Month: June 2005

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12:09:50 | 08-06-2005 | Social |
U.S. EMBASSY BRINGS BLUEGRASS MOUNTAIN MUSIC TO ARMENIA
`Bob Perilla’s Big Hillbilly Bluegrass Band’ will perform several concerts
in Gyumri, Dilijan, Lake Sevan, Vayots Dzor, and Yerevan, at the invitation
of the U.S. Embassy in Armenia. Bluegrass, a uniquely American form of
music, is vibrant, fast and fun. Known for the distinctive sound of the
banjo, four-part harmonies, and raucous fiddle playing, the bluegrass sound
originated among 18th century settlers in the Blueridge Mountains (which run
along the America’s east coast, from Georgia to Virginia.)
“Bob Perilla’s Big Hillbilly Bluegrass Band” is a five-member bluegrass band
based in Washington, DC, which performs bluegrass, country, folk and
original material and boasts over 100 years of combined musical experience.
The band’s instrumentation includes: guitar, fiddle, upright bass, banjo and
mandolin. The group has appeared several times at the Kennedy Center, is
performer-in-residence at the Smithsonian Folklife Festival and performs
regularly in Washington, DC area music clubs.
The band will complete its tour of the Caucuses in Armenia, after performing
in both Georgia and Azerbaijan.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress

Armenian foreign minister, OSCE mediators discuss Karabakh
Public Television of Armenia, Yerevan
8 Jun 05
Armenian Foreign Minister Vardan Oskanyan today met the co-chairmen of
the OSCE Minsk Group.
The sides discussed a number of issues related to the settlement of
the Nagornyy Karabakh conflict emerging from the Armenian and
Azerbaijani presidents’ meeting in Warsaw [on 15 May].
They also outlined details of the meeting which is planned to be held
between the foreign ministers of Armenia and Azerbaijan, Vardan
Oskanyan and Elmar Mammadyarov, with the mediation of the OSCE Minsk
Group co-chairmen in Paris on 18 June.
After the meeting, the Armenian foreign minister left on a working
visit to the USA, where he is scheduled to meet US Secretary of State
Condoleezza Rice and National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley.

International conference appeals to UNESCO
08.06.2005 14:01
YEREVAN (YERKIR) – Participants of a conference held in Stepanakert to
celebrate the 1600th anniversary of the Armenian alphabet and the
establishment of the first Armenian school in Karabakh sent a letter
to the UNESCO secretary general, Armenpress reported.
The letter, in part, asks the UNESCO to take the Amaras School founded
in Karabakh in 405, under its protection and establish there a
regional scientific and educational center. “We believe that
establishment of such center would greatly contribute to the
enhancement of the educational system and settlement of the ethnic
conflicts in the region.”

PRESS RELEASE
Western Prelacy of the Armenian Apost. Church of America
H.G. Bishop Moushegh Mardirossian
Prelate, Western United States
4401 Russell Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90027
Tel: (323) 663-8273
Fax: (323) 663-0438
E-mail: [email protected]
Armenian Apostolic Church
of Crescenta Valley
INAUGURAL HOLLY MASS

Under the auspices of His Eminence
Arch. Moushegh Mardirossian
Prelate of Western United States of America

Celebrant: Rev. Ardak Demirjian

Sunday, June 19th, 2005, at 1:00 PM
The service will take place at the Unity Church of the Valley
2817 Montrose Ave, La Crescenta, CA 91214
A reception will follow the service
Join us every Sunday thereafter, at the same time and same place
Tel. (818) 248-9038 or (310) 266-9635
Parish Committee

“MODERN OFFICE AND BANK” INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION TO BE HELD IN
ARMENIA JUNE 10-12
YEREVAN, June 8. /ARKA/. “Modern Office and Bank” international
exhibition will be held in Armenia June 10-12. According to the Centre
of the Exhibition Projects “EXPOMEDIA”, the event is topical not only
for local entrepreneurs, but also for investors form CIS and other
countries, who get the opportunity to acquaint themselves with this
area and carry out market analysis. The objective of the exhibition is
to strengthen commercially beneficial relations between trade-industrial
enterprises and banking infrastructure, as well as formation of efficient
business atmosphere for the exchange of business-information,
knowledge and practical experience. The exhibition will provide
maximum information on companies, new projects and proposals to the
visitors.
The exhibition is organized by the Centre of the Exhibition Projects
“EXPOMEDIA” with the assistance of RA Ministry of Finance and Economy,
Central Bank of Armenia, RA and Yerevan Commerce and Industry Chamber,
National Centre for SME Development and Union of Banks of
Armenia. L.V.-0–

RA FOREIGN MINISTER MEETS WITH CO-CHAIRS OF OSCE MINSK GROUP ON
KARABAKH SETTLEMENT TODAY IN VIENNA
YEREVAN, June 8. /ARKA/. RA Foreign Minister Vardan Oskanian met with
Co-Chairs of OSCE Minsk Group on Karabakh settlement Steven Mann
(USA), Bernard Fassier (France) and Yuri Merzlyakov (Russia) today in
Vienna. According to the Press and Information Department of RA
Foreign Ministry, the participants of the meeting discussed issues of
conflict settlement, which proceeded from the approaches of Warsaw
talks of Armenian and Azeri Presidents. They also discussed the detail
of the meeting of Vardan Oskanian and Elmar Mamediarov, Armenian and
Azeri Foreign Ministers, scheduled for June 18 to be held through the
mediation of Co-Chairs.
The same day, Oskanian left on a working visit to Washington, where
his meetings with Condoleezza Rice, U.S. Secretary of State and
U.S. President’s National Security Advisor Steven Hadley. L.V.–0–

(Kyodo) – Taiwan to go ahead with military drills
Kyodo News Service
Jun 08, 2005

TAIPEI – Taiwan’s military said Wednesday it will push ahead with
military drills planned for later this month as it sees no change in
the cross-strait situation following reconciliatory trips to China by
two opposition leaders.
“Chinese military’s training activities around the Taiwan Strait have
so far remained normal and unstopped,” Political Warfare Bureau chief
Gen. Hu Cheng-pu told a news briefing.
Mohamad to visit Japan again in July
SHIZUOKA, Japan – An Iraq boy, whose left eye was injured in fighting
between armed Iraqi groups and U.S. troops in Fallujah, will visit
Japan on July 7 for a medical checkup, the wife of a slain Japanese
journalist who supported the boy said Wednesday.
During his third visit, Mohamad Haytham Saleh, 11, will see doctors
for vision correction at a hospital in Numazu, Shizuoka Prefecture,
but he will not require further surgery, Yukiko Hashida, 51, said
during a speech in Mishima, Shizuoka Prefecture.
Japan, Armenia agree to cooperate on U.N. reforms
TOKYO – Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi and Armenian Prime
Minister Andranik Margaryan agreed Wednesday to cooperate in reforms
of the United Nations, Japanese officials said.
Margaryan was quoted as telling Koizumi that his country supports
Japan’s bid to become a permanent member of the U.N. Security Council.
Marxists pile up pressure on Sri Lanka president
COLOMBO – The Marxist constituent of Sri Lankan President Chandrika
Kumaratunga’s ruling coalition piled up the pressure against a
proposed tsunami aid-sharing deal with ethnic Tamil rebels Wednesday,
saying it will quit the government if she persists with her intention
to sign an agreement with the rebels.
Wimal Weerawansa, the parliamentary group leader of the JVP or
People’s Liberation Front, the third-largest parliamentary party with
39 seats in the 225-member legislature, made the statement in
parliament.
Japan, France, Germany to file debt relief plan for 5 states
TOKYO – Japan, France and Germany will jointly propose at the upcoming
Group of Eight finance ministers meeting in London that donors
significantly reduce the debt burdens of five heavily indebted poor
countries, Japanese Finance Ministry sources said Wednesday.
The proposal calls for freeing the five countries from annual
principal and interest payments on their debts to international
financial organizations until their macroeconomic situations improve
sufficiently to control debt financing, the sources said.
Machimura to co-chair aid session of Iraq donor conference
TOKYO – Japanese Foreign Minister Nobutaka Machimura will co-chair one
of three sessions of a ministerial donor conference on the
reconstruction of Iraq scheduled later this month in Brussels, a
Foreign Ministry source said Wednesday.
Machimura and a representative from the European Union will jointly
chair the session to discuss economic issues and the reconstruction of
Iraq, the source said.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress

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| 13:28:29 | 08-06-2005 | Official |
EXPECTATIONS OF FAIRNESS AND TRANSPARENCY
Today Robert Kocharyan has had a working meeting with the Minister of
Education and Science Sergo Yeritsyan. The course of educational reforms and
the commitments of Armenia coming from the joining of the Bologna resolution
were discussed.
A reference has been made to the process of organizing the entrance
examinations. Robert Kocharyan has mentioned that the examinations must be
held as fair and transparent as possible.
Sergo Yeritsyan has said that the monitoring carried out by the control
service of the President last year helped greatly raise the degree of
transparency, this year too the Ministry experts suchlike support.

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| 13:16:43 | 08-06-2005 | Politics |
IMPORTANT MEETING IN PARIS
The usual meeting of the Armenian and Azeri Foreign Ministers will take
place on June 17 in Paris. During the meeting 7-9 important issues will be
discussed. The Azeri Foreign Minister Elmar Mamedyarov has made an
announcement about it.
`We think we can reach agreement about some issues, and others we know are
extremely complicated. We must discuss all the issues’, said the Azeri
Foreign Minister Elmar Mamedyarov according to the Internet newspaper
Day.az.
According to the Minister, the sides must discuss the issue of opening the
roads from Armenia to NKR and from Azerbaijan to Nakhijevan. `I am speaking
about the highway and the railway. We think that the opening of the highway
is more profitable for us. The opening of the roads must be profitable for
both countries’, said the Azeri Foreign Minister. He has also mentioned that
the discussion of the above mentioned issues must take place phase by phase,
and the solution of a problem depends on the solution of the previous one,
`If we leave out one problem, the others lose all sense’.
By the way, according to the Azeri Foreign Minister, the visit of the OSCE
Minsk group to the region will depend on the Parisian negotiations.

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| 12:23:23 | 08-06-2005 | Social |
SCHOOL HEADMASTER CHANGED AGAINST THE WILL OF THE PEOPLE
The workers of the Georgian Ministry of Internal affairs, driving away
hundreds of Armenians gathered near the Akhaltskha comprehensive school N3
after H. Toumanyan, entered the school building.
The people gathered near the school building after the incident on June 3,
when the representatives of the Akhaltskha power structures, head of the
educational department Zaritse Yura and people sent by the President’s
authorized representatives, against the will of the teachers, pupils and the
Armenian residents of Akhaltskha, wanted the realize the May 24 decree of
the Minister of Education Kakha Lomaya, according to which the headmaster of
the school Mrs. Lyuba Matevosyan must be resigned from her post.
According to the agency «A-Info», as far as Robert Muratyan who must replace
L. Matevosyan does not enjoy the trust of the people, the pupils and the
teachers had organized a meeting.