monde musulman sous
contrôle.

Le président du conseil des anciens du village Nardaran, Natiq
Karimov, a critiqué la politique du gouvernement de [l’Azerbaïdjan]
sur la question du Karabakh. Il dit que la coopération du gouvernement
avec Israël était inappropriée. Karimov a déclaré que la libération
des terres musulmanes [référence au Haut-Karabagh] passe par la
libération de Qods [Jérusalem].

D’autres intervenants lors de la manifestation ont parlé de
l’importance de la Journée de Jérusalem.

Après cela, les participants ont mis le feu à des drapeaux israélien
et arménien.

vendredi 24 août 2012,
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