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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 .
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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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 Published by the ACCC
 In Service to the Community
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         CRAG
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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
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       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.
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 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



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ACCC Organise and Conduct CAIA AGM and Elections - Report

 

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Aliev Sees Armenian Concessions After Azeri Military Buildup

By Emil Danielyan

President Ilham Aliev has promised further substantial increases in
Azerbaijan's military spending, saying that they will eventually force
Armenia to make more concessions on Nagorno-Karabakh.

Russian news agencies quoted him on Tuesday as touting a 75 percent jump
in his government's defense budget this year as a major step towards
achieving a solution to the Karabakh conflict favorable to Azerbaijan.

`Current measures to strengthen the country's military potential and
increase the military budget will force Armenia to make concessions when
negotiating the Karabakh settlement and to ultimately leave occupied
Azerbaijani land,' Aliev was reported to tell the personnel of
Azerbaijan's State Border Guard Service.

Baku announced in June that it will use its growing oil revenues to
increase its military budget from the 2004 level of $175 million to $300
million this year. Aliev clamed at the time that the Azerbaijani
military, which suffered a humiliating defeat in the 1991-1994 Karabakh
war, has already gained the upper hand over its Armenian adversary.

The Azerbaijani leader said on Tuesday that this trend will continue and
that his army will buy more weapons and military hardware. The
objective, he said, is to make Azerbaijan's military spending equal to
Armenia's entire state budget which is projected to be worth roughly
$870 million in 2005. But he did not specify when it will be achieved.

Aliev's repeated threats to use oil money for winning back Karabakh were
shrugged off by Defense Minister Serzh Sarkisian last month. `We are not
scared of those 300 million [dollars],' he said.

Armenia's official defense budget is projected to grow by 27 percent to
60 billion drams ($132 million) this year. The Armenian military and its
allied forces in Karabakh are also thought to have other, unpublicized
sources of funding and supplies.

Still, Aliev insisted that Azerbaijan is far more advanced in economic
and political terms than its arch-foe. "Within a few years, the gap
between us will become even wider," he said.

It was not clear what Aliev thinks constitutes that gap. After nearly a
decade of oil exports, Azerbaijan remains a low-income country in terms
of its GDP per capita which is still comparable to that of Armenia. The
oil-rich nation ranked 91st in the UN's 2004 Human Development Index of
151 countries of the world. Armenia was in 82nd place in the rankings.

Aliev's remarks came ahead of his crucial talks with President Robert
Kocharian which international mediators believe could clear the final
hurdle to the peaceful settlement of the long-running dispute. The two
men are scheduled to meet on August 26 in the Russian city of Kazan on
the sidelines of a summit of ex-Soviet states. The summit will be
preceded by a meeting in Moscow of the Armenian and Azerbaijani foreign
ministers.

`A lot has been achieved over the last one and a half years and the
meeting in Kazan will be a very important event,' Steven Mann, the U.S.
co-chair of the OSCE's Minsk Group on Karabakh, said in an interview
with the Baku daily `Zerkalo' published on Wednesday.

But Mann cautioned that the peace process remains `very difficult.' `It
is too early to say that a document [ending the conflict] is ready,' he
said. `It would be wrong to say that we are going to sing a document
right now.'

According to Armenian officials, the conflicting parties have been
discussing a peace deal that would lead to a referendum on independence
in Karabakh and the liberation of Armenian-controlled Azerbaijani lands
that surround the disputed enclave. Mann and other international
mediators have not denied or confirmed those claims.

In a related development, the Azerbaijani military confirmed on
Wednesday reports that one of its soldiers was killed and another one
wounded in a landmine explosion near the Armenian-Azerbaijani line of
contact northeast of Karabakh. The incident was reported one day after
the disappearance of another Azerbaijani serviceman. Azerbaijani media
quoted officials in Baku as saying that the 23-year-old warrant officer
was captured by Armenian forces.