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HAMAINK
The Newsletter for the U.K. Armenian Community
Published by the ACCC
In Service to the Community
HAMAINK
issue No.14 was posted FREE OF CHARGE to every address registered with the ACCC
To participate in community life and to receive all
future community communications and news and so as to become eligible to take part in elections of the ACCC Council, every Armenian living in the
U.K. should register with the ACCC. Registration is FREE. Please e-mail your Name, Address,
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DONATIONS TO CHURCH
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The running costs for the regular
church services of the Community's Church - the St Yeghiche Church in Cranley Gardens, Kensington SW7, are maintained by the ACCC, wholly by donations received from the community. The
annual costs including stipends for clergymen amounts to about £40,000. Annual Contributions by members of the Community amount to about £20,000.
YOUR CHURCH NEEDS ANOTHER
£20,000
per year just to break even.
Would all those who wish to make a donation to the Church please post
your cheques to:
ACCC Church Committee
c/o Mrs Tamara Stephan,
10 Beacon Way,
Rickmansworth, WD3 7PG
Please make cheque payable to
"ACCC Church Committee".
The Committee Treasurer will issue a
receipt and In the case of funerals,will notify the next of kin of the deceased, the names and addresses of all who make donations in memoriam and in lieu of flowers. |
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NEWLY ELECTED COUNCIL RECEIVES BLESSINGS AND RATIFICATION
FROM HIS HOLINESS CATHOLICOS KAREKIN II
By a letter sent to Bishop Nathan
Hovhannesian, Primate of the Armenian Church of the United Kingdom, His Holiness Karekin II has conveyed to the newly elected Council of the ACCC his congratulations, blessings and
ratification and has wished the Council every success in their work for the benefit of the Armenian Church & Community in the United Kingdom
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SWISS FEDERAL TRIBUNAL REJECTS APPEAL AGAINST CONVICTION BY TURKISH POLITICIAN - DOGU PERINCEK - FOR DENIAL OF THE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE
17 MILLION DOLLARS to be paid out to relatives of Victims of Armenian Genocide who were insured by the AXA Insurance Company.
ALL DESCENDENTS CAN CLAIM.
Click Here for details and List of Insured.
Claims Deadline is 7th January 2008
The Parliament of South America Recognizes the
Armenian Genocide
Turkey stops use of Turkish air space by Armenian airlines. Flights to Syria and Lebanon effected.
 LORD ARA DARZI becomes
Minister of Health in new Brown Government
UNITED STATES CONGRESS FOREIGN AFFAIRS COMMITTEE PASSES Resolution H.Res 106 RECOGNISING THE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE
STEPHEN POUND MP Visits Armenia and Karabagh - Meets High Ranking Officials
ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY VISITS CATHOLICOS OF ALL ARMENIANS
Dear Prime Minister - - -
Read Letter to
Prime Minister Gordon Brown
from CRAG on the occasion of the
Commemoration of the 93rd Anniversary of the Armenian Genocide on 27th April, 2008
PLEASE CLICK THIS LINK
CULTURAL GENOCIDE CONTINUES
Destruction of headstones in the Armenian
cemetery of Old Jugha (Nakhichevan)
PLEASE CLICK THIS LINK TO READ FULL ARTICLE
ASSASSINATION OF HRANT DINK
Robert Fisk:
Let me denounce genocide from the dock - - - Suddenly, those Armenian mass graves opened up before my own eyes
Robert Fisk:
You're talking nonsense, Mr Ambassador - -
All the while, new diplomatic archives are opening to reveal the smell of death - Armenian death
Sen. Hillary Clinton and Majority Leader Reid Co-sponsor Armenian Genocide Legislation
SERJE SARKISSIAN Appointed Prime Minister of Armenia
ARMENIA - Parliamentary Elections
-Results
ARMENIAN PARLIAMENT ENDORSES BILL ON DUAL CITIZENSHIP
NORWAY'S COUNCIL OF KRAGERO RECOGNISES GENOCIDE
Orhan Pamuk's Nobel Prize
'' The Ottoman Armenians - The Final Images'' -
Exhibition organised by Land & Culture Org of UK and CRAG
Petition to the Prime Minister in support of Missing Cypriots and their Relatives
NEWS FROM THE K.TAHTA ARMENIAN COMMUNITY SUNDAY SCHOOL
_______________________School Calendar 2007 - 2008
Term 1 - Autumn term:
9 September - 16 December
Half term 21 October
14 October "Targmanchants" ton.
24 November "Quiz night". ( Click Here for Details)
16 December New Year celebration.
Term 2 - Winter term:
13 January - 9 March
Half term 24 February
2 February "Junior Quiz night".
( details to be announced)
17 February Celebration of "Vardanants" day
23 February Celebration of the 30th Anniversary of the School ( details to be announced)
Term 3 - Spring term
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6 April - 13 July
Half term 25 May
4 May "Mother's day" celebration.
(details to be announced)
29 June Annual BBQ. ( details to be announced)
13 July Year End assembly ( details to be announced)
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Click the following link to access
the website of the Mother See of
Holy Etchmiadzin :
http://www.armenianchurch.org
CLICK HERE TO READ
REGULAR COMMUNICATIONS
RECEIVED FROM THE
MOTHER SEE OF HOLY
ETCHMIADZIN
 KEVORK 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.
PLEASE CLICK THIS LINK FOR DETAILS
HUMOUR:
" Drive-In Take-Away"
(After viewing film clip please press
browser "BACK" button to return )
About the ACCC
and our Committees
BOOKS "HISTORY OF THE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE"
By Prof. V. Dadrian
BLUE BOOK
- British Parliamentary Report - New Uncensored Version
Balakian: The Burning Tigris
Galichian: Historic Maps of
Armenia
VIRUS WARNING
A new Virus is being spread by e-mails purportedly from an internet greeting card
source. The e-mail says you have a Greeting Card/Fun Card and asks you to open a link to the card site. However the 'link' starts-up a download which introduces the virus.
Advice: Do Not Attempt to View a Greeting Card if You Do Not Recognise the Sender |
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LORD DARZI APPOINTED MINISTER IN PRIME MINISTER BROWN's NEW GOVERNMENT
Prime Minister Gordon Brown has appointed a practising surgeon as a Minister of Health with specific portfolio
LORD DARZI (Professor Sir Ara Darzi) who is charged with improving patient care, has been promoted from his previous role as National Advisor on surgery.
Lord Darzi, chair of surgery at Imperial College London, supports government plans to reconfigure NHS services.
When he took over as prime minister, Mr Brown said he planned a broad-based government of "all the talents".
Lord Darzi will combine his ministerial duties with his research and clinical commitments, including the supervision of students.
Lord Darzi, 47, said: "It is a great honour and privilege to be asked by the Prime Minister to continue that work for patients across the country.
"I will be working closely with Alan Johnson to map out the next steps of the reform agenda that has achieved so much in the last 10 years. But we can do better."
Frontline experience
He said he would draw on his experience from the frontline to fulfil his new responsibilities.
"I am not a politician by profession. My working life has, is and will continue to be centred on patient care."
Lord Darzi is internationally respected for his innovative work in the advancement of minimal invasive surgery and in
the development and use of allied technologies including surgical robots and image-guided surgery.
Dr Jonathan Fielden, chair of the BMA's consultants' committee, said: "Having a focus on improving patient care is a positive step forward.
"We will be looking forward to him listening to our concerns and working closely with him to ensure that the concerns of the profession and the public are utilised to improve patient care."
Mr Bernard Ribeiro, President of the Royal College of Surgeons, said: "I am delighted that a practising surgeon, who deals with patients on a regular basis, has decided to take such a high position.
"It is an opportunity for government to engage directly with the profession."
The prime minister's spokesman said Lord Darzi would work Monday to Thursday as a minister - being paid for three days - and continue to work as an NHS surgeon, unpaid, on Fridays.
Any income from his international private practice will be paid direct to Imperial College to fund research, the spokesman said. THE ABOVE ARE EXERPTS FROM BBC NEWS WEBSITE
The Armenian Community & Church Council of Great Britain take
great pleasure in congratulating Lord Ara Darzi on his appointment to such an eminent position and would also like to congratulate Lord Darzi's parents Vartkes and Dikranouhi Darzi who are much respected
members of the British Armenian Community.
PLEASE CLICK HERE FOR A BIOGRAPHY OF LORD DARZI ISSUED BY THE OFFICE OF THE PRIME MINISTER
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