Author: Boshkezenian Garik

CANCEROLOGY INSTITUTE TO OPEN IN YEREVAN

PanARMENIAN.Net
04.05.2009 13:50 GMT+04:00

RA Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan met with Director of Development
of Armenian Medical Projects France-based organization Dr Norbert
Avetian to discuss issues concerning the establishment of a cancerology
institute in Yerevan as a part of the nuclear therapy center program.

The Prime Minister noted that health care development and the
establishment of a nuclear therapy center are among the government’s
priorities and his government endorses the idea of launching an
institute of cancerology in Yerevan as part of said program. Tigran
Sargsyan advised that the representatives of Dr Avetian’s organization
have been invited to participate in the proceedings of a coordination
task force enabling discussion of issues concerning the creation of
the above-stated institute.

Dr Avetian said as soon as an arrangement is reached over the
project, his organization will have best European equipment and
methodologies imported into Armenia. Local specialists, too, will
have the opportunity of working at the Institute and taking training
courses in France on a regular basis. According to Dr Avetian,
several foreign investors are prepared to invest into this project
at this point of time.

Reiterating the importance of this program to our country, the
Prime Minister assured of his government’s readiness to extend every
possible support under this program once an investment program and
a time-table are produced by the French side, the RA government’s
press office reported.

ARMAVIA ANNOUNCES FOUR-PERCENT DISCOUNT FOR ALL TICKETS BOUGHT ON ITS OFFICIAL SITE

/ARKA/
May 4, 2009
YEREVAN

Armavia, Armenian national air company, has announced four-percent
discount for all tickets bought on its official site, Nana Avetisova,
press secretary of the company, said on Monday.

She also said that every 15,000th passenger will receive a pleasant
surprise. Armavia is a member of International Air Transport
Association (IATA).

The company operates more than 170 flights a week to CIS, Europe and
the Middle East. Armavia has carried some 647,000 passengers over 2008.

The air company has three A 319, two A 320 one Il 86 and one Tu 134.

Sukhoy Superjet S-100 will join them soon. Aviation risks are
insured by ISG Company, the only and reliable partner to Armavia
among companies insuring aviation risks.

ARMENIAN MINISTER, NATO DEPUTY CHIEF DISCUSS COOPERATION ISSUE

Mediamax
April 28 2009
Armenia

Yerevan, 28 April: Armenia intends to strengthen and develop
cooperation with NATO within the framework of the Partnership for
Peace programme, Armenian Foreign Minister Edvard Nalbandyan said at
a meeting with NATO Deputy Secretary-General Claudio Bisogniero today,
Mediamax news agency quoted the Armenian Foreign Ministry as reporting.

Armenian Foreign Minister said that Armenia’s Individual
Partnership Action Plan (IPAP) with NATO is an effective format for
cooperation. Bisogniero noted that NATO highly rates the partnership
with Armenia and the results of IPAP implemented in 2006-2008 and
expressed hope that the Action Plan for 2009-2010 will also be
implemented successfully.

In the context of discussing regional issues, the NATO deputy secretary
general expressed his satisfaction with the progress reached in the
process of normalizing Armenian-Turkish relations, noting that the
alliance supports steps directed to establish normal ties between
Armenia and Turkey.

ARNO BABAJANYAN YOUNG PIANISTS CONTEST ORGANIZERS AND PARTICIPANTS ARE SATISFIED WITH RESULTS

PanARMENIAN.Net
01.05.2009 16:47 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ On Apr. 25, 8th Young Pianists contest launched
in Armenia, under RA Ministry of Culture and Arno Bababajanyan
International Fund aegis.

The contest aims at discovering talented young pianists, assisting
them in their studies and future career; helps prepare young musicians
for participation in international festivals.

In 2009 the contest hosted 67 young pianists from Armenia and NKR,
featuring 2 age categories: "under 12" and "13 to15".

The awards ceremony on the closing evening was held today in Arno
Babajanyan Concert Hall. Young Pianists contest has been held once
in 3 years, since 1986.

REQUIEM FOR A MILLION IN ARMENIA

The Telegraph
p/calcutta/story_10897634.jsp
April 30 2009
India

For many an Indian, April 24 is the Little Master’s birthday. But for
Armenians across the world, it was on this day in 1915 that around
250 of their leaders were rounded up by Turks during World War I
and killed.

The day, known as the Armenian Genocide, was followed by the death
of more than a million Armenians.

This year, the incident was commemorated by the Armenian College
and Philanthropic Academy at Gorky Sadan with the screening of a
documentary on the incident.

"The aim of the event was to remind the young generation of the
sacrifices made by their forefathers," said Fr Oshagan Gulgulian,
pastor of the Armenians in India and former manager of Armenian
College.

Reading out an address from the President of Armenian, Ashot Kocharian,
the Armenian ambassador to India, said: "This gathering of people
from several diasporas to pay tribute to the victims will help in
spreading awareness."

While students from classes VII to X put up an exhibition of
photographs on the genocide, the school choir sang four songs
in Armenian. "We charred the black-and-white images at the edges
and surrounded them by red handprints to depict the horror of the
situation," said Arez Markarian, a Class IX student of the school,
set up in 1821.

The school, affiliated to the ICSE board, has 80 students, including
those from Iran, Iraq and Armenia.

Andrew Goldberg’s 2006 documentary, Armenian Genocide, depicted the
events that led to the April 24 massacre and its fallout. Including
accounts of survivors, it described the survivors whose mourning
remains incomplete as their pain has not been acknowledged by Turks
or other nations of the world.

The programme included the recitation of the English translation of
Armenian poet Siamanto’s The Dance. Siamanto was one of those killed
in April 1915. "It is about a German woman witnessing a group of
20 naked brides being whipped and burnt alive outside her window,"
explained Arez. The poem, dramatised by students, ends with the German
woman wondering how she can gouge her eyes out after seeing something
so cruel.

Doel Bose BA, English St Xavier’s College

Georgian national behind Baku academy massacre – embassy

18:30 | 30/ 04/ 2009

TBILISI, April 30 (RIA Novosti) – The Georgian ambassador to
Azerbaijan confirmed on Thursday that a Georgian national was
responsible for a massacre at a college in Baku earlier in the day.
"Official sources have confirmed the information," Nikoloz Natbiladze
said.
At least thirteen people were killed and 11 wounded when a gunman
opened fire at the State Oil Academy in Azerbaijan’s capital on
Thursday morning, according to the country’s health ministry.
Azerbaijan’s Interior Ministry named the shooter as Georgian national
Farda Gadyrov, born in 1980 and of Azerbaijani origin.
Gadyrov was reported to have killed a security guard and cleaner after
entering the academy. He then continued shooting indiscriminately at
students and staff with a Makarov pistol while going up a staircase.
Azerbaijan’s ANS television channel said the gunman had killed 17 and
wounded 13, including Azerbaijani, Turkish and Syrian nationals,
before killing himself.
The academy is a major international center for the training of oil
industry specialists. Former students include Soviet-era secret police
head Lavrenty Beria and Vagit Alekperov, president of Russia’s largest
independent oil producer, LUKoil.
A probe into the incident has been launched under the supervision of
Azerbaijani President Ilkham Aliyev, who has already conveyed his
condolences to the families of those people killed in the attack.

DASHNAKTSUTYUN WITHDRAWS FROM THE POLITICAL COALITION
Gita Elibekyan

"Radiolur"
27.04.2009 16:20

The Armenian Revolutionary Federation today announced today about its
withdrawal from the political coalition. The decision was conditioned
by the adoption of the joint statement by the Ministries of Foreign
Affairs of Armenia, Turkey and Switzerland on the eve of April 24,
representative of the ARF Supreme Body Armen Rustamyan tolda press
conference today.

"Naturally, on the basis of this statement all our officials submit
their resignation, and this process has already started. I mean both
the executive and legislative officials, the Deputy Ministers, Deputy
Marzpets, Marzpets."

Henceforth, ARD Dashnaktsutyun will act on the political field as
an opposition party. They see no problem with cooperation with the
"Heritage." "However, we see no field of ideological rapprochement
with the Armenian National Congress," Armen Rustamyan said.

SECRETARY OF PROSPEROUS ARMENIA: ARFD AND PROSPEROUS ARMENIA PARTY HAVE NO CONCERN ABOUT THE KARABAKH SETTLEMENT

ArmInfo
2009-04-27 19:53:00

‘Yesterday I had conversation with representatives of ARFD, which
today declared about its leaving the coalition, and they told me they
worry about the Karabakh settlement. We have a strict position in the
Karabakh problem and there is no split in the coalition regarding the
matter’, – secretary of Prosperous Armenia parliamentary faction Aram
Safaryan said to journalists today.

‘We think that Nagornyy Karabakh cannot be a part of
Azerbaijan. Karabakh and Armenia should have the land border and
security of the Karabakh population should be guaranteed at the world
level. All the rest processes necessary for these three principles
are quite acceptable for us. In this context Prosperous Armenia party
is cooperating with all the rest forces of the political coalition’,
– Safaryan concluded.

ANKARA SIGNALS TO OBAMA: DON’T MEDDLE IN OUR RELATIONS WITH ARMENIA

PanArmenian News
April 23 2009
Armenia

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ It is not surprising that statement on road-map is
made a day before April 24, when Armenians of the world commemorate
victims of the Armenian Genocide, an Armenian expert said.

"This is a message to U.S. President Barack Obama: do not meddle
in Armenian-Turkish relations, turkologist Artak Shakaryan told
PanARMENIAN.Net. "This way Turkey signaled to Barack Obama and leaders
of other nations to stop recognition of the Armenian Genocide" Artak
Shakaryan said.

Armenian turkologist is sure that no obvious progress will be observed
in Armenian-Turkish relations.

"It is possible that for the return football game between Armenian
and Turkish teams Ankara may decide to open the border for a week. But
that will be a political gesture only," Shakaryan said.

WOMAD ABU DHABI KICKS OFF
By Eman Mohammed

Gulf News
April 25 2009
UAE

Abu Dhabi: More than 12,000 people enjoyed an exceptional musical
night in the capital as the three-day Womad Abu Dhabi festival kicked
off at the Corniche on Thursday night.

A diverse audience was thrilled at the multi-cultural open air concert
organised for the first time in the Middle East by World of Music
Arts and Dance (Womad) foundation and the Abu Dhabi Authority for
Culture and Arts.

Crowds had already started gathering on the public beach by 6pm.

As Zimbabwean group Siyaya started drumming at the northern stage,
people gathered to enjoy the African beats that were accompanied by a
performance by children from Al Khubairat British school. The children
had been rehearsing with the band for the last couple of weeks.

The audience also were treated to South Korean sounds by Dulsori.

People enjoyed traditional songs, the drums and a mix of jazz and
traditional Emirati music which were the result of a collaboration
between Jordanian musician Kamal Musallam and the Sokoor Al Magabeel
band.

The crowd seemed to double in number as Algerian singer Souad Massi
took the stage.

The universal rhythms continued when legendary Armenian musician Jivan
Gasparyan took the audience to a different world of Sufi music as he
performed on the southern stage. Meanwhile, Brazilian singer Marcio
Local rocked the other stage with his Salsa music.

Rizwan-Muazzam Qawwali, a Pakistani band performed some of the great
Sufi mystics of Islam.

At midnight the crowd could wait no longer for Khalid, the Algerian
singer also known as King of Rai, who then picked the Algerian flag
from the audience, wrapped it around his shoulder and delivered a
90-minute performance that proved why he is an international sensation.

As the audience insisted on hearing ‘Aisah’ – Khalid’s famous song –
he asked them to sing the song for him and pointed the microphone to
them. The crowd happily complied, thrilling Khalid who clapped his
hands for them. He promised the audience more during the festival.