Author: Nanijanian Alex

PRESIDENT OF ARMENIA TO LEAVE FOR WASHINGTON

ArmInfo
2010-04-01 13:57:00

ArmInfo. President of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan will leave for the USA
on April 12, President’s Spokesman Armen Arzumanyan told ArmInfo.

He said Serzh Sargsyan will leave for the USA at the invitation of
his US counterpart Barack Obama to participate in the Nuclear Safety
Summit on April 12-13.

In his invitation Barack Obama in particular says that he invites
the president of Armenia to participate in the Nuclear Safety Summit
taking into account Armenia’s commitment to nuclear safety goals and
the fight against nuclear terrorism. The summit aims to deepen human
perception of the danger of nuclear terrorism and dissemination
of radioactive materials for military purposes. Responsible for
radioactive materials, presidents must make it less accessible and
apply the highest criteria of reliable storage of radioactive waste.

ARMENIAN WILL BE TUTORED IN CYPRUS UNIVERSITY

PanARMENIAN.Net
31.03.2010 20:52 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Armenian language will be tutored in Cyprus
University starting September 2010.

The resolution was passed in Cyprus Parliament through the efforts
of Cyprus Armenian community and Cyprus parliamentarian of Armenian
decent, Vardges Maghdessian.

As Editor- in- Chief of "Cyprus Armenians" newspaper Simon Aynedjian
told PanARMENIAN.Net reporter, negotiations between Cyprus Armenian
community and state authorities lasted 2 years. "The issues on agenda
were purely organizational. There were no problems related to tutoring
Armenian in the University. Armenians have no problems in Cyprus,"
Simon Aynedjian concluded.

ALL GIFTS CAMPAIGN LAUNCHED TO SUPPORT CONSTRUCTION OF ARMENIAN HERITAGE PARK

Mar 31, 2010

An architectural rendering of the park

More than 35 Massachusetts Armenian-American parishes and organizations
are represented on the foundation’s Board of Directors.

"Although we will remain focused on securing lead and major
gifts," he continued. "We are now asking everyone to support this
once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. We are encouraging gifts at all
levels of support. Children are being encouraged to support it and
participate. Parishes and organizations are being asked to schedule
presentations that will speak to the importance of supporting Armenian
Heritage Park."

Brochures with sponsor forms will be available at all parishes and
organizations. There are two ways to support: By check, made payable
to Armenian Heritage Foundation, and mailed to Charles Guleserian,
Armenian Heritage Foundation, 25 Flanders Road, Belmont, MA 02478
or online at All contributions
are tax-deductible.

Serving on the All-Gifts Committee Planning Committee are George
Elanjian, chair; Judy Talanian Shagoury, vice chair; Tatoul Badalian,
Haig Deranian, Charles Guleserian, James Kalustian, Walter Nahabedian,
Harold Partamian and Barbara Tellalian. The committee is depending
on the involvement and support of everyone.

Construction is slated to begin this year, reported Kalustian, the
foundation’s president, at the recent board meeting. "We are making
extraordinary progress," he said. "As of February, 90 percent of the
construction and engineering documents have been completed by the
design team. The plans are presently being reviewed by the various
city, state and federal agencies."

Armenian Heritage Park is gift to the City of Boston and the
Commonwealth from Massachusetts Armenian-Americans.

Recognized as one of the better designed parks, Armenian Heritage Park
is consistent with one of the themes of the Greenway: to acknowledge
the history of Boston as a port of entry for immigrants worldwide
and those who have immigrated to our shores and contributed to the
richness of American life and culture.

A link between Faneuil Hall Marketplace and Christopher Columbus Park
on four-tenths of an acre on parcel 13 on the Greenway, Armenian
Heritage Park has received overwhelming support from neighboring
community groups in Boston’s North End and Wharf District as well as
many of Boston’s civic, community and political leaders.

Armenian Heritage Park includes lawns, benches, fountains, shade
trees as well as a labyrinth and sculpture, both to engage and delight
children and adults.

The labyrinth, a circular winding path in grass and inlaid stone with
a single jet of water at its center, is symbolic of life’s journey
and will celebrate achievements in art, science, commerce and service.

The sculpture, a twelve-sided abstract geometric sculpture – a split
rhombic dodecahedron – rests on a 16-foot diameter reflecting pool to
commemorate lives lost in the Armenian Genocide of 1915-1923 and all
genocides that have followed and to celebrate those who left their
country of origin and reconfigured their lives in this country in
new and different ways. The waters of the reflecting pool wash over
its sides commemorating lives lost and re-emerges as the single jet
of water at the labyrinth’s center, representing hope and rebirth.

Annually, the sculpture will be reconfigured to commemorate lives
lost and to celebrate all who came to these shores and reinvented
themselves in creative and new ways. The annual reconfiguration with
endless changing views will also bring wonder and delight.

Also, annually, an endowed lecture on human rights in collaboration
with the Bostonian Society will be held at Faneuil Hall, featuring
internationally-recognized scholars and leaders. The series is fully
endowed by one of a philanthropic families.

Endowed funds are also being established to support the care
and maintenance of the park in perpetuity as well as the annual
reconfiguration of the Sculpture.

For information on the limited number of sponsorship/naming
opportunities at the park, call or e-mail James Kalustian (781)
777-2407, [email protected]; Charles Guleserian (617) 484-6100,
[email protected]; Haig Deranian (617) 484-2215, [email protected] or
Walter Nahabedian (781)891-7249, [email protected].

For information, call or e-mail Chairman George Elanjian (781)
888-2227, [email protected] or visit

MINSK GROUP CO-CHAIRS: PARTIES COMMITTED TO PEACEFUL SETTLEMENT

2010 /03/30 | 16:11

Nagorno Karabakh

The Co-Chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group released the following statement
today:

"The Minsk Group Co-Chairs (Ambassador Yuri Merzlyakov, Russian
Federation; Ambassador Bernard Fassier, France; Ambassador Robert
Bradtke, United States) visited Yerevan and Nagorno-Karabakh March
26-29. They updated the de facto authorities March 27 on the current
state of negotiations.

In Yerevan, on March 28, the Co-Chairs met President Serzh Sargsyan
and Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian to further discuss Armenian
comments on the Basic Principles for the peaceful settlement of the
Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. While in Armenia, the Co-Chairs also had
a number of other separate bilateral meetings.

After the recent meetings between the Co-Chairs and the parties in
Paris and in the region, the Co-Chairs note with satisfaction the
commitment of the parties to reach a peaceful settlement within the
framework of the Madrid Principles."

HOVIK ABRAHAMYAN SENT A CONDOLENCE LETTER

Aysor
March 29 2010
Armenia

The chairman of the Armenian National Assembly Hovik Abrahamyan
extended his condolences to the Chairman of the Federation Council
of the Federal Assembly of Russian Federation Sergey Mironov and the
Speaker of Russia’s State Duma Boris Gryzlov.

The letter said in particular: "With a sorrow of heart I learnt about
the explosion that took place in the Moscow subway taking lives of
many people.

On behalf of the Armenian National Assembly and me personally I
express my deep condolences to you, to the families and friends of
the victims and wish quick recovery for the injured.

The terrorism is an evil which threatens the whole human race and
its eradication is the main issue of all the countries and all the
peoples."

DESCRIPTION OF EVENTS IN KHOJALY IN AZERBAIJAN’S LETTER TO UN IS PEAK OF AZERBAIJANI SPECULATIONS

ArmInfo
2010-03-30 10:47:00

ArmInfo. Permanent representation of Azerbaijan disseminated an
outrageous letter contained in the document A/64/658-S/2010/78 of
February 8, 2010, issued according to the points 14 and 18 of the
General Assembly’s 64th session agenda, which aimed at raising a new
wave of propaganda of hatred against Armenia and Nagorno Karabakh,
the letter of Armenia’s Resident Representative to the United Nations
Karen Nazaryan to UN Secretary General, received by ArmInfo, says.

According to Nazaryan’s letter, this document was prepared by the
Azerbaijani party in order to discredit Armenia and Nagorno Karabakh
during the current work of the General Assembly via misleading of the
world community through fabrication of impressive falsifications and
slanderous facts and data. "I am sorry about the fact that Azerbaijan
does not stop playing the same game and keeps on representing itself
as a victim of the so-called ‘Armenian aggression’, Nazaryan said.

The message says that description of Khojaly events in the
aforementioned document is a peak of the Azerbaijani speculations,
that Nazaryan make comments quoting the interview of former president
of Azerbaijan, Ayaz Mutalibov with Czech journalist Dana Mazalova.

Mutalibov said that he Azerbaijani opposition and militia were trying
to prevent the evacuation of civilians form the zone of military
actions through a mountain corridor. The Azerbaijani opposition hoped
to come to power via the slaughter of its own compatriots.

"In order to additionally clear up this issue, let me say that
the world community has already become a witness and confirmed
numerous barbarities by the Azerbaijani government with respect
to the unprotected Armenian population. When met the peace and
constitutional claims of people of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic
for self- determination, Azerbaijan’s government armed groups of
pogrom-makers, who committed massacres of the civil Armenian population
of Sumgait in 1988. Becoming the first case of the crimes of such kind
throughout the Soviet Union, these mass killings were included in the
case files for trials. As soon as Azerbaijan received an independence,
the county’s government released the convicted defendant and even
recognized them as national heroes", Nazaryan said. " These crimes
were followed by armed attacks against people of the Nagorno-Karabakh
Republic aimed at achieving military solution via extermination of the
Karabakh people. For the first, last and all the time it should become
clear that Azerbaijan itself launched a war of aggression against
the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic. Here in Armenia we believe that the
best solution in this situation is to restore the legitimate claims
of the people of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic to provide certain
inalienable right of nations to self-determination, the message says.

WE ARE EXPECTING ERDOGAN – CLINTON

news.az
March 29 2010
Azerbaijan

Clinton, Erdogan According to diplomatic sources, the Armenian bill
on the 1915 incidents dominated the Davutoglu-Clinton conversation.

The phone conversation lasted nearly one hour and Davutoglu asked
the bill not to come before House of Representatives, citing the
disappointment of Turkish community after the approval of the bill
along with reasons for the reaction arouse after that.

Clinton for her part said the Washinton administration opposed both the
bill approved in the Committee and bringing it before General Assembly.

Furthermore, Clinton highlighted that Prime Minister Recep Tayyip
Erdogan’s participation in International Nuclear Security Summit on
April 12-13 in Washington carried great importance in all means and
added that they are expecting Erdogan there.

The leaders also took up the recent developments in the MidEast,
and Iran and Iraq issues.

SARGSYAN SHOULD BE ATTENTIVE, ARAZ AZIMOV

news.az
March 29 2010
Azerbaijan

Araz Azimov ‘The Armenian president should be attentive in his
statements on the Karabakh conflict because Azerbaijan has repeatedly
voiced its proposals.

Our initiatives are contained in Madrid principles’, said Araz Azimov,
deputy foreign minister of Azerbaijan and personal representative of
the president on the Karabakh conflict settlement.

He said it is now Armenia’s turn to declare its position on the
updated Madrid principles.

‘The Armenian president should seriously consider these opportunities
if it supports the people who want to live in peace and durable
cooperation with Azerbaijanis. We are short of time. I think
the Armenian side uses inexpedient ways to gain time but I do not
think it will cope. On the one hand, it has to observe the norms of
international law and on the other hand use and appreciate Azerbaijan’s
striving for peace and compromise.

If it doesn’t, Azerbaijan will have to restore its territorial
integrity. At the same time, Azerbaijan will certainly ensure security
of its Armenian citizens. This is an extremely serious question. No
one should have time or reasons to make groundless statements’,
Araz Azimov said.

At the meeting with representatives of the Armenian community of
Syria, Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan said Armenia is not ready
for unilateral concessions and it expects the Azerbaijani side to
make proposals in the Karabakh issue.

Nairit Plant does not use caloric value of gas and must not consume it
on general terms

2010-03-26 13:33:00

ArmInfo. Nairit Plant does not use caloric value of gas and must not
consume it on the general terms, says Vazgen Safaryan, Chairman of the
union of Local Producers of Armenia, commenting on the upcoming rise
of gas tariff in Armenia.

He recalled that Nairit Plant derives acetylene from natural gas
through a chemical reaction to produce chloroprene rubber. Unlike
other industrial enterprises, Nairit does not burn gas in the
production and its caloric value is not a key parameter for it.
Therefore, it is logical that the plant is supplied with gas on
different terms, V, Safaryan said. In addition, he said, gas loss in
the transport and distribution systems in Armenia is still rather
high. For instance, he said that 5.4% of 1653 million cu m of gas to
be imported in Armenia in 2010 makes up 88 million co m, which is
similar to the yearly gas consumption by Nairit Plant. Starting April
1 2010 natural gas tariff in Armenia will grow from 154 to 180 dollars
per 100 cu m. For in industrial enterprises that consume over 10,000
cu m monthly the tariff will total $242.13/1000 cu m, inclusive of
VAT.

Purchase and sale transactions of 0 thousand conducted at NASDAQ OMX
Armenia OJSC on March 26

YEREVAN, MARCH 26, NOYAN TAPAN. Purchase and sale transactions of 0
thousand at the weighted average exchange rate of 397 drams per
dollarr were conducted at NASDAQ OMX Armenia OJSC on March 26.
According to the Central Bank of Armenia, the closing price was 397
drams.