Author: Toganian Liana

LILIT MKRTCHYAN JOINS TOP-20 WOMEN CHESS PLAYERS

Aysor
Nov 2 2009
Armenia

Neither member of Armenian women’s chess team ranked in the list of
top-10 players that are rated by FIDE by November. Lilit Lazarian
has reached the best result: she seeded 16 on 2492 points. The team’s
leader Elina Danielyan is number 18 on 2487 points. Lilit Galoyan
with her quite successful playing at 2366 points is number 94.

Polgar Judit from Hungary is number one followed by Koneru Humpy from
India and Hou Yifan from China.

The Washington Post
November 1, 2009 Sunday
Bulldog Edition

HISTORY
Children of Armenia
A Forgotten Genocide and the Century-Long Struggle for Justice
By Michael Bobelian
Simon & Schuster. 308 pp. $26

Like Native Americans, European Jews and Rwandan Tutsis, Turkish
Armenians seem to have been in the wrong place at the wrong time.
"Children of Armenia," Michael Bobelian’s first book, describes the
Ottoman Empire’s 1915 mass extermination of this Christian minority
without getting bogged down in "G-word" histrionics. "The purpose of
this book is neither to prove the existence nor affirm the veracity of
the Genocide," Bobelian writes: The Armenian holocaust is a historical
fact.

"Children of Armenia" focuses on the Turkish nationalism, world war
weariness, survivor psychology and Cold War squabbling that let the
world forget the unforgettable. Some will flinch at Bobelian’s
lionization of Gourgen Yanikian, an Armenian who shot two Turks in a
revenge plot hatched in the 1970s, but the author stumbles only when
he strays into Armenian exceptionalism, the idea that "no other people
have suffered such a warped fate — a trivialization of their
suffering and a prolonged assault on the authenticity of their
experience." Bobelian should know that if every culture insists on the
supremacy of its own suffering, the world will only grow more jaded
about stopping current horrors. Instead, any book about Armenia — no,
any exploration of any genocide — should pose questions relevant to
today’s ethnic cleansings. Otherwise, who will remember the Sudanese?

— Justin Moyer [email protected]

Today, Azerbaijan
Oct 31 2009

Belarus embassy in Azerbaijan: Reports in Armenian media distorted

31 October 2009 [13:55] – Today.Az

Belarus’ embassy in Azerbaijan is confident that the statements made
by Belarus Foreign Minister Sergei Martinov in Armenia have been
distorted, the embassy’s press office said.

`We attentively read the reports posted on Armenian media and are
confident that this is nothing but an attempt to manipulate our
minister’s comments.’

The embassy says these attempts are groundless.

`If one reads the minister’s statements attentively, it is clear that
he underlines importance of solving the conflict by compromise and on
mutually acceptable basis. The minister’s misinterpreted words on the
Armenian websites are false information,’ the embassy said.

Armenian media reported earlier that Belarus Foreign Minister Sergei
Martinov said at the meeting with the students of Yerevan State
University that Belarus does not consider Armenia an aggressor state.

/APA/

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HOVIK ABRAHAMYAN: "DELAY OF THE PROTOCOLS’ RATIFICATION BY TURKEY WILL DESERVE ADEQUATE ATTITUDE OF THE ARMENIAN SIDE"

National Assembly
Oct 29 2009
Armenia

On October 28, RA President of the National Assembly Mr. Hovik
Abrahamyan received Mr. Peter Semneby, EU Special Representative for
the South Caucasus.

The sides focused on normalization of the Armenian-Turkish relations
without preconditions during the meeting.

Mr. Abrahamyan reaffirmed the position of the Armenian side in
that issue and stressed that the delay of the ratification of the
protocols, which were signed on October 10, by Turkey would deserve
adequate attitude of the Armenian side. In that context, he underscored
that with those protocols Armenia had not undertaken any unilateral
responsibility and had taken that step to create necessary bases for
the establishment of natural relations between the two countries. RA
NA President informed EU special representative that if Turkey did
not ratify those protocols in reasonable period then the Armenian
side would immediately take adequate steps.

NO SECRET BETWEEN TURKEY & ARMENIA: TURKISH PM

Trend
Oct 27 2009
Azerbaijan

Turkey and Armenia are not taking actions behind the closed doors,"
the Turkish Prime Minister Receb Tayyib Erdogan said in an interview
to Al-Jazeera television channel. Erdogan was commenting on the
Turkey-Armenia relations, the Turkish Anadolu news agency reported
with reference to Al-Jazeera.

Turkey and Armenia do not take any action behind the closed doors,
Erdogan said.

Turkish and Armenian foreign ministers Ahmet Davutoglu and Edward
Nalbandian signed the protocols Ankara-Yerevan in Zurich on October 10.

Diplomatic relations between Armenia and Turkey have been broken due
to Armenia’s claims of an alleged genocide, and its occupation of
Azerbaijani lands. The border between them has been broken since 1993.

The conflict between the two South Caucasus countries began in 1988
when Armenia made territorial claims against Azerbaijan. Azerbaijan
lost all of Nagorno-Karabakh except for Shusha and Khojali in December
1991. In 1992-93, Armenian armed forces occupied Shusha, Khojali and 7
districts surrounding Nagorno-Karabakh. Azerbaijan and Armenia signed
a ceasefire in 1994. The co-chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group – Russia,
France, and the U.S. – are currently holding the peace negotiations.

The prime minister reiterated his loyalty to promises he sounded at
the Azerbaijani parliament.

GEORGIAN BALLET ENSEMBLE AFTER SUKHISHVILI TO PERFORM IN YEREVAN

PanARMENIAN.Net
26.10.2009 19:16 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Georgian National Ballet Ensemble after Iliko
Sukhishvili will perform November 8 in Yerevan after a long break.

The concert will be held November 8 at the National Academic Opera
and Ballet theatre after Alexander Spendiaryan.

The program of the group has not yet disclosed, but it is known they
have prepared an Armenian dance, ensemble manager Ensemble Katia
Ekizashvili told a PanARMENIAN.Net reporter.

HEAD OF BURSA POLICE DISMISSED FOR DISRESPECTFUL ATTITUDE TO AZERBAIJANI FLAG

ArmInfo
2009-10-26 13:58:00

ArmIfo. Mayor of Bursa Shahabeddin Garpurt gave a press-conference
during which he commented on the results of investigation ‘on
offence of the Azerbaijani flags during Turkey-Armenia football
match’. As Bakililar.AZ reports, Garpurt said that Head of the Police
was dismissed and two policemen, who threw the Azerbaijani flags
into the trash-cans, were reprimanded. According to the mayor, the
video-materials of the Turkish TV channels, newspapers and electron
media, demonstrating how the Azerbaijani flags were thrown into the
trash-cans, were studied. Garpurt said the scenes were shot by the
policemen. Currently, the video-materials have been sent to Turkey’s
Prosecutor’s Office. The fact is being investigated by the republican
Prosecutor’s Office.

To recall, the incidents with flags are related to October 14 football
match between the Armenian and Azerbaijani national teams. The Turkish
party, under FIFA pressure, banned the presence of the Azerbaijani
flags at the stadium, in response to which the furious and the Police
started to throw the Azerbaijani flags into the trash-can. Then,
they in Azerbaijan started to tear the Turkish flags off. Currently,
both parties start revealing the guilty of non-respect to the national
symbolic.

ARMENIAN AND AZERBAIJANI FOREIGN MINISTERS TO MEET OSCE MG COCHAIRMEN IN LUXEMBOURG

ArmInfo
2009-10-24 13:04:00

ArmInfo. Foreign Ministers of Armenia and Azerbaijan, as well as OSCE
MG Cochairmen Yuri Merzliakov (Russia), Bernard Fassier (France) and
Robert Bradtke (USA) will meet in Luxembourg.

As OSCE Headquarters in Vienna told ArmInfo, OSCE MG cochairmen will
address plans for their next trip to Baku and Yerevan in November and
preparation for discussion of the Nagorno-Karabakh settlement at the
OSCE Ministerial Council in December 2009.

ARMENIA RAISED THE ISSUE OF BAKU’S TCAFE VIOLATION IN UNO

PanARMENIAN.Net
23.10.2009 18:48 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ UNO General Assembly for disarmament and
international security issues held a sitting attended by Armenian
and Azeri representatives. Armenia’s UNO permanent representative,
Ambassador Karen Nazaryan emphasized the importance of disarmament
treaties concluded within international and regional organizations’
frameworks.

RA Ambassador raised the issue of Baku’s violation of Treaty on
Conventional Armed Forced in Europe, noting that according to UNO
and OSCE official information, Azerbaijan continues armament buildup,
exceeding maximal TCAFE- stipulated level.

Armenia’s UNO permanent representative added that Azeri governments’
obvious violations, as well as anti-Armenian statements pose a threat
to regional security and could have a negative impact on NKR conflict
settlement.

Azeri representative’s statement contained reiterated notes on "20%
Azeri territories’ occupations" and "weapons, concealed in Karabakh",
RA MFA press service reported.

BEST SELLING, AWARD WINNING AUTHOR TO DICUSS NEW BOOK ON ARMENIAN GENOCIDE AT RAMAPO COLLEGE

Targeted News Service
October 21, 2009 Wednesday 5:55 AM EST
MAHWAH

Ramapo College issued the following news release:

Peter Balakian, an award-winning author and Bergen County native,
will speak at Ramapo College of New Jersey in November.

Balakian will discuss his new book, "Armenian Golgotha." Recently
published by Alfred A. Knopf, it is the translation, on which Balakian
collaborated with Aris Sevag, of his great-uncle Rev. Grigoris
Balakian’s first-person account of the Armenian Genocide.

Balakian was born in Teaneck and grew up there and in Tenafly. He
attended Tenafly public schools and graduated from Englewood School
for Boys (now Dwight-Englewood School) before earning his bachelor’s
from Bucknell University, a master’s from New York University,
and a doctorate from Brown University in American Civilization. He
has taught at Colgate University since 1980 where he is currently
Donald M. and Constance H. Rebar Professor of the Humanities in the
department of English, and director of creative writing. He was the
first director of Colgate’s Center For Ethics and World Societies.

The writer of five books of poems, most recently "June-tree: New
and Selected Poems 1974-2000," Balakian is the author of the memoir
"Black Dog of Fate," winner of the PEN/Albrand Prize for memoir and
a New York Times Notable Book, and "The Burning Tigris: The Armenian
Genocide and America’s Response," winner of the 2005 Raphael Lemkin
Prize and a New York Times Notable Book and New York Times and national
best seller. He is also the author of "Theodore Roethke’s Far Fields"
(LSU, 1989).

He is co-founder and co-editor with the poet Bruce Smith of the poetry
magazine Graham House Review, which was published from 1976-1996,
and is the co-translator (with Nevart Yaghlian) of the book of poems
"Bloody News From My Friend" by the Armenian poet Siamanto.

Balakian will speak on Thursday, Nov. 12 at 7:30 p.m. in Friends Hall
(SC219) of the Robert A. Scott Student Center. The presentation is
free and open to the public. For more information or to reserve a seat,
please call 201.684.7409.