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'Starrie' Alemian Dies SEPTEMBER 14, 2019 Mirror-SpeTHE ARMENIAN ctator Volume LXXXX, NO. 9, Issue 4602 $ 2.00 NEWS The First English Language Armenian Weekly in the United States Since 1932 INBRIEF Delegation in Dubai Asdghig ‘Starrie’ Alemian Dies Meets with Energy Leaders One of the Last Armenian Genocide Survivors in State YEREVAN (Armenpress) — Armenian minister of territorial administration and infrastructures Suren WEYMOUTH, Mass. — Asdghig Papikyan met with Chair of the World Energy “Starrie” Alemian, one of the last Council Younghoon David Kim on September 9 in Armenian Genocide survivors in Abu Dhabi on the sidelines of the 24th World Massachusetts and a strong presence Energy Congress, the ministry announced. at every Genocide commemoration at During the meeting the officials discussed the the State House, died on September future cooperation directions between the organi- 5, 2019. She was 109. zation and Armenia’s national committee. She was a survivor of the Armenian Papikyan invited Kim to Armenia to get acquaint- Genocide, which took the lives of her ed with the energy opportunities of the country. parents and brothers, leaving her Armenian Ambassador to the United Arab orphaned at age 5. She lived in an Emirates Mher Mkrtumyan accompanied the min- ister during the tour in the expo of the Congress. orphanage in Syria until 12 years old Form left, Middlesex County Sheriff Peter when her uncle Garabed Tetezian assist- Koutoujian, Asdghig “Starrie” Alemian and Rep. ed her and her sister Anna in coming David Muradian at the State House in 2018 Armenia’s Tumo to to the United States. Starrie worked alongside Open Branch in Tokyo her husband in running Alemian’s Delicatessen for more than 30 years. Beginning in the 1980s, Alemian was honored yearly at the State House YEREVAN (PanARMENIAN.Net) — The Tumo for Armenian Martyrs Day. On her 90th birthday, she traveled to Egypt Center for Creative Technologies — a free of charge and Syria with family, revisiting parts of her childhood. digital media learning hub in Armenia — is opening see ALEMIAN, page 8 a branch in Tokyo, Japan, according to a Facebook post by the center on September 10. A memorandum of understanding was signed between Tumo and Gakken, one of Japan’s largest publishing and educational companies, on Monday, September 9. Pashinyan Raises Over the coming months, Gakken will start lay- Goethe, Poetry and Truth ing the groundwork for Tumo Tokyo. Some Doubts on The educational center’s first chapter was estab- Honored at Weimar Ceremony lished in Yerevan, followed by branches in other major Armenian cities. Amulsar But Tumo Paris opened in the central Parisian dis- Klaus-Dieter Lehmann was joined by trict of Les Halles in 2018, while another branch By Muriel Mirak-Weissbach Ina Hartwig, the head of cultural affairs Presses Ahead will be created in Albania. Special to the Mirror-Spectator of the City of Frankfurt to present the In addition, the European Union in partnership award. In his opening remarks, the insti- YEREVAN (Combined Sources) — Prime with Tumo Center for Creative Technologies, in tute’s president said they were “honoring Minister Nikol Pashinyan on September 9 March launched the EU TUMO Convergence WEIMAR, Germany — If today’s cultur- personalities who, through their work, asked the residents of Jermuk to open the Center for Engineering and Applied Science, a al context is besieged by “deliberate address the conflicting poles of social roads leading to the Amulsar gold mine. state-of-the-art STEM ecosystem for young adults in attempts to mislead” and to cut off mean- reality between influence and autonomy, He said that even if the roads are opened Armenia. ingful discussion, if it is a context in ignorance and culture of debate, unknow- now constructions works will not com- which unfounded opinions enjoy the free- ing and education, and do so regardless mence there until April 2020. dom of unfettered movement, then it is of possible personal risks or disadvan- “I am asking the residents of the town of Armenia, Lebanon to necessary to juxtapose with such tages.” Christina von Braun, second vice Jermuk to open the roads leading to the “hideous developments” an understand- president of the Goethe-Institut, added, Amulsar mine because you don’t need to Expand Military ing of Truth and Fiction. “With their works, which wake people up close them, because you have a government Cooperation Thus Klaus-Dieter Lehmann, President and create new relationships, the laure- which in the event of seeing a legitimate of the Goethe-Institut, presented the motto ates play a central role in culture and necessity to close these roads, will go and YEREVAN (Armenpress) — The Armenian of this year’s award ceremony of the international exchange.” close the roads with its tools and lawful Parliament on September 10 adopted the bill on German cultural institution. Dichtung und authority,” he said during a live Facebook ratifying the military cooperation agreement The Power of Language Wahrheit is the title of one of Johann broadcast. between Armenia and Lebanon at the first reading. Wolfgang von Goethe’s major works, and Enkhbat Roozon received the honor in Pashinyan added that his government The bill had been submitted by the government. it symbolizes the idea behind the selection recognition of his indefatigable efforts to has no “legal grounds” to ban its develop- Deputy Defense Minister Gabriel Balayan high- of the three winners of the Goethe Medal, develop an open, critical and responsible ment by a Western mining company. lighted the necessity of adopting the bill and stat- presented in Weimar Pashinyan said that failure to allow the ed that Armenia has several prospective coopera- on August 28, the company, Lydian International, to mine tion programs with Lebanon, and the adoption of 270th birthday of the gold at the Amulsar mine would have the bill will enable to make the current ties and national poet. severe consequences for Armenia’s econo- contacts more substantial. This year’s recipi- my and even national security. He also ents of the official dec- argued that Lydian has given the Armenian oration of the Federal government more guarantees that mining Republic of Germany operations there would not contaminate INSIDE are the German- water, soil and air. Turkish writer Dogan “My statement remains the same as dur- Akhanlı, the Iranian ing the last live broadcast, that at least for artist and filmmaker now we don’t have any legal grounds to ban Armenian Art Shirin Neshat and the the operations of the Amulsar mine. But Mongolian publisher understandably we can’t not take into and political journalist Dogan Akhanlı account the concerns which exist among Course at Tufts Enkhbat Roozon. our society,” he added. Lehmann said it was Pashinyan said he has tasked the environ- Page 7 not political activism, but rather, their civil society in Mongolia. The central mental inspection agency to start inspec- independence, that established the credi- focus of his publications is education, tions at Amulsar to clarify certain issues bility of the three. which he views as the foundation for cul- raised by the Minister of Environment. The festive ceremony in the Kleine tural exchange. He places special empha- Pashinyan explained the theoretical devel- Weimarhalle was attended by 200 guests, sis on the importance of language in his opments resulting from the inspection. INDEX and in addition to the Goethe-Institut rep- work. “Unfortunately,” he said, “in “Option one – there are no violations, Arts and Living . 12 resentatives were Lord Mayor of Weimar today’s society, we talk far too little with everything is normal. Option two – there Armenia . 2,3 Peter Kleine, Cultural Minister Benjamin- one another about the important issues, are violations and irregularities and they Community News. 7 Immanuel Hoff and Andreas Görgen, direc- and we also don’t maintain and develop can be eliminated without project changes,” Editorial . 18 International . .. 4,5 tor of the Department of Culture and language as such. And yet, what is to he said, adding that in this case a new EIA Communications in the Foreign Ministry. It become of us and what we can achieve — will not be required. was featured widely in the German media. see WEIMAR, page 5 see AMULSAR, page 2 2 S ATURDAY, S EPTEMBER 1 4 , 2 0 1 9 T HE A RMENIAN M IRROR -S PECTATOR ARMENIA News From Armenia Pashinyan Raises Some Doubts on Amulsar But Presses Ahead Defense Minister Meets AMULSAR, from page 1 will mean his political death. We made The company was due to start mining With Disabled Activist, “Option number three – these viola- this clear to him yesterday.” gold at Amulsar in late 2018. The block- tions and irregularities cannot be elimi- Sefilian stressed that his party, which ade, which began in June 2018, delayed Athlete Veteran nated without a new project and if a got 1.8 percent of the vote in the those plans indefinitely. YEREVAN (Panorama.am) — Defense Minister of new project is considered it means that December 2018 parliamentary elec- Pashinyan met with his political Armenia Davit Tonoyan received on Monday, a new EIA is considered,” he said, tions, remains opposed to the Amulsar allies, environmental activists and the September 9, retired major of Armenian Armed adding that in additional to the envi- project. “We will not allow the opening chief executive of a Western mining Forces, gold medalist at the arm-wrestling European ronmental inspection agency the of any new metal mines,” he said. company on Friday to discuss the Championship and three-time world champion Sargis Investigative Committee’s criminal Asked whether Sasna Tsrer will future of its controversial project to Stepanyan. investigation will have to give answers protest if Pashinyan’s government develop Armenia’s Amulsar gold As the press service at the ministry reported, the to certain other issues as well.
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