Armenia News Bulletin 05-26-11

IN THIS ISSUE

1. President Serzh Sargsyan sent a proposal to the National Assembly to declare general amnesty
2. ANCA: U.S. Legislators Urge Foreign Aid Panel to Increase Aid to Armenia and Nagorno Karabakh
3. Presidents of Azerbaijan, Armenia and Russia to meet in June
4. New Times party getting ready for parliamentary elections
5. President of Poland plans to visit Armenia in late July
6. Amnesty offer of President to be discussed Wednesday
7. Bako Sahakyan: Azerbaijan presents itself in front of international community as unconstructive extremist unit
8. Prosperous Armenia party to participate in 2012 parliamentary elections separately
9. Sharmazanov says statements of Bordyuzha and Clinton blows to the Azerbaijani side
10. Davit Harutyunyan: New Electoral Code to bring the elections on new level
11. Parliament approves the amended Electoral Code
12. NA discusses amnesty offer of the President
13. Tigran Sargsyan meets outgoing US Ambassador
14. Bako Sahakyan met chairman of the Armenian Central Bank Arthur Javadyan
15. Serzh Sargsyan visits Zvartnots airport
16. Arman Yeghiazaryan: Number of repatriates to increase after adoption of law on Repatriation
17. Harut Sassounian: Council of Europe not Deceived By Erdogan’s Double-Talk By Harut Sassounian, Publisher, The California Courier
18. Bako Sahakyan receives a group of cultural workers and actors from the Republic of Armenia
19. Exhibition in the National Assembly
20. The Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandyan participated in the honoring evening of Charles Aznavour in New York
21. Armenian Church to soon have legal status in Georgia
22. Bako Sahakyan received a group of participants of the “Legal, political and historical bases of the NKR’s formation” international conference
23. Six thousand apartments built in Armenia for refugees
24. Narek Sargsyan – new chief architect of Yerevan
25. Preparation works for conduction of population census are underway
26. President Serzh Sargsyan received Vic Darchinian

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Announcing the I LIKE CAMP NUBAR Contest, Deadline Fri May 27

You can visit the AGBU Camp Nubar page on Facebook to take part!

Armenia News Bulletin 05-17-11

IN THIS ISSUE

1. Educational system is the main prerequisite of the scientific economy
2. Germany will go on with the steps to develop the relations with Armenia
3. Raczynski says no expediency in finding new format of talks over NK conflict settlement
4. Patricia Flor: The Azerbaijani president’s warlike statements are unacceptable
5. Patricia Flor: Turkey should face its own history
6. Kiro Manoyan: Armenian-Turkish negotiations enter deadlock because of Turkey
7. Serzh Sargsyan says reconciliation with Turkey is possible in case it recognizes the Armenian Genocide
8. Serzh Sargsyan: It is naïve to think that the people of Karabakh can refuse what they achieved
9. Tondo Renco is ready to contribute to the deepening of the Armenian-Italian Relations
10. Frank Pallone calls support expanded U.S. aid to Armenia and Nagorno Karabakh
11. Hranush Hakobyan received the delegation headed by the Councilor of RA Minister of Diaspora of the Armenian community in Lebanon Maro Nersisyan
12. Armenian pavilion at Art by Genève Art Fair
13. Armenia to participate in environmental film festival in Spain
14. Museum Night will be conducted May 14
15. Samvel Karapetyan: Azerbaijan eliminates Armenian monuments through a state program
16. UN Office in Armenia marks World Day for Cultural Diversity
17. The Cafesjian Center for the Arts will be celebrating Museum Night
18. Azerbaijan winner of Eurovision 2011
19. Ruben Hayrapetyan and Max Sivaslyan were awarded with “The Gratitude” medal
20. The “Park Hotel Artsakh” hotel complex opened in Stepanakert
21. Aram Simonyan forwards his candidacy in elections of rector of YSU
22. Aram Simonyan says interest among Armenian students toward Europe increases
23. The statue of Alexander Mantashyan will be placed in Abovyan street
24. US court orders Turkish Government to reply to the sue of heirs of victims of the Armenian genocide within 21 days
25. Criminal case over violations in pensions sphere
26. Apartment issues of refugees under the spotlight of the government

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AGBU-Funded Fifth Republican Interschool Chess Olympiad Finals (video)

The finals of the fifth Republican Interschool Chess Olympiad took place in Armenia’s Tavush region in May 2011. Click here to read earlier coverage of tournament on AGBU.org. (Video courtesy of Armenia 1 TV)

Paris Screens “Le Fils du Marchand d’Olives” Documentary

On April 2, Paris’s AGBU Youth presented the film “Le Fils du Marchand d’Olives” (The Son of the Olive Merchant) in honor of the 96th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide at the Alex Manoogian Cultural Center in Paris.

The presentation was followed by a discussion with Mathieu and Anna Zeitindjioglu, the film’s director and his wife.

The film tells the story of Mathieu and Anna and their honeymoon in Turkey, where they travel to inquire about Garabed, Mathieu’s Armenian grandfather who had escaped the 1915 Armenian Genocide. The historical documentary is the record of a road trip through the country, marked by meetings with people, vignettes of animation, and other moments of investigation, to help illustrate a Turkish vision of the 1915 tragedy.

To view the pre-event release (in French), click here.

Raymond Kevorkian Concludes Successful North American Book Tour in NYC

Kevorkian addresses the audience at the AGBU Central Office in midtown Manhattan.

Over 60 people attended the Friday, May 13, book reading featuring Raymond Kevorkian and his newly translated book, The Armenian Genocide: The Complete History.  The Armenian-language lecture featured English summary translations by Ararat Magazine editor Aris Sevag.

The event, which was organized by Ararat Magazine, marked the last stop of the author’s North American tour that started in Toronto and continued through Montreal, the Bay Area, Los Angeles, and Detroit, until concluding in New York. In addition to being a well-respected French-Armenian historian and lecturer at the Institute Français de Géopolitique, University of Paris, Kevorkian is also the director of the AGBU Nubarian Library in Paris.

AGBU Camp Nubar Set to Welcome Dance and Craft Instructors from Armenia

Ballet master Arman Julhakyan working with young Armenian dancers. He will be bringing his love of Armenian dance to Camp Nubar this summer.

AGBU Camp Nubar is pleased to announce that this summer the camp will be welcoming two new instructors from Armenia for approximately three weeks of classes in traditional Armenian dance, arts, crafts, and pottery.

From July 16 to August 6, ballet master Arman Julhakyan and art instructor Ella Pepanyan, both of the AGBU Children’s Centers in Armenia, will conduct classes for the hundreds of youth that attend the camp each summer. Julhakyan and Pepanyan will be adding a new dimension to the experience of Nubar campers, who already enjoy the highest quality of activities at any Armenian summer camp.

Read the entire press release on AGBU.org

Art instructor Ella Pepanyan instructs a young artisan in the art of traditional Armenian pottery.

Armenia News Bulletin 05-11-11

IN THIS ISSUE

1. AGBU inaugurates cultural center in Larnaca
2. President of the Artsakh Republic Bako Sahakyan received chairman of the Republic of Armenia’s Control Chamber Ishkhan Zakaryan
3. President of OSCE PA: There is no alternative to the peaceful settlement of the Karabakh issue
4. Edward Nalbandyan: International community should properly respond to Azerbaijan’s threats of use of force and provocations
5. Youth Parliament to operate from late May
6. Wilfried Martens: Process of normalization of Armenian-Turkish relations hampered because of Turkey
7. “The events of March 1 were not beneficial to both the present and the previous government” says RA second president
8. U.S. Government will provide $ 27 million assistance to Armenia this year
9. FOX-TV Airs Two Interviews On the Armenian Genocide By Harut Sassounian, Publisher, The California Courier
10. Hayastan All-Armenian Fund has provided furniture and playground items to the Vanadzor kindergarten N30
11. Asbarez: French Senate Rejects Bill Criminalizing Genocide Denial
12. Diaspora Ministry declares 2011 year of youth
13. RA Minister of Diaspora met the representatives of the Armenian community in Istanbul
14. Sarkozy Joins Obama in Deceit: Neither should be reelected in 2012 By Harut Sassounian, Publisher, The California Courier
15. VivaCell-MTS is the General Sponsor of the Comics Festival
16. A literary-creative competition headed under the title “I am your son, Armenia” is organized
17. “The Arts Gallery” Cultural Fund represents the “National Gallery” 7th International Music Festival
18. “SCR” sponsors “Renaissance” contest-festival
19. The President of Lithuania visits the Cafesjian Center for Arts
20. Armenia took part in the annual Book Festival organized by LA Times paper for the first time
21. Construction of the house-museum of Charles Aznavour completed
22. Armenia Partakes in 8th Thessaloniki International Book Fair
23. Gagik Ginosyan: The victory of “Karin” dance group is the victory of the Armenian dance
24. Armenia fails to enter final of the Eurovision 2011 song contest
25. The sitting of trustees of the Armenian youth foundation took place
26. Alaverdi Medical Clinic Opening
27. Those who were born in Western Armenia and Ottoman Turkey till 1915 and survived the Armenian Genocide, will be given a financial assistance monthly
28. Ruzanna Hakobyan was elected a rector in Gavar State University
29. Bako Sahakyan and Serzh Sargsyan visited Stepanakert airport complex
30. Park Hotel Artsakh hotel complex opens in Stepanakert

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AGBU Armenian Representation’s Karabakh Projects Coordinator in Australia

AGBU Karabkh project coordinator Sassoun Baghdassarian speaking to local Australian Armenians during the February 25 event at the AGBU Sydney center.

Sassoun Baghdassarian, Karabakh projects coordinator of the AGBU Armenian Representation, paid a visit to Australia from February 9 to March 3, 2011 to meet with local Armenians and explain the extensive work being done by AGBU in the mountainous republic of Karabakh.

On February 12, Baghdassarian met with AGBU Sydney Chairman Toros Boghosian, and they discussed the current projects of the Union in Australia, Armenia and Karabakh and possible prospects for future cooperation.

On February 22, Baghdassarian was hosted at SBS, one of the leading radio stations of Sydney, to speak about AGBU’s activities and answer questions from the Australian-Armenian community.

On February 25, AGBU Sydney members and youth structures hosted the Karabakh projects coordinator at AGBU Alex Manoogian Cultural Center. During the presentation, the Karabakh-based Baghdassarian emphasized AGBU’s education and youth programs including the Yerevan summer internship program, the Discover Armenia youth trip, the Antranik scout camp in Armenia, the activities of the Young Professionals of Yerevan, and the Armenian Virtual College. At the conclusion of the event, he also answered many questions from the audience regarding the AGBU’s programs and the current situation in Karabakh.

To listen to the radio interview (in Armenian) please click here to visit the SBS website.

Over 100 Attend Raymond Kevorkian’s Inaugural Stop on his North American Book Tour

Raymond Kevorkian speaking in Toronto

On Tuesday, May 3, French-Armenian historian Raymond Kevorkian began his North American book tour in the city of Toronto for his newly translated The Armenian Genocide: A Complete History.

Over a hundred people attended the event at the AGBU Toronto center, to hear Kevorkian, who is the director of the AGBU Nubarian Library in Paris and a lecturer at the Institute Français de Géopolitique, University of Paris, discuss his seminal study.