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Headlines for December 16, 2011UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SCHOLAR BECOMES TARGET OF TURKISH GROUPS
University of California, Davis (UC Davis) Professor Keith David Watenpaugh became the latest victim of a Turkish-American group's allegations of slander this fall when an article about his paper was ...CONGRESSMEN CALL ON ADMINISTRATION TO SUPPORT ARMENIA
Congressional Armenian Issues Caucus co-chairs Congressman Frank Pallone, Jr and Armenian Genocide Resolution sponsor Congressman Adam Schiff met with Assistant Secretary of State Philip Gordon Wednesday ...RUSSIA PROPOSES NEW UN RESOLUTION FOR SYRIA
Russia's new draft for a Security Council resolution on the Syrian crisis is "insufficient" but could be improved, Germany's U.N. ambassador said Thursday, according to the CNN. Russia's ambassador ...IMF WARNS AGAINST 1930-STYLE SLUMP
The world risks sliding into a 1930s-style slump unless countries settle their differences and work together to tackle Europe's deepening debt crisis, the head of the International Monetary Fund has warned, ...BRITISH WRITER CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS DIES
British author, literary critic and journalist Christopher Hitchens has died, aged 62, BBC News reported, citing Vanity Fair magazine. He died from pneumonia, a complication of the oesophageal cancer ...GOOGLE'S CHROME OVERTAKES EXPLORER
Google Chrome topped Internet Explorer 8 in the last week of November, when Chrome took 23.6% of the global market and IE8 took 23.5%. In the United States, Internet Explorer is said to be still on top, ...ARF-D NEVER HAD FINANCIAL DIFFICULTIES, SAYS SPOKESMAN
The Armenian Revolutionary Federation-Dashnaksutyun (ARF-D) never had financial difficulties, Spartak Seyranyan, a spokesperson for the party has said, denying recent report that ARF-D has appeared in ...'OVERSTATED' GENOCIDE AND 'UNBEARABLE OLD MAN'
The writer and publicist Tigran Paskvichyan commented on the Armenian-French singer Charles Aznavour's recent interview with Russian press. He writes: "We have lately had frequent occasions to ...KAJARAN RESIDENTS TO PROTEST OUTSIDE GOVERNMENT ON FRIDAY
The residents of the southern village of Kajaran (Syunik region) are going to hold a demonstration outside the Government later today to protest against a decision to declare several areas in Syunik region ...ICC MAY DECLARE GADDAFI DEATH WAR CRIME
The death of former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, who was captured and killed by rebels in October, may have been a war crime, the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court said on Thursday, ...DAVUTOGLU: TURKEY'S POLICIES BROUGHT ISRAEL TO ITS KNEES'
Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said Friday that Turkey's recent, firm policies in the Middle East "have brought Israel to its knees" and isolated the Jewish state both regionally and ...ROBERT KOCHARYAN PERIODICALLY MEETS INCUMBENT PRESIDENT- SPOKESMAN
Second president Robert Kocharyan's spokesperson has confirmed recent reports that the ex-president periodically meets Serzh Sargsyan. Speaking to Tert.am, Victor Soghomonyan declined, however, to comment ...APPLE SHOWER IN BRITISH TOWN MYSTIFIES RESIDENTS
Residents of Coventry have been left mystified after hundreds of apples fell from the sky over their homes, BBC News reported. People in the Keresley area of the city said the fruit came raining down ...ARMENIAN MP ON NAGORNO-KARABAKH CONFLICT
At his Dec. 16 meeting with journalists, Gagik Minasyan, an MP of the Republican Party of Armenia (RPA), summed up this year in the context of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. "We have strong positions ...GEORGIA, EU TO START VISA RELAXATION TALKS IN MARCH
The EU Special Mission will visit Georgia in March to start negotiations over the relaxation of visas, the Georgian president has said. According to the Russian news website Vzglyad.ru, Mikheil Saakashvili ...CHRISTIAN DEMOCRATS TO BACK REPUBLICAN IN PARLIAMENTARY POLLS
The Christian Democratic Union is going to back the Republican in the upcoming parliamentary polls, the leader of the party has said. Khosrov Harutyunyan told reporters on Friday that their party will ...HERITAGE MPS CHALLENGE ARMENIAN GOVERNMENT
Dec. 16, Styepa Safaryan, Head of the Heritage parliamentary group, and the group member Anahit Bakhshyan addressed questions to the Armenian prime minister and government. The questions concern the ...HILLARY CLINTON TO VISIT GEORGIA
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is planning a visit to Georgia, her deputy has said. The Georgian news website Aspny.ge has quoted Eric Rubin as saying earlier today that the two sides were working ...ERDOGAN WARNS SARKOZY AGAINST PASSAGE OF GENOCIDE BILL
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has sent a letter to French President Nicolas Sarkozy, warning him against the what he called the grave consequences of the Armenian Genocide penalization bill. ...LANDLOCKED ARMENIA RESULT OF ARMENIAN GENOCIDE - AUSTRALIAN MP
Andrew Rohan, a member for Smithfield in the NSW Legislative Assembly, declared in a parliamentary statement that modern-day Armenia remains landlocked as a result of the Genocide perpetrated by the Ottoman ...PM: THREE-LEVEL PENSION SYSTEM ALLOWS FOR MORE EFFECTIVE RISK MANAGEMENT
The Government-proposed three level pension system is expected to make risk management procedures more effective, Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan has said. Speaking at a conference devoted to pension ...UNFAIR COMPETITION PROVES HEAVY COST TO ARMENIAN COMPANIES
Three Armenian dairy foods producing companies - Ashtarak Kat, Dustr Mariana and Ani Kat - committed gross violations in the market. In a number of their products they used vegetable oil, namely, coconut ...ARMENIAN ADVOCACY GROUP VISITS CONSCRIPT WHO LOST EYE AFTER BLOW (VIDEO)
An Armenian activist movement Chenk Lrelu (No Silence) has visited a soldier who lost one of his eyes after an officer hit him with a metal chain. The incident took place at a military unit in Nagorno ...MOSCOW AIRPORTS FINED OVER ACCESS FOR DISABLED PASSENGERS
Moscow's three airports - Sheremetyevo, Domodedovo and Vnukovo - have been fined a total of 190,000 rubles for failing to provide facilities for the disabled, RIA Novosti reported. The airport terminals ...ARMENIA'S AUTHORITIES MORE ACTIVE WITH RESPECT TO ARMENIAN GENOCIDE ISSUE - EXPERT
Armenia's authorities are more active with respect to the issue of Armenian Genocide, the political scientist Narek Galstyan told journalists Dec. 16. He arrived at this conclusion after Armenian President ...AZERBAIJAN MAY TRY TO RESUME WAR IN CASE ATTACK ON IRAN - ANALYST
Azerbaijan may resort to adventure over the resumption of military actions over Nagorno-Karabakh in a war is unleashed against Iran, an Armenian political analyst has said. Speaking to reporters on ...RPA CENTER CHAPTER ELECTS DELEGATES TO RULING ARMENIAN PARTY'S CONGRESS
Armenia's President, Chairman of the Republican Party of Armenia (RPA) participated in the meetings of the Sayat-Nova-2 and Metaks-1 divisions of the RPA Center chapter. RPA Spokesman Eduard Sharmazanov ...RUSSIA CIRCULATES SURPRISE UN RESOLUTION ON SYRIA
Russia has circulated a UN Security Council resolution aimed at resolving the crisis in Syria, in a move that surprised Western nations, BBC News reported. The draft condemns the violence by both Syria's ...ACTIVISTS CAMPAIGN FOR PASSENGERS RIGHTS IN YEREVAN
A group of activists held a campaign Friday against violations of rules by drivers of public transport in Yerevan. Walking in the streets of the capital, the activists of Miasin (Together) movement ...THOUSANDS OF CHILDREN ABUSED IN DUTCH CHURCHES OVER 65 YEARS
Thousands and thousands of children suffered from sexual abuse in the Dutch Roman Catholic Church over more than six decades, and about 800 "possible perpetrators" have been identified, an independent ...JAPAN DECLARES FUKUSHIMA NUCLEAR POWER PLANT STABLE
The crippled nuclear reactors at Japan's Fukushima power plant have finally been stabilised, Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda announced Friday, accoding to BBC News. Noda's declaration of a "cold shutdown" ...ARMENIAN DEFENSE MINISTER SAYS PERPETRATOR WILL BE PUNISHED STRICTLY
Armenia's Defense Minsiter Seyran Ohanyan has said that the person responsible for the incident at the Nagorno Karabakh military unit will be punished strictly. "A criminal case has been filed, and ...RUSSIA BECOMES WTO MEMBER AFTER 18 YEARS OF TALKS
Russia has finally joined the World Trade Organization (WTO) at a ceremony in Switzerland on Friday, after 18 years negotiating its membership, BBC News reported. The Swiss brokered a deal between Russia ...OUR MAIN CONDITION IS ‘LIBERATION OF KARABAKH,' SAYS TURKISH AMBASSADOR
Turkish Ambassador to Azerbaijan Hulusi Kilic has said that the main condition for Turkey to open the border with Armenia is the "liberation of Nagorno Karabakh". Kilic also said that Turkey will not ...EGYPT ELECTIONS: CAIRO PROTESTERS CLASH WITH ARMY
Clashes have broken out in the Egyptian capital, Cairo, after the army tried to remove demonstrators staging a sit-in near the parliament building, BBC News reported. The protesters threw stones at ...
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Today in Armenian history- 1772 Birth of Hakob Shahen-Jrpetyan (armenologist) in Urfa. He died in 1837 In Tbilissi (Georgia).
- 1912 Hovhannes Toomanyan heads the Caucasian Association of Armenian writers in Tbilissi (Georgia).
- 1915 The Turkish government cancels the Armenian Reforms Project, signed on 1914 02 08.
- 1917 The People's Commissariat of Soviet Russia (headed by Lenin), appoints Shahoomyan (President of the Baku Commune) as temporary extraordinary commissar for Caucasian affairs.
- 1955 Death of psychiatrist and professor, K. Aghajanian.
- 1966 Adoption, by the United Nations, of the International Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. Both documents establish that All peoples have the right of self-determination. (Article One).
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