PanArmenian News
Sept 22 2004
ONE CANNOT INTIMIDATE ARMENIA BY SAYING REGIONAL PROJECTS PASS IT
ROUND, ARMENIAN FOREIGN MINISTER SAID
22.09.2004 18:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ “One cannot intimidate or disturb Armenia with
statements that it remains aside regional oil, gas and transport
projects,” head of the Foreign Ministry of Armenia Vardan Oskanian
stated in Yerevan today. “Nagorno Karabakh does not have a price and
is not subject to bargain, thus we do not accept the argument that by
protecting its interests the Armenian party loses the opportunity to
participate in regional projects,” the Minister noted. “We never
connected the Nagorno Karabakh problem with regional projects and we
are not going to do it in the future,” V. Oskanian noted.

PanArmenian News
Sept 22 2004
VARDAN OSKANYAN: TERRY DAVIS’ REPORT UNACCEPTABLE FOR ARMENIA
22.09.2004 17:25
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ The report prepared by PACE Rapporteur on Nagorno
Karabakh Terry Davis is unacceptable for Armenia, Armenian Foreign
Minister Vardan Oskanian stated at a press conference today. In his
words, the report contained subjective assessments and represents
“one person’s opinion.” “One cannot agree with it, and it presents an
incorrect notion,” noted the head of the foreign department of
Armenia. At the same time he pointed out that the report has no
status, especially that the newly appointed Rapporteur David Atkinson
is to prepare his own report as well. When answering a question
whether they may be concern over new Rapporteur also representing
Great Britain, which is known for its conservative approach to the
Karabakh problem, V. Oskanian pointed out that irrespective of
whether the report will be based on the previous one or not, it is
necessary to work with the new Rapporteur for his report not to
reflect one person’s point of view alone and not to affect the
Nagorno Karabakh settlement.

International Herald Tribune, France
Sept 23 2004
Hyping history: 18th century cool
Suzy Menkes IHT

As London’s spring/summer 2005 season draws to a close, a backward
glance has been the strong message.
That can mean inspiration from the past, making over vintage clothes
from every decade. And also from England’s beloved 18th century, with
its swooshes of succulent fabrics, pageboy breeches and portrait
necklines.
Historicism is often the essence of British fashion. Instead of a
starting with a blank sheet on which to draw the future, designers
turn for inspiration to the past. There was hardly a collection in
London’s Fashion Week that did not have references to existing
designs, especially in the many and striking prints.
Yet for every Vivienne Westwood – a designer who is able to take a
tongue-in-cheek look at England’s heritage – there are 10 others who
play the same game without any sense of irony.
As the model Linda Evangelista made her stately way down the catwalk
in a printed gown with vast sleeves and a circle of wood hanging on a
cord around her neck, it was possible to read a scenario into Giles
Deacon’s bold collection. Perhaps he had been around the furnishing
stores which carry swags of fabric printed with monkeys, patterned
with bumble bees or with Regency stripes apparently made with pinking
shears. What a waste to use them for stately home curtains! Surely
they could be coaxed in all their silken glory into dresses with puff
sleeves and skirts which flared out from waist or knees.
The “Giles” show, from a fledgling designer in his second season, was
big, bold and done with style. Its prints of owls, thistles, wood
grain and jewels seemed to the manor born. Yet for all its smart
pieces, such as a rainbow-striped chiffon dress hung from a circle
torque necklace, who will wear clothes that look like a cross between
Bette Davis in a silver screen movie and 1980s flash? Deacon has yet
to give his soaring imagination a reality check.
Julien MacDonald had his trademark audience of raucous celebrities; a
familiar showbiz buzz and mirrored silver runway. But now that he has
returned from Paris, the designer showed that he has brought back
from his role at Givenchy all the refinement and technique of
couture. His show was filled with calm and charm as sweet young
models stepped out in pretty dresses, whose full skirts or tiny, lacy
capped sleeves showed more fashion and less bared flesh.
“I got my knitting machine out again,” said MacDonald backstage and
his spidery crochet stitches on dresses or thistledown jackets showed
just why Karl Lagerfeld had originally picked the young British
designer out for Chanel and why Givenchy had appointed him. MacDonald
mixed high fashion with innocence: finely tailored shorts and tulle
dresses piped with icing sugar ruffles. Even straw baskets shaped as
fish or monkey showed a youthful refinement.
But MacDonald’s new-found elegance may not stay in London. He is
planning to take his show to another fashion capital, probably New
York.
“I have to grow my business,” he said. “And I have always loved
America and Hollywood.”
The duo behind Clements Ribeiro were also lured to Paris, by
Cacharel, but Suzanne Clements and Inacio Ribeiro have managed to
keep a spirit going in their eponymous British collection.
Paradoxically, their Indian inspiration could have done with a bit
more historical, geographical or ethnic references, rather than just
the Beatles in Maharishi mode on the soundtrack and a dream of a
British botanist roaming the subcontinent.
The inspiration was appealing as a fashionable mix of stripes and
florals that cut the sweetness of flower prints. Obi sashes at a
raised waistline made even caftan shapes seem fresh; and an
occasional cashmere sweater with wavy pattern was a reminder of
Clements Ribeiro’s original talent.
But it was with their accessories that the duo scored. From an
origami of butterflies clustering on a shoulder, through
barrel-shaped lepidopterist bags to the platform sandals slung with
pearls, this was a powerful new area of creativity.
Eley Kishimoto, known for imaginative prints, has extended the
company’s reach through a collaboration with the sports label Elesse.
And that influence showed in the collection from the Anglo-Japanese
design duo. The show opened with a coat slung over slouchy pants for
a sporty, boyish look that permeated the collection. At its best,
that spirit brought lively mixes of stripes and patterns, a distinct
London trend. The patterns included cameos of London buildings that
had a whimsical charm. But the designers did not quite have the
courage to let go their previous decorative style and ended the show
with paisley-meets-Pucci patterns, complete with swirling patterns on
hose and a sense of outfits drowned in print.
Another Japanese-English design combo is behind fledgling label
Swash, whose designers were picked out at the Hyères fashion festival
in France. Toshio Yamanaka said that the moment when he failed to put
the belt on his baggy jeans through the back loops was the
inspiration for the sagging posteriors in the cute collection. The
mix of bright, childish prints, draped tops and some abstract
deconstruction, gave depth to the recurring theme: the back stuff.
Jeans or dresses were scooped out at the rear, showing fitted shorts
underneath. It was a slight idea, but it worked.
Preen is an established label that has moved forward from its
underground image on the music scene. Significantly, the designer
Thornton Bregazzi had turned his back on the deconstructed and
unfinished pieces that once characterized hip labels and made instead
a sleek, forward-looking collection.
Showing in a stark, high-rise building in the heart of London’s
financial district, Preen proved that embellishment can be severely
modern. For ruffles, read flat folds tracing the backbone of a dress
or the rear of a skirt. Pleats were inset at an angle to decorate
tailored pants. For color, think of gray and white making a graphic
statement on soft jersey. Those ubiquitous florals were pallid
patterns, while a bolder print in tomato red was a Jackson
Pollock-style splatter. It all made for a fresh collection.
Who says that the 18th century can only be a Mozartian flutter of
frills and flowers? That period was the inspiration for Gardem, the
label of the Lebanese Armenian designer Garen Demerdjian, working out
of Paris. And his interpretation of pants as soft breeches, of a
corset as a loosened camisole and of a fancy sleeved doublet as a
washed cotton jacket was resolutely modern. Fashion may have seen
before reconstructed garments and patchworks of fabrics, but these
were deftly done in pale white and beige fabrics, decorated with
clusters of silver charms, re-interpreting Middle Eastern coin
decoration. These glancing references to the past but with an eye on
the future, made a promising collection.
Suzy Menkes is the fashion editor of the International Herald
Tribune.

Belmont Citizen-Herald, MA
Sept 22 2004
Expert to lecture on Armenian Christianity
The place of Armenian Christianity within the larger context of world
Christianity will be the subject of a lecture by Dr. Ara Dostourian
on Thursday, Sept. 30, at 8 p.m. at the Center and Headquarters of
the National Association for Armenian Studies and Research (NAASR),
395 Concord Ave., Belmont.

Dostourian, a retired professor of history at West Georgia State
University and former research fellow in Armenian Studies at Harvard
University, has spent decades studying the development and
characteristics of Christianity as practiced historically by the
Armenian people.

Frequently, when Armenian Christianity is analyzed, it is viewed
without reference to world Christianity and other Christian
traditions. Moreover, the national or ethnic character of Armenian
Christianity is emphasized rather than its position within a larger
Christian context.

Dostourian will present an overview of basic Christianity and
its relationship to the other Abrahamic faiths (Judaism and Islam) as
well as the two major non-Abrahamic world religions (Hinduism and
Buddhism) and place Armenian Christianity within the context of the
three major Christian traditions: Orthodoxy, Catholicism and
Protestantism.

A special emphasis will be placed on Armenian Christianity’s
relationship with Orthodox Christianity, as the Armenian tradition is
part of the Oriental Orthodox family of churches (with Syriac,
Coptic, Ethiopian and Indian). Armenian Orthodoxy will be compared
with that of the Eastern Orthodox family (Greek, Russian, Ukrainian,
Serbian, Bulgarian, etc.). Finally, the uniqueness of Armenian
Christianity as a faith that took root in a particular place and
historical context – political, economic and cultural – will be
discussed.

Dostourian received a Ph.D. in Byzantine history from Rutgers
University, having earlier received a master of arts degree in
medieval history from Fordham University and a master of divinity
degree from the Episcopal Divinity School in Cambridge. He is the
author of numerous articles on Armenian history and religion, and is
the translator and editor of “Armenia and the Crusades, 10th to 12th
Centuries: The Chronicle of Matthew of Edessa.”

Admission to the event is free (donations appreciated). The
NAASR bookstore will open at 7:30 p.m. Ample parking is available
around the building and in adjacent areas.

For more information call 617-489-1610, or e-mail [email protected].
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress

Belmont Citizen-Herald, MA
Sept 22 2004
Professor to give seminar on ‘Armenia Today’ at NAASR
Prof. Gerard J. Libaridian, Alex Manoogian Visiting Professor of
Modern Armenian History at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor,
will conduct a one-day seminar on “Armenia Today: Problems and
Prospects” on Saturday, Oct. 9, at the National Association for
Armenian Studies and Research, 395 Concord Ave., Belmont.

Prof. Libaridian’s seminar will serve as a follow-up to his
well-received October 2003 seminar, “Making Sense of the Armenian
Republic,” at the end of which Libaridian said he had only gotten
through a portion of what he had to say on the subject. “Armenia
Today: Problems and Prospects” offers to those who attended last
year’s seminar as well as newcomers the opportunity to gain even
greater understanding of the complexities of modern Armenia.

The seminar will explore the most recent developments in the
Armenian Republic in the areas of politics, economics and foreign
policy, including the Karabagh negotiations. It will attempt to view
these developments from a variety of perspectives which will lead to
assessments regarding future developments.

Special attention will be paid to the actions and strategies of
the opposition parties and the response of the government beginning
in April 2004, the implications of these positions for the
development of democracy and economic viability, as well as for the
resolution of the Karabagh problem.

Libaridian received a Ph.D. in history from the University of
California, Los Angeles, and served as an advisor to President Levon
Ter Petrossian of Armenia from 1991 to September 1997. During his
time as a presidential advisor he served as senior advisor for
foreign policy and security issues (1994-97), first deputy minister
of foreign affairs (1993-94), negotiator for the Karabagh conflict,
and coordinator of conflict-related policy in the office of the
President.

The seminar will run from 9 a.m. until 4 p.m. with breaks for
coffee and lunch. Fees for the course will be $75 for those who
pre-register ($60 for NAASR members; $35 for full-time students with
current IDs). Admission is open to all, but enrollment will be
limited in order to encourage active discussion and interaction. It
is strongly urged that participants register by Oct. 1.

In addition to Libaridian, NAASR’s program of adult education
seminars and mini-courses has included Harvard University Prof. James
R. Russell, Prof. Simon Payaslian of Clark University, Dr. Suzanne
Moranian, and Dr. Barbara Merguerian. This series of courses
represents a new aspect of NAASR’s ongoing efforts to give the public
access to leading Armenian Studies scholars and their research in an
in-depth and meaningful fashion.

For more information on the seminar or about NAASR and its
programs for the furtherance of Armenian studies, research, and
publication, call 617-489-1610, or e-mail [email protected].

Sunday Times, Australia
Sept 23 2004
On this day
23sep04
1991 – Armenia declares its independence from the Soviet Union.
1779 – US Admiral John Paul Jones captures British warship Serapis
off Flamborough Head, England.
1803 – British force takes Dutch Guinea.
1817 – Spain signs treaty with Britain to end slave trade.
1846 – The planet Neptune is discovered by German astronomer Johann
Gottfried Galle.
1870 – Death of Prosper Merimee, French dramatist and short story
writer, notably of Carmen.
1912 – Silent film director Mack Sennett’s first Keystone Cops film,
Cohen Collects a Debt, is released.
1914 – Dusseldorf is targeted by British aircraft in Germany during
World War I.
1932 – Hijaz and Nejd and other districts are merged to form the
Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
1939 – Death of Sigmund Freud, Austrian psychiatrist and founder of
psychoanalysis.
1940 – The George Cross, the highest British civilian award for acts
of courage, is instituted.
1952 – Rocky Marciano becomes world heavyweight boxing champion when
he knocks out Jersey Joe Walcott in 13 rounds in Philadelphia.
1965 – Roma Mitchell is appointed to the South Australian Supreme
Court: the first female judge in Australia.
1972 – President Ferdinand Marcos declares martial law in the
Philippines.
1973 – Juan Peron and his wife Isabel are elected president and
vice-president of Argentina.
1976 – South Africa decides to allow multi-racial teams to represent
the country in international sport.
1978 – Egypt’s President Anwar Sadat returns home to hero’s welcome
after Camp David summit that results in agreement on framework for
peace with Israel.
1982 – Amin Gemayel is sworn in as Lebanon’s president to replace his
brother Bashir, killed in a bomb explosion.
1988 – Rival Muslim and Christian governments threaten Lebanon with
formal partition.
1990 – Saddam Hussein says he will destroy Israel and launch an
all-out war before allowing the UN embargo to “strangle” Iraq; Swiss
citizens vote to ban the construction of nuclear power plants for the
rest of the century.
1991 – Iraqi soldiers detain UN officials in Baghdad and forcibly
confiscate documents showing Iraq had been developing nuclear
weapons; Armenia declares its independence from the Soviet Union.
1992 – France’s deadliest storm in 34 years kills at least 32 people;
General Le Duc Anh, Vietnam’s top military man and a powerful
Communist party official, is elected state president by the national
assembly.
1993 – Sydney is chosen over Beijing as the site for the 2000 Summer
Olympics; The South African parliament votes to allow blacks a role
in governing.
1996 – Greek Premier Costas Simitis defeats his conservative
challenger to win a new four-year term.
1997 – Lawyers announce that British nurses Lucille McLauchlan and
Deborah Parry have been convicted for the murder of their Australian
colleague Yvonne Gilford in Saudi Arabia; Armed men raid an Algerian
village, shooting or stabbing to death at least 200 people and
wounding 100 others; At Northern Ireland peace talks, Unionists have
their first face-to-face meeting with Sinn Fein in 75 years.
1998 – Hurricane Georges reaches Cuba and threatens the Florida Keys
after making a shambles of much of Puerto Rico, the Dominican
Republic and Haiti.
1999 – Violent protests grip the streets of Jakarta for a second day
as police struggle to contain crowds enraged by the passage of a bill
giving the military power to revoke civil liberties; Indonesia says
it is ending martial law in East Timor with immediate effect.
2000 – At the Sydney Olympics, Grant Hackett dethrones Kieren Perkins
as swimming’s 1500m king; Maurice Greene and Marion Jones capture the
100m sprint double for the US; British rower Steve Redgrave wins his
fifth gold medal at his fifth Olympics, matching Hungarian fencers
Aladar Gerevich and Pal Kovacs. Redgrave was later knighted for his
feat; Australian women win waterpolo’s first ever Olympic title with
a last-second goal against the US.
2001 – President George W Bush returns the American flag to full
staff at Camp David, symbolically ending a period of national
mourning. Thousands gather at New York’s Yankee Stadium to offer
prayers for the victims of terrorism; New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani
pledges “our skyline will rise again.”
2002 – Former Vice-President Al Gore criticises US President Bush’s
policy of confrontation with Iraq saying it undermines an
international campaign against terrorism in the wake of the September
11 attacks.
2003 – An Indian court sentences one man to death by hanging and 12
others to life in prison for killing a Christian missionary from
Australia and his two young sons in an arson attack in 1999.

In Our View: Sanctions not enough for Sudan
The Daily Herald
Wednesday, September 22, 2004
While most of the country’s attention has been focused on Iraq, a
human-rights crisis has been unfolding in north Africa.
In Darfur, Sudan, more than 50,000 people have been killed and 1.2
million displaced by Arab militias — the Janjaweed — since February
2003. That is when rebel groups in Darfur accused the Arab-led
government in Khartoum of discrimination and neglect.
Many of the displaced are in refugee camps where starvation and
disease run rampant.
The United Nations, at the behest of the United States, is responding
to the crisis but, as usual, not with the forcefulness the situation
demands. The U.N. Security Council voted to impose sanctions on the
country and its oil industry if the government fails to curb the
violence, and the United Nations will appoint a committee to determine
if the killings of Africans by the Arab militias constitute genocide.
Allow us to save the United Nations the time and trouble: It’s
genocide.
When one group sets out to annihilate another because of racial,
ethnic or religious differences, that’s the plain and simple
definition. There is no magic number you have to reach. Just look at
what happened in Hitler’s Germany, Rwanda, Kosovo, Bosnia, Tibet and
Armenia, just to name a few places where man’s inhumanity to man came
to full flower.
Sanctions are a legitimate tool in the diplomatic arsenal for dealing
with misbehaving countries. But it’s not always the right tool for the
job. And it is definitely not the right one to fight genocide.
The main problem is that any sanction takes time to be felt. It is,
after all, an economic version of siege warfare, in which one side
tries to outlast the other. That may work in cases of forcing a
government to drop a weapons program or to stop supporting terrorist
activities. But it does nothing to halt genocide. Before the pinch of
sanctions is felt Sudan, the death toll could easily double or triple.
Sanctions won’t persuade the Janjaweed and its supporters in the
government to mend their ways. Instead, they may accelerate the
killing as the perpetrators blame the people in Darfur for their
latest woe.
The correct response to genocide is military force. The only way for
the killing to stop is to confront the Janjaweed with
force. Interposing an army is the only way to stop the genocide in its
tracks and safeguard the victims of the planned extermination.
Sadly, the United Nations doesn’t have a good track record when using
its own force for this sort of job. U.N. peacekeepers stood by
helplessly, for example, while Serbian troops slaughtered people in
the former Yugoslavia. But the United Nations can at least authorize
African nations to send in their own troops — forces that know the
territory and the enemy they’re up against.
A force composed mostly of Africans would negate any claim that action
was undertaken as a reprise of European colonialism or
imperialism. Rather, it would be seen as Africans helping their own
people. An all-African force would make outside intervention
unnecessary. The United States, for example, is already spread thin
around the world and is not in the best position to do the United
Nations’ heavy lifting in Sudan.
Since World War II, the civilized world has said “Never again” to
genocide. It’s time to put guns behind that sentiment.
This story appeared in The Daily Herald on page A6.

Turkish opposition calls for key reform debate
EUobserver.com
22.09.2004
By Lisbeth Kirk
Turkey’s main opposition party, The Republican People’s Party, has
called for a special parliamentary session to be held on 28 September
to adopt the new penal code, in a bid to keep Turkey’s bid for EU
entry on track.
“We want to open a window of opportunity for Turkeyâ=80¦. Turkey
shouldnot destroy its advantages with its own hands”, leader of the
party, Deniz Baykal, told reporters, according to the IHT.
The governing party indicated yesterday (21 September) that it might
allow the Turkish Parliament to reconvene to pass the laws.
Last week Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan was forced to
delay penal code reform because of a row within his own party over
plans to criminalize adultery.
The 346-paragraph code was originally intended to bring Turkey into
line with European norms, but the inclusion of the proposal to
criminalize adultery brought widespread protests in the EU as well as
in Turkey.
Turkish boders with Armenia – new prerequisite?
Meanwhile the European Commission has denied apparent comments from
President Prodi calling for Turkey to reopen its borders with Armenia
as a new prerequisite for starting EU membership talks.
On Tuesday a Commission spokesperson told Turkey’s Zaman newspaper
that Mr Prodi had said nothing that would lead one to believe that
such a condition would be placed on Turkey.
During a visit to the Southern Caucuses last week the Armenian
Mediamax agency reported that Mr Prodi said Ankara must reopen its
border gate with Armenia as a condition for eventual membership.
“I do not exclude that the issue of closed borders could be one of the
preconditions for Turkey’s membership”, Mediamax news agency quoted Mr
Prodi as saying.
Turkey closed its gate with Armenia and severed its diplomatic ties a
decade ago, in protest of Armenia’s occupation of the Azeri territory
of Nagorno-Karabakh.
EU officials have called on Turkey to revise its decision but have
never publicly linked the issue to Ankara’s bid to join the EU.
Erdogan in Brussels on Thursday
In the final run up to publication of the Commission’s crucial report
due 6 October the Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan is to
meet in Brussels on Thursday (23 September) with EU enlargement
commissioner Günter Verheugen and with leaders of the political
groups in the European Parliament.
The report will serve as a basis for a decision by EU leaders on 17
December on whether or not to give Turkey a starting date for
membership negotiations.

WEST-EUROPEAN ASSEMBLY WISHES ESTABLISHMENT OF SAFETY ON CAUCASUS
AzerTag
September 22, 2004
On September 21, Chairman of Milli Majlis Murtuz Alaskarov has
received the vice-president of Assembly of the West-European Union,
the rapporteur of the Organization on questions of stability and
safety in the Caucasian region, the deputy of Italian Parliament Marko
Zakkera.
As provided by AzerTAj, M. Alaskarov, having noted, that as a result
of purposeful policy carried out by the national leader of Azerbaijan
people Heydar Aliyev in 1996, between our country and the European
Union has been established cooperation, the contract was signed, has
emphasized, that our relations and would develop
henceforth. Delegations of the European Union repeatedly have visited
Baku and negotiated on various questions. We hope, that this visit
will play important role in expansion of cooperation.
Then, Chairman of Parliament has in detail informed on reforms
conducted in the country, on the Armenia-Azerbaijan, Nagorny Karabakh
conflict.
Marko Zakkera, having expressed gratitude for cordial welcome, has
transferred to Murtuz Alaskarov greetings of the Chairman of the
Italian Parliament. He has told, that the purpose of his visit is
gathering detailed information on situation in the region, carrying
out of negotiations about ways of solution of the conflict and
preparation of the report. You know, that as against the Council of
Europe, the West-European Union is engaged in questions of defense,
stability and safety. The Assembly of the West-European Union pays
special attention to the countries of Southern Caucasus, including
Azerbaijan. Therefore, it cannot remain indifferent to resolution to
the conflicts.
Marko Zakkera, having noted, that after Azerbaijan, he will visit
Georgia and Armenia, has emphasized, that the report will be
objective, and the document reflect realities.
The parties had comprehensive exchange of views on other questions
representing mutual interest.

INTERNATIONAL PUBLIC SUPPORTS FAIR POSITION OF AZERBAIJAN
AzerTag
September 22, 2004
Minister of Foreign Affairs of Azerbaijan Republic Elmar Mammadyarov
has met with the special envoy of the OSCE Acting Chairman on
Azerbaijan and Armenia Phillip Dimitrov, responsible representative of
the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Bulgaria on Caucasian questions
Dimiter Dimitrov and the special representative of the working
chairman of OSCE Andzey Kaspshik.
As was informed to AzerTAj from the press center of the Ministry of
Foreign Affairs, the visitors, having conveyed greetings of the Acting
Chairman of OSCE, Solomon Passi, have expressed confidence of
rendering assistance to achievement of the certain motions in the
field of peace settlement of the Armenia-Azerbaijan, Nagorny Karabakh
conflict.
Warmly greeting the guests, Minister of Foreign Affairs Elmar
Mammadyarov has noted value of the visit of Phillip Dimitrov in our
country. Having estimated the negotiations carried out in Prague on
settlement of the Armenia-Azerbaijan, Nagorny Karabakh conflict as
satisfactory, The Minister has especially noted importance of
acceleration of process of negotiations after the meetings, which have
been carried out by presidents of Azerbaijan and Armenia in Astana.
The head of foreign policy department has emphasized his trust not
only local, but also the international public renders positive
influence on settlement of the conflict on the basis of norms and
principles of international law.
The parties also have exchange of views on some other questions
representing mutual interest.