Macroeconomic Indicators In Armenia To Have Neutral Impact On Econom

MACROECONOMIC INDICATORS IN ARMENIA TO HAVE NEUTRAL IMPACT ON ECONOMY IN 2010

ARKA
Apr 1, 2010

YEREVAN, April 1. /ARKA/. Macroeconomic indicators will have neutral
impacts on the economy in 2010, Armenian Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan
said at a regular governmental meeting on Thursday.

He said that of all macroeconomic indicators, high inflation rate
arouses the greatest concern.

Sargsyan said that unlike January and February’s month-on-month
indicators, the 0.8% inflation recorded in March is not bad result.

Armenia recorded 2.9% inflation in March 2010, compared with December
2009, and 8.8%, compared with March 2009.

The premier said that Armenia’s high inflation is also due to
expansionary tax, budget and monetary policies.

"And this is natural, since on the one hand, the expansionary policy
spurs economic growth, but on the other hand triggers inflation
pressures."

Sargsyan said that the central bank and the government view
implementation of measures aimed at curbing inflation as their
top-priority objective in the current situation.

The central bank thinks that the efforts to stem inflation will
produce some results, and "we’ll somewhat manage to curb inflation
pressure and drive inflation rate down", the prime minister said.

More than that – if tax inflow doesn’t dwindle, Armenian authorities
will be able to deter inflation.

Sargsyan also said that the central bank would tighten its instruments
to stem inflation pressures.

According to National Statistical Service of Armenia, consumer price
index in March 2010, compared with December 2009, was 102.9%, and
compared with March 2009, was 108.8%.

In the 2010 state budget, inflation is planned at 4% (±1.5%).

Turkish-Armenians Condemn Erdogan-Sirinoglu Meeting

TURKISH-ARMENIANS CONDEMN ERDOGAN-SIRINOGLU MEETING

Today’s Zaman
April 1 2010
Turkey

A group of Turkish-Armenians have condemned remarks by a community
representative that Armenians in Turkey have no concerns over safety
and that disputes over history should be left behind.

Bedros Å~^irinoglu, the president of the board of trustees of the
Armenian Holy Savior Hospital, made the remarks after a meeting last
week with Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan. The meeting came after
a controversial statement by Erdogan that Turkey could deport 100,000
illegal Armenian immigrants if foreign parliaments continue to pass
resolutions backing Armenian claims of genocide at the hands of the
Ottoman Empire. Å~^irinoglu said the events did not amount to genocide,
describing them as a "fight between good friends" and said there was
no point in digging further into what happened a century ago.

A petition signed by close to 300 Turkish-Armenians said Å~^irinoglu
did not represent the 60,000-strong Turkish-Armenian community and
criticized him for trying to "cover up a big crime against humanity."

"Hearing Å~^irinoglu’s statement that ‘Armenians feel safe in Turkey.

Have you ever heard any complaints from them?’ prompts us to think
that perhaps we live in a different Turkey," the petition said.

"Å~^irinoglu may be feeling safe in this country. But it is a lie
that Armenians feel safe," it went on, complaining of widespread
racism and discrimination.

Freedom Of The Press

FREEDOM OF THE PRESS

rs
11:32 am | March 30, 2010

Social

Call for participation in a photo exhibition "Freedom of the Press,
the Right to Know"

To celebrate the World Press Freedom Day on May 3rd, the Freedom of
Information Center in cooperation with the USAID/Armenia, OSCE Office
in Yerevan and UN Department of Public Information, will organize a
photo exhibition "Freedom of the Press, the Right to Know".

Everybody is invited to present photos for this exhibition regardless
when they have been made. The topic of photos is the freedom of
the press and freedom of information. Send us photos that in your
opinion represent the implementation of the right of freedom of
expression and access to information. From the submitted photos,
the professional jury will choose the best ones to be showcased in
the exhibition on May 3rd. The selected photos will be also printed
in the special photo catalogue devoted to the Press Freedom Day.

WHO CAN PARTICIPATE Any person (regardless of professional experience)
can submit photos – journalists, photographers, ordinary citizens,
students and others.

HOW TO APPLY

Submit the following information and materials from March 29 to April
23, 2010.

1. Name and contact information (phone number and/or email) 2. Up
to 5 images (minimum 3 – 3.35 mega pixel) that you want to include
in the exhibition 3. Each photo should have clear caption saying:
where it was taken, by whom and what/who are on the photo.

Please send your photos to [email protected] or submit it in
electronic version to the Freedom of Information Center at 1/3 Buzand
street, 4th floor.

The photo submission deadline is April 23, 2010.

For any further assistance do not hesitate to contact us at
[email protected] or call at 099-400840 or 091-407836 phone numbers.

http://a1plus.am/en/social/2010/03/30/konku

Expert: Gas Price Rise In Armenia To Drive Inflation 0.5% Up

EXPERT: GAS PRICE RISE IN ARMENIA TO DRIVE INFLATION 0.5% UP

ARKA
March 31, 2010

YEREVAN, March 31. /ARKA/. Gas price rise in Armenia will drive
inflation 0.5% up, Gurgen Martirosyan, chief of Armenian National
Statistical Service’s unit on prices, said Tuesday at a press
conference.

"Gas expenses are included in subsistence. If gas prices go up, but
prices for other services remain unchanged, gas price rise alone will
heighten inflation 0.5%," he said.

But it is not clear yet whether there’ll be any increase in prices
for other services or not.

Martirosyan said that increase in gas and water prices added 1.5%
to the 2009 inflation, which reached 6.5%.

Natural gas price for Armenia’s consumers will be raised 37.5% to
AMD 132 on April 1, 2010, from present AMD 96 per one cubic meter.

Those consumers using more than 10,000 cubic meters of gas monthly
will pay $243.13 per each 1,000 cubic meters instead of $215 presently.

Armen Poghosyan, the chairman of Armenian Association of Gas Consumers,
is convinced that gas price rise will impact prices for other services.

In his opinion, prices for other goods and services can’t remain
pegged after the increase in gas prices.

Poghosyan said that Yerevan Jur Water Company is now reconsidering
water prices.

In late February, Yerevan Jur Water Company appealed to the Public
Services Regulatory Commission proposing to raise water price from
present 181 per one cubic meter to AMD 206.976. ($1 = AMD 396.59).

Turkish Lawyer Asks Ankara Court To Recognize Armenian Genocide

TURKISH LAWYER ASKS ANKARA COURT TO RECOGNIZE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE

HULIQ
March 31 2010
SC

A top notch lawyer in Turkey has urged the the court in Ankara and
the government of Turkey to recognize the Armenian Genocide and remove
all the statues of the former interior minister Talat Pasha from the
country as one of the organizers of the Armenian Genocide.

This may be one of the very rare cases when the Armenian genocide
discussion moves from parliaments to legal field in courts. In a very
rare case, the Armenian genocide discussion moves from parliament
to a legal field in court. Most importantly, the case originated in
Turkey’s capital, Ankara.

According one of the top Turkish newspapers Haberturk, a famous
Turkish lawyer Bendal Jalil Ezman petitioned the Turkish government
and the court to recognize the Armenian Genocide whcih happened in
1915-1921 and remove all the statues of Talat Pasha from the country
as well as rename all the street names that are named after him.

According to the Ezman, after examining the events of those years he
came to the conclusion that Talaat Pasha actually committed a crime
and is the author of the Armenian Genocide.

Thus, with this connection, Ezman asks the court in Turkey to qualify
those horrific events of killing 1.5 million Armenians as genocide. He
said Armenian citizens of the Ottoman Empire were systematically
slaughtered and Turkey should face its past.

"Turkey must face its past. Such a case is opened for the first time in
Turkey," said attorney Ezman. Asked if he fears any negative reaction
he said "if it comes, predestination is something in my head."

More members of the Turkish society have come forward in the recent
years acknowledging the Armenian Genocide. As the society aspires for
European Union membership and the government proceeds more democratic
reforms and opening discussions about the past are being made possible
and more people learn about the past dark pages of the Ottoman period
when 1.5 million Armenians were slaughtered and deported from their
living place and thus deprived from their fatherland in Eastern
Anatolia as part of a systematic ethnic cleansing program carried be
the government of Young Turks. More than 20 parliaments in the world
have called those events genocide.

It’s unknown when the court will consider Ezman’s lawsuit.

Submitted by Armen Hareyan on Wed, 2010-03-31 13:58

-asks-ankara-court-recognize-armenian-genocide

http://www.huliq.com/1/92319/turkish-lawyer

ARS Bestows its "Ararat" Award on Near East Foundation

ARMENIAN RELIEF SOCIETY, INC.
Central Office
80 Bigelow Avenue
Watertown, MA 02472

Tel: 617-926-5892
Fax: 617-926-4855
E-Mail: [email protected]

ARS Bestows its "Ararat" Award on Near East Foundation

The program of the ARS Centennial – celebrated on Wednesday, March 10, 2010
in New York City – included the granting of the ARS "Ararat" Award of
Excellence to the Near East Foundation (formerly – Near East Relief) which
was founded 95 years ago, in response to the unprecedented human tragedy
that unfolded in the Near East following the Armenian Genocide. Indeed, it
was, in large part, due to the enormous moral and financial input of the
Near East Relief, that thousands of Armenian orphans and refugees were saved
from certain annihilation in the aftermath of the first genocide of the
20-th century.

In 2003, seven years before its Centenary, the ARS initiated its "Ararat"
Award of Excellence, whose first recipient was Atom Egoyan, the
Canadian-Armenian filmmaker of world renown, whose film of the same name,
"Ararat", exposed to the whole world the horrendous traumatic scars that the
Genocide had left on the mental and spiritual well being of the
post-Genocide Armenian generations.

Four years later, in 2007, Vice-Speaker of Britain’s House of Lords, Lady
Caroline Cox received the "Ararat" Award for loyal support and continuing
assistance to the Armenians of the Nagorno Karabakh enclave during and after
their long struggle for freedom from Azeri oppression. In 1993, the Baroness
had published a book titled "Ethnic Cleansing in Progress: War in Nagorno
Karabagh", exposing the genocidal policies of the Azeri governments
implemented against the Armenian population of Artsakh.

"As these three recipients of the ARS "Ararat" Award demonstrate, only
exceptional personalities and organizations – whose benevolent and
humanitarian stance transcends mere rhetoric by translating into concrete
action in support of the Armenian people’s struggle for progress and a
bright future – are considered worthy of this unique Award of Excellence.
Based on this lofty level, the ARS has not made this an annual award,
preferring to hold it for rewarding exceptional acts realized in times of
crises, demanding a special kind of humanitarian commitment on the part of
principled individuals or societies,"- declared Mrs. Vera Tavitian of the
ARS Central Executive Board. "In this year of the 95-th Commemoration of the
Genocide, the ARS wished to grant its "Ararat" Award to a deserving
recipient, such as the Near East Relief, whose caring heart and charitable
hand, extended at a critical time, helped the survival of 130,000
tragedy-struck Armenian children,"- concluded Mrs. Tavitian.

The Near East Relief was created in 1915 in response to an alarming cable
from American Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire Henry Morgenthau to the U.S.
Secretary of State stating that the Turkish "destruction of the Armenian
race is progressing rapidly". In 1919 the committee was chartered by
Congress and designated the primary channel for U.S. postwar aid to the Near
East.

Today, its successor, The Near East Foundation, continues its humanitarian
work in the Near East and in Armenia. To see a film on the organization’s
activities – or to read the text of its President, Mr. Shant Mardirossian’s
speech delivered during the ARS Centennial celebration – visit the ARS
website at

www.ars1910.org.

Negation Du Genocide En Armenie

NEGATION DU GENOCIDE EN ARMENIE
par Jean Eckian

armenews
lundi29 mars 2010

Centre Ararat contre Institut du Caucase

L’auteur de l’article, Stepan Sargsyan, exprime ici une colère de bon
sens contre une decision de la juge du premier ressort qui par contre,
paraît s’etre retranchee sur le droit pour ne pas avoir a decider au
fond (elle ne prend en compte qu’une partie des faits reproches par
le demandeur)..

La decision de la Cour d’Appel confirmant la decision en premier
ressort n’est que peu commentee par l’auteur de l’article. Elle
n’en est que plus etrange. On comprend qu’" ARARAT " aille en
Cassation, mais il faut souhaiter qu’il n’ait pas a aller devant
la Cour Europeenne des Droits de l’Homme, ce qui serait enormement
prejudiciable pour tous les Armeniens.

La critique juridique que fait Stepan Sargsyan, meme si apparemment
il n’est pas juriste, est pertinente, structuree et convaincante :
il y a quelque chose qui ne va pas dans le système armenien.

Un detail : contrairement a ce qui est dit dans cet article, les
declarations de Bernard Lewis n’ont pas ete jugees au penal (l’action
devant cette juridiction avait ete jugee irrecevable). Il a ete
condamne au civil pour la faute civile qu’il a commise en portant
atteinte a la communaute armenienne. Les Armeniens de France n’ont
pas abandonne la lutte pour qu’une loi soit finalisee punissant
penalement la negation du Genocide en France. Le seul pays où la
negation du Genocide est interdite au penal est la Suisse.

Stepan Sargsyan exprime a la fin un desarroi que partageront une
majorite d’Armeniens. Il est plus que temps que les juristes de
la diaspora et d’Armenie, avec l’Assemblee Nationale d’Armenie,
s’attachent a combler, d’urgence et en priorite, ce trou
invraisemblable.

Un cas sans precedent est en cours de jugement dans les tribunaux
armeniens. Pour la première fois, des poursuites sont engagees
pour la negation du Genocide Armenien contre une organisation
non-gouvernementale armenienne. Le Centre "ARARAT" pour la Recherche
Strategique fait un procès a la fondation " Caucasus Institute (1) "
basee a Erevan, pour avoir publie un livre qui contient une negation
explicite du Genocide Armenien. Qu’une organisation armenienne basee
a Erevan puisse penser a publier un texte negationniste est assez
choquant. Mais encore plus troublante est la facon dont les tribunaux
armeniens ont traite cette affaire, impliquant du meme coup qu’il
est permis de nier publiquement le Genocide Armenien en Armenie.

D’après l’assignation deposee par le Centre "ARARAT", le " Caucasus
Institute " a publie a Erevan un livre en 2008 sous le titre "
Le Voisinage au Caucase : Turquie et Le Sud Caucase," qui comporte
egalement un article par un expert turc, Aybars Gorgulu. Dans ledit
article, l’auteur conteste le fait historique du Genocide Armenien
commis dans l’Empire Ottoman et en Armenie de l’Ouest en 1893-1923,
en usant de declarations explicites et de guillemets autour du mot
genocide. Dans un passage de l’article, on peut lire ce qui suit :
"La Turquie se sent lesee des accusations de l’Armenie accusant
l’Empire Ottoman d’avoir commis un genocide sur lequel restent de
serieux doutes et une discussion intense continue encore."

Dans son article, Gorgulu use egalement des expressions "
revendications de ‘genocide’ " et " allegations de ‘genocide’ " a
plusieurs reprises lorsqu’il decrie les reconnaissances internationales
du Genocide Armenien : ‘D’un autre côte, le Parlement Europeen
lui-meme, a plus forte raison les parlements des pays importants de
l’UE tels que l’Allemagne, la France, la Belgique, la Grèce, l’Italie
et les Pays-Bas, ont adopte les allegations de " genocide ". ‘

Mais pourquoi n’importe quel Armenien se respectant soi-meme
penserait-il a publier cette regurgitation pseudo-academique de la
propagande negationniste Turque a Erevan ? D’après le directeur du "
Caucasus Institute " Alexander Iskandarian, ceux qui se trouvent en
Armenie doivent savoir ce que pensent ses voisins. Il faut rappeler
a M. Iskandarian que la confrontation de plusieurs decennies de la
diaspora avec la constante reintroduction de ces " points de vue "
turcs ont coûte aux Armeniens de la diaspora des millions de dollars
en diverses initiatives educatives sur la prevention du genocide,
l’interdiction de le nier et action pour s’opposer aux campagnes
illegales de lobbying des allies negationnistes de la Turquie. Le
directeur de " Caucasus Institute " pense peut-etre que la diaspora ne
devrait pas etre le seul cadre de la propagande de guerre de la Turquie
et que ses frères en Armenie ont droit eux aussi aux delices de ce
loukhoum ? Dans ce cas, M. Iskandarian devrait transmettre ses idees
" progressistes " sur ce point aux Israeliens en sorte qu’eux aussi
publient le point de vue des partisans des nazis et les Ahmedinejads
du monde sur l’Holocauste.

Demande relative a la Declaration Publique de Retrait.

Ces memes considerations doivent avoir aussi rendu perplexe le
directeur du Centre "ARARAT" Armen Ayvazian, qui a demande que le
tribunal condamne le "Caucasus Institute " a retirer publiquement la
fausse declaration trouvee dans ce livre, interdire toute utilisation
du mot genocide entre guillemets et toute diffusion future de toutes
copies du livre, ainsi qu’a payer un dram armenien symbolique pour
dommage moral.

La decision de ce tribunal affecte directement la securite nationale
de l’Armenie, parce que la negation, comme l’ont affirme avocats et
chercheurs sur le genocide, est la continuation du genocide. Telle
est par exemple l’opinion du "Genocide Watch", vigilance genocide,
une organisation internationale respectee specialisee sur le problème
du genocide : "La negation est le huitième acte qui fait suite
systematiquement a un genocide. Il est parmi les indicateurs les plus
sûrs de massacres genocidaires futurs. La reponse a la negation est la
punition par un tribunal international ou les cours internationales."

Le President de l’Association Internationale des Chercheurs sur le
Genocide, Richard Stanton est du meme avis : "La negation est le stade
ultime du genocide. C’est une tentative continue de destruction du
groupe victime, psychologiquement et culturellement, pour nier a ses
membres meme la memoire de l’assassinat de leurs parents. C’est ce que
le gouvernement turc fait aujourd’hui aux Armeniens autour du monde."

En consequence logique de ce point de vue, la negation du genocide
a ete criminalisee dans un certain nombre de pays. Par exemple : En
2007, le tribunal de Lausanne en Suisse a condamne le leader du Parti
des Travailleurs turcs Dogu Perincek a 90 jours d’emprisonnement avec
sursis et a payer 3 000 francs suisses, parce qu’il avait publiquement
nie le Genocide Armenien.

En 1995, un tribunal francais a ordonne a Bernard Lewis de payer
des dommages-interets pour avoir nie le Genocide Armenien dans le
quotidien Le Monde et publier une retractation de ses declarations.

Comme philosophe renomme, Bernard-Henri Levy declare, " … les
negationnistes n’expriment pas une opinion, ils commettent un crime."

Visiblement, Alexander Iskandarian n’a pas lu cette citation ;
autrement, il devrait savoir faire la distinction entre une discussion
scientifique valable et la propagande criminelle. Les poursuites
engagees par le Centre ARARAT pour la Recherche Strategique soulignent
la facon dont cette offense affecte directement la securite de la
Republique d’Armenie, en particulier :

La negation du Genocide Armenien continue et constitue une partie
integrale de la politique genocidaire adoptee par la Turquie contre
les Armeniens ; c’est-a-dire qu’elle est developpee dans le cadre d’un
plan general a long terme pour detruire la Republique d’Armenie et
la nation armenienne, un acte ouvertement et dangereusement hostile
aux interets vitaux de l’Armenie.

En niant le Genocide Armenien, la Turquie essaie de tuer la memoire
historique des Armeniens, les priver de leur experience politique
obtenue a un prix incommensurable et priver les autorites de la
Republique d’Armenie des options strategiques de politique etrangère
qui conviennent, en particulier vis a vis de la Turquie.

La negation du Genocide Armenien est un objectif vise par la
ratification et la legalisation des consequences du genocide,
en particulier les expropriations et la deportation des Armeniens
de leur foyer, ainsi que la colonisation de l’heritage culturel du
peuple armenien par les turcs.

Par la negation du Genocide Armenien, la Turquie calomnie la Republique
d’Armenie et toute la nation armenienne, les accusant impertinemment
de propager des mensonges, d’opposition et de haine raciale. En
consequence, la Turquie et ses dirigeants compromettent la Republique
d’Armenie sur la scène internationale, insulte l’honneur et la dignite
nationale de la nation armenienne dans son ensemble.

Considerant que la negation est la continuation du genocide, etant
donnees l’existence de precedents juridiques de poursuites contre la
negation de genocide et les menaces que fait la negation du Genocide
Armenien sur la securite nationale de l’Armenie, on aurait pu supposer
que cette affaire n’ait pas pose de problèmes aux tribunaux armeniens.

Cela n’a cependant pas ete le cas. A tous les stades du processus,
cette affaire a affronte defis et obstacles.

Il n’y a pas suffisamment de Preuves selon le Tribunal

Après avoir admis cette affaire comme apte a etre jugee dans le système
judiciaire armenien, le tribunal du premier degre a decide en decembre
2009 qu’il n’y avait pas de base legale suffisante pour juger cette
affaire, et niant ainsi le droit du demandeur a un procès equitable. En
particulier, la juge Karine Petrossian a decide que l’usage du mot
genocide entre guillemets ne constitue pas un fait litigieux, et en
consequence, que l’affaire doit etre declaree irrecevable. On peut
d’abord s’etonner que l’affaire ait ete acceptee pour etre jugee s’il
n’y avait pas de litige. Ensuite, peut-etre devrions-nous nous adresser
ici a Karine Petrossian comme a l’ " Honorable " Juge, ou Honorable
" Juge ", ou les deux, ayant decide qu’il n’y a aucune offense a le
faire. De plus, la " Juge " n’a pas releve que l’action n’etait pas
seulement motivee sur l’emploi de guillemets autour du mot genocide,
mais sur la contestation explicite du Genocide Armenien, comme cite
plus haut. Il faut aussi noter que cette " Juge " a aussi failli en
n’indiquant pas la juridiction qualifiee pour entendre cette affaire,
comme l’exige la loi armenienne pour les cas dans lesquels tel tribunal
se declare incompetent. Cette omission et d’autres omissions flagrantes
du tribunal du premier degre ont ete a la base de l’appel du Centre
ARARAT devant la Cour d’Appel.

Malheureusement, la Cour d’Appel n’a pas vu les trous beants de
la decision du tribunal du premier ressort. Selon Armen Ayvazian,
le Centre " ARARAT " fera appel devant l’autorite supreme, la Cour
Armenienne de Cassation, et, si c’est necessaire, aller jusqu’au bout
devant la Cour Europeenne des Droits de l’Homme.

Il y a Quelque Chose qui ne va pas du tout dans le Système Judiciaire
Armenien

Arretons nous un instant et essayons de saisir la realite : le Genocide
Armenien a ete nie en Armenie et les tribunaux armeniens n’ont fait
que tolerer cette negation par leur position. Si le negationnisme
peut se developper grâce a un simple detail de forme juridique,
alors il y a quelque chose de serieusement mauvais dans le système
judiciaire armenien dans son integralite. Il n’y a aucun doute, la
manière laxiste et incompetente avec laquelle cette affaire a ete
geree par les tribunaux armeniens trahit l’ingerence politique des
autorites armeniennes dans la decision de ces juges.

Quelques officiels de haut niveau, tel que le chef de la Commission
Parlementaire sur les Affaires de l’Etat et le Droit David Harutiunian,
affirmaient sans vergogne que le renforcement de la punition de
la negation du genocide generait les negociations en cours avec la
Turquie. En consequence, il y a maintenant un precedent juridique
qui encourage la negation, ouvertement, du Genocide Armenien.

La diaspora a depense des millions autour du monde pour lutter contre
la negation du genocide, forcant les publications importantes a changer
leur politique de recours a l’expression " soi-disant genocide " ou
d’emploi des guillemets pour le mot genocide. A quoi sert cet effort
si le Genocide Armenien peut-etre ouvertement nie a Erevan et que le
juge dise que l’on peut employer les guillemets ?

Les editeurs de The Economist ne vont-ils pas en referer a cette
decision pour justifier leur decision de ne pas enlever les guillemets
ou appeler le Genocide Armenien par son nom ? Comme si cette decision
l’avait enhardi, le "Caucasus Institute " a invite l’auteur de cet
article lui meme a Erevan. Deux semaines seulement après la decision du
tribunal du premier degre, le negationniste Aybars Gorgulu arrivait a
Erevan pour participer a un seminaire a huis clos. Ce qui est encore
plus fort, le chef de l’Institut-Musee Armenien du Genocide Haïk
Demoyan assistait a ce meme seminaire. On peut se demander pour quelle
raison Demoyan parlait avec un negationniste derrière une porte close.

Peut-etre le " Caucasus Institute " et Alexandre Iskandarian
inviteront-ils la prochaine fois l’infâme Justin McCarthy lors du
centenaire du Genocide Armenien pour etre l’intervenant vedette de la
manifestation commemorant les " Massacres Mutuels Armeniens – Turcs de
1915 " a laquelle le beau monde ultra progressiste d’Erevan assistera.

Si nous ne voulons pas voir cela se produire, il nous revient a
tous d’assurer que la conclusion de cette affaire determinante soit
un succès.

Stepan Sargsyan

(1) Institut de reflexion, dont le but est d’encourager le discours
pluraliste dans les pays du Caucase Sud en contribuant au developpement
de la science politique et mediatique dans la region.

L’Institut du Caucase vient de publier un essai sur la typologie
socio-culturelle de la diaspora armenienne, où le rôle de la diaspora
dans la societe armenienne. L’ouvrage est le resultat d’une etude mene
conjointement par Viktor Dvatlov (expert sur la theorie de la diaspora)
et Edouard Melkonian (expert sur l’histoire de la diaspora armenienne).

Hovnanian Enterprises Inc. performance impressive since earnings

Hovnanian Enterprises Inc. performance impressive since earnings; HOV, MHO,
XIN

Tuesday, 30 March 2010

Earnings releases can make investing tricky. Many investors try to time
trades based on earnings filings, but usually find such trading is
inconsistent and dangerous. It is often better to take a look at how the
market has reacted to a company’s results a few weeks after the initial
announcement.

Hovnanian Enterprises Inc. (HOV) [HOV chart analysis] released its earnings
filing on 03/02. The company reported a change in quarter-over-quarter sales
of -14.48% and posted an EPS (trailing twelve months) of -3.91.

By now the market has had time to settle in and look closely at the numbers.
A stock’s performance in the few weeks following an announcement, compared
to other stocks in its industry, the industry as a whole, and market as a
whole, really tells you how investors and analysts felt about the
announcement.

Compared to peers

One way to gauge performance is look at a stock compared to other stocks in
its industry with similar market caps. HOV peer M/I Homes, Inc. (MHO) [MHO
chart analysis] has seen a 16.19% stock price gain over about the last
month, while another peer, Xinyuan Real Estate Company Ltd. (XIN) [XIN chart
analysis] saw a 3.08% gain. So with a return of 21.08%, Hovnanian
Enterprises Inc. outgained MHO and beat XIN’s price performance over the
last month.
NVR Inc.

Compared to the S&P 500 Index

Now, let’s see how Hovnanian Enterprises Inc. stock performance compares to
the rest of the market by looking at it compared to the Standard & Poor’s
500 Index (.INX). Since 03/02, the S&P 500 index has returned around 4.9%,
and again, HOV saw about a 21.08% gain during that time. Not bad.

Compared to the rest of the "Residential Construction" industry

Since the HOV announcement (about 30 days ago), the stock has posted a
21.08% gain. Over that same period, the stock’s industry, Residential
Construction, saw a 5.93% gain. That means HOV that has outperformed its
industry as a whole 255.48% since the earnings announcement. Small
differences aren’t significant, but when the spread is large it indicates
the stock is either much more or much less favored than its group as a
whole.

So by putting the returns in context by these comparisons, we can see how a
stock’s performance since earnings really measures up and make our investing
decisions on PRXL accordingly.

learningmarkets.com

Expert In Turkish Studies: Turkey Decided To Smoothen Tough Announce

EXPERT IN TURKISH STUDIES: TURKEY DECIDED TO SMOOTHEN TOUGH ANNOUNCEMENTS BY INVOLVING TURKISH ARMENIANS IN THIS PROCESS

ARKA
March 29, 2010
Yerevan

YEREVAN, March 29. /ARKA/. Political elite of Turkey carried out
decision on smoothening tough announcements and substituted them with
softer ones, said Ruben Melkonyan, expert in Turkish studies.

"These processes take place by involving not only Abdullah Gul,
President of Turkey, but also Armenians living in Turkey", he said
on Monday during the press-conference.

Petros Shirin-Oglu, authoritative figure of Armenian Diaspora of
Istanbul, Chairman of Board of Trustees of Istanbul hospital "Surb
Prkich" apologized to Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Prime Minister of Turkey
for the provision of false information on the number of illegally
living Armenians in Turkey.

"Shirin-Oglu tries to send original messages to the world that Turkish
government is merciful towards Armenians wanting to change the image
about Turkey. Political mechanism and all the structures in Turkey
immediately disseminated this information in the world via mass media
with rather expressive titles such as "Shirin-Oglu taught the world"
or "Message of Shirin-Oglu and Armenians to the world", said Melkonyan.

"Turkey itself has hundreds and thousands illegally living citizens
in many countries and should think about its own illegal migrants",
said Melkonyan.

In his interview to TV Company BBC Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Prime Minister
of Turkey threatened to deport all Armenians living illegally in the
territory of Turkey. He said that today there are about 170 thousand
Armenians living in Turkey, from which only 70 thousand are citizens
of Turkey. Ministers of Foreign Affairs of Armenia and Turkey Edward
Nalbandyan and Ahmed Davutoghlu signed "Protocol on establishment of
diplomatic relations" and "Protocol on development of mutual relations"
on October 10, Saturday, in Zurich. Then these documents should be
approved by the parliaments of both countries.

Armenian-Turkish border was closed since 1993 by the official
initiative of Ankara. Complicated relations between two countries were
due to the fact that Ankara supported Azerbaijan in Karabakh problem
and also an acute reaction of Turkey on the process of international
recognition of Armenian Genocide of 1915 in Ottoman Empire.

Armenian Genocide of 1915 was the first genocide of 20th century.

Turkey traditionally refuses the genocide of Armenians during the
First World War and painfully reacts on the critic from the West.

Armenian Genocide was recognized by Uruguay, Russia, France, Lithuania,
Parliament of Italy and majority of United States.

Information About RA Citizens In Moscow Subway Blast Untrue

INFORMATION ABOUT RA CITIZENS IN MOSCOW SUBWAY BLAST UNTRUE

news.am
March 29 2010
Armenia

Information that there were Armenian citizens among the victims in
Moscow subway blast is untrue. Moscow prosecutor’s office by mistake
posted the information on victims in another terrorist act occurred
on February 6, 2004 in Moscow subway.

RA Foreign Ministry press secretary Tigran Balayan told NEWS.am
correspondent that currently Armenian embassy in RF clarifies whether
there are Armenian citizens among the blast victims. On RF Emergency
Situations Ministry website the information about one injured –
Hamik Martirosyan (1992) who is hospitalized is available.