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Armenian Constitutional Referendum Set for December 6 22 YEARS The Noah’s Ark #37 (1077) 12 October 2015 Published Since 1993 Weekly Newspaper HIGHLIGHTS ÜáÛÛ³Ý î³å³Ý ß³μ³Ã³Ã»ñà (³Ý·É. / ýñ³Ýë.) Armenian Constitutional Referendum Set For December 6 Armenia - President Serzh Sargsyan (L) meets with Gianni Buquicchio, head of the Venice Commission, Yerevan, 8Oct2015. see page 3 In This Issue Cooperation between Armenia, Noyan Tapan Video Studio Canada effective despite distance p.2 is offering professional video and photography for indoor Armenian government reassures and outdoor events such as weddings, birthday parties, grape farmers p.7 official events, seminars and conferences. Tel: 060 27 64 62 Address: Isahakyan 28, 3rd floor, Yerevan 0009 Ralph Yirikian: CSR is a Value System p.p.10-11 3rd Khachatourian Fest: Noyan Tapan Printing House Youth Orchestra Plays is offering coloured and black and white offset and digital World Premieres p.12 printing of books, brochures, booklets, journals, etc with high quality and low prices Tel: 060 27 64 62 Armenia's holy city of Etchmiadzin Address: Isahakyan 28, 3rd floor, Yerevan 0009 celebrates 2700th anniversary p.20 12 October #37 (1077) 2015 2 www.nt.am The Noyan Tapan Highlights POLITICS Cooperation between Armenia, Canada effective despite distance Armenian Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian met with Canada's Minister of International Development and La Francophonie Christian Paradis on October 9. Welcoming the guest, Minister Nalbandian mentioned that despite the distance between Armenia and Canada, the two states effectively cooperate both on bilateral and multilateral formats and the recently intensive high-level contacts create a firm basis for the development of the relations. steps to resolve them were touched upon. pressing international and regional issues. Expressing gratitude for the reception, The Ministers discussed steps, under- In this context, Minister Nalbandian hosting of Conference of Ministers of taken for the activation of political dia- underscored, that nearly 1,7000 refugees Foreign Affairs of the International logue, facilitation of visa regime, expan- from Syria received asylum in Armenia. Organization of La Francophonie (OIF) sion of trade and economic cooperation Minister Paradis, in his turn, presented and high-level of the organization of the between states. Canada's assistance to the refugees and event, Minister Paradis thanked for the Minister Paradis stressed significant displaced persons from the Middle East. support of Michaëlle Jean candidature for role that the Armenian community in The Foreign Minister presented to the OIF Secretary General, announced by Canada plays in the public, political and guest efforts exerted by Armenia and the Canada at the Dakar Summit. economic life. OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs on peace- During the meeting, pending issues on Edward Nalbandian and Christian ful settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh the agenda of OIF member-states and Paradis exchanged views on a range of issue. Iran's new Ambassador hands credentials to Armenian President Seyyed Kazem Sajjad, the ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary of the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI) to the Republic of Armenia, handed over his credentials to President Serzh Sargsyan, President's Press Office reported. Armenia's president congratulated the ambassador on start- ing his diplomatic duties in our country and wished him success. Serzh Sargsyan spoke highly of the activities carried out by the IRI embassy in Armenia for the last 20 years and expressed the hope that Ambassador Sajjad will continue to pay close attention to Armenian-Iranian relations, following the example of his predecessors who completed their diplomatic tenure in Armenia and filled the ranks of the Armenian people's friends, by making every effort to further strengthen relations and broaden coopera- tion between the two countries. Noting that Ambassador Sajjad has taken office in an impor- The interlocutors agreed that the new integration processes tant period of time, when a senior-level visit from the friendly open up broader opportunities to promote collaboration between country of Iran is expected to be paid by IRI First Vice-President Armenia and Iran in both bilateral and multilateral formats. Eshaq Jahangiri, the president stressed that it is a great start and The ambassador highly praised the Iranian-Armenian com- opportunity for the newly-appointed ambassador to engage in munity, stressing the community's major role in strengthening productive activities. bilateral interstate relations. Considering it a great honor to At the meeting, the RA president and the IRI ambassador assume the office of the ambassador to Armenia, Seyyed Kazem touched upon the implementation of Armenian-Iranian large Sajjad assured the president that he will continue his predeces- multi-sectoral projects adopted as a result of the high-level bilat- sors' work with the same devotion and vigor and building on that eral agreements, which, they were certain, will elevate bilateral solid foundation, he will try his best to develop and further relations to a qualitatively new level. enhance Armenian-Iranian ties. 12 October #37 (1077) 2015 POLITICS The Noyan Tapan Highlights www.nt.am 3 Should the negotiations fail, Armenia will recognize the Nagorno Karabakh Republic: Foreign Minister Azerbaijan's accession to the Eurasian (R-CA) and Ranking Democrat Eliot Economic Union, Minister Nalbandian Engel (D-NY) of the U.S. House Foreign said the issue is not on the agenda. "All Affairs Committee recently sent a letter to members of the EEU have the tight for US Co-Chair James Warlick, proposing their opinion, and such decisions should be three concrete pro-peace steps that would, made by a consensus," he added. "in the short-term, save lives and help to Speaking about the recent escalation at avert war." the Armenian-Azerbaijani border and the "This means the initiative of the Minsk line of contact between Karabakh and Group Co-Chairs finds support not only Azerbaijani forces, Edward Nalabndian among different international structures, said: "The Co-Chairs have issued targeted but also national parliaments, including the statements, clearly indicating who's US Congress. Moreover, James Warlick responsible for the ceasefire violations. has reacted to the letter, saying he fully They offer to create mechanisms for inves- agrees with the Royce-Engel proposals for tigation of border incidents, and declare Karabakh peace," Minister Nalbandian Should the negotiation fail, Armenia that Armenia has accepted the proposal, stated. will recognize the Nagorno Karabakh and while Azerbaijan refuses to do so." "We also welcome, because that's what take all other steps to ensure Artsakh's "Thus, the Co-Chairs make it clear that we have always been saying. It's about security, Armenian Foreign Minister Azerbaijan bears full responsibility for the withdrawal of snipers, reinforcement of the Edward Nalbandian said at the National ceasefire violations and border incidents," ceasefire regime and creation of mecha- Assembly on October 7. the Minister said. nisms for investigation of border inci- Asked about Armenia's steps in case of He reminded that Chairman Ed Royce dents," the Minister concluded. Armenian Constitutional Referendum Set For December 6 The constitutional referendum on Petrosian's Armenian National Congress ical allies say that such a radical change Armenia's switch to the parliamentary sys- (HAK) as well as two dozen smaller anti- would on the contrary decentralize power tem of government sought by President government groups last month joined and facilitate the country's democratization. Serzh Sargsyan will take place on forces in an effort to scuttle the constitu- Legal experts from the Council of December 6, it was announced on October tional reform. They pledged to turn the Europe's Venice Commission largely 8. upcoming referendum into a popular vote endorsed the draft amendments last month Serzh Sargsyan formally called the ref- of no confidence in Sargsyan and the ruling after most of the changes in the text recom- erendum and set a date for it three days after Republican Party of Armenia (HHK). mended by them were accepted by the the Armenian parliament dominated by his The reform opponents maintain that the Sargsyan administration. In a September 11 loyalists approved a package of sweeping proposed amendments to the Armenian report, they said that the amendments are constitutional amendments drafted by a constitution are aimed at enabling Sargsyan now "in line with international standards." presidential commission. to indefinitely stay in power in a different Incidentally, the head of the Venice To pass, the amendments will have to capacity after the end of his second and Commission, Gianni Buquicchio, visited be approved by the majority of referendum final presidential term in 2018. Yerevan and met with Serzh Sargsyan on participants making up at least one-quarter Serzh Sargsyan has denied this, saying October 8. According to a statement by the of Armenia's 2.5 million or so eligible vot- that he will not become prime minister or Armenian presidential press office, ers. Serzh Sargsyan and his political allies parliament speaker in case of Armenia's Buquicchio expressed hope that the consti- will thus need to garner at least 620,000 transformation into a parliamentary repub- tutional referendum will be "free, fair and votes. lic. The president, his HHK and other polit- transparent." The Armenian president got, according to official results, more than 860,000 votes when
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