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Armenia’s exports hit record high in 2016 – minister

December 28, 2016 By administrator

Armenia’s exports have set a record this year, Armenia’s Minister of Economic Development and Investments Suren Karayan told reporters on Wednesday.

“We’ll record a year-on-year increase of exports reaching 21%. And we forecast a 25% increase during the last four-month period,” the minister said.

On the other hand, Mr Karayan does not consider the figures satisfactory.

“To ensure steady economic growth we believe that we must, in the mid-term, invest all our potential to ensure the share of exports in Armenia’s GDP to be at least 40-50 percent,” the minister said.

He points out controversial high-level centralization of export in terms of both markets and products, and the ministry will try to diversify exports.

“The increase was due to Armenia products. We have recorded a 25% increase in exports over the last three months – several times as much as last year,” Mr Karayan said.

Armenia’s exports to the European Union (EU) have increased as well and work is in progress to promote exports to the EU, which is one of the major steps.

Filed Under: Articles Tagged With: 2016, Armenia, export, record

LA France Phonéthon 2016: The duty of Solidarity sponsored by Valerie Toranian

November 16, 2016 By administrator

la-france-phonethonThe Phonéthon 2016 will take place this year from 17 to 20 November for Paris, Lyon and Toulouse, and from 16 to 19 November for Marseille. It will be sponsored by Valerie Toranian and Nikos Alyagas.

This year, the Armenian Fund of France enters a turning point. After the unexpected success of the community centers in Karabagh, financed by the last Phonethon, we will target our actions in Artsakh for the reconstruction of houses damaged by the war, particularly in the city of Madaghis, which is heavily affected.

Armenia: Agricultural Development Projects in the Tavush Region

1. Infrastructure & Production

Purchase of modern and automatic milking machines for the seven farmhouses;

Increased Lusadzor cheese production through the purchase of a pasteurizer;

Continuation of the works and equipment of the seven farms with extension of the grazing areas;

Target: 130 dairy cows by 2018, 60 tons of cheese per year;

Thanks to the increase in livestock (due to the birth of female calves) and the extension of the Lusadzor farm, within 2 years, a production of 1,400 liters / day or 170 kg of cheese on average;

Regular missions of a French cheese maker.

Intervention of French experts in cow nutrition;

2. Training & Human Resources

Continuation of support programs for the 7 existing cooperatives; Improvement of human monitoring and synergy between cooperators geographically distant from the Lusadzor farm; Assist co-operators in better managing their budgets;

3. Culture

Continuation of the purchase and distribution of fruit tree seedlings;

Continuation of the purchase and collection of kakis whose demand is growing;

Continuation and rationalization of the daily purchase of milk from other producers;

4. Irrigation, breeding & Alpine pastures

Development of alpine pastures (especially at Kirants) which have the advantage of supplying good quality free forage for 4 to 5 months in large quantities;

Partial rehabilitation of a 33 km road for the benefit of breeders from the 6 villages near the Kirants Alpine pastures and the Lusadzor farm;

Improvement of irrigation for several villages, development of wine-growing areas, extension of crops (wheat, maize, etc.)

Syria, five years on …

Five years have passed since the Armenian community in Syria survived the war. Despite the bombing, the emigration and the losses, the structures continue not without difficulty to function

The summer of 2016 will remain marked in memories like that of the bloody battle of Aleppo, a decisive battle that will seal the future of Syria martyred by five years of war. Since the end of May the Armenian population entrenched in its quarters under Loyalist control undergoes daily bombardments of a rare intensity. Attached by the Courier of the Armenian Fund, Maria Kaprielian, journalist based in Aleppo, draws a damning statement:

“In recent months, the security situation has worsened, snipers, rockets and barrels of gas have caused considerable human and material damage”.

From June 3 to 5, 2016, a deluge of 38 shells struck the Armenian neighborhood of Nor Kiugh (Midan), which runs along the front line, killing six Armenians, damaging churches, schools, clubs and apartments, Including the Armenian church of the Holy Trinity of Zvarnots, the Maternity and the elderly Verjine Gulbenkian home.

“In addition to the fear of seeing their buildings collapse under the bombs, residents in our neighborhoods suffer from power cuts for days or even whole weeks, and running water is cut continuously. This forces people to get supplies at precarious water points. Because of the collapse of the Syrian pound, traders are forced to double the price of basic necessities “

It was in this dramatic context that the pupils of the Armenian schools passed the examinations of the Patent (with a success rate of 100% for the Najarian Calouste Gulbenkian High School and 93% for the Karen Jeppe Djemaran High School) and the Baccalaureate. Although operating in small numbers, schools in the Syrian Armenian community, whose salaries for teachers and administrative staff are partly covered by the Armenian Fund of France, are courageously fulfilling their mission.

Since 2013, 390,000 euros have been transferred to Alep via the Catholicossat of Cilicia (Antelias). This year are again 50,000 euros that the Armenian Fund of France will transfer for this purpose. While the number of Armenians in Aleppo is decreasing, many are still clinging to the land of Syria, from Kessab to Qamichli where the Azkayin Eprad Varjaran high school closed its academic year hoping for better days. But at what a price! The Armenians continue to pay a heavy toll on the civil war. Between 1 February 2012 and 30 August 2016, there were 128 killed (including 25 killed in combat and 99 killed during the bombing), 362 wounded and 110 hostages (two of whom were executed). At the material level, more than 1,000 apartments have been partially destroyed, 150 apartments completely destroyed, and minor damage caused by explosions (broken windows and doors), not to mention the destruction caused by fires and looting.

“We do not have the right to be pessimistic, because if we become it is assured death,” says Lala Minassian, an Armenian teacher and writer.

Artsakh: Repair of houses damaged by the war of the 4 days in the village of Madaghis

Despite the emergency situation caused by Azerbaijani military aggression in April 2016, the Armenian Fund intends to continue in 2017 its projects in drinking water networks, construction of rural community centers, education and health on land Of Artsakh, in partnership with the Government of the Republic of Nagorno-Karabakh, who are actively involved in financing the projects. This year also marks the culmination of our project for the construction of community centers which we have been able to carry out with the help of all sections of the Armenian Fund. The pan-Armenian solidarity allowed a real small revolution in the daily life of the villagers of the Artsakh.

Source: Wednesday 16 November 2016,
Stéphane © armenews.com

Filed Under: News Tagged With: 2016, la france, Phonethon

Hundreds of companies to take part in Made in Armenia-2016 exhibition

September 7, 2016 By administrator

armenia-2016 exhibitionThe aim of the Made in Armenia-2016 exhibition is to support domestic producers and afford opportunities for them to establish contacts with foreign businessmen, Karen Mkrticheian, Executive Director of the Development Foundation of Armenia (DFA), told reporters on Wednesday as he spoke of the exhibition to take place at the Meridian expo center on September 19-22.

“We often do not know anything about products manufactured in Armenia’s regions. So it is an occasion for Armenian producers to cooperate,” Mr Mkrticheian said.

More than 320 companies from Armenian and Nagorno-Karabakh specializing in food production, jewelry, light, pharmaceutical, mining and precision machinery industries, building materials and information technologies are participating in the exhibition.

On September 20, on the sidelines of the Made in Armenia-2016 exhibition, the DFA will organize the economic forum “Armenia as a bridge to great markets”, which will discuss investment projects in transport, pharmaceutical industry and agriculture. Representatives of government-run and private sectors from Armenia, other member-states of the Eurasian Economic Union (EEU) and Iran will participate in the forum.

Filed Under: Events, News Tagged With: 2016, Armenia, exhibition

Video: Canada Day 2016 Celebration from Vancouver to Whistler

July 3, 2016 By administrator

canada day 740Video: Canada Day 2016 Celebration from Vancouver to Whistler

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Armenia to host first-ever ArmHiTech-2016 defense exhibition

June 23, 2016 By administrator

armhitechArmenia will host the first-ever ArmHiTech-2016 international exhibition of arms and defense technologies on October 13-15.

As the Defense Ministry press service reports, the event was included in the plan of action of the CSTO Collective Security Council’s summit set to be held in Armenia.

The exhibition is organized by the Ministry of Defense of the Republic of Armenia, Yerevan Plant of Mathematical Machines PLC. (ZAO “YerZMM) and Exhibition Companies Group “Bizon.”

The exhibition is organized as an integrated complex of exhibition and business events in order to demonstrate to potential customers high-tech, innovative developments and ready solutions in the field of modern weapons, military equipment and technologies, as well as the needs of the Armenian Armed Forces in the respective materiel, products and services of general purpose. The event aims to promote the modernization and technical re-equipment of the Armed Forces, security agencies and law enforcement bodies of Armenia, increasing their combat capability and efficiency, as well as to ensure possibilities of studying the achievements of up-to-date international military-technical developments and solutions.

Filed Under: Articles Tagged With: 2016, Armenia, armhitech, exhibition

894 Turkish journalists dismissed since January 2016: Report

May 15, 2016 By administrator

trj.thumbA total 894 journalists have been dismissed from work since the beginning of 2016, according to a fresh report by Press For Freedom, a project funded by Britain’s Bilateral Program, which produces monthly, quarterly and yearly reports on the state of media freedoms in Turkey, the Hurriyet Daily News reports.

The report, whose findings were announced at a press conference on May 14, displayed a gloomy picture of the deteriorating state of press freedoms in Turkey.

Two newspapers and a news agency have been “silenced” with the appointment of a trustee panel due to “strong evidence” of links to the Gülen movement, followers of U.S.-based Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen, an ally-turned-foe of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) government and President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, the report said.

At least 160 journalists were laid off in Turkey in April, increasing the number of discharged journalists to a total 894 over the first quarter of 2016, the report said.

The research also noted some 104,904 websites were blocked while access has been denied to the website of the Dicle News Agency (DİHA) 37 times since the general elections on June 7, 2015. Thirteen of the agency’s journalists are also current under arrest.

Violence targeting members of the press also rose over the same period, as a total 200 attacks were reported against journalists, including 21 against media institutions. A fourth Syrian journalist, Zahir al-Sherqat, was killed in April by suspected militants of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), prompting the Vienna-based International Press Institute (IPI) to call on the Turkish government to take serious measures against ISIL violence on Turkish soil.

Meanwhile, a total of 33 reporters were detained between January and April 2016, 13 investigations were launched against journalists while 12 journalists were brought before court. Over the same period, 12 journalists faced charges over “insulting the president.”

In the report, Press For Freedom highlighted the situation of daily Cumhuriyet Editor-in-Chief Can Dündar and Ankara bureau chief Erdem Gül, as an Istanbul court sentenced the journalists to five years in prison for “leaking state secrets” on May 6, hours after Dündar escaped unharmed from an armed attack in front of Istanbul’s Çağlayan courthouse.

“Journalists chase news. Treating journalists and newspaper managers, who search for, write and publish news, as ‘terrorists’ or ‘spies’ displays the state of freedoms in the country in question,” the report said, also criticizing a lack of safety for reporters in Turkey’s southeastern provinces where operations against the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) have been continuing for months.

Speaking during the event, Turkish Journalists Association (TGC) chair Nazmi Bilgin stressed the importance of press freedoms to enable a modern, democratic society.

“Freedom is a must for freedom and freedom a must for the press,” he said, adding citizens’ involvement in politics and the operability of the right to information is only possible via a free media.

Meanwhile, Yusuf Kanlı, the coordinator of the project who is also a columnist for the Hürriyet Daily News, said it was not possible to speak of a democracy where opposition voices are being silenced, censorship is common and press freedoms are under pressure.

Turkey has been classified as a “not free” country by U.S.-based think tank Freedom House’s press freedom reports since 2014, when its status deteriorated from “partly free” due to the treatment of journalists during the widespread Gezi Park protests and the backlash against their coverage of corruption probes in 2013.

Filed Under: Articles Tagged With: 2016, 894, dismissed, Journalist, Turkish

Tonight at 21 hours on France 2 the final of Eurovsion 2016, Iveta Mukuchyan sing for Armenia in 26th and last place. ARMENIA vote!

May 14, 2016 By administrator

Tonight at 21 hours is the final of Eurovision 2016 will be transmitted live from Stockholm (Sweden) on foreign television channels France 2 and France. Armenia, with superb Iveta Mukuchyan perform his performance in 26th and last place. This position obtained by lot, is perhaps not favor -one Armenia favorite to title- which will take about 23 hours … But we believe it! And so Armenia -including viewers can not vote for the representative of Armenia-and especially the Armenians in the European Diaspora of Russia to France, passing through Greece, Germany, the Nether- Netherlands, Spain, Belgium, the Netherlands or Austria are behind Armenia, No. 23 for voting by phone or sms.

After the controversy of the flag of Nagorno-Karabakh and future sanctions announced by the EBU’s Eurovision broadcaster, facing the pressures of Azerbaijan won the competition in very suspicious circumstances, prove that Armenians the planet are secured behind Armenia. Let’s vote! Armenia twelve points Armenia, twelve points …

The order of the passages of Eurovision 2016:

- 1.Belgique
- Czech 2.République
- 3.Pays Netherlands
- 4.Azerbaïdjan
- 5.Hongrie
- 6.Italie
- 7.Israël
- 8.Bulgarie
- 9.Suède
- 10.Allemagne
- 11.France
- 12.Pologne
- 13.Australie
- 14.Chypre
- 15.Serbie
- 16.Lithuanie
- 17.Croatie
- 18.Russie
- 19.Espagne
- 20.Lettonie
- 21.Ukraine
- 22.Malte
- 23.Géorgie
- 24.Autriche
- 25.Royaume Kingdom
- 26.Arménie

Krikor Amirzayan (Գրիգոր Ամիրզայեան)

Filed Under: Articles, Events Tagged With: 2016, Armenia, Eurovision, final, Iveta Mukuchyan!

Governor Andrew Cuomo has proclaimed April 24, 2016, as Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day

April 22, 2016 By administrator

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Governor Andrew Cuomo has proclaimed April 24, 2016, as Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day in the US State of New York, reported the New York State Senate website.

Governor Cuomo noted that he pays tribute to the Armenian Genocide victims as well as to the genocide survivors who settled and continued their generations in the State of New York.

The residents of New York join the local Armenian community to remind the events of the past and the lessons learned.

Cuomo said that today, the contribution by the Armenian community in the US speaks about their spirit and courage.

Filed Under: Articles, Genocide Tagged With: 2016, April 24, Armenia marks holiday of Trndez February 13 "Tyarndarach", armenian genocide, day, Governor Andrew Cuomo, proclaimed

Video: Discover Armenia, Rose Float 2016 by Association of Armenian American

January 1, 2016 By administrator

Rose float 2016The 127th Rose Parade has kicked off with a flyover, song and, of course, a spectacular flower-bedecked float. reporters and photographers are along the route sharing photos and stories from fans and parade participants. Stay with us for the live stream of KTLA’s broadcast, “It doesn’t matter where you come from,” 17-year-old Donaly Marquez told foster children after she was selected to the Tournament of Roses’ Royal Court. “You can do anything as long as you set your mind to it.”

 

 

 

 

Filed Under: Events, News, Videos Tagged With: 2016, Discover Armenia, Rose Float

Iveta Mukuchyan to represent Armenia at Eurovision 2016

October 14, 2015 By administrator

25441Iveta Mukuchyan will represent Armenia at Eurovision 2016 that will be held in Sweden this May.

The decision was announced by Armenia’s Public Television on Tuesday.

The semi-finals of the contest will be held on 10 and 12 of May, while the final – on May 14.

Filed Under: Articles, Events Tagged With: 2016, Armenian Eurovision

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