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Today Armenia passes to summertime
24.03.2007 16:05 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ During the night of March 24 to 25
Armenia passes to summertime. At 2:00 am it is
necessary to move forward hands of clock for an hour.
The country usualy passes to wintertime on the last
Sunday of October (the hands of clock are moved back
for an hour). And on the last Sunday of March Armenia
passes to summertime.
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Iraqi Armenians want to become Armenian citizens
24.03.2007 16:08 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ A number of Iraqi Armenians want to accept dual
citizenship, head of National Management of Armenians in Iraq Paruyr
Hakopian stated. `I cannot say the exact number of Armenians who want
to become Armenian citizens, but I can note that they are a lot. A
significant part of Armenians living in Iraq are not satisfied with
their situation and some isolation from their historical motherland,
and they are waiting for the day when the new law on dual citizenship
will come into force in Armenia,’ Hakopian said.
At the same time he underlined that Armenians living in Iraqi
Kurdistan are not exposed to oppression by Turks. `According to our
information Armenians residing in Northern Iraq have not suffered from
escalation of the conflict, and there are no victims among Armenian
population,’ he noted. Hakopian said that Iraqi Armenians do not have
any relation to PKK (Workers’ Party of Kurdistan), and as a result of
this they cannot become victims of Turkish servicemen,
`Novosti-Armenia’ reports.
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In 1946 Turkey was obliged to return the Armenian provinces
The Treaty of Moscow of 1921 was signed between Turkey
and Soviet Russia for a-25-year term.
17.03.2007 GMT+04:00
On March 16, 1921 a treaty signed between Soviet Russia and Turkey
stipulated the seizure of three Armenian provinces; Kars, Nakhichevan
and Surmalu, in favor of Turkey and Azerbaijan. The preamble of the
treaty states, `In the present Treaty by the term Turkey territories
included in the National Turkish Pact of January 28, 1336 (1920),
developed and proclaimed by the Ottoman Chamber of Deputies in
Constantinople and communicated to the press and all States are
understood.’
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ In the fall of 1921 on the bases of the Treaty of
Moscow the quadripartite Treaty of Kars, which became the edited
version of the Treaty of Moscow, was signed between Turkey, Armenia,
Azerbaijan and Georgia. Signing of the Treaty of Kars is quite logical
also because the Treaty of Moscow was signed on behalf of Russia and
formally didn’t relate to the Transcaucasian countries yet. In 1921
the `sovietization’ of Armenia, Georgia and Azerbaijan finished but it
was still very unsteady for the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist
Republic to entrust these republics to sign international, moreover
such significant treaties on their own. According to the second
article of the Treaty Kars and Surmalu provinces of Armenia, together
with the Mount Ararat passed to Turkey, and Nakhichevan passed to
Azerbaijan as its protectorate. Thus at the expense of Armenia
Turkey’s, Azerbaijani’s and Georgia’s appetites were satisfied.
It is worth mentioning, that the third article of the Treaty speaks
about belonging of Nakhichevan and is closed with the following
phrase; `with no right to be passed to a third party’, where by `the
third party’ Iran is understood. However in the Treaty of Kars this
phrase was omitted. By the fall of 1921 Iran didn’t conceal any more
its irritation at the formation of a republic called `Azerbaijan’,
which claimed to unification with an Iranian Turkish-speaking province
of the same name and to establishing a united `Soviet Azerbaijan’ with
a population of almost 20 million people.
But the most interesting thing is that according to many archive
materials the Treaty was signed for a-25-year term. In 1925 the RSFSR
Ambassador to Turkey Vinogradov insisted on denunciation of the
Russian-Turkish Treaty of 1921 in his official note, announcing that
Russia is willing to realize it in one-sided order. At the same time,
according to Turkish sources, Ambassador Vinogradov in his oral
conversation in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs explains, `We can’t
wait 25 years and thus we signed the Russian-Turkish Treaty because at
that time we were weak. Now we are strong and we insist on
reestablishment of the Armenian borders’. One of the well-known
Turkish statesmen of those times, Qemal Ataturk’s successor Ismet
Inenu was quick in his response; `The new country needs to keep to its
international responsibilities and in 25 years’ term Turkey will of
course return these territories. In this way the belonging of the
three Armenian provinces legally in Turkey’s and Azerbaijan’s favor
since March 16, 1946 is a historical nonsense.
Nevertheless after 1921 the first two-sided official document between
USSR and Turkey announcing, that the parties do not have any mutual
territorial claims is the international treaty, signed in August 1978
during the official visit of the Turkish Prime Minister Byulent
Edjevit to Moscow.
There is one more important article in the treaty, which for some
unknown reasons doesn’t get any attention. `To provide the opening of
the Channels and the freedom for passing of mercantile ships for all
nations,’ states one of the articles. The Bosporus and Dardanelle
Channels have always been of great significance for the Turkish home
policy, and not to make use of them would be senseless, particularly
regarding the Armenian Question. If taken into consideration that the
conditions stipulated by the above mentioned article are rather
favorable for Russia too, signing such treaties is not excluded in
future either.
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Ankara fears that Turkey will stop existing as a State
as soon as it recognizes the Genocide
Turkey has unleashed a fierce war against the Genocide
recognition in all directions, starting with State
Department and ending with congressmen.
21.03.2007 GMT+04:00
Presently Turkey is going through the hardest times in its modern
history. Even in its worst nightmare Turkey wouldn’t think that the
Resolution about the Armenian Genocide would be proposed to the US
Congress, and moreover, that there would be a possibility for this
Resolution to pass. The struggle against the recognition of the
Armenian Genocide is more fierce than ever and denying the Armenian
Genocide has become Turkey’s first prerequisite.
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Ankara is taking all measures against Genocide
recognition. In the given situation the Jewish lobby, which enjoys
rather heavy weight in the USA, also has its significant role in the
matter. Besides political and military-strategic factors there are
also financial factors, which sometimes work even more efficiently in
the USA than the others. For instance, because of the probable
adoption of the Resolution N 106 the military-industrial complex of
the USA, which by the way is the initiator of the Iraqi War, will lose
about $15 billion. This is the sum the USA hopes to sell Turkey the
armament for, to be used in `re-equipment of the army and struggle
against the Kurdish radicals in the north of Iraq.’ Nobody knows how
much the closing of `Incirlik’ will cost, but this is already the
political aspect of the issue.
The Turks themselves do not regret any money which can somehow support
the denial of the Armenian Genocide. According to some sources Turkey
spends $1 billion per year on anti-Genocide propaganda. Only $10
million per year is spent on the USA and Canada. It’s obvious that
this is the money spent officially, one may only guess the sum of the
money spent unofficially, and the matter is not in bribery only, which
is considered a penal act in the USA. Everything is much easier;
Turkey buys armament, although it might be bought from other countries
too, for instance Russia, or France, though after the law on the
denial of the Armenian Genocide was adopted there, it will be rather
difficult for Turkey itself to get armament in France.
During the latest meeting of the diplomatic officials, accredited in
different countries, Turkey’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Abdullah
Gyul warned the Ambassadors that in case the Resolution is passed in
the USA or in other countries, the Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs
will consider that the Ambassadors weren’t able to accomplish their
mission. In the ceremony to the memory of the death of the Turkish
diplomats abroad, Gyul once again announced that they had become
`victims of the Armenian terrorists.’ However, the case with `the
Armenian terrorism’ doesn’t work out any more. The whole world already
knows that the assassinations of the Turkish diplomats pursued one
main aim only, which was achieved – the world learned about the 1st
Genocide of the XX century.
Turkey is not alone in the denial of the recognition of the Armenian
Genocide and enjoys strong support from Azerbaijan, which realizes
very well that it doesn’t and in the nearest future will not have any
other alley than Turkey.
How far will Turkey go in this matter and whether or not Turkey will
be able to prove that there was no Armenian Genocide, is just a matter
of time and money. This is at least what Ankara thinks. In fact
everything is much more complicated. Modern Turkish Republic itself is
the offspring of the Genocide just like the Armenian Diaspora
is. According to ARF `Dashnaktsutiun’, Ankara is well aware of the
fact that if the Armenian, as well as the Greek and Assyrian Genocides
are recognized, Turkey will stop existing as a State. Perhaps this is
the reason of Ankara’s sudden unwillingness to change the 301st
Article in the Turkish Criminal Code, which is the only method to keep
the Turkish scientists and intellectuals like Taner Akçam and Orhan
Pamuk under control.
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March 25, 2007 — Breaking news
Prime Minister Andranik Margarian is dead
Prime Minister Andranik Margarian of Armenia died at 1:20 p.m. today, March
25. The prime minister’s press spokesperson told our correspondent that the
cause of death was heart failure.
At 5 p.m., President Robert Kocharian will hold a consultative meeting,
after which further announcements are promised.
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PRIME MINISTER * DEATH * HISTORY
MEDIAMAX
Armenian Independent News Agency
25 March 07
Yerevan, March 25. /Mediamax/ The passed away Prime Minister of
Armenia was having health problems during the latest few
years-25.03.07-15:20
The official sources have not yet spread the announcement of the death
of the 55-year-old Armenian Prime Minister Andranik Margarian, which
took place today as a result of a heart attack.
Mediamax reports that the Leader of the Republican Party of Armenia
(RPA) Andranik Margarian was appointed a Prime Minister of Armenia in
May 2000. He became the first head of the government in the history of
Armenia, who forsuch a long period of time occupied the position of
the Prime Minister.
The RPA is considered one of the favorites for the upcoming
parliamentary elections of May 12 in Armenia.
Mediamax reminds that Andranik Margarian underwent a heart surgery in
autumn 1999.
In October 2001, after the checkup of the heart system of the Prime
Minister in Paris, it was suggested that Andranik Margarian underwent
urgent medical treatment. As the press service of the Armenian
government noted then, `the French physicians resorted to non-surgical
operation to increase the patency of the heart blood vessels of the
Prime Minister’.
In November of 2003, Andranik Margarian underwent general medical
checkup in Moscow.
In December of 2005 and in June 2006 the Prime Minister visited France
to take up current medical checkup.
In February 2006, it was discovered that the Prime Minister of Armenia
Andranik Margarian suffered from duodenitis, which appeared as a
result of cold. –0–
Armenian PM dies of heart failure
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Prime Minister Andranik Margarian died today of heart failure,
government spokeswoman Meri Arutunian said. He was 55.
Margarian had been prime minister since May 2000. He was appointed in
a politically tense period that followed the October 1999 armed attack
on parliament that killed eight politicians including Prime Minister
Vazgen Sarkisian.
The assassinated premier was first replaced by his brother, Aram, but
President Robert Kocharian fired him and appointed Margarian amid
rising discontent over Armenia’s economic troubles.
Under the Armenian political system, the prime minister has mostly
executive powers and is a much less powerful figure than the
president.
Margarian, educated as a computer specialist, became active in
opposition to the Soviet Union in the 1970s and was imprisoned for two
years in that decade for espousing Armenian independence, according to
his official biography.
Margarian is survived by a wife, two daughters and a son.
Minister of Nature of Armenia Restudies the Decision on Exploitation
of Tekhut Copper- Molybdenum Deposits
Arminfo
2007-03-25 16:12:00
The Ministry of Environment of Armenia, called "Armenian Copper
Project" (ACP) to restudy possibilities of mining at Tekhtut copper-
molybdenum deposits in Lori district of Armenia, Simon Papyan, Deputy
Minister of Environment, told ArmInfo correspondent.
He said that surveys conducted by geologists 15-20 years ago ban any
possibilities for mining in Tekhut deposits saying that only the
excavations would be economically reimbursed. "As per the new
technologies – the mining would be less harm the environment.
Anyways, the Ministry of Environment is interested in causing less
harm to the environment when exploiting the Tekhut deposits," the
Deputy-Minister pointed out. He added that the preliminary assessment
of ecology expertise claims that the Tekhut exploitation project be
thoroughly reviewed. The Interministerial Commission will study all
miscalculations present in the project. The Commission will report on
it to the executive power of Armenia.
Note: The project was ordered by ACP. The company has a license for
25-years exploitation of Tekhut deposits. Under it, the
copper-molybdenum ore is to be extracted for 8 years. It was planned
to cut down 25 thnd cubic meter of wood and destroy the unstudied yet
archeological monuments. In the result of setting up the mines, 10
species of reptiles, 29 species of square mates where 11 are entered
into the International Red Book, 191 species of plants where 9 are
also entered into the Red Book – among them 2 grow only on the
territory of Tekhut woods. Exploitation of mines will lead to
migration of 59 species of birds, 55 species of mammals where 21 are
entered into the Red Book.
Armenian PM Margarian Dies at 55
Sunday March 25, 2007 12:01 PM
YEREVAN, Armenia (AP) – Prime Minister Andranik Margarian died Sunday
of heart failure, government spokeswoman Meri Arutunian said. He was
55.
Margarian had been prime minister since May 2000. He was appointed in
a politically tense period that followed an October 1999 armed attack
on parliament that killed eight politicians including Prime Minister
Vazgen Sarkisian.
The assassinated premier was first replaced by his brother, Aram, but
President Robert Kocharian fired him and appointed Margarian amid
rising discontent over Armenia’s economic troubles.
Under the Armenian political system, the prime minister has mostly
executive powers and is a much less powerful figure than the
president.
Margarian, educated as a computer specialist, became active in
opposition to the Soviet Union in the 1970s and was imprisoned for two
years in that decade for espousing Armenian independence, according to
his official biography.
Margarian is survived by a wife, two daughters and a son.
PRESS RELEASE
Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin, Information Services
Address: Vagharshapat, Republic of Armenia
Contact: Rev. Fr. Ktrij Devejian
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March 25, 2007
The Message of Condolence of
His Holiness Karekin II, Catholicos of All Armenians,
on the death of Prime Minister of the Republic of Armenia Andranik Margarian
We mourn the sudden death of Prime Minister Andranik Margarian with deep
pain. His death is a great loss for our native state and people, and the
grieving Margarian family.
The earthly life Andranik Margarian, devoted son of our people and patriotic
statesman and politician, ended too soon. The Prime Minister of blessed
memory brought his important contribution with special diligence to the
strengthening of our statehood, the creation of a new life for the Armenians
and to the gratifying work of building the luminous tomorrow of our people.
Also worthy of gratitude are the labors and contributions of the late Prime
Minister to the work of reinforcing the relationship between Church and
state, making it more effective and productive.
On behalf of the Supreme Spiritual Council and the Brotherhood of the Mother
See of Holy Etchmiadzin, we are unified at this sad time in heartfelt
prayers with his grieving widow and children, the President of the Republic
of Armenia, senior officials of our state, his friends and associates, and
all our people.
We pray to Almighty God, asking that the soul of the departed be received in
the blessed and heavenly kingdom in lights and peace, and for the
consolation and comfort of His Holy Spirit to be granted to all grieving
hearts.
We offer incense, prayer and blessing to the luminous memory of Andranik
Margarian.
`O Lord, make the soul of the departed worthy and accept him in the life
eternal. Amen.’
With sorrowful love and blessings,
KAREKIN II
SUPREME PATRIARCH
CATHOLICOS OF ALL ARMENIANS