MAY 28, 2011 MirTHE rARoMENr IAN -Spe ctator Volume LXXXI, NO. 46, Issue 4190 $ 2.00 NEWS IN BRIEF The First English Language Armenian Weekly in the United States Yovanovitch Says She Will Have Great Hillary Clinton Discusses Karabagh, Memories of Armenia YEREFVAN — On May 23, Armenian Vice Prime US-Armenian Ties with Nalbandian Minister Armen Gevorgyan met with outgoing US ambassador to Armenia ,Marie Yovanovitch, who WASHINGTON (RFE/RL) — US will complete her mission in June. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Gevorgyan thanked the ambassador for her coop - Armenian Foreign Minister Eduard eration. Nalbandian held talks in Washington late Yovanovitch said her work in Armenia was inter - on Thursday, May 19, with the unresolved esting and productive. She added Armenia gave her Nagorno-Karabagh conflict apparently top - great memories. She expressed hope for continued ping the agenda. cooperation between Armenia and the US. They made no public statements after the meeting, which the Armenian Foreign Focus on Kochari, not Ministry said touched upon “a broad range of issues” of mutual interest. Eurovision “The United States and Armenia have many connections and relationships that YEREVAN (PanArmenian.Net) — Ethnographer span politics and go into family and so Gagik Ginosyan said the state’s obsession with the much else that is very important to us,” Eurovision song contest is pointless. According to Clinton said as she greeted Nalbandian at him, the state should finance Armenian art rather the State Department. “And we have many, than focus on Eurovision. many important issues ahead of us, and I Though Armenia won the Karabagh war, now it look forward to continuing the important suffers defeats in peacetime, Ginosyan, the art conversation that we’ve been carrying out.” director of Karin Fold Dance Ensemble, said. “The frequency of our meetings proves our “We suffer defeats in the cultural policy. commitment to deepen and to strengthen Audiences should have understood the fact that Armenian-American relations,” Nalbandian Foreign Minister Eduard Nalbandian and US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton Kochari is our national dance. We should not have said, for his part. “Due to our joint efforts, we transferred the dance into the Eurovision realm to elevated our relationship to a qualitatively be blamed by Azerbaijanis for lifting the dance from new level during the last years.” ed Clinton as saying that the dispute can be their search for a compromise settlement. them,” said Ginosyan. In a statement on the meeting issued on settled only by peaceful means. Philip Gordon, the US assistant secre - Azerbaijan won the 2011 Eurovision contest. Friday, Nalbandian’s press office singled out According to the statement, Clinton tary of state for Europe and Eurasia, told the two officials’ discussion of “recent devel - assured her Armenian counterpart that the a US congressional panel on Wednesday Israeli MP Urges opments” in international efforts to broker a United States will continue to lend “full that Washington plans to “increase our resolution of the Karabagh conflict. It quot - support” to Armenia and Azerbaijan in see CLINTON, page 20 Genocide Recognition TEL AVIV (news.am) — Israeli Knesset member Zahava Gal-On believes it is Israel’s obligation to AUA President recognize the Armenian Genocide. Armenian Amnesty ‘Will A member of the New Movement Meretz party, Dr. Bruce Boghosian Gal-On said she supported the decision to discuss the Genocide. She noted that this year’s debates Reflects upon Path are important as they are held in open Committee Ease Political Tension’ on Education, Culture and Sports. Of Higher Education “In the last two years the Knesset has decided to Armenian authorities do not intend to meet discuss the Armenian Genocide issue in one of the By Anush Martirosian other opposition demands, chief among committees but they never in the education com - them being the conduct of snap national By Melania Badalyan mittee, which is open. We can invite many people elections. to participate in the discussion. It is very important YEREVAN (RFE/RL) — A general “The president’s step was taken at the from this viewpoint,” she said. amnesty initiated by President Serge right time and dedicated to the 20th YEREVAN (Azg) — The current presi - Gal-On stressed every year representatives of Sargisian is expected to lead to the release anniversary of our independence,” he told dent of the American University of Meretz party raise the issue on the Armenian of all opposition prisoners which will fur - journalists. “It will ease tension existing in Armenia (AUA), Dr. Bruce M. Boghosian, Genocide in the parliament. This time the Israeli ther stabilize the political situation in our country.” assumed the post on September 1, 2010. government was more receptive. Armenia, parliament speaker Hovik “The public must be glad that the presi - He is the third president of the AUA since The committee accepted the proposal to discuss Abrahamian said on Monday. dent of the country is doing everything to its establishment 20 years ago. He sat Genocide recognition in the parliament. Meretz Abrahamian also made clear that the see AMNESTY, page 20 down for an interview with Azg recently. submitted the issue for discussion in the commit - His experiences in major universities tee. The proposal to discuss the recognition of the and his background of scientific research Armenian Genocide was adopted by majority vote. represent the work of a specialist that has Obama’s Nominee for United States made valuable contributions to science, in addition as being an administrator. Boghosian received his bachelor’s INSI DE Ambassador to Armenia Named degree in physics and master’s degree in nuclear engineering from the WASHINGTON — This week, President Barack Massachusetts Institute of Technology Obama nominated John A. Heffern to serve as the see BOGHOSIAN, page 3 next ambassador to Armenia, reported the Armenian French Assembly of America. The Assembly expects a rigor - ous Senate confirmation process in the months ahead. Current US envoy to Armenia Marie L. Yovanovitch, Sunflower nominated by former President George W. Bush, will conclude her three-year mission in June. page 14 In the mid-1990s, Heffern worked for former Rep. Doug Bereuter (R-Neb.) who was consistently one of the most pro-Turkish and anti-Armenian representa - tives to serve in Congress. Ambassador to Armenia Without pre-judging Heffern, the Assembly in a INDEX nominee John A. Heffern statement suggested he would have a steep hill to Armenia . 2, 3 climb in explaining and distinguishing his views from Arts and Living . 14 those of Bereuter. For example, in 1995-1996, when Calendar . 18 Heffern was on the International Relations Committee staff, Bereuter voted against Community News. 6 several measures aimed to promote not only Armenia’s interests, but human rights Editorial . 18 interests around the world. International . 4, 5 see AMBASSADOR, page 20 Dr. Bruce Boghosian 2 S ATURDAY , M AY 28, 2011 T HE A RMENIAN M IRROR -S PECTATOR ARMENIA News From Armenia Bread Matters: Experts Discuss ‘Unhealthy Bomb Threat at Additions’ in Armenian Staple Zvartnots Airport problem of rye bread. He said they Nazaryan consider additives to be By Siranuysh Gevorgyan “have reasonable suspicions” that unsafe. According to him, all of them YEREVAN (PanARMENIAN.Net) — On May 22, most of what is advertised as rye are materials permitted in food pro - Armenian police received a bomb threat at bread (which is considered to be duction. Zvartnots Airport. YEREVAN (ArmeniaNow) — Bread healthier than wheat bread) in Biotechnologist Alexander Deputy head of the Public Relations Department production technologists and a con - Armenia is fake, and, in fact, it is the Selimyan also thinks that the yeasts at the Republic of Armenia police, Armen sumer rights activist expressed their same wheat bread that gets its dark and additives used in bread produc - Malkhasyan, said that representatives of the concerns about the quality of bread color with the aid of some dyes. He tion in Armenia are unhealthy. Like Armenian National Security Service and Ministry in Armenia, at a press conference in also noted that rye is not grown in others, he advises using black or of Emergency Situations arrived in the airport to Yerevan on Monday. Armenia, but is mostly imported from brown bread. It has been six years search for the bomb, but it was a false alarm. The speakers said that unhealthy Russia. that the scientist has produced bread This was the second false notice about a bomb at additives for the faster leavening of “The body that is supposed to exer - with the use of his own yeast, called Zvartnots in one week. bread as well as various dyes are cise control over this process, the hatsatan. Among the main con - often used especially in the produc - food quality inspection, is now under sumers of the bread and lavash baked tion of black and brown breads. reorganization. We wait for this struc - by Selimyan are the United Nations Former Armenian Consumers’ Association NGO head ture to start working,” said Office in Armenia, the United States Prisoner to Sue Armen Poghosyan said he is particu - Poghosyan. Embassy, a number of hotels. His larly concerned about the discrepan - Candidate of technical sciences, products are also sold at stores of two Azerbaijan cy between the weight and size of Aram Nazaryan, who needs to eat rye supermarket chains. The hatsatan loaves on sale at the baker’s. bread because of his diabetes, does yeast, according to Selimyan, also has YEREVAN (news.am) — A Vanadzor-based attorney “Using different tricks they inflate not quite agree with Poghosyan’s a fast fermentation quality but has a will sue Azerbaijan for the illegal two-year custody the bread loaves, making them bigger opinion. He thinks that while some natural composition.