Armenian News
HAYKAKAN ZHAMANAK: NEW WAVE OF MIGRATION FROM ARMENIA
news.am
Sept 22 2010
Armenia
According to statistical data, published by the General Department of
Civil Aviation at the RA Government, during the first 8 months of 2010,
the number of passengers permanently leaving Armenia from the Zvartnots
and Shirak airports made 61.000. The Haykakan Zhamanak daily reports,
574.000 passengers departed and 513.000 arrived in Armenia.
According to the Armenian National Statistic Service, the rate of
migration made 48.000 in 2008 and 2009.
According to the daily, before the March 1 events the rate of
migration in Armenia comprised 3.000 "According to" reliable sources,
the Armenian leadership was informed, a new wave of migration has
started since 2008. This wave was relatively called "a third wave",
as the migrants are mainly from privileged families," the daily reads.
news.am
Sept 22 2010
Armenia
According to statistical data, published by the General Department of
Civil Aviation at the RA Government, during the first 8 months of 2010,
the number of passengers permanently leaving Armenia from the Zvartnots
and Shirak airports made 61.000. The Haykakan Zhamanak daily reports,
574.000 passengers departed and 513.000 arrived in Armenia.
According to the Armenian National Statistic Service, the rate of
migration made 48.000 in 2008 and 2009.
According to the daily, before the March 1 events the rate of
migration in Armenia comprised 3.000 "According to" reliable sources,
the Armenian leadership was informed, a new wave of migration has
started since 2008. This wave was relatively called "a third wave",
as the migrants are mainly from privileged families," the daily reads.
RFE/RL Report
Russian Official Warns Of Karabakh Conflict Escalation
24.09.2010
Emil Danielyan
A continued lack of further progress in Armenian-Azerbaijani peace
talks could increase the likelihood of another full-scale armed
conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh, a senior Russian Foreign Ministry
official warned on Friday.
In an interview with the Azerbaijani APA news agency, Andrei Kelin,
head of a ministry department on former Soviet states, also spoke out
against Turkey's involvement in international efforts to resolve the
Karabakh conflict.
Kelin said that the conflicting parties still have `fundamental
difference' on some of the key basic principles of a Karabakh settled
favored by Russia, the United States and France. He declined to
elaborate on those principles, saying only that `there are really not
many of them' and that both sides should display a `political will' to
overcome these disagreements.
`If we don't do that, then the situation will probably continue to
escalate,' Kelin said. `It is already quite tense, skirmishes on the
line of contact are not subsiding, there are more and more [armed]
incidents, and both sides are beefing up forces. Therefore, there are
fears that sooner or later this escalation will develop into something
more large-scale.'
The European Union's special envoy to the South Caucasus, Peter
Semneby, issued a similar warning during a recent visit to the
conflict zone. Speaking to Reuters, Semneby said intensified
skirmishes there risk spiraling out of control and called for the
strengthening of the ceasefire between Armenian and Azerbaijani
forces.
The U.S., Russian and French mediators acting under the aegis of the
OSCE Minsk Group regularly urge the parties to respect the
Russian-mediated truce that stopped the first Karabakh war in
1994. Nonetheless, truce violations along the `line of contact' around
Karabakh appear to have become more frequent in recent months.
Armenia and Azerbaijan claim to largely agree with the proposed basic
principles of a Karabakh settlement, while making diametrically
opposite interpretations of their essence. Baku says it will never
accept the loss of Karabakh, while Yerevan rules out any settlement
that would place the Armenian-populated territory back under
Azerbaijani rule.
The three Minsk Group co-chairs held on Wednesday separate meetings
with the Armenian and Azerbaijani foreign ministers in New York to
discuss their next steps to be taken ahead of the OSCE's December
summit in Kazakhstan. Whether or not they hope to achieve more
progress in the stalled peace process in time for the summit is not
yet clear.
Interviewed by several Azerbaijani media outlets late last month,
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Moscow wants the parties
to sign an interim framework agreement that would leave out the `two
or three issues' that have not yet been agreed upon. He said both
Washington and Paris support this idea.
Lavrov did not specify whether this is what Russian President Dmitry
Medvedev proposed to his Armenian and Azerbaijani counterparts during
their trilateral talks in Saint Petersburg last June. The Armenian
side reacted positively to Medvedev's undisclosed proposal, whereas
Baku rejected it as unacceptable.
In remarks that will be welcomed by Armenian officials, Kelin also
made clear that Moscow is against Turkish involvement in the
co-chairs' activities. `Turkey has attempted to actively participate
in this endeavor lately,' the Russian Foreign Ministry official told
APA. `We consider that counterproductive because we have a unique
situation in which the positions of the USA, France and Russia
converge and ... this allows us to guarantee that future agreements
will not collapse. And France and the USA support us on this.'
Turkey has stepped up its interest in the Karabakh conflict over the
past year as part of its efforts to allay Azerbaijan's concerns over
its rapprochement with Armenia. Ankara now makes the normalization of
Turkish-Armenian relations conditional on the conflict's resolution.
Armenia rejects this linkage and remains strongly opposed to any
Turkish role in the Karabakh peace process.
RFE/RL Report
Russia Provides Food Aid To Armenia
24.09.2010
Hovannes Shoghikian
Armenia has started receiving thousands of tons of grain and cooking
oil in humanitarian assistance provided by Russia's government, a
senior government official said on Thursday.
Emergencies Minister Armen Yeritsian said the 5,000 tons of grain and
1,000 tons of sunflower will help the country cope with a recent sharp
increase in international prices of these foodstuffs.
The price hike followed a severe summer drought that devastated crops
across Russia and led the Russian government to ban all grain
exports. The measure pushed up the cost of wheat in international
markets to the highest level since the 2007-08 global food crisis. As
a result, bread prices in Armenia soared by more than 20 percent in
July and August.
Imported wheat, most of it coming from Russia, meets nearly two-thirds
of Armenia's domestic demand estimated at roughly 600,000 metric tons
per annum. Armenian officials have repeatedly assured the population
in recent months that the Russian export ban will not lead to wheat
shortages in the local market.
Speaking at a weekly meeting of Prime Minister Tigran Sarkisian's
cabinet, Yeritsian said nearly half of the sunflower oil donated by
Moscow has already been shipped to Armenia. `The rest of the oil will
be imported within one week, after which we will start grain
shipments,' he told fellow ministers.
An official at the Armenian Emergencies Ministry told RFE/RL's
Armenian service that the grain deliveries will start on October 4.
It is not yet clear just how the authorities in Yerevan plan to use
the food aid. Yeritsian said only that it will be stored at warehouses
of his ministry's Agency for State Reserves for the time being.
Government critics believe that the impact of external factors on
domestic food prices would have been less severe had lucrative imports
of wheat and other basic foodstuffs to Armenia not been effectively
monopolized by a handful of government-linked businessmen.
The government, for its part, says the best way to guard against
international price fluctuations is to ease Armenia's heavy dependence
on wheat imports. It approved in July a five-year plans of actions
which officials said will boost domestic wheat output to over 350,000
tons by 2013.
24.09.2010
Emil Danielyan
A continued lack of further progress in Armenian-Azerbaijani peace
talks could increase the likelihood of another full-scale armed
conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh, a senior Russian Foreign Ministry
official warned on Friday.
In an interview with the Azerbaijani APA news agency, Andrei Kelin,
head of a ministry department on former Soviet states, also spoke out
against Turkey's involvement in international efforts to resolve the
Karabakh conflict.
Kelin said that the conflicting parties still have `fundamental
difference' on some of the key basic principles of a Karabakh settled
favored by Russia, the United States and France. He declined to
elaborate on those principles, saying only that `there are really not
many of them' and that both sides should display a `political will' to
overcome these disagreements.
`If we don't do that, then the situation will probably continue to
escalate,' Kelin said. `It is already quite tense, skirmishes on the
line of contact are not subsiding, there are more and more [armed]
incidents, and both sides are beefing up forces. Therefore, there are
fears that sooner or later this escalation will develop into something
more large-scale.'
The European Union's special envoy to the South Caucasus, Peter
Semneby, issued a similar warning during a recent visit to the
conflict zone. Speaking to Reuters, Semneby said intensified
skirmishes there risk spiraling out of control and called for the
strengthening of the ceasefire between Armenian and Azerbaijani
forces.
The U.S., Russian and French mediators acting under the aegis of the
OSCE Minsk Group regularly urge the parties to respect the
Russian-mediated truce that stopped the first Karabakh war in
1994. Nonetheless, truce violations along the `line of contact' around
Karabakh appear to have become more frequent in recent months.
Armenia and Azerbaijan claim to largely agree with the proposed basic
principles of a Karabakh settlement, while making diametrically
opposite interpretations of their essence. Baku says it will never
accept the loss of Karabakh, while Yerevan rules out any settlement
that would place the Armenian-populated territory back under
Azerbaijani rule.
The three Minsk Group co-chairs held on Wednesday separate meetings
with the Armenian and Azerbaijani foreign ministers in New York to
discuss their next steps to be taken ahead of the OSCE's December
summit in Kazakhstan. Whether or not they hope to achieve more
progress in the stalled peace process in time for the summit is not
yet clear.
Interviewed by several Azerbaijani media outlets late last month,
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Moscow wants the parties
to sign an interim framework agreement that would leave out the `two
or three issues' that have not yet been agreed upon. He said both
Washington and Paris support this idea.
Lavrov did not specify whether this is what Russian President Dmitry
Medvedev proposed to his Armenian and Azerbaijani counterparts during
their trilateral talks in Saint Petersburg last June. The Armenian
side reacted positively to Medvedev's undisclosed proposal, whereas
Baku rejected it as unacceptable.
In remarks that will be welcomed by Armenian officials, Kelin also
made clear that Moscow is against Turkish involvement in the
co-chairs' activities. `Turkey has attempted to actively participate
in this endeavor lately,' the Russian Foreign Ministry official told
APA. `We consider that counterproductive because we have a unique
situation in which the positions of the USA, France and Russia
converge and ... this allows us to guarantee that future agreements
will not collapse. And France and the USA support us on this.'
Turkey has stepped up its interest in the Karabakh conflict over the
past year as part of its efforts to allay Azerbaijan's concerns over
its rapprochement with Armenia. Ankara now makes the normalization of
Turkish-Armenian relations conditional on the conflict's resolution.
Armenia rejects this linkage and remains strongly opposed to any
Turkish role in the Karabakh peace process.
RFE/RL Report
Russia Provides Food Aid To Armenia
24.09.2010
Hovannes Shoghikian
Armenia has started receiving thousands of tons of grain and cooking
oil in humanitarian assistance provided by Russia's government, a
senior government official said on Thursday.
Emergencies Minister Armen Yeritsian said the 5,000 tons of grain and
1,000 tons of sunflower will help the country cope with a recent sharp
increase in international prices of these foodstuffs.
The price hike followed a severe summer drought that devastated crops
across Russia and led the Russian government to ban all grain
exports. The measure pushed up the cost of wheat in international
markets to the highest level since the 2007-08 global food crisis. As
a result, bread prices in Armenia soared by more than 20 percent in
July and August.
Imported wheat, most of it coming from Russia, meets nearly two-thirds
of Armenia's domestic demand estimated at roughly 600,000 metric tons
per annum. Armenian officials have repeatedly assured the population
in recent months that the Russian export ban will not lead to wheat
shortages in the local market.
Speaking at a weekly meeting of Prime Minister Tigran Sarkisian's
cabinet, Yeritsian said nearly half of the sunflower oil donated by
Moscow has already been shipped to Armenia. `The rest of the oil will
be imported within one week, after which we will start grain
shipments,' he told fellow ministers.
An official at the Armenian Emergencies Ministry told RFE/RL's
Armenian service that the grain deliveries will start on October 4.
It is not yet clear just how the authorities in Yerevan plan to use
the food aid. Yeritsian said only that it will be stored at warehouses
of his ministry's Agency for State Reserves for the time being.
Government critics believe that the impact of external factors on
domestic food prices would have been less severe had lucrative imports
of wheat and other basic foodstuffs to Armenia not been effectively
monopolized by a handful of government-linked businessmen.
The government, for its part, says the best way to guard against
international price fluctuations is to ease Armenia's heavy dependence
on wheat imports. It approved in July a five-year plans of actions
which officials said will boost domestic wheat output to over 350,000
tons by 2013.
RFE/RL Report
Armenia To Open New Embassies
23.09.2010
Armenia will soon open embassies in Japan and the Netherlands, raising
to more than 30 the number of its diplomatic missions abroad,
President Serzh Sarkisian's office announced on Thursday.
Sarkisian signed a corresponding decree earlier in the day. He has yet
to name the Armenian ambassadors to be based in the two nations.
Armenia currently has 29 embassies around the world, including
virtually all major Western capitals. Many of the diplomats heading
them also serve as ambassadors to other states lacking permanent
Armenian missions.
In one such example, Sarkisian assigned on Thursday his Athens-based
envoy in Greece, Gagik Ghalachian, to also perform the duties of
Armenia's ambassador to Serbia.
The upcoming opening of the Armenian embassies in Tokyo and The Hague
reflects a slow but steady expansion of Armenia's diplomatic presence
abroad since the early 1990s. Yerevan opened an embassy in Madrid,
Spain earlier this year.
It is not clear whether the upcoming launch of the new missions will
be fully financed by the Armenian government. The Armenian state
budget for this years sets aside only 37 million drams ($102,000) for
the purchase of new embassy buildings.
Many of the existing embassy premises were purchased and donated to
Armenia by wealthy members of its worldwide Diaspora.
Wales-Armenia Solidarity Press Release
"We accuse Turkey of Continuing Cultutal Genocide in Turkish-controlled
Armenia""
Welsh Armenians, fearful of a repeat of the attack on the Armenian
Genocide Monument at the Temple of Peace, Cardiff which happened on
Holocaust Day 2008, will put an all-night guard on the monument this
friday night, in advance of a major exhibition at the Senedd building of
the National Assejmbly of Wales in Cardiff Bay,The opening will be at
3.30 p.m. on Saturday. This will be preceedesd by a Badarak, (Armenian
Mass) in Ararat Baptist Church, The Common, Whitchurch, Cardiff at 11
a.m. on Saturday morning. Details of the exhibition are below.
The exhibition sets the record straight on Turkey's policies towards its
minorities. We believe rhat no-one will be fooled by the " magnanimous"
gesture by the Turkish government of allowing Armenians to worship once
a year in what was once Aghtamar Church, on lake Van , but now
confiscated and turned into a museum. While one church has been restored
as a museum (deleting all evidence of its Armenian heritage), hundreds
of Churches have been plundered and demolished, and anf the descendants
of those Armenians forcibly converted during the Genocide of 1915 are
still fearful of openly living as Armenians.
Major Exhibition on Cultural Genocide in "Turkish" Armenia in the
National Assembly
This exhibition, showing how Armenian churches and monasteries were
destroyed by the modern Turkish Statein the years following the 1915
Genocide and up to thepresent time , will take place in the main
"Senedd" building of the National Assembly of Wales in Cardiff Bay
between the 25th and the 30th September.
You are warmly invited to visit the manned exhibition at any time during
this period, especially on Saturday, 25th September for the "opening",
at approx 3.30 pm, following a Badarak(Armenian Mass) by the Very Revd.
Dr.Vahan Hovhanessian in Ararat Baptist Church, The Common,
Whitchurch, Cardiff, CF14 1PT at 11 a. m. (the very first time a full
Armenian mass will have been celebrated in Wales)
Also on Thursday, 30th September at 12 30.p.m. a guided tour of the
pictures will be provided (and every 15 minutes till 1.30 p.m.)
This exhibition shows shows that the genocide did not end in 1915 but
continues as Cultural Genocide to this day.
23.09.2010
Armenia will soon open embassies in Japan and the Netherlands, raising
to more than 30 the number of its diplomatic missions abroad,
President Serzh Sarkisian's office announced on Thursday.
Sarkisian signed a corresponding decree earlier in the day. He has yet
to name the Armenian ambassadors to be based in the two nations.
Armenia currently has 29 embassies around the world, including
virtually all major Western capitals. Many of the diplomats heading
them also serve as ambassadors to other states lacking permanent
Armenian missions.
In one such example, Sarkisian assigned on Thursday his Athens-based
envoy in Greece, Gagik Ghalachian, to also perform the duties of
Armenia's ambassador to Serbia.
The upcoming opening of the Armenian embassies in Tokyo and The Hague
reflects a slow but steady expansion of Armenia's diplomatic presence
abroad since the early 1990s. Yerevan opened an embassy in Madrid,
Spain earlier this year.
It is not clear whether the upcoming launch of the new missions will
be fully financed by the Armenian government. The Armenian state
budget for this years sets aside only 37 million drams ($102,000) for
the purchase of new embassy buildings.
Many of the existing embassy premises were purchased and donated to
Armenia by wealthy members of its worldwide Diaspora.
Wales-Armenia Solidarity Press Release
"We accuse Turkey of Continuing Cultutal Genocide in Turkish-controlled
Armenia""
Welsh Armenians, fearful of a repeat of the attack on the Armenian
Genocide Monument at the Temple of Peace, Cardiff which happened on
Holocaust Day 2008, will put an all-night guard on the monument this
friday night, in advance of a major exhibition at the Senedd building of
the National Assejmbly of Wales in Cardiff Bay,The opening will be at
3.30 p.m. on Saturday. This will be preceedesd by a Badarak, (Armenian
Mass) in Ararat Baptist Church, The Common, Whitchurch, Cardiff at 11
a.m. on Saturday morning. Details of the exhibition are below.
The exhibition sets the record straight on Turkey's policies towards its
minorities. We believe rhat no-one will be fooled by the " magnanimous"
gesture by the Turkish government of allowing Armenians to worship once
a year in what was once Aghtamar Church, on lake Van , but now
confiscated and turned into a museum. While one church has been restored
as a museum (deleting all evidence of its Armenian heritage), hundreds
of Churches have been plundered and demolished, and anf the descendants
of those Armenians forcibly converted during the Genocide of 1915 are
still fearful of openly living as Armenians.
Major Exhibition on Cultural Genocide in "Turkish" Armenia in the
National Assembly
This exhibition, showing how Armenian churches and monasteries were
destroyed by the modern Turkish Statein the years following the 1915
Genocide and up to thepresent time , will take place in the main
"Senedd" building of the National Assembly of Wales in Cardiff Bay
between the 25th and the 30th September.
You are warmly invited to visit the manned exhibition at any time during
this period, especially on Saturday, 25th September for the "opening",
at approx 3.30 pm, following a Badarak(Armenian Mass) by the Very Revd.
Dr.Vahan Hovhanessian in Ararat Baptist Church, The Common,
Whitchurch, Cardiff, CF14 1PT at 11 a. m. (the very first time a full
Armenian mass will have been celebrated in Wales)
Also on Thursday, 30th September at 12 30.p.m. a guided tour of the
pictures will be provided (and every 15 minutes till 1.30 p.m.)
This exhibition shows shows that the genocide did not end in 1915 but
continues as Cultural Genocide to this day.
PanARMENIAN.Net
September 22, 2010 - 16:21 AMT 11:21 GMT
The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra will perform at Yerevan Perspectives
International Music Festival in the Armenian National Opera & Ballet
Theatre on September 22, 2010.
The first concert will be conducted by Eduard Topchjan while pianist
Boris Berezovsky will be the soloist.
The program includes Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No.1 and Shostakovich
Symphony No.5.
The second concert will feature opera singers Barsegh Tumanyan and
Hasmik Papyan.
Perspectives XXI International Music Festival was renamed into Yerevan
Perspectives International Music Festival by request on European
Festival Association.
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