ARMINFO News Agency, Armenia Monday Analyst: "Exchange of territories for peace" will not lead Karabakh for a long peace Yerevan May 22 David Stepanyan. The willingness to negotiate "around the exchange of territories for peace" recently voiced by Elmar Mamedyarov is a long-awaited interim solution for Azerbaijan. An independent analyst, ex-head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Nagorno-Karabakh Arman Melikyan expressed such opinion to ArmInfo. The last week was characterized by a significant increase in tension on the Karabakh-Azerbaijan contact line. Azerbaijani snipers killed three servicemen of the NKR Defense Army. After that by the guided missile was damaged the anti-aircraft missile system "Osa" of the NKR. After all this, Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Elmar Mamedyarov said that Baku is ready to negotiate "around the exchange of territories for peace." In other words, the leadership of Azerbaijan promises not to kill Armenian servicemen in response to the agreement to withdraw troops from certain areas. However, in response to the alert, the advanced units of the NKR DA resorted to punitive measures, as a result of which several objects of the Azerbaijani Armed Forces were destroyed. The analyst stressed that representatives of Russian political and expert circles voiced the formula for the "exchange of territories for peace" for months before Mamadyarov. According to his estimates, through its implementation, Azerbaijan will be able to snatch half of the territory of Artsakh and gain new strategic positions without a single casualty and special efforts. "According to these absolutely false and unfounded speeches, it is allegedly possible to establish a lasting peace and eradicate hostility. After a while, however, Azerbaijan does not hesitate to use any convenient moment to attack the above-mentioned Armenian cities and will try to capture Artsakh and Syunik," the analyst summed up.
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“To be a doctor, to save people’s lives and to help them is my credo,” Tom Katena, 2017 Aurora Awards winner says.
ARMINFO News Agency, Armenia Monday "To be a doctor, to save people's lives and to help them is my credo," Tom Katena, 2017 Aurora Awards winner says. Yerevan May 22 Ani Mshetsyan. On May 22 Doctor Tom Katena, the winner of Aurora Prize 2017, held an open lecture at Yerevan State Medical University after Mkhitar Heratsi. He told about his experience at the hospital of Mother of Mercy, located in Sudan mountains. Katena is a sole physician at that hospital treating about 700 000 local habitants. " It does not matter what conditions do we have, it is important what we deal with. To be a doctor, to save people's lives and to help them is my credo," Doctor Katena said. "Yerevan State medical University awarded Ph.D. title to Tom Katena for his service and humanitarian mission on saving human lives in Sudan. The appropriate decision was taken by the Scientific Board of Yerevan Medical University," rector Armen Mouradyanb stated. Tom Katena could visit Yerevan due to the efforts of Aurora Humanitarian Initiative and thanks to three Armenian physicians, who left for Sudan to replace katena at the hospital of Mother of Mercy. For the period of his stay in Armenia. Candidates for Aurora prize 2017 will be awarded on may 28, 2017 in Armenia, within the framework of Aurora Awards Ceremony, and one of them will become the Winner. The Winner will receive a 100.000 USD grant, which will give an option to continue the charity race and to support the organizations which inspired him/her.
BAKU: McAllister: European Parliament not responsible for some MEPs’ visits to Nagorno-Karabakh
APA, Azerbaijan
The European Parliament is not responsible for the visits of some parliamentarians to Nagorno-Karabakh that took place on their own initiatives, said David McAllister, MEP from Germany, Chair of the European Parliament Foreign Affairs Committee.
He made the remarks at a briefing held in Azerbaijan’s parliament on May 22, APA reported.
“Some MEPs paid visits to Nagorno-Karabakh on their own initiatives and the European Parliament is not responsible for it. As you know, the European Parliament didn’t recognize the “referendum” held in Nagorno-Karabakh on February 20 this year,” said McAllister, adding. “I would like to note that freedom of _expression_ is important for us. Everyone can express their opinions. Thus, we cannot interfere in the actions of these MEPs.”
Entertainment: Concert of “Secrets of Armenia” project to take place in Moscow
ARMINFO News Agency, Armenia Monday Concert of "Secrets of Armenia" project to take place in Moscow Yerevan May 22 Alexander Avanesov. On May 3, on one of main stages of Russia - Big Hall of Conservatory after Tchaykovski, will take place the main event of the year in the sphere of Armenian classical music - concert of the project "Secrets of Armenia", dedicated to Armenian composers A. Khachaturyan, S. Barkhudaryan, A. Stepanyan. The concert will be timed to 130th birthday of Sergey Barkhudaryan and 120th of Aro Stepanyan. The organizers of the event are the project "Secrets of Armenia" of Miqael Hayrapetyan and the Congress of Armenian Youth of Russia. The concert is aimed at popularization of the Armenian classical music in wide auditorium of the Russian capital. The program includes both works of famous Armenian composers and less played ones. The works of Komitas, Ekmalyan, Tigranian, Spendiarov, Barkhudaryan, Stepanyan, Khachaturyan, Babadzhanyan, Abramyan, Baghdasaryan, Harutyunyan, Avetisyan, Dolukhanyan, Amirkhanyan and other Armenian composers have already been performed on the stage of the Big, Small and Rachmaninov halls. The main part of the program will be the world premiere of the collection of piano arrangements "Aram Khachaturyan." Selected pages from the ballets "Gayane" and "Spartacus." Concert arrangement of Honored Artist of the Republic of Armenia, Professor of Yerevan Conservatory. Komitas, pianist Willy Sargsyan. Soloists Vladimir Sergeev (violin), Hovhannes Ghazaryan (duduk), Iskuhi Karapetyan (canon), Stanislav Davydov (bass), Mikael Hayrapetyan (pianoforte), Dudukist Ensemble "Secrets of Armenia. "Art should not be in oblivion" - this is the slogan of the International Music Project of Miqael Hayrapetyan "Secrets of Armenia". Since 2012, Miqael Hayrapetian regularly conducts a series of concerts of Armenian classical music "Secrets of Armenia" at the Moscow State Conservatory after Tchaikovsky.
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Music: Exploring Roma persecution in Shoah ‘Remembrance’ concert
J-Weekly: Jewish news of Northern California
The Nazis’ murder of 220,000 Roma, or Gypsies, has always been a historical anecdote overshadowed by the extermination of 6 million Jews in the Holocaust.
Mina Miller, president and artistic director of Music of Remembrance, wanted to focus on the persecution of Roma and decided it would be best told through the artwork and writings of Ceija Stojka, an Austrian Roma who survived internment at three concentration camps.
Miller was at a concert by the Kronos Quartet at UC Santa Barbara in December 2015 when she heard “Silent Cranes,” a multimedia work by composer Mary Kouyoumdjian commemorating the centennial of the Armenian genocide.
Miller immediately knew she had found the right person to create a piece about the Roma, but at first Bay Area native Kouyoumdjian was reluctant to take on the commission. Once she discovered Stojka’s work, she changed her mind.
“I didn’t really feel comfortable writing a piece about the Roma in the Holocaust because that’s not the community that I’m from,” Kouyoumdjian, 34, said in an interview from her home in Brooklyn, New York. “But I was comfortable writing about another artist. I really connected with her writings, and especially
her paintings.”
Kouyoumdjian’s composition, in a program titled “Mirror of Memory,” will be performed Wednesday, May 24, at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music — three days after the world premiere in Seattle. The program includes San Francisco Opera mezzo-soprano Catherine Cook singing Yiddish songs written in the Vilna Ghetto.
Stojka, who survived the Auschwitz, Ravensbruck and Bergen-Belsen camps, went on to write three autobiographies that focused on Nazi persecution of Roma. She began painting at the age of 56, and her artwork was heavily based on depiction of the death camps, where her father and one of her five brothers were killed. She died in 2013.
Miller, who founded the Seattle-based nonprofit Music of Remembrance, said she felt it was time to focus on the plight of Gypsies, who like Jews were deemed racially inferior by the Nazis and targeted for extinction.
Last year, Miller, the daughter of Holocaust refugees who lost all their family members, commissioned an opera by Jake Heggie that was based on the writings of a Polish dissident and a gay man. “When you think about the victims of the Holocaust — the 6 million Jews, the gays, the Gypsies, political dissidents, journalists — it’s been the goal of Music of Remembrance from the beginning to illuminate not just the tragedy of the Jews but others as well,” she said. Kouyoumdjian, an Armenian American who grew up in Pleasant Hill and now is working toward her doctorate in music composition at Columbia University, is a big fan of Roma music and said it’s similar to Armenian tunes.
Her 26-minute piece based on Stojka’s artwork, “to open myself, to scream,” is scored for violin, cello, bass, clarinet and trumpet. It includes live music and an electronic track recorded by the musicians, the latter symbolizing a survivor’s reflections on the past.
With Stojka, “There’s this constant burden of a horrific past. She’s sort of exploring these horrific things that make no sense,” Kouyoumdjian said. “A lot of people who have gone through genocide feel this too; they create artwork to express their feelings.”
The music is complemented with a film by Syrian Armenian projection artist Kevork Mourad, who animated Stojka’s artwork and synched it to the music.
Miller said this year’s focus on Roma will be followed in 2018, Music of Remembrance’s 20th anniversary, by pieces focusing on the World War II experiences of Japanese and Japanese Americans. One work will be about internment in the U.S. and two pieces will be based on texts from victims of the atomic bombings.
For 2019, she plans to commission a work focusing on the current refugee crisis “because that mirrors what Jews experienced during the Holocaust.”
“We’re extending our focus beyond the Holocaust itself,” Miller said.“It’s really important today that Music of Remembrance is not just an organization for Jews talking to Jews, it’s about moral lessons.”
Kouyoumdjian supports such a change. “We still have genocide happening today, so this is a conversation that continues. Anything that gives listeners a connection to history is incredibly important.”
video of one of Kouyoumdjian's compositions can be watched at http://www.jweekly.com/2017/05/21/exploring-roma-persecution-in-shoah-remembrance-concert/
Haigazian University: Lens on the Middle East by Harry Koundakjian
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Haigazian University
Mira Yardemian
Public Relations Director
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Haigazian University: Lens on the Middle East by Harry Koundakjian
Beirut, 19/05/2010 – The Middle East was the focus on Thursday, May 19,
2010 in Haigazian University, during an evening with international
photojournalist Harry Koundakjian, an event organized by Haigazian
University on the occasion of the Lebanese Martyrs’ Day.
The former chief Middle East photographer for the Associated Press Harry
Koundakjian was introduced to the audience by University Public
Relations Director, Mira Yardemian, who reflected on the sacrifices of
journalists in general and photojournalists in particular, while trying
to capture and seize moments in history throughout their lifetime
career.
Through an engaging slide presentation featuring historic photos of
events and people that have shaped the latter part of the 20th century,
Harry Koundakjian, a.k.a. "Harry the Horse" by his colleagues and
superiors, touched the audience with his unique humor, deeply moving
them by the saddest and happiest of events.
The audience was attentively captured by the lens of Koundakjian, who
commented on photos taken during a period of more than 50 years,
covering conflicts, historical moments, political and religious figures,
as well as famous stars; political leaders such as presidents Chamoun,
Assad, Sadat, and Clinton. Kings such as King Hussein, King Saoud, Queen
Elizabeth and the Shah of Iran. Political leaders such Arafat and late
Prime Minister Hariri. Celebrities such as Gary Cooper, Shirley Temple,
Dizzy Gillespie, and Laurence of Arabia, and William Saroyan. The show
also featured tragic events, such as earthquakes, famines, and wars.
Veteran photographer, Harry L. Koundarkjian is considered to be one of
the first press photographers in Lebanon. He joined the Associated Press
in 1967, and was appointed chief of the A.P. Middle East photo staff in
1969.
Throughout his career, Koundarjian has been on a first name basis with
many of its leaders. His photos- many, front page- have won him honors,
including the AP Managing Editor’s plaque, and the World Press Photo
Award.
Square In Galatea District Of Varna To Be Named After Zoravar Andran
SQUARE IN GALATEA DISTRICT OF VARNA TO BE NAMED AFTER ZORAVAR ANDRANIK
NOYAN TAPAN
20 MAY, 2010
VARNA
The city council of Varna, Bulgaria took a unanimous decision to name
one of the squares in Galatea district of Varna after Zoravar Andranik
– an Armenian general, greatly admired as a national hero. Zoravar
Andranik’s house is located on this street which bore his name
before 1997.
The Union of Armenians of Bulgaria in the city of Varna reported
that previously state programs envisaged allocating this area for
the construction of Andranik’s house museum and a park, but for some
reason the land has been allocated to the private sector.
In this connection the Union of Armenians of Bulgaria in the city of
Varna have officially applied – on behalf of the Hovsepian brothers,
who are the heads of the Union and well-known representatives of the
Armenian community – to the city council of Varna with the request to
name the square of Galatea district after Zoravar Andranik. The issue
was discussed at two meetings of commissions of the city council,
and finally thanks to efforts of the Hovsepian brothers, the city
council on 19 May 2010 made a unanimous decision to name the square
after Zoravar Andranik.
The Hovsepian brothers also plan to set up a bust of Zoravar Andranik
in the square in the near future. Work is underway to transform the
general’s house into a house museum.
BAKU: Animal Instinct Of Armenian Dashnak
ANIMAL INSTINCT OF ARMENIAN DASHNAK
State Telegraph Agency of the Republic of Azerbaijan
May 19, 2010 Wednesday
Baku
Head of the ARF Dashnaktsutyun parliamentary faction Vahan Hovhannisyan
said Armenian delegation to PACE has to do everything possible to
prevent resumption of the activity of PACE Subcommittee on Nagorno
Karabakh. According to him, today, Turkey rushes into the Minsk process
at a breakneck speed. I understand, it is difficult for our delegation
to initiate an impeachment of the PACE chief Movlud Chavuashoglu. It
is practically impossible, but we must prevent resumption of the
subcommittee`s activity, he said.
Chairman of PACE Movlud Chavushoglu earlier backed resumption of
the activity of PACE Subcommittee on Nagorno Karabakh region of
Azerbaijan. According to him, the commission will be set up to be
necessarily under the control of PACE chief.
Dashnaktsutyun representative Hovhannisyan criticized the behavior of
Armenian political forces, who took the constructive stance at the
meeting with the head of PACE held recently in Yerevan and did not
expressed their disagreement with decision of Movlud Chavushoglu to
reanimate the subcommittee on Karabakh. We disgraced themselves. We
have to seriously think about it, adding many in Armenia forgot they
deal with not only PACE chief but also a Turk.
Some forces had the insolence to complain about Armenia, taking
no heed he is Turk, he said, reminding his party does not have any
regrets about refusing to meet him.
We think Chavushoglu hardly cares about it.
Les Quotidiens S’interessent À La Visite Du PM Turc Erdogan À Bakou
LES QUOTIDIENS S’INTERESSENT À LA VISITE DU PM TURC ERDOGAN À BAKOU
par Stephane
armenews
vendredi21 mai 2010
AZERBAIDJAN
Les quotidiens s’interessent a la visite du PM turc Erdogan a Bakou
et a une publication du quotidien Hurriyet, qui, citant ses sources,
a ecrit que le PM turc allait essayer de " convaincre " l’Azerbaïdjan
d’accepter que l’Armenie ne restitue que 2 districts dans un
premier temps, au lieu des cinq demandes initialement. Les quotidiens
supposent qu’il s’agit des rayons de Kelbadjar et Fizuli. Les sources
turques notent qu’un tel accord aurait ete obtenu d’une part lors des
rencontres du President americain avec les autorites armeniennes et
turques et d’autre part lors de la visite du President Medvedev en
Turquie. D’après Hurriyet, Erdogan aurait amene a Bakou un " nouveau
plan " de règlement du conflit Haykakan Jamanak cite a la " une " les
propos d’Ilham Aliev lors d’une conference de presse avec R. Erdogan
selon lesquels, Bakou a agree, a quelques exceptions minimes près,
la version actualisee des principes de Madrid et si l’Armenie faisait
de meme et entamait le processus de retrait de ses forces armees,
l’Azerbaïdjan ouvrirait toutes les frontières avec elle. Depuis six
mois Erevan ne donne aucune reponse a la proposition du Groupe de
Minsk, a-t-il dit, accusant l’Armenie de prendre des mesures visant
a faire echouer le processus chaque fois que le conflit se rapproche
d’un règlement. " Soit l’Armenie doit donner une reponse positive a la
proposition du Groupe de Minsk et l’on se rapprochera du règlement du
conflit, soit le processus de negociation aura echoue et une nouvelle
etape sera cree dans les relations entre l’Armenie et l’Azerbaïdjan ".
" Nouveau projet ? ", " Kelbadjar et Fizouli "- 168 Jam
" Restituer d’abord deux regions ? "- Aravot
" Le nouveau plan de la Turquie et de l’Azerbaïdjan relatif au HK
"- Azg
" La tension monte crescendo dans la region "- Hayots Achkhar
" Soit, soit "- Haykakan Jamanak
Ambassade de France en Armenie
Service de presse