Author: nina hovnanian

40TH ANNIVERSARY OF PARUYR SEVAK’S DEATH

06:23 pm | Today | Social

Many people were gathered at the house-park of great Armenian poet
Paruyr Sevak in Zangakatun village where the bells marking the 40th
anniversary of the poet’s death had been ringing since morning.

“Unfortunately, I didn’t have any contact with Sevak, but I have always
felt that I needed him during my career. The chain of heritage was
cut off after his death,” distinguished art figure, doctor-professor
David Gasparyan told “A1+”.

The poet’s tombstone is located in a corner of the big park, and
Paruyr Sevak’s home is located a little further away. The poet’s son
Armen and grandchild Sevak refused to answer questions, but said they
were ready to speak with those who really love Sevak.

Director of Paruyr Sevak’s house-museum Avetik Grigoryan has been
working as the house-museum’s director for the past 30 years. He says
there are always many people on Sevak’s birthday and the day of his
death and every generation comes to fill the gap of the previous one.

Avetik Grigoryan also said the museum is scheduled to undergo a
capital renovation next year.

Before reaching Zangakatun, people paid their tribute near the memorial
placed at the site where the poet’s family got into an accident.

STATE SERVICE: BUYING MEAT FROM STREETS IS DANGEROUS IN YEREVAN

/ARKA/
JUNE 17, 2011
YEREVAN

YEREVAN. June 17. /ARKA/. State Food Security Service (SFSS) of the
Armenian Ministry of Agriculture called the population of Yerevan for
not buying meat in the streets where it is not stored in refrigerators.

“We receive complaints from the citizens that there are cases of
selling meat in the streets. Before getting a permission of regular
check we ask the citizens not to buy meat in the streets”, states
the message.

At the beginning of this month, SFSS announced that the situation
in the open meat passage in one of central streets of Yerevan was
“highly explosive” which brought to the termination of the activities
of some economic entities.

The activity of over 20 booths was temporarily terminated in the
period of May 31 to June 6 due to violations of some sanitary-hygienic
norms in accordance with the law “On retail trade” and a number of
regulations “On the security of food products”. Economic entities
where violations were detected were given seven days for correcting
their gaps and bring the state of the booths to normal condition.

ABRAHAM GIFTS ~@100THOUS. SPORTS EQUIPMENT TO ARMENIAN SCHOOL

PanARMENIAN.Net
June 17, 2011 – 12:30 AMT

PanARMENIAN.Net – Former IBF middleweight champion Arthur Abraham is
now in Armenia not only for recreation but also for some benevolent
purposes.

“I started boxing in the school after Vladimir Yengibaryan and trained
there for four years. I would like to thank my school and coaches and,
together with Adidas company, to gift some the sports equipment at
the amount of ~@100 thousand to the school. The young boxers will
thus have all necessary things for training,” Abraham told a news
conference on June 17.

The Armenian boxer also plans to establish a new boxing school in
Yerevan to train young sportsmen. He noted that the boxers will
study foreign languages in the school, particularly, English and
German. “To get world popularity the boxer should necessarily speak
foreign languages; that is why besides physical and tactical exercise
they must study languages,” he said.

According to Abraham, he is keeping up with the Armenian sport
and supporting Armenian sportsmen. “I always enjoy when Armenians
demonstrate their strength at international tournaments. I am very
glad that the Armenian national football team play well and show
striking results,” the boxer said.

EDOUARD NALBANDIAN : IL SERA IMPOSSIBLE DE PASSER A LA DEUXIEME ETAPE DES NEGOCIATIONS SANS LE CONSENTEMENT DU KARABAKH
Stephane

armenews.com
vendredi 17 juin 2011

“Il sera impossible de passer a la deuxième etape des negociations
sans le consentement du Karabakh sur les principes de base” a declare
le ministre des Affaires etrangères Edouard Nalbandian a declare
lors d’une conference de presse conjointe avec son homologue suedois
Carl Bildt.

“Je suis d’accord avec le President de la Republique du Haut Karabagh
Bako Sahakyan qu’il sera impossible de passer a la deuxième phase de
negociations sans le consentement du Karabakh sur les principes de
base. Le traite de paix va etre travaille dans la deuxième etape,
et la participation du Karabakh a ce stade est une necessite “,
a declare le ministre Nalbandian.

“La pierre angulaire du règlement est le droit du peuple du
Haut-Karabakh d’etre le maître de son destin”, a ajoute le ministre.

Le ministre Nalbandian a rappele que les ministères des Affaires
etrangères d’Armenie et de l’Azerbaïdjan ont fait des declarations
après la reunion a Moscou que les parties ont reussi a rapprocher
leurs positions sur un certain nombre de questions cruciales. “Si
l’elan est maintenu a Kazan, nous serons en mesure d’enregistrer des
progrès”, a declare le ministre Nalbandian.

DEUX HISTORIENS NEGATIONNISTES ENTRENT AU PARLEMENT TURC
Stephane

armenews.com
vendredi 17 juin 2011

Deux historiens luttant contre la reconnaissance du genocide armenien
ont gagne leurs sièges dans e Parlement Turc.

L’un d’entre eux est un candidat du parti AKP Seyit Sertcelik, auteur
d’un livre negationniste sur le genocide. C’est le seul historien
turc qui maîtrise l’armenien.

Un autre historien a fait son entree au Parlement et est celèbre pour
ses positions anti-armeniennes, il s’agit de Yusuf Halacoglu sur la
liste du parti raciste du Mouvement Nationaliste.

Yusuf Halacoglu, ancien chef de la Societe d’Histoire Turque, a
recemment pretendu qu’il a ete renvoye a la demande de l’Armenie et
des Etats-Unis.

Aucun candidat armenien n’avait ete nomme par les partis turcs.

PROTESTATION SILENCIEUSE LORS DU 550AME ANNIVERSAIRE DU PATRIARCAT ARMENIEN D’ISTANBUL
Stephane

armenews.com
vendredi 17 juin 2011

L’Eglise Armenienne et la Communaute Armenienne d’Istanbul a celebre
il y a deux semaines le 550ème anniversaire de l’etablissement du
Patriarcat armenien au cours de laquelle un groupe d’Armeniens a
proteste de facon silencieuse portant des rubans noirs et pourpres
pour affirmer leur opposition a la decision du gouvernement de
nommer un co-patriarche a côte de l’actuel patriarche armenien de
Constantinople, Mesrob Mutafyan, qui est souffrant. ” Nous n’avons
pas voulu gâter la celebration du 550ème donc, nous avons dit a
l’eglise qu’un groupe symbolique de 100 personnes sera present lors
des celebrations pour protester silencieusement et portant des rubans
” a dit Harut Ozer, porte-parole de l’initiative ” Nous voulons elire
notre propre Patriarche ” cite par le quotidien Zaman et qui l’annee
dernière a rassemble près de 6000 signatures pour faire appel au
Premier ministre turc Recep Tayyip Erdogan pour retablir leur droit
d’elire un patriarche.

Harut Ozer a precise que des plaintes contre la decision du Ministère
de l’Interieur et le bureau du gouverneur ont ete deposees parce
qu’ils pensaient que leurs droits de citoyens avaient ete violes.

Rappelant le processus d’election d’un patriarche, il a dit que tandis
que la communaute attendait les elections qui devaient avoir lieu
en mai de l’annee dernière, le Ministère de l’Interieur a invente le
nouveau poste de ” President en exercice ” pour le Patriarcat ; et que
quelques jours plus tard, l’Archeveque Aram Atesyan, chef spirituel
du Patriarcat armenien de Turquie, a fait acte cette position par une
decision du Conseil des Leaders Spirituels du Patriarcat. En decembre,
le Patriarcat a publie une declaration, disant que le gouvernement
turc n’a pas empeche la communaute armenienne d’elire son patriarche.

” Les rumeurs que l’Etat Turc essaye d’interdire aux armeniens d’elire
un patriarche sont sans fondement et fausses. Un nouveau patriarche
sera elu après la mort du Patriarche armenien de Constantinople
Mutafyan, selon les traditions de l’eglise armenienne. Aucun changement
sur la question ne sera discute ” a dit Patriarcat.

Selon Tatyos Bebek ” quelques leaders de la communaute armeniens
embrassent aussi cette position. Cependant, traditionnellement et en
pratique, le Patriarche est a la fois un chef religieux et le chef
de la communaute “. De plus, Harut Ozer a dit que quand il a eu une
reunion avec des fonctionnaires du Ministère de l’Interieur l’annee
dernière ils ont indique qu’il y avait ” une erreur de faite ” dû a
” des informations inadequates ” quant aux circonstances et qu’elle
sera corrigee après l’election du 12 juin.

La protestation silencieuse continuera chaque dimanche dans des
eglises armeniennes et des reunions informatives avec la communaute
armenienne seront organisees.

THE MAJORITY OF IMPORTED SWEETS ARE OVERDUE OR LOW QUALITY

/ARKA/
June 17, 2011
YEREVAN

YEREVAN. June 17. /ARKA/. The majority of confectionery imported to
Armenia are overdue or low quality, said the Chairman of National
Association of Consumers’ Rights Protection Melita Hakobyan in the
press-conference on Friday.

“If we pay attention to expiration dates of local products, they vary
between seven-ten days and the imported sweets – up to half a year.

The more is the expiration date of the product, the lower are natural
ingredients in it which means it is low quality”, she said.

About 80% of the sold confectionary are local products. It evidences
that the consumers believe in better quality of local products. She
didn’t mention any certain facts.

The risk of falsification of expiration dates is also high as currently
they are done on such a level that it is difficult to differ Italian
sweets from false ones.

Speaking about meat and milk products, Hakobyan called the consumers
for giving preference to local products. “Now 96-97% of milk products
and 75-80% of meat products in the Armenian market are of local
production:, she said.

ARMENIAN DELEGATION TAKES PART IN ST. PETERSBURG INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC FORUM

/ARKA/
June 16, 2011
YEREVAN

YEREVAN, June 16. / ARKA /. An Armenian delegation headed by Deputy
Prime Minister and Minister of Territorial Administration Armen
Gevorgyan, will take part Friday in the St. Petersburg International
Economic Forum, the press service of the ministry told ARKA.

The delegation consists of Deputy Economy Minister Ara Petrosyan and
a member of the Central Bank of Armenian Board Armenak Darbinyan. The
Armenian delegation will participate in the plenary session and in
thematic round tables.

The forum, held under the patronage of Russian President Dmitry
Medvedev, has brought together political figures, business
representatives, leading scientists, experts, community leaders from
about 50 countries.

According to the Armenian ministry, the main topics this year
are devoted to ensuring global economic growth, the prospects for
technology development, and building Russia’s creative capital. In
the context of global economic growth discussions will be held on
development prospects in the CIS, ensuring energy and food security
and challenges facing by large cities.

ARMENIA, GEORGIA DISAGREEMENT NOT DUE TO STATUS OF CHURCHES: ETCHMIADZIN

epress.am
06.17.2011 11:12

The Armenian and Georgian parties did not come to an agreement through
negotiations and discussions on signing a communique due to lack of
time and disagreement over the provisions. The provisions put forth
by the Georgian church were unacceptable for the Armenian side,
Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin press spokesperson Vahram Melikyan
told Epress.am on Thursday.

“We again presented our version of the communique, but we were unable
to reach a general agreement. And let me note that the Georgian
version of the communique has appeared on Georgian and Armenian sites,
which for us is impalpable, and we’re trying to find out why that’s
happened,” said Fr. Vahram.

Recall, earlier the Georgian press reported that the work and comparing
positions on the communique is still ongoing. At the same time, a
Patriarchate of Georgia spokesperson denied reports that the Armenian
party refused to sign a communique, the text of which was reportedly
as follows:

“Relations between us are developing more and more and entering a new
phase, which implies equal legal status of the Armenian Apostolic
Church in Georgia and the Georgian Orthodox Church in Armenia, as
well as plans for the reopening of Armenian churches in Georgia and
Georgian churches in Armenia.”

According to Fr. Vahram, the disagreement did not lie in the issue
of the status of the churches, but on the way the provisions in the
communique were formulated, the details of which were not provided
by the Etchmiadzin spokesperson.

TOROSYAN: I AM BANNED TO ENTER GEORGIA BECAUSE I TELL THE TRUTH

Aysor.am
Friday,June 17

Every state has the right to allow or ban someone to enter its
territory. But it’s a pity that the Georgian Ambassador to Armenia did
not substantiate his statement, member of parliament Shirak Torosyan
said making his remarks about the Georgian Ambassador’s statement. The
Ambassador had announced that Shirak Torosyan is banned from entering
Georgia because he is mentally unbalanced and spreads misinformation.

Torosyan noted that it’s already been two years since he was banned
from entering Javakhk, “but the Georgian side has never substantiated
its words and never provided proof of my unbalanced conduct.”

“I have always acted publicly, I always tell the truth, I say what
they do not like to hear,” the parliamentarian said stressing that
he is banned from entering Georgia just because he tells the truth.