Author: nina hovnanian

Gurgen Yeghiazaryan to the authorities: `Let them wear hockey
goalkeeper’s helmet, get stronger to oppose the blows’ (Video)

September 13 2013

`What can I interpret: they played with people, played, cheated, and
then did something else? These Europeans have gone crazy. Regardless
of what, they say what happened, how did it happen?’,- so responded
the former Social Democrat Hunchakian Party (SDHP) member Gurgen
Yeghiazaryan to the question of Aravot.am as to how he would interpret
the EU Commissioner for Enlargement and Neighborhood Policy Stefan
Füle’s harsh statements and especially the fact that he emphasized
that the Customs Union is incompatible with the DCFTA agreements. We
inquired as to how the RA authorities should come out of this
situation, Mr. Yeghiazaryan responded,- `The killer will be freed.
This is also a way out, isn’t it? The know that they are busy with the
Customs Union, hence they will go for it. This authorities need
murderers, they are getting ready for something.’ Referring to the
`European misters’, Gurgen Yeghiazaryan said,- `These games should not
be played with Armenia. Today, they are expressing still mildly
because they did a mistake, they must smear their mistake. The day
after tomorrow, when they saw how they were cheated, they will
remember everything. They will remembered our elections, their
Prescott. They still hope that everything will turn back, but when
they saw that there is not return, watch what they will start doing.
We will not achieve anything with the Association Agreement, because
the dividends that we were going to benefit, we will not. Joining the
Customs Union, naturally, the door to economic relations with the
European is closed. The rest are declarative things.’ To our
observation that the RA authorities are waiting for the visit of Füle
to Armenia, what expectations are from this meeting, Mr. Yeghiazaryan
replied,- `Let them wear hockey goalkeeper’s helmet, get stronger to
oppose the blows.’

Tatev HARUTYUNYAN

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Armenian President to visit Moscow

15:33 14.09.2013

Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan will leave for Russia on September
16 to participate in the consecration of an Armenian Church in Moscow
and the opening of the church complex, President’s Press Office
reported.

Armenian Church celebrates the Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross Sunday

15:44 14.09.2013

The Armenian Church will celebrate the Feast of the Exaltation of the
Holy Cross on September 15.

The Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross is the last one of the
five major feasts of the Armenian Apostolic Church. It is the most
important feast among the feasts dedicated to the Holy Cross, as it is
dedicated to the history of the return of the Holy Cross from
imprisonment, its elevation and glorification. In the Armenian
Apostolic Church the Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross is
celebrated on Sunday during the period between September 11-17.

In 610 A. D, the Persian King Khosrov with a large army attacks the
Byzantine Empire. Enthusiastic about the initial victory, in 614 A. D.
the Persian army enters Jerusalem. Many people are killed and many are
imprisoned. Pontiff Zakaria, the Patriarch of Jerusalem is imprisoned,
too. However, the Persians are not satisfied and enter the Church of
Holy Sepulcher and take the Holy Cross kept in the Church. The Holy
Cross had been found and installed in the Church for the Christians to
worship by Heghineh, the mother of the King Costandianos, in the
beginning of the 4th century.

In 628 A. D., the Byzantine army led by the King Herakles fight
against the Persians to return the Holy Cross. The Armenian army
regiment, led by Mzhezh Gnounie, supported the Persian army. With the
Lord’s help the Byzantine army wins the battle.
The Holy Cross is solemnly brought to the Armenian town Karin, from
where it is carried to Constantinople, and then – to Jerusalem. On the
way the Holy Cross was raised for the people to see and worship.

For Christians the Cross is God’s power and strength and pride of all
prides, on which Christ’s innocent blood was shed. By means of the
Cross Jesus proved His love towards mankind, and the Cross became for
us the symbol of hope, love and saving.

AN ARMENIAN SKETCHBOOK BY VASILY GROSSMAN: FAR FROM HIS BELOVED MOSCOW, REFLECTING ON THE BEST AND WORST OF HUMANITY

New Statesman
Sept 12 2013

As he connects with Armenian peasants, we are reminded that this ill,
suffering man, far from home, is one of the great writers of his time.

By David Herman

In February 1961, KGB officers raided Vasily Grossman’s apartment.

They were looking for his unpublished novel Life and Fate. They seized
the manuscript, his notes and even the ribbon from his typewriter. But
friends had already taken a copy away. It was smuggled to the west
and is now widely regarded as one of the masterpieces of 20thcentury
literature.

After the raid, Grossman went to Armenia for two months. It is not
altogether clear why. He was in the early stages of cancer and his
marriage was in trouble. He had a commission to translate an Armenian
novel into Russian and presumably he wanted to get away from Moscow.

His account of his time there was published posthumously in 1965 in
censored form. A complete version is now available for the first time
in translation.

An Armenian Sketchbook shows Grossman at the end of his life, far from
his beloved Moscow, reflecting on the best and worst of humanity. One
of the first things that strikes himin Armenia’s capital, Yerevan,
is the huge statue of Stalin. “No matter where you are in the city,”
he writes, “you can clearly see the titanic bronze marshal.” It is
a monument to “the merciless builder of a great and terrible state”.

Grossman was writing during the Khrushchev thaw and he is able to
discuss crimes such as the Armenian genocide and the Holocaust,
but also the Gulag.

He encounters an old Armenian whose father “was buried in Siberia,
nobody knows where”. Later, he meets “a sweet, asthmatic old man” who
was sent to a Siberian camp for 19 years. He then relates his aunt’s
life story. “Her husband, an economist, was arrested for no reason
in 1937 and died in Kolyma.” Her son, Volodya, “was arrested and then
killed in prison by his interrogator”. This is the dark background to
Grossman’s extraordinary travelogue. He writes beautifully about the
ancient churches and monasteries, the harsh landscapes, the peasant
food. He is fascinated by “the spirit of paganism” that lives on in the
tiny hillside villages, “in drunken songs and stories from the past”.

Grossman starts by reflecting on how different everything is. He
reflects on national types. What are Armenians like? He notes how bleak
the landscape appears. Then he goes into a small village hut and sees
a stove and suddenly he realises that this stove is like every other
stove he has seen all over the Soviet Union. He is 3,000 kilometres
from Moscow and yet he is “back in village Russia”: “Here in Armenia,
I witnessed the extraordinary steadfastness of the Russian stove,
the Russian hut, the Russian porch . . .”

Then Grossman listens to the peasants and realises how much he has in
common with them as they talk about “love for other people, right and
wrong, good and evil, faith and lack of faith”. It is not just that
Grossman the translator and bespectacled Jewish outsider is at home
with these people. He also connects through the values at the heart of
his writing. Here, close to Mount Ararat, are people who believe in the
very things that animate his novels – decency, compassion, humanity.

An Armenian Sketchbook ends with a village wedding. Amid the remote,
“stony desolation”, the author feels at home. When a villager proposes
a toast to the Jews killed by the Nazis Grossman is tremendously
moved. The outsider feels that he belongs. As he connects with these
peasants, his writing comes to life and we are reminded that this ill,
suffering man, far from home, is one of the great writers of his time,
and that these values are at the heart of his greatness.

BADGUER – A WINDOW INTO BURJ HAMMOUD

Now.MMedia
Sept 8 2013

The result of a long history

NATHALIE ROSA BUCHER
September 8, 2013

Amid Burj Hammoud’s narrow alleys – lined with shops and workshops,
bustling with pedestrians and children on bicycles, and strung overhead
with Armenian flags, electric wires, and washing lines – Badguèr stands
out like an oasis. Dating back to 1930, this pink house near the Beirut
River is a promotional center for artisans and creativity, the ground
floor of which is home to authentic and delicious Armenian cuisine
comprised of carefully prepared dishes from traditional recipes.

The two-storey house includes exhibition venues, a boutique for
artistic creations and handcrafts, conference and training rooms,
a guest room to host master artisan trainers or for residencies,
and an outdoor terrace. The dining room is spacious and bright with
cozy tables covered with crocheted tablecloths. Rugs are displayed
on the walls and on the right hand side is a piano.

In the room adjacent to the restaurant visitors can watch a film about
Burj Hammoud’s artisans. Upstairs, exquisite Armenian needlework,
crochet creations, knitted slippers and jewelry are on display,
some dating back decades.

The house, which functions like a rhizome, is the brainchild of Arpine
Mangassian, who is known by everyone as Arpi.

“I wanted to create links,” Mangassian says of her motivation in
setting up Badguèr (which means ‘image’ or ‘photograph’ in Armenian.)
“Keeping to ourselves will be a disservice; we need to engage, we
need to open windows, create passages to make people curious [about
Burj Hammoud].”

Badguèr is the result of a long journey. “I had this dream; I knew
that this area had big potential socially, and regarding its artisanal
work. In our culture we used to feel proud of our accomplishments,
including cultural ones. We’ve always been creators and I wanted to
demonstrate this creative output.”

The realization of Mangassian’s dream began in 2009, when she was
invited to take part in in a special edition of the Agenda Culturel
focusing specifically on Burj Hammoud. She began receiving requests to
bring artisans to exhibitions and to do live demonstrations. “After a
series of exhibitions, I was lucky. My uncle gave me a gift and with
that the family could buy and renovate this house.”

Often hiding behind non-descript shop fronts across the Armenian
neighborhood are jewelers, hat and bag makers, tailors, shoemakers,
ceramicists, medal carvers, blacksmiths, locksmiths, and setters. The
area also abounds in repair shops. “If something’s broken, people
tend to say: ‘go to Burj Hammoud, they can fix it,'” Houry Ellezian,
a friend of Mangassian said. “We became famous for fixing things. We
never threw anything away, always kept stuff. We were the early
recyclers.”

Once a wetland, Burj Hammoud’s history as neighborhood dates back to
the 1920s, when it became the stopping point for Armenian refugees
who had managed to survive the genocide and escape its Turkish
perpetrators. Mangassian’s 92-year old father Noubar was born in
Aleppo, after his mother crossed deserts and plains on foot for
seven-months until reaching the Syrian border. A fixture at Badguèr,
Mangassian senior showed NOW a painting he made as a young man ofMother
Armenia, which is now on display in the restaurant area.

Carole Corm writes in her book Beirut: A guide to the city that “Burj
Hammoud would become the refugees’ enduring home with two-, three-and
four-story buildings, planned on a linear grid, gradually replacing
tents and wooden barracks…Armenian newspapers, social clubs,
schools and political parties developed over the span of a generation.

Bustling with activity, it is the industrial heart of the capital.”

The tour Mangassian and Ellezian gave NOW first stopped at the
Aprahamian Factory, which was established 60 years ago, supplying
local stores and exporting quality leather shoes to Africa and the
Gulf. Ellezian had bought shoes for her son’s prom there.

Vahe Mitilian, grandson of Lido Shoes’ founder, showed NOW a room
filled with leather swatches, prototypes and tools, where the latest
winter production was lined up. “So many pieces have to come together,”
Mitilian explained, opening a tinted glass cabinet filled with a range
of silver-studded high heels posing next to vertiginous stilettos
in leather and artificial materials. “Designing a new shoe is a
long process.”

Nearby a few men, each seated at their workstation, engaged in various
stages of this undertaking. Mitilian’s uncle Viken popped his head
through the door holding an 18cm stiletto: “The shoe will carry the
body and the body will carry the rest,” he said.

Next up was a visit to the goldsmith Kevork Kazanjian, who as the
teenage son of a diamond setter was sent to do an apprenticeship
with well-known Armenian goldsmith Busant Shublakian. Kazanjian
now sells his creations to shops in Lebanon, and works for private
clients at home and abroad. He displayed some finely crafted pendants
with precious stones inset as well as an antique gold ring on his
office desk.

Mangassian vividly recalls how as children she and her brother would
marvel at the giant cinema poster on display at Beirut’s Rivoli Cinema,
without fail signed ‘Havarian,’ making the two feel proud.

During Lebanese cinema’s golden age, the three Havarian brothers used
to paint large, unique posters for theaters all over Lebanon. Yervant
Havarian’s eyes lit up when talking about a 40x10m poster he painted
in his small workshop for a James Bond movie, which once complete was
mounted on the Concorde Centre in Verdun. “It is due to this poster
that they had the best box offices sales ever. It hasn’t been topped
until today,” he said. “I loved my job and did it with passion and
I loved the cinema.” Havarian now primarily paints religious oil
paintings for churches.

Mangassian currently serves as head of architecture and urban planning
for the Burj Hammoud’s municipality. In her office is a painting
carrying the dedication: “For Arpi, who carries her name well and
illuminates the whole of Burj Hammoud.” Arpi means ‘sun’ in Armenian.

Mangassian sees her role as an intermediary. “The aim of Badguèr is
to make their work known and connect the artisans with people who
will appreciate their artisanship.”

Badguèr is window into a world of highly skilled artisans, who gave
their families a new life in Lebanon while preserving skills passed
down by their fathers and forefathers. It is bound to change the way
visitors look at a story infused with trauma, resilience, creativity,
and spirit.

Beyond that, it also offers insight into Armenian culture, which to
Mangassian is a component of that rich Lebanese culture in which she
firmly believes.

For more information call 01 240 214 or 03 652 235 or consult Badguèr’s
Facebook page.

ASSAD FAMILY INTERPRETER: ‘THE WAR IS NOT SYRIAN-MADE’

Radio Free Europe
September 11, 2013

A man formerly employed by the Syrian presidential family says intense
shelling has forced him to flee the country for safety.

Mihran Bertizlian worked as a Turkish interpreter for the wife of
President Bashar al-Assad, Asma, before taking refuge in Armenia five
months ago.

Bertizlian describes scenes of violence and destruction in his hometown
of Aleppo, where homes, mosques, and markets appear to have been
devastated by the fighting that has pitted Assad’s forces against
rebels for more than two years.

Speaking to RFE/RL in Yerevan, Bertizlian says he left Syria out of
fear for his family. “I stayed until things got worse,” he says.

“There were a lot of bombs falling close to my home, there was no water
or electricity. So I left my home, my homeland, and the city I love.”

SEE ALSO: Photogallery — A History Of Aleppo’s Armenians

Bertizlian says he saw many dead bodies lining the road to the border.

But he does not hold Assad responsible for the carnage, and describes
the Syrian president and his wife as “nice people” deeply committed
to their country’s well-being.

Nor does he believe that Assad is behind the deadly poison-gas attack
in Damascus that is now prompting U.S. threats of military action. The
administration of U.S. President Barack Obama estimates that the August
21 attack killed more than 1,400 people, a third of them children.

Although both U.S. officials and human rights groups say the evidence
strongly points to the Syrian government’s involvement, Bertizlian
insists too little is known about the assault to make accusations.

According to him, the root of the Syrian conflict lies not in Assad’s
policies, but rather in what he sees as Western efforts to encourage
antigovernment uprisings across the Arab world.

Despite his loyalty to Assad, however, Bertizlian admits that Syria
needs “more democracy” and says he would actually support a democratic
revolution in his country, provided it was conducted by Syrians.

He says the rebel army currently fighting Assad’s forces is heavily
infiltrated by foreign rebels whose main concern is not Syria but
Islam. “I want to see a revolution by Syrians. This revolution was
started partly by Syrians, but it’s no longer a Syrian revolution,”
he says. “In a Syrian revolution, the Christians, the Kurds, all the
different ethnic groups in Syria would join. I believe this revolution
is not Syrian-made.”

Bertizlian, a Christian of Armenian origin, says he regularly spoke
with foreign Islamic rebels while still in Syria. He says their
stated goal is to topple Assad, whom they see as pro-Israel, as part
of their larger crusade to reclaim Jerusalem.

The Middle East is a very different place, with many cultures,
religions, and languages. Obama cannot understand us.

At the same time, Bertizlian feels Obama and other Western leaders
have little understanding of the region’s intricate religious, ethnic
and political realities.

“The Syrian people can help each other. If they want, they can replace
Bashar or leave him in place,” he says. “Thank you Obama, but let us
decide what we are going to do, you can’t help us. The Middle East is
a very different place, with many cultures, religions, and languages.

Obama cannot understand us. He wants to help us, but we don’t need
his help.”

As expectations of a Western military intervention grow, thousands of
Syrians have fled their country en masse, mostly to Lebanon and Turkey.

The likelihood of a strike appeared to recede this week as a diplomatic
effort to place Syria’s alleged chemical weapons under international
control — and ultimately destroy them — gathered momentum.

Bertizlian does not think the West will go ahead with the strikes. But
he believes Assad’s life is nonetheless at risk as long as he continues
to cling to power.

“If I were in his shoes, I would leave the country and never come
back,” he says.

IT WOULD BE BETTER FOR ARMENIA TO ACTIVELY COOPERATE IN BOTH DIRECTIONS – GAREGIN NUSHIKYAN

17:17 12.09.13

Garegin Nushikyan, a Republican Party of Armenia (RPA) parliamentary
group member, considers right Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan’s
decision to join the Customs Union.

On the other hand, he believes that “it would be better for Armenia
to actively cooperate in both directions and deepen its relations
with both Russia and Europe.”

With respect to European Commissioner for Enlargement and European
Neighborhood Policy Å tefan Fule’s remark that Armenia has to prefer
the “either…or” option, Nushikyan said: “Who says that Armenia must
prefer the ‘either…or’ principle?”

As to Armenia’s potential to export competitive products to Europe,
he said that Armenia is exporting numerous products to Europe. “If
China can, why cannot we?”

Armenian News – Tert.am

KURDISH LEADERS APOLOGIZE FOR GENOCIDE AT MONUMENT INAUGURATION

Thursday, September 12th, 2013

A scene from the inauguration of the monument. (Photo by Gulisor Akkum,
The Armenian Weekly)

BY GULISOR AKKUM

DIYARBAKIR, Turkey–The Sur Municipality of Diyarbakir held the
official inauguration of the Monument of Common Conscience on Sept.

12, with mayor Abdullah DemirbaÅ~_ apologizing in the name of Kurds
for the Armenian and Assyrian genocides.

“We Kurds, in the name of our ancestors, apologize for the genocide
of the Armenians and Assyrians in 1915,” DemirbaÅ~_ declared in his
opening speech. “We will continue our struggle to secure atonement
and compensation for them.”

The mayor called upon the Turkish authorities to issue an apology and
do whatever needed to atone for the genocide. “We invite them to take
steps in this direction,” he said.

The inscription on the monument at the Anzele Park, near a recently
restored historic fountain, reads, in six languages including Armenian:
We share the pain so that it is not repeated.

The inscription on the monument (Photo by Gulisor Akkum, The Armenian
Weekly)

“This memorial is dedicated to all peoples and religious groups who
were subjected to genocide in these lands,” DemirbaÅ~_ said. “The
Monument of Common Conscience was erected to remember and demand
accountability for all the massacres that took place since 1915.”

DemirbaÅ~_ noted that the monument remembers all the Armenians,
Assyrians, Jews, Yezidis, Alevis who were subjected to genocide,
as well as all the Sunni who “stood against the system.”

Representatives of the Armenian, Assyrian, Alevi, and Sunni communities
also spoke at the opening event. Diyarbakir Armenian writer Mgrditch
Margosian welcomed the opening of the memorial, noting that he awaits
the steps that would follow.

In turn, Zahit Ciftkuran, head of the Diyarbakir association of the
clergy, apologized for the genocide. He recounted the story of a
man who, while walking by a restaurant, notices the following sign:
“You eat, your grandchildren pay the bill.” Enthused by the promise
of free lunch, the man goes in and orders food. Soon, they bring him
an expensive bill. “But I was not supposed to pay! Where did this
bill come from?” the man asks. The owner of the restaurant responds:
“This is not your bill. It is your grandfather’s!”

Ciftkuran concluded, “Today, we have to pay for what our grandparents
have done.”

HERITAGE PARTY SEC CRITICAL OF OFFICIAL YEREVAN’S ‘OVERNIGHT DECISIONS’, UNPREDICTABLE STEPS

21:50 12.09.13

In an interview with Tert.am., Political Secretary of the Heritage
party Styopa Safaryan commented on Armenia’s decisions on accession
to the Shanghai Declaration with observer status, initialing of the
Association Agreement with the European Union (EU). He believes that
Armenia’s authorities have made “hasty decisions.”

Mr Safaryan, a decision on Armenia’s accession to the Shanghai
Declaration with observer status has unexpectedly been announced.

Armenia’s authorities are making such unexpected steps that the
idea of Armenia’s possible membership as a reliable partner should
be completely rejected by Europe. When I had meetings with numerous
EU officials in Brussels, they pointed out their inability to view
Armenia as a reliable partner any longer as a major problem. The
Armenian president’s unexpected decision is evidence thereof. And
even the Armenia authorities’ commitments to Europe have been called
into question. And this behavior – visiting the capitals of different
great powers and giving different promises – is not serious in itself.

Few Armenian political analysts have an idea of the Shanghai
Cooperation Organization (SCO) and all of them withhold comments. The
reason may be its being an unclear direction.

This is an economic cooperation organization co-sponsored by Russia,
China and, so to say, Eurasian states. Nothing prevents Armenia from
getting observer status at different organizations. Moreover, Armenia
maintains relations with Russia, Kazakhstan, China and other states.

But Armenia’s authorities go on making “overnight decisions” thereby
shocking both Armenia’s population and international experts. Simply
speaking, Armenia’s policy has become unpredictable, which does not
promise anything good. The authorities may have decided to expose
the country, endangering Armenia’s international reputation.

Still, do you think it is something forced or what is known as
initiative?

God alone knows where the last decision was discussed. But is has
nothing in common with Armenia’s population or political forces.

If anyone says that Armenia has lately seen debates on which of
the unions the country should join, the Association Agreement with
the European Union is the only exception. No other agreements have
ever been discussed in Armenia. It is unacceptable. I say again,
Armenia’s authorities are not making independent decisions. Rather,
they are unexpectedly told where to go and what to promise. And
“overnight decisions” are made under Russian pressure.

Mr Safaryan, you say Europe is expecting cooperation in discussing the
legal incompatibility. However, European Commissioner for Enlargement
and European Neighborhood Policy Å tefan Fule said that Armenia can
initial the Association Agreement with the EU if it has only observer
status at the Customs Union. It is clear that even a modified version
of the Association Agreement is out of the question.

However, willingness has been declared to discuss the initialing of
the Association Agreement and of the Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade
Areas Agreement (DCFTA) and resume negotiations if Armenia states its
intention to join the Customs Union as an observer. I mean Europe is
affording Armenia an opportunity. However, instead of following the
way to resolve its problems Armenia is making unpredictable steps.

Armenia’s president never mentioned such unpredictable steps during
his election campaign.

That is, you share Alexander Arzumanyan’s opinion. Yesterday he told
Armenian Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandyan that that the government
program did not contain a single word about the Customs Union or the
Shanghai agreement. The government must either present a new program
or resign. On his part, the FM stated that new developments rather
than a revision of the program are on the agenda.

The country’s foreign policy has undergone serious changes. But it is
not only the emphases that the authorities never mentioned during the
election campaign. Nothing like this is incorporated in the government
program either. Yes, they must either amend their program or resign.

The authorities have no right to speak on behalf of the people if
they have not discussed such significant issues with the people or
have been given the right to make such momentous decisions.

Å tefan Fule will arrive in Armenia. But as far as we know he does
not plan meetings with political forces in the previous format. Has
the Heritage party received an invitation?

I am not informed of such an invitation. But I think we need a meeting
because each side has something to say. But if he decides against
meeting with political forces, I think such a step should be viewed
as a wish to avoid criticism. Besides, I think their work is focused
on Armenia’s authorities.

IRAN IS READY TO EXCHANGE NATURAL GAS WITH ARMENIAN RUBBER

19:30, 12 September, 2013

YEREVAN, SEPTEMBER 12, ARMENPRESS: Islamic Republic of Iran is ready
to exchange its natural gas with rubber produced in “Nairit” chemical
factory. About this mentioned chairman of the Union of Domestic
Commodity Producers Vazgen Safaryan during press conference on
September 12. “I had a conversation with Iranian ambassador and they
are ready to receive rubber from “Nairit” in exchange with natural
gas. He added that the price for 1 tone of rubber is 6000 USD. He
considered impermissible inaction of the enterprise which produces
such valuable product.

Reminding that with such a scheme from Iran is imported gas to Armenia
and exported electricity to that country he mentioned that if “Nairit”
in past was able to pridcue annually 15000 – 20000 tones of chloroprene
rubber on acetylenic basis than now will be able to produce 30000 –
35000 tones. In Safaryan’s words 10000 tones can be provided to Iran
and the rest exported to other countries.

Besides, export of rubber to Iran can be one of elements securing
profitability of Iran-Armenia railway.

Nairit Plant CJSC is one of the leading chemical?nterprises in
Republic of Armenia that specializes in chloroprene rubbers and
latexes production.

Since 1940 the enterprise has been producing chloroprene rubber
under Nairit trade – name and at present it is well-known on the
world market .

Along with polychloroprene production the company has capacities for
the production of various chemical products: carboxylic acids, caustic
soda, sodium hypochlorite, carbinol syrup, lacquer- ethynol etc.

Due to the variety of produced polychlroprene grades Nairit CJSC
is the partner of different enterprises in industrial rubber goods,
cable ,light and other industries in many countries over the world.

In 2005 Nairit Plant manufactured 7,676 tons of rubber and 6,000 tons
of caustic sodium.

In 2006 Rhinoville Property Limited international company bought 90
percent of share capital of the plant: The rest 10 percent belongs
to Armenian government.