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Pashinyan claims that there are no passions in relations with Minsk

Tambiyan Samvel
Arminfo, Armenia
Nov 23 2018
Pashinyan claims that there are no passions in relations with Minsk

Yerevan November 23

Tatevik Shahunyan. "I do not think that in relations with Belarus passions have run high, and therefore there is nothing to subside," he assured the journalists. ActingPrime Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan, referring to the contradictory positions of the two countries on the issue of the CSTO Secretary General. "What I said is valid, and will be valid", Pashinyan assured.

To note, after the withdrawal of the CSTO Secretary General Yuri Khachaturov, the President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev spoke in favor of early termination of the powers of Armenia as chairperson in the organization of the country and the transfer of the post of General Secretary for the rotation order of Belarus. President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko subsequently discussed the situation with the ambassador of Azerbaijan, telling him the details of the closed meeting and supporting the position of Nazarbayev. In response to this, RA Acting Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said that he would demand explanations from the Belarusian and Kazakh presidents. Minsk, through the press secretary of the Foreign Ministry, Anatoly Glaza, reproached Pashinyan for violating the norms of the international protocol: "The acting Prime Minister of Armenia imagines himself an international prosecutor. The norms of street democracy are not acceptable in international politics." Yerevan responded to this statement at the level of a MP from the ruling party, Alain Simonyan, who stressed that it was not Minsk to teach Pashinyan the etiquette and rules of international politics, since Minsk itself constantly violates them.

Armenian police never been as weak and humiliated as now: Davit Shahnazaryan

Tambiyan Samvel
Aysor, Armenia
Nov 27 2018
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The Armenian police have never been so weak and humiliated as it is now by current authorities, Republican party candidate Davit Shahnazaryan told the reporters today.

“Today’s chief of the police must think about it. It is a matter of dignity and one of the most important issues,” he said, adding that they are going to restore the statehood weakened by today’s authorities.

Speaking about the wiretapped conversation between the chief of the Special Investigation Service and National Security Service director, Shahnazaryan said the statements of Nikol Pashinyan voiced after the leakage covered the issue.

“He instructed to lay to asphalts, plaster to walls, these were all aimed at silencing,” Shahnazaryan stated.

Another such step, according to Shahnazaryan was done for covering the situation in CSTO.

“When after the CSTO session it became clear that Armenia is losing the post, at the meeting with the Armenian community Pashinyan stated that there are 800,000 sluggish in Armenia,” Shahnazaryan said, adding that even the country’s enemies have not given such assessments to the Armenian people.

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   Lors des journées Ateliers Portes ouvertes des Artistes du Père Lachaise  Associés (APLA) 

des 1er et 2 décembre 2018 de 14h à 20h, 
Marie Claire Sarafian, dite Sarah Wiame,   présentera son travail artistique : peintures, dessins, livres d’artiste dans son atelier : 83, rue de Bagnolet 75020 Paris (voir le dépliant joint).“
 
 
 

Prosecutor General Insists Kocharian be Remanded

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YEREVAN (Azatutyun.am)—Armenia’s courts must allow law-enforcement authorities to again arrest former President Robert Kocharian in connection with the 2008 post-election violence in Yerevan, Prosecutor-General Artur Davtyan insisted on Wednesday.

Kocharian was arrested in July on charges stemming from the deadly breakup of opposition demonstrations during the final weeks of his 1998-2008 rule. He strongly denies the accusations, saying that the current Armenian government is waging a political “vendetta” against him.

The Court of Appeals freed the 64-year-old in August, saying that the Armenian constitution gives him immunity from prosecution. Both state prosecutors and Kocharian appealed against that ruling. The latter claimed that there were also other legal grounds for his release.

Earlier this month, the Court of Cassation, the country’s highest body of criminal justice, ordered the Court of Appeals to examine the case anew. The latter began hearings on the matter on Tuesday.

Davtyan is personally attending the hearings along with several other prosecutors. “Our position is that [Kocharian] must stay under arrest,” he told reporters.

“We are making arguments substantiating the need for the second president’s arrest at this stage of the investigation,” added the chief prosecutor.

Kocharian is specifically accused of illegally using the armed forces against opposition supporters who protested against alleged fraud in a disputed presidential election held in February 2008. Law-enforcement authorities say that amounted to an overthrow of the constitutional order.

Eight protesters and two police personnel were killed when security forces quelled those protests on March 1-2, 2008.

The Court of Appeals assigned the case to one of its judges, Ruben Mkhitaryan, by a draw, prompting strong objections from Kocharian’s lawyers. They claimed that this is a violation of Armenian law and demanded Mkhitaryan’s replacement. The judge rejected the demand on Wednesday.

One of the defense lawyers, Hayk Alumyan, said they will file other court petitions on Thursday. In particular, he said, they will demand that Mkhitaryan ask Armenia’s Constitutional Court to rule on an article of the Criminal Code used against the ex-president. The lawyers believe that the article is unconstitutional, said Alumyan.

Kocharian announced his return to active politics just days after his release from prison. He has repeatedly accused Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan’s government of endangering the country’s national security, undermining its relations with Russia and lacking economic programs. Still, he decided not run in snap parliamentary elections slated for December 9.

Pashinyan, who played a key role in the 2008 protests and spent nearly two years in prison because of that, has strongly defended the criminal case against Kocharian. “All murderers will go to prison,” he declared on August 17.

Heightened border control and supervision for chicken eggs

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  • 12:35 | November 27,2018 | Economy
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The Food Safety Inspectorate of Armenia has initiated heightened border control and supervision for chicken eggs imported from the Eurasian Economic Union countries, as well as other non-member countries.

The inspectorate said that the border control has been brought to higher alert also based on avian influenza cases in a number of regions in Russia.

Armenia’s Security Council Secretary takes part in CIS Moscow annual meeting

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YEREVAN, NOVEMBER 21, ARMENPRESS. Armenia’s Security Council Secretary Armen Grigoryan participated in the VI CIS Annual Meeting of Security Council Secretaries in Moscow, Russia.

Grigoryan said on Facebook that the agenda of the meeting included issues relating to combating terrorism, terror funding and biosecurity.

In accordance with the agenda, Grigoryan delivered remarks and presented the domestic political situation of Armenia. He highlighted the implementation of joint efforts in combating international terrorism, terror funding, extremism, money laundering and organized crime and presented the work that is being carried out in Armenia in this direction.

In his remarks, Grigoryan outlines the significance of the active reference labs in Armenia, in the context of early prevention of hazardous pandemics both inside and outside the country and organizing the actions relating to overcoming them.

Grigoryan noted that Armenia has always displayed and continues displaying willingness in cooperating with stakeholder sides for ensuring biosecurity and is acting within the framework of international law, maximally transparent and predictable.

Edited and translated by Stepan Kocharyan




Turks in France slam Armenian group’s anti-Turkey name

Tambiyan Samvel
InfoSurhoy
Nov 10 2018
Turks in France slam Armenian group’s anti-Turkey name   
    
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Several Turkish organizations in France release a joint statement condemning ‘hate’ against Turkey, Turks   

By Omer Aydin

PARIS

Turkish civil society organizations in France responded on Friday to an Armenian group’s call to exclude Turkey from a Paris forum marking the 100th anniversary of the end of World War I.

Several Turkish organizations including the Turkish Islamic Union for Religious Affairs (DITIB), Union of International Democrats (UID), and COJEP France released a joint statement condemning the Co-ordination Council of Armenian Organizations of France for its “hate” against Turkey and Turks.

Underlining that French President Emmanuel Macron had invited his Turkish counterpart President Recep Tayyip Erdogan along with 80 other leaders to the inaugural of Paris Peace Forum to be held on Armistice Day on Nov. 11, the statement said that the Armenian group’s call contradicted the forum’s “spirit of dialogue”.

It added that Turkish organizations in France were “pleased” with the strengthening of the long-standing relations between France and Turkey.

The statement stressed that historical issues existing between the two countries could not be resolved through “hate and malice”.

“Whether those who plant the seeds of hate like it or not, we will always remain committed to the values of freedom, fraternity and equality,” it added.

The groups emphasized that Turkey had proposed for an international commission to be established to investigate the events of 1915, but that this was rejected by Armenia.

Turkey’s position on the events of 1915 is that deaths of Armenians in eastern Anatolia in 1915 occurred after some sided with invading Russians and revolted against Ottoman forces. A subsequent relocation of Armenians resulted in numerous casualties.

Ankara does not accept the alleged “genocide,” but acknowledges there were casualties on both sides during World War I.

Turkey objects to the presentation of the incidents as “genocide” but describes the 1915 events as a tragedy for both sides.

Ankara has repeatedly proposed the creation of a joint commission of historians from Turkey and Armenia plus international experts to tackle the issue.

More than half of the people surveyed believe that Armenia needs the mining industry when fulfilling certain conditions

Tambiyan Samvel
Arminfo, Armenia
Nov 7 2018
More than half of the people surveyed believe that Armenia needs the mining industry when fulfilling certain conditions



DATELINE: Yerevan,November 07.ArmInfo, Emmanuel Mkrtchyan. More than half of the respondents surveyed believe that Armenia needs to develop the mining sector of the economy when fulfilling certain conditions of its operation. These are the findings of a survey conducted by the Gallup public opinion research institute in cooperation with the Marketing Association of Armenia on the example of the Amulsari mining project. According to the study, one of the topics of which was the attitude of the Armenian public to the implementation of the project for the operation of the Amulsarsky zalotonosnogo field and the suspension of mine construction due to protest actions of environmental activists, 28% of respondents said that the field cannot be exploited, 26.5% thought that the project should be implemented and bring benefits to local communities, 18.9% considered that the mine should be exploited, but with active monitoring by the public and 5

2% – that the Amulsar deposit should kspluatirovatsya from Armenian, not foreign companies. Thus, from the point of view of environmental risks, which, according to the project management, were completely neutralized through technology and the implementation of a number of preventive expensive environmental programs, more than 45% of respondents considered the operation of the Amulsar project to be quite acceptable provided some of these or other conditions were observed (technology, control and .d.)

Commenting at the request of ArmInfo, the results of the poll, project manager Hayk Aloyan noted that they consider them to be fully justified and correspond to the real picture of the public perception of the Amulsar project, in which risk management was originally built into an unquestionable imperative. "Over the years of project preparation, we have been confronted with a purposeful, specifically funded campaign against the implementation of our project. In Armenia, there is no other business project, so much money would have been invested in the misinformation and denigration of which, despite the years of information war against us and the mountains of black PR, the result of the survey shows that the population of the country, of course, under certain conditions , for example hard social and state monitoring, not against its implementation. Many understand that the suspension of the construction of the mine is the result of unprovoked actions of certain forces that deliberately disorient the public and manipulate public opinion, "said Hayk Aloyan. He noted that the public is well aware that the mining industry is an integral part of the industrial complex of Armenia and it should function on the availability of modern, neutralizing possible damage, technologies and continuous public monitoring, that is, the whole set of measures that, in principle, lay at the very core of the Amulsar project.

Recall that the Amulsar project is being implemented by Lydian Armenia, which is a subsidiary of the British Lydian International, whose shareholders are major international institutional investors from the United States, Great Britain, and a number of European countries, including EBRD. The Amulsar project is the largest industrial project in Armenia today for the development of the Amulsar gold deposit with a total value of $ 370 million. In August 2016, the project for the construction and development of the deposit was launched. Preparatory work has been going on since 2006. The life of the Amulsarsky deposit will be 10 years and 4 months, with an average of 200 thousand ounces of gold (about 10 million tons of ore) planned annually. The company is listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange. Amulsar deposit is the second largest reserves in Armenia.

Sports: Armenia’s Martirosyan claims maiden global crown with men’s 109kg triumph at 2018 IWF World Championships

Tambiyan Samvel
Insidethegames.biz
Nov 9 2018


                                                    By Daniel Etchells at the Ashgabat Olympic Complex's Martial Arts Arena
  • Friday, 9 November 2018

Armenia's Simon Martirosyan claimed his first-ever global title after powering to victory in the men's 109 kilograms category on the penultimate day of the 2018 International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) World Championships here in Turkmenistan's capital.  

Despite finishing second in the snatch with 195kg after failing with a world standard-breaking attempt of 197kg, the 21-year-old went onto win the clean and jerk with a world standard of 240kg for a world standard total of 435kg.

The first of Martirosyan's two successful clean and jerk lifts, which came at 230kg, also proved to be enough to secure the gold medals in that event and the total.

It earned the Rio 2016 Olympic silver medallist and 2017 European champion a world standard total of 425kg that he would go onto break for a second time.

"I knew I will have a lot of strong competitors," Martirosyan, who opted not to carry out his final lift, said.

"I just did the same thing I always do, I gave my best."

The silver medallist in the total with 419kg was China's Yang Zhe, who won the snatch with 196kg and finished fourth in the clean and jerk with 223kg.

Rounding out the overall podium with 403kg was Poland’s Arkadiusz Michalski after he came 15th in the snatch with 175kg and second in the clean and jerk with 228kg.

Surprisingly, Rio 2016 gold medallist Ruslan Nurudinov of Uzbekistan bombed out of the snatch following one failure at 187kg and two at 189kg.

The 26-year-old bounced back, however, to win the clean and jerk bronze medal with 227kg.

"This is more than I expected tonight," Nurudinov said. 

"I was unfortunately sick all week. 

"I had a temperature and I feel weak."

The snatch bronze medallist was Russia's Rodion Bochkov with 190kg, earning his country a third podium finish of these World Championships after Artem Okulov claimed double gold in the men’s 89kg category on Tuesday (November 6).

The 2018 World Championships are the first event to be held since the re-structuring of the IWF’s weight classes, nullifying earlier records.

It is for this reason that the term "world standard" is being used as oppose to "world record".

There were also medals awarded today in the women’s 87kg category as China’s Ao Hui beat North Korea’s Kim Un Ju to overall gold following an intriguing battle between the two lifters.

The 21-year-old Ao won the snatch with 117kg to give her a 6kg advantage over third-placed Kim, the 2014 Asian Games champion in the 75kg category.

Kim managed to overcome Ao in the clean and jerk, registering 152kg to her nearest rivals 151kg, but it was not enough to ensure victory in the total.

Ao finished on 268kg overall, while Kim had to settle for 263kg.

The Dominican Republic’s Crismery Dominga Santana Peguero won the bronze medal in the total with 254kg having finished second in the snatch with 116kg and fifth in the clean and jerk with 138kg.

The fourth medallist in the category was Chile’s Maria Fernanda Valdes Paris, who came third in the clean and jerk with 140kg.

Another notable performance came from 40-year-old Ecuadorian Oliba Seledina Nieve Arroyo as she defied her age to record an impressive seventh-place finish in the total with 241kg.

Action in Ashgabat is due to conclude tomorrow. 

Medals will be awarded in the women's over-87kg and men's over-109kg categories.

Competition will be followed by the Closing Ceremony.

USA to continue pressures on Armenia to bring relations with Iran to minimum: ARF-D office head

Tambiyan Samvel
Aysor, Armenia
Nov 7 2018

The U.S. pressures on Armenia will continue for bringing Armenia’s relations with Iran to minimum, Giro Manoyan, head of the ARF Dashnaktsutiun and its Armenian Cause Office, said at a news conference today.

“The pressures will continue as the USA has decided that way. As to how just is the decision, it is another matter, as the EU does not share U.S. approach which means that the USA has made the decision on its own,” Manoyan said.

He said one of the key goals of the visit of U.S. President’s adviser John Bolton to the region was to warn the regional countries.

“This is rather worrying issue for us. We cannot please the USA and continue relations with Iran at the same time. The U.S. Armenian community must explain their authorities that Armenia has no other alternatives,” Manoyan stressed.

He said Armenia must continue developing economic relations with Iran and at the same time carry out explanatory works with the USA and the EU.