IF ONLY THEY DIDN'T MAKE SPEECHES…
The Bureau of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) hasn’t set the draft resolution on “The State of the Turkish Cultural Heritage” going. The draft resolution was proposed by Raffi Hovannissian, member of the Armenian delegation to the PACE and Leader of “Zharangutiun” (Heritage) Party.
Although the draft resolution wasn't passed, it was put into circulation. The document was signed by 26 PACE delegates.
The document reports that since 1915 thousands of Armenian khachkars and churches have been either destructed or are on the verge of destruction in Turkey.
He suggests sending an experts' group to assess the current state of the Armenian heritage in the territory of Turkey.
“Cultural heritage are priority values if we speak of European standards and normalisation of Turkish-Armenian relations, and it’s here that these standards should be equally applied as the Armenian Genocide is also “an assassination of Мotherland and civilization”, Raffi Hovannissian told A1+.
“Once Turkey wants to memberise the European Union, it must demonstrate good will and take stock of all Armenian monuments, churches and castles in the territory of the country.”
Note, the Heritage leader says that his proposal hasn't been backed by the Republic of Armenia in due way,” he says.
“If someone came up with a similar initiative in other countries, the authorities and society would spare no effort to support him,” says Raffi Hovannissian. And yet, he hopes that the National Assembly of the Republic of Armenia will sober up and replace patriotic speeches by real deeds.
Karine Asatrian
Strasbourg
BEST IN EUROPE
more images
The Armenian wrestling team has won the title of Europe’s champion for the second time. The team won 13 gold, 3 silver and 1 bronze medals at the European Wrestling Championship underway ...FORESTS HAVE TURNED INTO DUMP
1
Domestic waste dumped in the forests of Noyemberian distorts the dazzling beauty of the sight. People going on a picnic usually leave plastic bottles, cellophane sacks near forest springs. The head ...IF ONLY THEY DIDN'T MAKE SPEECHES…
The Bureau of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) hasn’t set the draft resolution on “The State of the Turkish Cultural Heritage” going. The draft resolution was proposed by Raffi ...TRADESPEOPLE COMPLAIN OF INCREASED CUSTOMS DUTY
more images
Тradespeople of “Airarat,” “Hrazdan,” “Bangladesh” and “Firdusi” fairs gathered in front of the RA Government today to complain of the increased customs duty. They blame the newly-appointed ...CATHOLICOSES VOICE SUPPORT TO SERZH SARKISSIAN
more images
On April 21 Karekin II, Supreme Patriarch and Catholicos of All Armenians, and Aram I, Catholicos of the Great House of Cilicia, visited President Serzh Sarkissian.
Catholicos Aram ...REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE DEFEATED
An election of a village head was conducted in Khashtarak village, Tavush Marz, on April 20. The Electoral Commission reports that the acting village head, Republican Arthur Vanessian got 325 votes ...CORPSE FOUND IN SEVAN
A woman's body was found near Chkalovka village, two meters away from the beach at 3.10, April 20. At 3.25 rescuers took the body of a 60-65-year-old woman out of the water.
FIRE
On April 18, 2500-square ...OSCE AND COE WELCOME AGREEMENT TO CHANGE RECENTLY AMENDED ASSEMBLY LAW
The OSCE's Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) and Council of Europe's Venice Commission today welcomed the agreement reached with leading Armenian state representatives to make ...MARTUN CHOLAKHIAN PASSED AWAY
Armenia's best basketball coach of all times Martun Cholakhian deceased at the age of 71 in the result of a grave illness. The Armenian basketball team has had great achievements due to Cholakhian's ...ARAM I VISITS ETCHMIDZIN
Aram I, Catholicos of the Great House of Cilicia visited Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin today morning. His Holiness Karekin II, Supreme Patriarch and Catholicos of All Armenians and Aram I said a prayer ...AZERI CAPTIVE TO BE CONVEYED
On April 23 with the support of the International Committee of the Red Cross, citizen of the Republic of Azerbaijan, serviceman Yahub Alaverdy-Oghly Mukhtarov will be conveyed to representatives of the ...“ZHARANGUTIUN” LAUNCHES COLLECTION OF SIGNATURES
The “Zharangutiun” (Heritage) Party has filed a request with the Prosecutor General to change the preventive punishment of the Armenian parliamentarians detained after the March 1 events. The letter ...COLLECTION OF SIGNATURES IN NORTHERN AVENUE
more images
More than a hundred people have gathered in Northern Avenue at present. Some are talking to Levon Zurabian and leader of the Social Democratic Henchak Party Lyudmila Sarkissian, others ...
“THE EVENTS OF MARCH 1 PROBABLY TOOK PLACE IN TEXAS”
WHAT WILL SERZH SARGSYAN SAY DURING THE NA EXTRAORDINARY SESSION?
ARMENIA: PACE MONITORING COMMITTEE REMAINS CONCERNED ABOUT THE LIMITED PROGRESS WITH REGARD TO THE IMPLEMENTATION OF RESOLUTIONS 1609 AND 1620
NO INTERIM REPORT ON MARCH 1 EVENTS
AN ARMENIA PLAN WILL BE DRAFTED
LEVON TER-PETROSSIAN VISITS KAREN DEMIRCHIAN’S GRAVE
BEST IN EUROPE
CARS CLOG STREETS
ONE MORE EUROPEAN CHAMPION
THE AZERBAIJANI CONCERN
DEMIRCHIAN USED TO BE A DEMOCRAT
WILL RA COALITION OBEY PACE RESOLUTION?
RESIDENTS ARE INSTRUCTED NOT TO LISTEN TO “RADIO LIBERTY”
FOUR MAJOR DEMANDS
THE FIRST MEDALS
- 1729 Birth of Tsarina Catherine the Second, Empress of Russia from 1762. She died in 1796.
- 1858 Sultan Abdul Megid proclaims the Agrarian Law, which sets out new norms of land ownership.
- 1924 Death of Italian dramatic actress Eleanora Dyoozeh.
- 1926 Death of semasiologist Y. G. Mrmyan.
- 1990 An international, three-day meeting on the Armenian Genocide takes place in Yerevan. It was devoted to the 80th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide.
ARMENIAN NEWS
INTERACTIVE NEWS
INFORMATION
MY ARMTOWN
How to quit smoking?
How to write in Armenian on Windows XP?
All materials published on this website are taken from open sources and are copyrighted by their respective owners. You cannot reproduce or copy any materials published on armtown.com without written consent of original copyright holder. If you want to remove any material, please send us an email with proof of ownership/copyright and your material will be removed immediately. All materials published for information purposes only.