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New Armenia-EU agreement will have profound impact on almost all areas of public life – FM Mnatsakanyan

May 29, 2018 By administrator

New Armenia-EU agreement

YEREVAN, MAY 29, ARMENPRESS. Foreign Minister of Armenia Zohrab Mnatsakanyan sent a message on the occasion of the Europe Day. As ARMENPRESS was informed from the press service of the MFA Armenia, the message runs as follows,

“Distinguished Ambassador Świtalski,
Excellences,
Dear all,

I would like to congratulate all of us on the occasion of Europe Day and thank the Delegation of the European Union to Armenia for putting together this celebration concert.

Europe Day symbolizes peace and unity, which the modern Europe embodies the best. Indeed, lessons learned by Europe, which experienced two devastating world wars, can be a guiding way forward for the entire humanity. A stable, peaceful and developing society and a true citizen can be shaped only through respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms, tolerance, democracy and other common values.

Since ancient times, Armenia has been a part of European civilization and tried to make its modest, but visible contribution to the latter’s development. Today, Armenia continues expanding its ties with the European Union and EU member states, strengthening its position in European structures, in particular in the Council of Europe, and contributing to the work of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe.

Significant developments have been taking place in our relations with the EU since last year’s celebration of the Europe Day. Armenia-EU Comprehensive and Enhanced Partnership Agreement (CEPA) was signed in November, 2017 and was ratified by Armenia in April of this year. It is not just a new legal instrument regulating relations between Armenia and EU, but an expression of partnership based on the common system of values. In February, we signed “the Armenia-EU Partnership Priorities” document, which along with the CEPA is the main guideline for further development of bilateral cooperation.

I can certainly say that the new agreement is a unique development plan with its clear goals and timetable, and its successful implementation will have a profound impact on almost all areas of public life.

Ladies and Gentlemen, the interest around Europe Day events held in Yerevan and in our regions is evident. I want this interest and the approaches to spread across the whole spectrum of Armenia-EU relations, our entire agenda and its successful implementation.

Armenia’s new government, formed on the wave of the nationwide love and solidarity movement, is determined to continue close partnership with the European Union, remains committed to the established agenda, our commitment and vision to regional stability, peace and sustainable development.

Happy Europe Day!

 

Filed Under: News Tagged With: agreement, Armenia-EU, new

Armenia launches special education platform for new generation reforms

May 26, 2018 By administrator

new generation reforms

The Ministry of Education and Science, in collaboration with Tomo Center for Creative Technologies, on Saturday announced the launch of a special platform to consider new generation reforms.

The initiative aims to foster national debates over the future of Armenia’s education, as well as develop a special project proposing renewed approaches to its development and implementation, said Marie Lou Papazian, the managing director of Tumo.

In her speech at the opening event, she also stressed the importance of elaborating a special package to assist in future development projects.

“We should not be satisfied only with the reforms. It is also important to move to building a system which will be considered the most developed in the world. We have three clearly outlined objectives to work on in the six months to come,” she said.

“The first thing to do is to collect all the resources, programs and ideas potentially promoting reforms in education. Second, [we need] to create our vision for guiding those reforms, and third – develop a timeline to get the reforms underway,” Papazian added.

Highly appreciating the initiative, Minister of Education and Science Arayik Harutyunyan highlighted an increasing interest in education (in the past couple of weeks), considering it an important stimulus.

“It is important in the sense that the new government [which came to power] after the [velvet] revolution is planning reforms in these particular areas in collaboration with specialists. That’s something we do really need to introduce good concepts into education,” he said, requesting the attendees to concentrate serious efforts on possible solutions.

The minister said he also managed to address the urgent and pressing problems over the past weeks (since taking office), undertaking strategic and tactical steps to tackle the existing challenges.

He said that the reforms should be comprehensive to offer innovative ideas and approaches on practically all the levels of education (from pre-school institutions to universities). “We need a closer study in the field of vocational education where we are facing numerous problems. Their solution would help build bridges between the labor market and the innovative trends,” he added.

The minister further emphasized the urgent need of de-politicizing universities and revising the distribution of resources. In his words, the Ministry of Education and Science made “quite unreasonable expenses” in the past years. “Certain expenses were made in the wake of special [telephone] calls by the legislative body. They amount to hundreds of millions,” he added.

Filed Under: Articles Tagged With: generation, new, reforms

Armenian President Nominates Ex-PM As His Successor

January 19, 2018 By administrator

Former Armenian Prime Minister Armen Sarkisian (pictured here with Britain’s Prince Charles on the left) is currently Yerevan’s ambassador to London. (file photo)

YEREVAN — Armenian President Serzh Sarkisian has named former Prime Minister Armen Sarkisian as the ruling Republican Party’s nomination for the next president.

Armen Sarkisian, who is no relation to the outgoing president, was Armenia’s prime minister from 1996 to 1997 when he resigned from the post because of a respiratory illness.

He currently is Armenia’s ambassador to the United Kingdom and, in accordance with recent constitutional reforms regarding the presidency, is not a member of any political party.

President Sarkisian, who heads the Republican Party, announced the nomination on January 19.

Earlier in January, President Sarkisian said the Republican Party’s candidate should be a person who is not involved in politics and is highly regarded by Armenian society.

Following a referendum in December 2015, Armenia changed its form of government from a semipresidential to a parliamentary republic.

As a result, presidential veto powers are being stripped from the post and the presidency is being downgraded to a figurehead position elected by parliament every seven years rather than a direct popular vote.

The constitutional reforms coming into effect also limit an Armenian president to a single seven-year term.

Sceptics see the constitutional reforms as a way for incumbent President Sarkisian to maintain political control in Armenia by becoming prime minister when the mandate for his second five-year presidential term expires on April 9.

Armenia’s Republican Party controls a simple majority in Yerevan’s 113-seat, single-chamber legislature and is expected to approve President Sarkisian’s nominee in an early March vote.

Filed Under: News Tagged With: Armen Sarkisian, new, president

Serzh Sargsyan: Next Armenian president should be person, who has never been in politics

January 17, 2018 By administrator

YEREVAN.-  The next president should know foreign languages, have broad connections in both Diaspora and Armenia, enjoy high reputation, and what is most important, be an impartial individual who has never been in politics and has never been a member of any political party, Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan noted following the solemn ceremony of handing “Order of Homeland” to National Hero of Armenia Hovhannes Chekijyan. President Sargsyan had a meeting with some of the intellectuals that attended the ceremony around a tea table, the press service of the Armenian President’s Office reported.

At the beginning of the meeting noting that during the past years he periodically held meetings with intellectuals, President Serzh Sargsyan once again underlined the role and the mission of the intellectuals in the life of the country and offered to have an open and sincere discussion about Armenia and its future, particularly, under the light of the new governance system as a result of the Constitutional changes. Serzh Sargsyan expected to hear the positions, suggestions, as well as concerns and assessments of the intellectuals on the reality in the country.

The participants of the meeting highlighted such meetings and discussions, talked about their visions of Armenia’s future, issues of public concern, including education of the youth, the huge role of the state to educate good citizens, preservation of the purity of the Armenian language and a number of other issues.

The President also answered the questions of the intellectuals that referred to the security of the country and foreign policy. The participants of the meeting asked President Sargsyan, as a person who has run very important positions for years and has passed through the hardships of the war, what criteria the next president of the Republic should meet.

Presenting his vision on the next president of the Republic of Armenia, Serzh Sargsyan noted that the person to assume that post should be someone who has passed a serious path, has reputation inside the country and abroad, and can properly present Armenia in other countries, meaning to fulfill his representative functions.

Filed Under: Articles Tagged With: Armenian President, new

HAVERHILL Construction begins early on new Armenian church

December 6, 2017 By administrator

 

By Mike LaBella,

HAVERHILL — Members of the Armenian Apostolic Church at Hye Pointe are celebrating the start of construction of their new sanctuary, which is being built next to their Family Life and Cultural Center, which opened in April at 1280 Boston Road.

The Rev. Vart Gyozalyan, pastor of the church, said the original goal was to begin construction in two or three years.

“We were able to begin earlier than expected with help from two major donors,” he said. “One member of our church told me that she can’t wait to pray in the sanctuary.”

Since the center opened this spring, services have been held there, while parishioners await the construction of their new sanctuary, a place of worship.

Construction began last week, and Gyozalyan hopes the project will be completed by August 2018.

He said the design of the sanctuary borrows from traditional Armenian architecture, just as the design of the Family Life and Cultural Center did.

Since the grand opening of the center this past spring, the parish has held a number of successful and well-attended events there, including a Mother’s Day Dance put on by the church’s Youth Group, an Armenian spring food festival hosted by the church’s Women’s Guild, an Armenian food festival in August that was organized by the parish council, and the recent Armenian fall food festival hosted by the Women’s Guild.

Hundreds of people attended each event in the new center, which has a capacity of about 450 people.

“We were able to do all of these things because of the much larger capacity of the building and the convenience of our new, fully-equipped commercial kitchen,” Gyozalyan said. “We could not hold functions of this size before.”

Gyozalyan said that after the grand opening of the Family Life and Cultural Center, an Armenian man with ties to the parish approached him with an offer to donate money, if the parish would move forward with construction of a sanctuary as soon as possible.

“We also approached another donor, who agreed to provide money to help build our sanctuary,” he said. “Between the two donors, we were able to move forward with construction of the sanctuary and not have to wait two or three years.”

The construction of the center marked the realization of a dream come true for parishioners, who for years had been trying to sell the former St. Gregory the Illuminator across from City Hall in order to fund construction of their new church.

The Holy Cross Armenian Apostolic Church of Lawrence merged with St. Gregory in 2002 to create the Armenian Apostolic Church at Hye Pointe, the first merged Armenian Apostolic Church in North America.

Both parish councils had previously purchased a site for their newly planned church, and put both church properties up for sale. Holy Cross sold in 2006.

There were growing problems with the St. Gregory building. It was in need of major renovations, lacked handicap accessibility and did not have enough space for parish functions.

Last year, after 15 years of trying to sell the building, the church finally found a buyer. The building was demolished this summer and in its place the new owner is building a Domino’s Pizza franchise along with one or two other retail businesses.

Church leaders said their congregation supported building a new church and selling the St. Gregory church, even if it meant seeing the building torn down, because they needed the money from the sale to build their new church and family center.

The move to a new church received the blessing of Armenians throughout the region and that of the supreme head of the Armenian Apostolic Church, his Holiness Catholicos Karekin II, who blessed the new church property in Bradford in 2007.

While the Family Life and Cultural Center was under construction, services were held at Sacred Hearts Church in Bradford.

Source: http://www.eagletribune.com/news/haverhill/construction-begins-early-on-new-armenian-church/article_fe98ba89-a32f-59fa-8031-77504e8ea8fc.html

 

Filed Under: Articles Tagged With: Armenian, Church, HAVERHILL, new

Armenia: Groundbreaking ceremony of the new Chinese Embassy compound took place in Yerevan

August 9, 2017 By administrator

The solemn ceremony of the groundbreaking of the new Embassy compound of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) took place in Yerevan on Wednesday. The event was attended by Armenian FM Edward Nalbandian, the PRC Assistant Minister of Foreign Affairs Li Huilai, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of China to Armenia Tian Erlong, Yerevan Mayor Taron Margarian, and other officials.
The construction of the new Embassy building with the area of 40,000 sq. m –  the second biggest in the Eurasian region after Russia – will last two years. The building was designed by a Chinese company, while the construction works are implemented jointly with the Armenian side.
In his remarks Li Huilai stressed that Armenia and China are geographically far apart, yet the two peoples have traditionally enjoyed friendly relations.
“In 2015 when the President of the Republic of Armenia paid an official visit to China the President of the two countries outlined the milestone of Armenian-Chinese relations. As a brotherly, friendly state and a reliable partner to Armenia China will continue developing relations with Armenia,” the Chinese official said.
He also expressed hope the construction works will be completed within the set timelines.

Filed Under: News Tagged With: Chinese Embassy, new, Yerevan

Human rights groups become new target of Erdogan crackdown

July 24, 2017 By administrator

Human rights groups become new targetBy Ali Bayramoglu is an academic and political commentator in Turkey

The Turkish government’s massive crackdown since last year’s attempted coup has targeted not only the putschists, but also the media, Kurdish politicians, as well as leftist, liberal and conservative oppositionists. The latest developments in this crackdown show that the regime is proceeding fast to the lowest point on its path to autocracy.

One particularly alarming omen is the arrest of six human rights activists, including Amnesty International’s Turkey director, following a July 5 police raid on a gathering of civic activists on an Istanbul island. The move indicates that Ankara’s suppression campaign has reached a new phase, turning to local and international human rights groups and civic society.

For Amnesty International Secretary-General Salil Shetty, the arrests represented a watershed. “This is a moment of truth for Turkey and for the international community. Leaders around the world must stop biting their tongues and acting as if they can continue business as usual,” he said, slamming the arrests as a “politically motivated persecution that charts a frightening future for rights in Turkey.”

The events have already had a chilling effect on civic society. The Citizens Assembly, for instance, postponed a “summer school” with Turkish and Armenian participants in Turkey, while the Berghof Foundation canceled a roundtable on the Kurdish problem.

The arrest of the six activists demonstrates how arbitrariness is increasingly permeating the justice system in Turkey. After the police raid on the meeting, a journalist asked President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to comment on the calls for the release of the activists during a press conference at the G-20 summit in Germany. Erdogan claimed the purpose of the gathering was to plan subversive activities similar to the July 15, 2016, coup attempt, which Ankara blames on the Fethullah Gulen religious community. “Upon [a tipoff] received by intelligence services, the police carried out the raid and detained those individuals. They [the activists] are calling for what [the putschists] called. And by asking me this question, you, too, are supporting this call,” he said, adding that it was up to the judiciary to decide the fate of the detainees.

Obviously, Erdogan had already made his decision. While passing judgment, proclaiming it to the world and even accusing the journalist who posed the question, he mentioned not the judiciary but the intelligence, which raises myriad questions over the rule of law. How Erdogan’s statement affected the court’s subsequent decision to incarcerate the activists is another serious question.

Now, a brief account of the events that led to the activists’ imprisonment. Back in April, about 30 activists from various associations gathered in the Mediterranean city of Antalya to discuss the human rights violations and political situation in Turkey as part of an initiative by the Human Rights Joint Platform, which brings together a number of leading advocacy groups, including Amnesty International’s Turkey branch. Given the prevailing climate in Turkey, they opined that rights activists could also face prosecution, which would increase the importance of communication between fellow groups and the security of their websites and digital data. They decided to organize a special meeting on the issue. So that was the meeting the police raided. German national Peter Steudtner and Swedish national Ali Gharavi were present as consultants.

The police stormed the gathering on its fourth and last day, detaining all participants. Someone had reportedly tipped off the police. That person and the police apparently attributed secretive intentions to issues such as the protection of digital data and encryption. According to press reports, the prosecution reached a similar conclusion at the end of the 12-day detention period. Asking the court to remand the activists in custody, the prosecution wrote, “The suspects have followed the secrecy rules of terrorist organizations and talked about police seizing their phones, preserving the data in those phones, concealing the data even if the phones are seized and preventing the data from being seized by the police or others as well as encryption.”

The prosecution’s opinion may have seemed to be a joke to the activists, but soon it turned into a nightmare. Even worse, no direct link was drawn between the raided meeting and the reasons the prosecution put forward for the arrest of the activists. According to defense lawyer Meric Eyuboglu, “The meeting allegedly constituted a crime, but looking to the reasons put forward to justify the arrests, we don’t see a single word about the meeting.”

What constituted the evidence here was the interpretation of information obtained from the activists’ computers and telephones rather than the content of the meeting they held. According to defense lawyers, one activist was questioned about a telephone call with a person who was being investigated for belonging to the Gulen community, while another was accused of links to the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) after a banned book was found in his home.

In sum, the judicial investigation took for granted the tipoff or the intelligence report that incriminated the activists and embarked on an effort to dig out pieces of information to back it up. In other words, it was not following evidence to uncover a crime, but looking for evidence to suit the accused. As a result, six of the 10 detained activists were jailed pending trial, with some being linked to the PKK, some to a radical leftist group and another to the Gulen community, all considered to be terrorist groups in Turkey.

According to the Sozcu daily, the prosecution argued that “the suspects held a meeting aimed at creating movements that would lead to social chaos in line with the goals of terrorist organizations,” noting that “most of the suspects had links with terrorist organizations and were able to influence society due to their areas of activity.” The prosecution then concluded that the suspects “had acted with a deliberate intention to aid [terrorist groups] and had thus committed the alleged crimes,” demanding that the court jail the activists pending trial.

“Nothing is left to say. The law is finished,” defense lawyer Murat Dincer said in comments on the prosecution’s stance. “Anyone who comes up with such a demand is after something else.”

And what could this “something” be? An effort to vilify human rights groups that struggle against rights violations and reach out to the victims? A move to intimidate anyone who might think of engaging in such activities?

Ozlem Dalkiran, one of the imprisoned activists, was one of my closest co-workers from 2008 to 2015, when I chaired the International Hrant Dink Award Committee, an initiative against violence. From 2001 to 2004, we co-managed a large international project called New Tactics and Strategies in Human Rights. A big symposium, which attracted some 400 rights campaigners from seven continents, was held in Ankara as part of the project, backed by a $400,000 contribution from the Turkish government. Erdogan, then prime minister, and then-Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul made the opening speeches at the event, hailing human rights defenders and the importance of their work for a new Turkey. The audience, including Dalkiran and myself, greeted the speeches with applause. It was at this gathering when we had met Gharavi. Now he and the others are behind bars for defending human rights. A dramatic reversal, indeed.

Ali Bayramoglu is an academic and political commentator in Turkey. He has produced several publications on minority rights, on the Kurdish issue and on religious and conservative movements in Turkey. Since 1994, he has continuously contributed as a

Filed Under: Articles Tagged With: Ankara, Human Right, new, target

New Evidence of the Armenian Genocide

April 29, 2017 By administrator

For over a century, Turkey has denied any involvement in the organization of the Armenian massacre in what historians have long accepted as a genocide that began in 1915, while World War I spread to continents. The Turkish discourse of negation revolves around the argument that the original documents concerning the courts after the war, which condemned the instigators of the genocide, could not be found.

At present, Taner Akçam, a Turkish historian at Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts, who has been studying genocide for decades by compiling documents from around the world to establish the state’s complicity in the massacres, says he has Discovered an original telegram relating to the trials, in the archives held by the Armenian Patriarchate of Jerusalem.

“Until recently, the smoking gun was missing,” says Akçam, “It’s the smoking gun”. He described his discovery as an “earthquake in our domain,” and said he hoped to remove the last stone from the wall of Holocaust denial.

The story begins in 1915 in an office in the Turkish city of Erzéroum, when a high-ranking official of the Ottoman Empire wrote a coded telegram to a colleague on the ground, asking for details on deportations and executions. Armenia, in eastern Anatolia, the most eastern part of contemporary Turkey.

Later, a deciphered copy of the telegram helped condemn the leader Behaeddin Shakir for planning, an act that researchers have long referred to and which Turkey has long denied: the planned massacre of 1.5 million Armenians by the leaders Of an Ottoman empire on the decline, an atrocity widely recognized as the first genocide of the 20th century.

And afterwards, without knowing how, most of the original documents and testimonies under oaths of trials disappeared, forcing researchers to rely only on the abstracts available in Turkish official journals.

Mr. Akçam said he had little hope that his new discovery would immediately change things, given Turkey’s fossilized policy of negation, at a time of political unrest, while its President Recep Erdogan leans Even more towards the nationalist. But Mr. Akçam’s whole life’s work consisted in denouncing, after fact, document by document, the negations of Turkey.

“My firm belief as a Turk is that democracy and human rights in Turkey can only be established by confronting history and acknowledging its misdeeds,” he said.

The shaken and abandoned interior of an Armenian monastery, north of Dyarbakir, Turkey, which, according to the inhabitants, is now used as a stable. Credit Bryan Denton for the New York Times

He developed his thesis that most of the chaos that seizes the Middle East today results from a mistrust between communities born of historical misdeeds, which no one wants to confront.

“The past is not the past in the Middle East,” he said. “This is the biggest obstacle to peace and stability in the Middle East.”

Eric D. Weitz, a history professor at City College in New York and an Armenian Genocide expert, called Mr. Akçam “the Sherlock Holmes of the Armenian Genocide.”

“He has accumulated evidence on evidence,” Professor Weitz added.

Where was the telegram for all these years, and how Mr. Akçam found it, is a story in itself. With the Turkish nationalists about to take power in 1922, Armenian leaders in Istanbul sent 24 boxes of hearings to England for their preservation.

The recordings were kept there by a bishop, then taken over in France and later in Jerusalem. They remained there until the 1930s, in the midst of an enormous amount of archives, mostly inaccessible to researchers, for reasons that are not entirely clear. Mr. Akçam said that he had tried for years to access these archives, but without succeeding. Instead, he found a photographic record of the archives from Jerusalem to New York; Held by the nephew of a now deceased Armenian monk who had survived the genocide. While investigating the genocide in Cairo in the 1940s, monk Krikor Guerguerian met a former Ottoman judge who presided over the post-war trials. The judge told him that many of these boxes had failed in Jerusalem, and so Mr. Guerguerian went there and took photographs of everything.

The telegram was written under the Ottoman heading and coded in Arabic characters: the groups of four-digit numbers were the words. When Mr. Akçam compared it with the known codes of the then Ministry of the Interior, found in an official archive in Istanbul, he realized that they corresponded, reinforcing the likelihood that many other telegrams Post-war trials can be verified in the same way.

For historians, trials were only one piece of evidence that emerged over the years – including the reports in several languages ​​of diplomats, missionaries and journalists who witnessed the events under their care Eyes – this establishes the historical fact of the massacres and called it genocide. Turkey has long resisted the word genocide, saying that the sufferings of the Armenians had taken place in the chaos of a world war, a war in which Turkish Muslims also underwent trials.

Tripods erected for hanging during the Armenian Genocide which began in 1915. Credit Culture club. Getty Images

Turkey also maintained that the Armenians were traitors, and had plans to ally themselves with Russia, an enemy of the Ottoman Empire.

This position is deeply entrenched in Turkish culture – it is a norm in school courts – and polls have shown that a majority of Turks share the government’s position.

“My approach is that whatever evidence you put before Holocaust deniers, Holocaust deniers will remain Holocaust deniers,” Bedros Der Matossian, a historian at the University of Nebraska and author of “Shattered dreams of Revolution; From Liberty to Violence in the Late Ottoman Empire [Fragmented Dreams of Revolution: From Liberty to Violence at the End of the Ottoman Empire] “.

The genocide is commemorated every year on 24 April, the day of 1915 when a group of Armenian notables from Istanbul were regrouped and deported.

This was the beginning of an enormous massacre, which involved forced marches in the Syrian deserts, summary executions and rape.

Two years ago, Pope Francis spoke of the massacre as a genocide and had to face a storm of criticism from inside Turkey. Many countries, including France, Germany, and Greece, have recognized the genocide, causing the breakdown of diplomatic relations with Turkey every time.

The United States avoided the use of the word “genocide” in an effort not to alienate Turkey, an ally of NATO and a partner in the fight against terrorism in the Middle East. Barak Obama had pronounced this word as a candidate for the presidency, but he did not do so during his term of office.

This year, dozens of leaders at the congress signed a letter urging President Trump to recognize the genocide.

But he is unlikely to do so, as Trump recently congratulated Erdogan on his victory in a referendum that critics say is fraudulent. Mr. Shakir, the Ottoman leader who wrote the incriminating telegram discovered by Mr. Akçam, had fled the country when the military court found him guilty and sentenced him to death in absentia.

A few years later, he was shot down in the streets of Berlin by two Armenian killers described in an article in The New York Times as “thin men, stretched thin and swarthy, carpet in a porch.”

By Tim Arango

The New York Times

22 April 2017

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Armenian: Petrosyan: New Yerevan Circus is designed for all types of performances

January 3, 2017 By administrator

YEREVAN. – Construction of the new building of Yerevan Circus, in the capital city of Armenia, is expected to be completed in late 2017.
Its artistic director and head of the Union of Circus Workers of Armenia, Sos Petrosyan, told about the aforesaid to Armenian News-NEWS.am.

“I hope we will have a new circus building at the end of the year,” he noted.

In his words, the old circus building was in poor condition, to put it mildly.

“And despite these inconveniences, the audience was coming, in any case,” added Petrosyan. “And not a day did we interrupt work; we were working even during the Karabakh war.”

Instead of the previous 1,560 seats, however, the new Yerevan Circus building will have a 2,500-seat capacity, and it will be a modernized circus with all amenities.

“The new building is designed for all kinds of [circus] performances,” noted Sos Petrosyan.

In his words, so that the new circus functions anew, a new special course for directors of events, circus, and pop has been set up at Yerevan State Institute of Theatre and Cinematography.

In addition, Petrosyan’s book entitled Armenian Circus, and which presents the history of Armenian circus, is already being printed.

“But we want to devote the publishing to the opening of the new circus [building],” he added.

Filed Under: Articles Tagged With: Circus, new, Yerevan

Richard Hoagland named US interim Co-Chair of OSCE Minsk Group

December 30, 2016 By administrator

Starting in January 2017 Ambassador Richard Hoagland will assume the position of US Co-Chair of the Organization for Security and Cooperation of Europe (OSCE) Minsk Group on an interim basis. He will replace Ambassador James Warlick, who will step down as US Co-Chair on December 31. US Embassy to Armenia reports in a released statement.

As the source reports, Ambassador Hoagland brings over 30 years of diplomatic experience to the position. He served as U.S. Ambassador to Tajikistan from 2003 to 2006, U.S. Ambassador to Kazakhstan from 2008 to 2011 and as Deputy Ambassador to Pakistan from 2011 to 2013. Ambassador Hoagland most recently led US-Russian military coordination for the Cessation of Hostilities in Syria and served as Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary in the Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs at the State Department in Washington.  Prior to these assignments, Ambassador Hoagland led the Office of Caucasus and Central Asian Affairs in the Bureau of Europe and Eurasian Affairs and was Press Spokesman for the US Embassy in Moscow.

Ambassador Hoagland’s extensive diplomatic experience will be critical as the United States works with the sides toward a lasting and peaceful settlement to the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. The United States continues to call on the parties to maintain their commitment to the ceasefire and to implement agreements reached at the Vienna and St. Petersburg summits, and urges a return to negotiations on a settlement, which would benefit all sides.

The permanent replacement for Ambassador Warlick will be announced at a future date.

 

Source Panorama.am

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