Armenian News
Armenian Diaspora Minister Named
By Emil Danielyan
President Serzh Sarkisian on Friday appointed a veteran pro-government
parliamentarian to manage a newly established government ministry in
charge of Armenia's relations with its worldwide Diaspora.
Those relations have until now been coordinated by an Armenian Foreign
Ministry department. The government decided to turn it into a separate
and larger agency earlier this month. The move had been widely
anticipated since Sarkisian's victory in the February 19 presidential
election.
The new minister of Diaspora affairs, Hranush Hakobian, is one the
longest-serving Armenian lawmakers and a member of the governing
Republican Party of Armenia (HHK). She has been close to the highest
echelons of power in Yerevan since becoming the leader of the Armenian
branch of the Soviet Union's Communist Youth League in the mid-1980s.
Hakobian, 54, was elected to Armenia's first post-Communist parliament
in 1990 and, barring a two-year stint as social security minister in the
administration of former President Levon Ter-Petrosian, has held a
parliament seat since then. She chaired the National Assembly's
committee on science, education and culture before her latest
appointment.
Hakobian will be the second female member of Prime Minister Tigran
Sarkisian's cabinet.
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PRO-ARMENIAN SENATOR DELAYS US AMBASSADORIAL NOMINEE'S CONFIRMATION
Today's Zaman
June 26 2008
Turkey
US Senator Barbara Boxer has secured a one-month delay in procedure
for confirmation by the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee of the
administration's nominee for US ambassador to Armenia, Armenian media
reports say.
Boxer, a Democrat, secured the delay in response to the State
Department's delay in providing timely written responses to the
eight sets of written questions submitted to career diplomat Marie
Yovanovitch, current ambassador to the Kyrgyz Republic, by members of
the panel, influential Armenian National Committee of America (ANCA)
Communications Director Elizabeth S. Chouldjian said, PanARMENIAN.Net
reported yesterday. Last week, during her confirmation hearing before
the Foreign Relations Committee, Yovanovitch responded to a salvo of
questions posed by Democratic Senator Robert Menendez, who blocked
the Bush administration's previous nominee over his refusal to call
killings of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire in the last century
"genocide," in line with the US administration's policy.
Nevertheless, Yovanovitch rejected use of the term "genocide" to
describe the early 20th century deaths of Ottoman Armenians out of
political considerations, saying that using the term would contradict
the US administration's policy on the issue.
Boxer released a written statement in which she criticized US policy
on the Armenian issue, especially taking into consideration the
fact that the administration has called killings in Darfur genocide,
but refused to do so in the Armenian case.
Today's Zaman
June 26 2008
Turkey
US Senator Barbara Boxer has secured a one-month delay in procedure
for confirmation by the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee of the
administration's nominee for US ambassador to Armenia, Armenian media
reports say.
Boxer, a Democrat, secured the delay in response to the State
Department's delay in providing timely written responses to the
eight sets of written questions submitted to career diplomat Marie
Yovanovitch, current ambassador to the Kyrgyz Republic, by members of
the panel, influential Armenian National Committee of America (ANCA)
Communications Director Elizabeth S. Chouldjian said, PanARMENIAN.Net
reported yesterday. Last week, during her confirmation hearing before
the Foreign Relations Committee, Yovanovitch responded to a salvo of
questions posed by Democratic Senator Robert Menendez, who blocked
the Bush administration's previous nominee over his refusal to call
killings of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire in the last century
"genocide," in line with the US administration's policy.
Nevertheless, Yovanovitch rejected use of the term "genocide" to
describe the early 20th century deaths of Ottoman Armenians out of
political considerations, saying that using the term would contradict
the US administration's policy on the issue.
Boxer released a written statement in which she criticized US policy
on the Armenian issue, especially taking into consideration the
fact that the administration has called killings in Darfur genocide,
but refused to do so in the Armenian case.
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900 THOUSAND - 1M RA CITIZENS EMIGRATE FROM ARMENIA SINCE 1992
Noyan Tapan
June 23, 2008
YEREVAN, JUNE 23, NOYAN TAPAN. The Migration Agency of the RA Ministry
of Territorial Administration has created a new Internet system with
the www.sma.am/migrant address. Its goal is to provide information to
RA citizens living abroad on issues they are concerned with. As Gagik
Yeganian, the Head of the Agency, said at the June 20 press conference,
people can apply to the system with issues of RA citizenship, loss
of documents, their return, compulsory military service in RA, and
other issues. Besides, according to him, system's special online
regime gives a possibility to conduct an interview between a citizen
and a competent employee of country's proper state body.
G. Yeganian said that 900 thousand - 1m RA citizens have emigrated from
Armenia since 1992. Nearly 70% of them have left for CIS countries,
including nearly 65% to RF.
Noyan Tapan
June 23, 2008
YEREVAN, JUNE 23, NOYAN TAPAN. The Migration Agency of the RA Ministry
of Territorial Administration has created a new Internet system with
the www.sma.am/migrant address. Its goal is to provide information to
RA citizens living abroad on issues they are concerned with. As Gagik
Yeganian, the Head of the Agency, said at the June 20 press conference,
people can apply to the system with issues of RA citizenship, loss
of documents, their return, compulsory military service in RA, and
other issues. Besides, according to him, system's special online
regime gives a possibility to conduct an interview between a citizen
and a competent employee of country's proper state body.
G. Yeganian said that 900 thousand - 1m RA citizens have emigrated from
Armenia since 1992. Nearly 70% of them have left for CIS countries,
including nearly 65% to RF.
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UNPRECEDENTED APRICOT HARVEST EXPECTED IN ARMENIA THIS YEAR
NOYAN TAPAN
JUNE 25
An unprecedented harvest of apricots is expected in Armenia this
year. NT correspondent was informed by Garnik Petrosan - the head of
the plant cultivation department of the RA ministry of agriculture
that by preliminary estimates that it is expected to gather about 100
thousand tons of apricots this year. Besides, a heavy fruit harvest
is expected.
G. Petrosian said that by official data, 3,300 tons of apricots
have already been exported from Armenia. Small consignments of
apricots are exported by individuals, and this amount is impossible
to calculate. The purchase price of apricots for export makes 200-300
drams (about 1 dollar) for a kilogram.
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NOYAN TAPAN
JUNE 25
An unprecedented harvest of apricots is expected in Armenia this
year. NT correspondent was informed by Garnik Petrosan - the head of
the plant cultivation department of the RA ministry of agriculture
that by preliminary estimates that it is expected to gather about 100
thousand tons of apricots this year. Besides, a heavy fruit harvest
is expected.
G. Petrosian said that by official data, 3,300 tons of apricots
have already been exported from Armenia. Small consignments of
apricots are exported by individuals, and this amount is impossible
to calculate. The purchase price of apricots for export makes 200-300
drams (about 1 dollar) for a kilogram.
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