Armenian athlete Vahagn Davtyan won bronze at the European Artistic Gymnastics Individual Championship in Szczecin, Poland.
As the National Olympic Committee reported, the Armenian performed the last on the rings and recorded 14,933 points. Another member of the Armenian team Artur Tovmasyan was placed the seventh with a score of14,700. The gold was taken by the representative of Russia Denis Ablyazin.
The member of the Armenian weightlifting team Simon Martirosyan became on Saturday double European champion at the European Weightlifting Championship in Batumi, Georgia.
Competing in the 109kg weight category, Martirosyan lifted 109kg in the snatch and won small gold. In the clean and jerk Martirosyan lifted 225kg at the first approach and 235kg during the second approach, taking another small gold.
In the combined exercise the Armenian registered a total of 427kg, winning the title of the European champion which is the second in his career.
The Armenian freestyle wrestling team have gained for qualifications for the European Games Minsk 2019. As the Wrestling Federation reports, the Armenian athletes will be represented in the 57kg, 65kg, 97kg, and 125kg weight categories.
To remind, the 2nd European Games MINSK 2019 will take place in the capital of Belarus, Minsk, from 21 to 30 June 2019. The continent’s biggest sports forum will feature more than 4,000 athletes from 50 countries who will compete for 199 sets of medals in 15 sports.
Arsen Martirosyan became the gold medalist of 102kg weight class at the European Weightlifting Championship in Batumi, Georgia. The Armenian team was represented by Arsen Martirosyan and Samvel Gasparyan in this weight category.
As the National Olympic Committee reported, Gevorgyan won small silver in the clean and jerk and became a European vice-champion with a total of 377kg.
ArmInfo.Vice-champion of the Olympic Games, world and European champion 22-year-old Armenian weightlifter Simon Martirosyan won the gold medal at the European Weightlifting Championships held in Batumi in the weight category of 109 kg.
In the double-event, the Armenian athlete gained 427 kg. In the snatch, Simon Martirosyan lifted 192 kg, and in a jerk he lifted 235 kg. Today, another Armenian weightlifter Samvel Gasparyan won a silver medal at the European Championship in the weight category 102 kg. To recall, in the Georgian city of Batumi European Weightlifting Championships for adults started two days ago. During the week from April 6th to 13th, the best weightlifters, weightlifters of the old continent will fight on the Batumi platform.
By Lusine Shahbazyan
BATUMI. – Simon Martirosyan (Armenia) on Saturday won the champion’s title in the Men’s 109kg competition at the 2019 European Senior Weightlifting Championships which are wrapping up in Batumi, Georgia.
The 22-year-old Rio 2016 Olympic Games’ silver medalist, 2018 world champion and record holder, and 2017 European champion lifted a combined weight of 427 kilograms.
Photos by Arsen Sargsyan
Armenia’s Simon Martirosyan snatched a gold medal in the European Weightlifting Championships under way in Batumi, Georgia.
Performing in the 109 kg category, the holding World Champions won with a combined result og 427 kg.
The Armenian athlete lifted 192 kg in the snatch and 235 kg in the clean & jerk.
It is April. So, countries who genocide is part and parcel of their history, nature, character, countries that are infamous through their politics for drowning the whole world in blood, disorder and genocide – not only throughout history but also today, have started to bring up the Armenian agenda against Turkey yet again.
First, a draft resolution presented by U.S. House of Representatives Intelligence Committee Chief Adam Schiff states, “The House of Representatives considers the recognition and commemoration of the Armenian genocide as a U.S. policy.” It is simply a draft resolution, and one knows not what will happen and how it will develop. However, this is an ordinary agenda in the U.S. Senate and Congress every year.
This was followed by French President Emanuel Macron signing an enactment declaring April 24 as the “Commemoration Day of Armenian Genocide” from now onwards, with the enactment published in the official gazette.
Then, the coalition government in Italy was asked to officially recognize the Armenian genocide and defend it in international circles. A voting on the resolution saw 382 yes votes against 43 abstentions.
Referring to 1915, EU states that care so much about humans hence show how sensitive they still are towards tragedies suffered way back then, how compassionate and humane they are. Do not get me wrong, the case has nothing to do with current incidents; it is based entirely on their compassion, incorrigible humaneness, their soft-heartedness that cannot endure harming even an ant. That is if you buy it.
Today, as many places around the world have been drowning in blood under their watch, what they are increasingly doing with respect to 1915 is nothing other than provoking the hatred a little more. While this hatred has already become a serious problem for European communities, while it is summoning fascism like a dark cloud to its skies with every passing day, such steps will only result in more disaster.
Yet, initially, they were very good at playing the innocent, the tender-hearted, the humanist when carrying this out. Today, just as they are not convincing, with the way they cling onto this agenda, they cannot hide their hatred towards all Turks and Muslims.
In the past, there was a sense of compensating for their own sins in their clinging onto this agenda. Because, looking at what happened to the Armenians from their aspect, it was largely the tragic result of the adventure they embarked upon. They provoked and abandoned. This is just another dimension of the story.
One other dimension is what they did after taking into their countries the unwanted Armenians like parasites. Essentially, when the Ottomans exiled Armenians, they had not sent them abroad, in other words, outside their own lands. What they did consisted of changing their place within Ottoman territories. It was only later that the Armenians found themselves outside Ottoman borders. It is from there that many Armenians went to Europe. The number of those Armenians was large enough to threaten the population balance in Europe. One measure France had developed against this threat was to push them into the front lines in World War II, pitting them against other countries to have them kill each other.
Why is this case never reopened? Why is it that whenever the topic is about to come up, it is quickly dismissed and made to be forgotten? Whereas, there is a great crime there that the French committed against Armenians, and instead of facing its own sins, France resorts to 1915, because there is already a well-processed and accepted genocide story, readily waiting to use it as a scapegoat for all its sins.
As an example of the hypocrisy in this genocide story, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu recalls the genocide committed in Rwanda a quarter century ago. There is actually no reason to go that far back. Do they not have a share in all the massacres being committed today? When have we ever heard the humanitarian sensitivity of France as the blood of millions is being shed in Syria?
Did European leaders not visit Egyptian dictator, Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi, who killed 3,000 of his own people only two months ago without batting an eye, at a time when he executed nine innocent young men? Did they not also listen to a speech from that dictator regarding the specific conditions of dictatorship?
French President Macron who recently signed a resolution supporting attacks by coup-plotter Haftar, who he backs in Libya just for the sake of oil, against his own people. Which oppressed person’s pain can his declaration that the “Armenian genocide” will be commemorated annually heal and how?
What is happening in Libya today is, in fact, a disgrace for humanity. Someone who has nothing left to do with the people of Libya is attempting an invasion against a national alliance government, which is the sole legitimate representative of the Libyan people, as recognized by the international community, and trying to destroy this legitimate government and usurp all of Libya’s resources. And this man is supported by some countries, primarily including France. It is very clear that this Armenian genocide agenda has nothing to do with France’s conscience, but is it also not clear to whitewash which new genocide attempt the topic has been brought up again?
What about Italy?
The blood it shed in Libya in the 20s and 30s of the last century for the sake of the oil is still ongoing even today. Meanwhile, it resorts to 1915 to redeem itself for its sins. Let’s see how far they can go on for.
Yet, they should know that their hypocritical air of mourning helps neither the Armenians that have died, nor their grandchildren that are alive today. As a matter of fact, such attitudes will always remind of the crimes they committed against them. Just as their remembrance of the Armenian genocide will not compensate for their sins, it further reveals their true intentions.
The only thing they will bring to today by resorting to 1915 is hatred and enmity – and of course, the naked reality of the contradicting and two-faced situation they are in today.
https://www.yenisafak.com/en/columns/yasinaktay/calling-it-armenian-genocide-will-not-absolve-you-of-your-own-genocides-2047014
City Council of Spanish Burgos City recognizes Armenian Genocide
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YEREVAN, APRIL 12, ARMENPRESS. The City Council of the Burgos City of Spain has unanimously recognized the Armenian Genocide, ARMENPRESS reports the twitter page of the City Council of Burgos informs.
”All the political forces of the City Council have approved the petition on recognizing the Armenian Genocide”, reads the twitter note.
Edited and translated by Tigran Sirekanyan