ARMENIAN FOOTBALL YOUTH TEAM DEFEATED BY TURKISH TEAM
NOYAN TAPAN
JUNE 10, 2009
YEREVAN
YEREVAN, JUNE 10, NOYAN TAPAN. Armenia-Turkey sub-group match of the
European Football 2011 Youth Championship elimination tour program
took place on June 9 at Yerevan Vazgen Sargsian Republican Stadium. The
guests won with the score of 5:2.
Armenian Youth Team’s next match will take place on September 4 in
Yerevan with the team of Switzerland.
BAKO SAHAKYAN SIGNED A DECREE TO AWARD RA HONORED COACH YURI BABAYAN
/PanARMENIAN.Net/
09.06.2009 17:39 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ On 9 July NKR President Bako Sahakyan signed an
award decree.
According to decree, for contribution to the development of physical
culture and sports as well as in connection with the 80th birthday,
RA honored coach, honored worker of physical culture and Sports of the
Republic of Armenia, freestyle wrestling coach of the Yerevan State
Sports College of Olympic Reserve Yuri Babayan was awarded with the
"Gratitude" medal, NKR President’s Press Service reported.
Yuri Babayan trained great many outstanding sportsmen, including Vahan
Zatikyan, Lyova Vardanyan, Levon Hayrapetyan, Stepan Sargsyan. Dozens
of his trainees earned Master of Sport degrees, won European, Olympic
and world championships.
In 2005 he was awarded with "Competence and professionalism" medal
in Khasavyurt, Dagestan and in 2008 Honorary Khasavyurt Citizen’s
title was bestowed on him for significant contributions in free
style wrestling.
ARMENIAN COMMUNITY TO HAVE 6 SEATS AT NEWLY-ELECTED PARLIAMENT OF LEBANON
Noyan Tapan
June 9, 2009
BEIRUT, JUNE 9, NOYAN TAPAN – ARMENIANS TODAY. Parliamentary elections
were held in Lebanon on June 7, which ended by the victory of the
leading bloc of the country March 14. According to the preliminary
data, pro-western March 14 bloc took 70 of 128 seats of Lebanese
parliament keeping the majority.
According to the Masis weekly, the March 8 movement, which led the
pro-Iranian and pro-Syrian Hisb Alah party, was defeated.
Armenian parties running for the elections were also divided into
these two fronts. The Social-Democratic Hnchakian and Ramkavar
Azatakan parties ran for the elections as a member of March 14,
and the Armenian Revolutionary Federation as a member of March 8.
The March 14 forces took all five seats of the capital of Lebanon
Beirut’s first electoral district. In this electoral district in
the struggle carried out for two Armenian seats Serge Tursargisian
nominated from the Hnchakian party defeated the ARFD candidate Greguar
Galust, and Jan Oghasapian nominated from the Ramkavar party defeated
ARFD candidate Vrej Sapunjian.
Hnchakian party candidate Sepuh Galpagian and ARFD candidate
Artur Nazarian won at Beirut’s second electoral district having no
competitor. In Metny region, which includes Burj Hamud’s Armenian
districts, the only nominated candidate from ARFD, Hakob Bagratunian
was elected.
In Zahle electoral district, which included Armenian Aynchar village,
the representatives of March 14 again won, and in the struggle for
the only Armenian seat Nshan Chinchinian, who has the support of
the Hnchakian party, defeated the present member of parliament,
ARFD member George Qasarji.
Thus, two of six seats intended for Armenians at the parliament of
Lebanon fell to the Hnchakian party, two to the Armenian Revolutionary
Federation, one to the Ramkavar party and one to non-partisan Nshan
Chinchinian.
U.S. TO CONTINUE ACTIVELY PROMOTING NAGORNO KARABAKH SETTLEMENT
Noyan Tapan
June 9, 2009
YEREVAN, JUNE 9, NOYAN TAPAN. The U.S. attaches importance to expansion
of cooperation with Armenia in various spheres. As U.S. Assistant
Secretary of State Philip Gordon mentioned at the June 9 meeting with
RA Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian, its evidence is that after
being appointed on the post of Assistant Secretary of State he starts
his first foreign trip from Armenia.
According to E. Nalbandian, attaching importance to further
strengthening of relations with the United States, Armenia will pursue
development and deepening of friendly partnership with the U.S.
According to the RA Foreign Ministry Press and Information Department,
E. Nalbandian and P. Gordon had a detailed talk over further
development of Armenian-American relations, attached importance
to the work done within the framework of the Armenian-American
Intergovernmental Commission on Economic Issues, touched upon issues
regarding the Millennium Challenge program, process of reforms carried
out in Armenia.
The U.S. Assistant Secretary of State reaffirmed U.S. administration’s
support to the steps undertaken in the direction of normalization of
Armenian-Turkish relations.
The interlocutors also exchanged thoughts over Nagorno Karabakh
settlement.
P. Gordon emphasized that the U.S. as OSCE Minsk Group co-chairing
country will continue actively promoting the problem settlement.
LPG FILLING STATIONS IN ARMENIA TO BE TRANSFERRED TO COMMON TAXATION FIELD
ArmInfo
2009-06-08 12:00:00
ArmInfo. Today, Parliament of Armenia introduced alterations and
amendments to the Law ‘On Fixed Payments’ in the first reading.
As one of the document authors, MP Robert Tovmasyan said, the draft law
purposes to settle the problems related to LPG filling stations. So,
according to the current law, the owners of LPG filling stations pay
1,5 mln drams from every ‘pistol’ in the form of fixed payments to
the state budget.
This circumstance causes non-interest of LPG filling stations’ owners
in installation of new ‘pistols’, that leads to creation of queues. The
draft law offers to transfer the gas filling stations to the common
taxation field, that will allow to increase the budget deductions,
on one hand, and avoid queues- on the other.
At present, there are over 200 LPG filling stations in Armenia. To
note, the government of Armenia argued against adoption of the document
as it is.
SHARAFYAN’S `SURGITE GLORIA’ PERFORMED BY YURI BASHMET
13:32 04/06/2009
Source: Panorama.am
Vache Sharafyan’s `Surgite Gloria’ Concert Russian première, which is
devoted to Yuri Bashmet, will be performed by Yuri Bashmet himself and
`Moscow’s soloists’ on 19 September, Gayane Durgaryan the head of
public relations department of the Culture Ministry told Panorama.am.
The soloists of the concert are Ksenia Bashmet (piano), Rostislav
Krimer (piano), Gevorg Dabaghyan (duduk).
TURKISH CONSULATE OFFICIAL DENIES GENOCIDE AT CONFERENCE ON GENOCIDE DENIAL IN NORWAY
consulate-official-denies-genocide-at-conference-o n-genocide-denial-in-norway/
Jun 5, 2009
OSLO, Norway (Bianet)-At a panel discussion on the limits of laws on
Holocaust Denial at the International Freedom of Expression eXchange
Conference in Oslo, Norway on Friday, a Turkish consulate official
interrupted a discussion on the denial of the Armenian Genocide,
claiming that Armenians were brutally murdered and deported from
their homeland for treason.
A person describing themselves as an official at the Turkish consulate
in Norway, objected to the use of the word "genocide" used by speakers
to describe both what happened to Jews in the Third Reich and what
happened to Armenians in the Ottoman Empire in 1915.
"They were not deported because they were Armenians or because
of their race, but because they collaborated with the enemy," the
official claimed.
But thousands of pages of official government archives from the
United States, Russia, France, Germany, and even Turkey, point to
the indisputable fact that in 1915 the Ottoman Turkish government
set out to annihilate the indigenous Armenian population inhabiting
the lands under its dominion not for collusion, but for being Armenian.
Between 1915-1923, the government executed a systematic campaign to
exterminate the Armenian people and remove them from their historic
homeland. The Armenian Genocide, recognized as the first genocide of
the 20th century by historians the world over, resulted in the death of
an estimated 1.5 million Armenians and the loss of millions of dollars
in property and land now under occupation by the Republic of Turkey.
But talking about this history is a crime in Turkey. According to
Turkish publisher Ragip Zarakolu, who spoke at the panel, Articles
301 and 305 of the Turkish Penal Code prevent people from discussing
the Armenian genocide. Zarakolu, the owner of Belge Publications,
has himself been convicted under Article 301 for "denigrating the
Turkish state or state organs" and for "inciting hatred and hostility."
Zarakolu said that these "laws encourage denial."
But the consulate official disagreed, arguing that Article 301 and
other such laws were designed to "protect the unity of their territory
and security."
EMERGENCY RESUE TEAM SAVES TWO BOYS SWEPT AWAY IN RIVER
Armen Davtyan
2009/ 06/05 | 13:59
Society
At 5:40 pm, the Kapan fire brigade received word that two young boys
had been swept away in the Voghj River. Minutes later, emergency
services Director Davit Asatryan and a team of rescue personnel
arrived on the scene.
14 year-old Garnik Avetisyan was fishing along the river bank when
he slipped and fell in. Diving into the swollen river to save him was
his friend, 15 year-old Albert. The waters swept both boys down river.
After being plucked from the icy waters, Garnik was rushed to the
Kapan mediacl center for first aid. The staff says that his present
condition is stable. The boy, probably still traumatized by the
incident, didn’t wish to speak to Hetq about the incident.
His friend Albert was treated on site and later sent home. He expressed
a desire to visit Garnik in hospital.
Martoun, Garnik’s father, praised the courageous actions of the rescue
team. Team leader Volodya Gabrielyan stated that, "When you arrive at
an accident scene you stop thinking about your personal safety. You
want to rescue those in peril at any cost."
According to our information, a 40 year-old fell into the same stretch
or river on June 3 and was lucikly dragged to shore.
SEYRAN OHANYAN: ARMENIA NEEDS NEW SCHOLARS
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05.06.2009 20:01 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Today, when active reforms are being carried out in
Armenia’s armed forces, scientific and research components acquire
special importance in military sphere, RA Defense Minister Seyran
Ohanyan said today during NSRI first session. "Servicemen did not
have scientific titles in the past, and they didn’t author research
papers. The establishment of such council will enable us to prepare
serious specialists in two spheres." Defense Minister noted. The
Council’s activities, he said, will enable young scholars to study
international practice and contribute to the development of the
Armenian statehood.
YEREVAN TO HOST CLASSIC MUSIC CONCERTS
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06.06.2009 11:34 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ From June 8 to 10, Yerevan will host a series
of concerts within "Perspectives XXI" 10th International Music
Festival. Tony Arnold soprano /USA/, Movses Pogossian violin /USA/,
Rohan De Saram cello /BRITAIN/, Philip O’Connor clarinet /USA/,
Artur Avanesov piano /Armenia/ will perform.
The program includes: June 8. Komitas Chamber Music Hall, Z. Kodaly
– Duo for violin and cello, Op.7, D. Shostakovich – Seven Romances
on Poems by Alexander Blok, Op. 127, for soprano and piano trio,
V. Sharafyan – Ancient Anthem for soprano and violin, H. Birtwistle
– 9 settings of Lorine Niedecker for soprano and cello, B. Bartok –
Contrasts, for violin, clarinet, piano June 9 will feature a concert
in the Club at 10 pm. June 10. Komitas Chamber Music Hall, 7 pm,
A. Avanesov – Zemestani/Bahari/Beheshti (2008), for violin and piano,
O. Messiaen – Poemes pour Mi (1936), for soprano and piano, O. Messiaen
– Quartet for the End of Time (1940), for violin, clarinet, cello,
piano 1. Liturgy of crystal 2. Vocalise, for the Angel who announces
the end of Time 3. Abyss of the birds 4. Interlude 5. Praise to
the Eternity of Jesus 6. Dance of fury, for the seven trumpets 7. A
mingling of rainbows for the Angel who announces the end of Time.
8. Praise to the Immortality of Jesus