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SARKOZY'S INITIATIVE AND ERDOGAN'S RESPONSE HAVE BEEN BARGAIN ARGUMENTS - ALGERIAN EXPERT
- Both French President Nicolas Sarkozy's initiative on Genocide denial penalization and Turkish Erdogan's response have been bargain arguments, Algerian expert Amel Boubekeur told Armenian News-NEWS.am correspondent.
Boubekeur, who is a research fellow at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris, noted that in Europe, this has more been an issue for Turkish, than for entire Muslim community.
"When it comes to West Africans, they are much less sensitive to this law or anything related to it," she said.
There have been some issues within common discussion in the relations of France and Turkey, which have been the reason for Paris to put on the scene the issue of genocide denial penalization.
The law on penalization of Genocides in France (which applies to Holocaust and Armenian Genocide) was adopted by the lower house of the French parliament in December, and by Senate on Jan 23. In the meantime, Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Erdogan had stated that Turkey could react by recognition of the genocide of Algerians by France in 1945 and during the independence war of 1954 - 1962.
"Algerian prime minister said that Erdogan did not have to raise history: the inclusion of history into politics has nothing to do with the real issues. Otherwise one might start to politicize all the genocides in the European history," she added.
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Headlines for February 15, 2012AZNAVOUR RECONSIDERS HIS POSITION
PARIS. - In a French TV program Thé ou Café by Catherine Ceylac French actor Charles Berling was invited, who had for many times expressed wish to meet with French famous singer of Armenian ...COMPETITION OF EMBLEMS FOR DAY OF REMEMBRANCE OF ARMENIAN GENOCIDE IS ANNOUNCED
In the framework of the preparations for the 97th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide the United Armenian Council announced an emblems competition and calls all artists, designers and 10-12 grade students ...ARMENIANS IN AUSTRALIA TO COMMEMORATE SUMGAIT VICTIMS
SYDNEY. - The Armenian National Committee of Australia (ANC Australia) will honor the memory of the Sumgait Massacre victims during a commemorative evening scheduled for March 16.
Member of the New South ...INTERPOL PASSPORT NOT TO REQUIRE ARMENIAN ENTRY VISA
YEREVAN. - Travel document of International Criminal Police Organization (Interpol), which is the electronic passport, will serve for crossing the border with Armenia. Armenian Police submitted the bill ...SARKOZY'S INITIATIVE AND ERDOGAN'S RESPONSE HAVE BEEN BARGAIN ARGUMENTS - ALGERIAN EXPERT
Both French President Nicolas Sarkozy's initiative on Genocide denial penalization and Turkish Erdogan's response have been bargain arguments, Algerian expert Amel Boubekeur told Armenian News-NEWS.am ...ARMENIANS AMONG INJURED AT RESTAURANT EXPLOSION IN RUSSIA
VOLGOGRAD. - There are Armenians among the injured at Bellagio Restaurant explosion in Volgograd, Russia. According to the preliminary list, Svetlana Ghazaryan, 21, and Agnesa Ghazaryan, 27, are in serious ...ARMENIAN ACTRESS' PORNOGRAPHIC PHOTOS ARE ON INTERNET AGAIN - NEWSPAPER
YEREVAN. - Armenian actress Anzhela Sargsyan's pornographic photos were posted on the Internet again on Tuesday, Zhoghovurd daily writes.
"This time, however, [they] are not on the .am domain, but rather ..."PREDATORY BIRDS" OF ARMENIA'S POLICE FORCE WILL BE REPLACED BY "DOVES" - NEWSPAPER
YEREVAN. - The representatives of Armenian Police Chief Vladimir (Vova) Gasparyan's newly formed division, some members of whom are women, will probably carry out service during the opposition's rally ...ARMENIA'S INTERNAL AFFAIRS MINISTRY WILL BE REESTABLISHED - NEWSPAPER
YEREVAN. - After the upcoming parliamentary elections, Armenia's President Serzh Sargsyan will reestablish the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Chorrord Inknishkhanutyun daily writes.
"According to the ...FORMER ARMENIAN POLITICAL PRISONER WISHES TO BECOME MP - NEWSPAPER
YEREVAN. - Former political prisoner Suren Sirunyan could vie for a majority National Assembly seat in Armenia's upcoming parliamentary elections, Aravot daily writes.
"In an interview with Aravot, ...WILL ARMENIAN MINISTER BRING GODDESS ANAHIT'S STATUE HOME? - NEWSPAPER
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YEREVAN. - Armenia's Education and Science Minister Armen Ashotyan seems to be determined to bring to Armenia the pagan goddess Anahit's bronze head from the British Museum in London, Haykakan Zhamanak ...ARMENIA'S ROADS ARE PASSABLE FOR MOST PART
YEREVAN. - Armenia's interstate highways, local roads, and mountain passes are drivable, for the most part, as of Wednesday 10 a.m.
But Selim Mountain Pass, and the Berd-Chambarak and Makenis-Akhpradzor ...ARMENIAN CHURCH TO RECEIVE NEW PRIVILEGE
YEREVAN. - The legalization payments will be exempt for Armenia's churches and church structures which the individual benefactors had built, but without the appropriate formalities.
The State Committee ...ARMENIA'S MAJORITY ELECTION SYSTEM IS ANTIDEMOCRATIC - OPPOSITION MP
YEREVAN. - The majority election system functioning in Armenia is antidemocratic, opposition ARF Dashnaktsutyun Party MP Armen Rustamyan stated during the National Assembly (NA) hearings devoted to changing ...CITIZENSHIP OF ARMENIANS INJURED IN RESTAURANT BLAST UNKNOWN YET
The citizenship of Armenians injured in at Bellagio Restaurant explosion in Volgograd, Russia., is being clarified.
According to the preliminary list, Svetlana Ghazaryan, 21, and Agnesa Ghazaryan, 27, ...PROPORTIONAL ELECTIONS WILL PROMOTE DICTATORSHIP OF PARTY ELITE - ARMENIAN RULING PARTY MP
YEREVAN. - The guilty are the political forces, as they do not nominate strong figures and then they complain about the majority election system, Armenia's Justice Minister Hrayr Tovmasyan said during ...CHINESE MAN WINS $42 MILLION ON LOTTERY
A resident of China won about $42 million on the lottery.
The happy winner paid $7.9 million tax and donated $1.6 million to charity.
The name of the person who became a millionaire in an hour isn't ...IN CASE OF COMPLETELY PROPORTIONAL ELECTIONS, SOLELY YEREVAN RESIDENTS WILL BECOME MPS - DEPUTY PARLIAMENT SPEAKER
YEREVAN. - The initiative to change to a 100-percent proportional election system is premature, Armenia's Deputy National Assembly (NA) Speaker, and the ruling coalition's Prosperous Armenia Party (PAP) ...MAJORITY ELECTION SYSTEM HAS BECOME HOTBED FOR CRIMINAL OFFENSES - ARMENIAN OPPOSITION MEMBER
YEREVAN. - The cause for the present-day situation in Armenia is the criminal-oligarchic system established in the country, the opposition Armenian National Congress Central Office Coordinator Levon Zurabyan ...ARMENIAN, DUTCH OFFICIALS DISCUSS COOPERATION PROSPECTS
YEREVAN.- Secretary of Armenia's National Security Council Arthur Baghdasaryan received on Wednesday Klaas van der Tempel, Dutch MFA's Special Representative for the Eastern Partnership countries.
The ...ARMENIA'S NATIONAL TEAM RANKED RECORD-BREAKING 41 - FIFA
The International Federation of Association Football (FIFA) announced on Wednesday the new ranking for the national teams.
And in line with the standings, Armenia's national squad moved up four places ...ISRAEL INVITES TURKEY FOR "TANGO"
Israel's Deputy PM Silvan Shalom stated that good relations between Israel and Turkey are important for the two peoples and the region alike.
In an interview with the Anadolu News Agency of Turkey, ...52-AGED MAN FOUND HANGED IN HIS YEREVAN HOUSE
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Police press service confirmed the report for Armenian News-NEWS.am saying ...ARMENIAN PEOPLE MUST DECIDE WHICH ELECTORAL SYSTEM THEY WANT - RULING COALITION PARTY MP
YEREVAN. - The need to discuss electoral systems could not have been raised in stable, democratic countries, the ruling coalition's Prosperous Armenia Party MP Naira Zohrabyan said during the National ...REFERENDUM ON NEW CONSTITUTION IN SYRIA SET FOR FEBRUARY 26
The referendum on a new constitution will be held in Syria on February 26, state television of Syria reports.
President of Syria Bashar al-Assad received on February 12 the members of the commission preparing ...ORINATS YERKIR WILL HAVE MORE SEATS IN NEW PARLIAMENT - PARTY LEADER
YEREVAN.- Orinats Yerkir Party will get more seats in the parliament than it used to have, leader of the Party Arthur Baghdasaryan told journalists on Wednesday.
As to public opinion polls showing the ...ARMENIAN CENTRAL BANK PREDICTS CREDIT GROWTH DECELERATION
YEREVAN. - The Central Bank (CB) of Armenia is forecasting a slow-down in the 2012 economic credit growth rate, reports CB's monetary policy program for the first quarter of 2012.
This year ...TURKEY WAITS FOR UKRAINIAN FEMEN ACTIVISTS
The activists of Ukrainian FEMEN movement are preparing to protest against the violence against women in Turkey.
Ukrainian activists told Turkish Hurriyet, that the protest could be held under the "Turkish ...RULING COALITION MEMBER PARTY NOT TO COOPERATE WITH OFF PARLIAMENTARY OPPOSITION
YEREVAN. - Cooperation with off-parliamentary opposition Armenian National Congress (ANC) leader Levon Ter-Petrosyan after 2008 presidential elections was impossible as a matter of fact, head of ruling ...ARMENIAN DEFENSE MINISTER, US SENIOR OFFICER DISCUSS JOINT EXERCISES
YEREVAN. - Armenian Defense Minister Seyran Ohanyan received on Tuesday Rear Admiral Mark Montgomery, the Deputy Director
of Plans, Policy and Strategy of the US Army European Command, who was in Armenia ...SOME ROADS ARE CLOSED IN ARMENIA
YEREVAN. - Armenia's interstate highways, local roads, and mountain passes are drivable, for the most part, as of Wednesday 3 p.m.
There is hidden ice on some road sections, Rescue Service informed Armenian ...SNOW FORECASTED THROUGHOUT ARMENIA ON THURSDAY
YEREVAN. - Snow is forecasted throughout Armenia on Thursday.
The weather will be influences by the passing cyclone, Armenian Ministry of Emergency Situations informs Armenian News-NEWS.am.
The south-west ...SYMPOSIUM HELD ON ARMENIA'S SOCIOECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
YEREVAN. - A symposium devoted to Armenia's socioeconomic development was held Wednesday at the Eurasia International University in the capital Yerevan. The event brought together representatives from ...ARMENIAN NSC SECRETARY DISCUSSES PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS WITH UK AMBASSADOR
YEREVAN.- Secretary of Armenia's National Security Council Arthur Baghdasaryan received on Wednesday UK Ambassador to Armenia Catherine Jane Leach.
The sides discussed the ways to promote cooperation ...FORMER ARMENIAN FMS MEMBERSHIP IN RULING COALITION PARTY WAS EXPECTED - SECURITY COUNCIL SECRETARY
YEREVAN. - Armenia's former FM Vartan Oskanian's membership in the ruling coalition's Prosperous Armenia Party (PAP) was expected, the coalition's Rule of Law Party Chairman and National Security Council ...SERGEANT ARRESTED FOR SERVICEMAN DEATH IN KARABAKH
STEPANAKERT. - A sergeant is blamed for a serviceman death in Nagorno-Karabakh.
Sergeant Arthur Zakaryan is arrested in connection to the death of a serviceman Karlen Baghdasaryan at one of the units ...TENNIS REQUIRES LARGE INVESTMENTS - ARMENIAN COACH
By Khachik Chakhoyan
YEREVAN. - Armenian tennis players have long and difficult trainings, however, the athletes should participate at least in two-three international tournaments to gain experience, ...SURVEY PLACES ARMENIA'S OFF-PARLIAMENTARY OPPOSITION AFTER RULING COALITION MEMBER PARTY
YEREVAN. - Over 26% out of 702 Yerevan respondents will support ruling coalition member Republican Party of Armenia (RPA) in the upcoming parliamentary elections, show social survey results.
The public ...ARMENIAN DEPUTY FM IS IN TEHRAN
YEREVAN. - Within the framework of its working visit to Iran, Armenia's delegation, led by Deputy FM Shavarsh Kocharyan, met with Seyed Abbas Araghchi, Iran's Deputy FM on Asia, Oceania and CIS Affairs. ...HEAD OF ARMENIAN FOOTBALL FEDERATION DREAMS ABOUT FIFA TOP TEN
YEREVAN. -Armenia has a good national team demonstrating a good football, that is why it occupies the 41st position in FIFA ranking, head of the Armenian Football Federation (AFF) Ruben Hayrapetyan told ...COMMENTING ON STATEMENTS OF POLITICAL CORPSES NOT SERIOUS - ARMENIAN OPPOSITION
YEREVAN. - It is not serious to comment on statements of political corpses, off parliamentary opposition Armenian National Congress (ANC) spokesperson Arman Musinyan told Armenian News-NEWS.am regarding ...WORLD BANK APPROVES $11 MILLION CREDIT FOR ARMENIA
The World Bank has approved a $11 million credit, the Third Additional Financing for the Social Investment Fund III Project for Armenia.
The Additional Financing will further assist the Government of ...PAN-ARMENIAN BANK BECOMES PARTICIPANT OF ARMENIA'S STOCK EXCHANGE
YEREVAN. - On Wednesday the Pan-Armenian Bank Company was registered as participant of NASDAQ OMX Armenia stock exchange, the latter's Marketing and Communication Department informed Armenian News-NEWS.am. ...WORLD BANK SIGNS LOAN AGREEMENTS WITH ARMENIA
YEREVAN. - Armenia's Finance Minister Vache Gabrielyan and Jean-Michel Happi, the World Bank Country Manager for Armenia, signed on Wednesday financing and loan agreements, worth US$ 50 million and $30 ...US DOLLAR JUMPS OVER AMD 389
YEREVAN. - The average US dollar/AMD exchange rate made AMD 289.31/$1 on NASDAQ OMX Armenia, Wednesday. US dollar went up by 0.09% or 0.35 points as compared with Tuesday.
The sales totaled $1.9 million. ...IRAN CUTS OIL SUPPLIES TO SIX EU STATES
Iran has suspended oil supplies to six EU states before the embargo will go into effect.Iranian Press TV channel reported these states are the Netherlands, Spain, Italy, France, Greece and PortugalEarlier ...FOREIGN RESEARCHERS ON KARABAKH CONFLICT AND ARMENIA-TURKEY RELATIONS
A regular release of the political series of the Armenian Journal of Modern Issues, published by the Nubarian library within the Armenian General Benevolent Union (AGBU) is ready. The book is edited by ...YEREVAN TO MARK VARDANANTS CELEBRATION MARCHING
YEREVAN. - Ruling Armenian Republican Party Youth wing organized a march scheduled for Thursday, 1.30 p.m. and devoted to the St. Vardanants celebration.
Priests, young people, representatives of NGOs ...SOUTH CAUCASUS RAILWAY TO ENLARGE DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS IN ARMENIA (PHOTO)
YEREVAN. - Armenian PM Tigran Sargsyan received a delegation headed by President of the Russian Railways Vladimir Yakunin.
Armenian PM stated that Yakunin's visits give an impetus to new investments and ...CEMENT EXPORT INCREASES 2.5 TIMES
Last year 98 tons of cement was exported from Armenia which is 2.5 times more than in 2010, the State Revenue Committee says.
Cement is exported for $64 per ton. There is not any significant change in ...ARMENIAN PRESIDENT DISCUSSES PROSPECTS FOR RAILWAY DEVELOPMENT
YEREVAN. - Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan received on Wednesday Vladimir Yakunin, the President of Russian Railways. The company took over the management of Armenian railways under a concession agreement.
Yakunin ...IF ARMENIA-IRAN RAILWAY IS CONSTRUCTED RUSSIAN RAILWAYS IS TO PARTICIPATE
YEREVAN-If the Armenia-Iran railway is constructed the Russian Railways will participate in the project, the director of the Russian Railways Vladimir Yakunin said during a briefing in Yerevan.
Commenting ...OVER $185 MILLION INVESTED IN ARMENIAN RAILWAYS OVER LAST THREE YEARS
YEREVAN. - Over $185 million was invested in the Armenian railways in 2008-2011, Armenian Minister of Transport and Communications Manuk Vardanyan said during a joint press conference with the head of ...
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