Monday, August 8, 2022
No Result
View All Result
Asbarez.com
NEWSLETTER
ՀԱՅ
  • Home
  • Top Stories
  • Community
  • Arts & Culture
    • Art
    • Books
    • Music
    • Theatre
    • Critics’ Forum
  • Op-Ed
    • Editorial
    • Opinon
    • Letters
  • Columns
    • By Any Means
    • My Turn
    • Three Apples
    • Community Links
    • Critics’ Forum
    • My Name is Armen
    • Living in Armenia
  • Videos
  • Sports
  • Home
  • Top Stories
  • Community
  • Arts & Culture
    • Art
    • Books
    • Music
    • Theatre
    • Critics’ Forum
  • Op-Ed
    • Editorial
    • Opinon
    • Letters
  • Columns
    • By Any Means
    • My Turn
    • Three Apples
    • Community Links
    • Critics’ Forum
    • My Name is Armen
    • Living in Armenia
  • Videos
  • Sports
No Result
View All Result
Asbarez.com
ՀԱՅ
No Result
View All Result

Sarkisian Directs UN Missions to Raise Kessab Issue

by Contributor
March 24, 2014
in Armenia, Featured Story, International, Kessab Under Siege, Latest, News, Top Stories
17
Share on FacebookShare on Twitter
President Serzh Sarkisian discusses the Kessab crisis with reporters in the Hague

THE HAGUE—President Serzh Sarkisian on Monday said he has directed Armenia’s United Nations missions in New York and Geneva to address the importance of “ensuring the security of the Armenians in Kessab and their safe return to their permanent places of residence at the structures dealing with human rights and ethnic minorities,” reported the presidential office.

Sarkisian, who is in the Hague to attend the world Nuclear Security Summit, spoke tor reporters at the World Forum Convention Center, saying that the weekend’s attack of the Armenian-populated city of Kessab by gunmen who infiltrated through the Turkish border, posed serious challenges.

“[The] deportation of Kessab Armenians today is a serious challenge to ethnic minority rights’ protection mechanisms of the 21st century,” said Sarkisian. “I have already instructed the diplomatic missions at the UN Headquarters in New-York and Geneva to raise the issue of ensuring the security of the Armenians in Kessab and their safe return to their permanent places of residence at the structures dealing with human rights and ethnic minorities.”

Telling reporters about Kessab’s bloody history beginning with Turkish armed detachment attacks of Armenians in 1909 and the impact of the 1915 Genocide on the residents of the area, Sarkisian drew attention to the historical parallels to the present-day crisis.

I think that everyone should realize that these parallels should be a sobering reminder to all involved,” said Sarkisian.

Sarkisian thanked the Syrian authorities for the steps being taken to protect the Armenians in Kessab and added the Armenia’s Embassy in Damascus is working on measures to support the Armenian population of Kessab.

Sarkisian also announced that he met with His Holiness Aram I, Catholicos of the Great House of Cilicia to discuss the Kessab situation.

Beginning on Friday, the Armenian-populated Kessab region of Syria has been under siege after Al-Qaeda affiliated foreign fighters penetrated the Turkish border with Kessab and began a large-scale attack, forcing the population to flee to nearby Latakia. Earlier press reports indicated that the town has been all but emptied.

Contributor

Contributor

Next Post

ARF Central Committee Issues Announcement on Kessab Crisis

Comments 17

  1. Hratch says:
    8 years ago

    Sarkissian should have thought about the consequences before opening his big mouth on the Crimean issue. We have no legitimacy left with the international community. They see us as the enemy now!

    Reply
    • Sarkis says:
      8 years ago

      You are a deranged self-hating freak. Armenia takes a poltical stand in support of its national interests in Eastern Europe, and that makes it acceptable to massacre Armenians in the Middle East. You make me sick

      Reply
    • ASALA says:
      8 years ago

      When Yanukovych was overthrown by the fascists the new government stated that Karabagh belonged to Azerbaijan . That’s the only reason why Sarkissian recognized Crimea part of Russia . Secondly Armenia as a nation has always been an enemy to Western powers because it is in the way of there ambitions , but it was Russia that helped Armenia get up on one knee .. Not the US or Europe. Thanks to only Russia that Armenia can defend themselves , something that we couldn’t do since the time of Mezn Dikran . Now on the Kessab issue , you talk about the legitimacy of the International community but you fail to understand that the people entering Syria are Al-Qaeda and it is the International community who fund these murderers to enter Syria and commit such crimes ? Do you want Armenia to be on the side of those who send in troops to destabilize regions , especially when entering Armenian villages ? I prefer Armenia to be where it is now rather than be a mouth piece. Im sick of Armenia being the little guy with no say in the world .. We are of ancient , and our word counts more than terrorist supporters . Don’t use words like “Sarkissian should have thought about the consenquences” because all you are doing is supporting the supposed punishment on Armenia .. Should Armenia bend over and take it in the back ? Or take it on the chin like a man and defend its people’s right just like Sarkissian is doing now.

      Reply
    • Hayk says:
      8 years ago

      Armenian national interest is people’s self determination we have Artcax.
      Sarkisyan said that we all respect people’s right to self determination.
      Some who says he is wrong saying that must be smoking weed.

      Reply
    • GeorgeMardig says:
      8 years ago

      President Sarkissia supported the rights of people’s self detemination everywhere, not anexation of Crimea with Russia

      Reply
  2. GB says:
    8 years ago

    First World War Powers, France, Italy, Great Britain don’t remember secret Treaty of Sèvres anymore! This is one of the reasons, why Armenian Genocide does not have impact on them!

    Reply
  3. Josef says:
    8 years ago

    Can you imagine if this happened in a Jewish town or Synogogue there we would see true justice!

    Reply
  4. Vindicated Man says:
    8 years ago

    Aside from humanitarian aid, military assistance should be sought. UN troops may be an option.

    Reply
  5. Hovik Mirzakhanian says:
    8 years ago

    The following letter is posted to the president’s official website:
    Mr. President,
    I think Turkey by mass killings and banishment of Armenians of Kessab provided sufficient ground and reason to the Armenian government to remove it’s signature from the Armenia-Turkey reconciliation protocols. Who can blame Armenia to refuse reconcile with the genocidal regime.

    Reply
  6. GeorgeMardig says:
    8 years ago

    Turkey continues the Armenian Genocide into 21st Century, by sending Mujahedin fighters through the Turkish border into Syria.

    Reply
  7. Sokimag says:
    8 years ago

    Sarkisian makes a lot of mistakes but for once he got it right. I will give credit when it is due. Sarkisian deserves credit for this act. And yes, Putin was right for the Syrian issue. I will admit that too and will give him credit.

    Reply
    • Sarkis says:
      8 years ago

      You may be interested in watching this clip where President Sargsyan absolutely destroys the Azeri delegate at PACE. He is an excellent public speaker and diplomat:

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wu-UZn3KvG0

      Reply
      • Sokimag says:
        8 years ago

        He did speak well indeed. But let’s be honest, he did mess up by recognizing Crimea with his phone talk with Putin. That was a bad strategic move in my mind, now Ukraine will likely side with Azerbaijan concerning the Artsakh issue. Not only Ukraine, but even the West may side with Azerbaijan because of that bad mistake Sarkisian made. And there is less chance the world recognizes Artsakh because of that.

        I don’t know what to say else. He is good at defending Armenians around the world even though sometimes he makes mistakes.

        Reply
        • Sarkis says:
          8 years ago

          To be honest, the west will side with azerbaijan because the west’s favorite tools are turkic/islamic tribes they can use against Russia.

          Sargsyan did the right thing, by recognizing Crimea’s right to self-determination, he paved the way for Russian-support for a full recognition of Artsakh.

          Ukraine has always sided with azerbaijan, the coup leaders in Ukraine stated over and over that they were the ones who volunteered for (were mercenaries for) azerbaijan in the Artsakh war. Ukraine is a dead country, bankrupt and lawless, their “support” is worthless. I’d trade Ukrainian “support” for closer Russian-Armenian relations everyday.

          And the west has denied the Armenian Genocide, refused to recognize Artsakh, and continued to arm turkey with modern weapons and economic support for the past 23 years. The west bases its policies on its national interests, which include having strong turkic pawns (turks, azeris, chechens, dagestanis, crimean tatars, uighur turks in china, sunni islamists in kosovo, sunni islamists in Libya, sunni islamists in bosnia and herzegovina) to use as minions in the west’s fight against international rivals like Russia, China, and Pan-Arab Nationalists… The west will sacrifice Armenia every single time because Armenia is too small and too “unmanageable” to be useful to the west’s pursuit of western interests.

          Reply
          • Arius says:
            8 years ago

            Sarkis, well said.

            I’m glad that you are here to counter Western centric nonsense.

        • iren says:
          8 years ago

          In case you didn’t know, Ukrain, both old and new gov-mnt has been siding with Azbdn since the beginning of azbdni agression. So are the tartars who live their. Recognition of people’s rignght to self determination is the only right thing. you don’t want to build your policies on others’ interests you want to make sure you attend to your own.

          Reply
  8. Sarkis says:
    8 years ago

    The leaked phone calls revealing the American and European plan to have Turkey send in a few special forces into Syria and conduct false flag operations by purposefully launching attacks from Syrian lands onto Turkish-occupied territory should raise alarms and discussion among Armenian-Americans. There is no longer any room to deny: Syria’s democratically elected President Bashar Al-Assad was targeted for an illegal regime change by the war criminals of America and Europe. Their evil plans failed. Now they are unleashing their favorite, closest ally in the world Turkey to start a war with Syria. America and the EU gave Turkey full permission to carry out the Massacre of Kessab. America, the EU and Turkey don’t care about Armenian civilians being slaughtered, they don’t care about “democracy” or “freedom” or “civil society” or human dignity. American and the EU have zero problems working with terrorists like al-quadea and al-nusra in Syria. They only care about expanding their empire. Instead of acting like civilized governments, instead of acting like Christian nations, the immoral heads of the EU government are praising Turkey for being such a “model Muslim democracy” not even a month after Turkey committed the massacre of Kessab!

    Therefore it should not surprise anyone that America and the EU not only refuse to recognize the Armenian Genocide, but they actively help Turkey deny and cover up the Armenian Genocide. It does not matter whether Democrat or Republican, American or British, the entire west is united behind Turkey against Armenia. America and the EU only lie to Armenians and pretend they care about Armenia and “freedom and democracy”, but their actions prove otherwise.

    Thank God the Republic of Armenia, the Republic of Artsakh, and the Armenians in Syria are protected and supported by Russia. As brave and noble as Armenia’s military is, Armenia is too small and too weak to save itself from the combined forces of NATO. The sooner Armenia is in the Customs Union, and the more integrated Armenia becomes in the CSTO and the Armenia-Russia alliance, the better it will be for Armenia. I pray that the next Prime Minister of Armenia will be a man (or woman) with a strong sense of purpose, and one who will not hesitate to stand up for Armenia and Armenians around the world in the face of American, EU and Turkish fascism and anti-Armenianism.

    Reply

Leave a Reply to Vindicated Man Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Recommended

As Ankara Warns Yerevan, Erdogan Declares Artsakh Part of Azerbaijan

As Ankara Warns Yerevan, Erdogan Declares Artsakh Part of Azerbaijan

45 mins ago
Massis Kabob to Open First Standalone Restaurant in Glendale

Massis Kabob to Open First Standalone Restaurant in Glendale

1 hour ago

Connect with us

  • About
  • Advertising
  • Subscribe
  • Contact

© 2021 Asbarez | All Rights Reserved | Powered By MSDN Solutions Inc.

No Result
View All Result
  • Home
  • Top Stories
  • Community
  • Arts & Culture
    • Art
    • Books
    • Music
    • Theatre
    • Critics’ Forum
  • Op-Ed
    • Editorial
    • Opinon
    • Letters
  • Columns
    • By Any Means
    • My Turn
    • Three Apples
    • Community Links
    • Critics’ Forum
    • My Name is Armen
    • Living in Armenia
  • Videos
  • Sports

© 2021 Asbarez | All Rights Reserved | Powered By MSDN Solutions Inc.

Accessibility

Accessibility modes

Epilepsy Safe Mode
Dampens color and removes blinks
This mode enables people with epilepsy to use the website safely by eliminating the risk of seizures that result from flashing or blinking animations and risky color combinations.
Visually Impaired Mode
Improves website's visuals
This mode adjusts the website for the convenience of users with visual impairments such as Degrading Eyesight, Tunnel Vision, Cataract, Glaucoma, and others.
Cognitive Disability Mode
Helps to focus on specific content
This mode provides different assistive options to help users with cognitive impairments such as Dyslexia, Autism, CVA, and others, to focus on the essential elements of the website more easily.
ADHD Friendly Mode
Reduces distractions and improve focus
This mode helps users with ADHD and Neurodevelopmental disorders to read, browse, and focus on the main website elements more easily while significantly reducing distractions.
Blindness Mode
Allows using the site with your screen-reader
This mode configures the website to be compatible with screen-readers such as JAWS, NVDA, VoiceOver, and TalkBack. A screen-reader is software for blind users that is installed on a computer and smartphone, and websites must be compatible with it.

Online Dictionary

    Readable Experience

    Content Scaling
    Default
    Text Magnifier
    Readable Font
    Dyslexia Friendly
    Highlight Titles
    Highlight Links
    Font Sizing
    Default
    Line Height
    Default
    Letter Spacing
    Default
    Left Aligned
    Center Aligned
    Right Aligned

    Visually Pleasing Experience

    Dark Contrast
    Light Contrast
    Monochrome
    High Contrast
    High Saturation
    Low Saturation
    Adjust Text Colors
    Adjust Title Colors
    Adjust Background Colors

    Easy Orientation

    Mute Sounds
    Hide Images
    Virtual Keyboard
    Reading Guide
    Stop Animations
    Reading Mask
    Highlight Hover
    Highlight Focus
    Big Dark Cursor
    Big Light Cursor
    Navigation Keys

    Asbarez.com Accessibility Statement

    Accessibility Statement

    • asbarez.com
    • August 8, 2022

    Compliance status

    We firmly believe that the internet should be available and accessible to anyone, and are committed to providing a website that is accessible to the widest possible audience, regardless of circumstance and ability.

    To fulfill this, we aim to adhere as strictly as possible to the World Wide Web Consortium’s (W3C) Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.1 (WCAG 2.1) at the AA level. These guidelines explain how to make web content accessible to people with a wide array of disabilities. Complying with those guidelines helps us ensure that the website is accessible to all people: blind people, people with motor impairments, visual impairment, cognitive disabilities, and more.

    This website utilizes various technologies that are meant to make it as accessible as possible at all times. We utilize an accessibility interface that allows persons with specific disabilities to adjust the website’s UI (user interface) and design it to their personal needs.

    Additionally, the website utilizes an AI-based application that runs in the background and optimizes its accessibility level constantly. This application remediates the website’s HTML, adapts Its functionality and behavior for screen-readers used by the blind users, and for keyboard functions used by individuals with motor impairments.

    If you’ve found a malfunction or have ideas for improvement, we’ll be happy to hear from you. You can reach out to the website’s operators by using the following email

    Screen-reader and keyboard navigation

    Our website implements the ARIA attributes (Accessible Rich Internet Applications) technique, alongside various different behavioral changes, to ensure blind users visiting with screen-readers are able to read, comprehend, and enjoy the website’s functions. As soon as a user with a screen-reader enters your site, they immediately receive a prompt to enter the Screen-Reader Profile so they can browse and operate your site effectively. Here’s how our website covers some of the most important screen-reader requirements, alongside console screenshots of code examples:

    1. Screen-reader optimization: we run a background process that learns the website’s components from top to bottom, to ensure ongoing compliance even when updating the website. In this process, we provide screen-readers with meaningful data using the ARIA set of attributes. For example, we provide accurate form labels; descriptions for actionable icons (social media icons, search icons, cart icons, etc.); validation guidance for form inputs; element roles such as buttons, menus, modal dialogues (popups), and others. Additionally, the background process scans all of the website’s images and provides an accurate and meaningful image-object-recognition-based description as an ALT (alternate text) tag for images that are not described. It will also extract texts that are embedded within the image, using an OCR (optical character recognition) technology. To turn on screen-reader adjustments at any time, users need only to press the Alt+1 keyboard combination. Screen-reader users also get automatic announcements to turn the Screen-reader mode on as soon as they enter the website.

      These adjustments are compatible with all popular screen readers, including JAWS and NVDA.

    2. Keyboard navigation optimization: The background process also adjusts the website’s HTML, and adds various behaviors using JavaScript code to make the website operable by the keyboard. This includes the ability to navigate the website using the Tab and Shift+Tab keys, operate dropdowns with the arrow keys, close them with Esc, trigger buttons and links using the Enter key, navigate between radio and checkbox elements using the arrow keys, and fill them in with the Spacebar or Enter key.Additionally, keyboard users will find quick-navigation and content-skip menus, available at any time by clicking Alt+1, or as the first elements of the site while navigating with the keyboard. The background process also handles triggered popups by moving the keyboard focus towards them as soon as they appear, and not allow the focus drift outside of it.

      Users can also use shortcuts such as “M” (menus), “H” (headings), “F” (forms), “B” (buttons), and “G” (graphics) to jump to specific elements.

    Disability profiles supported in our website

    • Epilepsy Safe Mode: this profile enables people with epilepsy to use the website safely by eliminating the risk of seizures that result from flashing or blinking animations and risky color combinations.
    • Visually Impaired Mode: this mode adjusts the website for the convenience of users with visual impairments such as Degrading Eyesight, Tunnel Vision, Cataract, Glaucoma, and others.
    • Cognitive Disability Mode: this mode provides different assistive options to help users with cognitive impairments such as Dyslexia, Autism, CVA, and others, to focus on the essential elements of the website more easily.
    • ADHD Friendly Mode: this mode helps users with ADHD and Neurodevelopmental disorders to read, browse, and focus on the main website elements more easily while significantly reducing distractions.
    • Blindness Mode: this mode configures the website to be compatible with screen-readers such as JAWS, NVDA, VoiceOver, and TalkBack. A screen-reader is software for blind users that is installed on a computer and smartphone, and websites must be compatible with it.
    • Keyboard Navigation Profile (Motor-Impaired): this profile enables motor-impaired persons to operate the website using the keyboard Tab, Shift+Tab, and the Enter keys. Users can also use shortcuts such as “M” (menus), “H” (headings), “F” (forms), “B” (buttons), and “G” (graphics) to jump to specific elements.

    Additional UI, design, and readability adjustments

    1. Font adjustments – users, can increase and decrease its size, change its family (type), adjust the spacing, alignment, line height, and more.
    2. Color adjustments – users can select various color contrast profiles such as light, dark, inverted, and monochrome. Additionally, users can swap color schemes of titles, texts, and backgrounds, with over 7 different coloring options.
    3. Animations – epileptic users can stop all running animations with the click of a button. Animations controlled by the interface include videos, GIFs, and CSS flashing transitions.
    4. Content highlighting – users can choose to emphasize important elements such as links and titles. They can also choose to highlight focused or hovered elements only.
    5. Audio muting – users with hearing devices may experience headaches or other issues due to automatic audio playing. This option lets users mute the entire website instantly.
    6. Cognitive disorders – we utilize a search engine that is linked to Wikipedia and Wiktionary, allowing people with cognitive disorders to decipher meanings of phrases, initials, slang, and others.
    7. Additional functions – we provide users the option to change cursor color and size, use a printing mode, enable a virtual keyboard, and many other functions.

    Browser and assistive technology compatibility

    We aim to support the widest array of browsers and assistive technologies as possible, so our users can choose the best fitting tools for them, with as few limitations as possible. Therefore, we have worked very hard to be able to support all major systems that comprise over 95% of the user market share including Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari, Opera and Microsoft Edge, JAWS and NVDA (screen readers), both for Windows and for MAC users.

    Notes, comments, and feedback

    Despite our very best efforts to allow anybody to adjust the website to their needs, there may still be pages or sections that are not fully accessible, are in the process of becoming accessible, or are lacking an adequate technological solution to make them accessible. Still, we are continually improving our accessibility, adding, updating and improving its options and features, and developing and adopting new technologies. All this is meant to reach the optimal level of accessibility, following technological advancements. For any assistance, please reach out to