Daily Star has presented its expected starting lineup for Arsenal’s forthcoming English Premier League match against Fulham.
The newspaper presumes that 29-year-old Armenia captain and midfielder Henrikh Mkhitaryan will be among the Gunners’ starters in this football clash.
Sunday’s match in Fulham, West London, is slated for kickoff at 3pm Armenia time.
Arsenal are fifth, whereas Fulham—17th in the current Premier League standings.
YEREVAN.— Representatives of the Venice Commission of the Council of Europe will soon arrive in Armenia to take part in the work on Electoral Code reform, said Daniel Ioannisyan, the secretary of the commission dealing with the reform of the electoral legislation.
His remark came on Friday during the discussion of the Electoral Code reform.
A controversial situation will arise if the National Assembly does not accept the amendments, since in this case elections will be held with the bad rules, he said.
Ionnisyan added that the threshold is higher, and many parties will not be able of entering the parliament after the elections.
The next ceremony of the César awards, the annual French cinema, will be dedicated to great French-Armenian Chansonnier Charles Aznavour, who died Monday at the age of 94 years, the Academy of Caesar announced on Thursday, according to the report by The Siver Telegram.
As the source reports, Charles Aznavour has also been an actor in sixty movies, in François Truffaut, Claude Chabrol, Claude Lelouch, Volker Schlöndorff, or Atom Egoyan.
He has played in “Shoot the piano player” by François Truffaut, “The Testament of Orpheus” of Jean Cocteau, “Taxi for Tobruk” of Dionysius of the Patellière, “The tin Drum” by Volker Schlöndorff, or “Ararat” of Atom Egoyan.
“Charles Aznavour was an absolute artist! Singer, songwriter for the songs and for movies… It was also a tremendous actor who wrote scenarios or dialogues… His career in movies was admirable,” said the president of the Academy of the arts and techniques of cinema, Alain Terzian, in a press release. “The 44th annual ceremony of Caesar him an homage”, he added.
President Armen Sarkissian, who is in New York on a working visit, on October 4 had a working lunch with the renowned American state figure, diplomat Henry Kissinger, who in 1973-77 served as the US Secretary of State and was the National Security Adviser in the Administrations of Presidents Richard Nixon and Jerald Ford.
The President of Armenia and the former Secretary of State of the United States exchanged views on the global politics and issues of international security, particularly, those related to the South Caucasus region and existing challenges.
Armen Sarkissian and Henry Kissinger are old friends. The President of Armenia and the former Secretary of State always use the opportunity to discuss international, including different regional issues in the framework of global events.
President Sarkissian invited Henry Kissinger to visit Armenia and the latter accepted the invitation with pleasure.
In 1973, Henry Kissinger received the Noble Peace Prize for his efforts aimed at stopping the war in Vietnam and signing of the Paris Agreement on restoration of peace.
The world bid the last farewell to world famous Armenian singer, National Hero of Armenia, Charles Aznavour.
The ceremony took place with the participation of his family members, President of France Emmanuel Macron and his spouce, Armenia’s Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, Armenia’s President Armen Sarkissian and their spouses, His Holiness Catholcios of All Armenians Karekin II, ex presidents of France François Hollande and Nicolas Sarkozy and many others.
Delivering his speech Nikol Pashinyan said, “I couldn’t introduce Great Master to new Armenia. My consolation is that in his last message to me Aznavour said: “I wish Armenian youth can demonstrate their full potential and make their dreams come true in Armenia.” I am dedicated to that cause. Sleep peacefully, dear Master!”
President of France Emmanual Macron described Charles Aznavour as “the son, the ambassador, the friend of Armenia.”
The French president stressed that “through Charles Aznavour today we have an opportunity to remember what we owe as a nation to all those Armenians fleeing their homeland and coming to grow ours”.
Concluding his speech Macron stressed, “In France poets never die.”
Astronomer Grigor Brutyan is in favor of the excavations in Armenia’s Zorats Karer (also called Karahunj, Qarahunj or Carahunge and Carenish) prehistoric archaeological site known as ‘Armenian Stonehenge’, but states they should be carried out ‘properly, in observance of all rules and without delays.’
According to the astronomer, who also heads Victor Hambardzumyan House-Museum, the group engaged in excavations should feature not only archaeologists, but also various other experts, including astronomers.
“The monument is supposed to have been used for different purposes, therefore different experts should have an opportunity to express their opinion,” he told Panorama.am.
Brutyan said he had paid a visit to Zorats Karer last Wednesday, but has spotted no displaced stones in the site.
Located in Armenia’s southernmost province, Zorats Karer, which dates back to around 5500 BC, consists of a prehistoric mausoleum and nearby, over two hundred neighboring large stone monoliths, eighty of which have distinctive, well-polished holes bored near their upper edge.
Excavations have been carried out in the archaeological site since 2014.
By Brian Love
PARIS (Reuters) – France bid farewell to Charles Aznavour on Friday in a tribute that reflected the late singer’s status as a national icon at home as well as the country of his roots, Armenia.
Pallbearers carried Aznavour’s coffin into the courtyard at Les Invalides military museum in Paris, where Napoleon is buried, to the sound of haunting music played from a duduk, an oboe-like wind instrument native to Armenia.
The singer-songwriter passed away this week at 94.
“In France, poets never die,” French President Emmanuel Macron said, standing before the coffin draped in France’s blue-white-and-red flag. Alongside the casket lay a wreath in the colors of Armenia.
Macron is expected to travel to Armenia next week on an official visit that Aznavour had hoped to take part in.
“Armenians of all countries today, I am thinking of you,” Macron said. “He was supposed to be one of us next week in Yerevan, his absence will leave a giant void.”
Celebrities including the now-frail actor Jean-Paul Belmondo and Macron’s two predecessors attended the ceremony under clear blue skies.
Aznavour, whose global reach was enhanced by his ability to sing in more than half a dozen languages, died at his villa in Mouries, a village in the southern French Alpilles region, in the night of last Sunday to Monday.
Among his best-known songs – he sold upwards of 100 million records – were “”Hier Encore” (Yesterday When I Was Young), “”Apres l’Amour” (After Love) and “”La Boheme”. Others of anthem-status included “She” and “Formidable”.
Aznavour was born in Paris on May 22, 1924, to Armenian parents. His birth name was Shahnour Aznavourian.
He grew up on the Left Bank of Paris and began performing at the age of nine. His first public performances were at Armenian gatherings where his father and older sister Aida sang while he danced.
He broke from the shadows penning songs for Edith Piaf in the years after World War Two, and later brought rapt audiences to their feet at venues as far away as New York’s Carnegie Hall.
Macron embraced and exchanged words with Aznavour’s widow Ulla and relatives before standing side-by-side with Armenian leaders for a ceremony that began with an army band rendition of Armenia’s national anthem, then France’s.
Armenia’s Prime Minister Nikol Pachinyan paid tribute to the artist too, saying: “Charles Aznavour is the man who pitched the flag of Armenia on the roof of the world.”
YEREVAN, October 5. /ARKA/. Armenia’s Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and President Armen Sarkissian joined today France’s President Emmanuel Macron, ex-presidents Nicolas Sarkozy and Francois Hollande, French celebrities and thousands of Parisians to bid farewell to Charles Aznavour in a tribute that reflected the late singer’s status as a national hero of Armenia as well as his roots.
In his speech Pashinyan emphasized the contribution Aznavour made not only to world culture, but also to the strengthening of Armenia.
“We have gathered here today to honor the memory of and pay tribute to the great French singer Charles Aznavour. For eight decades his name lit smiles on the faces of hundreds of millions of people, made hundreds of millions of eyes shine, “said Pashinyan.
Pashinyan recalled that Aznavour’s parents fled from the Armenian Genocide in the Ottoman Empire, and like hundreds of thousands of Armenians, found refuge in France, where Vaghinak Aznaurian became Charles Aznavour.
‘Charles Aznavour is the man who pitched the flag of Armenia on the roof of the world,” Pashinyan said.
“At this grand farewell ceremony, I cannot fail to express the special respect and gratitude that our people have for France. I want to express the gratitude of the Armenian people to the French state, to all the French who gave asylum to those who escaped from the genocide and created favorable conditions for the development of Armenian talent here,” said Pashinyan.
In his speech French President Emmanuel Macron said in France poets never die. Macron will be visiting Armenia October 11, 12 for a Francophonie summit to be hosted by Armenia’s capital city Yerevan.-0-
PARIS (Reuters) – France bid farewell to Charles Aznavour on Friday in a tribute that reflected the late singer’s status as a national icon at home as well as the country of his roots, Armenia.
Pallbearers carried Aznavour’s coffin into the courtyard at Les Invalides military museum in Paris, where Napoleon is buried, to the sound of haunting music played from a duduk, an oboe-like wind instrument native to Armenia.
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The singer-songwriter passed away this week at 94.
“In France, poets never die,” French President Emmanuel Macron said, standing before the coffin draped in France’s blue-white-and-red flag. Alongside the casket lay a wreath in the colours of Armenia.
Macron is expected to travel to Armenia next week on an official visit that Aznavour had hoped to take part in.
“Armenians of all countries today, I am thinking of you,” Macron said. “He was supposed to be one of us next week in Yerevan, his absence will leave a giant void.”
Celebrities including the now-frail actor Jean-Paul Belmondo and Macron’s two predecessors attended the ceremony under clear blue skies.
Aznavour, whose global reach was enhanced by his ability to sing in more than half a dozen languages, died at his villa in Mouries, a village in the southern French Alpilles region, in the night of last Sunday to Monday.
Among his best-known songs – he sold upwards of 100 million records – were “”Hier Encore” (Yesterday When I Was Young), “”Apres l’Amour” (After Love) and “”La Boheme”. Others of anthem-status included “She” and “Formidable”.
Aznavour was born in Paris on May 22, 1924, to Armenian parents. His birth name was Shahnour Aznavourian.
He grew up on the Left Bank of Paris and began performing at the age of nine. His first public performances were at Armenian gatherings where his father and older sister Aida sang while he danced.
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He broke from the shadows penning songs for Edith Piaf in the years after World War Two, and later brought rapt audiences to their feet at venues as far away as New York’s Carnegie Hall.
Macron embraced and exchanged words with Aznavour’s widow Ulla and relatives before standing side-by-side with Armenian leaders for a ceremony that began with an army band rendition of Armenia’s national anthem, then France’s.
Armenia’s Prime Minister Nikol Pachinyan paid tribute to the artist too, saying: “Charles Aznavour is the man who pitched the flag of Armenia on the roof of the world.”
Writing by Brian Love; Editing by Peter Graff and Richard Lough