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Photos & Videos of Yeranashnorh Patriatch Mutafyan's funeral & burial services
Photos: https://hyetert.org/2019/03/17/foto-turkiye-ermenileri-patrigi-ii-mesrob-mutafyan-cenaze-toreni/
Videos:
[see the splendour of a high church service particularly after 12:50 on the first. The second is the burial at Sisli]
Visit the Paradjanov Museum:
Panorama, Armenia
March 19 2019
Azerbaijan sets up a military base near the border with Armenia
Azerbaijan is setting up an operating military base in the Ghazakh-Aghstafa section of the state border with Armenia, Artsakhpress news agency reported, citing reports in the local media.
According to the source, the area is bordering with Armenia’s Tavush region. The announcement came from the Chief of State Border Service of Azerbaijan Elchin Guliyev.
Armenpress.am
19 March, 2019
Series of statements on involving Artsakh in negotiations is not a challenge, but an invitation to dialogue – Pashinyan.
The agenda proposed by Armenia to involve Artsakh in the negotiations for the settlement of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict is not something new both for the OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs and Azerbaijan, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan told reporters today, asked how long Armenia is ready to wait, if Azerbaijan doesn’t agree with the stance of the Armenian side to include Artsakh in the negotiation process, reports Armenpress.
“There is no need to wait at all. It’s just necessary to work consistently in the diplomatic process because, frankly speaking, what is stated publicly, is not something new both for the OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs and Azerbaijan. What we have said at this period, I have proposed that agenda during certain talks: that is the same agenda which was formed in May 2018, we continue serving that agenda, and I want to highlight an important nuance: as I have already announced in Stepanakert, this is neither a whim nor a precondition from our side. This proposal is not for changing the format, but for restoring the negotiation format. We will continue the discussion on this topic with our partners and will try to continue this discussion in the field of facts because negotiation is a negotiation in a sense that we listen to each other. Armenia has demonstrated that ability, to listen to the other, try to understand, and we expect the same from them”, Pashinyan said.
He reminded that he made a statement on the necessity to return Artsakh to the negotiation table during the debate of election of the PM in the Parliament, and repeated the same statement during a press conference in Stepanakert on the next day of his election as PM.
“This series of statements is not a challenge, but an invitation to dialogue, is a dialogue process. This dialogue didn’t start just now, it started in Dushanbe, continued in St. Petersburg, Davos, I don’t know where the next dialogue will take place, and we do not imagine a regime where one of the sides says it refuses from dialogue. That will not be a logical approach, we will not refuse from dialogue, will put our facts on the table during that dialogue and will carefully listen to the counter-arguments of our colleagues. I think the constructive and effective solution or continuation must be within this logic framework”, Pashinyan said.
Edited and translated by Aneta Harutyunyan
Armenia Will ‘Attentively’ Listen To Azerbaijan’s ‘Counterarguments’
March 19, 2019
Armenia’s proposal for Nagorno-Karabakh’s full engagement in negotiations with Azerbaijan is no challenge, but an invitation to dialogue, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian said on Tuesday, stressing that Yerevan is ready to listen attentively to Baku’s counterarguments.
At a press conference in Yerevan, Pashinian repeated what he already told senior Armenian and Karabakh security aides in Stepanakert a week ago that Nagorno-Karabakh’s becoming a full party to the peace talks “is not a whim or a precondition” on the part of Armenia, but a necessity for an effective settlement process.
Azerbaijan has opposed Nagorno-Karabakh’s participation in the talks as a separate party, insisting that the region is “occupied” by Armenia and
negotiations should be held only directly with official Yerevan.
Last week, Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev rejected the latest Armenian proposal on the change in the format of the talks by way of involving Nagorno-Karabakh as a party to the process.
“It is unacceptable, and it is an attempt to block the negotiations process,” Aliyev said at a forum in Baku on March 14, again calling on Armenia to withdraw its forces from the region.
Pashinian today insisted that his statements on the need for Stepanakert’s engagement in the talks that he has repeatedly made since being first elected prime minister in May 2018 “are not a challenge, but an invitation to
dialogue.” He further argued that he had already raised the issue during his informal meetings with Aliyev on the sidelines of different international events during the past months.
Earlier this month the American, Russian and French co-chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group, an international format set up to mediate a solution to the conflict, announced that Pashinian and Aliyev had agreed to have their first formal talks soon under the umbrella of the international mediators.
No date and venue of such possible talks have been announced yet.
Ahead of his possible talks with the Azerbaijani president Pashinian said: “We will continue discussions on this subject with our partners and will try to continue this discussion in the field of arguments, because negotiations are negotiations only when we listen to each other. At least Armenia has shown its ability to listen to its opponent, try to understand the other side, and we expect the same from them. Where our partners consider that our position can be viewed as excessively tough, we can soften this position, but we would expect
the same from our partners, because otherwise no conversation will take place.”
The Armenian leader said that “we do not imagine a regime when one of the parties to the talks says that it refuses to have a dialogue.”
“It will not be a logical approach. Naturally, we will not refuse to have a dialogue and during this dialogue we will put on the table our arguments and will attentively listen to the counterarguments of our partners. I think that a constructive and effective solution or continuation should be within the framework of this logic,” Pashinian said.
Asked whether a possible exchange of prisoners between Armenia and Azerbaijan could be discussed at his upcoming meeting with Aliyev, Pashinian said: “The
Armenian side is ready to exchange Azerbaijani citizens who strayed into Armenian territory with Armenians who strayed into Azerbaijani territory.”
The Armenian leader stressed, however, that such an exchange cannot concern Azerbaijanis who penetrated into Armenian or Karabakh territory and committed
murders.
[note that in previous years, Erdogan has described the Anzac fallen in WW1 as our sons as well as yours]
19 March 2019
ANCs of Australia, New Zealand Slam Erdogan’s Threat
The Armenian National Committees of Australia and New Zealand (ANC-AU and ANC-NZ) have condemned Turkish President, Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s threat to return Australians and New Zealanders traveling to Gallipoli for ANZAC Day Commemorations “in their coffins like their grandfathers.”
Erdogan let loose with these comments in light of last week’s Christchurch terrorist attack, which resulted in the shooting death of 50 Muslims praying in two Mosques in the New Zealand town.
“Your grandparents (referring to ANZACs of 1915) came, some of them returned in coffins. If you come as well like your grandfathers (not in peace), be sure that you will be gone like your grandfathers,” Erdogan said, adding “the enemies of Muslims have shown that they continue to hate us”.
“They are testing us from 16,500km away, from New Zealand, with the messages they are giving from there. This is not an individual attack, it is organized.”
Erdogan made these comments after an earlier election campaign rally, where he showed footage of the Christchurch gunman’s attack to highlight Islamophobia in Western countries.
“This is an outrageous response from the President of what our countries – Australia and New Zealand – consider an ally,” said ANC-AU Executive Director, Haig Kayserian. “What happened in Christchurch was a terrorist hate crime, and must be condemned as many in the world have rightly done.”
“What Erdogan is doing is responding to a hate crime by spreading more hate,” Kayserian added. “He is disrespecting ANZACs by referring to their return to Australia and New Zealand in coffins, while at the same time threatening those of our citizens who wish to pay respects to the memory of our ANZACs in Gallipoli.”
The Chairperson of ANC-NZ, Hoory Yeldizian was quick to highlight the differences in response.
“In stark contrast to the exemplary empathy and strong leadership being demonstrated by New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern during this important juncture, the President of Turkey has yet again demonstrated his insensitivity and international thuggery,” Yeldizian said.
“After all, New Zealand has unequivocally condemned the actions of this terrorist. New Zealand mourns the loss of 50 lives. New Zealand rejects any attempt by Erdogan to paint our society as one with a single extremist or group of extremists,” Yeldizian added.
ANC-AU has called on the Returned and Services League (RSL) to unequivocally condemn this outburst by Erdogan, which they said “disrespects our ANZAC martyrs and provides a true picture of what the Turkish State thinks of them when the diplomatic veils are lifted”.
Kayserian added: “This is not the first time that the ANZAC relationship has been misused by the modern Turkish state, with Erdogan’s government in 2013 threatening to block access to Gallipoli for NSW Parliamentarians who voted on a motion to recognise the Ottoman Genocide of Armenians, Greeks and Assyrians.”
ARKA, Armenia
March 19 2019
More than 65,000 vehicles imported to Armenia in 2018
YEREVAN, March 19. /ARKA/. Some 65,100 vehicles were imported to Armenia in 2018, by 72.6% more than in the previous year, according to the State Revenue Committee.
The customs value of all imported vehicles in 2018 was $234.8 million, up from $134.3 million in 2017. About 95.6% or 62,280 cars were imported to Armenia from Germany. The figure for 2017 was 33,300. In 2018, some 7,599 cars were imported from the Eurasian Economic Union against 7,504 cars in 2017. However, these cars were not included in the total number of imported cars last year.
According to the State Revenue Committee, in 2018 some 531 cars were exported from Armenia whose customs value was estimated at $19.2 million. In 2017 some 323 cars were exported worth $12.4 million. Some 38.6% or 205 cars were exported to China, and 20.1% or 107 cars to Russia.
Armenpress.am
18 March, 2019
Armenian jeans to replace foreign ones: “Made in Armenia” jeans production launched in Gyumri
Chinese and Turkish jeans will be replaced by Armenian ones.
Made in Armenia jeans will be available in stores in a month. The jeans are produced in Gyumri. The Zakaryan family invested 2 million USD for launching the production.
The Armenian government has posted a video on Facebook about this new production.
“R. Zakaryan company has imported all the necessary equipment for making high-quality products from abroad. And the government assisted the company on this matter: the term of the VAT payment calculated by the tax and customs agencies in case of import of goods has been reduced by three years. This allowed to save money and spend it for purchasing equipment”, the company’s commercial director Lilit Zakaryan said.
Experienced Italian specialists have arrived in Armenia to help preparing necessary cadres.
Technologist Mauro Di Giuseppe arrived in Armenia to help making high-quality products. “We still have some path to pass, but I have a great desire and will to share my entire experience”, Mauro Di Giuseppe said.
The work in the new production unit is mainly automated. Over 50 people are working in the production. There are plans to increase their number by 100 in the next two years, as well as the production by 4 times.
“We plan to consume approximately 5% of our production in Armenia. Export is our main target. We already have a contract with Russia, will have another ones with the Italian and other European companies in the nearest future”, Lilit Zakaryan said, adding that in addition to jeans and jackets, they also plan to make shirts and other knitwear.
Edited and translated by Aneta Harutyunyan
ARKA, Armenia
March 18 2019
Cattle stock shrinks in Armenia, while pig stock grows
The number of pigs grew 18.7% in Armenia in early January 2019, compared with the same month a year before, to 197,844, that of goats grew 2.1% to 22,552 and horses 7% to 10,748, while the country’s cattle stock shrank 3.2% to 571,861, where number of cows reduced 4.8% to 253,990, the National Committee of Armenia reports.
There were also 615,705 sheep in the country in early January 2019 as a result of a 3.5% year-on-year decline and 4,152,052 fowls, a 5.8% decrease.
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