Author: nina hovnanian

HOSPITAL FEES TO BE CUT IN HALF IN GYUMRI

tert.am
12.11.12

Minister of Health Derenik Dumanyan has called for cutting the medical
expenses in half in Armenia’s second largest city.

Private hospitals are entitled to increase the prices for surgical
interventions and other services, but given that such fees are
inaccessible to the residents of Gyumri, the minister of health has
issued a decree for reducing the expenses by 50%, a spokesperson for
the Ministry, Anahit Harutyunyan, told Tert.am.

“But as regards the government funding to hospitals, no changes
were made in those procedures. It is now up to private hospitals to
decide whether to impose higher prices on plastic surgeries and other
interventions. It’s their right, so we cannot interfere with their
price policies,” she said.

The press earlier said that the prices for surgeries surged in several
medical institutions based on a Health Ministry decree. Commenting
on the report, Harutyunyan said that the Ministry has only approved
the list of cases requiring free medical assistance, as well as the
maximum and minimum costs of paid services.

LE PRESIDENT ARMENIEN EN VISITE OFFICIELLE A LYON

France 3
12 nov 2012

Le president armenien, Serge Sarkissian, est attendu demain a Lyon.La
communaute armenienne compte de nombreux ressortissants en Rhône
Alpes.Le premiers accords de cooperation entre Lyon et Erevan datent
deja de vingt ans.

Le pesident armenien est attendu mardi en fin de matinee a Lyon où il
sera recu par le senateur maire de Lyon Gerard Collomb.Il saluera a
cette occasion la forte communaute armenienne en fin de journee. La
ville de Lyon et la capitale Erevan entretiennent de longue date une
etroite relation de cooperation .

Un nouveau plan d’action a d’ailleurs ete signe en 2012 pour prolonger
ce programme d’entraide .Il porte notamment sur la formation d’agents
publics locaux a l’esprit de gouvernance democratique.

Le passage du president armenien a Lyon s’inscrit dans le cadre d’une
visite officielle en France qui a debute lundi par l’Elysee.Les
presidents armeniens et francais, Serge Sarkissian et Francois
Hollande, ont affirme a Paris leur volonte commune de renforcer les
relations economiques entre leurs pays: “Depuis que nous avons des
relations diplomatiques, c’est-a-dire depuis plus de 20 ans, nous avons
veille a ce que les rapports entre la France et l’Armenie soient non
seulement affectueux mais en meme temps concrets. A cet egard, nous
pouvons nous feliciter des echanges culturels, linguistiques meme
si nous voulons aller beaucoup plus loin encore pour les echanges
economiques”, a declare M. Hollande a l’issue d’un entretien avec M.

Sarkissian a l’Elysee.

“Certes, la France est deuxième investisseur en Armenie, nous avons une
centaine,davantage meme, d’entreprises qui sont presentes en Armenie
mais nous pourrions faire encore davantage”.Selon M. Hollande,
“l’agence francaise de developpement pourrait multiplier ses
activites et ses soutiens de facon que, notamment dans les domaines
de l’agroalimentaire et des transports, nous puissions aller dans
les meilleures directions”.

Saluant “une amitie multi-seculaire” entre les deux peuples, M.

Sarkissian a dit egalement son souhait “d’elargir, renforcer,
approfondir” les relations entre l’Armenie et la France et en
particulier leur “cooperation economique”. “L’Armenie a besoin du
soutien de la France” dans ces temps de crise, a-t-il ajoute.Le
president armenien a invite son homologue francais pour une visite
officielle en Armenie en 2013.

HUNGARY EX-PM POISED TO UNSEAT ORBAN IN 2014 ELECTIONS

November 13, 2012 – 12:40 AMT

PanARMENIAN.Net – Hungary’s former Prime Minister Gordon Bajnai faces
one of the toughest political battles in the post-communist country
as he forges a coalition to beat Prime Minister Viktor Orban in 2014
elections, Reuters reported.

Bajnai has set out to build a broad opposition alliance and draft a
new program to help him oust Orban’s ruling center-right Fidesz party,
which has become the strongest political force in the central European
country’s recent history.

“This government is not governing the country,” Bajnai, 44, told
Reuters in his first interview with the international press since
announcing his coalition last month on the anniversary of Hungary’s
1956 revolution.

“They are using their two-thirds majority to build a regime,” he
said in the interview late last week. “We have to organize a large,
strong political centre of people of different values, ideologies who
want to live in a normal developing European country and not one that
is drifting away from Europe.”

Bajnai, whose movement Egyutt (Together) 2014 now ranks second in
opinion polls to Orban’s Fidesz, said his alliance would lead Hungary
back from economic unorthodoxy and end what he said was democratic
foul play in Orban’s regime.

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WORLD ENTERS NEW, TROUBLED DECADE, ANALYST SAYS

tert.am
13.11.12

Political analyst Ara Papian, head of Modus Vivendi think tank,
believes the world is on the edge of reformations.

“We are entering a new, troubled decade. Time of dismemberment of
micro-empires comes and many Middle East countries must be reformed,
and we should be ready for them. It will be either a decade of big
achievements for us, or big losses,” he said, speaking to reporters
on Tuesday.

The political analyst said though US incumbent president has been
re-elected, it does not mean that changes will not take place.

Referring to the Turkish-American relations, he said they are due
to change.

“Developing more, Turkey is being highlighted for the USA, while
on the other hand it is becoming more ambitious and independent,
starting conducting its own policy which is a threat for the USA,
thus the latter is to find new sources,” he said, adding that a number
of issues will come forth in that case, the Kurdish, in particular.

In this pre-context, the Armenian issue is chained with the Kurdish
one. “As the Kurds will try to create a certain statehood and forward
territorial claims to Turkey. The only document of Kurdistan is
the Article 62 of Sevres Treaty that claims that northern border of
Kurdistan is the southern boundary of Armenia. It is obvious for me
that this policy will awaken the previous issues and we must be ready
for them,” Papian stressed.

The analyst said the Kurdish issue demands a more complicated solution
than the Iranian. “No matter how tensed the US-Iranian relations are,
they will improve in 5-7 years,” he said.

The analyst also said the three South Caucasus countries do not have
any significance for the USA separately. “Consequently, the USA is
always striving to bring these countries to a common denominator
which is a clever policy but not reasonable,” he concluded.

LA COUPABLE INDIFFERENCE DE LA “PATRIE” POUR LES ARMENIENS DE SYRIE

Publie le : 13-11-2012

Info Collectif VAN – – Le journal Hetq,
magazine d’investigation en Armenie, a publie un article accablant
pour la mentalite execrable qui prevaut dans de larges sphères de
la Republique armenienne post-sovietique. Sous le titre “Desabusee
par la ” Patrie “, une famille armenienne de Syrie quitte Erevan
pour Tbilissi”, la journaliste Mariam Mughdusyan detaille le periple
d’un jeune couple armenien de Syrie et de ses deux enfants, venu a
Erevan il y a deux mois pour echapper aux bombes et a la mort qui
les guettaient a chaque coin de rue, et qui n’a eu comme solution
que d’aller s’etablir en Georgie, bien plus accueillante. Des billets
d’avion Syrie/Armenie, vendus par la compagnie armenienne au double de
leur valeur, a l’indifference generale des institutions officielles
armeniennes, en passant par les tentatives de soutirer de l’argent
a des refugies en grande difficulte, tout l’eventail des pratiques
les plus detestables est detaille dans cette interview edifiante. Que
les autorites armeniennes fassent attention a leur slogan “Ari Doun”
(Viens a la maison) : la communaute armenienne etablie en diaspora –
et qui finance massivement des projets en Armenie et au Karabagh –
pourrait l’appliquer a son propre porte-monnaie et garder ses dons
pour la “maison diasporique”. Le Collectif VAN vous presente une
traduction de Gilbert Beguian d’un article en anglais du journal
Hetq mise en ligne sur le site de NAM (Nouvelles d’Armenie Magazine)
le 12 novembre 2012.

NAM

Desabusee par la ” Patrie ” une famille armenienne de Syrie quitte
Erevan pour Tbilissi

par Mariam Mughduchyan, 9 novembre 2012

Sur la frontière Georgie-Armenie, nous avons ete forces d’attendre
relativement longtemps. Apparemment, quelque chose n’allait pas avec
le passeport de l’un de mes compagnons de voyage.

” Ils viennent de Syrie. Ils vont regarder et vous ferons rebrousser
chemin “, a dit le chauffeur, irrite.

” Il n’y a qu’a voir l’argent qu’ils recoltent au cours de ces
marathons “, dit la femme aux cheveux roux.

Ils vinrent. Ce qui n’allait pas, c’etait quelques erreurs dans les
passeports des enfants. Une famille, les parents et leurs enfants,
âges de deux et quatre ans.

Ils etaient de Syrie. Ils etaient venus en Armenie il y a deux mois. A
present, ils arrivaient de Georgie.

” Nous avons fui la guerre en Syrie. Le jour où nous sommes partis,
les obus tombaient par vagues, un chauffeur de taxi armenien nous
a charges et conduits a l’aeroport. Mon mari n’a meme pas pu aller
voir son père alite et malade pour lui dire au revoir. Il n’habitait
qu’a une centaine de mètres de chez nous. Les obus tombaient tout
autour de nous. C’est un miracle que nous n’y soyons pas restes ”
raconte Helen Tarchinian.

Ils se sont debrouilles pour avoir un billet d’avion pour l’Armenie
pour deux fois le prix. Tout ce qu’ils ont eu a leur arrivee en
Armenie, c’est une brochure avec le numero de telephone d’un cabinet
d’avocat. Rien n’y etait mentionne sur le ” Ari Toun ” (Retour chez
Soi) dont avait parle la Ministre des Affaires de la Diaspora.

” Nous avons appele ce numero et ils ont reclame 100 dollars pour un
conseil. Nous avons cesse tout contact avec eux “, dit Saeed Garikian,
le mari d’Helen.

Le couple a loue un appartement a Erevan, et a commence a rechercher
un emploi. Leur odyssee armenienne avait commence.

Dans leur efforts pour prendre pied, ce qui les a le plus etonnes
est l’indifference des autorites armeniennes pour le sort des Syriens
laisses derrière eux en Syrie.

” IL y a beaucoup d’Armeniens dans une situation terrible en Syrie,
qui revent de s’en aller, mais ce qui arrivent ici se retrouvent dans
une situation encore pire. Beaucoup ne font que vouloir retourner et
mourir dignement plutôt que de rester en Armenie et vivre une vie de
mendiants. Je connais des personnes qui sont retournees, degoûtees,
dit Sayid.

Tandis que nous parlions, le petit Alex commenca a pleurer. Il etait
fatigue par le long voyage. ” Nous sommes devenus des errants avec
nos enfants “, murmura Helen pour elle-meme.

J’ai demande :

– ” Pourquoi allez-vous en Georgie ? ”

– ” Pour trouver du travail. La situation est meilleure la-bas. La
connaissance de l’anglais est mieux consideree. En Armenie, ils ne
veulent que des gens parlant le Russe. Mais meme si je parlais le
russe, je ne serais pas engagee. Je n’ai pas de contacts ”

– ” N’est-ce pas la meme chose en Georgie ? ”

– ” La-bas, ce n’est pas comme cela. Nous sommes venus en Armenie
pour resoudre les problèmes de passeport de nos enfants. Lorsque
cela sera fait, nous retournerons en Georgie. Il y a au moins un
espoir que les choses iront mieux la-bas. En Armenie, lorsqu’ils se
rendent compte que vous arrivez de Syrie, ils essaient de vous duper,
d’obtenir quelque chose de vous.

Sayid est pharmacien. Beaucoup lui ont promis un emploi mais rien ne
s’est passe. Les economies de la famille vont bientôt etre epuisees.

La famille a vu son depart pour la Georgie comme la seule issue. Ils
ont passe les deux dernières semaines ici et ils se sont apercu que
les chances de trouver un emploi etaient plus elevees.

Ils voient la Syrie et l’Armenie ensemble comme leur patrie. A present,
cependant, ils ont ete forces de chercher une autre patrie.

Ils se sentent humilies et insultes par les fonctionnaires en Armenie
et choques par les comportements locaux.

” Une fois, je suis alle poser une question a la Mairie d’Erevan. Je
suis entre dans la salle et j’ai vu que les employes fetaient
l’anniversaire de l’un d’entre eux. Une employee m’a dit de revenir un
autre jour. Elle me dit : ” ne voyez-vous pas que nous sommes occupes a
feter un anniversaire ? ” Sa femme le gronde un peu pour avoir raconte
cette histoire, mais Sayid a ete très contrarie par cet incident.

Plus tard, ils se sont rappeles qu’en Syrie, que le chauffeur de
taxi armenien qui les avait conduits a l’aeroport avait ete tue par
les rebelles.

” Je n’ai pas dit au revoir a mon père. Mes parents sont restes en
Syrie,… ” Nous sommes restes silencieux.

Helen allait a Spitak pour y voir des parents. Sayid se rendait
a Erevan.

Dans le taxi, les passagers riaient en se racontant des blagues. Sayid
etait ailleurs. Peut-etre ne comprenait-il pas leur humour. Peut-etre
meme que cela lui cassait les oreilles.

PS A mon retour en Armenie, j’ai trouve Helen sur Facebook. Elle m’a
dit qu’ils etaient etablis en Georgie pour de bon.

lundi 12 novembre 2012, Jean Eckian ©armenews.com

Traduction Gilbert Beguian pour Armenews

Article en anglais :

Disillusioned with “Homeland” – Syrian-Armenian Family Leaves Yerevan
for Tbilisi

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Source/Lien : NAM

FRENCH PRESIDENT SAYS BILL CRIMINALIZING DENIAL OF “ARMENIAN GENOCIDE” WILL BE ADOPTED

APA
Nov 12 2012
Azerbaijan

Baku. Victoria Dementeva- APA. “The OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs have
done their best for the restoration of the negotiations process on the
settlement of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict”, said French President
Francois Hollande following the meeting with Armenian President Serzh
Sargsyan. He underlined that the relations between the two countries
were at a high level.

Serzh Sargsyan invited his French counterpart to pay a state visit
to Armenia and this invitation was accepted. The French President
said at the reception held in honor of Serz Sargsyan at the Elysee
Palace that the bill criminalizing denial of the “Armenian genocide”
would be adopted. He underlined the importance of creating legal base
to the draft law for preventing the application of censorship by the
Constitutional Court.

FRENCH PRESIDENT: OSCE MINSK GROUP TO MAKE EVERY EFFORT TO RESUME NEGOTIATIONS

Trend
Nov 12 2012
Azerbaijan

OSCE Minsk Group co-chairmen will make every effort to resume
the negotiations over Nagorno-Karabakh, French President Francois
Hollande said after his meeting with Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan,
PanARMENIAN.Net. reported.

During the meeting, Serzh Sargsyan invited Francois Hollande to visit
pay a state visit to Armenia in 2013. The French President has accepted
the invitation of the Armenian counterpart.

The conflict between the two South Caucasus countries began in 1988
when Armenia made territorial claims against Azerbaijan. Armenian
armed forces have occupied 20 per cent of Azerbaijan since 1992,
including the Nagorno-Karabakh region and seven surrounding districts.

Azerbaijan and Armenia signed a ceasefire agreement in 1994. The
co-chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group – Russia, France and the U.S. –
are currently holding peace negotiations.

Armenia has not yet implemented the U.N. Security Council’s four
resolutions on the liberation of the Nagorno-Karabakh and the
surrounding regions.

AMBASSADOR: FRANCE SEEKS STABILITY IN THE REGION

Trend
Nov 12 2012
Azerbaijan

Co-chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group will visit the region in late
November, French Ambassador to Azerbaijan Pascal Meunier told
journalists on Monday.

He said as a co-chair country, France seeks peaceful resolution of
the Armenian-Azerbaijani Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.

“France seeks stability in the region and wants to achieve it,”
Meunier said.

The conflict between the two South Caucasus countries began in 1988
when Armenia made territorial claims against Azerbaijan. Armenian
armed forces have occupied 20 percent of Azerbaijan since 1992,
including the Nagorno-Karabakh region and 7 surrounding districts.

Azerbaijan and Armenia signed a ceasefire agreement in 1994. The
co-chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group – Russia, France, and the U.S. –
are currently holding the peace negotiations.

Armenia has not yet implemented the U.N. Security Council’s four
resolutions on the liberation of the Nagorno-Karabakh and the
surrounding regions.

NEW SITUATION.WHAT’S NEXT?

Monday, 12 November 2012 09:35

Will the mediators reconsider their previous approaches to the
conflict settlement?

As we know, a visit of the OSCE Minsk Group co-chairmen to the region
is expected in November. It was arranged at the October 27 meeting of
the Foreign Ministers of Armenia and Azerbaijan and the Minsk Group
co-chairs in Paris.

The information on the Paris meeting itself was quite poor. It
was only noted in the OSCE statement issued on its results that
the mediators had presented some new proposals to the parties and
the “Foreign Ministers of Azerbaijan and Armenia confirmed their
readiness to continue the work with the co-chairs on the achievement
of a peaceful settlement”.

Actually, nothing more could be expected from the meeting in the French
capital. The situation created by “Safarov’s case” did not absolutely
leave any room even for timid hope for the slightest progress in the
Karabakh settlement. The negotiation process was stricken a severe
blow, from which it will hardly be able to recover in a short time. In
the current conditions, we can firmly state that nothing serious can
be expected from the upcoming visit of the OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs
to the region.

Today, most experts believe that the negotiation process is in a
deadlock. As a result of the openly provocative actions of Azerbaijan,
the tension between the parties has greatly increased, which makes
many political analysts state the increased possibility of the military
activities’ resumption. Under the existing situation, the co-chairs of
the Minsk Group consider that their goal is to prevent the conflict’s
entering into a hot phase and to try to keep the negotiation process
ongoing. We can suppose that the mediators’ new proposals and ideas,
which were discussed at the Paris meeting, are aimed just at the
achievement of this goal, because they should understand that it is
merely naive to date to speak about a comprehensive settlement.

But, it is important to emphasize that the issue of the conflict fair
settlement is not connected only with the position of Azerbaijan,
which is well known and which will not radically change in the nearest
future. To be true, the matter is also in the position of the OSCE
Minsk Group. To be fair, we should note that it used great efforts
to reach a final arrangement between the parties, offering them
several options of the conflict settlement. We cannot blame it for
being passive and ineffective, as Azerbaijan does it, and we accept
its statement that an agreement should be achieved, first of all, by
the conflicting parties themselves. But, we’d like to make a comment.

For its twenty-year activity, the OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs should,
first of all, have got convinced that Azerbaijan is not able to conduct
civilized and responsible negotiations supposing respectful attitude
to both the opponents in the political dialogue and the agreements
reached. Second, they should admit that times have changed and,
consequently, changed is the situation in the world in general.

So, the international mediators should reconsider their approaches to
and methodology of the Karabakh issue resolution and should refuse
of the previous old schemes of settlement and take the realities
differently. The reality is that the Nagorno Karabakh Republic is
an established state, and considering the ongoing military threats
of Azerbaijan, as well as the tendencies of development of the
geopolitical processes in the world, there is no alternative to the
legal recognition of its factual independence.

I would suggest that this obvious truth is realized also by
the international mediators. While earlier any of them, though
hypothetically, admitted the possibility of coexistence between Nagorno
Karabakh and Azerbaijan under a single “roof” (let’s remember, at
least, the proposal of the Minsk Group on the “common state”), after
the pardon of murderer Safarov there are hardly any illusions left on
this. This means that the Minsk Group co-chairs should build their
mediation mission in accordance with the current reality and should
convince Azerbaijan of the futility of its plans to subject Nagorno
Karabakh to its jurisdiction. First, as noted by Armenia’s Foreign
Minister Edward Nalbandian, it is necessary “to force Azerbaijan to
the peaceful settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict”. Since the
Baku regime, refusing to notice either the change in the position of
the international community or the started process of international
recognition of the right of the Artsakh people to self-determination,
remains committed to the military way and still states its readiness
for “any option” (i.e. military) of the issue’s solution.

This political “blindness” of official Baku allows some experts
to speak about the archaic diplomatic tactics and strategy of
Azerbaijan on Karabakh and, as a consequence, about the stalemate
in the Karabakh settlement. But, let’s make a small remark – while
stalemate in chess means a draw, in our case, we can only speak about
the victory of Nagorno-Karabakh as an objective reality. The reward
for this victory became the independent state status of the NKR,
which, as repeatedly stated by the authorities of the Republic,
is not subject to any discussion.

Leonid MARTIROSSIAN Editor-in-Chief of Azat Artsakh newspaper

LE PRESIDENT ARMENIEN EN VISITE OFFICIELLE EN FRANCE

Publie le : 12-11-2012

Info Collectif VAN – – Le President armenien
Serge Sarkissian est arrive en France pour une visite officielle
de trois jours. Le chef de l’Etat armenien s’entretiendra ce lundi
avec le President de la Republique, Francois Hollande, avec lequel
il dejeunera. Le service de presse presidentiel de la Republique
d’Armenie annonce que Serge Sarkissian rencontrera egalement le Premier
ministre, Jean-Marc Ayrault, le President de l’Assemblee nationale,
Claude Bartolone, ainsi que, mardi, le President du Senat, Jean-Pierre
Bel. Le President Sarkissian se rendra a Lyon où il s’entretiendra
avec le maire Gerard Collomb, les representants des entreprises de
la region Rhône-Alpes, ainsi qu’avec la communaute armenienne locale.

Elysee

Agenda de M. le President de la Republique du lundi 12 novembre au
dimanche 18 novembre 2012

Semaine du 12 au 18 2012

12 novembre

12h00

Entretien avec Son Excellence M. Serge SARKISSIAN, president de la
Republique d’Armenie suivi d’une declaration conjointe a la presse.

13h00

Dejeuner avec Son Excellence M. Serge SARKISSIAN, president de la
Republique d’Armenie.

Agenda de M. le President de la Republique du lundi 12 novembre au
dimanche 18 novembre 2012

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Senat.fr

Sur l’agenda du President du Senat

Du 11 au 18 novembre 2012

Mardi 13 novembre

Presidence 10 h 00

Audience de M. Serge Sarkissian, President de la Republique d’Armenie

Sur l’agenda du President du Senat

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Ambassade de France en Armenie

Revue de la presse armenienne du 9 novembre 2012

Le service de presse presidentiel relève que, le 11 novembre, le
President Sarkissian se rendra en France pour une visite officielle
de trois jours. Le chef de l’Etat armenien s’entretiendra avec le
President de la Republique, Francois Hollande, le PM, Jean-Marc
Ayrault, le President de l’Assemblee nationale, Claude Bartolone,
et le President du Senat, Jean-Pierre Bel. Le President Sarkissian
se rendra egalement dans la ville de Lyon, où il s’entretiendra
avec le maire Gerard Collomb, les representants des entreprises de
Rhône-Alpes, une des principales regions industrielles francaise,
ainsi qu’avec la communaute armenienne.

Revue de la presse armenienne du 9 novembre 2012

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