ARKA News Agency
Aug 6 2004
Denunciation of oncoming municipal elections by CE is estimated in
NKR as detachment from reality
Turkey is capable of another genocide, believe 56,3% of Armenians
89,2% of Armenian citizens consider Russia Armenia’s friend
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DENUNCIATION OF ONCOMING MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS BY CE IS ESTIMATED IN
NKR AS DETACHMENT FROM REALITY
STEPANAKERT, August 6. /ARKA/. Denunciation of oncoming municipal
elections by CE is estimated in NKR as detachment from reality, NKR
MFA press service states, commenting the statement of CE Secretary
General Walter Shwimmer on inadmissibility of oncoming election to
local self-government bodies of NKR scheduled for August 8. `NKR
administration thinks that only legally elected authorities can bare
the responsibility for the territories and have enough authority for
conduction of peaceful negotiations on settlement of the conflict.
That is why the logics that election can have negative impact on
Karabakh settlement is quite hard to understand’, press release says.
`More than 10 years as NKR lives as an sovereign state that has
nothing to do with Azerbaijan and independently organizes its life at
the territory that belongs to Karabakh Armenians historically. It
seems that all those international structures that make similar
statements, provide political support to the regime that started a
war against Nagorno Karabakh and till now did not refused of attempts
to use power against NKR. Besides, according to international
experts, Nagorno Karabakh is far ahead of Azerbaijan on the level of
its democratic development’, NKR MFA statement says. L.D. –0–
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TURKEY IS CAPABLE OF ANOTHER GENOCIDE, BELIEVE 56,3% OF ARMENIANS
YEREVAN, August 6. /ARKA/. According to 56,3% of Armenian citizens,
Turkey is still capable of another genocide æèòåëåé Àðìåíèè, as
stated Stepan Safaryan, the expert of Armenian Center for National
and International Studies (ACNIS) at the seminar devoted to summing
up of expert survey and public opinion survey `Armenia in the context
of national and international security in course of 5-10 years’,
conducted by ïðîåäåííîì ACNIS on July 16 – August 4 2004. He said
that this opinion is supported only by 40% of Armenian experts. At
that he mentioned that 12% of the questioned experts and 11,7% of
Armenian citizens believe that the contemporary Turk is not the
barbarian of the beginning of XX century. 64% of experts and 42,8% of
citizens mentioned the necessity of opening of Armenian-Turkish
border. 43,7% of citizens and 30% of experts think that Armenian
-Turkish reconciliation is possible only after Turkey recognizes the
Armenian Genocide.
50 experts and 2021 citizens of Yerevan and all Marzes of Armenia
took part in the survey. L.V. – 0–
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89,2% OF ARMENIAN CITIZENS CONSIDER RUSSIA ARMENIA’S FRIEND
YEREVAN, August 6. /ARKA/. 89,2% of Armenian citizens consider Russia
Armenia’s friend, as stated Stepan Safaryan, the expert of Armenian
Center for National and International Studies (ACNIS) at the seminar
devoted to summing up of expert survey and public opinion survey
`Armenia in the context of national and international security in
course of 5-10 years’, conducted by ïðîåäåííîì ACNIS on July 16 –
August 4 2004. He also said that Russia is followed by France (74%),
Iran (49,9%), the USA (46,8%), the Ukraine (46,6%), Greece (45,5%).
He mentioned that the main enemy of Armenia is considered Azerbaijan
according to 90,9% of surveyed Armenian citizens, Turkey- 78,2%,
Israel – 11,8% ,Georgia – 9,8%.
According to Safaryan, only 66% of the surveyed experts consider
Russia Armenia’s friend. He noted that a similar amount of votes were
given to France and Greece. At that, 78% of experts consider Iran a
friend for Armenia, 76% – Lebanon, 64% – the USA, and Germany, China
and Syrian received 54% each. He also added that 76% and 64% of the
experts consider Azerbaijan and Turkey accordingly to be Armenia’s
enemies, at the same time, 6% of the surveyed experts believe that
these countries are friends.
50 experts and 2021 citizens of Yerevan and all Marzes of Armenia
took part in the survey. L.V. – 0–