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= 21 April - Community Commemoration at Ealing Town Hall  - 7.00pm

= 22 April - Commemorative Procession from Marble Arch to The Cenotaph - Whitehall

= 23 April - 11.00am
 Memorial Service -
St Yeghiche Church and
St Sarkis Church

= 24 April - 7.00pm - Memorial Service at St Sarkis Church

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CRAG
 SPECIAL  BULLETIN
'Ending Denial in the UK'  Maximise public awareness regarding the historical truth of the Armenian Genocide .
PLEASE CLICK HERE TO READ BULLETIN
To mark the 91st Anniversary of the Armenian Genocide, CRAG in cooperation with Executive Committee of ACCC and Bishop Nathan Hovhannesian has organised a number of commemorative events.
 

 CILICIA DEPARTURE FESTIVAL
                          
The Vessel CILICIA, the Replica of an Ancient Armenian Merchant Vessel is scheduled to set sail on the final stage of its journey from London Docklands on Sunday May 28th

PLEASE CLICK THIS LINK TO READ DETAILS OF EVENTS,
    FESTIVE SENDING- OFF, AND ABOUT THE VESSEL


        EASTER MESSAGE
  The Message of His Holiness
   Karekin II Supreme Patriarch
   and Catholicos of All Armenians
   on the Occasion of the Feast of
 the Glorious Resurrection of Christ
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 Read Article: 
"Reflection on the Theme of Easter "
 by Dr. Harry Hagopian.
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           NEWS BULLETIN OF THE
        ARMENIAN EMBASSY IN U.K.
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            LITERARY COMPETITION
            FOR YOUNG ARMENIANS
           UNDER THE PATRONAGE OF
            MRS. BELLA KOCHARIAN
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HAMAINK
The Newsletter for the U.K. Armenian Community
 Published by the ACCC
 In Service to the Community
                                                                        ISSUE No 6
OUT NOW
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ONLINE IN .PDF

  HAMAINK issue No.6 was posted FREE OF CHARGE to every address registered with the ACCC
 
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         CRAG
     REPORT

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   OF THE ACCC's COMMITTEE FOR
   RECOGNITION OF THE ARMENIAN
                    GENOCIDE
                   March 2006
 

 

 

 

 

 







K. TAHTA ARMENIAN
  COMMUNITY SUNDAY SCHOOL

  K. Tahta Armenian Community Sunday School Classes are held every Sunday from 10:30a.m. to 2:00p.m. at Twyford Church of England School, Twyford Crescent, Acton, London W3 9PP.

The Sunday School offers parallel classes both in Eastern and Western Armenian to pupils aged between 3 and 16 years old, and it is composed of the following three sections: (1) Nursery Section (two years); (2) Pre–academic Section (two years); and (3) Academic Section (nine years). Classes are also offered to adults wishing to learn either Eastern or Western Armenian.

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          TWO NEW WEBSITES:
   
        PANORAMA.am
       - Armenian News Portal -

       ARMENICA.Org
  Excellent and Highly Informative
Armenian History and General Info

 

  TERRORIST ATTACKS IN LONDON
   Transcript of letter by His Holiness Karekin II, Catholicos of All Armenians, sent to the Right Honourable Tony Blair M.P., The Prime Minister.
=  Statement from the Primate of the Armenian Church of the United Kingdom, Bishop Nathan Hovhannisian
=  Statement from the Armenian Community & Church Council of Great Britain.
   CLICK THIS LINK TO OPEN PAGE


 
                  HUMOUR:
 
         " Drive-In Take-Away"
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     Operating System -
                  Highly Technical Advice

 ARTICLES AND NEWS ITEMS OF INTEREST RECEIVED WITH THANKS FROM ARMENAG TOPALIAN:


 Turkey must relent - The Spectator

Armenian Government Reports Further Rise In Foreign Investment

No Karabakh Accord Announced After Armenian-Azeri Summit

Argentine Operator To Boost Investments In Yerevan Airport

AZERBAIJANI AUTHORITIES DECIDE TO HOLD ELECTIONS IN KARABAKH

AGBU Builds Second Karabakh Village, Dozens Prepare to Move Into Border Region

Aliev Sees Armenian Concessions After Azeri Military Buildup

Church Restoration Raises Hopes For Turkish-Armenian Reconciliation

Experts Warn Of IT Staff Shortage In Armenia

 Armenian journalist faces three years jail for "insulting Turkish identity"


 
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



 



 



   About the ACCC
 and our Committees
    
 
  ARMENIAN GENOCIDE
       90th ANNIVERSARY
  COMMEMORATIVE EVENTS

   
   SCHEDULE OF EVENTS TO
    COMMEMORATE THE 90TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE ARMENIAN
 GENOCIDE

The Community's Official Petition launched by the Genocide 90th Anniv. Commemoration Committee


 THE HOLY ARMENIAN
 APOSTOLIC CHURCH

CHURCH NEWS
Press Releases from Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin

THE ARMENIAN EMBASSY
Embassy News Bulletin


HOLY TRINITY ARMENIAN CHURCH OF MANCHESTER WEBSITE


 
 UNITED KINGDOM:

Prominent Benefactor and member of U.K. Armenian Community,
Mr George Kurkjian OBE passes away


'Early Day Motion' tabled in previous Parliament (EDM642)

Professor Hovhannisian - Lecture in London

Talk given by Professor Tessa Hofann at University of London

Statement by Baroness Cox of Queensbury

Armenian Genocide and Jewish Holocaust Commemorated in Wales

Mayor of London Ken Livingstone speaks of Armenian Genocide

Archbishop Y. Gizirian visits London

Community members receive Pontifical Honours



TURKEY:

Erdogan-Hurriyet Interview:

Pastor shocks Turkish TV viewers by bold remarks on Genocide


Turkish Publisher charged for publishing book by Armenian author

Ancient Armenian Church in danger of collapse



GENOCIDE:

Turkey's Memory Lapse -
ARMENIAN GENOCIDE PLAGUES ANKARA 90YEARS ON
By Bernhard Zand
Article published in Spiegel Online

 Link to "Turkish Crimes of Our Century - chronology - details

French MEP calls on Turkish Deputies to recognise Armenian Genocide
 


GENERAL:
' Lessons of Genocide: 1915, 1994 & 2005' Click this link to read an edited version of a recent academic presentation dated 25 May 2005 by Dr Harry Hagopian.  The article examines his views on many salient points in the genocide discourse.


Israel is among the holocaust deniers :  Editorial in HAARETZ By Yossi Sarid


TEN YEARS SHY OF A CENTURY!
The Armenian Genocide 1915
BY DR HARRY HAGOPIAN
  " It is my contention today that no genocide can be unique since all genocides are reprehensible. This is why I believe it is in the Turkish national interest to come clean and recognise this genocide . . ."
" I believe Turkey cannot find inner peace so long as it denies the genocide. Nor can Armenians for that matter, which is why the souls of Armenian victims still cry out for justice today. . ."CLICK THIS LINK TO READ ARTICLE


"WAITING FOR THE DENIAL TO END"
By Dalia Shehori
Published in HAARETZ.com


Hovanness Badalian Music Fund

GROONG - Armenian News
Extensive Collection of News Items Updated Daily




ARMENIA:

 President Robert Kocharian replies to P.M. Erdogan of Turkey

1,500,000 CANDLES

Armenian Jews celebrate Purim in Yerevan

OSCE Report on Mountainous Karabagh Strikes down Azeri Allegations of Resettlement

 His Eminence Archbishop Shahé Ajemian Enters Eternal Rest
 


UNIVERSITY SCHOLARSHIPS Available to Students from Armenia


 

BOOKS

BLUE BOOK - British Parliamentary Report - New Uncensored Version


Balakian: The Burning Tigris


Galichian: Historic Maps of Armenia



U.K. -  CAIA:

ACCC Organise and Conduct CAIA AGM and Elections - Report

 

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Experts Warn Of IT Staff Shortage In Armenia

By Nane Atshemian

Armenia's information technology industry, the most advanced in the
region, is beginning to experience a shortage of skilled labor that
could stall its further growth unless urgent government measures are
taken to reform the education system, IT experts warned on Wednesday.

They said that the number and especially the professional level of young
people graduating from the IT programs of local universities is
increasingly lagging behind the needs of one of the most dynamic sectors
of the Armenian economy.

The sector has seen substantial growth over the past decade, creating
thousands of well-paid jobs in the unemployment-stricken nation. Foreign
and mostly U.S. companies in computer software development and other
IT-related activities have been the main driving force behind the
growth. At least a dozen of them have branches in Armenia.

The existence of relatively cheap and skilled workforce in country that
was once dubbed the Silicon Valley of the Soviet Union has been
principal factor behind the foreign investments. But According to the
director of the Armenian Enterprise Incubator Foundation (EIF), a World
Bank-funded agency promoting the sector's development, Armenia will risk
losing this trump card unless it embarks on a sweeping overhaul of its
system of higher education.

`There are now IT companies that are looking for 50 to 100 specialists,'
Bagrat Yengibarian told RFE/RL. `There is a great need in specialists.
Our task is to create conditions in the university system that will
enable companies to hire qualified specialists. We can not make Armenia
attractive by saying that the private sector itself should prepare
specialists.'

`Big Western firms like Lycos and Synopsis can enter our universities
and train their future cadres. But smaller companies interested in
Armenia cannot do that,' Yengibarian added.

The main sources of IT-related knowledge in Armenia are the computer
science departments of Yerevan State University and the Armenian State
Engineering University. The number of applicants seeking to study there
has risen dramatically in recent years, with high school graduates
attracted by the prospect of finding a job in a sector where the average
monthly wage is currently worth $500. Experienced Armenian programmers
may well earn $1,000 or more these days.

However, the post-Soviet decline in overall educational standards in
Armenia coupled with a lack of government funding for universities has
clearly taken its toll on the quality of IT learning in Armenia.

`Our universities are only now beginning to teach modern technology,'
said Arman Valesian, chairman of the organizing committee of an annual
computer programming contest sponsored by the EIF and other IT
associations. `Kids mainly learn it on their own or through private
courses. If they could do that in university it would be much easier for
the industry to hire staff. But companies now spend at least three
months to retrain university graduates [before hiring them].'

The latest programming contest began this week, featuring about 200
participants below the age of 30. Thirty best-performing programmers
will be short-listed for a special training course to be taught by
specialists from Armenian and foreign IT firms.

`The younger they are, the more flexible is their mind,' Valesian
observed. `For example, we have a 16-year-old boy who solved five
problems in 75 minutes.'

Analysts say another problem is that despite declaring the sector's
development a top priority of its economic policy, the Armenian
government has yet to embark on a radical re-orientation of the
education sector toward IT or at least to expand its existing computer
science programs. Armenia's state-run technical colleges, which were
primarily designed to serve the now defunct Soviet-era heavy industry,
continue to release every year hundreds of mechanical and other non-IT
engineers whose chances of finding a job are slim.

Yengibarian, the EIF director, believes that the government should come
up with an IT development plan tied to a broader strategy for the
country's economic development. That strategy, he said, should provide
answers to the following questions: `In which direction will Armenia
move in the next ten years? Are we going to prioritize cheap or
qualified labor? What steps are we going to take to ensure that the
university system does not lag behind development?'