ARMENIAN NUCLEAR POWER PLANT TO JOIN ARMENIA’S ENERGY PRODUCTION NETWORK OCTOBER 27
ARMENPRESS
Oct 13, 2009
YEREVAN, OCTOBER 13, ARMENPRESS: Armenian nuclear power plant will join
Armenia’s energy production network October 27. An official from the
Armenian Energy and Natural Resources Ministry told Armenpress that
September 5 prophylactic reconstruction and upgrading works started
in the Armenian nuclear power plant which according to the schedule
will last for 45 days.
ARMENIAN PRESIDENT: NO ISSUES OVER THE RETURN OF TERRITORIES HAVE BEEN DISCUSSED IN THE NEGOTIATING PROCESS WITH ALIYEV
Panorama.am
13:37 12/10/2009
No issues over the return of territories have been discussed in the
negotiating process with Aliyev, Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan
said in Zvartnots Airport in response to Aliyev’s statement following
their meeting in Chisinau.
According to the president, in Chisinau "we discussed only
status-related issues."
Remind that Aliyev had announced very significant issues have been
agreed during the recent 5-6 years.
"First of all, the Armenian forces must withdraw from Nagorno-Karabakh
adjacent territories. I can say this is big progress since for the
recent 4-5 years it went about freeing 4, then 5 regions. However,
due to the steps taken during the negotiating process, I can say,
this is agreed already," Aliyev said.
European Armenian federation deplores protocols with Turkey
03:2012/10/2009
BRUSSELS, October 12 (RIA Novosti) – The European Armenian Federation
for Justice is against the signing of historic accords between Armenia
and Turkey, the chairwoman of the federation said.
Armenian Foreign Minister Edward Nalbanian and his Turkish counterpart
Ahmet Davutoglu signed protocols on diplomatic relations and on
bilateral relations Saturday at Zurich University. The documents are
still to be ratified by parliaments amid continued fierce opposition
from nationalist parties in both countries.
"We support the establishment of relations between Armenia and Turkey,
but we stand against these protocols as they pose a threat to vitally
important interests of Armenia and the Armenian people," Hilda Choboyan
said in a statement.
According to her, such issues as the Turkish genocide of Armenians,
recognition of the borders between Armenia and Turkey as well as the
Nagorny Karabakh conflict were not taken into account during the
signing of the protocols.
"We call on the parliament of Armenia not to ratify the protocols in
their current unjust form," she added.
Turkey demands that Yerevan drop its campaign to have the mass killings
of Armenians by Ottoman Turks in 1915 internationally recognized as
genocide.
Turkey also closed its border with Armenia in 1993 in a show of support
for Muslim ally Azerbaijan, following a bloody conflict over Nagorny
Karabakh between the two republics.
Nagorny Karabakh, a region in Azerbaijan with a largely Armenian
population, has been a source of conflict between the former Soviet
republics since the late 1980s. The province has its own government and
is de facto independent.
Armenia and Turkey agreed to a "roadmap" to normalize their relations
under Swiss mediation this April. The draft pact between the countries
had been backed by the United States and European Union.
BOOK ABOUT ARMENIANS IN TURKEY PUBLISHED IN ANKARA
PanARMENIAN.Net
10.10.2009 13:37 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ A new book released Friday by the Turkish Economic
and Social Studies Foundation (TESEV) focuses on the Armenians of
Turkey and explains various issues, from their historical roots in
Anatolia to the meaning of being an Armenian in Turkey today.
The 600-page "Armenians in Turkey – Congregation, Individual, Citizen"
also explores the depths of Armenians’ relations with the state.
TESEV’s democratization program director, editor-in-chief of Akos
newspaper Etyen Mahcupyan, said the state policy has long been to
ignore the Armenian community in Turkey and that therefore there
is a need to educate the people who do not really know much about
this community.
The book’s four authors, Gunay Goksu Ozdogan, Fusun Ustel, Karin
Karakasli and Ferhat Kentel, said they wanted to go beyond prejudices
against Armenians or overprotecting Armenians. They said that they
aimed at prompting a "rediscovery" process in the Turkish public in
order to better know those who shared mutual values for centuries in
the same land.
Ustel said that in 2000, when they started the book project,
there had been more reactions in the community against Armenians
but that society has been opened up since then with the help of the
democratization process together with Turkey’s accession negotiations
with the European Union.
One perspective that the authors adopted to dissect the Armenian
community in Turkey was to look at how Armenians position themselves
in society as members of a congregation or religious community. The
authors also studied how prejudices against Armenians are fed. In
addition to historical background about Armenians in Anatolia,
the authors also focused on their social lives, including their
associations, marriages, publications and involvement in sports and
the arts.
The researchers conducted in-depth interviews with 40 well-known
members of the Armenian community in Turkey. They also had 12 focus
groups, comprising six to . To understand the religious rituals of
the Armenians, the researchers observed the community in Antakya’s
Vakifli village, Today’s Zaman reported.
ARREST OF ANC ACTIVIST TIGRAN ARAKELYAN REPLACED TO RECOGNIZANCE NOT TO LEAVE
PanARMENIAN.Net
08.10.2009 19:35 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ General Prosecutor’s Office discussed preliminary
investigation of the case of the Armenian National Congress (ANC)
activist Tigran Arakelyan , accused of hooliganism and violence
against a government representative.
General Prosecutor’s Office, taking into account the fact that the
basic investigative measures are completed and the liberty of Tigran
Arakelyan does not preclude the further course of the investigation,
as well as the diagnosis the chief ophthalmologist of RA Ministry of
Health of early sub-atrophy , gave the order to change the preventive
punishment against Tigran Arakelyan and replace the detention to
recognizance not to leave.
ARMENIAN AND AZERBAIJANI PRESIDENTS TO NEGOTIATE ON KARABAKH CONFLICT SETTLEMENT IN KISHINEV
ArmInfo
2009-10-08 10:46:00
ArmInfo. President of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan will take part in
CIS summit in Kishinev on October 8-9, presidential press service
reports. In its turn, RBC reports that S. Sargsyan and President
of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev will meet in Kishinev today to talk on
the Karabakh conflict settlement. The meeting will be held in the
residence of US ambassador in Moldova. As the American Embassy
in Kishinev told RBC, the meeting has been organized by OSCE MG
Cochairmen (Ambassador Yuri Merzliakov (Russia), Ambassador Bernard
Fassier (France); Ambassador Robert Bradtke (USA), as well as Personal
Representative of OSCE Chair-in-Office Ambassador Andrzej Kasprzyk.
According to US Embassy in Moldova, the Armenian and Azerbaijani
presidents will not make any statements upon the results of the meeting
and will not answer the questions. The statements for the press will
be made by Minsk Group cochairmen at the end of the meeting.
IRAN JOINS TRACECA TRANSPORT CORRIDOR
ArmInfo
2009-10-07 12:54:00
ArmInfo. Iran officially joined the transport corridor of TRACECA
(Europe, Asia and Caucasus) in a bid to boost regional cooperation and
get access to its transit goals, ISNA reported. Iran’s Deputy Minister
of Road and Transportation Shahriar Afandizadeh said through Iran’s
joining the TRACECA agreement, the corridor’s path will be expanded
and besides Black Sea path, Bulgaria-Turkey- Iran land way which is
the most appropriate and economical one for Europe’s access to Asia
will join other roads.
The measure surely brings considerable economic, political and
commercial interests for Iran, Afandizadeh said.
Expansion of trade and economic cooperation with regional countries,
arrangement of a fundamental strategy on transit principles for major
markets of production and consumption in Central Asia, Caucasus and
Europe, speeding up international transport between regional countries
and the EU are among Iran’s goals for joining the corridor, he added.
TRACECA corridor was ran in 1998 to expand road, transport and economic
cooperation among neighboring countries of Caspian Sea, Black Sea and
Caucasus and it includes Romania, Moldavia, Bulgaria, Ukraine, Turkey,
Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan,
Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and Iran, he noted.
Membership of Afghanistan and Pakistan is being studied, he said.
ARMENIA AND HUNGARY TO SIGN ANTIMONOPOLY COMPETITION COLLABORATION AGREEMENT
PanARMENIAN.Net
06.10.2009 19:06 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Chairman of RA State Commission for Economic
Competition Protection Ashot Shahnazaryan met Hungarian Competition
Authority President Zoltan Nagy and Hungarian Competition Authority
Secretary General Andrea Belenyi, SCPEC press service reported.
Ashot Shahnazaryan thanked his Hungarian colleague for SCPEC experts
qualification courses, organized jointly with EU.
Zoltan Nagy, in his turn, suggested to expand courses by adding
practical studies both to SCPEC and Hungarian Competition Authority
study program.
The parties noted similar problems in both countries’ antimonopoly
systems, specifically appearance of monopolies after privatization
and availability of financial resources for small enterprises.
Armenia and Hungary agreed to sign antimonopoly competition
collaboration agreement, based on meeting results.
PUBLISHERS FROM CIS AND BALTIAN STATES TO DISCUSS NATIONAL LITERATURE ISSUES IN YEREVAN
PanARMENIAN.Net
06.10.2009 19:41 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ On October 7-10, Yerevan will host the 3rd Congress
of translators and publishers from CIS and Baltian states. Discussion
to be held in Moscow house will focus on "The practice and market for
translation work: mechanisms of interrelation of national literatures".
Event will be held under the aegis of RA Culture Ministry, in
cooperation with CIS Interstate Fund for Humanitarian Cooperation
and Armenian NGO on Cultural Cooperation with Foreign States.
On October 7, Moscow house will also host an international book
exhibition to represent publishing houses and periodicals operating
in CIS and Baltian states.
HAKOB VARDEVANYAN: WE NEVER DISSEMINATE DISINFORMATION UNLIKE ARFD
PanARMENIAN.Net
05.10.2009 18:50 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Unlike ARFD, we never disseminate disinformation,
Armenakan-Ramkavar Azatakan member Hakob Vardevanyan told today a news
conference in Yerevan. ARFD’s recent reports on their protests being
attended by 1000 Diaspora representatives are untrue. "I have precise
data that there were no more than 80 people participating in protest,"
Vardevanyan said. "Our party’s press is the most objective," he added,
"We never exaggerate the number of people attending our protests".