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October 25, 2013 Friday 4:22 PM EST

WIPO PUBLISHES PATENT OF ARMEN VARDANYAN, VLADIMIR ARUTYUNYAN AND
EDUARD HOVSEPYAN FOR “GRAVITY CONVEYOR” (ARMENIAN INVENTOR)

GENEVA

GENEVA, Oct. 25 — Publication No. WO/2013/155539 was published on Oct. 24.

Title of the invention: “GRAVITY CONVEYOR.” Applicants: Armen
Vardanyan (AM), Vladimir Arutyunyan (AM) and Eduard Hovsepyan (AM).
Inventors: Armen Vardanyan (AM). According to the abstract* posted by
the World Intellectual Property Organization: “The invention relates
to industrial means of transportation. The gravity conveyer having an
inlet, an outlet and a multi-loop spiral belt (2) connecting the inlet
and outlet, said belt being installed around a vertical axis.

The belt (2) is designed as a ferroconcrete surface, each loop of
which being square shaped and along which movable gravity driven carts
are mounted to run in a preset trajectory and overhead manipulators
(7) detached from said carts. Manipulator travel trajectory is
determined by a guide attached to the lower surface of the belt (2).
The carts travel trajectory is determined by a guide attached to the
upper surface of the belt. There are technological stations (5)
installed along the belt and the carts and manipulators (7) controlled
by a programmable magneto-optical system run and stop relative to said
stations (5). A conveyer is invented enabling relevant treatment of
the loads transported on the belt, as required by technology.” The
patent was filed on March 7 under Application No. PCT/AM2013/000003.
*For further information, including images, charts and tables, please
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Marseilles Mayor paid tribute to Armenian Genocide victims – Photos

17:07, 26 October, 2013

YEREVAN, OCTOBER 26, ARMENPRESS: The members of the delegation headed
by the Marseilles Mayor Jean Claude Gaudin,
who is in Yerevan on October 23-27 on the invitation of the Yerevan
Mayor Taron Margaryan, visited the Tsitsernakaberd Memorial to
pay tribute to the memory of the victims of the Armenian Genocide,
accompanied by the First Deputy Mayor Kamo Areyan.

The Department for Mass Media and Public Relations of the Yerevan
Municipality informed Armenpress that the Marseilles Mayor Jean
Claude Gaudin watered the tree planted by him in 2007 during his
official visit to Yerevan.

Dual Survival: Man and Church in the Lake Van Region of Historic Armenia

By Matthew Karanian // October 26, 2013

Story and photos by Mathhew Karanian
(Special to the Armenian Weekly)

If you’ve ever watched a reality survival show on television – one of
those shows were a couple of adventurers get dropped off in a desert
with instructions to survive long enough to make it back home – then you
might be able to conjure up an image of me hiking in Historic Armenia.

I was on the shore of Lake Van, researching and photographing the
Armenian churches of the region.

My goal for this day was modest: hike to the ancient Armenian
monastery of St. Thomas, a monastery that looks older than the
treeless mountain that it’s perched upon. Survival was the last thing
on my mind.

But my priority for the day changed when I was about mid-way through
the 90-minute trek to the top.

The 10th to 11th century Armenian Monastery of St. Thomas rests on a
hilltop above the southeast shore of Lake Van. (Photo by Matthew
Karanian)

This was roughly about the same time that my supply of water ran out.
Remember, survival had been the last thing on my mind. So, of course I
hadn’t carried any water.

The mid-day temperature was pushing closer to 100 degrees, and I had
begun to reminisce about better times – like the time, earlier that day,
when the mercury hadn’t yet risen above 90.

The mid-day temperature was pushing closer to 100 degrees, and I had
begun to reminisce about better times – like the time, earlier that day,
when the mercury hadn’t yet risen above 90. (Photo by Matthew
Karanian)

I still wanted to see the church.

But now that the risks of dehydration and heat stroke had been added
to my itinerary, my priority was to make it back down the mountain. I
wanted it all! I wanted to see the church, and I also wanted to
survive.

I was hiking with Khatchig Mouradian, the Editor of the Armenian
Weekly. He and I had the same goals. Better yet, he also had some
water. He offered me half of what remained in his bottle. We were
brothers in arms, and would share our water supply, 50-50. I reached
for the bottle. It contained about two ounces of warm water.

I was incredulous. `Really, Khatchig, I can only have one ounce?’

Yes, he replied. `We will need the rest to survive.’

I took a drink, and we continued our ascent.

There were no trees to shelter us from the sun as we scrambled up the
mountain, but every two or three hundred feet there was some dwarf
scrub that cast just enough shade to offer a bit of relief from the
heat. We dashed from brush to brush, like soldiers in battle, until we
had reached the monastic walls of St. Thomas.

We dashed from brush to brush, like soldiers in battle, until we had
reached the monastic walls of St. Thomas. (Photo by Matthew Karanian)

We discovered that the survival of the church was also at risk.

A Remote Treasure

The buildings of St. Thomas were constructed in the tenth and eleventh
centuries, and are stoically sited on a mountaintop overlooking the
southeast shore of Lake Van. The main surviving building, the
cathedral, is about one thousand years old.

The current peril to the structure is caused, at least in part, by
local people who are acting upon a long-discredited myth. Some of the
Kurds who now live in Historic Armenia believe, incorrectly, that
there is buried treasure at Armenian churches.

And so some of these treasure seekers dig for gold and jewels wherever
they see the ruins of an Armenian site. Judging from what I observed
at St Thomas last month, some people appear to have believed that
there was treasure hidden in the ground beneath this church, too.

We saw holes dug in the earth near the foundation, at the entrance,
and in the church yard. These excavations have undermined the
foundation of St. Thomas, and similar burrowing undermines other
churches, such as the nearby Karmravank, where treasure hunters have
also sought supposedly long lost gold.

The ruins of Karmravank, on the southeast shore of Lake Van, a short
distance from the Monastery of St. Thomas. (Photo by Matthew Karanian)

According to the discredited myth, Armenians buried gold and other
valuables beneath the altars and near the points of entry to their
churches. Ask a Kurdish villager if the Armenians supposedly did this
while fleeing during the Genocide, or whether they buried their gold
as a matter of routine in the years before the Genocide, and they are
apt to just shrug their shoulders.

The odds of buying a winning lottery ticket are better than the odds
of finding buried treasure at an Armenian church, because the odds of
finding the buried treasure are zero. There’s no treasure. But people
still buy lotto and they still dig for treasure.

Even if the legend was true, which it isn’t, any treasure would surely
have been dug up many years ago. Still, logic and truth have not
deterred treasure hunters, even now, a century after the Armenians
were expelled from this area.

As a result, the only treasures that really exist in places such as
St. Thomas and at nearby Karmravank – the sacred structures
themselves – are at risk of being destroyed.

We made it safely back down the mountainside, and found plenty of
shade and water. We lived to share the story of yet another ancient
Armenian site that may not survive.

Matthew Karanian is an author and attorney, and he practices law in
Pasadena, Calif. He has spent several years working in Armenia as
both law professor and Associate Dean at the American University of
Armenia. His latest book is `Armenia and Karabakh: The Stone Garden
Travel Guide. He is currently working on a new book about Historic
Armenia that will be published in 2015. Book details at
and at

Eurasia Review
Oct 27 2013

Azerbaijan’s Actions In Full Compliance With Constitution Of
Azerbaijan And International Law – OpEd

By Yusif Babanly

October 26, 2013

A recent article by Aram Avetisyan, published in FPJ blog is nothing
but misrepresentation of facts in an effort to mislead the reader.
I’ll start from the statements about the re-election of the President
of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev.

First and foremost, the entire process of elections was assessed as
free and transparent and in accordance with all international
standards by many international institutions and watchdogs, including
the short-term OSCE Mission in Azerbaijan, Council of Europe and
European Union missions. Furthermore, numerous international observers
on the ground, including the American Observers Group, completely
endorsed the results of the elections, reaffirming the expectations
about the victory of the incumbent, forecasted by the pre-election
polls and exit polls on the day of elections.

Needless to say, there was criticism from other parties taking part in
the observation mission and it’s absolutely fine as this remains a
part of proper democratic development of any given country. Second,
the Azerbaijani government clearly allows unrestricted access to
rallies and freedom of assembly at sanctioned venues in the pre- and
post-election period. The situation is quite the contrary in Armenia.
In Armenia, the country’s leadership explicitly commits massacres of
peacefully demonstrating civilians in public areas. This was the case
with 2008 post-election rallies, resulting in deaths of 8
demonstrators who were shot by the security forces in the central
streets of Yerevan.[1] Another good example is an assassination
attempt of one of presidential hopefuls Paruyr Hayrikyan a couple of
weeks before the 2013 presidential elections were held in Armenia.[2]
Clearly, the modus operandi of the Armenian government is not to just
contain the opponents through political process but simply exterminate
them.

As far as President Ilham Aliyev’s foregn policy vis-à-vis Armenia is
concerned, it is in full accordance with the obligations he has taken
before Azerbaijani people upon swearing in. The president is by all
means to `protect the independence, sovereignty and territorial
integrity of the Republic of Azerbaijan'[3]. Therefore, as Armenia
continues its occupation policy against Azerbaijan, Baku has a full
right to cease diplomatic and economic relations as long as the
territorial integrity of the country is not restored. As logic
dictates, no state in the history of mankind had continued diplomatic
and/or economic relations with the aggressor state, occupying the
former’s territory.

It is hard to imagine that the Soviet Union would continue its
diplomatic relations with the Nazi Germany, allow it to ship materials
and commodities through its territory or endorse projects for laying
railways and other communication links through the Nazi controlled
territories, thus economically enriching it. The same can be said
about the position of the United States which suffered from the
aggression of the Imperial Japan during WWII. In fact, even today,
many countries exercise the same policies towards the rivals. For
instance, the U.S. and Israel do not seem to be too eager to see any
international projects realized in Iran or North Korea. On contrary
numerous sanctions have been inherently imposed on economies of these
states.

Let’s also keep in mind that Azerbaijan had already readily agreed to
open all communication links to Armenia on September 23, 1991, when
the Zheleznovodsk Accords were signed. Sadly, a helicopter with
numerous Azerbaijani, Russian and Kazakh peacemakers onboard was soon
shot down on November 20, 1991 by Armenian militants near Qarakend
village of Khojavend district of Azerbaijan, which subsequently and
effectively ended all negotiations in early stages of the conflict.
Occupation and ethnic cleansing campaigns of Azerbaijani cities of
Khojaly, Shusha and Lachin ensued in the first half of 1992 and seven
more districts outside of former Nagorno Karabakh Autonomous Oblast
(NKAO) were occupied in 1993. A rather rhetorical question is why
would Azerbaijan open up all of the communication links to Armenia
thus extending it an economic lifeline and source to financial gains
it desperately needs to amass ammunition and sustain its occupation of
Azerbaijani territories?

Moving on. As far as the Chapter VII, Article 41 of the UN Charter is
concerned; Azerbaijan does not need another separate resolution to
enforce breaking off economic relations with Armenia. Four UN SC
resolutions 822, 853, 874 and 884 are quite sufficient to highlight
the fact of illegal occupation of Azerbaijani territories and provide
basis for Azerbaijan’s actions vis-à-vis Armenia. And since we’re
invoking the UN SC resolutions from 1993, the UN SC Resolution 853,
adopted on July 29, 1993 after the occupation of Agdam district by
Armenian forces, `reiterates in the context of paragraphs 3 and 4′
binding restoration of `economic, transport and energy links in the
region'[4] with the `immediate complete and unconditional withdrawal
of occupying forces involved from the district of Agdam and all other
recently occupied areas of Azerbaijan Republic’.[5]

In other words, UN SC suggests that once the Armenian occupying forces
withdraw from the Azerbaijani territories, all communication lines and
economic relations would need to be re-opened. What’s more, it’s
Armenia which has been enforcing a policy of blockade since the
beginning of the conflict. Aside from numerous assaults on civilian
buses and trains in 1988-1991, Armenians had instituted a full
containment of Azerbaijani populated districts and settlements during
the war. For instance, before Khojaly and surrounding villages were
occupied in February 1992, they remained in full blockade by the
Armenian armed forces for three months. The same can be said about the
districts of Gubadly and Zangelan, the communications of which to the
outside world were cut off due to blockade by Armenian forces in
August and October 1993, respectively. This policy of blockade led to
the eventual occupation and ethnic cleansing of these districts by
Armenian army. These events, in turn, produced the UN SC Resolutions
874 and 884.[6][7]

So far, Azerbaijan has continued its efforts to come to terms with
Armenia, including participating in various CBMs, but the entire
process is frequently disrupted by the Armenian side via illegal
initiatives. Take, for instance, the illegal relocation of Syrian
refugees of Armenian descent to the occupied territories of
Azerbaijan. In 2013, 24 Armenian families were relocated to occupied
Lachin district, 7 to Zangelan, and 27 to Kelbajar, which Armenian
leadership showcased to the outer world as an humanitarian effort.[8]
First and foremost, resettlement is in full violation of the Article
49 of the Geneva Convention from 1949, forbidding the occupying power
to transfer civilian population into the territory it occupies.[9]
Secondly, if the initiative was of humanitarian nature, Armenia would
have been able to use abundant space in its own republic for any
refugees, considering that a large portion of its own population
continues to emigrate to other countries due to lack of work and
economic opportunities in Armenia. In the first 9 months of 2012, 97
thousand people left Armenia but that is `just the tip of the
iceberg’, and as much as one million Armenian have left the country in
the last two decades, writes an Armenian journalist Houry
Mayissian.[10] It follows, that Armenia’s policy does not constitute
humanitarian efforts, but that the resettlement of Armenians to the
occupied territories of Azerbaijan is part of the deliberate policy of
changing the demographics in the territories and intentionally
disrupting the negotiations.

Azerbaijan has repeatedly and emphatically extended its olive branch
to the neighboring Armenia, eager to reconcile and prosper in the same
region with the Armenian people. The only precondition, endorsed by
the international community, is for Armenian troops to withdraw from
Azerbaijani occupied territories and allow the return of Azerbaijani
IDPs forced out by Armenian army during the war. The Armenian
community of Nagorno Karabakh region of Azerbaijan would be able to
live and prosper alongside their Azerbaijani neighbors and benefit
from the economic incentives generated by Azerbaijan, as much as
Georgian and Turkish economies have. Scores of international
documents, based on international law, have been issued in support of
territorial integrity of Azerbaijan and condemning the occupation of
the territories by the Armenian armed forces, including the
aforementioned UN SC Resolutions 822, 853, 874, 884, UN GA Resolution
62/243, PACE Resolution 1416, OIC resolutions 10/11 and 10/37, and
last, but not least, the European Parliament Resolution on October 23,
2013 on the European Neighborhood Policy, stating the occupation `by
one country of the Eastern Partnership of the territory of another
violates the fundamental principles and objectives of the Eastern
Partnership and that the resolution of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict
should comply with the UN Security Council resolutions 822, 853, 874
and 884′.[11]

References

1. 8 killed in Armenian protests. Los Angeles Times, March 2, 2008
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2. Armenia presidential candidate shot, election in doubt. Reuters,
January 31, 2013
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3. The Constitution of the Republic of Azerbaijan
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4. See Item 5, UN SC Resolution 853, July 29, 1993
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5. See Item 3, UN SC Resolution 853, July 29, 1993
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6. UN SC Resolution 874, October 14, 1993
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7. UN SC Resolution 884, November 12, 1993
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8. Letter of the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Azerbaijan to UN
General Assembly and UN SC
9. Geneva Convention, Article 49, August 12, 1949
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10. Mayissian: Armenia’s `Silent’ National Security Threat. Armenian
Weekly, January 3, 2013
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11. European Parliament resolution of 23 October 2013 on the European
Neighbourhood Policy: towards a strengthening of the partnership.
Position of the European Parliament on the 2012 reports.
(2013/2621(RSP))
()

Yusif Babanly is the co-founder and secretary of the US Azeris Network (USAN)

Georgia PM ally Giorgi Margvelashvilii ‘wins presidency’

27 October 2013 Last updated at 16:42

An ally of Georgian Prime Minister Bidzi Ivanishvili has won the
presidential election, exit polls say.

The polls give Giorgi Margvelashvili, 44, had 66-68% of the vote. His
closest rival, David Bakradze from the party of the incumbent, trailed
with 20.2%.

The election marks an end to a decade in power for pro-Western
President Mikheil Saakashvili, who was barred from seeking a third
term.

But constitutional changes are planned to reduce presidential powers.

The polls were conducted by European market research organization GfK
on behalf of Georgian private television station Rustavi2, and by ACT,
a Georgian public opinion group.

Giorgi Margvelashvili is a member of Mr Ivanishvili’s Georgian Dream
prty, which won parliamentary elections last year, ushering in the
former Soviet republic’s first legal transfer of power.

The billionaire businessman also intends to resign within weeks of the
vote, saying he has achieved his aims.

He has called the vote Georgia’s “first European-style election”.

Since coming to power in the bloodless 2003 “Rose Revolution” Mr
Saakashvili has implemented reforms which helped root out corruption.

He pursued a pro-Western foreign policy and improved public services
in the Caucasus republic, where poverty remains widespread.

But the country’s prime minister, who is also Georgia’s richest man,
has dismissed these achievements, calling Mr Saakashvili a “liar” and
a “dictator”.

He has indicated that the outgoing president could face questioning or
even prosecution over the alleged crimes of his government after his
term ends.

Mr Ivanishvili has not yet named his party’s successor as prime minister.

Georgia set to replace president peacefully

Ex-Soviet state gears up for its first “boring” vote, but some
analysts are concerned about pressure from the PM.

Tamila Varshalomidze Last Modified: 25 Oct 2013 13:59

Mikheil Saakashvili is leaving the presidential office after
exhausting his two terms [AP]

For post-Soviet Georgia this is the first experience of its kind –
there are presidential elections just a few days away, but there are
no angry crowds marching for democracy and no president seeking to
cling to power.

After exhausting his two terms in office since sweeping to power by
unseating his former “political father” Eduard Shevardnadze in 2003,
once-powerful President Mikheil Saakashvili will give up his post
peacefully to one of the 23 registered presidential hopefuls on
October 27.

An Election Observation Mission from the Organisation for Security and
Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) described the pre-election environment
as “calm” and “transparent”.

But the word mostly used by ordinary Georgians, who ousted two
presidents by violent revolutions, is “boring”.

“Peaceful elections are boring, that’s a fact, sorry,” wrote Shota
Kinchagashvili, a Georgian blogger, on his twitter account.

More than 100 former officials are charged, while over 10,000 UNM
activists have been questioned.

Davit Bakradze, presidential candidate

Political analyst Davit Phurtskhvanidze told Al Jazeera that he senses
public nihilism towards voting for a new president who will lose most
of his executive powers as soon as he is sworn in due to
constitutional amendments passed in 2010 and 2013.

Presidential powers will shift to the prime minister and the
parliament, turning the country into a parliamentary republic 22 years
after gaining its independence from the Soviet Union.

The candidate of the ruling Georgian Dream coalition, Giorgi
Margvelashvili, is expected to become the fourth president of the
country.

Prime Minister Bidzina Ivanishvili, who brought Margvelashvili into
politics less than a year ago as a minister of education, expects his
protege to win at least 60 percent of the popular vote.

Ivanishvili told reporters on October 17 that if Margvelashvili gets
anything less, he should bow out of the second round, prompting
critics to accuse him of pressuring the electorate.

Under Georgia’s election law, a runoff is necessary only if none of
the candidates secure more than 50 percent of the vote in the first
round.

However, if his candidate doesn’t get at least 60 percent, Ivanishvili
said he would see that his “tireless work” was unappreciated and he
would “pack up and leave”.

Opposition candidates

The main opposition candidates, Davit Bakradze and Nino Burjanadze
would welcome such a development, as they battle for the second spot,
that will guarantee a political niche for their parties in the
parliamentary elections in three years time.

Phurtskhvanidze told Al Jazeera “if Bakradze [candidate of
Saakashvili’s United National Movement] comes second, let alone wins
the election, it will cause a massive unrest and people will attack
the new government of the Georgian Dream coalition [for letting the
former government maintain power].”

Meanwhile, Bakradze, whose main promise is to continue Euro-Atlantic
integration, has accused the ruling party of pressure during the
pre-election campaign.

“More than 100 former officials are charged, while over 10,000 UNM
activists have been questioned (some more than 20 or even 30 times),”
he told Eastbook.eu.”Many campaign events are disrupted by either
Georgian Dream activists, who appear there holding party symbols and
try to intervene, or violent attacks of the government’s satellite
groups. The fact that violent offenders in all cases got away with
merely symbolic fines is a serious problem.”

I will finish this ugly cohabitation as soon as I become the
president, and I will finish the festivities of the United National
Movement in Georgia.

– Nino Burjanadze, presidential candidate

The third main presidential hopeful, Nino Burjanadze, has been
campaigning for attracting the anti-UNM audience who rebel against
Georgian Dream’s “soft touch”.

“I will finish this ugly cohabitation as soon as I become the
president, and I will finish the festivities of the United National
Movement in Georgia,” Burjanadze told Reuters news agency, referring
to the uneasy relationship between outgoing President Saakashvili and
PM Ivanishvili who led the campaign last year that crushed UNM’s
dominance in parliament.

Leader of the Democratic Movement-United Georgia was once
Saakashvili’s ally, co-fighter of the 2003 Rose Revolution that
brought Saakashvili to power, but Burjanadze was sidelined several
years later, prompting her to go into opposition.

“I’m sure that all activity of Mr Saakashvili should be investigated,
including August 2008 [war], tortures in the jails, pressure and
intimidation concerning political opponents,” she said referring to
pre-election allegations last year of prison torture.

Russian connection

A veteran politician, Burjanadze attempted to come back to power
several times with violent protests, but the public didn’t seem to
support her due to her open pro-Russian position that is also expected
to diminish her chances of winning Sunday’s election.

Burjanadze, who met with Russian President Vladimir Putin in 2010,
said “I don’t care who will call me pro-Russian. My main goal is to
fulfil the interests of my country.”

The topic of Georgian-Russian relationship has been used by each of
the presidential candidates during their campaigns, as it is a major
challenge facing Saakashvili’s successor.

Continuing to improve ties with Russia, severed by war between the
countries in 2008, is a policy introduced by Ivanishvili first after
his party came to power in 2012.

About 3.5 million eligible voters will decide in a few days who they
will trust with the future of Georgia and its position in the region.

Critics of the voting process worry that regardless of who wins the
election, the country will be run by figures acting from behind the
scenes.

There are concerns that Ivanishvili, who has promised to resign after
the inauguration of his candidate, will pull the strings of
Margvelashvili if he enters the presidential office.

The main opposition candidates, Bakradze and Burjanadze, are expected
to be influenced by Saakashvili and Russia’s president Vladimir Putin
respectively.

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Armenia-Italy relations will not deteriorate because of Yerevan’s
foreign policy choice – Ambassador

October 27, 2013 | 16:28

YEREVAN. – Relations between Armenia and Italy will not deteriorate
because of Armenia’s foreign policy choice, Italian Ambassador said.

Italy’s Ambassador to Armenia Bruno Scapini commented for Armenian
News-NEWS.am the decision on joining Customs Union voiced by President
Serzh Sargsyan.

`First of all Armenia is a sovereign country and has the right to make
its political and strategic choice in its interests, as the country
sees them. I do not see any difficulties. Of course, being a European,
in particular an Italian, I cannot but support association with the
European Union.

But even if the prevailing choice of Armenia lies in the other
direction, we believe that it will not result in deterioration of
relationship. In the case of Italy, it can be an occasion for a
renewed effort to strengthen our traditional ties,’ Ambassador said.

News from Armenia – NEWS.am

ARMENIE
La population de l’Arménie n’est que de 2 millions d’habitants selon un journal

Les subventions de l’Etat, qui ont été attribués à plusieurs commune
en Arménie seront réduites en 2014 indique le quotidien Haykakan
Jamanak.

« Les communes expliquent cela par le fait que le montant de la
subventions de l’État dépend du nombre réel de la population. Par
exemple, à Kapan, jusqu’à présent, les données du Service national de
statistiques sur le nombre de personnes ont servi de base pour le
financement budgétaire, maintenant [cependant,] c’est le nombre
présenté par la police qui est accepté comme base et ils sont très
différents. De là, vous pouvez avoir une idée approximative de la
population de l’Arménie d’aujourd’hui. « Si nous étendons ce calcul
[sur la ville de Kapan ville] à l’Arménie, il s’avère que la
population de 3,2 millions, ce qui a été annoncé il y a deux ans,
serait désormais à peine de 2 millions » écrit Haykakan Jamanak

dimanche 27 octobre 2013,
Stéphane ©armenews.com

ARMENIE
Sport ou politique : ? Le CNOA fait valoir ses droits après l’élection
controversée du président de la fédération de Volleyball

Le Comité National Olympique d’Arménie (CNOA) a publié mercredi une
déclaration dont l’essence est qu’elle est la seule organisation qui a
le droit de gérer les affaires des fédérations nationales de sport et
leur représentation à des structures internationales.

La déclaration intervient après l’élection controversée du Secrétaire
national de la sécurité nationale Artur Baghdasaryan en tant que
président de la Fédération de Volleyball d’Arménie le week-end
dernier.

Selon les médias, Baghdasaryan, leader du parti de la coalition
Orinatz Yerkir, et le président de la CNOA Gagik Tsarukyan, leader de
l’ancien parti de la coalition Arménie prospère ont eu une violente
dispute récemment lors de la réception à l’aéroport de Zvartnots du
président Serge Sarkissian de retour de Bruxelles.

Les représentants des deux partis Orinats Yerkir et Arménie Prospère
ont minimisé l’ampleur de l’incident, dans lequel les médias ont
allégué que les deux politiciens ont échangé des insultes verbales.

« Personne ne peut élever la voix contre ou insulte Gagik Tsarukyan »
a déclaré Naira Zohrabyan membre du parti Arménie Prospère aux médias
en disant que Tsarukyan, de son côté, n’a pas offensé ou insulté
quelqu’un d’autre.

Les médias locaux ont affirmé que Tsarukyan avait été irrité par les
circonstances dans lesquels Baghdasaryan a été installé en tant que
nouveau chef de la Fédération de Volleyball avec seulement
l’approbation du ministre des Sports et de la Jeunesse Yuri Vardanyan,
alors que cela aurait également dû être approuvé par le CNOA qui est
l’organisation faîtière des fédérations nationales.

dimanche 27 octobre 2013,
Stéphane ©armenews.com

MEMORIAL FOR FALLEN FREEDOM FIGHTERS OPENS IN KARABAKH VILLAGE

October 25, 2013 | 16:57

STEPANAKERT. – Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR), or Artsakh, President
Bako Sahakyan on Friday paid a visit to Avetaranots village.

Sahakyan attended the official opening of a memorial devoted to the
martyrs the Karabakh War.

In his remarks, the President stressed that Armenians always remember
the feats and heroism of their fallen, do their best to fulfill
their wishes and desires, among which free, independent state and
its continuous strengthening is the most sacramental one, informs
the Central Information Department of the Office of the NKR President.

According to Sahakyan, this memorial will become a place of pilgrimage
to remind of the past, make Armenians be proud of their heroes,
thus be filled with hope and optimism toward the future.

Subsequently, Bako Sahakyan handed state awards to a group Karabakh
War veterans of the village.

Primate of the Artsakh Diocese of the Armenian Apostolic Church
Archbishop Pargev Martirosyan and several officials also were on hand
at the event.

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