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Erdogan: Germany to Support Turkey in Accession to EU

27.05.2006 15:04 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Germany will support Turkey in its aspiration to
join the EU, Turkish PM Recep Tayyip Erdogan stated at the
Turkish-German Congress of Businessmen in Berlin. I am sure that
Germany will continue supporting us in the future,» Erdogan noted.
In her turn German Federal Chancellor Angela Merkel stated she is
ready to continue talks on Turkey’s accession to the EU. However, she
noted, Turkey should meet all conditions, necessary for accession to
the EU.
October 4, 2005 the EU officially launched talks with Turkey over the
latter’s membership in the EU. According to estimates of western
experts, talks with Ankara may take 15-20 years, reports the
Associated Press.

Each State Should Work for Karabakh Settlement
27.05.2006 15:10 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Each state, each interested party should work for
peaceful settlement of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict. This refers
first of all to Armenia, as well as other interested parties,
including the EU, stated Turkish Ambassador to Baku Turan
Morali. «Only after settlement of disputed issues the issue of opening
the Armenian-Turkish border may be considered,» Turkish Ambassador
said.
«How can opening the border, that is not recognized by Armenia itself,
be demanded?» Morali asked. He underscored the issue may not be raised
before the EU or any other organization. «Let Yerevan officially
recognize the border with Turkey first,» the Turkish diplomat
concluded, reports Trend.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress

PRESS RELEASE
Catholicosate of Cilicia
Communication and Information Department
Contact: V.Rev.Fr.Krikor Chiftjian, Communications Officer
Tel: (04) 410001, 410003
Fax: (04) 419724
E-mail: [email protected]
Web:
PO Box 70 317
Antelias-Lebanon
Armenian version:
Watch the recorded video here:
anSchoolevent.wmv
CEREMONY DEDICATED TO THE ARMENIAN SCHOOL
“THE ARMENIAN SCHOOL, THE SACRED TREASURE OF OUR LIFE,
SHOULD BE KEPT STRONG AND ACTIVE”
SAYS HIS HOLINESS ARAM I
The Educational Committee of the Armenian Executive Council of the Diocese
of Lebanon organized a public ceremony dedicated to the Armenian schools in
the “Emile Lahoud” Hall on May 24. Held under the patronage of His Holiness
Aram I, the event was organized on the occasion of “The Year of the Armenian
School” and formed part of the Catholicos’ pontifical visit to the Diocese.
Primate Bishop Kegham Khatcherian, priests, ministers and deputies, the
mayor of Bourj Hammoud Mr. Antranig Meserlian, the Ambassador of Armenia to
Lebanon Mr. Vahan Der Ghevontian, representatives of the Executive Council,
Armenian political parties, organisations and unions, principals of schools,
teachers and parents as well as a large number of people attended the event.
After the Lebanese and Armenian anthems were played, a video about the
Armenian schools of Lebanon was screened. Sebouh Mandjian then delivered the
opening remarks, stressing that the ceremony was not just a regular event,
but a conscious, yet humble contribution to the Armenian school.
“The builder of Armenianness and the school of Mashdots will thrive with
music and dance, which will prove once again that the Armenian school is not
only an educational institution, but a source of life and the strong rock of
our collective’s existence,” said Mandjian.
A group of students from Armenian national colleges then took to the stage
reciting the poem entitled “Mesrobadon” by Zareh Khrakhouni. The “Gargatch”
Choir of Hamazkayine and conductor Zakar Keshihian then entertained the
audience with performances of “My Teacher”, “Orhnerk Yergrabahi” and
“Haigagan Joghovertayin Yerkashar.”
The keynote speaker of the event, Mr. Garo Hovhannesian stated: “The school
before everything else, the school above everything else and the school, the
only indispensable institution.”
Hovhannesian pointed out that the Armenian school has an essential role to
play in the revival of the Armenian community of Lebanon. He said issues
related to the Armenian school should be discussed within the general
context of the community’s organization and strengthening and not considered
from a solely educational perspective.
Assessing the educational status of the Armenian school and focusing on the
difficulties Armenian education faces, the speaker stated that all Armenian
saints and heroes have been born from Armenian schools.
“Armenia is not only located in Armenia. Armenia is also found wherever
there are Armenians. It is the obligation of each Armenian to keep the flag
of Armenia and Armenians raised in his own world,” he said, adding that in
the circumstances of the Diaspora “the Armenian motherland should be felt in
Armenian schools.”
Talking about the difficulties Armenian schools face today, Hovhannisian
assured that when the Armenian schools are in trouble, the Armenian
community in general is in trouble.
“If we don’t have the atmosphere that lights fires in the spirits of the
young generation and creates storms in their veins, we should urgently
produce it if our intentions for the future of the Armenian school are real.
No efforts should be spared for the creation of this atmosphere,” concluded
the speaker.
The “Kayiane” dance ensemble of Hamazkayin then performed the dance entitled
“Lernayin Aghtchigner”.
Primate Bishop Kegham Khatcherian defined the Armenian school: “The Armenian
school means conscious teaching and a conscious generation.” The Bishop
assured that the role of the Lebanese-Armenian community as a leader
community of the Armenian Diaspora would be fully realised if the Armenian
schools continue in their mission.
The Pontiff delivered his message at the end of the event. “There are values
and sanctities in the lives of nations and they form the richness of these
nations, guarantee their identities. In other words, those values guarantee
the eternity of a nation,” he said.
“Those values have persisted in our life and have kept our nation through
the storms of history. These values are the Motherland, the Church, Culture,
national struggle and the School,” His Holiness added.
The Catholicos stated that the Armenian school is the institution that forms
true Armenians. He pointed out, however, that the Armenian school faces
difficulties today and has started to lose its comprehensiveness. The
Pontiff stressed that the time has come to praise the Armenian school and
remind of its values and importance.
“The Armenian school is not only textbooks and a building; it’s a spirit.
That spirit should be reassessed not only with words, but by correct
diagnosis of the problem and adequate solution to it,” he concluded.
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View photos here: tm
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The Armenian Catholicosate of Cilicia is one of the two Catholicosates of
the Armenian Orthodox Church. For detailed information about the dioceses of
the Cilician Catholicosate, you may refer to the web page of the
Catholicosate, The Cilician Catholicosate, the
administrative center of the church is located in Antelias, Lebanon.

PanARMENIAN.Net/
US Hopes for Agreement between Kocharian and Aliyev in Romania

27.05.2006 13:04 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ The hope would be that the Presidents of Azerbaijan
and Armenia might at that point be able to come to closure on some of
the issues that divide them within the context of settlement of the
Nagorno Karabakh conflict, stated Sean McCormack, an official of the
US Department of State. He was commenting on the result of the visit
of US Assistant Secretary of State Daniel Fried to the South Caucasus.
`Fried was to the South Caucasus working with the OSCE Minsk Group
co-chairs, Russia as well as France, to see if we could find a way
forward on resolving the Nagorno Karabakh issue between Armenia and
Azerbaijan,’ Sean McCormack said. `I don’t have a readout for you as
to what sort of progress they may have made,’ he added.
«I know that the Presidents of Azerbaijan and Armenia are scheduled to
get together in Bucharest, Romania, in early June. They made a run at
it while they were in France. They weren’t able to come to agreement,’
the US official stressed. “We, working with the Minsk Group co-chairs,
are hopeful that they can come together to resolve whatever
differences there are. These are tough issues, we know. It’s going to
require tough political decisions on both sides. But we think that at
the end of the day, taking this tough political decisions will benefit
all the peoples of the region,’ McCormack concluded.

PanARMENIAN.Net
Azeris in Iran Burnt Armenian National Flag
27.05.2006 13:38 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Participants of a rally in Tebriz burnt Armenian
national flag, fixed in front of an electric equipment store, owned by
ethnic Armenian Abrahamian. The owner of the store was beaten, the
store was destroyed, reports APA.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress

Thursday, May 25, 2006
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Is Marxism right or wrong?
That’s like asking, is a volcano right or wrong? Like the Koran and the Bible, DAS KAPITAL has reshaped the perception of countless people and the political map of entire continents.
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Many people have read the Koran and the Bible. How many have read DAS KAPITAL?
Very few, probably one in a thousand or even ten thousand. Many others, among them myself, have tried to read it and have given up after the first few pages.
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Is Marxism a science, a philosophical system, or a religion?
To the believers, it is all three.
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If it is incomprehensible to most laymen, why is it so popular?
People are attracted to the incomprehensible. Consider the mysteries of our own religion. Consider the popularity and longevity of astrology.
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What is its source of strength?
The short answer is, propaganda. We call ourselves Homo sapiens (man the knower), but “man the propagandizer” would have been far more accurate.
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If propaganda is the source of many wars, revolutions, and massacres, why is there no law against it?
Because all organized groups (religions, ideologies, and political parties) engage in it. Some day if we ever meet extraterrestrials that have never experienced war on their planet, we may be astonished to discover that the secret of their pacifism is an educational system that rejects propaganda as a medium of communication.
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Friday, May 26, 2006
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Whenever an Armenian wins an argument against a fellow Armenian, the nation loses because once more consensus eludes all three.
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For every article against Turks, our pundits should write at least two about Armenians, and I don’t mean petty little success stories (which may be moral failures) but articles exposing our filth. To concentrate only on Turkish criminal conduct means to cover up our own, which also means to conspire with crooks against their victims.
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With every drop of knowledge I acquire, I discover an ocean of ignorance within me.
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According to Aldous Huxley,”War has been one of the principal occupations of civilized human beings”; which amounts to saying, behaving like barbarians is a favorite pastimes of civilized men.
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If you wait long enough it will come to you, and the chances are, by the time it does, you will no longer need it.
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The less I need, the happier I am.
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Huxley again: “Too much evil and too much suffering can make it impossible for men to be creative.” He could have added, “…or to value creativity in others.”
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Saturday, May 27, 2006
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AN ARMENIAN PIANIST
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In his travel impressions of Jerusalem, titled “Usually Destroyed,” first published in ADONIS AND THE ALPHABET (1956), and more recently included in his COMPLETE ESSAYS: Volume V: 1939-1956 (Chicago, 2002), Aldous Huxley writes: “Here, finally, was St. James’s, of the Armenians, gay with innumerable rather bad but charming paintings, and a wealth of gaudily colored tiles. The great church glowed like a dim religious merry-go-round. In all Jerusalem it was the only oasis of cheerfulness. And not alone of cheerfulness. As we came out into the courtyard, through which the visitor must approach the church’s main entrance, we heard a strange and wonderful sound. High up, in one of the houses surrounding the court, somebody was playing the opening Fantasia of Bach’s Partita in A Minor – playing it, what was more, remarkably well. From out of the open window, up there on the third floor, the ordered torrent of bright pure notes went streaming out over the city’s immemorial squalor.” As Huxley goes on reflecting on music, art, and religion, he hears his guide say: “In the year of Our Lord 1916, the Turkish Government massacred approximately 750,000 Armenians.”
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OYP YESTERDAY, REPUBLLICAN PARTY TODAY, BUT NOT ARF
[07:35 pm] 26 May, 2006
There is information according to which Samvel
Balasanyan, the head of the Orinats Yerkir party and
Hovhannes Margaryan are going to leave the party. They
weren’t’ present at the briefing today, and Gagik
Mkheyan and Gagik Avetisyan refrained from commenting
on the information. «We have not heard of it», they
said. They did not have information about the people
leaving the regional structures of the party either.
They only mentioned that during the 10-year history of
the party many people left it, but the main party
remained.
When one of the journalists asked, «And what about
Sergo? », Gagik Avetisyan noted, «The main part of the
Orinats Yerkir is the people». The deputies did not
have information about pressure inflicted upon the
regional structures of the party in order to crash it.
By the way, during the briefings the National Unity
and the Orinats Yerkir party expressed readiness not
to continue their quarrel and not to answer different
statements about their relations.
Meanwhile, the pedagogues who left the Orinats Yerkir,
come to the Republican party. `The Republican party
does not have the problem of republicanizing anything.
The fact that we did not argue about the post of the
Minister of Education,’ Galoust Sahakyan, head of the
Republican Party faction in NA said. According to him,
not only teachers, but also doctors and other
specialists become member of their party, and the fact
that on May 2 120 teachers became member of the party
is not a unique one.
In contrast to the Republican party, it is not an easy
thing to become member of the Armenian Revolutionary
Federation. «The ARF does not have the problem of
increasing the number of its members», head of the
faction Hrayr Karapetyan said. He announced that it is
not right when you make somebody member of a party
contrary to his will. He added that taking the post of
the Minister of Education the ARF is not going to
force the teachers to join them.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress

NA NEWLY CREATED DEPUTIES’ GROUP MEMBERS TO KEEP GOOD-NEIGHBOURLY
RELATIONS WITH COALITION FROM NOW ON

YEREVAN, MAY 25, NOYAN TAPAN. The choice of the name of the NA newly
created “Gortsarar” (Business) deputies’ group is provided by the
issue that it mainly involves former businessmen. As Grigor Margarian,
the group head, a former member of the “Orinats Yerkir” party informed
journalists, the group members will again pursue from now on solution
of issues concerning the economic policy for what they came to the
National Assembly three years ago. The group members will from now on
keep “normal good-neighbourly relations” with the political coalition
as it has been for the last three years.” Not wanting to comment upon
NA Speaker and party Chairman Artur Baghdasarian’s statements
concerning the faction members’ leaving the OYK as a result of
pressure,
G.Margarian mentioned: “If people have been in the ruling field for
three years and do not want to leave it today and go to the
opposition, what is it spoken about then?” He also assured that the
group members “have at all no obligations in any issue in front of
anybody.” The group has no goal to create a new party.
Grigor Margarian himself, as in 2003, intends to participate in the
2007 parliamentary elections as well, by the majoritary electoral
order.

SOUNDUKIAN THEATER TO PERFORM IN GYUMRI ON FOUR-DAYS TOURS DEDICATED
TO VARDAN ACHEMIAN’S 100TH ANNIVERSARY

GYUMRI, MAY 25, NOYAN TAPAN. After a ten-years break, the G.Soundukian
National Academic Theater will perform on tours on June 1-4 on the
stage of the Gyumri Vardan Achemian Dramatic Theater. The tours are
dedicated to Vardan Achemian’s 100th birthday anniversary. According
to Vahe Shahverdian, the head of the Soundukian Theater, inhabitants
of Gyumri will have possibility to see the best performances of the
theater: Levon Shant’s “Hin Astvatsner” (Old Gods), Alvard Petrosian’s
“Yes Mi Tsar em Tsirani” (I’m an Aprivot-Tree) and Khoren Aramuni’s
“Anveradardz Apaga” (Irretrievable Future).

AGHASI ARSHAKIAN: SITUATION FORMED IN POLITICAL FIELD IS ARTIFICIAL
AND IS GUIDED BY THIRD FORCE

YEREVAN, MAY 25, NOYAN TAPAN. The current situation in the political
field is artificial and is guided by a third force, Aghasi Arshakian,
member of RA NA National Unity faction, declared at the May 25 dispute
with Hovhannes Margarian, member of the Orinats Yerkir (Country of
Law) faction, at the Hayeli (Mirror) club. According to Arshakian, the
“mutual insults and accusations” between the Orinats Yerkir and
National Unity were initiated by the very third force. Whereas,
according to him, the National Unity only wanted to receive an answer
to the question “why is it so bad in our country and who are the main
persons to blame for this?”. By the way, the National Unity also wants
to receive an answer to this question from the new forces introduced
to the policy and guided from one center. “Only then we will meet them
with open arms in the opposition field,” Arshakian declared. As he
estimated, “the authorities realize that it is no longer possible to
hold new elections by old methods, so they introduce new forces to the
political field.” Hovhannes Margarian mentioned that the two political
fields, the power and the opposition, belong to the people and it
should decide what force to what field is more acceptable.
According to him, OYP left the coalition not at the bidding of a
“third force” but “because of having essential disagreements with the
coalition partners around some issues of principle.” As H.Margarian
estimated, no split took place in OYP, but the party has become
stronger. “Only 84 members of the political force having 62 thousand
devotees left the party and 1800 joined it during the past month,” he
mentioned. In connection with the accusations addressed to member of
National Unity faction Gagik Kostandian Aghasi Arshakian said that
Kostandian does not any longer supply anything to RA Defence Ministry.