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Headlines for January 24, 2012FRANCE'S SENATE PASSES ARMENIAN GENOCIDE BILL
The French Senate voted late Monday to criminalize any public denial of genocides, including Armenian Genocide. Hence, anybody who will claim to deny Armenian Genocide in France will be punished. Monday ...ARMENIAN FM: THIS DAY TO BE WRITTEN IN GOLD IN HISTORY OF PROTECTION OF HUMAN RIGHTS
Today's Senate decision is the logical continuation of the law recognizing the Armenian Genocide adopted by France in 2001, MFA reported. This day will be written in gold not only in the history of friendship ...ARMENIAN PARLIAMENT SPEAKER: SENATE REAFFIRMED ITS ROLE AS DEFENDER OF UNIVERSAL HUMAN VALUES
France's Senate, having passed the bill criminalizing the denial of Armenian Genocide, has reaffirmed its pivotal role as a genuine defender of universal human values, Armenian Parliament Speaker Samvel ...SOME ROADS IN ARMENIA IMPASSABLE
Berd-Chambarak road and Selim Mountain Pass are impassable as of January 24, 09:30, the Armenian Ministry of Emergency Situations reported.GUNMEN KILL 15 IN SOUTHERN PHILIPPINES
At least 15 men were killed in the southern Philippines when gunmen opened fire on three boats, in what military officials say was fishing turf rivalry, BBC reported. The incident happened on Monday off ...CANADA DEPORTS RWANDA GENOCIDE SUSPECT
A Rwandan man has been deported from Canada to Kigali where he faces charges of helping to incite the 1994 genocide, according to BBC. Leon Mugesera has been fighting deportation for 16 years with a series ...KENNEDY HEARSE SELLS FOR $160000
A Cadillac hearse that carried the body of President John F. Kennedy to Air Force One following his assassination in Dallas was sold at a Scottsdale, Ariz., auction for $160,000, CNN reported. Stephen ...1213 MAGAZINES AND NEWSPAPERS REGISTERED IN ARMENIA
1213 magazines and newspapers are registered in the Agency of State Register of Legal Entities of the Armenian Ministry of Justice. 46 new print media - 18 magazines and 28 newspapers - were registered ...YEREVAN MAYOR'S OFFICE: SNOW REMOVAL UNDERWAY IN YARDS
The respective structures of all administrative districts of Yerevan have carried out snow-removing work in the streets to ensure normal movement of traffic since the evening of January 23 and through ...JULIAN ASSANGE TO CREATE TV TALK SHOW
Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has announced he is creating his own TV talk show where he will interview "key political players, thinkers and revolutionaries from around the world." According to a media ...ERDOGAN VOWS SANCTIONS AGAINST FRANCE
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan convened a Board meeting in the headquarters of the Justice and Development party while the French Senate was debating the Armenian Genocide bill on January ...GIRO MANOYAN: CO-CHAIR COUNTRIES TO MAKE EVERY EFFORT TO AVOID WAR
"The Sochi meeting and the joint statement were indeed an attempt by the three countries to make a positive impression, and nothing more. There is no positive shift in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict settlement ...SPANISH FEDERATION TO RULE ON PEPE'S STAMP ON MESSI
Royal Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) president Alfredo Florez has indicated that the federation will rule on Pepe's stamp on Lionel Messi on Wednesday, Goal.com reported. The federation's Competition ...9 ARMENIAN GMS TO ATTEND EUROPEAN INDIVIDUAL CHAMPIONSHIP
In the aftermath of Armenian 72nd Championship, 9 Armenian grandmasters have been qualified to take part in European Individual Championship, that will be held from March 19 to April 1 , 2012, in Plovdiv, ...GUTI SET TO MOVE TO SCHALKE
Spanish midfielder Guti appears to be on his way to Schalke after reaching an agreement with the Gelsenkirchen outfit about a contract until the end of the season, AS reports. The former Real Madrid midfielder ...G. MANOYAN: OUTCOME OF SENATE DECISION - EU STATES MAY PASS SIMILAR BILLS
French Senate motion is a great political success for all of us. First, it's France's victory as it didn't undergo Turkish pressure; it's also the victory of all the Armenians worldwide. This victory ...‘MERCI' - ARMENIAN YOUTH THANKED FRENCH AMBASSADOR TO ARMENIA
Armenian youth is celebrating France's Senate adoption of Armenian Genocide denial bill in front of French Embassy building in Armenia, expressing words of gratitude and appreciation to France. "Miasin" ...KARINE ACHEMYAN: TURKEY SHOULD WAKE UP FROM SLEEP
I think this is the start of a process which spreads in Europe, and the process of recognition of the Armenian Genocide will reach the logical finish, member of RPA parliamentary faction Karine Achemyan ...G. MINASYAN: IMPLEMENTATION OF MAJOR PROJECTS WITH RUSSIA OF GREAT IMPORTANCE
"I greatly signify development of bilateral relations in multi-profile aspects - political, economic, military-technical; and the most important thing is that advancement in all those aspects is obvious," ...THANK YOU ACTION TURNS INTO SOLIDARITY ACTION - KAREN AVAGYAN
Representatives of ARF Youth Organization also joined the thank you action in front of the French Embassy in Yerevan, attended by RPA Youth Organization and Miasin Youth Movement. "This action once again ...2012 PARLIAMENTARY ELECTION: DEMOCRACY AND LABOR PARTY TO RUN FOR PARLIAMENT IN ALLIANCE WITH ANC
"The Democracy and Labor party is going to run for parliament. One of the founders of the Armenian National Congress in 2008, the party will certainly run for parliament in alliance with ANC," leader ...E. SHARMAZANOV: GENOCIDE DENIAL AS BIG CRIME AS ITS IMPLEMENTATION
"Legislation criminalizing denial of Armenian Genocide has a pivotal role in Armenia-France relations, as well as in international recognition of Armenian Genocide. In this respect France reaffirmed its ...IRANIAN MEDIA: AZERBAIJAN COMMITTED TO UNFRIENDLY POLICY WITH IRAN
Azerbaijan continues its unfriendly policy with Iran, Iranian "arannews.ir" website reported. "Azerbaijani government urged Iranian "Red Cross" clinic management to forbid nurses to wear hijabs, and to ...EXPERT: AZERBAIJAN MUST COPE WITH STATUS QUO MAINTENANCE
"The statement adopted in the aftermath of Sochi-hosted tripartite meeting means status quo will maintain, and Azerbaijan has to cope with it," Sergey Minasyan, deputy director of "Caucasus" institute, ...SERZH SARGSYAN SENDS LETTER TO NICOLAS SARKOZY: HISTORIC DAY FOR ARMENIANS ALL OVER THE WORLD
President Serzh Sargsyan sent today a letter to the President of France Nicolas Sarkozy on the occasion of the adoption by the French Senate of the bill criminalizing the denial of genocides. The letter ...DISCUSSION: DON'T BE GUARDED FROM GLOBALIZATION, USE IT IN FAVOR TO US
"In this era of globalization information technologies should be used in favor to us. Information technologies give a chance to communicate without mediators, to discuss different items. We should not ...JEWISH HOLOCAUST, ARMENIAN GENOCIDE PUT ON EQUAL PLANE - EXPERT
The Armenian Genocide bill passed by the French Senate will have much impact on political and legal decisions by other European Union countries, deputy director of Caucasus Institute, political expert ...WORLD MEDIA GIANTS WIDELY COVER ARMENIAN GENOCIDE DENIAL BILL ADOPTION
The legislation, passed by French Senate, defining criminalization and penalties for the denial of Armenian Genocide, has been widely covered and televised by international media giants. Large-scale media ...VIVACELL-MTS ANNOUNCED WINNERS OF HOLIDAY QUIZ FOR OPERA MINI BROWSER USERS
VivaCell-MTS, a subsidiary of "Mobile TeleSystems" OJSC, announces that today, at VivaCell-MTS Headquarters, the winners of the VivaCell-MTS' holiday quiz for Opera Mini browser users have been announced. ...NAREK GALSTYAN: OSCE MINSK GROUP THE ONLY FORMAT FOR KARABAKH TALKS
The tripartite meeting in Sochi once again proved that OSCE Minsk Group is the only format for Karabakh talks, political expert Narek Galstyan told a news conference in Yerevan, commenting upon the tripartite ...BERD-CHAMBARAK ROAD STILL IMPASSABLE DUE TO SNOWSTORM
All roads and mountain passes of interstate and republican significance are mainly open to traffic as of January 24, 17:30. In spots, there is black ice on the roads in Selim Mountain Pass and in Goris. ...AZERBAIJANI CITIZEN CROSSES CONTACT LINE INTO ARTSAKH
On January 23, at 15:25 local time NKR Defense Army servicemen on duty detained an Azerbaijani citizen while he was crossing the contact line in the northeastern part into Artsakh. The detained citizen ...
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