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Headlines for April 17, 2008DEMIRCHIAN USED TO BE A DEMOCRAT
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Today Karen Demirchian would have become 76. We lost him 9 years ago but all his relatives and friends still visit Komitas Pantheon where he is buried. People called him “Karen the Constructor” since ...RAFFI HOVHANNISSIAN: “WE NEED URGENT EVIDENCE”
“John Prescott and Georges Columbier’s draft resolution on “The Functioning of Democratic Institutions in Armenia” will be adopted with certain changes”, considers Armenian Delegate, “Heritage” Party ...THE FIRST MEDALS
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Yesterday Armenian women’s national team won the first medals at European Weightlifting Championship in Italy.
Meline Ghaluzian (63kg weight-category) became a Champion of Europe lifting ...ARMENIAN SIDE SUGGESTS 36 CHANGES
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PACE discussions on the report “The Functioning of Democratic Institutions in Armenia” are now over. The Armenian side suggested 36 changes in the final resolution. Davit Harutyunian, Armen Rustamian, ...PACE DISCUSSES THE ARMENIAN ISSUE
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“Armenia has never carried out its responsibilities defined in PACE resolutions”, declared co-rapporteur John Prescott in his report on “The Functioning of Democratic Institutions in ...LEVON TER-PETROSSIAN VISITS KAREN DEMIRCHIAN’S GRAVE
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Today RA First President Levon Ter-Petrossian visited Komitas Pantheon to lay flowers on Karen Demirchian’s grave.
The citizens, who had come to perpetuate Karen Demirchian’s memory, ...RESOLUTION PASSED
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The resolution on “The Functioning of Democratic Institutions in Armenia” outlined by John Prescott and Georges Columbier passed with a ratio 93:8:8 at PACE sitting.
PACE urges reforms and an open ...SOMEONE WILL ALWAYS LOSE
Former Presidential Candidate, Chairman of “National Democratic Union” Vazgen Manukian met with journalists for the first time after the elections. He accounted his silence for the oversensitivity of ...ARMENIAN DELEGATES MAKE A PROMISE
“The European Council should not have integrated Armenia until the latter held at least one legitimate election”, declared Hungarian MP Mattias Yorshi at the PACE discussion “The Functioning of Democratic ...DEMONSTRATION IN STRASBOURG
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A group of Armenians waved the Armenian flag at the European Council building today. Over a dozen people rode from Paris to Strasbourg to complain of the Armenian authorities and demand ...
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Today in Armenian history- 1879 Death of Chamik Aramyan (publisher) in Constantinople. He was born in 1820.
- 1904 Birth of Hrant G. Pastrmajian. He died in 1954.
- 1922 Aram Yerkanian and Arshavir Shirakian executed Behaeddin Shakir, the leader of the "special forces" and Jemal Azmi, former Governor of Trabizond, in Berlin. Both were active in implementing the 1915 Armenian Genocide.
- 1957 Twinning of Kirovakan (Vanadzor) and Batumi (Georgia).
- 1990 An International Scholars' Meeting titled: "The Armenian Genocide: History, Theory, Political Responsibility" and devoted to 75th Anniversary of the Armenian's Genocide, takes place in Yerevan. It lasts to April 21.
- 1997 The Legislative Assembly of New South Wales (Australia) adopts a decision to commemorate April 24 as a Memorial Day of the Armenian Genocide. It suggests to the Federal Australian Government to adopt a similar decision.
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