Author: Parkev Tvankchian

Bako Sahakyan approves government’s decision to adopt as a guidance and implement Artsakh Republic President’s 2017-2020 program

Parkev Tvankchian
| 15:15 | October 16 2017
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Artsakh

On October 16 Artsakh Republic President Bako Sahakyan approved the Ggovernment’s decision to adopt as a guidance and implement the Artsakh Republic President’s 2017-2020 program, press service of the President’s Office reported.

Members of the Artsakh Republic Cabinet, heads of state organs were tasked to ensure within the limits of their respective functions the development and implementation of actions enshrined in the Artsakh Republic President’s program, and submit to the President the corresponding reports on a periodical basis.

"Erebuni-Yerevan 2799": "Yerevan-city of love" program has started with traditional parade of water trucks

Parkev Tvankchian 
Armenpress News Agency, Armenia
 Saturday
"Erebuni-Yerevan 2799": "Yerevan-city of love" program has started
with traditional parade of water trucks
YEREVAN, OCTOBER 14, ARMENPRESS. The start of the festive events of
“Erebuni-Yerevan 2799” held under the slogan “Yerevan-city of love”
has traditionally been given with the parade of water trucks.
As ARMENPRESS was informed from the press service of Yerevan
Municipality, the procession of festively decorated water trucks
started from France square and passing Mashtots avenue reached
Republic square signaling the beginning of the festive day.
Employees of the Department of Communal Services of Yerevan
Municipality , of operative services and “Sanitek” company as well as
about 70 units of special machinery were involved in the process of
making “water refreshment” of Yerevan streets. The parade of trucks
was greeted by townspeople with encouragement. Good morning, City of
love-Yerevan!

Azerbaijani Press: Baku Not to Allow Transportation of Armenian Goods by Baku-Tbilisi-Kars Railway

Parkev Tvankchian
Turan Information Agency, Azerbaijani Opposition
Friday
 
 
Baku Not to Allow Transportation of Armenian Goods by Baku-Tbilisi-Kars Railway
 
 
 
Baku / 13.10.17 / Turan: In the end of October, the Baku-Tbilisi-Kars railway (BTK) will be put into operation. It will annually transport about a million passengers and five million tons of cargo.
 
The BTK route bypasses Armenia. But Armenian businessmen intend to use this way, taking their cargoes by the working Yerevan-Tbilisi railway and adding Armenian cars in Georgia to the train going to Kars.
 
“Armenian cargo carriers will certainly take advantage of the opportunity to transport goods on the future BTK railway, if such an opportunity arises,” the director general of an Armenian forwarding company Gagik Aghajanyan told the Russian news agency Regnum.
 
“While the Kars-Akhuryan route between Turkey and Armenia is closed, Armenian cargo carriers will try to take advantage of the BTK opportunities, which, in all likelihood, will lead to an increase in the cargo transit flow to Armenia,” Aghajanyan said.
 
Azerbaijan for the construction of the Georgian section of the road allocated a loan of $ 775 million. Financing of this project by the State Oil Fund is carried out in accordance with the Decree of the President of Azerbaijan On Implementing Activities on the Baku-Tbilisi-Kars Project dated February 21, 2007.
 
Can Azerbaijan prevent Armenians from taking advantage of the new road, given that Baku financed most of the construction of this road?
 
The Georgian political scientist Vakhtang Mansaya believes the main interests of the project owners, that is Georgia, Azerbaijan and Turkey, must first of all be taken into account in the work of the BTK railroad.
 
Turan asked officials in the Ministry of Communications, High Technologies and Transport and the Azerbaijan Railways CJSC about the possibility for the Armenians to use the BTK road. The Ministry reported the CJSC is engaged in works on BTK. An employee of the railway company, who did not want to be named, firmly assured the Armenian cargo will not appear on the BTK railway. “This is the political will of Azerbaijan,” he added.
 
But the official could not explain the mechanism by which the Armenian railway cars that come to Georgia will not be attached to the locomotive carrying the train to Turkey. There is no corresponding item in the documents on the BTK project.
 
“We are working hard to launch the new railway in a timely manner, and when it starts to function, you will see that Armenian goods are not transported by it,” the employee of the international relations department of the Azerbaijan Railways CJSC promised Turan.–0–
 
 

Music: Hollywood star John Malkovich send video message ahead of the visit to Armenia

Parkev Tvankchian
Panorama, Armenia
Sept 30 2017
Culture 16:46 30/09/2017

An American actor, director, and producer John Malkovich will visit Armenia to attend the opening ceremony of the 5th Khachaturian International festival which kicks off on October 11 at Aram Khachaturian Concert Hall.

Ahead of his visit to Armenia the renowned Hollywood star has released a video message to the Armenian audience. ‘I look to see you soon in yerevan’, the Facebook account of the festival reported 

To remind, John Malkovich will perform with the State Youth Orchestra of Armenia, headed by conductor Sergey Smbatyan. Accompanied by the orchestra John Malkovich will perform as a narrator. The audience will suggested to taste the fantastic fusion of literature and music: “Report on the Blind” chapter from Ernesto Sabato’s “On Heroes and Tombs” novel jointly performed with the Concerto for Piano and Orchestra by Alfred Schnittke, one of the most eminent musical figures of the second half of the XX century.

The 5th Khachaturian International Festival is dedicated to the 200th anniversary of Hovhannes Aivazovsky.

The festival is held under the high patronage of the President of RA Serzh Sargsyan. It is implemented thanks to the joint efforts of the State Youth Orchestra of Armenia (General Partner of the Orchestra – VivaCell-MTS), with the support of the Ministry of Culture of RA and the “Khachaturian” Foundation.

Azerbaijani Press: Konstantin Kosachev: Baku and Yerevan are close to resolving the conflict

Parkev Tvankchian 
Turan Information Agency, Azerbaijani Opposition
 Saturday
Konstantin Kosachev: Baku and Yerevan are close to resolving the conflict
Baku / 09/23/17 / Turan: Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs
of the Russian Federation Council on International Affairs Konstantin
Kosachev made a sensational statement that Armenia and Azerbaijan are
close to the settlement of the Karabakh conflict.
"According to the information I have, the parties to the Karabakh
conflict have come close to agreements," Kosachev said at a news
conference in Moscow, without revealing the details. Earlier, Armenian
Foreign Minister Nalbandian announced the possibility of releasing
part of the occupied territories around Karabakh, if there is no
threat to the Armenian side from there. Baku has not yet commented on
Kosachev's words, and in Yerevan they said that a settlement is
possible if Baku recognizes the independence of Karabakh.-02D-

Asbarez.comMarriott Armenia Presents Changes

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YEREVAN – Armenia Marriott Hotel Yerevan is happy to announce about the reopening of Cucina Italian restaurant for lunch and dinner. The restaurant will be open on September 18, 2017 and will operate every day from 12 am–12pm.

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BAKU: UN General Assembly to consider situation in occupied Azerbaijani lands

Parkev Tvankchian
AzerNews, Azerbaijan

Aug 21 2017
14:52 (UTC+04:00)

By Sara Israfilbayova

The Armenia-Azerbaijan Nagorno-Karabakh conflict will be among the topics to be discussed during the 72nd session of the UN General Assembly in New York.

The draft resolutions “The situation in the occupied territories of Azerbaijan” and “Protracted conflicts in the GUAM area and their implications for international peace, security and development” are included in the provisional agenda of the 72nd session of the UN General Assembly.

The draft resolutions were included in the agenda, which consists of 171 paragraphs, under paragraphs 40 and 36 respectively, since they were not discussed during the 71st session of the UN General Assembly.

The official opening of the 72nd session of the UN General Assembly will be held on September 12 in New York. The traditional general debates will be held from September 19 to 25.

The co-chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group for the settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict are planning to hold meetings with the foreign ministers of Azerbaijan and Armenia during the opening session of the General Assembly in New York.

Azerbaijan and Armenia fought a lengthy war that ended with signing of a fragile ceasefire in 1994. Since the war, Armenian armed forces have occupied 20 percent of Azerbaijan’s territory, including Nagorno-Karabakh and seven surrounding regions. More than 20,000 Azerbaijanis were killed and over 1 million were displaced as a result of the large-scale hostilities.

While the OSCE Minsk Group acted as the only mediator in resolution of the conflict, the occupation of the territory of the sovereign state with its internationally recognized boundaries has been left out of due attention of the international community for years.

Armenia ignores four UN Security Council resolutions on immediate withdrawal from the occupied territory of Azerbaijan, thus keeping tension high in the region.

Baku has repeatedly expressed its consent to come to the negotiating table with Yerevan to resolve the conflict by peaceful means, but Armenia continues to play for time and avoids substantive negotiations in order to preserve the inadmissible status quo in Nagorno-Karabakh.

https://www.azernews.az/karabakh/117900.html