93rd Anniversary of the Armenian Genocide
1915-2008
PROGRAMME OF COMMEMORATIVE EVENTS
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Sunday 20th April, 2008 at 7.00pm
The Armenian Relief Society of
Great Britain and CRAG present
MARIE-ROSE ABOUSEFIAN
Recitation of the 40 Days of Musa Dagh
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Thursday 24 April 2008 at 7.00pm
'HOKEHANKIST' Requiem
Service at St. Sarkis Church
Iverna Gardens, Kensington,
London W8 7TP
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Thursday 24 April 2008
at 5.00pm to 9.00pm
SILENT VIGIL
at Turkish Embassy
organised by ANC-UK
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Saturday 26 April 2008 at 7.00pm
ACCC & CRAG
proudly present, specially invited from Armenia
The Luys Vocal Quintet
In a
Commemorative Evening
at St Yeghiche Church
(FREE ENTRANCE)
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Sunday 27 April 2008
( Service Commences 11.00am)
Commemorative Requiem Mass
at St Yeghiche Church
Followed by, on
Sunday 27 April 2008
Annual Commemorative March
Starting at 13:00 following the Requiem Service
from St. Yeghiche Church to the Cenotaph
WE APPEAL TO EVERYONE TO JOIN THIS MARCH STARTING FROM THE ST YEGHICHE CHURCH IMMEDIATELY FOLLOWING THE REQUIEM MASS
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 EASTER
Message From
His Holiness
Catholicos
Karekin II
PLEASE CLICK HERE TO READ MESSAGE
Click here to watch the Video of Sermon given by His Holiness during Easter High Mass
SIRUSHO
to sing for Armenia at
Eurovision Song Contest
CLICK ON PHOTO TO WATCH VIDEO
HAMAINK
The Newsletter for the U.K. Armenian Community
Published by the ACCC
In Service to the Community
ISSUE No 12
(December 2007)
OUT NOW
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ONLINE IN .PDF
HAMAINK issue No.12 was posted FREE OF CHARGE to every address registered with the ACCC
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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 Tony Blair from CRAGon the occasion of the Commemoration
of the 92nd Anniversary of the Armenian Genocide
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CULTURAL GENOCIDE CONTINUES
Destruction of headstones in the Armenian cemetery of Old Jugha (Nakhichevan)
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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.
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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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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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Vartan Oskanian's Farewell Speech
to the Staff of the Armenian Ministry of Foreign Affairs
I asked that you all gather here today so I can say thank you – to all of you: To the diplomats
who have worked with me for these 10 years, and longer. To the technical staff who have made our work here and abroad possible. To our ambassadors who have worked hard,
against great odds, to maximally promote our interests.
We can all be proud of our work, and we can all feel satisfied that we are performing a civic
duty. We are all citizens of armenia – you by birth, I by choice. For me, the decision to pack up and return to Armenia after independence was a default decision, a non-decision, an
obvious choice. Having come, I'm not now preparing to go.
I've been here since almost the beginning, working with you, to create something out of
nothing, to build a new institution and a new kind of institution. I have served as Foreign Minister since the beginning of President Kocharian's term. I had served as Deputy Minister
and First Deputy Minister under President Ter Petrossian. In other words, I have served not a man, but a people and a country. Together, that's what we have done since independence
-- we have served the state, the Republic of Armenia. I am proud of the work we have done together.
During these 10 years, I believe much has changed in the nature of our work. Of course the
Republic of Armenia has changed and progressed such that many objective conditions have changed – we don't wait 2, 3, sometimes 5 months to get paid. We have paper on which to
print treaties, conventions and documents. We are not hostage to irregular flights into and out of Armenia.
There are other differences, too. Diplomats, and all staff, are accepted solely on merit and not for any other reason. Diplomats are assigned postings solely based on professional
circumstances and not for any other reason. This ministry has a reputation now for being the cleanest, the most professional, the best regulated, and not corrupt. And that's no small reason to be proud.
This ministry is a place where people are treated with dignity, with respect and with tolerance. I'm proud of that and I believe that that tradition, once begun, cannot be easily
undone. On the contrary, it becomes contagious. I believe that to build a democratic society, we must begin, and we have begun, by building a transparent, accountable ministry, and by
treating each other with dignity.
The world has changed too in these 10 years. Russia is no longer in retreat. Europe is much
closer than it used to be. The US is more insistent on having partners who are democratic. Azerbaijan is looking to oil for solutions to all problems. Turkey is living both in the past and
in the future. Georgia is walking a fine line between beleaguered and bold. Iran is caught between the world's perceptions and its own self-image.
And Armenia? Armenia has demonstrated that we understand that diplomacy and defense do not replace each other, but work in tandem to secure a nation's future. Armenia has
proven that economic growth is possible, even with the absence of natural resources and open transportation corridors. Armenia is living proof that one can be a respected member of
the international community and at the same time swim against the global tide to assure self-determination and security for Nagorno Karabakh. Armenia has become a trustworthy
and I can say, full partner in international organizations with a full agenda of reforms, insights and action items. Armenia has established good relations with all major world centers –
Russia, the Americas, Europe, Asia, the Middle East and Latin America.
But each of the successes I just mentioned have brought with it a set of new challenges and
new problems. And that's our job – to make the best of each opportunity and minimize all threats.
Now, we must perform our job in the changed environment of the last several months. When
we allowed the political tensions and emotions of the election and post-election period to reign, they demonstrated that we sometimes imagine that revolution can be an alternative to
reforms, and that revenge can take precedence over reconciliation. No one knows better than we in this building that that is false. No one knows better than we that our domestic
strength, integrity, stability, morality and perseverance are our best – actually our only – calling cards in the international arena.
If those were our assets, today we work with a deficit. The capital we had accumulated internationally has been squandered. That means my successor, each of you, and all of us
who live in Armenia, must work even harder to regain our respectability and our confidence in ourselves and our future.
I will continue to work with you. I don't intend to terminate my public engagement, but to enter a new phase. I don't intend to be foreign minister but I intend to work domestically to
help the next minister to succeed internationally.
The weeks after March 1 were the most difficult of my entire career. On the one hand, I am
part of an admininstration which, at the end of the day, is responsible for what happens in this country. On the other hand, from the beginning of their campaign, I disagreed, publicly and
privately, with the tactics, methods and goals of the opposition.
Just as it is not in my nature to follow blindly, it is also not in my nature to be in bitter
opposition. I believe in carrying out the responsibilities I have undertaken. I believe I have done so these 10 years, sometimes before the TV cameras but more often behind the scenes.
My commitment to Armenia and its future did not begin when I became foreign minister. It will not cease now that I am no longer foreign minister.
Instead, it will change. I will undertake a new set of responsibilities that will focus on fashioning a relevant, inclusive civic and political forum and that will work with the public and
with the existing political forces on mending the torn fabric of our society, on finding genuine paths to political concensus by reconciling our differences, not suppressing them. I will
partner with those who wish to create the mechanisms that replicate the experience of other developed countries and offer serious, convincing political alternatives that are not
destructive, extreme and self-serving. Most of all, or first of all, I will work to strengthen the institutions which will decrease our people's cynicism and readiness to believe the
worst about ourselves, that will empower people to say what they believe and believe in what they say.
The work that you and I will do will be complementary. I feel a part of this family.
And that's not going to change. I would like it to remain that way, and I know it will be hard to pass by this building, or through Republic Square in general.
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