“I can say that 24-hour news cycle forms an insensitive audience, because that news becomes common. When you hear about 1 million refugees, it is just a number; it is more effective when a little boy is found dead washed ashore. In this case people find time to focus on this issue, and then they realize that the UN has not done enough for the refugee crisis. The way we respond to the refugee crisis is horrible.”
“I can say that 24-hour news cycle forms an insensitive audience, because that news becomes common. When you hear about 1 million refugees, it is just a number; it is more effective when a little boy is found dead washed ashore. In this case people find time to focus on this issue, and then they realize that the UN has not done enough for the refugee crisis. The way we respond to the refugee crisis is horrible”, Clooney said.
“We see that a long struggle is underway to reach the point that everything will be named accordingly. We see that steps are being conducted to call the Armenian massacres as genocide, however, they are being done very slowly, this struggle continues longer than it should be”, “Armenpress” reports, Clooney says.
The illustrated book has been published owing to the support of the RA Ministry of Culture, the State Committee coordinating the commemoration events dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide and VivaCell-MTS.
“Firstly organization and export of joint production in Armenia, as well as direct engagement of Armenian companies in Iranian market should be implemented. Out of this, we proposed the Iranian party a list of products, so that lowered tax tariff was defined. It’ll allow the Armenian products to enter Iranian market with low tax tariffs. Besides that, we also offered, that Armenia was observed as a space for centralization of Iranian and European capital, providing the opportunity to establish joint enterprises in participation with European technologies and Iranian capital,” Artsvik Minasyan said. According to him, exhibition of Armenian products in Iran, and of Iranian products in Armenia is anticipated in near future.
“These are markets, where Armenia has a beneficial status, it will provide the opportunity to implement wide-scale export. Businessmen are interested in a few fields— mechanical engineering, machine-tool construction, food processing, information technologies and etc,” A.Ghazaryan said.
George Clooney has just arrived in Armenia. Among those welcoming famous couple was businessman Ruben Vardanyan. George Clooney will participate in the first awarding ceremony of the Aurora Prize for Awakening Humanity, News.am reports.
Peter Balakian, an English professor at Colgate University in Hamilton, N.Y., shot to the top of the poetry world on Monday when his new collection, “Ozone Journal,” won a Pulitzer Prize, The Washington Post reports. The judges praised his verse for bearing “witness to the old losses and tragedies that undergird a global age of danger and uncertainty.”
“The perpetrators of the Armenian Genocide were the Ottoman Empire, whose descendants are the modern Turkish Republic. On top of our grandparents’ bones in the desert in Syria are the new bones of the Yazidis, Syrians and others being murdered by ISIS. It’s more than just irony—it’s fucking political reality.”
Andrew Cuomo, Governor of New York, announced 24 April 2016 as Armenian Genocide Commemoration Day. The Governor’s Press Service informs that Cuomo pays tribute to the Armenian Genocide victims, as well as to the survivors who resettled in New York after the massacres. Residents of New York join the Armenian community to remind the events of the past and the lessons learned.
