Author: Tavakalian Edgar

ROBERT MLKEYAN ARMENIAN PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA

PanARMENIAN.Net
26.11.2009 21:20 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Ministry of Culture of RA and the Armenian General
Benevolent Union will present a concert of the Armenian Philharmonic
Orchestra in Aram Khachaturian Concert Hall on December 5.

The programs includes Beethoven’s Symphony 7, Prokofiev’s Violin
Concerto No.1 and Ravel’s Bolero.

The orchestra will be conducted by Robert Mlkeyan Conductor. Violin
player Syuzi Yeritsian will be the soloist.

DPA: PM’S JOINING RPA NATURAL

PanARMENIAN.Net
27.11.2009 15:31 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ RA Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan’s joining the
Republican Party of Armenia is natural, as a political team should
be unified, according to the leader of Armenian Democratic Party.

"Armenian government is facing a dilemma – it either has to combat
the oligarchic system and shadow economy or leave it at that," Aram
Sargsyan told a news conference in Yerevan.

"Still, struggle against oligarchs spells struggle against the whole
system, so it’s hard to say whether government can venture the step,"
Aram Sargsyan said, adding that political success is mostly dependent
on the domestic situation.

STUDY RESULTS FROM A.G. PETROSYAN ET AL PROVIDE NEW INSIGHTS INTO NUCLEAR SCIENCE

Science Letter
November 24, 2009

"Scintillation properties of LuAP:Ce and LuAP:Ce,Sc crystal series
were studied under excitation by gamma-rays from a (CS)-C-137 source.

Both series demonstrated comparable optical quality in terms of
underlying absorption at 260 nm, slope of the optical edge and
transmission in the range of emission," researchers in Armenia report
(see also Nuclear Science).

"The light yield of LuAP:Ce crystals measured in 0.2 cm x 0.2 cm x
0.8 cm pixels increases linearly with the Ce concentration reaching at
0.58 at. % 6448 +/- 322 ph/MeV and 9911 +/- 496 ph/MeV in the long and
in the short directions respectively (the light yield ratio is 65%)
and shows no sign of fight saturation. The energy resolution is found
to depend, among other factors, on the uniformity of Ce concentration
within the pixels and is improved to 7.1 +/- 0.4% (1 = 0.2 cm), 9.5
+/- 0.5% (l = 0.8 cm). Intentional co-doping with Sc3+ ions was tested
and resulted in increase of the Ce distribution coefficient to about
0.3. This enabled to increase the concentration of Ce in LuAP:Ce,Sc
crystals up to 0.7 at. %, while conserving high optical quality. In
contrast to LuAP:Ce, the light yield in LuAP:Ce.Sc crystals does
not increase with Ce concentration, the photo peak being gradually
suppressed," wrote A.G. Petrosyan and colleagues.

The researchers concluded: "The involved mechanisms are discussed
basing on measurements of the unit cell volumes, Ce concentration
uniformity, x-ray rocking spectra, absorption spectra of pure and
variously doped LuAP crystals, and emission spectra under different
excitations."

Petrosyan and colleagues published their study in IEEE Transactions on
Nuclear Science (Comparison of Spectral and Scintillation Properties of
LuAP:Ce and LuAP:Ce,Sc Single Crystals. IEEE Transactions on Nuclear
Science, 2009;56(5 Part 1):2574-2579).

For additional information, contact A.G. Petrosyan, Institute Physics
Research, Laboratory Crystal Growth Luminescent Materials, Ashtarak
0203 2, Armenia.

Publisher contact information for the journal IEEE Transactions on
Nuclear Science is: IEEE-Institute Electrical Electronics Engineers
Inc., 445 Hoes Lane, Piscataway, NJ 08855, USA.

ST. GEVORK OF MUGHNI ARMENIAN CHURCH TO BE RECONSTRUCTED WITHIN A YEAR

armradio.am
26.11.2009 17:40

St. Gevork of Mughni Armenian Church will be reconstituted within a
year, the newly appointed Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
of Georgia to Armenia, Grigor Tabatadze said at the meeting with
the Secretary of the Armenian National Security Council Arthur
Baghdasaryan.

The interlocutors discussed issues related to bilateral
Armenian-Georgian relations. The parties agreed that there were no
issues in the Armenian-Georgian relation that would not be solved
through joint discussions.

The parties attached importance to the deepening of cooperation
between the National Security Councils of Armenia and Georgia.

Reference was made to issues of Javakhk.

GREEK TV TO AIR DEBATE ON ARMENIAN-TURKISH PROTOCOLS

PanARMENIAN.Net
24.11.2009 21:39 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Greek state-run NET television will air a debate
on the Armenian-Turkish protocols. The current situation and future
processes will be in focus.

MEDVEDEV WELCOMED BREAKTHROUGH IN NKR ISSUE

news.am
Nov 25 2009
Armenia

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and his Azerbaijani counterpart
Ilham Aliyev had canvassed the NKR conflict resolution process. Aliyev
informed Medvedev of the regular round results with RA Serzh Sargsyan
with the participation of OSCE MG Co-Chairs, RF President’s Press
Secretary Natalya Timakova stated.

"RF President welcomed the positive breakthrough in the negotiation
process and assured his colleagues that Moscow will step up all
necessary efforts in Nagorno-Karabakh conflict resolution,", she said.

According to Timakova, the Presidents also discussed issues on
bilateral cooperation, including economy and schedule of further
contacts at top level.

AZERBAIJAN HAS LEGAL RIGHT TO LIBERATE OCCUPIED LAND
Leyla Tagiyeva

news.az
Nov 24 2009
Azerbaijan

Fikret Sadikhov News.Az interviews Azerbaijani political scientist
Fikret Sadikhov.

The presidents of Azerbaijan and Armenia have abstained from commenting
on the their recent meeting in Germany and the mediators say only that
the negotiations on Karabakh will continue. What do you think about
the prospects of a settlement, bearing in mind Aliyev’s statement
before the talks that the meeting in Munich will be decisive?

First of all, I would like to say that the meeting in Munich was the
first meeting of the Azerbaijani and Armenian leaders since the signing
of the Armenian-Turkish protocols in Zurich. After the protocols were
signed, the geopolitical situation and relations between Turkey and
Azerbaijan became rather strained. Our harsh reaction to Turkey’s
move attracted attention not only from the Turks but also from the
leading Western countries. Therefore, considering the background to
the presidents’ Munich talks, I think we can expect some invigoration
and dynamism from this meeting.

In other words you think that the thaw in Turkish-Armenian relations
may have a positive influence on negotiations over Karabakh?

The very fact of the signing of the Zurich protocols damages
Azerbaijan’s interests. But the situation that followed the signing and
our harsh reaction to the signing of the document without Azerbaijan’s
interests being taken into account, the further position of Turkey
and the role of the superpowers that were behind the signatories in
Zurich prove that the situation differs from before.

The West has felt Azerbaijan’s harsh reaction. Moreover, the
Azerbaijani president spoke bluntly before the refugees. For the
first time, he said if the meeting in Munich is ineffective we will
think about stopping the negotiations and taking other actions against
the aggressor.

Do you think he meant that war is possible?

I don’t want to make such emphatic statements. But there is a certain
logic, the political logic of relations between the conflict parties.

If a party that occupied part of the land of another country has
been holding negotiations for about two decades, logic says if the
occupying country is unable and unwilling to make concessions, this
forces the occupied country to liberate its lands. It is not war. It
is Azerbaijan’s legal right to liberate its lands. We are not laying
claims on others’ lands, we are speaking of the liberation of the
occupied Azerbaijani land. And I do not rule out military action if
the negotiations are fruitless.

Is it possible to expect the Armenians to make concessions after
president Aliyev’s remarks about the possible resumption of war if
the negotiations in Munich fail?

I would like to say that even before and after the remarks I do not
trust the Armenian side as we understand that Armenia is unable to
take action independently. Much depends on the leading states, the
superpowers and, first of all, the OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs. It is
clear that achievements will depend on their pressure, their intention
to influence Armenia. Let’s recall the recent past. I do not remember
the Azerbaijani president making such emphatic statements about the
liberation of Azerbaijani lands. This is a limit. This is a boundary
that Azerbaijan is unlikely to cross. Therefore, I want to hope and
I think Azerbaijan will be heard and understood. And the countries
backing Armenia should understand that Azerbaijan is quite determined
and it has all grounds for this determination both in terms of politics
and international law.

ARMENIAN AND ITALIAN FOREIGN MINISTERS DISCUSS EXPANSION OF ARMENIAN-ITALIAN COOPERATION IN DIFFERENT SPHERES

ARMENPRESS
Nov 24, 2009

YEREVAN, NOVEMBER 24, ARMENPRESS: Armenian Foreign Minister Edward
Nalbandyan paid November 23 a short term visit to Italy. Armenian
Foreign Ministry Press and Information Department told Armenpress that
in Rome the minister met with his Italian counterpart Franco Fratini.

The Italian foreign minister said that Italy is interested in
development of multi-sided cooperation with Armenia and is ready to
undertake practical steps in that direction.

The two ministers had a thorough conversation about the ways
of expansion of bilateral cooperation in different spheres, in
international organizations and European establishments, exchanged
thoughts over regional and international issues.

The Italian minister expressed readiness of the Italian side to support
in the process of normalization of the Armenian-Turkish relations.

The ministers of the two countries pointed out the importance of high
level mutual visits, promotion of the bilateral political dialogue. In
this respect the ministers highlighted the signing of memorandum of
mutual understanding on high level political consultations, pointing
out that its appliance will promote activation of political dialogue.

Minister Nalbandyan and his Italian counterpart discussed opportunity
of facilitating the procedure of getting an entrance visas between
Armenia and EU countries, noting that it will promote the activation
of contacts between the publics of the two countries.

The interlocutors noted with delight that necessary legal-agreement
field for expansion of trade-economic cooperation and tendency of
activation of economic ties exist.

Edward Nalbandyan and Franco Fratinini highlighted the cooperation
between Armenia and Italy in cultural, educational, scientific and
technical spheres.

With the request of his Italian counterpart Edward Nalbandyan presented
the recent developments over Nagorno Karabakh conflict regulation,
results of the Munich meeting of the Armenian and Azerbaijani
presidents.

The Italian minister accepted with delight the invitation to visit
Yerevan and said that he will pay the visit in the first half of 2010.

On the same say the Armenian minister visited the Italian Senate
where he met with the chairman of the foreign relations commission,
former Italian prime minister Lamberto Dini.

During the meeting the sides discussed issues on development of
Armenian-Italian partnership, expansion of inter-parliamentary ties
between the two parliaments, exchanged thoughts over a number of
regional and international issues.

In the Senate the Armenian minister presented a lecture on the Armenian
foreign policy.

SUPREME SPIRITUAL COUNCIL STATEMENT ON COLLAPSE OF ST. GEVORK OF MUGHNI ARMENIAN CHURCH IN GEORGIA

armradio.am
24.11.2009 11:25

His Holiness Karekin II, Supreme Patriarch and Catholicos of All
Armenians, presided during a meeting of the Supreme Spiritual Council
in the Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin. Discussed during the meeting
was the collapse of the St. Gevork of Mughni Armenian Church in the
Diocese of Georgia. At the end of the meeting, the following statement
was released:

The Supreme Spiritual Council regrets to confirm that the St. Gevork
of Mughni Armenian Church (built in 1356) in Tbilisi, Georgia,
has collapsed.

The Supreme Spiritual Council regretfully states that years of
effort on the part of the Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin and the
authorities of the Republic of Armenia, to regulate the legal standing
of the Armenian Diocese of Georgia and secure the return of Armenian
churches, through dialogue with the authorities of the Republic of
Georgia and the Georgian Orthodox Church, were unsuccessful. The
collapse of the St. Gevork of Mughni Armenian Church is only one of
the consequences of the unwarranted delays exhibited by the Georgian
side in the handling of the aforementioned issues. The authorities of
the Republic of Georgia and the Georgian Orthodox Church are wholly
responsible for the collapse of the church.

The indifference exhibited by the Georgian state toward the
preservation of Armenian holy sites does not correspond in any way
with: 1) the establishment of good neighborly relations, 2) fidelity to
universal human values, 3) respect for the rights of ethnic minorities,
4) the constant statements made by the Georgian state regarding the
preservation of the historical and cultural heritage of their ethnic
minorities, and 5) the Georgian state’s acceptance of responsibilities
before the international community.

The Supreme Spiritual Council calls on the authorities of the Republic
of Georgia and the Georgian Orthodox Church to immediately implement
steps to grant legal status to the Armenian Diocese of Georgia and
to return the Armenian churches in Georgia to the Armenian Diocese
of Georgia for the normal functioning of national-ecclesiastical
life for the Georgian-Armenian community and the safe preservation
of Armenian holy sites.

BY PRELIMINARY INFORMATION, PROMISES TO DONATE MORE THAN 1 MILLION EUROS MADE DURING PHONETHON IN FRANCE

NOYAN TAPAN
NOVEMBER 23, 2009
YEREVAN

YEREVAN, NOVEMBER 23, NOYAN TAPAN. By preliminary information, promises
to donate more than one million euros were made during the phonethon
(telephone marathon) held by the Hayastan All-Armenian Fund in France
on November 19-22, NT correspondent was informed by the press service
of the Hayastan Fund. A sum of 1 million 301 thousand 871 euros was
collected as a result of last year’s fund-raising event.

The phonethon has been held since 2000. Every year, in mid November
some 600 volunteers from 5 French cities call Europe-based Armenians
during four consecutive days and present the Fund’s upcoming projects
to them.

To recap, the Television Marathon 2009 under the slogan "Our Shushi"
will be held in Los Angeles on November 26.