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Friends of UCLA Armenian Language and Culture Studies

Prof. Peter Cowe honored at Los Angeles banquet

Los Angeles, June 12, 2014 – On the evening of June 1, a banquet
honoring the 30th anniversary of Prof. S. Peter Cowe’s scholarly
career and the 45th anniversary of the Narekatsi Chair in Armenian
Studies at UCLA was held in Los Angeles. The jubilant event, which took
place at The London, West Hollywood, was organized jointly by the 30th
Anniversary Committee and the Friends of UCLA Armenian Language and
Culture Studies, in support of the expansion of the Armenian Studies
program and particularly Western-Armenian instruction at UCLA.

The over 200 guests included community leaders, scholars, and Armenology
students. Present were a number of academics from Armenia, Europe, and
the Americas who were participating in a UCLA conference organized by
Dr. Grigor Areshian on `Current Practices in Aremenian Studies: the
Creation and Visibility of New Knowledge.’ Most of the evening’s
speakers were UCLA alumni of Armenian Studies.

Two elements were particularly noteworthy about the evening: one was the
warm atmosphere between students and teacher; and the second, the
impressive growth of Armenian Studies as a highly sought-after field
among the present generation – marked by the large number of local
scholars in the field, as befits the largest Armenian diasporan
community, and reinforced by visiting colleagues from different parts of
the world.

Following a cocktail reception and book exhibit at The London’s Marble
Terrace, the banquet started inside the Kensington Ballroom. Welcome
remarks were delivered by Shahane Martirosyan and Gayane Khechoomian,
and grace was said by the Very Rev. Fr. Dajad Yardemian of the Western
Diocese.

In his opening address, Ben Charchian said, `At UCLA, walking around
the campus, learning that the language you speak is thousands of years
old and your alphabet is over 1,600 years old, you hold your head up
high. Prof. Cowe was instrumental in instilling in me, and hundreds of
other students, that sense of pride.’

An early highlight of the banquet was the ritual presentation of haggis,
a traditional Scottish dish, as a surprise tribute to Prof. Cowe’s
Scottish descent. The colorful presentation, complete with bagpipe
music, comprised a procession around the hall led by the piper and a
thunderous haggis oration delivered by Dr. Neil McLeod, followed by a
performance of the Scottish sword dance. Subsequently haggis was served
to the guests.

Next, an encyclical from Catholicos Aram I, congratulating Prof. Cowe on
his achievements as an outstanding Armenologist, was read by Right Rev.
Fr. Boghos Tinkjian. Among other things, His Holiness wrote, `We have
known Dr. Cowe closely over the last 30 years, both personally and
through his serious investigations and critical studies, which have
contributed to the advance of Armenian Studies. Therefore, this
initiative to celebrate Dr. Cowe’s 30 years of academic activity is to
be warmly welcomed.’

Presenting the 45th anniversary of the Narekatsi Chair was Shushan
Karapetian, the most recent PhD recipient in the Armenian Studies
program at UCLA, who in turn was introduced by Ani Shirinian.

As she reminisced about her experiences as a student of Prof. Cowe,
Karapetian said, `A few years into my graduate program, as I had just
completed Intermediate Classical Armenian, I walked into Prof. Cowe’s
office and told him, `I wish there were more; I wish we could pursue
studies in Classical Armenian as well.’ And he said, `The advanced
level has never been offered.’ So I shrugged, disappointed. But he
said, `I don’t see why it shouldn’t be.’ So, with no further
ado, he inaugurated an advanced series of Classical Armenian at my
simple little request, after which my fellow students and I had the most
amazing year of our lives studying the subject. We also created a team
name, Team Grabar, whose leader was Prof. Cowe – labeled `The
Michael Jordan of Grabar’ by fellow student Ara Soghomonian. We were
all aspiring players who knew we would never be as good as our teacher
but we were going to die trying!’

Karapetian’s address was followed by the screening of a short
documentary, Inside the Academic Studio, directed and produced by
Armenian Studies doctoral student Ara Soghomonian. The film featured
humorous, highly engaging conversations between Prof. Cowe and a number
of his students, shedding fresh light on his life and career as a
beloved Armenologist.

Subsequently Dr. Talar Chahinian introduced the event’s keynote
speaker, Theo van Lint, who is a Calouste Gulbenkian Professor of
Armenian Studies at Oxford and a Fellow of Pembroke College. As he
presented the honoree’s career and accomplishments, van Lint said,
`When Peter sets out a scholarly position, his work is always
carefully contextualized, with all caveats and nuances required to
tackle all facets of a problem. This innate fairness, coupled with a
sharp mind and an absolute passion for the subject at hand, can lead to
a feast of conversation.’

`Many of us familiar with Peter’s scholarly work, and particularly
his style, are used to long sentences in which the various aspects of a
position are carefully considered while the reader longs for a period!’
Prof. van Lint continued jokingly. `Fifteen subordinate clauses are no
exception to Peter. And it’s all one sentence, one big thought, which
he will bring to a brilliant end and it will be like a fugue. That is
what he does: he thinks in terms of music. That’s quite rare in
Armenian Studies. It’s quite rare among scholars. It’s quite rare
among human beings.’

After a musical interlude featuring a performance on traditional
Armenian instruments, Ardashes Kassakhian, Glendale City Clerk and a
former student of Prof. Cowe, took the podium. As he drew parallels
between the great Armenian translators of the Middle Ages and
present-day Armenologists, Kassakhian said, `Today, as the Armenian
nation is dispersed around the world, it is thanks to scholars and
translators like Prof. Cowe that Armenian history and the masterpieces
of the Armenian intellectual legacy are being brought forth for the
enjoyment of the world and diaspora Armenians such as myself.’
Kassakhian then invited the evening’s honoree to the stage.

`When I started out as an Armenologist, I couldn’t imagine my
journey would be so enriching and rewarding,’ Prof. Cowe began. `It
has proved beyond my expectations. Yet I had an inkling then that
Armenology was an idea whose time would come, and the subsequent
proliferation of the field, as testified by so many in our midst
tonight, has confirmed my impression.’

`I also appreciate the tribute to my Scottish background tonight,’
Cowe continued. `In this respect, it gives me great pleasure to know
that one of my longstanding goals has been met, that Armenian is now
being taught in Scotland, in our oldest university, at St. Andrews.’

Cowe closed his remarks by stating: `My wish is that all of you, and
Armenians as a whole, would step back from the immediate pressures of
your surroundings to recenter, to reintegrate with your core, and
reenergize your cultural capacity to creatively engage with the current
environment. Yours is not a culture that is on its last legs, that needs
to be artificially `preserved’ in an oxygen tent; rather, it is one
that is actual and vital, seeking new modes of expression to be
authentic to its reality. You have not only a legacy, but a potential,
one you must claim and make your own.’

The banquet concluded with a benediction, followed by a
Scottish-Armenian musical composition arranged by Artashes Kartalian and
combining the bagpipe and zurna.

Accompanying the event was a beautiful booklet featuring the honoree’s
biography, publications, awards, and list of PhD students supervised, as
well as congratulatory letters and notes from colleagues around the
world, including the following commendation from his senior colleague at
UCLA Prof. Richard G. Hovannisian: `S. Peter Cowe has given strong
impetus to Armenian Studies in the United States and abroad. His
erudition and broad horizons allow for a useful comparative approach
that helps to integrate Armenian Studies into World History and Culture.
I welcome the opportunity to congratulate him on his 30th anniversary in
the field and to wish him many productive years of research,
publication, teaching, and community participation as the Holder of the

Monte Melkonian: A talented scholar and defender of Karabakh’s
self-determination

12:30, 21 May, 2014

In assessing the grand victories of May, in particular, the victory
won at the World War II and the liberation of Shushi, it is important
not only to perceive the value of feat of arms of the Homeland’s
defender, but also to represent him as a gifted person, a patriot and
an intellectual. In the history of the Armenian people instances are
not rare when a scholar or a man of art, at a fatal hour for his
people, rose in arms to defend his Homeland, the spiritual values and
glorious traditions of the nation. Such examples were numerous,
especially in the 20th century, and in particular – in the Artsakh
liberation war. In this aspect, characteristic is the image of Monte
Melkonian, the National Hero of the Republic of Armenia (RA). It is no
mere chance, that Hayk Kotanjian – Advisor of the RA Minister of
Defense, Head of the Institute for National Strategic Studies, MOD,
RA, Doctor of Political Science, visiting Levon Shant Secondary School
N 4 in Yerevan – where within the anniversary of the liberation of
Shushi an event devoted to the memory of Monte Melkonian was organized
by schoolchildren of 5-6 classes – presented them with a
bibliographically unique edition of Monte Melkonian’s Master’s Thesis
titled “Urartian Rock-Cut Tombs. Description and Analysis”. The
General’s gift embraced a special meaning, as it was intended to
introduce Monte Melkonian to the public anew.

In 1995, when after the armistice the Republic of Armenia within its
limited capacities started to build the Armed Forces and consolidate
the Army, when, due to cyclic power cutoffs, poor transport, and food
shortage the activities of the majority of enterprises and
institutions, primarily academic and educational establishments, were
put on hold, Monte Melkonian’s widow Seda and Dr. Aram Kalantaryan,
the Director of the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography, National
Academy of Sciences (NAS), RA, turned to Dr. Hayk Kotanjian with a
request to publish the Master’s thesis of the national hero having
bravely fallen on the battlefield. Under the high patronage of the
then Minister of Defense, National Hero of Armenia Vazgen Sargsyan and
with the assistance of his Deputies Vahan Shirkhanyan and Hmayak
Aroyan, it was decided to immediately publish this valuable research,
which Monte Melkonian had defended for Master’s Degree in “Archaeology
and History of Asia” at the prestigious University of Berkeley, US, in
1978. Before that, Monte had graduated the four-year Bachelor’s
program in 2.5 years. He mastered seven languages.

Introducing his research work to the public was of great importance as
it represented Monte Melkonian, the former fighter of the Armenian
Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia (ASALA), who rose to defend
Nagorno-Karabakh – self-determined in compliance with the legislation
then in force – in a new way, as a talented researcher from the US and
a young Armenian, who, abandoning a brilliant career of a scholar
abroad (he had been enrolled in Postgraduate studies at the Oxford
University, but quit it), came to selflessly and entirely devote
himself to the noble cause of defending the Armenians of Artsakh.
Moreover, the publication of the freedom-fighter’s research through
depicting his true image neutralized the enemy’s deliberate attempts
to denigrate Monte Melkonian.

So as to organize a decent publication of the freedom-fighter’s
research paper an editorial team was created under Dr. Hayk
Kotanjian’s supervision, which was to work on the translation text
minutely and with interest, and issued it meeting the academic
criteria and requirements. The editorial team comprised of the
academic partners from the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography,
NAS, RA – PhDs in History Rusan Lazarian, Simon Hmayakyan, Ashot
Piliposyan, Pavel Avetisyan; highly skilled specialists of the
defense-academic journal MOD, RA “Haykakan Banak” (“Armenian Defense”)
– Doctor of History, Professor Boris Balayan, PhD in Philosophy,
Associate Professor Vladimir Baghdasaryan, Executive Editor Davit
Chilingaryan, Art and Technical Editor Razmik Gevorgyan, Graphic
Designer Sergey Narazyan, as well as a group of professional officers
on computer software support from the Computing Center of the MOD, RA,
under the guidance of Chief Specialist Samvel Atoyan.

The selfless efforts by the team did yield the desired result: the
product of Monte Melkonian’s scientific thinking turned into an
academic publication, which was the continuation of the series of the
“Archaeological Monuments of Armenia” by the Institute of Archaeology
and Ethnography, NAS, RA, interrupted due to lack of required
resources. It was the defense-academic journal “Haykakan Banak”, MOD,
RA, to be the publisher. At the request of Monte’s widow the
publication was sent to the Universities of Sorbonne, Berkeley and to
other academic educational centers of the world.

It should be highlighted that Monte Melkonian was, as a matter of
fact, born for science. Arriving in Armenia he showed a great interest
in the academic centers of Armenia, including the Institute of
Oriental Studies of the National Academy of Sciences of Armenia. He
used to attend that Institute throughout a month, communicate with the
members of the Institute, and take part in academic discussions. He
was very happy to find out that there was a Department of Arabic
Studies at the Institute. At that time I was not only the Deputy
Director of the Institute, but also the Head of the above-mentioned
Department. We often used to have talks on the important role the
Arabs had played in saving the Armenians deported in the course of the
Armenian Genocide in the Ottoman Empire. He underlined that if it
weren’t for the Arabs and their support, the contemporary Armenian
Diaspora would never survive. He even wanted to draft a perspective
plan on developing the Arabic studies. But he didn’t manage to. The
Karabakh war broke out, and Monte changed his pen with the sword.

Later on, one of his friends, Dean of the Department of Oriental
Studies of Yerevan State University Dr. Gurgen Melikyan, one day
phoned me. There was such a deep grief in his voice that we were all
stunned. He said: “Monte is gone…” For his merits to the Republic of
Nagorno-Karabakh Monte Melkonian was awarded the highest title of the
“Hero of Artsakh” and the order of “Golden Eagle”. In 1996 he was
posthumously awarded the highest honorary title of the “National Hero
of the Republic of Armenia”.

But the memory of him is alive. So now, Monte Melkonian, the National
Hero of the Republic of Armenia, the Hero of Artsakh appears before
the grateful descendents not only in the image of a true knight of his
Homeland, but also as a talented scholar, who sacrificed his career
and life for the sake of the freedom of his Homeland and for the
independence and development of its people.

Nikolay Hovhannisyan

Doctor of History, Professor

Corresponding Member of the NAS, Armenia

Honored Scientist

Armenia, Artsakh officials discuss the situation at the line of contact

11:31 14.06.2014

On 13 June Artsakh Republic President Bako Sahakyan received Defense
Minister of the Republic of Armenia Seyran Ohanyan.

A number of issues related to army building and cooperation between
the two Armenian states in this sphere were discussed during the
meeting.

Within the framework of the visit Seyran Ohanyan had a meeting with
NKR Defense Minister, Lieutenant General Movses Hakkobyan.

The Ministers discussed the situation at the loine of contact and a
number of issues related to the cooperation between the armed forces
of the two republics.

Robertino Loreti to give charity concert in Karabakh

11:30, 14 June, 2014

YEREVAN, JUNE 14, ARMENPRESS. The charity concert by prominent Italian
singer Robertino Loreti will be held on June 19 in the House of
Culture of Karabakh’s capital Stepanakert. Robertino Loreti will pay a
visit to the Nagorno Karabakh Republic with his piano player Fabrizio
Masci and his 12-year old student Felix Karamyan.

In a conversation with “Armenpress”, the organizer of the concert,
Director of Cadence music centre Nika Babayan stated that Felix
Karamyan lives in Nizhny Novgorod, but he comes from Karabakh.

Robertino Loreti teaches Felix and finds that he is a future star. The
teacher and the student give joint concerts in the Baltic and
Scandinavian states from the last year.

The Minister of Culture of the Nagorno Karabakh Republic Narine
Aghabalyan emphasized that this is not the first time that world
famous stars arrive in Karabakh to meet the people of Artsakh.

This is not an official, but one of the best ways of recognition, as
Karabakh gains recognition worldwide with its culture, history, and
people.

ARMENIE
Préoccupations à propos du lac Sevan : Les écologistes appellent à
l’utilisation rationnelle des ressources en eau

Les écologistes mettent en garde encore une fois contre l’utilisation
irrationnelle des ressources en eau ce qui nuit sensiblement à
l’environnement arménien. En Avril les députés arméniens ont voté à 96
pour 15 contre et avec 4 abstentions pour l’adoption d’un projet de
loi controversé qui permet le drainage supplémentaire de l’eau du lac
Sevan.

Lors d’une réunion avec des journalistes le chef de l’ONG > Karine Danielian, à propos du drainage
de l’eau du lac Sevan, a dit qu’il y a un problème évident de manque
d’eau dans le bassin Ararat, mais c’est une mauvaise idée de résoudre
ce problème sur le compte du lac Sevan.

> a
déclaré Karine Danielian.

Le Chef du centre sociologique Sociometer Aharon Adibekyan a dit que
nous avons besoin de moderniser l’agriculture et que faire des
économies de l’eau n’est pas nocif mais plutôt utile.

> a dit Adibekyan, ajoutant
que nous avons besoin de créer une structure systématique, qui sera
responsable de l’utilisation de ces eaux. >.

Par Gohar Abrahamyan

ArmeniaNow

samedi 14 juin 2014,
Stéphane (c)armenews.com

SPORTS-TENNIS
Disparition de l’Arménien Sarkis Kharpertsi surnommé > des entraineurs de tennis en Turquie

Le >, l’Arménien Sarkis Kharpertsi le célèbre
entraineur de tennis est mort. L avait 95 ans. Plusieurs médias turcs
annoncent la nouvelle de la disparition du plus célèbre entraîneur de
tennis de Turquie, l’Arménien Sarkis Kharpertsi, appelé > qui repose désormais au cimetière Sourp Garabéd
d’Istanbul. Sarkis Kharpertsi avait également crée des clubs de tennis
tels que Dalyan Clup ou Caddebostan Raket Kulup où il avait entrainé
des générations de sportifs.

Sarkis Kharpertsi était né au village de Teverek dans la région de
Kayseri (Césarée). Il perdait très top son père, Hagop. Il
s’installait alors en compagnie de sa mère Parantsème à Istanbul. Cinq
ans plus tard ils retourneront à Teverek. Puis reviennent à Istanbul
trois ans après. Afin d’aider sa famille à payer les frais de sa
scolarité, le jeune Sarkis se rend sur les courts de tennis de
Kadekeuy pour ramasser des balles de tennis et gagner de l’argent.
Mais cette proximité du tennis lui ouvrait déjà les voies d’une
carrière.

Krikor Amirzayan

samedi 14 juin 2014,
Krikor Amirzayan (c)armenews.com

EUROPEAN ARMENIAN FEDERATION
For Justice and Democracy
Avenue de la Renaissance 10
Bruxelles, 1000
Belgique

Tel./Fax : +32 (0) 2 732 70 26 / 27
E-mail : [email protected]
Web:

Open letter to José Manuel Barroso, President of the European Commission

Open Letter to Mr. José Manuel Barroso

President, European Commission
Rue de la Loi 200
1049 Brussels

Brussels, 12 June 2014

Dear President Barroso,

On June 14 you will be visiting Azerbaijan, where you
will be meeting President Ilham Aliyev to hold bilateral talks, and you
will be giving a speech at the ADA University on “EU – Azerbaijan: new
opportunities and challenges”.

The European Armenian Federation for Justice and
Democracy would like to once again draw your attention on Azerbaijan, a
country which the Freedom House categorizes as a ” Consolidated
Authoritarian Regime”, with Ilham Aliyev, the President of Azerbaijan,
being the first ever Organized Crime and Corruption Person of the Year
bestowed by the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project
(), who “succeeded his
father in 2003, continuing and intensifying the most repressive aspects
of his father’s rule. Since then, the inflow of significant oil
revenues has fueled presidential patronage, strengthened the
state’s security apparatus, and partially subdued both domestic
and foreign criticism of the regime”
().

It was only yesterday, that the Foreign Policy
magazine run an investigative piece titled “The Corleones of the
Caspian. How Azerbaijan’s dictator woos the United States and Europe”
(), stressing that while the
national debate is controlled at home through means of intimidation,
censorship, and legal jury-rigging, Azerbaijan’s greater mission is to
whitewash its reputation abroad – where it hasn’t resorted to
all-expenses-paid vacations to Baku – a form of what European Stability
Initiative witheringly describes as “caviar diplomacy” (“Caviar
Diplomacy. How Azerbaijan silenced the Council of Europe”,
, doesn’t leave much to
the imagination) – it has spent millions of dollars in U.S. and European
lobbying, consultancy, and PR firms to whitewash its image in the
American and European media. The Aliyev regime thus, have managed to
buy friends and influence people, including past and present members of
the U.S. Congress, British Parliament, and the Parliamentary Assembly of
the Council of Europe, which was once known for pressuring
dictatorships, not embracing them.

It was less than a month ago, that the Bureau of PACE
(Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe) decided that no more
Assembly committee meetings will be held in Azerbaijan for two years, as
of 1 June 2014
().

We urge you to address those issues at your meetings
and stress the anti-Armenian propaganda going on in Azerbaijan as well,
which reached its height in September 2012, when Ilham Aliyev pardoned
Ramil Safarov upon his arrival to Baku from Hungary, where he was
convicted for murdering an Armenian colleague during a course sponsored
by NATO’s Partnership for Peace Program in Budapest; whereas
Safarov had pleaded guilty and had expressed no remorse, defending his
action on the grounds that the victim was Armenian
().

Furthermore, the European Armenian Federation asks you
to stress that Azerbaijan respect the OSCE Minsk Group mediation efforts
in solving the Nagorno Karabakh conflict, withdraw the snipers along the
line of contact, and accept the creation of a mechanism of investigation
of incidents, which Armenia has already agreed to.

At your speech at the ADA, we ask you to address all
the above mentioned issues to the youth and the students, that it needs
more than an oppressing regime to develop and democratize a country, and
that for a lasting peace in the region, there should be confidence
building measures between the peoples, mutual understanding, tolerance
and acceptance.

The 2% Azerbaijani gas flowing to Europe should not
blind the EU Commission, should not make it accomplice to violations of
the core EU values and rights, in the hope of signing a Strategic
Modernization Partnership and an Association Agreement with Baku and the
Aliyev regime, whose victims are the Azerbaijani people and the region.

Yours faithfully,

Kaspar Karampetian,

President,
European Armenian Federation for Justice & Democracy

AGAIN THEY ARE REQUESTING “ARAVOT” TO DISCLOSE THE SOURCE OF INFORMATION

June 12 2014

The experience of “Aravot” shows that the desire of our law enforcement
agencies to find out the source awakens when it comes to the former
Syunik Governor Suren Khachatryan. The investigation service of
Defense Ministry had already interrogated two of Aravot.am employees,
requesting to disclose the source of information in our publications
about Surik Khachatryan. Recently, we received a letter signed by
the Head of Goris Police Department of RA Police, police colonel
A. G. Hovhannisyan, which was sent to “Aravot” on May 30. The letter
particularly reads, “Under the necessity of the materials prepared at
the Goris Police Department, please provide us with the information
about the sources of information available in the article “Stabbing
in Goris. Again Surik Khachatryan’s relatives” (26.05.2014) published
in your website.” We have already sent a letter to the police with
the same answer, which we had informed verbally during the previous
two interrogations. That is, according to the Law of the Republic
of Armenia on Dissemination of Mass Information, Article 5, “1. The
persons implementing media activity and the journalists shall not be
obliged to disclose their sources of information, with the exception
of the cases set forth in the 2nd part of this Article. 2.

The implementer of media activity or a journalist can be obliged
to disclose the source of information by the court decision, in the
course of a criminal proceeding with the aim of revealing heavy or most
heavy crimes, if societal interest in law enforcement overweighs the
societal interest in protecting the sources of information, and all
other means to protect public interest are exhausted. In such cases,
at the petition of the journalist, the court proceedings can be held
in camera.” At the request of disclosing our source of information,
accordingly, you can apply to the court.” In addition, the requests for
disclosing the sources of information became more frequent after George
Kostanyan’s taking office as a Prosecutor General. The prosecutor’s
office had published its attitude afterwards, which particularly reads,
“By the instruction of the RA Prosecutor General, the supervising
prosecutors shall initiate criminal and judicial influencing
measures defined by law for each case of publications in the mass
media about the evidences obtained during the pre-investigation,
or the circumstances subject to checking, to ensure identification
of circumstances and sources of these information that have become
known to the media, as well as the implementation of investigative
and judicial actions necessary with this regard. The culprit will
be punished by the law.” We find it proper to mention that whenever
we will be requested to disclose the source of information, we will
refer to the same provision of the law.

Thus, we call the law enforcement to apply to court without wasting
time on documentation.

Anna ISRAELYAN

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MEDICAMENTS, VACCINES AND VITAMINS TO BE SUBJECT TO OBLIGATORY MARKING IN ARMENIA

YEREVAN, June 12. /ARKA/. Medicaments, vaccines and vitamins will
be subject to obligatory marking in Armenia, Finance Minister Gagik
Khachatryan said Thursday at a regular Cabinet session.

On Thursday, the government approved the amendments to the law on
goods and services which propose to include medicaments, vaccines and
vitamins in the group of the commodities subject to mandatory marking.

“Given that there are still unsold products without marks at the
market, the system will be introduced gradually to give economic
entities engaged in production, sale and import of goods time for
selling them,” Khachatryan said.

In particular, the deadline for manufacturers is October 31, 2014
and for traders January 31, 2015..-0—-

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ZOHRAB MNATSAKANYAN HANDS OVER HIS CREDENTIALS TO UN SECRETARY GENERAL

Thursday 12 June 2014 11:10
Photo: Press service of Armenian Foreign Ministry

Ban Ki-moon and Zohrab Mnatsakanyan

Yerevan /Mediamax/. Permanent Representative of Armenia to UN Zohrab
Mnatsakanyan handed over his credentials to UN Secretary General
Ban Ki-moon.

Zohrab Mnatsakanyan introduced Armenian foreign policy priorities to
the UN Secretary General as well as the activities of the Permanent
Representation.

Ambassador Mnatsakanyan and Ban Ki-moon touched upon the efforts
employed for the peace process of Nagorno Karabakh conflict. They
stressed the essence of the conflict’s peace process and the
irreplaceability of the negotiation format taking place with the
intermediary of the OSCE Co-Chairs.