Author: nina hovnanian

EXPLOIT DE L’ARMENIE QUI HUMILIE (4-0) LE DANEMARK A COPENHAGUE ! PHOTOS DU MATCH

Hier soir sur le terrain du stade ” Parken ” a Copenhague, l’Armenie
a humilie le Danemark sur le score de 4-0 pour le compte du groupe
” B ” des qualifications de la Coupe du Monde 2014.

Malgre sa defaite surprise face a Malte (0-1) vendredi dernier
a Erevan, le moral de cette equipe d’Armenie au potentiel enorme
restait intact. Hier soir a Copenhague, face au Danemark archi-favori,
l’Armenie a cree la surprise en dominant le match et marquant 4 buts.

Un veritable exploit pour cette Armenie qui dispose de très nombreux
talents. Les proteges de l’entraineur national Vartan Minassian ont
eu une vingtaine d’occasions de marquer, tant leur domination etait
presente sur le terrain de Copenhague où des centaines de supporters
Armeniens avaient fait le deplacement.

Youra Movsissian ouvrait le score dès la première minute du match.

Araz Ozbiliz doublait la mise a la 19e. Puis Youra Movsissian (58e)
et Henrikh Mekhitarian (82e) aggravaient le score. Cette merveilleuse
equipe d’Armenie ecrasait ainsi sur son propre terrain le Danemark !

Un exploit fabuleux qui restera grave en lettres d’or dans l’histoire
du football armenien.

Au classement de ce Groupe B (Europe), après 6 rencontres l’Italie
est en tete (14 points), la la Bulgarie est deuxième (10 pts)
suivie de la Republique tchèque (9 pts). L’Armenie est quatrième
avec 6 points, laissant derrière elle le Danemark (6 pts) et Malte
(3 pts).Malheureusement l’Armenie ne peut plus pretendre a une place
de barrage pour qualification pour la Coupe du Monde 2014. Les 3
points perdus vendredi dernier a Erevan face a Malte lui manqueront…

Les titres de la presse et des medias etrangers sont revelateurs de
cet exploit de la selection armenienne. ” Le Danemark ridiculise par
l’Armenie ” titre le site Sports.fr. ” L’Armenie surprend le Danemark
” titre de son côte Goal.com. ” L’Armenie humilie le Danemark ” ecrit
Ouest-France.fr, ” Le Danemark sèchement battu 0-4 par…l’Armenie
” titre la Rtbf.be. L’Uefa plus modere titre ” L’Armenie triomphe a
Copenhague ” sur uefa.com.

Krikor Amirzayan

Danemark-Armenie (0-4), Youra Movsissian auteur d’un double

L’Armenie humilie le Danemark (4-0) au “Parken” de Copenhague

La joie de Henrokh Mekhitarian auteur du 4e but de l’Armenie face
au Danemark

Henrikh Mekhitarian a l’oeuvre face au Danemark

Les supporters Armeniens lors de Danemark-Armenie (0-4)

Youra Movsissian auteur du double du match Danemark-Armenie (0-4)

L’international armenien Youra Movsissian a l’attaque

Henrikh Mekhitarian l’un des hommes de l’exploit de l’Armenie face
au Danemark

Le Danemark ecrase par l’Armenie (0-4) a Copenhague

Le gardien de l’Armenie, Roman Berezovski en action

Danemark-Armenie (0-4) l’Armenie (en blanc) a cree l’exploit

La joie des supporters Armeniens lors du match Danemark-Armenie (0-4)

Les supporters Armeniens lors du match Danemark-Armenie (0-4)
photos sport.am

mercredi 12 juin 2013, Krikor Amirzayan ©armenews.com

THREAT TO WATER RESERVOIR PUSHES ‘FROZEN CONFLICT’ BACK IN THE SPOTLIGHT

Sacramento Bee, CA
June 11 2013

Published: Tuesday, Jun. 11, 2013 – 3:23 am VIENNA, June 11, 2013 —
/PRNewswire/ —

The threat to the lives of more than 400,000 people living beneath a
dangerously run-down reservoir in Armenian-occupied Nagorno-Karabakh
has forced this so-called “frozen conflict” back into the global
spotlight, a conference in Vienna was told Monday.

The conference entitled The Geopolitics of Azerbaijan and European
Energy Security heard about the emerging threat posed by the Sarsang
Reservoir and its 125 metre high dam built by Azerbaijan in 1976.

During the two decades of Armenian occupation the dam has allegedly
been denied essential maintenance and now engineers and hydrologists
say it is in an “emergency condition,” which means it is prone to
structural failure or attacks by saboteurs.

As a result, Azerbaijan MP Elkhan Suleymanov told the conference,
the people living in six regions downstream have much to fear.

“Sarsang reservoir has currently become a serious source of threat,”
he said of the dam that holds back a 12 kilometre long lake.

“Obviously, any accident will result in both ecological crisis and
mass casualties of civilians and humanitarian crisis”.

Another delegate, Italy’s Former Vice-Minister of Trade and Industry
Adolfo Urso, said the situation had echoes of the Vajont Dam disaster
in his country in 1963, in which the over-topping of the dam caused
more than 2000 deaths.

“I understand the concerns of the people of Azerbaijan,” he said.

“With insufficient maintenance and repairs it will become a threat
to mankind and the international community must turn its attention
to these problems.”

Meanwhile Professor Gerhard Mangott of the University of Innsbruck
told the conference Nagorno-Karabakh “cannot be considered frozen
conflict” due to these developments and the on-going aggression of
Armenia. Despite resolutions in the United Nations, the Parliamentary
Assembly of the Council of Europe, the Organisation of Security and
Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) and the European Parliament, Armenia
continues to occupy 20% of Azerbaijani territory.

Separately, conference participants praised Azerbaijan as a model
of religious tolerance in the region and beyond and discussed the
country’s role as a secure energy provider to Europe.

Azerbaijan’s Energy Minister Natig Aliyev said that gas producers
will soon choose between two competing European pipeline routes from
his nation and they will make their choice based on which brings
quicker returns.

The consortium behind the offshore Shah Deniz II project must choose
between the troubled Nabucco pipeline running through the Balkans to
Austria, or the Trans Adriatic Pipeline (TAP) via Greece and Italy.

The project now faces completion date as late as 2018.

SOURCE Azerbaijan Monitor

RUBEN SAFRASTYAN DOESN’T SEE AN OPTION OF REVOLUTION IN TURKEY

Mediamax, Armenia
June 10 2013

Director of the Institute of Oriental Studies of Armenian National
Academy of Sciences Ruben Safrastyan

Yerevan /Mediamax/. Director of the Institute of Oriental Studies
of Armenian National Academy of Sciences Ruben Safrastyan said today
that the civil uprising around the Gezi park in Istanbul showed that
some layers of the Turkish society overcame the fear toward the state.

Ruben Safrastyan expressed the confidence that Turkey’s political
life won’ t be the same any more as it was before the “Gezi” movement,
Mediamax reports.

“Turkey’s political life will have long-term outcomes. They taught a
lesson to Erdogan’s “Justice and Development” (AKP) party: you won the
elections but you should take the society’s opinion into account. The
political life of the country will enter a new phase and the ruling
party will have to listen to the voice of the society”, noted the
Director of the Institute of Oriental Studies.

According to him, the developments showed that Prime Minister Recep
Tayyip Erdogan can’t be the leader of “all the Turkish”. According
to the specialist, the Prime Minister’s statements aggravated the
gap between the authorities and society and Erdogan’s authority was
seriously damaged.

Ruben Safrastyan called special attention to the fact that the Turkish
political forces stuck to rather a neutral position concerning the wave
of the uprising. According to him, it shows that the current Turkish
political palette doesn’t express the interests of the demonstrators
and it’s not ruled out that new forces will come up in forthcoming
elections of local self-government bodies and presidential elections.

The Director of the Institute of Oriental Studies added that he
doesn’t see an option of a new revolution as the Turkish army didn’t
show any interest toward the demonstration.

Besides, Ruben Safrastyan claims the movement is not political and
it’s no use seeking any secret forces behind the movement.

According to the specialist, the recent developments will have a
serious impact on Turkey’s foreign policy and especially the process of
Turkey’s integration to the EU. “It’ll be a lesson for those European
forces who are for Turkey’s joining the EU. Besides, the positions
of official Ankara for becoming a regional leader weakened”, noted
the Director of Institute of Oriental Studies.

WILL RUBEN HAYRAPETYAN TENDER RESIGNATION?

03:06 PM | TODAY | POLITICS

Armenia’s victory in yesterday’s match was not unexpected. The boys
did what they were suppposed to, Ruben Hayrapetyan, President of
the Football Federation of Armenia (FFA), said in conversation with
RFE/RL’s Armenian service (Azatutyun.am).

When asked about his possible resignation, the FFA president said
‘I want to resign office as people seek my resignation.”

Armenia scored four goals in a 2014 FIFA World Cup qualifier against
Denmark in Copenhagen on Tuesday night. This is the second victory
gained by Armenia in the current qualifying campaign, which allowed
the team to catch up with the Danes in the fourth place in Group B.

KOTAYK’S MAYRAVANK: AN 11TH CENTURY RELIGIOUS MONUMENT IN NEED OF IMMEDIATE CARE SONA AVAGYAN

Mayravank (Mother Monastery) is an early Armenian Christian religious
complex situated an arduous two mile trek from the village of Solak
in Armenia’s Kotayk Province.

What remains today is the St. Astvatzatzin Church (XI-XIIcc),
a basalt structure that is included in a list of “highly at risk”
religious monuments to be restored in the near future.

When Hetq asked Armenia’s Agency for the Protection of Historic and
Cultural Monuments, a division of the Ministry of Culture, what type
of restoration work would be carried out at the site, they couldn’t
offer any specifics.

Mayravank, lised in the Kotayk Province registry as a national
monument, has been handed over to the Armenian Apostolic Church.

Travelling along the path leading to Mayravank, located atop a cliff,
one comes across scattered evergreen trees and wild mint.

In the distance, you can make out Mayravank in the middle of the photo.

A Soviet-era sign warning that those defacing the church will be
strictly punished remains affixed to an inside wall of the church.

Local residents have placed a number of religious artifacts and other
miscellany on the altar site.

MEETINGS OF THE NKR FOREIGN MINISTER IN FRANCE

Wednesday, 12 June 2013 12:21

On June 10, NKR Foreign Minister Karen Mirzoyan, who was on a visit
to France, met with members of the Parish Council of the Armenian
Apostolic Church of Marseilles.

Afterwards, Karen Mirzoyan had a working meeting with members of the
Marseilles branch of the Coordinating Council of Armenian organizations
of France.

The same evening, a reception was organized in honor of the NKR Foreign
Minister at Marseilles Mayor’s Office, which was attended by French
MPs, political figures, representatives of the local authorities
and the Armenian community. In his speech, Karen Mirzoyan expressed
satisfaction with the friendly relations established between the
town of Marseilles and Artsakh and noted the significance of their
development and intensification.

In the morning of June 11, the NKR Foreign Minister visited the
Armenian National School of Marseilles, where he met with the teaching
staff, members of the administrative council, parents, and pupils.

The same day, Minister Mirzoyan participated in the ceremonial event
organized at the Mayor’s Office of Les Pennes-Mirabeau town, during
which a friendship declaration was signed between Les Pennes-Mirabeau
of France and Martuni town of Artsakh.

The declaration welcomes the consistent steps of the people and
authorities of Nagorno Karabakh – the Republic of Artsakh – aimed at
the establishment and development of a free and democratic society.

Basing on the exceptional significance of the values of freedom and
democracy provided by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the
sides declare the establishment of friendly relations between the
two towns and their readiness for implementation of corresponding
programs in the educational, cultural, sports, trade, and local
self-government spheres.

NKR MFA Press Service

STATEMENT OF HEAD OF RA NA ARF FRACTION ARMEN RUSTAMYAN

17:50 – 11.06.2013

Statement of head of RA NA ARF fraction Armen Rustamyan PACE
Monitoring delegation had organized hearings on so-called “frozen
conflicts”. Naturally, a discussion went around NKR conflict as well.

Such discussions are expected to take place in future as well.

The main issue is to clarify the basic approaches of our official and
parliamentarian diplomacy during those discussions, when any foreign
organization is trying to intervene in NKR conflist regulation.

Unfortunately, none of such clarifications have been made and a
coordinated actions are not taken towards this issue.

This issue is more than genuine today, when Armenia has taken up
the presidency of EU Ministers’ Council. I believe that EU can have
constructive and, typical to it’s character integration in this issue
in case of providing the following 3 principles.

First, EU must recognize OSCE MG as the only mediator with
international mandate to regulate the conflict and it must be done
not just by words but with actions also. That’s not always so and
we should not hesitate to give them all the facts concerning those
events to this organization.

Second, Competent and legal representatives of NKR must be present
at any discussion that is concerning NLR conflict regulation. There
are many preliminary examples in EU.

Third, EU must provide with priority of values which it has declared
itself, especially, concerning forces, and exclusion of use of force
under threat and issues concerning human rights and freedom.

Especially, NKR not having legal status, does not mean ignorance of
people’s rights and freedom living there and avoidance of use of EU
norms and standards.

Lastly, the best support of EU will be reconfirming the agreement of
Bishkek of ceasefire signed in 1994 and signing a new non-striking
agreement.

I hope that Armenia will use its unique possibility of presidency to
have more constructive disposition in NKR conflict resolution.

NO COMMENT: TV ANCHOR FIRED FOR FACEBOOK POST

Photolure

By Gohar Abrahamyan
ArmeniaNow reporter

The greater part of Armenia’s journalist community condemns the recent
incident in which a well-known reporter has been fired after making
a post on social network.

Armen Dulyan, popular anchor of a prime-time newswire at Shant, one
of Armenia’s leading TV companies, made a post on his Facebook wall
in reference with the fact that in Russia a newly-founded Public TV
was banned to use President Vladimir Putin’s divorce as a subject of
jokes in comedy programs, and drew parallels with Armenia.

“It is amazing how much in common we have…

“The newly-founded Russian Public TV decided to make jokes related
to Vladimir Putin’s divorce in yesterday’s show, but the program was
immediately banned… how can one joke about the president?! It is
almost like a coup d’etat! How really similar Russian and Armenian
people in charge of TV content are by their level of primitivism!”

he wrote and was informed on Monday that he was no longer employed
at Shant TV.

Dulyan told News.am that the TV leadership thought his post hinted
at them.

“How could the management of one TV company believe that I, as its
employee, as someone who gets paid by them, could have said such an
insulting thing about them? My reference was that the authorities
control most TV companies, both here and in Russia,” he said.

Shant TV made an announcement on Tuesday that Dulyan had been
dismissed, because further cooperation with him was unacceptable,
considering the disrespect he had displayed towards the company.

This is not the first case in Armenia when a reporter gets fired
because of making a social network post. Earlier, in April, Hayots
Ashkharh (Armenian World) daily reporter Kima Yeghiazaryan lost her
job for a Facebook post, too, as she claims.

Petros Ghazaryan, head of news programs at Kentron TV, also an active
Facebook user, told ArmeniaNow that firing a journalist for expressing
his viewpoint is the same as firing a doctor for treating a patient.

“Of course when you work somewhere you can’t say things that might
be damaging for it, but I have read Dulyan’s post and see absolutely
no such intent in it. Sharing his opinion is his job, I guess only
those who flatter are ‘in fashion’ now,” he says.

Ashot Melikyan, chairing the Committee to Protect Freedom of
Expression, says an independent media should not have applied any
punitive measures against Dulyan.

“By this step Shant TV has proved that they too, just as the majority
of TV companies, are under control and has demonstrated intolerance
to freedom of speech and thought,” says Melikyan.

ikyan

ZHOGHOVURD: RISE IN WATER TARIFFS EXPECTED

Wednesday,
June 12

A rise in drinking water tariffs is expected in Armenia soon,
“Zhoghovurd” writes. According to the paper, the current tariff of
174 AMD per cubic meter will increase to 200 AMD.

“Yerevan Jur CJSC has already submitted the respective application
to the Public Services Regulatory Commission. The commission will
hold a working sitting today,” the paper says.

TODAY, 11:37

Aysor.am

ZHOGHOVURD: ARMENIAN PARLIAMENT SPEAKER, SACKED REGIONAL GOVERNOR HAVE BUSINESS IN PARIS?

09:46 ~U 11.06.13

The speaker of Armenia’s National Assembly is said to have set up a
joint business in Paris together with Surik Khachatryan, the former
governor of Syunik sacked recently over a controversial murder.

Citing its sources, the paper says that Hovik Abrahamyan has recently
departed for France to sign investment document related to the
business. He and Khachatryan are reportedly planning to open a hotel
in the French capital.

But a spokesperson for the National Assembly, Gohar Poghosyan, has
dismissed the report. “Those are false rumors not corresponding with
the reality,” she was quoted as telling the paper.