Author: nina hovnanian

ARMENIE
Yerevan brandy va acheter 35000 tonnes de raisins cette année

L’usine Yerevan Brandy envisage d’acheter 35000 tonnes de raisins
cette année soit 10000 tonnes de plus que l’an dernier, a rapporté le
service de presse de l’usine.

Il s’agit d’un niveau d’approvisionnement record au cours des 15
dernières années, selon le communiqué.

Le prix au kilo est de 145 drams à Armavir et Aygavan et 135 drams
dans Tavush, comparativement à 140 et 130 drams respectivement l’an
dernier.

Le versement aux agriculteurs se ferra dans un délai de 3-4 jours.

Selon le communiqué les dettes des agriculteurs partenaires de l’usine
dont la récolte de raisin a été complètement endommagé par la grêle du
12 mai, seront annulés. Les calculs préliminaires montrent que la
société va effacer les dettes de plus de 340 viticulteurs de la région
d’Armavir, qui ont obtenu des prêts sans intérêt d’une valeur totale
d’environ 54 millions de drams pour les traitements pour les raisins a
rapporté le service de presse.

En 2013, Yerevan Brandy a augmenté le nombre de ses contrats avec les
viticulteurs de plus de 906.

La société attache une grande importance au développement de
l’industrie dans les villages frontaliers et augmentera ses achats
dans le Tavush à 4000 tonnes cette année.

dimanche 15 septembre 2013,
Stéphane ©armenews.com

States News Service
September 13, 2013 Friday

EU NOT ABANDONING ARMENIA

PRAGUE, Czech Republic

The following information was released by Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty:

By RFE/RL’s Armenian Service

EU Enlargement Commissioner Stefan Fuele says Brussels is still eager
to pursue deeper ties with Yerevan even if Armenia goes ahead with
plans to join a Russian-led Customs Union.

In an exclusive interview with RFE/RL’s Armenian Service, Fuele
restated the EU position that Armenia could not sign association and
free trade agreements with the European Union while also belonging to
the Customs union.

He was speaking on September 13 in Yerevan after an informal meeting
of the foreign ministers of the EU’s Eastern Partnership member
states.

“The Association Treaty is no longer on the table because of Armenia’s
decision. So let’s talk about their ambitions, and their vision for
another way to put the relationship higher, including a new legal
framework for our relationship,” Fuele said.

Expectations had originally been high that Armenia would move ahead
with the EU trade agreements at the Eastern Partnership summit in
Vilnius in November.

But those hopes were dashed when Armenian President Serzh Sarkisian,
in a surprise move, announced last week that he wanted his country to
join the Russia-led Customs Union, which currently includes Belarus
and Kazakhstan.

Fuele confirmed that no deals will now be signed with Armenia in
Vilnius. But he said Brussels was not abandoning Armenia, including
civil society there.

“I talked today also with civil society groups, the National Platform,
and I made it very clear that, the fact that Armenia is turning from
the Association Agreement to the Customs Union does not mean that the
European agenda, European values, and European principles, will
disappear. It does not mean that, what the civil society has achieved
to promote the European agenda, and fundamental rights, that that will
disappear. We will be strongly represented here in Armenia and
supporting civil society,” Fuele explained

Fuele also said Russia had nothing to fear from the EU’s Eastern
Partnership program.

“I am saying very clearly that association agreements are good for our
partners, and are good for the neighbors of our partners. I’m saying
clearly that association agreements are substantive, and a very clear
contribution of the European Union member states to the creation, in
the future, of a free trade union from Lisbon to Vladivostok,” Fuele
stated.

But Fuele also warned Russia against pressuring other Eastern
Partnership members into joining the Customs Union or the proposed
Eurasian Union rather than sign agreements with the EU.

“The partners, we assured that if they become the subject of undue
pressure because of their exercising the free choice, they can count
on the solidarity [of the EU]. Solidarity is not an empty word in the
European Union,” Fuele said.

The six member states of the EU’s Eastern Partnership are Armenia,
Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine.

EUROPE HAS DEFINITELY NOT GIVEN UP ON ARMENIA – STEFAN FULE

September 14, 2013 | 11:35

Europe has definitely not given up on Armenia and Armenian people,
EU Commissioner for Enlargement and European Neighbourhood Policy
Å tefan Fule said in an interview withRFE/RL Armenian service.

The fact that Armenia turns from the Association Agreement to Customs
Union it does not mean that European agenda, values and principles
will disappear, he said.

“We will be strongly represented here in Armenia and will be working
with civil society. We do not walk backwards, we will go forward,
may be not in such a complex way, but we will go forward,” Fule noted.

EU is ready for new legal framework of relation with Armenia, and
they had informed President about that, he said.

Full interview on website of RFE/RL Armenian service

News from Armenia – NEWS.am

LA CENTRALE DE MEDZAMOR FONCTIONNERA JUSQU’EN 2026

ARMENIE-ENERGIE

La duree de vie de la centrale thermonucleaire de Medzamor en Armenie
sera prolongee de 10 ans. Le ministre de l’Energie et des ressources
naturelles Armen Movsissian vient d’annoncer que l’activite de
la centrale de Medzamor sera prolongee jusqu’en 2026. La centrale
armenienne est geree par l’Armenie en collaboration avec la societe
russe ” Rosatom “. Le deuxième bloc de la centrale thermonucleaire
armenienne -la seule du Sud-Caucase- fut mis en activite en 1980
pour une duree de vie de 30 ans. Mais de 1989 a 1995 son activite
cessa. A la reprise en 1995, les specialistes armeniens de l’energie
prevoyaient alors que son activite dure jusqu’en septembre 2016.Mais
face aux difficultes de financement d’une nouvelle centrale, les
autorites armeniennes viennent de declarer que l’activite de Medawar
sera prolongee jusqu’en 2026.

Krikor Amirzayan

samedi 14 septembre 2013, Krikor Amirzayan ©armenews.com

LE PARTI COMMUNISTE D’ARMENIE SALUE L’ACCORD D’ENTREE DE L’ARMENIE AU SEIN L’UNION DOUANIERE

ARMENIE-UNION DOUANIERE

Le Parti communiste d’Armenie est a notre connaissance le seul parti
qui salue l’accord de l’Armenie pour entrer dans l’Union douanière
sous l’emprise de la Russie. Le 11 septembre, lors d’une conference
de presse a Erevan, Roupen Tovmassian, le Premier secretaire du Parti
communiste d’Armenie a affirme que ” le pas de l’Armenie est un geste
intelligent et une excellente decision qui engage aujourd’hui mais
egalement l’avenir de l’Armenie vers une bonne voie “. Selon R.

Tovmassian, le Parti communiste d’Armenie a toujours soutenu l’entree
de l’Armenie au sein de l’Union douanière et” salue la decision
d’adhesion lors de la rencontre le 3 septembre entre les presidents
de l’Armenie et de la Russie “.

D’après R. Tovmassian, cette decision d’Erevan ne ferme pour l’Armenie
aucune porte face a l’Union europeenne car meme durant la periode
sovietique l’Armenie a toujours ete proche des valeurs europeennes. ”
Je suis convaincu que la majeure partie du peuple armenien est
pro-russe ” dit le Premier secretaire du Parti communiste d’Armenie
et d’ajouter sous forme de menace ” le jour où le drapeau russe ne
flottera plus sur la base russe de Gumri et que gèlent les relations
armeno-russes, ce sera la fin de l’Armenie ! “.

Krikor Amirzayan

samedi 14 septembre 2013, Krikor Amirzayan ©armenews.com

GUNFIRE AS EXTENSION OF POLITICS ON AZERI-ARMENIAN BORDER

Institute for War and Peace Reporting, UK
IWPR Caucasus Reporting #701
Sept 13 2013

Mutual recriminations as both sides note a rise in cross-border
shooting.

By Vahe Harutyunyan, Jasur Sumerinli – Caucasus

While cross-border gunfire involving Azerbaijani and Armenian force
is all too common, a recent sharp increase in incidents has left
analysts wondering what is going on.

The consensus is that the skirmishes are not a precursor to wider
hostilities. Instead, commentators on each side believe they are a
reflection of domestic political problems in the other country.

As an illustration of the rise in shooting incidents, Armenian defence
officials said that one soldier died and six were injured in August,
whereas there had been no casualties in July.

The incidents happened on Armenia’s eastern border with Azerbaijan,
on its southeastern frontier with Nakhichevan – an Azerbaijani exclave
territory – and on the “line of control” around Nagorny Karabakh.

Armenian defence ministry spokesman Artsrun Hovhannisyan said the
nature of the “enemy action” was unusual.

“This isn’t reconnaissance, nor is it designed to improve their
position, or to prepare for sweeping military operations,” he said.

“The Azerbaijanis’ aim is to inflict as much harm as possible on our
military personnel.”

In Azerbaijan, officials said it was the Armenians who started or at
least provoked the shooting. The defence ministry said its monitoring
indicated that most of the gunfire was taking place around Karabakh
and on the border with Nakhichevan.

Defence ministry spokesman Eldar Sabiroglu said the Armenians were
trying to divert public attention from their government’s own failings.

“We know that Armenia’s domestic affairs are in bad shape. People
express their unhappiness with the authorities every day. In order
to mitigate this, they [authorities] try to project attention onto
Azerbaijan,” he said. “This is always going to be a problem. Armenia’s
aggressive policy has not changed, so there will continue to be
trouble on the front line.”

Sabiroglu also spoke about a particular incident in early August, on
the border between Armenia and Nakhichevan. According to the Armenian
account, one soldier was killed and a second injured by Azerbaijani
sniper fire. But Sabiroglu described this as “an attempt by Armenia
to divert attention from problems inside its own army”.

“They’re trying to cover up the fact that there was a shootout between
Armenian soldiers, We have reliable information that several soldiers
died and several more were injured in a shootout in an Armenian
military unit deployed on the border with Nakhichevan,” he said.

A mirror-image view of the situation was articulated in Yerevan.

Alexander Arzumanyan, a former foreign minister of Armenia, said the
clashes were being instigated by Azerbaijan, where the authorities are
keen to ensure the re-election of President Ilham Aliyev next month.

“The Azerbaijanis have resorted to deliberately escalating tensions
on the border ahead of general and presidential elections on more than
one occasion,” he said. “It’s the familiar policy of the Aliyev clan –
dictatorships always need an external enemy.”

Arzumanyan pointed to the widening military imbalance between oil-rich
Azerbaijan and less affluent Armenia. Baku continues to purchase
high-tech weaponry, and President Aliyev and other officials often
warn that if talks on the future of Karabakh ultimately fail, the
army is capable of retaking it by force.

Armenian officials are clearly unsettled by this build-up, but hope
their longstanding alliance with Moscow will safeguard them. (See
Neighbourhood Watches as Azerbaijan Arms Up.)

Despite the threats coming out of Baku, Arzumanyan said, “the years
go by, and the Karabakh problem remains unresolved”.

The Karabakh conflict ended in 1994 with a truce that has lasted ever
since, despite the sporadic outbreaks of gunfire. Talks intended to
produce a lasting settlement are mediated by the OSCE’s Minsk Group,
chaired by Russia, the United States and France, but have failed to
make significant progress. The Karabakh Armenian administration says
it will never give up its claim to independence, while Baku insists
that the ultimate solution must involve regaining control over its
sovereign territory.

“There has been no substantive movement in the positions taken by
the parties to the conflict,” Arzumanyan said. “Then again, Karabakh
isn’t of such paramount importance to [external] states that it would
prompt serious pressure [for a solution] from outside.”

Even with high levels of mutual mistrust and little apparent prospect
of progress in the OSCE-mediated talks, commentators in Yerevan and
Baku are not predicting that things will get out of hand.

“I do not think that the option of returning to war will be decided in
Baku alone, so I see it as unlikely that Azerbaijan would go down that
road,” David Shahnazaryan, former head of Armenia’s National Security
Service, told IWPR. “What I mean is that a number of states are active
in this region, and they are driven by they own interests and by the
fact that they have a political, military and economic presence –
there’s Russia, the United States, Turkey, the European Union and
Iran. I wouldn’t say any of these countries wants to unleash a war
in the South Caucasus.”

Zumrud Mammadova, a researcher at the Simulated Forecasts think-tank
in Baku, agreed that none of the big players wanted conflict.

“Analysis of what’s going on indicates that neither Armenia nor
Azerbaijan is preparing for war,” she added. “Each side wants to
show its strength and insure itself against current and possible
international responses to its domestic problems. Armenia and
Azerbaijan are doing this to get round the international community’s
demands for democracy.”

Dashdemir Aliyev, a retired lieutenant-colonel in the Azerbaijani
army who now heads a veterans’ group, agreed with this point.

“Armenia and Azerbaijan have identical interests in this respect. Both
want to show the international community that they face problems
that are a lot more important than democracy, and hence ward off
international pressure,” he said.

On the Armenian side, Shahnazaryan predicted that the use of
small-scale warfare as a continuation of politics would continue.

“I believe tensions on the Armenian-Azerbaijani border will persist,
rising and falling on a regular basis,” he said. “The situation that
now pertains will continue for a long time since no new initiatives
have emerged in the OSCE Minsk Group [talks] format.”

Jasur Mammadov Sumerinli is a defence affairs reporter with the Zerkalo
newspaper in Azerbaijan. Vahe Harutyunyan is a freelance journalist
in Armenia.

SIX FREESTYLE WRESTLERS TO REPRESENT ARMENIA AT WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS IN BUDAPEST

By Shushanik Hakobyan

YEREVAN. – Armenia will be represented by six freestyle wrestlers
at the Wrestling World Championship which will kick of in Budapest
on September 16, head coach of the Armenian team Arayik Baghdadyan
told NEWS.am Sport.

Armenian team includes Mihran Jaburyan (55kg), Arthur Arakelyan (60
kg), Grigor Grigoryan (74 kg), Musa Murtazaliyev (84 kg) and Edgar
Yenokyan (96 kg).

The Armenian wrestlers are holding a training camp in Minsk then to
travel to Budapest on Friday evening.

Greco-Roman wrestling tournament will kick off on September 21.

Photo by NEWS.am Sport

ARMENIAN INTELLECTUALS COMMENT ON PRESIDENT’S DECISION TO JOIN CUSTOMS UNION

12:54 13.09.13

Tert.am interviewed Art Director of the Katrin folk dance group
Gagik Ginosyan, literary critic and translator Artyom Harutyunyan
and People’s Artist of Armenia Yervand Manaryan.

All of them made their comments on Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan’s
decision on accession to the Customs Union.

Gagik Ginosyan believes that Armenia lost its sovereignty as soon
as the Armenian president signed an agreement on a military alliance
with Russia and 49-year-long presence of the Russian military base.

Serzh Sargsyan was elected Armenia’s president for five year, “but
who is going to be responsible for the rest forty-four years?” ask
Ginosyan.

The lack of Armenian identity has been the gravest threat under
all the three presidents. It was the case during the First Republic
as well, with people displaying pro-Russian, pro-European and even
pro-Turkish sentiments.

“The greatest tragedy is that political leaders are not devoted to
pro-Armenian orientation. And such phenomena as the Customs Union
will continue to be Armenia’s minor and major defeats as long as we
do not have our own orientation. But lack of pro-Armenian orientation
is a real defeat for us. I believe it was the reason why we lost our
nationhood in 1918,” Ginosyan said.

Asked if it is being done for Nagorno-Karabakh’s security, he said:
“I do not think there is any problem with Nagorno-Karabakh. We do not
know if the agreement on Armenia’s accession to the Customs Union
has any room for Artsakh [Nagorno-Karabakh]. But I think it was a
much less serious omission than signing the agreement on 49-year-long
Russian military presence in Armenia.”

With respect to the first Armenian president Levon Ter-Petrosyan’s
statement that unexpected decisions are a cause of the Armenian
people’s “mourning,” Ginosyan said that ordinary people do not care
about the development as they do not view them as solutions to their
problems.

“If it blocked the way to their political games, they may be in
mourning themselves. Indeed, it is mourning to have a president who
states that national ideology is a complicated category. This is even
more than treachery,” he said.

As regards Armenian intellectuals’ silence on the Customs Union,
Ginosyan said that “some intellectuals are reluctant to voice their
opinion, while others are not even asked to do so.”

Talking to Tert.am, Artyom Harutyunyan believes that Armenia has no
alternative. “We are surrounded by hostile nations and must first of
all think of preservation of our nation. And Europe will not help us.

We have no other close ally beside Russia. We must be grateful for
being admitted to the Eurasian family,” he said.

Harutyunyan quoted Wounds of Armenia, a historical novel by Khachatur
Abovyan, saying, “Blessed be the moment Russians put their blessed
foot on the Armenian soil.”

“European nations are of no strategic benefit to us. They may supply
weapons to us or say a word, but Russians are guarding our borders.

And our wise President Serzh Sargsyan made the right decision.”

People’s Artist of Armenia Yervand Manaryan, without analyzing
Armenia’s decision, said, “They are serious state issues. I do not
think that people’s opinion is of any value.”

With respect to intellectuals’ silence on the matter, he said:
“Ask them. I am the only intellectual that never keeps silence. I
wait because I think there are professionals.”

According to him, the choice between the Customs Union and the European
Union (EU) is an economic issue. “We do not know many aspects. Even
the president’s inner circle does not know some things.

I cannot dare make serious comments on the matter,” Manaryan said.

As regards statements on Armenia’s lost sovereignty, he said: “I do
not know what I am losing. May be I am really losing something. They
will never say. But what can we say about what we know nothing about?”

ARMENIAN PRESIDENT AWARDED “RAOUL WALLENBERG 100TH ANNIVERSARY” MEDAL

11:15 13.09.2013

The ceremony of awarding the President of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan, who
is an honorary member of the Raoul Wallenberg International Foundation
with the “Raoul Wallenberg 100th Anniversary” Medal took place at the
Presidential Palace. Raoul Wallenberg was a renowned Swedish diplomat
who during the World War II saved thousands of Jews from death.

At the event, the Foundation also paid posthumous honors to doctor
Harutyun Khatchatrian for his rescue activities during the Holocaust.

He was also awarded the “Raoul Wallenberg 100th Anniversary” Medal,
which was handed to his granddaughter Anna Khatchatrian.

In their remarks, the Founder of the Raoul Wallenberg Foundation
Baruch Tenembaum and Vice President Daniel Rainer presented the
history of creation of the Foundation, its mission and activities
and underscored that the aim of this international foundation is
to create educational programs and through the greater awareness to
enroot values of civil valor and solidarity based on the examples of
those who during the Holocaust were saving human lives.

The Foundation supports historical research, part of which is
dedicated to the gathering and publication of the information about
individuals saved by R. Wallenberg and other people who had manifested
such bravery. The representatives of the Foundation expressed their
gratitude to numerous Armenians who saved many human lives during
the Holocaust. All of them will be paid tribute to; the history of
their heroic lives will be studied meticulously and published.

President Serzh Sargsyan in his remarks attached the utmost importance
to the mission of the Raoul Wallenberg Foundation, expressed thanks for
the award and spoke about Armenia’s policies aimed at the prevention
and condemnation of the crimes of genocide and uniting efforts of
the international community in the fight against the phenomena which
cultivate them.

***

Remarks by President Serzh Sargsyan at the “Raoul Wallenberg 100
Anniversary” Medal award ceremony

Distinguished Mr. Tenembaum and Mr. Eurnekian, Ladies and Gentlemen,

The “Raoul Wallenberg 100 Anniversary” Medal for me is not only a
great honor but it also holds a special meaning. It embodies the
noble values of humanity and courageous spirit which are professed
by the Armenian people. The sons of the Armenian nation, who didn’t
adapt to and didn’t tolerate the gravest crimes in the human history,
were guided by these very values. They put their lives in peril to
save many other peoples’ lives.

The history of Doctor Harutyun Khatchatrian is an example, an excellent
one, but just one among many of saving human lives from the calamity
of genocide. As a son of the nation which survived genocide, I have
special feelings for each of such stories.

I attach the utmost importance to the Raoul Wallenberg Foundation’s
mission to shed light on such heroic stories. The mission of
broadcasting the stories such as Raoul Wallenberg’s and people like
him and educating generations in that spirit has a special import
not only for enrooting humanity and human courage and preserving
the memory of the victims of genocides, but it also greatly helps
in assessing the past impartially and thus supports efforts aimed at
condemnation and prevention of such horrendous crimes against humanity.

My special thanks go to the Founder of the Raoul Wallenberg Foundation
Baruch Tenembaum, the Chairman of the Foundation, our compatriot
Eduardo Eurnekian and, of course, to the entire staff of the Foundation
for their dedication, thank you.

Dear Attendees,

Our fate has destined us to become the front fighters in the fight
against genocides. Indeed, nations, which had gone through such a
catastrophe, have a special mission in preventing it from happening
again. The best formula for preventing crimes against humanity is
the elucidation of those horrific pages of the human history and the
evaluation of the past in the light of all-human values. I believe it
is equally important to fight against the prerequisites which breed
such crimes.

The Republic of Armenia is doing her best to prevent the crimes of
genocide and to unite efforts of the international community in the
fight against occurrences which feed them. For years, Armenia has
been introducing in different international settings resolutions
aimed at the prevention of genocides. It was also due to our efforts
that the UN Human Rights Council in different years has adopted a
number of resolutions aimed at the prevention of genocides. They are
called upon to constantly hold in the center of the international
community’s attention the Convention on Prevention and Punishment of
Genocide and to remind the states of their commitment to eliminated
crimes against humanity.

It is no accident, that at the Ministerial Committee in the Council
of Europe, Armenia has declared the fight against intolerance,
discrimination and hate propaganda a priority of her presidency. We
think it is shameful that in the contemporary world such occurrences
not only continue to exist but are being promoted by certain forces,
including on the state level. We must be determined to eradicate such
manifestations in any corner of the world.

In conclusion, I once again address my words of appreciation to the
Raoul Wallenberg Foundation for their mission of preserving memory. If
we forget the Great Eghern, Holocaust and stop mentioning the victims
of these sinister crimes, if we do not recall and pay tribute to all
those who had been saving lives from the claws of genocide, we would be
accomplices in the repetition of such appalling crimes. The American
thinker of the Jewish descent Elie Wiesel put it precisely right:
“Without memory, there is no culture. Without memory, there would be
no civilization, no society, no future.”

We, Armenians are deeply convinced that the Holocaust could had been
prevented if there had been memory of the first genocide of the 20th
century perpetrated against Armenians, if it had been duly condemned
and those guilty had their due punishment. With this regard, I express
thanks to the Wallenberg Foundation for the efforts along with the
Holocaust to gather information about the individuals and organizations
which had been saving lives during the Armenian Genocide. This mission
is particularly valuable on the eve of the 100th anniversary of the
Armenian Genocide.

REVUE DE PRESSE N1 – 13/09/13 – COLLECTIF VAN

Publie le : 13-09-2013

Info Collectif VAN – – Le Collectif VAN [Vigilance
Armenienne contre le Negationnisme] vous propose une revue de presse
des informations parues dans la presse francophone, sur les thèmes
concernant la Turquie, le genocide armenien, la Shoah, le genocide
des Tutsi, le Darfour, le negationnisme, l’Union europeenne, Chypre,
etc… Nous vous suggerons egalement de prendre le temps de lire ou
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Khatchig Mouradian : Rencontre avec un crâne Info Collectif VAN –
– “Après avoir, des decennies durant, detruit
activement des sites culturels et religieux armeniens en Turquie et
permis a des vandales et chasseurs de tresors de finir le travail
en creusant, en forant et en mutilant, n’est-il pas temps pour les
autorites turques de rompre avec les pratiques du passe et de lancer
un programme visant a stabiliser les structures et a empecher d’autres
vandalismes ? ” Le Collectif VAN vous invite a lire la traduction de
Georges Festa d’un article editorial en anglais de Khatchig Mouradian,
publie sur le site The Armenian Weekly, mise en ligne sur le site
Armenian Trends – Mes Armenies le 11 septembre 2013.

ONU : Conference de paix pour la Syrie Info Collectif VAN –
– ” ” Je suis convaincu qu’il est maintenant
crucial de pousser pour la tenue d’une Conference internationale
pour la paix en Syrie. Un accord conclu au travers d’un dialogue
politique est le seul moyen de mettre fin a l’effusion de sang
et […] j’exhorte les Etats membres a agir pour parvenir a cet
objectif. Une militarisation continue ne ferait qu’aggraver les
souffrances du peuple syrien et radicaliser davantage le conflit “. ”
Le Collectif VAN vous invite a lire cette information publiee sur le
site de l’ONU le 12 septembre 2013.

Une brigade ” jihadiste ” d’Ankara contre les Kurdes La Turquie
soutient ouvertement les groupes djihadistes et de nombreuses brigades
de l’armee syrienne libre (ASL) qui combattent les Kurdes au Kurdistan
syrien, notamment depuis mi-juillet. Les frontières de la Turquie
restent ouvertes pour les jihadistes d’Al-Qaida qui recoivent dupuis
ces frontières l’aide militaire, diplomatique et financier.

Deuxième nuit d’echauffourees entre policiers et manifestants Après
la mort d’un manifestant lundi, lors de heurts avec la police, la
Turquie a connu jeudi sa seconde nuit d’affrontements entre forces
de l’ordre et protestataires, faisant craindre la reprise de la
contestation anti-Erdogan du mois de juin.

La ville d’Alep est menacee du sort de Maaloula “Ca va très très mal
! Depuis deux ou trois jours, les rebelles lancent des roquettes
sur les quartiers chretiens. Nous n’avons pu dormir cette nuit, a
cause des fusee “hawns”. L’approvisionnement en electricite et eau
est souvent coupe ; les communications telephoniques et internet sont
exceptionnelles. Nous sommes totalement assieges par les rebelles. Nous
ne savons pas comment cela va se terminer.”

Genocide rwandais : la justice francaise rend un avis defavorable
a l’extradition d’un ex-colonel La justice francaise a rendu un
avis defavorable a la demande d’extradition de Laurent Serubuga,
un ex-colonel ecroue en vertu d’un mandat d’arret international pour
genocide emis par le Rwanda. La cour d’appel a ordonne sa liberation.

Syrie: Ankara et Riyad fournissent des armes aux rebelles (Assad)
Certains pays, dont la Turquie et l’Arabie saoudite, fournissent
des armes aux rebelles syriens, a declare jeudi le president Bachar
el-Assad dans une interview a la chaîne de television russe Rossiya 24.

Obama exhorte a un nouvel elan pour la paix au Karabagh ” Il est
maintenant temps de faire de nouveaux efforts pour etablir la paix
dans la region dans le cadre du compromis intervenu au cours des
negociations ” a declare Obama cite par le bureau de presse de la
presidence azerbaïdjanaise. Il a affirme qu’il encourageait Aliyev
a utiliser ” les possibilites du dialogue direct avec l’Armenie ”
dans les prochains mois afin de mettre fin a ” l’impasse actuelle’
dans les pourparlers de paix armeno-azerbaïdjanais.

Les Armeniens en colère contre l’OM Selon l’association, qui milite
activement pour la reconnaissance du genocide armenien de 1915 par
l’Etat turc, “le partenariat a souleve l’emoi et la colère des Francais
d’origine armenienne et marseillaise, qui sont tous supporters de ce
club porte-drapeau de la bonne image de Marseille”.

Le desarmement chimique de la Syrie, “un cas unique dans l’histoire
moderne” Si la Syrie adhère a la Convention, c’est l’Organisation
d’interdiction des armes chimiques qui va superviser la destruction.

Les inspecteurs doivent certifier que la destruction avance selon
les previsions, mais c’est le pays meme qui est responsable de la
destruction des stocks.

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