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What:           "The Rescue, Rehabilitation and Fate of Captive Armenian 
Genocide
                Survivors in Syria: From WWI-Present"
                a lecture in Armenian is given by Professor Vahram Shemmassian
When:           Sep 17 2017 1pm
                Following Church Divine Liturgy which starts at 10:30am
Where:          Armenian Apostolic Church of Crescenta Valley
                Western Prelacy's Hall, 6252 Honolulu Ave., La Crescenta,
Misc:           Professor Shemmassian will describe the attempts and
                organizations that engaged in the rescue and rehabilitation of
                Genocide survivors in Syria, especially children and women,
                who through forced marriages and religious conversions were
                absorbed into Muslim society across Turkey and the Arab Near
                East. The talk will conclude with comments on the issue of
                Islamized Armenians, currently a hot topic in private and
                public discourse.
                Dr. Vahram Shemmassian is Professor and Director of the
                Armenian Studies Program in the Department of Modern and
                Classical Languages and Literatures at the California State
                University, Northridge. He holds a Ph.D. in History from the
                University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).
                The event is free to the public.
Online Contact: [email protected]
Tel:            818-244-9645
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ARMINFO News Agency, Armenia
 Thursday
Adibekyan Family Foundation for Advancement will send 100 000 EUR for
the elimination of the consequences of a fire in the Khosrov Forest
 Yerevan August 17
Marianna Mkrtchyan. The charitable organization Adibekyan Family
Foundation for Advancement of philanthropist Gagik Adibekyan will send
100,000 EUR to eliminate the consequences of the fire in the state
reserve "Khosrov Forest". The press service of the fund told ArmInfo.
"Today, when the fate of the unique nature reserve "Khosrov Forest"
and the ecology of the whole region is under threat, we can not stay
away. Restoration of forests after a fire requires a long time, a lot
of work and considerable funds. I believe that only by acting
together, we can shorten the period of restoration of this unique
nature reserve," said the founder of the Adybekyan foundation.
On August 12 at 12:30 in the Rescue Service of the Ministry of
Emergency Situations of the Republic of Armenia there was a signal
that a meadow burned in the state reserve "Khosrov Forest" in 20 km
from the village of Urtsadzor (Ararat region). The area of the fire
was about 200 to 250 hectares. Armenian forces of the Ministry of
Emergency Situations failed to extinguish the fire by their own
efforts and turned to their Russian counterparts for help. On August
14, the Russian side sent an IL-76 special plane to help Armenia. On
August 15, at 08.50, the IL-76 plane of the Ministry of Emergencies of
Russia carried out its first flight into the fire zone. The night
before it was possible to extinguish the main fires in the reserve.
According to the preliminary data of the Ministry of Emergency
Situations of Armenia, on the territory of the state reserve "Khosrov
Forest" as a whole, vegetation perimeter was 16 km thick, of which 360
hectares of forest. The forest fire destroyed grass coverings with a
perimeter of about 15 km, 320 hectares of which - forest.
The charitable organization Adibekyan Family Foundation for
Advancement was founded in Luxembourg by a businessman and
philanthropist Gagik Adibekyan. The Foundation initiates charitable
projects in Armenia, Russia, Luxembourg and other countries aimed at
developing and strengthening cultural and business ties between people
and countries and supporting projects in social, sports and
educational spheres, preserving the cultural and historical heritage
and developing small towns and territories Armenia.

Interfax - Russia & CIS Diplomatic Panorama
 Thursday 7:46 PM MSK
Armenian, Azerbaijani foreign ministers' meeting to help avert armed
conflict - Yerevan
YEREVAN. Aug 10
An upcoming meeting between the Armenian and Azerbaijani foreign
ministers scheduled for September will be aimed at preventing possible
hostilities in the region, Armenian Deputy Foreign Minister Shavarsh
Kocharyan said.
"The mediators are setting one task - averting possible hostilities
and reducing the degree of tensions. This is task number 1," he told
reporters on Thursday.
Azerbaijan's policy "remains a policy of force, and this country is
trying to blackmail the mediators, but it will not succeed," Kocharyan
said.
Armenian Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian and Azerbaijani Foreign
Minister Elmar Mammadyarov are expected to meet in New York in the
second half of September.
Nalbandian told reporters on Wednesday that "the meeting's agenda
includes ways to promote the negotiating process [on
Nagorno-Karabakh]. There is no alternative to negotiations."
The OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs proposed arranging a meeting on the
Nagorno-Karabakh settlement process between the Armenian and
Azerbaijani presidents before the end of 2017.
The Armenian and Azerbaijani foreign ministers met previously in
Brussels on July 11.
The ceasefire between Armenia and the self-proclaimed Nagorno-Karabakh
Republic on one side and Azerbaijan on the other side was declared in
May 1994.
The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe Minsk Group,
set up in 1992, has been mediating talks on finding a peaceful
solution to the conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh. The OSCE Minsk Group
includes Azerbaijan, Armenia, Belarus, Germany, Italy, Sweden, Finland
and Turkey. It is co-chaired by Russia, France and the United States.