Kossovo crea una precedente pe Karabagh

Da Associazione della Comunità Armena di ROMA e Del Lazio
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-L'indipendenza del Kosovo ha creato un precedente; i partiti politici di Artsakh (Karabakh) chiedono il riconoscimento internazionale
-La risoluzione dell'ONU del 14 marzo sul ritiro delle forze armene dal "territorio azero"............
-In Turchia, controversia sul velo alla Corte Costituzionale ...
-Pasqua troppo anticipata ...protestano gli inglesi...colpa dei Vescovi al Concilio di Nicea del 325....La prossima volta di Pasqua così presto sarà.. nel 2160 !
...E tante altre notizie interessanti...(20 aprile 2008, inizio voli della compagnia low cost italiana Wind Jet, Forlì - Yerevan.... L'Armenia organizzera le celebrazioni per il centenario di William Saroyan.......)

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ARTSAKH POLITICAL PARTIES SEEK
INTERNATIONAL RECOGNITION

Panorama.am 18:21 13/03/2008 - The three political groups of Nagorno Karabakh Republic "Democracy", "Fatherland", and "ARF-Dashnaktsoutiun Movement 88" came forward with an announcement after the declaration of independence of Kosovo. The deputies of the NKR National Assembly expressed their support to the contribution of freedom right and greeted the international society's position for respecting the majority population of Kosovo.
The announcement says: "For decades the Azeri authorities were carrying out a policy of discrimination, limiting civil rights, purging the ethnic groups, and violated emigration activities. It was possible to prevent the tragedy and its results only through organised self-protection activities."
The deputies said that they hope through negotiations they will reach the world wide recognition of the freedom of Nagorno Karabagh Republic.

UN TELLS ARMENIA TO GET OUT OF AZERBAIJAN

UNITED NATIONS, March 14 (Reuters) - The U.N. General Assembly on Friday
demanded that Armenian forces withdraw from all occupied territories in
Azerbaijan, but key mediators in the Azeri-Armenia dispute rejected the
non-binding resolution.
In an Azeri-drafted resolution, the assembly called for "the immediate,
complete and unconditional withdrawal from all the occupied territories
of the Republic of Azerbaijan."
Although the largely symbolic resolution was adopted, only 39 out of 192
members of the U.N. General Assembly voted for it. Seven countries, including Armenia, the United States, France and Russia, voted against it.
There were 100 abstentions and many other countries chose not to Participate in the vote, which Western diplomats said was a reflection of the fact that most people felt the Azeri resolution was not a balanced picture of th e problem.
"This resolution was not helpful," said a diplomat from one of the three co-chairs of the Minsk Group -- Russia, the United States and France.
The Minsk Group is a committee of countries working to bring about a peaceful resolution of the disagreement over Nagorno-Karabakh, the disputed Caucasus mountain enclave. The group was established by the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) in 1992.
A U.S. statement on the resolution said the three Minsk Group co-chairs all voted against the resolution because they agreed it represented a "unilateral" view of the dispute.
European Union president Slovenia issued a statement that said the Minsk
Group should continue to deal with the issue.
"The EU calls on the parties concerned to avoid any actions which could lead to heightened tensions and which could undermine the on going mediation efforts," it said.
Last week Azeri President Ilham Aliyev said Kosovo's newly declared independence from Serbia had emboldened Armenian separatists in Azerbaijan's mountainous enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh.
Both Armenia and Azerbaijan have accused each other of stoking the
recent violence there.
MOVE TO BAN RULING TURKISH PARTY

Turkey's chief prosecutor has asked the Constitutional Court to ban the governing AK Party, accusing it of anti-secular activities.

BBC - Abdurrahman Yalcinkaya said he believed that there was enough evidence to show the party had been contravening Turkey's secular constitution.
The AK Party, which has Islamist roots, won last year's general elections.
So any move to close it will be extremely controversial, the BBC's Sarah Rainsford in Istanbul says.

Headscarf controversy
The AKP is already locked in a battle with Turkey's secular elite, backed by the powerful military, over recent changes on the headscarf issue.
The Constitutional Court is reviewing an appeal by the main pro-secular opposition party on the validity of parliament's constitutional amendments in February to allow women wear Islamic head-scarves at universities.
The AKP has argued that the headscarf ban unfairly bars large numbers of girls from higher education in a nation where about 66% of women wear the scarf.
Many secularists in the country equate the wearing of the headscarf with political Islam. In a surprise announcement, Mr Yalcinkaya, the chief prosecutor at the Court of Appeals, said he had filed a court request for the closure of the AKP.
He also revealed that the party had been under investigation for six months.
; Speaking on Turkish television later on Friday, an AKP lawmaker said he was shocked at the news. The lawmaker said that senior party officials and lawyers were now holding an emergency meeting in the capital Ankara.
The AKP has its roots in an Islamist party that has been banned.
But the government of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan - which is negotiating for Turkey to join the EU - has always insisted that its political views have changed.

EASTER ALREADY ! BLAME IT ON THE BISHOPS

The Independent, UK - Annoyed that Easter is so early this year? Family life complicated by school and religious holidays being separated? Today, we name and shame the men responsible. Step forward Aristakes of Armenia, Protogenes of
Sardica, Spyridion of Trimythous, and Eusebius of Caesarea. It was they, and several hundred other bishops, who decided at a meeting 1,683 years ago how we should lead our leisure lives today.
The Council of Nicea in AD325, to which all the leading clerics of the Christian world were invited, had been called by the Roman Emperor Constantine, and it had three main results: 1) the Nicene Creed (the first unified Christian doctrine); 2) providing an early and convincing-sounding Christian event for Dan Brown to misrepresent in The Da Vinci Code; and 3) determining when Easter falls.
Before Nicea, this was tied to the Jewish feast of Passover. After it, the day was set as the first Sunday after the full moon following the vernal (spring) equinox. This latter event, something of a movable feast in those days, is now fixed on 21 March. Thus, the earliest that Easter Sunday can be is 22 March, the latest, 25 April. This year's date of 23 March is the earliest since 1913, and none of us will see its like again, the next such occurrence being in 2160.
Of course, things could be simpler, as the Easter Act, passed by Parliament as long ago as 1928, tried to ensure. This said that Easter should fall on the first Sunday after the second Saturday in April. However, since this also required the agreement of the churches, it has never come into force. Time, maybe, for another Council of Nicea.
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POLITICAL GATHERING
Dedicated to the martyrs of Sumgait Massacres and the
20th anniversary of the liberation struggle of Artsakh
organised by the Cyprus political parties of
Ramgavar, Henchagian and Dashnaktsoutiun
Friday 28 March at 8:30 pm
at Utudjian Hall of The Armenian Prelature

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PASYDY Auditorium-organised by The Pharos Trust



News in Brief by Sevag Devletian
A delegation of Catholicosate of Cilicia arrived in Echmiadzin to express support to Catholicos of All Armenians Garegin II, as well as the families of the victims and the wounded of March 1 incidents.
An Azeri serviceman crossed into Armenia near the village of Kolagir in northeastern province of Tavush, at about 7 pm on March 9. The Azeri soldier said he decided to desert from his military unit after his superior officer denied his repeated requests to be sent to the medical unit for treatment. When he tried to seek the assistance of the brigade commander he was subjected to severe beating. The soldier said he left his gun behind and deserted to Armenia.
4,414 people are still missing after the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict according to figures released by the ICRC, who since since 1992, has been working on the issue of providing information on the missing to the authorities. During that time it has helped repatriate some 700 Armenians who were held in Azerbaijan and has catered for the return of the remains of those deceased during the conflict.
Assisted suicide advocate Jack Kevorkian says he plans to run for Congress. Kevorkian is on parole since his release from prison last year after serving the minimum of a term for second-degree murder in one man's death.
Activists across the USA came to Washington for three days of non-stop anti-genocide advocacy, capped with an evening reception featuring powerful remarks by outspoken Congressional human rights leaders, reported the ANCA. The day one morning briefing took place in the Aramian Conference Room at the ANCA national headquarters with powerful welcoming remarks by Jackie Kanchelian-Speier, a veteran of the California legislature and currently a leading candidate running in the Special Election to fill California's 12th Congressional District.
Italian low-cost carrier Wind Jet, will start flying from Forli to Yerevan as of April 20, 2008.
Armenia's finance and economy ministry has granted a license to Price Water House Coopers firm to offer auditing services in Armenia which has
become the 150-th country in which the firm has now its office. Armenia has 31 licensed auditing firms and four individual auditors.
The Armenian government has set up an inter-agency commission to
prepare and coordinate a set of events to mark the centenary of prominent American Armenian author William Saroyan. As part of these events, director Yuri Muradian will make a cartoon called Bitlis. Bitlis is a town in Western Armenia, now in Turkey where Saroyan's parents hailed from. The director said the 10 minute-long cartoon is based on two short stories by Saroyan. The film will be ready in July.
The Armenian government made a decision to provide 21 million Drams to
the Ministry of Agriculture from its reserved fund aimed for the contribution to rebuild and develop forests of the country; to realise the project of rebuilding green areas of the Dzidzernagapert Memorial Complex. The realisation of all these intended measures is going to be thoroughly over in the 100th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide in 2015.
Around 4,000 troops from Armenia, Russia and Tajikstan will take part
in command exercises as part of Rubezh-2008 this Summer/Fall.
Lawyers for assassinated Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink's family have decided to bring a case against some of the police involved in the Dink murder investigation to the European Court of Human Rights. One of the lawyers, Fethiye Cetin, noted that they had brought allegations of misconduct and obstructing justice to Turkish prosecutors but to no avail.
Sports by Sevag Devletian
The Armenian football national team will hold an unofficial match with
the national team of Kazakhstan on March 26 in the city of Rotterdam while on June 1, in Frankfurt, against European Champions Greece
At The Pacific Life Open ATP Tennis Championships at Indian Wells, Armenian Argentine David Nalbandian won four games less than his opponent but defeated his opponent Radek Stepanek 7-6(7-1), 0-6, 7-6(8-6), while Marcos Baghdatis lost to his doubles partner Stanislav Warwinka of Switzerland and was eliminated for a place in the round of 16.
At the International Traditional Memorial Tournament for world-famous boxing coach Felix Stamm, Hovhannes Danielian took first place (48 kg category) and Hrachya Javakhian took second place (60 kg category).

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TONIGHT Wednesday, 19 March at 8:00 pm - VERELK by stand up comedian Vartan Bedrossian at Utudjian Hall of The Armenian Prelature - Entrance 10 euro. Organised by The Hamazkayin Cultural and Educational Association Cyprus "Oshagan" Chapter, under the auspices of Armenian MP in the Cyprus Parliament Vartkes Mahdessian.
Thursday 20 March - Avak Hinkshapti
Thursday 20 March at 10:30 am - Holy Liturgy
Thursday 20 March at 5:00 pm - Vodenleva
Thursday 20 March at 8:00 pm - Khavaroum
Friday 21 March 7:00 pm - Taghoum
Saturday 22 March at 5:00 pm - Jamerkoutiun
Saturday 22 March at 5:30 pm - Entertsvadzner
Saturday 22 March at 6:00 pm - Holy Liturgy
Saturday, March 22, 2008 - Easter Message from Cyprus Radio, CYBC,
Armenian Program at 5:00pm. Speaker - Hrayr Jebejian
Sunday 23 March - Armenian Easter
Sunday 23 March at 10:00 am - Easter Holy Liturgy
Sunday 23 March at 1:00 pm - Easter Lunch organised by the Larnaca Armenian Club at The Sun Hall Hotel, Larnaca Beach front. Unlimited Cyprus drinks and a rich buffet and Armenian music. Entrance 15 cyp - 6 cyp for children under 12 (25 and 10 euro). Reservations with Yeghia Boyadjian 99658121.
Sunday, 23 March, 2008 at 6:00pm - Armenian Evangelical church, Easter
Service, in Greek Evangelical Church, 20 Gladstonos street, Nicosia. Speaker: Hrayr Jebejian. All are welcome.
Friday 28 March at 8:30 pm - Political Gathering at Utudjian Hall, organised by the Cyprus bodies of Ramgavar, Henchagian and Dashnaktsagan political parties, dedicated to the martyrs of Sumgait Massacres and the 20th anniversary of the liberation struggle of Artsakh.
Sunday 30 March - AYF Badanegan is organising an excursion for 7-14 year old at The Limassol Zoo. Details to follow. To sign up call unger Kevork on 99817806.
Sunday, March 30, 2008 - Armenian Evangelical Church service at 7:30pm, in St. Barnabas Anglican Church, Limassol. All are welcome.
Saturday, 5 April, 7:30 pm - SIPAN Dance Ensemble of The Hamazkayin Cultural and Educational Association "Oshagan" Cyprus Chapter. Annual Performance at Strovolos Municipal Hall under the auspices of The President of The Republic of Cyprus Demetris Christofias. Followed by a Dinner Dance, Kef, at Cleopatra Hotel. Entrance fee-Adults 10 euro-Students up to 13 years old 6 euro.
Dinner Dance ticket at EURO 30.00 - Book with Garine Gostanian 99353450
Wednesday April 16 at 8:30 pm - Concert by Haroutune Bedelian (Violin) and Lorna Griffitt (Piano) at PASYDY. Organised by The Pharos Trust. Details on gibrahayer.com
Sunday 4 May - TIMAG Theatre Company of The Hamazkayin Cultural and Educational Association "Oshagan" Cyprus Chapter. Annual Performance. PASIDY Hall - Nicosia. Remaining details to follow.
Wednesday 24 April - Commemoration of The Armenian Genocide.
Monday May 5, at 8:00 pm - Public lecture entitled. "The Bible: Historical reflection on the Armenian translation and its role in developing Armenian National Identity", organised by The Armenian Evangelical Church. Speaker: The Rev. Dr. Manuel Jinbashian from Canada.

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