Author: Kanayan Tamar

THE POLITICAL SCIENTIST IS SURE AZERBAIJANI’S ACTIVATION WAS BECAUSE OF CLINTON’S VISIT

ARMENPRESS
5 June, 2012
YEREVAN

YEREVAN, JUNE 5, ARMENPRESS: Azerbaijan’s provocations and subversive
activities were “devoted” to the visit of U.S. Secretary of State
Hillary Clinton. Political scientist Melik Ter-Shahnazaryan had a
briefing with the journalists on June 5, Armenpress reports.

” During this kind of visits they always turn to such steps, showing
there is no status quo and the conflict is not frozen. The Azeri
are trying to cause tension and change the political situation”
Melik Shahnazaryan came forth with.

He noted that Mrs. Clinton at the press conference was expected to
criticize the incidents on the border of the contact line between
Armenian and Azerbaijan, State Secretary however only expressed concern
about the increase of the tension and about the death of the young
and innocent civilians. She hailed the sides to refrain from using
force and violence. Clinton assured President Sargsyan she will came
up with the same call in Baku.

USA Secretary of State Hillary Clinton arrived Yerevan on June 4. She
had meetings with President of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan and Foreign
Affairs Minister Edward Nalbandyan.

AZERBAIJAN ACCUSES ARMENIA OF KILLING FIVE SOLDIERS

BBC
5 June 2012

The defence ministry of Azerbaijan has accused Armenia of shooting
dead five of its soldiers on their border, a day after three Armenians
were killed.

Armenian “saboteurs” killed four soldiers in one incident and a
fifth Azerbaijani soldier was shot dead in another, the ministry said
in Baku.

There was no immediate comment from Armenia, which fought a war with
its fellow ex-Soviet state in the 1990s.

Visiting US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has called for
restraint.

She arrived in Georgia on Tuesday from Armenia, with a visit to
Azerbaijan scheduled for Wednesday.

A formal ceasefire between Azerbaijan and Armenia since their war
over the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh is looking increasingly
fragile.

Fragile truce

A statement from the Azerbaijani defence ministry said an “Armenian
sabotage group” had tried to enter Azerbaijani military positions at
around 06:30 (0130 GMT) on Tuesday in the village of Asagi Askipara,
in the Qazax district of western Azerbaijan.

“However, they sustained casualties and retreated,” it said. Four
Azerbaijani soldiers were killed in the fighting, it added.

The fifth Azerbaijani soldier was killed in a separate shooting
incident in Qazax District, the ministry said, without giving details.

Armenia has accused Azerbaijan of killing three of its soldiers on
Monday near the villages of Berdavan and Chinar in the Tovuz district,
which borders Qazax.

The Azerbaijani defence ministry denied killing the three soldiers.

The two former Soviet republics fought a bloody war over the disputed
region of Nagorno-Karabakh in the 1990s.

A formal ceasefire is now looking increasingly fragile.

Speaking in Armenia on Monday, Mrs Clinton said: “I am very concerned
by these incidents and have called on all parties, all actors, to
refrain from the use or threat of force.

“There is a danger that it could escalate into a much broader conflict
that would be very tragic for everyone concerned.”

SERZH SARGSYAN RECEIVED THE SPECIAL ENVOY OF THE PRESIDENT OF IRAN, MINISTER OF ENERGY MAJID NAMJU

02.06.2012

President Serzh Sargsyan received today the Special Envoy of the
President of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Minister of Energy Majid
Namju who conveyed to President Sargsyan the invitation of the
President of Iran Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to participate at the Summit
of the Nonaligned Movement to be held in Tehran.

Serzh Sargsyan welcomed Minister Namju’s visit to Armenia and
underscored that our country attaches importance to the mutually
beneficial cooperation with our reliable neighbor and good friend Iran.

The interlocutors welcomed the increase of turnover between Armenia
and Iran registered in recent years and underscored that it holds
potential for further increase. They expressed hope that particularly
in the area of energy, the implementation of the pivotal programs
will considerably increase the turnover between the two countries.

The Minister of Energy of Iran informed that the construction works
of the Meghri hydro electric power station and the third high voltage
Armenia-Iran transmission line will commence soon.

At the meeting, President Sargsyan and the Minister of Energy of Iran
Majid Namju stressed also and hailed the works of the Armenian-Iranian
intergovernmental commission, which will soon hold its regular meeting
in Yerevan.

QUAND LA COLOMBIE ET L’ARMENIE FONT LA FETE ENSEMBLE
Aurelie Ohanian

armenews.com
mardi 5 juin 2012

Soiree de clôture du centre culturel de la JAF

Le samedi 9 juin 2012 a 21h, la Jeunesse Armenienne de France clôt
son annee culturelle .

A cette occasion, la JAF organise une soiree festive qui regroupera
les 7 – 77 ans avec le groupe La Cumbiamba Parrendera en concert au
Centre Culturel de la JAF au 47 Avenue de Toulon 13006 Marseille.

La Cumbiamba Parrandera est un groupe marseillais de musique
traditionnelle tropicale colombienne. Si vous aimez danser sur des
rythmes endiables aux sonorites africaine, indienne et espagnole,
venez-vous plonger dans un univers des plus festifs.

Compose de deux Colombiens, deux Venezueliens et d’un accordeoniste
marseillais. La Cumbiamba Parrandera est une formation issue du groupe
marseillais La Cumbia Chicharra. La cumbia est un des genres les plus
connus et danses de la musique colombienne, dont l’heritage trouve
ses racines dans les cultures africaine, indienne et espagnole.

La Cumbiamba Parrandera est impregne de ces rythmes et prolonge la
musique traditionnelle colombienne. Des musiques qui ne pourront que
vous donner envie de danser, des rythmes endiables pour feter l’ete.

Retrouvez le programme sur le site de la JAF :

Cliquez ici pour decouvrir La Cumbiamba Parrandera

Centre Culturel Varoujan BOZADJIAN de la Jeunesse Armenienne de France

47, avenue de Toulon – 13006 Marseille

Tel : 04 91 802 820 / Mail : [email protected]

mardi 5 juin 2012, Aurelie Ohanian ©armenews.com

D´autres informations disponibles : Site de la JAF

ARMENIANS KILL FIVE AZERBAIJANI TROOPS IN BORDER CLASH: BAKU

Hurriyet
June 5 2012
Turkey

Armenian forces killed five Azerbaijani soldiers in a new border clash
Tuesday, Baku said, in a new flaring of tensions as US Secretary of
State Hillary Clinton visits the volatile Caucasus region.

The Azerbaijani defence ministry said fighting broke out when “a
group of Armenian saboteurs made an attempt to penetrate the military
positions of the national army” in the country’s north-west.

“During the fight, four soldiers of the Azerbaijani armed forces were
killed and another died as a result of the Armenians opening fire,”
the ministry said in a statement.

On Monday, Armenia alleged that Azerbaijani troops had killed three of
its soldiers and wounded six more during another deadly battle on the
border between the enemy ex-Soviet states, although Baku denied this.

Azerbaijan and Armenia are locked in a long-running conflict over the
territory of Nagorny Karabakh, where they fought a war in the 1990s
that killed some 30,000 people, but this week’s clashes erupted away
from the disputed region.

Visiting Yerevan on Monday, Clinton said she was concerned by the
rising tensions and warned Armenia and Azerbaijan not to settle their
conflict by force.

“I am very concerned about the danger of escalation of tensions
and the senseless deaths of young soldiers and innocent civilians,”
she said after Monday’s violence.

“The use of force will not resolve the Nagorny Karabakh conflict and
therefore force must not be used.” The Karabakh war saw Armenia-backed
separatists seize the region from Azerbaijan.

Despite years of negotiations since the 1994 ceasefire, the two sides
have not yet signed a final peace deal and there are still frequent
exchanges of gunfire along the front line.

Azerbaijan has threatened to use force to win back Karabakh if peace
talks fail to yield satisfactory results, but Armenia has warned of
large-scale retaliation against any military action.

Clinton is due to visit Baku on Wednesday.

ARMENIAN PM CALLS FOR EU TO THREATEN AZERBAIJAN WITH SANCTIONS

news.am
June 05, 2012 | 20:24

Armenian PM Tigran Sargsyan called for the EU to issue a resolution
in order to terminate the militarization in the South Caucasus, Tigran
Sargsyan told European Voice paper after his two day visit to Brussels.

According to Sargsyan, the EU should issue a resolution dictating
that the Nagorno-Karabakh dispute to be solved peacefully.

The Armenian PM considers that the EU should threaten Azerbaijan with
sanctions and clarify what those sanctions will be. Tigran Sargsyan
told the paper that Azerbaijan is trying to undermine the work of
OSCE Minsk Group stressing that Armenia is strong enough to maintain
balance in the South Caucasus.

As Armenian News-NEWS.am informed earlier, an Azerbaijani diversion had
claimed the lives of three Armenian soldiers and wounded six others –
one of whom is an officer – in the early morning hours on Monday.

The killed soldiers are: Hrach Sargsyan, Zohrab Balabekyan, and
Karen Davtyan.

The wounded military servicemen are: Lieutenant Mushegh Nurbekyan,
and conscripts Igit Hovhannisyan, Maxim Melkonyan, Sedrak Shahbazyan,
Artak Mnatsakanyan and Koryun Iritsyan.

LE DEFENSEUR TURC DES DROITS DE L’HOMME HONORE PAR LE PRESIDENT ARMENIEN
Stephane

armenews.com
mercredi 6 juin 2012

L’ensemble de la presse annonce que l’eminent militant turc des droits
de l’Homme et editeur, Ragip Zarakolu, a recu hier le prix annuel
2011 du President de la Republique, qui lui a ete decerne pour sa
contribution a la reconnaissance internationale du Genocide armenien.

[Il fait partie des vingt scientifiques, ecrivains et artistes choisis
pour les prix annuels du President. Il y a seulement deux mois, il a
ete libere de prison après avoir ete accuse d’aider illegalement le
PKK en Turquie]. En lui remettant ce prix lors d’une ceremonie, le
chef de l’Etat a estime que les activites du defenseur des droits de
l’Homme representaient une mission exceptionnelle. ” Son combat pour
la reconnaissance de la verite historique par la societe turque est
un brillant exemple de prise de position courageuse. Votre presence
ici et l’acceptation de ce prix aujourd’hui sont aussi un acte de
courage “, a-t-il declare en s’adressant a R.Zarakolu. Celui-ci a
estime que la Turquie moderne doit accepter le fait du genocide. ” La
Turquie doit accepter la verite historique. C’est seulement de cette
manière que la Turquie pourra retrouver son estime “, a-t-il dit. Azg
note que R. Zarakolu est le deuxième citoyen turc, après Hrant Dink,
qui recoit ce prix presidentiel a Erevan.

Ambassade de France en Armenie

Service de presse

LE CDCA ET LES LEGISLATIVES DES 12 ET 19 JUIN
Ara

armenews.com
mercredi 6 juin 2012

Comme beaucoup de citoyens francais, le Comite de Defense de la Cause
Armenienne, ses membres et ses sympathisants demeurent profondement
choques par la decision politique prise par le Conseil Constitutionnel
de censurer la loi penalisant la negation de tous les genocides.

Si la lecture etriquee et controversee des Sages du Conseil
Constitutionnel est en soi condamnable, elle a ete rendue possible,
par la saisine de cette institution par 76 deputes. Ce sont eux
qui portent la responsabilite de l’echec de ce texte qui, pourtant,
avait ete approuve par une large majorite non partisane des deputes
et des senateurs. Cette proposition de loi etait egalement soutenue
par le gouvernement, par le President sortant Nicolas Sarkozy et par
le President de la Republique Francois Hollande.

En agissant ainsi, ils se sont fait, non pas comme ils le pretendent
les defenseurs de la liberte d’expression, mais en realite, les
complices de tous les negationnistes et revisionnistes qui jour après
jour, sabotent l’Histoire pour essayer d’ecrire la leur, diffusent des
mensonges, repandent des insultes et portent atteinte a la Dignite
humaine. Cette attitude est a notre sens incompatible moralement et
ethiquement avec celle d’un elu de la Republique Francaise.

Compte tenu des engagements forts pris sur ce sujet a la fois par
le President sortant et le President elu, il nous apparaitrait donc
incongru et pour le moins antirepublicain que des deputes ayant
saisi le Conseil Constitutionnel pour s’opposer a la penalisation
de la negation de tous les genocides, puissent a nouveau sieger a
l’Assemblee des elus du peuple francais aux termes des elections
legislatives des 10 et 17 juin 2012.

Nous appelons donc tous les electeurs francais, en dehors de toute
consideration partisane, a ne pas reconduire dans leurs fonctions ces
deputes et a privilegier dans chaque cas, un des nombreux candidats
alternatifs correspondant a leurs aspirations ideologiques.

Liste des 71 candidats a la deputation ayant saisi le Conseil
Constitutionnel sur la loi penalisant la negation de tous les genocides
par departement (5 deputes ayant signes la saisine ne se representent
pas) :

Prenom Nom Groupe politique Departement Gerard CHARASSE PRG Allier
Yves BUR UMP Bas Rhin Antoine HERTH UMP Bas Rhin Jean-Philippe
MAURER UMP Bas Rhin Laurence DUMONT SOC Calvados Jerôme LAMBERT SOC
Charente Didier QUENTIN UMP Charente Maritime Yves FROMION UMP Cher
Jean AUCLAIR UMP Creuse Daniel GARRIGUE MODEM Dordogne Franck GILARD
UMP Eure Philippe VIGIER NC Eure et Loir Jean-Pierre GORGES UMP Eure
et Loir Laure de LA RAUDIÈRE UMP Eure et Loir Jacques LE GUEN UMP
Finistere Jean-Paul GARRAUD UMP Gironde Jean-Louis CHRIST UMP Haut
Rhin Arlette GROSSKOST UMP Haut Rhin Jean-Luc REITZER UMP Haut Rhin
Eric STRAUMANN UMP Haut Rhin Paul GIACOBBI PRG Haute Corse Francois
CORNUT-GENTILLE UMP Haute Marne Sophie DELONG UMP Haute Marne Michel
RAISON UMP Haute Saone Claude BIRRAUX UMP Haute Savoie Lionel TARDY
UMP Haute Savoie Pascal BRINDEAU NC Loir et Cher Pascal CLEMENT UMP
Loire Jean-Louis BERNARD UMP Loiret Dominique ORLIAC PRG Lot Michel
DIEFENBACHER UMP Lot et Garonne Michel PIRON UMP Maine et Loire Claude
GATIGNOL UMP Manche Bruno BOURG-BROC UMP Marne Marc BERNIER UMP Mayenne
Abdoulatifou ALY MODEM Mayotte Jacques LAMBLIN UMP Meurthe et Moselle
Jean-Louis DUMONT SOC Meuse Gwendal ROUILLARD SOC Morbihan Francois
GOULARD UMP Morbihan Denis JACQUAT UMP Moselle Alain MARTY UMP Moselle
Andre WOJCIECHOWSKI UMP Moselle Christian BATAILLE SOC Nord Jean-Pierre
DECOOL UMP Nord Francoise HOSTALIER UMP Nord Olivier DASSAULT UMP
Oise Prenom Nom Groupe politique Departement Lucien DEGAUCHY UMP Oise
Jean-Francois MANCEL UMP Oise Christophe CARESCHE SOC Paris Jean-Paul
BACQUET SOC Puy de Dome Jean MICHEL SOC Puy de Dome Didier MATHUS SOC
Saone et Loire Jean-Marc NESME UMP Saone et Loire Jean-Paul ANCIAUX
UMP Saone et Loire Herve GAYMARD UMP Savoie Yves JEGO UMP Seine et
Marne Jean-Claude MIGNON UMP Seine et Marne Christophe BOUILLON SOC
Seine Maritime Sylvia PINEL PRG Tarn et Garonne Jean BARDET UMP Val
d’Oise Gilles CARREZ UMP Val de Marne Paul DURIEU UMP Vaucluse Jack
LANG SOC Vosges Michel HEINRICH UMP Vosges Apeleto Albert LIKUVALU
PRG Wallis et Futuna Marie-Louise FORT UMP Yonne Jean-Marie ROLLAND
UMP Yonne Jacques MYARD UMP Yvelines Cecile DUMOULIN UMP Yvelines
Pierre MORANGE UMP Yvelines

WASHINGTON EXPECTS CONTINUATION OF DIALOGUE WITH ARMENIA – HILLARY CLINTON (PHOTO)

June 04, 2012 | 20:02

YEREVAN.- President of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan received on Monday
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton as she arrived on a working visit
to Armenia.

President Sargsyan recalled that 2012 marks the 20th anniversary of
establishment of the diplomatic relations between Armenia and U.S. He
stressed that during 20 years the relations have been developing
gradually.

“Historic ties between the two nations, large Armenian community of
U.S. as well as the ideas of freedom, justice and democracy promoted
establishment of good relations between the states,” Sargsyan said.

The Armenian leader gave appraisal of U.S. role in the region adding
that bilateral relations are built on the basis of mutual respect and
confidence, presidential press service informed Armenian News-NEWS.am.

“I want once again thank the United States for assisting Armenia
during 20 years,” he said.

In her turn, Secretary Clinton noted it is honor to her to visit
Armenia in the year marking the 20th anniversary of diplomatic
relations between the states.

Hillary Clinton said Washington greatly values partnership with
Armenia, and continues support for the development and increasing
welfare of the Armenian people.

Clinton stressed that she personally and President Obama appreciate
contacts with Armenia and expect continuation of the dialogue.

Secretary of State added she is aware of how hard President worked
in order to find a solution to regional problems concerning Armenia.

Thus, the United States are committed to assist and support his
ongoing activities as an excellent leader, she emphasized.

THREE KILLED IN ARMENIA-AZERBAIJAN FIGHTING AHEAD OF CLINTON VISIT

Europe Online Magazine

June 4 2012

Moscow (dpa) – Three Armenian soldiers died in fighting with
Azerbaijani forces on Monday, as US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham
Clinton was scheduled to tour Caucasus region nations.

The clash took place 125 kilometres north-east of the Armenian capital,
Yerevan, after border troops fired on “Azerbaijani infiltrators,”
an Armenian Defence Ministry statement said.

The statement said “several” more Armenian troops had been wounded
in the exchange of fire, which “repelled” the encroaching Azerbaijanis.

Azerbaijan denied the incident took place.

Clinton was scheduled to arrive in the Armenian capital later Monday
for talks with President Serzh Sargsyan on regional security.

The discussions are expected to focus on Nagorno-Karabakh, an ethnic
Armenian separatist territory inside Azerbaijan that has been supported
by Yerevan since the early 1990s.

A dispute over the territory’s status has stymied relations between
Armenia and Azerbaijan for decades.

Armenia is a strategically important region, lying along gas routes
from the energy-rich Caspian Sea region to Europe, and is a close
partner of Iran and Georgia.

Armenia sees itself as increasingly threatened by its authoritarian,
oil-rich neighbour Azerbaijan, with which it fought a war in
the 1990s. An estimated 30,000 people died in that war over
Nagorno-Karabakh.

Clinton was planning to visit Georgia on Tuesday, Azerbaijan on
Wednesday and Turkey on Thursday, a US State Department statement said.