22 YEARS The #11 Noah’s Ark (1099) 29 March 2016 Published Since 1993 Weekly Newspaper HIGHLIGHTS ÜáÛÛ³Ý î³å³Ý ß³µ³Ã³Ã»ñà (³Ý·É. / ýñ³Ýë.) Georgian FM visits Armenia Armenia - Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian and his Georgian counterpart Mikheil Janelidze at a news conference in Yerevan, 25Mar2016. see page 3 In This Issue Noyan Tapan Video Studio Armenian-Azeri fighting is offering professional video and photography for indoor again intensifies p.4 and outdoor events such as weddings, birthday parties, Armenia advised on greater official events, seminars and conferences. Tel: 060 27 64 62 Address: Isahakyan 28, 3rd floor, Yerevan 0009 exports to U.S. p.7 Monthly News From the State Youth Orchestra of Armenia p.p.10-11 Noyan Tapan Printing House Easter Message is offering coloured and black and white offset and digital of His Holiness Karekin II p.12 printing of books, brochures, booklets, journals, etc with It's time for the US to recognize the high quality and low prices Tel: 060 27 64 62 Armenian Genocide p.13 Address: Isahakyan 28, 3rd floor, Yerevan 0009 29 March #11 (1099) 2016 2 www.nt.am The Noyan Tapan Highlights POLITICS Armenian President, Georgian FM discuss bilateral, regional issues President Serzh Sargsyan received on March 25 Georgian Foreign Minister Mikheil Janelidze. President Sargsyan hailed the intensified high-level contacts and political dialogue between the two countries based on traditional good-neighbor- ly relations and friendship between the two nations. The parties agreed that despite being part of different inte- gration processes, Armenia and Georgia have a huge potential to exchange experience and implement joint programs. The Georgian Foreign Minister said, in turn, there are good perspectives for developing the bilateral economic cooperation parallel to the political relations. Serzh Sargsyan and Mikheil Janelidze attached importance to the balanced policy of the two countries on sensitive issues During the meeting reference was made to regional security, and the effective Armenian-Georgian cooperation within the the existing problems and challenges, the negotiations on the framework of international organizations. settlement of the Karabakh conflict. Armenia's Foreign Minister Hosts Newly Appointed Head of the OSCE Office mission, and stressed that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs would continue to provide full support to the activities of the OSCE Office in Yerevan. Expressing gratitude for good wishes, the newly appointed Head of the OSCE Office assured that he would spare no effort in the maintenance and facilitation of the efficiency of the current projects implemented in Armenia, strengthening of cooperation established with the authorities of Armenia and with the civil soci- ety. The sides commended that the OSCE-Armenia relations always were notable for their multi-dimensionality and include On March 24, Foreign Minister of Armenia Edward active involvement of the Republic of Armenia in the activities of Nalbandian received Ambassador Argo Avakov, the newly the OSCE in all three directions. Edward Nalbandian highlighted appointed Head of the Organization for Security and Cooperation the activity of the OSCE Office in Yerevan, mentioning that the in Europe (OSCE) Office in Yerevan, on handing over letter of Office is the only OSCE representation in the region that works in credentials. full capacity. Congratulating Ambassador Avakov on the appointment, Edward Nalbandian and Argo Avakov discussed reforms Minister Nalbandian wished success in the implementation of his process in Armenia, projects, realized with the OSCE support. Azerbaijani leadership has lost its sense of reality, Armenian FM says The leadership of ?Azerbaijan names the Co-Chair states boasting of, or it is just a propaganda trick for the internal con- provocateurs only because they propose to create a mechanism sumption, it should be once again stated that the Azerbaijani for investigation of incidents," Armenian Foreign Minister leadership has lost its sense of reality," Minister Nalbandian Edward Nalbandian said at a meeting with the faculty and stu- said. dents of the Artsakh State University. "This refers not only to the Nagorno Karabakh issue. They "In fact, that criticism is directed not only against the Co- state, that Azerbaijan is no less than the most economically sta- Chairs, but at least against the past and present participating ble, the most democratic, the most tolerant state and the most states that presided over the OSCE, the United Nations, secure place in the world in terms of the protection of human European Union, and in general all the states and institutions rights, that they may set an example for other states, while dif- that have supported and support that proposal," he said. ferent international organizations, international HR institutions "The Azerbaijani leadership does not refrain from accept- state the opposite. A kingdom of crooked mirrors is created in ing, that it is behind the cease fire violations and escalation of that country, the leaders of which, looking in those mirrors, the situation. It is even boasting of that fact. Leaving aside admire themselves and call upon others to live in such a king- whether ??Baku genuinely thinks there is something worth dom of crooked mirrors," Edward Nalbandian stated. 29 March #11 (1099) 2016 POLITICS The Noyan Tapan Highlights www.nt.am 3 14 Detained during Yerevan protest lar number of New Armenia protesters on Thursday after they chained themselves to the ground on the city's central Mashtots Avenue.One of the protesters, Ruzanna Yegnukyan, was injured in the head and hospitalized as a result. Her husband and a senior New Armenia figure, Garo Yegnukian, was among the protesters detained on the spot. He was quickly released from police custody in order to visit his wife treated at Yerevan's Surp Grigor Lusavorich hospital. Yegnukyan said there that he believes she was kicked in the head by a police- man. But Valeri Osipyan, a deputy chief of Yerevan's police department, denied Fourteen opposition activists were cally motivated by human rights organi- that. detained in Yerevan on March 24 as they zations. "They nailed the chains tied around scuffled with riot police while demanding More than a dozen women affiliated them to the ground," Osipyan told the immediate release of a fellow mem- with the radical opposition movement reporters. "When the police officers ber of an Armenian opposition grouping picketed the main entrance to the moved to unblock the street participants arrested in January. Armenian police headquarters on of the protest jostled each other and got The New Armenia Public Salvation Wednesday. Safaryan stands accused of injuries." Front has staged a series of street protests assaulting a police officer on New Year's New Armenia condemned the "ille- in recent days against Gevorg Safaryan's night. gal" police in a statement released later in pre-trial detention condemned as politi- The police used force against a simi- the day. Georgian FM visits Armenia Armenia's membership in a Russian- Armenia and Georgia," Nalbandian said development bank KfW and the European led trade bloc and Georgia's Association for his part. "There are issues that are being Union. Agreement with the European Union can solved with joint efforts." Armenia is also building a similar line be used for deepening relations between The Armenian minister added that they that will connect it to Iran. the two neighboring states, Georgian touched, among other things, on possible Membership in the Russian-led Foreign Minister Mikheil Janelidze said joint projects on transport infrastructure, Eurasian Economic Union (EEU) requires during a visit to Yerevan on March 25. trade and energy. But he gave no details. the Armenian government to adopt signifi- Janelidze and President Serzh Sargsyan There was no word on ongoing negoti- cantly higher duties for goods imported were reported to agree that Armenia and ations between Armenia, Georgia, Russia from outside the bloc. Many expected that Georgia have a "great potential for devel- and Iran on the possibility boosting power this would lead to the abolition of oping bilateral cooperation also within the supplies among their countries. Top energy Georgian-Armenian free trade arrange- framework of those different integration officials from the four states are due to hold ments, especially given Georgia's entry processes." further talks on the issue in Tbilisi next into a "deep and comprehensive free trade "The two sides believe that this will month. area" with the European Union. elevate Armenian-Georgian relations to a Armenia and Georgia are due to con- However, Armenian officials said in qualitatively new level," Sargsyan's office struct by 2018 a new electricity transmis- late 2014 that Armenia has succeeded in said in a statement on the talks held by the sion line that will make their power grids convincing the other EEU member states two men. more interconnected. The $115 million to let it maintain the tariff-free regime with Janelidze also discussed the matter at a project, is financed by Germany's state-run Georgia. separate meeting with his Armenian coun- terpart Edward Nalbandian earlier in the day. "We have talked about how we could Noyan Tapan Press-Center use those integration processes to the ben- Noyan Tapan Press Center holds different discussions, press confer- efit of our cooperation and joint projects," ences, round tables, teleconferences, seminars each week which he told a joint news conference with are broadcast live on the Internet. We invite you to take advantage Nalbandian. of the Center, as well as to place your banner in our Press Room. "There are no problems between Tel: 060 27 64 62. Address: Isahakyan 28, 3rd floor 29 March #11 (1099) 2016 4 www.nt.am POLITICS Armenian-Azeri fighting again intensifies Three Azerbaijani soldiers have reportedly been killed in action after the Armenian military accused Baku of again inten- sifying ceasefire violations in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict zone late last week.