Month: October 2005

ARMINFO News Agency
October 7, 2005

RUSSIAN MILITARY UNITS IN ARMENIA DO NOT CONCERN KARABAKH CONFLICT:
ARMENIAN DM

YEREVAN, OCTOBER 7. ARMINFO. The presence of the Russian military
units in Armenia does not concern the Karabakh conflict and the
relations with Azerbaijan, Armenia’s Defence Minister Serzh Sargssyan
stated journalists, Friday.

In his words, the Russian units are being located in Armenia at the
request and offer of the Armenian authorities. “Russian units are the
component of our security and their presence has been condintioned by
Armenia’s relations with countries out of the CIS, especially with
Turkey that is tuned with ill-will towards Armenia. Russian units are
in Armenia from our interests and we are to decide how long they will
be in the country”, Sargssyan stressed.

ARMINFO News Agency
October 7, 2005

ARMY IS A GUARANTOR OF PHYSICAL SECURITY OF ARMENIAN PEOPLE: SERZH
SARGSSYAN

YEREVAN, OCTOBER 7. ARMINFO. Armenia would be ready to fulfill
radical reforms in defence sphere only when the final settling the
Karabakh conflict, as well as if Azerbaijan is to be agree to conduct
the same reforms under the control of international forces, Armenia’s
Defence Minister Serzh Sargssyan informed journalists today.

Minister noted that radical reforms means the reduction of arms,
however, the guarantee of Armenian people’s physical security is the
task number one for Armenia. “Armenia is a small country with the
three-million population, and any army may pass our territory
thoroughly in the absence of capable army”, Sargssyan stated. He also
noted that it is not advantageous for Armenia to keep constantly a
numerous mobile army, however, Armenia have no economic potential to
keep a professional army.

Sargssyan also noted that the public opinion poll testifies that
Armenia’s people rather trust the Armed Forces than the rest state
structures.

ARMINFO News Agency
October 7, 2005

“VIVA CELL” MOBILE COMMUNICATION NETWORK COVERS 65% OF ARMENIA’S
TERRITORY

YEREVAN, OCTOBER 7. ARMINFO. During the three months of its activity
in Armenia, Viva Cell mobile communication network has covered about
65% of the country’s territory, K-Telecom Director General Ralph
Yirikyan told journalists, Thursday. R.Yirikyan visited Lori and
Shirak in connection with provision of cellular communication to
these regions.

The same day, the company donated medical equipment worth a total of
5.6 mln AMD to Shirak Regional Hospital and Vanadzor Medical Complex
No.1. He said the company will provide cellular communication to
Syunik and Tavush by the late October. In 2006, Viva Cell will start
covering the areas difficult of access, Yirikyan said. He said the
company does not plan reduction of tariffs.

To note, Viva Cell has sold 217,000 mobile communication cards. The
company launched its activity in the country on July 1 2005.

Gibrahayer e-magazine
Oct 7 2005

VIEW THE CANDIDATES ONLINE

Gibrahayer – Nicosia 7 October, 2005: Gibrahayer has secured the
interviews on MEGA TV of the three hopeful candidates for Sunday’s
by-election for the position of the Armenian representative in the
Cyprus House of Representatives.
As the interviews were conducted during a lunch zone, a lot of
our readers possibly missed them. For their benefit, and that of our
subscribers abroad, here are the interviews:
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HAYEM.ORG’s INTERVIEW OF THE TRIO
The portal of Armenians of Cypriots has carried out an
online interview with the three hopeful candidates which appears on
their main page since yesterday.
1:- If you win, do you promise to attend the losing
parties/organizations events as a common individual even if you are
not invited?
ZARTARIAN
If I win, I will be too drunk at my own party to go anywhere else !
However thru yr forum I invite the two losers to join me for a drink
on Sunday night and to discuss how the three of us can work together
for next eight months for the benefit of our community.
ATAMIAN
Yes.
ASHDJIAN
This has been a topic which I have always considered important.
Throughout the years, I have made an effort to show up at various
events organized by “other” parties/organizations. Many have
witnessed my presence at Melkonian/AGBU events.
Furthermore, my track record in pan-community affairs, such as the
April 24 joint commemoration events, the Minorities Festival in 1999,
the Constitutional Committee in 2003-2004 and the committee
organizing Frank Pallone’s visit, are indications that I have always
worked in a spirit of co-operation with ALL sides.

FORUM ON FIRE !!
The forum at is blazing. A document regarding the sale
of Melkonian has just been posted and uploaded on this yahoo site:

… while the latest posting reads as follows:
_________________________________________ _______
You ask: What did we do to stop the closure of Melkonian.
Unfair question!
Part of the community did not have a say (not in their wildest
dreams) in the running of the school. Can you imagine the Tashnak
Gomideh going into Melkonian and saying (bagh-bagh): “We came to help
you prevent the sale of the school.”
Possible answer: “Kna yaao kordzit!!”
They would have thought: “They might think that there are commissions
in the deal, whereas we are doing this out of our interest for the
good of the school, the goghm, the nation and the motherland!”
Not even the simple members of AGBU had any say in these affairs.
The school served a few purposes for them. Votes, votes, votes and
votes.
The means to get to these purposes were the scholarships they gave
and the jobs and posts they gave to various people.
OF COURSE THE SCHOOL HAD OTHER PURPOSES AND MOST OF THE TEACHERS AND
EMPLOYEES REALLY CARED ABOUT THE SCHOOL WHICH GAVE TO THE NATION
GENERATIONS OF SCHOLARS

BUT
Everybody knows about the mismanagement of the funds by the few elite
who REALLY ran the show behind the curtains and ignored the warnings
of the Central Committee of AGBU and led the school to the current
state.
They must have warned quite a few times. But these people were so
much drugged with the benefits of the school, they ignored the
warnings.

It reminds me of the overcrowded sinking ship, where no one wanted to
jump off to save the ship from sinking. Eventually, no one jumped off
and the ship sank and everybody on-board drowned.

SHAME ON YOU!!!
And these people are now behind the candidacy of Atamyan.
On 9th October, the community should give a strong punch in the face
of the people who let this thing happen.

Crusader

CANDIDATE ZARTARIAN DONATES
In return for this special election mailing, Parsegh Zartarian
has made a donation of CYP 150.00 towards the training and travel
expenses of Zaruhi Haroutyunyan, the young tennis player from
Armenia, now living in Cyprus.
Gibrahayer e-newsletter thanks candidate Parsegh Zartarian for
his donation and reminds its reader’s that similar donations would be
welcome to help this young tennis hopeful from our motherland to
climb up the tennis ladder….. and make us all proud.
Simon Aynedjian – Gibrahayer e-magazine

You can join candidate Parsegh Zartarian in assisting Zaruhi
Haroutyunyan by making your contribution to the following account:
Laiki Bank Strovolos Industrial Area, Stavrou 96i, 2034,
Strovolos-Nicosia-Cyprus
Account No.101-08-037631 for Zaruhi Harutyunyan under guardian S.
Aynedjian.

You can view candidate Zartarian’s message to voters on

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DR. ASHDJIAN ADDRESSES LARNACA COMMUNITY AT ATRIUM ZENON HOTEL
(October 4 – Gibrahayer – Nicosia) The Armenian community of Larnaca
welcomed on Wednesday 5 October candidate Dr. Antranik Ashdjian at
the Atrium Zenon Hotel in Larnaca. A spokesperson for Dr. Ashdjian’s
Election Committee for Larnaca said to Gibrahayer that Larnaca would
score the best result yet.
Dr. Ashdjian was introduced by Larnaca Club President Avedis
Avedissian who delivered a moving speech to the crowd and then called
Dr. Antranik Ashdjian to the floor. The young candidate spoke in both
Greek and Armenian and eloquently commented on the problems in our
community and suggested solutions to them.
A reception organised by the Larnaca Election Committee of Dr.
Antranik Ashdjian was held at the reception hall of the Hotel that
was followed by dinner at a local taverna.
Dr. Ashdjian spent a day in Larnaca talking to voters on
Thursday. He was also interviewed by local radio stations and in the
evening he attended with his wife and family, the performance of the
Dance Ensemble of Armenia at the Municipal Theatre of Larnaca.

Radio Russia
Oct 7 2005

Ethnic communities take on Russian state agencies’ duties –
minister’s aide

In Moscow the Russian state agencies have been replaced by the ethnic
communities as the defender and protector of small business,
Konstantin Remchukov, a Russian businessman and aide to the economic
development and trade minister, as well as the de-facto owner of a
nationwide liberal paper, told Radio Russia’s “At First Hand”
programme on 7 October.

Discussing the Russian government’s economic policies with the
programme’s host, Natalya Bekhtina, Remchukov said that one of the
most urgent tasks for the government was to stimulate small business
and so far this task had been ignored and taken on only by ethnic
communities who provide loans and protection for members of their
ethnic groups.

“I talked to an Armenian businessman based in Moscow and he told me
that when Armenian refugees arrive in Moscow they visit some person
who takes on responsibility for the newcomers’ life and business [in
Moscow]. And this person is the most efficient protection for them.
The Armenian family is offered a private loan, a trade outlet, a
small shop or a shoe polisher’s booth. They are told how to deal with
the police and government inspectors. They are told to repay their
loan within two or three years. They are protected from criminals,”
Remchukov told his host.

“So we can see that the refugees in Moscow are very well organized
and their communities execute the state’s duties while the state does
not do so. The state does not offer people a start-up loan, does not
create favourable conditions for small business. And the ethnic
communities – the Armenian, Azerbaijani, Georgian and Chechen
diasporas – just do it themselves,” said Remchukov.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress

ARMINFO News Agency
October 7, 2005

HEAD OF TURKISH ARMED FORCES GENERAL STAFF THINKS PROTRACTION OF
KARABAKH CONFLICT RESOLUTION IN FAVOR OF AZERBAIJAN

YEREVAN, OCTOBER 7. ARMINFO. “In the Karabakh conflict, the time
plays in the hands of Azerbaijan,” Head of the General Staff of
Turkish Armed Forces, General Hilmi Ozkok, said during his meeting
with Azerbaijani Defense Minister, Colonel General Safar Abiyev, the
Echo reports.

He said ‘Armenia is economically weak and this will strengthen the
positions of Azerbaiian and will create favorable conditions for
settlement.’ H. Ozkok said Turkey is ready to deepen the versatile
cooperation with Azerbaijan, including in the military sphere. He
thinks Turkey’s admission to the EU would be useful for the South
Caucasus region as well. The sides dwelled on the military- political
situation in the region of the South Caucasus and Central Asia and
the prospects of Azerbaijani-Turkish military cooperation.

ARMINFO News Agency
October 7, 2005

ARMENIAN-GEORGIAN WORKING GROUP WILL BE FORMED TO PREPARE FEASIBILITY
STUDY FOR FOURTH POWER LINE ARMENIA-GEORGIA

YEREVAN, OCTOBER 7. ARMINFO. An Armenian-Georgian working group will
be formed shortly to prepare a feasibility study for construction of
a fourth power line Armenia-Georgia. Armenian Energy Minister Armen
Movsisyan told ARMINFO.

He said some $12-$13 million will be allocated for the project. The
main construction will be in the territory of Georgia. The
investments necessary for the works in the territory of Armenia are
insignificant. The minister said investment volume and the capacity
of the new power line will be announced only when the feasibility
study is ready.

To note, the fourth sitting of the Armenian-Georgian
Intergovernmental Commission foe Economic Cooperation convened in
Yerevan on September 29. The parties agreed to synchronize the power
systems of the two states, taking into account their parallel
operation with the power systems of Russia and Iran. Power-engineers
were instructed to form a working group for transfer of the Georgian
section of the power line “Ashotsk-Ninotsminda” for the account of
the Georgian party.

ARMINFO News Agency
October 7, 2005

US AMBASSADOR TO ARMENIA: USA INTENDS TO PROMOTE FAIR AND TRANSPARENT
ELECTIONS IN ARMENIA

YEREVAN, OCTOBER 7. ARMINFO. US Congress intends to allocate big
funds to improve the election system of Armenia hereby really
contributing to democratic elections in the country. US Ambassador to
Armenia John Evans said at the “Rose Roth” joint seminar of NATO PA
and the Armenian Parliament on the topic “Security in the South
Caucasus”. The four-day seminar opened on October 6 in Yerevan.

Regarding the Constitutional reforms, John Evans said that a great
work was done to work out the draft, which will balance the power
branches. Foreign ambassadors and representatives of international
organizations have already given their assessment of the draft.
Unfortunately, it has been harshly criticized as an interference into
the internal affairs of Armenia. We have just taken a favorable view
of the draft Constitutional amendments and noted that the choice
rests upon the Armenian people, the Ambassador said. He thinks the
referendum bar high enough – 1/3 of the total number of voters.
Ambassador Evans noted that since the independence of Armenia, the
USA has allocated $1.6 bln assistance to the country. The USA works
in three directions in Armenia: to ensure security and contribute to
settling regional conflicts; to promote economic development; to
develop democratic institutions.

ARMINFO News Agency
October 7, 2005

AZERBAIJAN DENIES ITS GUILT IN THE DELAY OF “NEW NEIGHBORHOOD”
PROGRAM IMPLEMENTATION

STRASBOURG, OCTOBER 7. ARMINFO. The head of the Azerbaijani
delegation, Samad Seyidov, denies that the EU-South Caucasus talks
about “New Neighborhood” program implementation were delayed because
of problems with Azerbaijan.

On the other hand, the EU Special Representative at South Caucasus,
Heikki Talvitie, on a joint press-conference with the Armenian
Minister for Foreign affairs, Vardan Oskanian, stated that the talks
with Armenia and Georgia on “New Neighborhood” program were delayed
because Azerbaijan had problems with one of the EU countries
(Cyprus).

According to Mr. Seyidov, the European Union works hard for
integrating Armenia, Georgia and Azerbaijan with the European
society. “All the problems, related with further integration, will be
easily resolved. The arguments against Azerbaijan are groundless and
I can’t see anything impeding the Caucasian-European integration,” he
said. -A-

ITAR-TASS News Agency
TASS
October 7, 2005 Friday 10:29 AM Eastern Time

Self-determination should be Karabakh settlement basis-Kocharyan

By Tigran Liloyan

YEREVAN

The Karabakh conflict should be resolved on the principle of
self-determination of peoples, Armenian President Robert Kocharyan
told a joint press conference with Latvian leader Vaira
Vike-Freiberga on Friday.