"BAZE" HOVERS IN HIGHLANDS OF NAGORNO KARABAKH
Currently, "Baze" All Armenian Youth Festival is in full swing in Nagorno Karabakh. The annual festival launched on July 26. This is the first time that the festival is held in Nagorno Karabakh and this conditions the utmost encouragement and enthusiasm of NKR young people. Moreover, most of the NKr young people are engaged in the sports cultural arrangements within the framework of the festival. 5 teams in the festival represent Artsakh, while Javakhk and Diaspora have one team each. There are also two other teams shaped from the winners of the singing, dancing, fashion, and intellectual and sports competitions.
The festival activities show that the teams spare no efforst to win the competitions.
Various NKR and Armenian high-ranked officials participated in the opening ceremony of the festival, namely, NKR and RA Cutlure Ministers, kamo Atayan and Hasmik Poghosian, General –Lieutenant Seyran Ohanian, NKR Defence Minister, and many others. Mr. Ohanian stated in his welcoming speech that the young Armenians should accumulate forces and braveness to undertake the mission of their homeland’s liberation and protection from the elder generation. He emphaszied that such festivals will greatly contribute to achieving that very goal.
NKR President Arkady Ghukasian also welocmed the participants of "Baze 2006." In particular, he stated in his welcoming speech that "the state should support and encourgae any kind of arangemetns or initiatives that may contribute to the rebirth of national force among the younger generation, including "Baze" annual festival."
Artur Soghomian, head of the festival’s board, stated in the interview to the Public TV of Artsakh that "Baze" arranegements will be held both in the regions of Armenia and in Javakhk.
"Baze" festival junites the Armenian young people around the idea of the national unification of the world spread nation. Soem of the participanst pay their first visit to Artsakh, but there are also others that visit Artsakh as a sacred tradition. The program of the festival includes visits to the regions and the sightseeing places of NKR in the last days of July.
"Baze 2006" is finishing on July 31. It is envisaged that teh closing ceremony of the festival will take place in Rebirth Square of Stepanakert. The participants and the winners of the competitions will be awarded with prizes and medals.
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- 1680 Death of Catholicos Hakob the Fourth (Jughayetsee). He accompanied Israel Oree to Europe, seeking assistance from the Christian states for Armenian emancipation.
- 1766 Catholicos Simeon Yerevantsi sends a message to Tsarina Ekaterina (Catherine) the Second, asking for help on behalf of Armenia.
- 1812 The "Deetak Byoozantion" periodical was published until September 1816 in Constantinople.
- 1817 Birth of Hovhannes Aivazovsky (seascape artist) in Feodosia (the Ukraine). He died in 1900.
- 1862 Armenians meet in Constantinople and ask the Sultan to ratify the National Constitution.
- 1894 Defense of Sassoon (Western Armenia) against Turkish attacks.
- 1896 500 Kurds are brought to Constantinople by the Turkish Government to help carry out the Genocide of the Armenians there.
- 1903 Birth of Goorgen Mahari (writer). He died in 1969.
- 1905 Tsar Nicholas the Second abrogates his 1903 06 12 law closing Armenian Parish Schools. They are reopened.
- 1914 With the start of the First World War on this day, all previous agreements concerning Armenia were ignored. The Armenians were in imminent danger: in fact, the Armenian Genocide started eight months later.
- 1918 Opening of the First Parliament of the Armenian Republic under the presidency of Father Abraham (Aveteek Sahakian).
- 1919 The Armenian Parliament opens in Yerevan.
- 1919 The Azerbaijani Government and the Artsakh National Council sign a Provisional Treaty.
- 1934 Opening of the First Congress of Armenia's Soviet Writers.
- 1954 The All-Union Agricultural Exhibition reopens in Moscow.
- 1997 On the appointment of Artsakh President Kocharian to the post of Prime Minister of Armenia, by President Ter-Petrossian of Armenia, the minister of Foreign Affairs for Artsakh, Arkady Ghoukasian is elected President of Artsakh for a five-year term.
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