NOVEMBER 23, 2013 MirTHErARoMENr IAN -Spe ctator Volume LXXXIV, NO. 19, Issue 4313 $ 2.00 NEWS IN BRIEF The First English Language Armenian Weekly in the United States Since 1932 Parliament Rejects NKR Genocide Denier Recognition Bill Justin McCarthy to YEREVAN (ARKA) — The Armenian parliament voted down a motion submitted by the opposition Speak at Australian Zharangutyun (Heritage) party calling for formal recognition of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic Parliament Thursday. Most of the parliament factions boycotted the vote, including the ruling coalition of Republican By Michael Brissenden Party of Armenia and Orinats Yerkir, Prosperous Armenia, as well as the Armenian National Congress opposition party. CANBERRA (The ABC) — One of the Only 10 out of 109 parliament deputies present world’s most vocal Armenian genocide voted for the bill, with one abstention. deniers will make an address at The bill seeks the formal recognition of the de- Parliament House in Canberra next facto status of Artsakh (Karabagh) as the Nagorno- week. President Serge Sargisian, left, with his Azeri counterpart, Ilham Aliyev, in Vienna Karabagh Republic meets all international law The ABC has learnt that a committee requirements to be defined a sovereign state. room in Parliament House has been booked by Labor backbencher Laurie Ferguson for a special invitation-only Russia Air Defense Sargisian, Aliyev Hold address titled “What happened during 1915–1923?” System with Armenia The address will be given by Prof. MOSCOW (PanARMENIAN.Net) — Russia intends Justin McCarthy, an American history to strengthen the unified air defense systems with Fresh Talks in Vienna professor who many Armenians view Belarus and form ones with Armenia and with the same Kazakhstan, RIA Novosti quoted the country’s disdain as Jews VIENNA (PanARMENIAN.Net) — The own sources, at the Vienna-hosted meeting, leader as saying. view Holocaust presidents of Armenia and Azerbaijan, the Armenian side insisted on Karabagh’s As Vladimir Putin noted, the cooperation will sig - denier David Serge Sargisian and Ilham Aliyev, met in involvement in the conflict settlement nego - nificantly increase Russia’s as well as its partners’ Irving. Vienna on Tuesday, November 19, for the tiations. defense potential in contributing to peace and secu - The ABC has first time in two years. Russia, France and the US are the co- rity in Eurasia. seen an invita - The meeting was later joined by the chairs of the Minsk Group. According to a The Russian leader welcomed West 2013 strate - tion to the pre - Organization for Security and Cooperation statement from the group, this is the first gic exercises conducted jointly with Belarus in sentation to be in Europe (OSCE) Minsk Group co-chairs meeting of the two presidents since 2013, also noted that regional force groupings delivered by who afterwards made a statement. January 2012 in Sochi. involving of Belarus, Armenia, Kazakhstan and McCarthy, who Prof. Justin McCarthy According to the statement, during the In related news, Sargisian held a phone Tajikistan will be formed in near future. conversation, followed by a working meet - consultation with US Secretary of State campaigns ing with the co-chairs, the two leaders dis - John Kerry. around the world against the recogni - cussed a range of issues related to the set - Ahead of the Vienna-hosted meeting medi - tion of the Armenian genocide. WB to Give Armenia tlement of the Nagorno Karabagh conflict. ated by the OSCE Minsk Group, Kerry reit - April 2015 will be a significant month As the presidential press service report - erated Washington’s readiness to assist in for several nations. While Australia and $873 Million Credit Turkey commemorate the centenary ed, Sargisian and Aliyev agreed to promote the solution of the Karabagh conflict. The TBILISI (Armenpress) — The World Bank’s strate - anniversary of the Gallipoli landing, further negotiations to achieve a peaceful parties agreed that there’s no alternative to gy plan for 2014-2017 will provide $873 million of Armenians will mark a centenary since solution and instructed their foreign minis - a peaceful settlement of the issue, also stress - financial support to Armenia. The World Bank’s the start of the darkest chapter of their ters to continue working with the co-chairs ing the necessity of developing mutually Regional Director for the South Caucasus Henry history. to achieve the goal. acceptable mechanisms for the conflict set - Kerali stated this plan during a November 19 press Genocide scholars say that from 1915 “A new meeting was agreed on in the tlement based on fundamental principles. conference. Kerali stated that the main goal of the to 1923 more than 1 million Armenians months to come. Working meetings with As Kerry noted at a joint news confer - support is to contribute to economic growth and lost their lives at the hands of the ministers will be organized on the sidelines ence with Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet creating workplaces in Armenia. Ottoman Empire. of the Kiev-hosted Foreign Ministers’ Davutoglu ahead of the talks, “I talked with “The goal of the strategy of the country’s part - Although it is known as the Armenian Council session December 5-6. The co- both President Aliyev and President nership is to support the approach to the creation Genocide, thousands of Assyrians and chairs plan to visit the South Caucasus by Sargisian and they are meeting shortly. We of workplaces in the private sector, strengthening Pontian Greeks were also killed. the yearend,” the statement said. are urging that process to move forward, the development of Armenia,” Kerali said. Turkey has long denied the charge No further details of the meeting were and we will continue to be engaged in that.” The project also aims at reducing poverty. and only recently pledged to ban the disclosed, nor did the presidents provide At the OSCE Permanent Council meet - According to Kerali, Armenia has had to overcome entire New South Wales Parliament any comments. ing, Daniel Baer welcomed the Presidents’ the consequences of a financial crisis in 2008. see DENIAL, page 3 As Hraparak daily said earlier citing its see TALKS, page 3 World Bank confirmed the decision on disposing $72 million credit to Armenia in 2014. Since 1992, the beginning of Armenia’s member - ship in the World Bank, $1,746,000,000 has been Author Deranian Discusses allocated for different programs. Currently, there are Evolution of Orphan Rug Story Open Feud over 14 active programs in the World Bank portfolio, the Hidden Rug total cost of which amounts to $445.4 million. By Gabriella Gage WASHINGTON (Washington Post) — In Mirror-Spectator Staff a new twist to efforts to call attention INSI DE to the WORCESTER — The Armenian Cultural Armenian Foundation’s recent publication, President By Richard Simon Genocide, Calvin Coolidge and a group of YerazArt the Armenian Orphan lawmakers has accused the Obama Rug , sheds light on a administration of blocking a Smithsonian little-known piece of display of a rug woven by orphans of the Gala American history. It mass killings nearly a century ago. also currently stands The lawmakers wrote to President Page 8 at the center of a polit - Obama urging him to make the rug avail - ical debate surround - able for exhibition. It was presented to ing the White House’s President Calvin Coolidge in 1925 and Dr. Hagop Martin refusal to release the has been in storage. The bipartisan group INDEX rug featured in the President Calvin Coolidge and the includes more than a dozen representa - Deranian Armenian Orphan Rug Arts and Living . 10 book for an exhibit tives from California, which has a large Armenia . 2 and book launch at Armenian American population. Community News. 4 the Smithsonian. However, for the book’s author, Dr. Hagop Martin Deranian, the work The roughly 12-foot-by-18-foot Editorial . 13 represents another chapter in a son’s lifelong journey to honor the memory of his moth - see RUG WAR, page 8 International . 3 er and her battle to survive the Armenian Genocide. see DERANIAN, page 8 2 S ATURDAY , N OVEMBER 23, 2013 T HE A RMENIAN M IRROR -S PECTATOR ARMENIA News From Armenia Echmiadzin Holds Funeral Service Repose of Souls Service Held for Victims of For Archbishop Arsen Berberian Damascus Attack ECHMIADZIN — On November 19, consecrated chrism. During the Kiss lences to Karekin II, Supreme Archbishop Arsen Berberian, one of of Peace, the members of the broth - Patriarch and Catholicos of All ECHMIADZIN — On November 17, a Repose of the eldest members of the erhood received the last kiss of peace Armenians, and Berberian’s relatives Souls service was held in the Mother Cathedral for Brotherhood of the Mother See of from him. on behalf of the clergy and the faith - the Armenian children that were the victims of the Holy Echmiadzin, was laid to rest in Manoukian delivered the eulogy. ful of the Armenian Church. terrorist attack on November 11 near the St. Sargis the monastic cemetery of the Mother He reflected on the life and activities At the conclusion of the Divine Armenian Church and the Holy Translators See. of Berberian, highlighting that he loy - Liturgy, Archbishop Grigoris Armenian National School in Damascus. Early in the morning, Divine ally served the Armenian Church for Buniatyan, Primate of the Armenian Archbishop Voskan Gaplanyan, member of the Liturgy was offered at the St. Gayane decades, having made his significant Diocese in Ukraine, presided over the Brotherhood of the Mother See, gave remarks and Monastery. The celebrant was Bishop contribution in the musical sphere, as burial service. The body of Berberian reflected on the tragedy that had happened a week Hovakim Manoukian, director of the well as in a range of other pastoral was interred in them cemetery. ago in the Holy Translators Armenian National Inter-Church Relations Department and social activities.