Author: Vorskanian Yeghisabet

SHAKESPEARE’S 446TH ANNIVERSARY TO BE HELD IN BRUSOV UNIVERSITY

Aysor
April 21 2010
Armenia

Yerevan State Linguistic University after V. Brusov will celebrate
the 446th anniversary of Shakespeare on April 23. The students of
the 13th group of the 2nd course of foreign languages will present
the play of Shakespeare "King Lear".

As the press service of the University informs the event is
organized by Ani Martirosyan who is professor and aspirant of English
Communication Faculty. The performance is in Shakespeare’s language.

It is the 2nd year already that Yerevan State Linguistic University
after V. Brusov celebrates Shakespeare’s anniversary. Last year Ani
Martirosyan together with the freshmen presented "Romeo and Juliet".

She assures that the Shakespeare’s English in not only easy to overcome
but it also allows the students to feel the language closer.

The performance will take place in the big hall of the university
at 13:30.

AZERBAIJANI PARLIAMENT EXPRESSES DISCONTENT WITH U.S. POLICY ON NAGORNO-KARABAKH PROBLEM

Today
6483.html
April 21 2010
Azerbaijan

A number of MPs from Azerbaijan’s ruling party believe that protest
should be expressed towards the policy U.S pursued in recent years
on the Armenian-Azerbaijani Nagorno-Karabakh conflict settlement.

"The current position of the U.S., as a co-chair country [the
OSCE Minsk Group], which undertook the mission to resolve the
Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, does not correspond to the spirit of
relations between this country and Azerbaijan," ruling New Azerbaijan
Party (NAP) Deputy Chairman and Executive Secretary Ali Ahmedov
said today.

According to him, the U.S, as a co-chair country of the OSCE Minsk
Group, provides economic support to Armenia to the detriment of
Azerbaijan’s interests.

"This doesn’t correspond to the U.S. mission, which positions itself
as herald of democracy in the world," Ahmedov said.

According to him, Azerbaijani Parliament should take a serious position
on this issue. "The Azerbaijani public, in particular the political
parties should express open protest to the U.S. policy," he said.

According to the Deputy Executive Secretary of the ruling New
Azerbaijan Party Siyavush Novruzov, biased attitude of some states
towards the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, is entirely directed against
Azerbaijan. And some forces inside the country support such a policy
of these states, he said.

"Considering all this, it is necessary to express a strong protest
against the processes that run counter to Azerbaijan’s interests,"
Novruzov said.

IRAN PROPOSES TO MEDIATE ON KARABAKH SETTLEMENT

Yerkir
19.04.2010 15:29
Yerevan

Yerevan (Yerkir) – Tehran proposes to hold a trilateral meeting of
foreign ministers of Armenia, Azerbaijan and Iran, Iranian Foreign
Minister Manoucher Mottaki has said.

Iran voiced an initiative to mediate between Armenia and Azerbaijan
on the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. It intends to hold a trilateral
meeting of foreign ministers in Tehran, Mottaki told media at a
press conference.

He said that Azerbaijan has already given its consent. Tehran is
awaiting a response from Armenia now.

Iran will make every effort to resolve the conflict, Mottaki said.

"The Karabakh conflict can be resolved through negotiations and on
the basis of the principle of justice," he added.

DECISION ON PACE SESSION POSTPONEMENT NOT ADOPTED YET

PanARMENIAN.Net
April 20, 2010 – 15:21 AMT 10:21 GMT

Member of the Armenian delegation to PACE Naira Zohrabyan said that
the PACE Secretariat has not made a decision on postponement of the
spring session yet.

Suggestion on the session’s postponement was submitted to a PACE
commission with respect to a volcanic eruption in Iceland.

"At this point, one thing is clear – the session is scheduled for
April 26-30. Decision with respect to it will be adopted tonight,"
Naira Zohrabyan told PanARMENIAN.Net

Head of the Azerbaijani delegation to PACE Samed Seidov stated that
most likely the PACE spring session will not open. "There are few
chances that it will take place," APA quoted Seidov as saying.

MORE SUPPORTERS OF ARMENIAN GENOCIDE RECOGNITION IN U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES AND SENATE

ARMENPRESS
APRIL 19, 2010
YEREVAN

The number of supporters of the Armenian Genocide recognition in the
U.S. House of Representatives and the Senate is increasing. Armenian
National Committee of America (ANCA) Communications Director Elizabeth
Chouldjian told Armenpress that more than 140 congressmen support the
252 resolution on the Armenian Genocide recognition, and that the
number of supporters of the Senate 316 resolution is 16. She said
that increasing of the number of the Armenian Genocide recognition
supporters is a continuous process. On April 24, the anniversary of the
Armenian Genocide, the issue of the Armenian Genocide is usually kept
in focus of the congressmen and senators, so the number of supporters
is expected to increase in that period. As the bill on the Armenian
Genocide recognition was passed in U.S. House of Representatives
Committee on Foreign Affairs, more congressmen and senators became
interested in the issue, Mrs. Chouldjian said. Elizabeth Chouldjian
also mentioned that the fact the resolution has more than 140
supporters in the House of Representatives proves that the resolution
is one of the most supported ones. ‘ANCA does its best to negotiate
with Nancy Pelosi, speaker of the House of Representatives, over making
the issue an agenda item. The resolution must be brought to a vote
and passed, so that Turkey stops the policy of denying the truth,’
Mrs. Chouldjian said. As to the expectations from Obama’s April 24
address, ANCA Communications Director said that even after being
elected as the US President, Obama said that his position about the
issue remains the same. ‘But yet the address expresses not Obama’s,
but the country’s position. The President should undertake proper
measures and recognize the Armenian Genocide, otherwise the Armenian
community will be frustrated,’ she added. Commemorative ceremonies on
the 95th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide have already started
in Washington, D.C. The first one is intended to be held April 21
in the US Capitol Hill. The Armenian youth is expected to take the
initiative of organizing one-day-long protest rally April 23 in front
of the White House ‘claiming that Obama is to honor his promises’. A
protest rally entitled ‘We will always remember’ will be organized
April 24 in front of the Turkish Embassy to the US.

SOUTH-EAST EUROPEAN MEDIA ORGANIZATION CONDEMNS THE ARREST OF ERNEST VARDANYAN

Tert.am
19.04.10

South-East European Media Organization has strongly condemned the
"baseless arrest" of the Armenian national journalist Ernest Vardanyan
in Transdniestria – the breakaway region of Moldova – for his articles
in which he was critical of state officials and their ignorance of
the public interests.

Vardanyan was arrested near his home in Tiraspol on April 7 allegedly
by the Transdniestrian state secrete services. He is accused of high
treason and according to Article 271 of the Transdniestrian Criminal
Code he can face 12-20 years in prison.

Press Trust of India
April 18 2010

Armenian descendants reduced to just 200

STAFF WRITER 12:32 HRS IST
Amitava Das

Kolkata, Apr 18 (PTI) From a once robust 40,000 at the time of
Independence, the number of Armenian descendants in India has
nosedived to barely 200 now, most of them having migrated to the west.

The majority of them now live in Kolkata, Mumbai, New Delhi and
Bangalore, the manager and pastor of Armenians in India, Father Khoren
Hovhannisyan, told PTI.

Kolkata, which once had the largest concentration of the community,
now hosts only 152 of them, which indicates the rapid dilution of the
city’s once-famous cosmopolitan profile.

They had once been an important constituent of the city’s business
community, mainly present in the manufacturing sector. Now they have
joined the tribe of professionals in a great way.

The present generation of Armenians in India practises mixed marriages
and are very tenuously linked to Armenia, their motherland,
Hovhannisyan said.

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Events dedicated to Armenian Genocide 95th anniversary launched in Crimea

April 17, 2010 – 10:48 AMT 05:48 GMT
PanARMENIAN.Net –

Events dedicated to the 95th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide were
launched in Crimea.

On April 18 a round table discussion is scheduled. On April 23, the
Armenian community of Crimea will hold Light a Candle action. On April
24, a march will be organized along the central streets of Simferopol.
A service in commemoration for the Genocide victims will be offered at
St. Hakob Church, Analitika.at.ua reported.

Assa-Irada, Azerbaijan
April 15 2010

SCHWARZENEGGER ORDERS TO MOURN ARMENIAN GENOCIDE VICTIMS REPORTS

California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has announced April 19-26 as
a week of commemorating the victims of the alleged genocide of
Armenians, a claim on the World War I-era mass killings in the Ottoman
Empire, Armenian reports say. Schwarzenegger said in a statement that
the horrors of the past should be recalled to prevent a repetition of
history. The Armenian genocide is a terrible violation of human rights
and an event that insulted the world, the statement claimed. 1.5
innocent Armenians lost their lives in 1915-1923, having succumbed to
mass killings in the Ottoman Empire, and 500,000 others were forced to
leave their homeland. Historians note that during the developments,
Armenians had begun an uprising. They took up arms against Turkey and
assisted Russia, one of Turkeys enemies in WWI. To counter these
actions, the Ottoman Empire decided to resettle the Armenians. The
latter claim that their predecessors were subjected to genocide in the
process, while Ankara rejects the allegations and has offered to
research the events through a joint commission of historians.

TURKEY’S PM SAYS OPENING ARMENIA BORDER DEPENDS ON KARABAKH SOLUTION

April 15 2010
Turkey

Erdogan said a border crossing between Turkey and Armenia would
remain closed unless a settlement was reached in the conflict over
the Karabakh region.

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Wednesday said a border
crossing between Turkey and Armenia would remain closed unless a
settlement was reached in the conflict over the Karabakh region.

"Occupation of Azerbaijan’s territory is the reason why our border
(with Armenia) was closed down in 1993. Now we want that to be fixed
and we are ready to take the step as soon as that happens," Erdogan
told reporters upon his arrival in Turkey from the United States
where he participated in a nuclear security summit meeting.

Erdogan said Turkey stood behind commitments it had made in protocols
with Armenia signed in October 2009 in Switzerland.

"We respect the principle of ‘pacta sund servanda’ and we are loyal
to what we have signed in Zurich. But no one has the right to impose
one’s own memories on Turkey as Turkey has never tried do to such a
thing," Erdogan said.

"Human tragedies"

Replying to a question about Iran’s nuclear program, Erdogan said,
"a different version of the Nuclear Security Summit in the USA on
April 12-13 will be held in Iran on April 16-17. Officials from Turkey
will be in attendance at the meeting. On numerous occasions, we have
stressed that a democratic and diplomatic solution is the only way
since anti-democratic attempts have always led to human tragedies. On
the other hand, Turkey is the only country among member states of the
United Nations Security Council having border with Iran. There have
been friendly relations between Turkey and Iran since the Treaty of
Zohab in 1639. Our border is about 380 km. Our trade volume exceeded
10 billion USD. Iran is our second biggest supplier of natural gas
behind Russia. We cannot leave aside all those relations. Our friends
should also asses it."

"No demand"

When asked whether Kurmanbek Bakiev, ousted leader of Kyrgyzstan,
sought asylum from Turkey, Prime Minister Erdogan said, "such a demand
has not been made. Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu held a series of
telephone conversations with the U.S. officials about the developments
Kyrgyzstan. We are ready to contribute all efforts to find a solution."

Prime Minister Erdogan also expressed his profound sorrow over loss
of lives in the quake in China.