«Cent’anni dopo il genocidio armeno, noi cristiani d’Oriente ne subiamo un altro»

Tempi, Italia
14 dic 2018

Riuniti a Parigi oltre 30 responsabili religiosi e politici provenienti da Siria, Libano, Iraq, Egitto e Giordania: «Basta parole vane. Noi rischiamo di vedere sparire la nostra civiltà»

«Noi non abbiamo bisogno di parole vane. Noi rischiamo di vedere sparire la nostra civiltà». È l’appello lanciato a Parigi da monsignor Nicodemus Daoud Sharaf, arcivescovo siriaco ortodosso di Mosul. Insieme a una trentina di responsabili religiosi e politici provenienti da Siria, Libano, Iraq, Egitto e Giordania, ha partecipato l’11 dicembre nella capitale francese a un convegno per dire “Basta alle discriminazioni verso i cristiani e le minoranze in Oriente, Yazidi compresi”.

Tra gli interventi più drammatici, come riportato da Aed, c’è quello di monsignor Sharaf:

«È difficile riassumere quello che il nostro popolo subisce da oltre 15 anni. I cristiani d’Oriente sono marginalizzati. Le persecuzioni contro i cristiani esistono. L’Oriente si dissolverà se i cristiani spariranno da questa terra. Subiamo sofferenze senza nome: siamo vittime di un genocidio. Di un nuovo genocidio, cento anni dopo quello degli armeni. Noi subiamo un genocidio e il mondo resta a guardare. Questa è una vergogna per l’umanità! Dobbiamo parlare con un’unica voce. Dobbiamo invocare pace e fraternità. Abbiamo bisogno di leggi che ci proteggano e che affermino che siamo cittadini come gli altri, che non c’è differenza tra gli uomini».

Al convegno ha partecipato anche Abdel Meneem Fouad, decano della facoltà di Scienze islamiche dell’università di Al-Azhar, la massima autorità del mondo islamico sunnita. Fouad ha denunciato «gli abomini dei gruppi fondamentalisti, che Al-Azhar vuole condannare». Importante anche l’intervento di monsignor George Kourieh, rappresentante del patriarca Ignatius Ephrem II Karim, patriarca siriaco di Antiochia:

«Noi assistiamo a una tragedia umana. Noi dobbiamo rinnovare il nostro impegno e ripartire. Noi dobbiamo costruire ponti di pace e d’amore. La dichiarazione di Parigi deve costituire un nuovo punto di partenza, manifestando una volontà ferma di stabilire la pace».

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Embassy calls against politicizing killing of Armenian woman presumably by Russian serviceman

Interfax – Russia & CIS Diplomatic Panorama
Friday
Embassy calls against politicizing killing of Armenian woman presumably by Russian serviceman

YEREVAN. Dec 14

The Russian embassy to Armenia has called against politicizing the tragic incident in Gyumri that involved a Russian serviceman.

"We have paid attention to the ongoing emotional comments on the tragic incident in Gyumri. Once again we call against politicizing this issue, jumping to conclusions, and hindering the activity of investigative agencies. We also wish to extend our condolences to the family and friends of the victim," the embassy said.

A court in the Shirak district of Armenia arrested a serviceman of the Russian military base in Gyumri on Thursday. A source in the law enforcement authorities told Interfax that the serviceman was being held on the premises of the Russian base.

The serviceman was detained on suspicion of killing a local woman.

The local media said that the killing of a 57-year-old janitor in Gyumri on December 3 was being investigated. The woman was beaten to death.

Հայաստանում է Բելառուսի պաշտպանության նախարարության աշխատանքային խումբը

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Հայաստանի Հանրապետության և Բելառուսի Հանրապետության պաշտպանության նախարարությունների երկկողմ համագործակցության պլանի համաձայն` նոյեմբերի 26-ին Հայաստան է ժամանել ֆինանսների և զինվորական տնտեսության հարցերով Բելառուսի պաշտպանության նախարարի օգնական – Բելառուսի ՊՆ ֆինանսատնտեսական գլխավոր վարչության պետի գլխավորած աշխատանքային խումբը:


Այս մասին հայտնում են ՀՀ ՊՆ տեղեկատվության եւ հասարակայնության հետ կապերի վարչությունից:

Session on Kocharyan’s case to continue tomorrow (video)

Robert Kocharyan’s defenders did not manage to prepare a motion for self-withdrawal, so the court gave them up to 17.45 hours to do so. Shortly before, the defense lawyer Hayk Alumyan told the journalists that they were given extra time, the motion will be submitted tomorrow at 12:00.

According to Kocharyan’s lawyer, the motion for self-withdrawal is conditioned by one fact.

“Tomorrow, when we decide, we will present it in detail,” he said without revealing any fact.

President Sarkissian: Germany’s parliamentary democracy experience is very interesting to Armenia

ARKA, Armenia
Nov 29 2018

YEREVAN, November 29. /ARKA/. Armenian President Armen Sarkissian met with President of the German Bundestag Wolfgang Schaeuble yesterday in Berlin, the press office of the Armenian president reports.  

Sarkissian said that Armenia highly appreciates its cooperation with Germany in various areas and to consistent development of relations between the two countries’ parliaments. 

He said that Germany’s parliamentary democracy experience is very interesting to Armenia, as a country with a very short record of parliamentary rule. 

Pointing out that Armenia is considered now in the world as a country that has made substantial changes by using peaceful means, Sarkissian said that the new objective of the new Armenia is to transform the huge positive energy into positive results. –0—

Nicolas Aznavour: I’m actively learning Armenian

News.am, Armenia
Nov 30 2018
Nicolas Aznavour: I’m actively learning Armenian Nicolas Aznavour: I’m actively learning Armenian

14:28, 30.11.2018
                  

Nicolas Aznavour, one of the sons of the legendary French Armenian artist, the late Charles Aznavour, was in Moscow. And he told the Russian-Armenian Information Agency (Rusarminfo) why he has decided to move to Armenia, and how he feels in his ancestral homeland.

Nicolas, who grew up in Switzerland, has been in Armenia numerous times. But it was this year that he made his final decision to move to the country.

“I love Yerevan, I like it, it’s comfortable there,” Nicolas Aznavour said regarding the capital city of Armenia.

But the main difficulty which he has faced in Armenia is his not knowing the Armenian language.

“Now I’m actively learning Armenian,” he said. “However, the Armenian language is very complicated, but I’m managing to speak [it] little by little. [And] by living in Yerevan, I can accelerate my [Armenian-language] learning.”

“I’m Armenian, and that’s not a subject for discussion,” added Nicolas Aznavour, who has Swedish roots from his mother’s side. “Perhaps, I don’t look like an Armenian in appearance, but there is a saying in French: ‘The clothes you wear don’t make you who you are;’ it truly is so.”

Letter to Editor of the Financial Times: Slaughter of Armenians has been well documented

Financial Times, UK
Nov 30 2018
 
 
LETTER to EDITOR
 
Slaughter of Armenians has been well documented
 
The Turkish ambassador’s denial of the Armenian genocide of 1915 was predictable ( Letters, November 24).
The history of the mass-murder of more than a 1m Ottoman Armenian and Assyrian civilians by their own government has been extremely well documented. The past couple of decades especially have seen a surge of groundbreaking studies by numerous Turkish and western academics that have meticulously unpacked this difficult history, explained its causes and analysed its effects. These include Donald Bloxham’s The Great Game of Genocide, Fatma Muge Gocek’s Denial of Violence and Stefan Ihrig’s Justifying Genocide, to mention just three.
The justification that “all sides suffered during the first world war” flies in the face of this vast established body of scholarship.
Furthermore, the ambassador’s calls for closer relations between Turks and Armenians are disingenuous at best, particularly when uttered at the moment when the state he represents is actively persecuting journalists and academics, and locking up members of civil society such as Osman Kavala, who have been tirelessly striving towards a desirable reconciliation.
Vazken Khatchig Davidian
Doctoral Candidate, School of Arts,
Birkbeck, University of London, UK

Pashinyan sees no need for revolution in Artsakh

Pashinyan sees no need for revolution in Artsakh

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YEREVAN, NOVEMBER 24, ARMENPRESS. Acting Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan is confident that regular elections will take place in Artsakh and the people will form a legitimate authority, Pashinyan said, commenting on the announcement of representative of “Sasna Tsrer” Party Jirair Sefilian, saying that a revolution should take place in Artsakh to “prevent explosion”.

To the question if he sees any need for revolution in Artsakh, Pashinyan said, “I have expressed my full support to the Artsakh authorities and I am confident that the regular elections will take place in Artsakh. The people of Artsakh will form legitimate authorities. The decisive power in Artsakh are the people of Artsakh”, ARMENPRESS reports the acting PM as saying.

Edited and translated by Tigran Sirekanyan




AIWA Names New Executive Director

PRESS RELEASE
    Armenian International Women's Association (AIWA)
    65 Main Street, #3A
    Watertown, MA 02472
    Contact: Barbara Merguerian
    Tel: 617-926-0171
    E-mail: [email protected]
    Web: 
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Rachel Nadjarian Named AIWA Executive Director
Poised to Lead the Organization into the Future


BOSTON– The Armenian International Women’s Association (AIWA) has announced 
that Rachel Onanian Nadjarian has been named Executive Director of the 
non-profit organization, founded in 1991 and devoted to serving the needs of 
Armenian women throughout the world.

Nadjarian, who was elected to the AIWA Board in 2017, will assume the role in a 
full-time capacity, succeeding Jennifer Philips who served part-time as AIWA’s 
first Executive Director from 2016-2018.

“All of us at AIWA recognize how significant this time period is for our 
Diaspora and for Armenia,” stated AIWA President Ani Kharajian. “We see a 
tremendous opportunity for us to make a greater impact in our communities and 
we are confident Rachel has the exact leadership, entrepreneurial capability 
and know-how to make it happen.”

Nadjarian’s hiring comes at a crucial time for the organization, which is 
seeking to reach wider audiences around the world and better meet the needs of 
Armenian women in the 21st century. As both Armenia and the Diaspora continue 
to evolve and progress, AIWA is attuned to the crucial role it plays in 
strengthening attitudes and conversations around gender equality and the 
eradication of discrimination in Armenian communities.

“I am excited to have the opportunity to lead AIWA in regenerating itself. I am 
confident we are ready – across the globe – to work more collaboratively and 
cooperatively in trying to understand the challenges facing Armenian women and 
in working to arrive at potential solutions. AIWA is poised to build upon its 
vision of empowerment and connectivity, and I look forward to driving the 
organization to its next level of impact,” Nadjarian said.

Nadjarian assumes the position of Executive Director with over 25 years of 
experience in serving as a marketing and fundraising consultant for 
non-profits, and playing leadership roles in various non-profit-organizations.  
She holds an MBA from Boston University with Certification in Public and 
Non-Profit Management, and a BA in Economics and Sociology from Wellesley 
College. A native of Boston, Rachel currently resides in Washington, DC with 
her husband and three children.

Additional information regarding AIWA activities and projects to advance the 
interests of Armenian women (and all women) is available by contacting AIWA at 
65 Main St., 3A, Watertown, MA; telephone 617-926-0171; email: 
[email protected].

Armenian Republicans to fail as opposition, just as they failed as ruling party

ARKA, Armenia
Nov 13 2018

YEREVAN, November 13. /ARKA/. The Republican Party of Armenia will fail as opposition, just as it failed as ruling party, Tigran Avinyan, acting deputy prime minister of Armenia, told journalists on Tuesday. 

Commenting on the Armenian Republicans’ statement that their party intends to become a constructive opposition, he said that the party has already shown “its merits” while ruling the country. 

Avinyan said he sees no difference between the Republican Party of Armenia and other political forces. 

He also told journalists that he will race in the early parliamentary elections on the rating system in the second electoral constituency. 

All the members of our team will be race on the rating system as well.  

Avinyan said he sees no any serious rival to the My Step bloc – (its list is topped by Acting Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan). 

In his words, there are various persons in the list and there are many who enjoy respect in the society. 

They are political and public activists as well as specialists in various areas. 

On April 23, Serzh Sargsyan resigned as prime minister after one month and one week in office amid widespread disaffection for him and his party. 

On May 8, Nikol Pashinyan was elected as prime minister. 

However, to dismiss the parliament Nikol Pashinyan had to resign and the parliament had to fail to elect him two times. Pashinyan resigned on October 16. 

The National Assembly failed to elect him two times and after that the parliament was dismissed and the snap parliamentary elections were scheduled for December 9. -0—