Month: November 2009

ANCA WELCOMES DARFUR MOVEMENT’S CALL ON PRESIDENT OBAMA TO OPPOSE AL-BASHIR’S VISIT TO TURKEY

armradio.am
06.11.2009 17:17

The Armenian National Committee of America (ANCA) voiced the Armenian
American community’s strong support for a human rights statement,
issued by a coalition of anti-Darfur Genocide groups, calling upon
the Obama-Biden Administration to protest the upcoming state visit
to Turkey of Sudan’s President, indicted war-criminal Omar al-Bashir.

The four organizations joining together in making this declaration,
the Center for American Progress, Enough!, Save Darfur, and Genocide
Intervention Network, referencing al-Bashir’s upcoming visits to Ankara
and Cairo, stressed the importance of President Obama and Secretary
of State Clinton engaging in personal diplomacy at the highest level
to ensure that a wanted war criminal does not continue to travel with
impunity to the capitals of key U.S. allies. The failure to do so,
they noted, would "send a powerful message that the Administration
isn’t serious about implementing the Sudan strategy it just announced."

"We want to thank each of these organizations for their work in
demanding clear and determined American leadership in ending the
Darfur Genocide," said Aram Hamparian, Executive Director of the ANCA.

"There is today, sadly, no more striking example of how the brutal
cycle of genocide and denial feeds upon itself than the growing
diplomatic and military relationship between Turkey and Sudan."

Sudan’s President Omar al-Bashir is scheduled to visit Turkey next
week to attend a summit of the Organization of the Islamic Conference
(OIC.) Turkish officials announced yesterday that they would not
act on an International Criminal Court (ICC) arrest warrant issued
against al-Bashir for war crimes.

The Ankara and Khartoum regimes have grown markedly closer over the
past two years, with Turkey continuing to supply lethal weaponry to
Sudan and increased trade between two the countries.

NA SPEAKER MEETS NATO REPRESENTATIVE

armradio.am
06.11.2009 17:26

On November 6 the Speaker of the Armenian National Assembly Hovik
Abrahamyan received NATO Secretary General’s Representative for the
South Caucasus and Central Asia Robert Simmons.

Greeting the guest, the President of the National Assembly attached
importance to the cooperation with NATO and expressed the willingness
of the Armenian side to deepen it in the future.

The interlocutors agreed that the cooperation should be transparent
and understandable to the Armenian public. In this context they
discussed the initiatives of the Armenian National Assembly within
the framework of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly, as well as the
reforms in the direction of ensuring civil control of the armed
forces and the cooperation programs in the sphere of the management
of emergency situations.

The interlocutors also dwelt on issues of regional security.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress

NO ORANGE REVOLUTION TOOK PLACE IN ARMENIA
Marianna Gyurjyan

"Radiolur"
06.11.2009 18:06

"No orange revolution took place in Armenia, although everyone expected
it," Director General of the ArmenTel CJSC Igor Klimko said, speaking
about the entry of the Orange to Armenia.

"Therefore, mildly speaking, it would be wrong to say that an
exceptional operator has appeared on the market, which suggests
unprecedented low prices," he said.

"I don’t think that the prize offered by our competitor is a serious
threat to us," he said.

Instead, ArmenTel makes a revolutionary offer with its "For you" and
"For you Exclusive" tariffs.

"If you look attentively at the fees offered by our competitor,
you’ll get convinced that they do not propose extremely beneficial
fees to the subscribers," Igor Klimko said.

NATO: IN FACT RUSSIAN TROOPS AND NATO TROOPS SHARE COMMON BORDER WHEN WE HAVE THREAT SITUATION NOT A PARTICULARLY DIFFICULT ISSUE

ArmInfo
2009-11-06 12:25:00

ArmInfo. "We have said for a long time that we do not see any
individual country and Russia included as a threat," Robert Simmons,
NATO Secretary General Special Representative for South Caucasus and
Central Asia, told ArmInfo.

"It is the only point for instance in Norway the Russian troops and
the Norwegians troops, NATO troops had always had a border. So, the
fact, that in fact Russian troops and NATO troops share common border
when we have threat situation when we had 20 years ago since the end
of the Cold War means that is not a particularly difficult issue,"
Simmons said.

GORAN LENNMARKER’S VISIT TO SOUTH CAUCASUS IN NOVEMBER CANCELLED

ArmInfo
2009-11-06 16:23:00

ArmInfo. The visit of Goran Lennmarker, OSCE PA Special Representative
for Nagorny Karabakh and South Caucasus, to the region scheduled
for November has been cancelled because of his tight work schedule,
Klas Bergman, Director of Communications at the OSCE Parliamentary
Assembly, told ArmInfo

PRESIDENT OF ARMENIA: CENTURY LONG ARMENIAN-GEORGIAN FRIENDSHIP MAKES US TO DEEPEN OUR RELATIONS

Arminfo
2009-11-06 16:20:00

ArmInfo. Today Georgia’s Ambassador to Armenia Grigol Tabatadze
delivered his credentials to the President of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan.

As press-service of the president reported, Serzh Sargsyan said
at the meeting that the century long Armenian-Georgian friendship
makes these two peoples to deepen their relations. For his part, the
ambassador emphasized that President of Georgia Mikheil Saakashvili
thinks development of friendly relations with Armenia is very much
important, as they have no alternative. Tabatadze also added that
political leadership of his country highly appreciates the foreign
political course of the president of Armenia. They touched on the
problems of the Armenian-Georgian relations on the agenda and the
activity of the inter-governmental commission.

TURKISH HISTORIAN GIVES LECTURE ABOUT ARMENIAN GENOCIDE AT PHILADELPHIA LA SALLE UNIVERSITY

ArmInfo
2009-11-06 16:12:00

ArmInfo. The known Turkish historian Dr. Taner Akcam has recently given
lecture about Armenian genocide at Philadelphia La Salle University
(USA), Akcam himself told ArmInfo.

He said that the lecture was about the historical reasons and
background of the Armenian genocide. In this matter it was very much
important that intervention of the forces of foreign superpowers in
Turkey to protect the christian minorities of the country led to the
Armenian genocide implemented by the hands of Young Turks, he said.

Taner Akcam (* October 23,1953, Turkey) is a Turkish historian,
sociologist and publicist. He is one of the first Turkish academics
to acknowledge and discuss openly the Armenian Genocide by the Ottoman
Turkish government in 1915. Akcam studied at the Middle East Technical
University in Ankara. He was a faculty member of Administrative
Sciences, Department of Political Economy. He received his Bachelor
of Administrative Sciences in 1976. He stayed at the university as
a Master’s student and assistant in the same department for some time.

In 1976 he was arrested and sentenced to 10 years imprisonment as
the editor-in-chief of a political journal. He escaped prison one
year later. He has been living in the Federal Republic of Germany
since early 1978 as a political refugee. He continued his political
actvities and in 1988 started working for the Hamburg Institute for
Social Research on the history of violence and torture in Turkey. He
earned his Doctorate Degree at The University of Hannover in 1995.

The topic was called Turkish Nationalism and the Armenian Genocide
on the Background of Military Tribunals in Istanbul between 1919 and
1922. Currently he belongs to the scientific staff of the Hamburg
Foundation to promote science and culture, working at the Hamburg
Institute for Social Research. Today, Akcam is currently a Visiting
Associate Professor of History at the University of Minnesota.

NATO CANNOT PROTECT ONE OF THE PARTIES TO THE PROCESS BETWEEN ARMENIA AND TURKEY

ArmInfo
2009-11-06 13:40:00

ArmInfo. Normalization of the relations between Armenia and Turkey
is important for stabilization in the South Caucasus region, Special
Representative of NATO Secretary General for Caucasus and Central Asia,
Robert Simmons, said in Yerevan today.

He also added that the Armenian-Turkish Protocols are regarding
the relations between the two countries. Although NATO supports
establishing of relations between Armenia and Turkey, it cannot become
a participant in the process and support any of the parties, he said.

Simmons hopes that the protocols will ratified in the parliaments of
both states.

He also said that he discussed the Armenian-Turkish process with the
leadership of Armenia and NATO is pleased with possible normalization
of relations between Armenia and Turkey.

ARMENIAN PRESIDENT RECEIVES OSCE MG COCHAIRMEN

ArmInfo
2009-11-06 13:37:00

ArmInfo. Today, President of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan received OSCE
MG Cochairmen Yuri Merzliakov (Russia), Bernard Fassier (France)
and Robert Bradtke (USA), as well as Personal Representative of OSCE
Chairman-in-Office, Ambassador Andrzej Kasprzyk. Foreign Minister of
Armenia Edward Nalbandyan also took part in the meeting.

As the presidential press service reports, the parties discussed a
number of issues concerning the negotiation process on the Nagorno
Karabakh conflict settlement. OSCE MG cochairmen also introduced the
results of Baku meetings to S. Sargsyan.

NATO DOES NOT COMPETE WITH CSTO

Arminfo
2009-11-06 12:24:00

ArmInfo. Cooperation of Armenia and Russia in the Collective Security
Treaty Organization is a component of relations between these states
and NATO does not consider it as competition, Special Representative
of the NATO Secretary General for Caucasus and Central Asia, Robert
Simmons said in Yerevan on Friday.

R. Simmons said NATO believes that Armenia and Russia, Armenia and
CSTO, Armenia and NATO may develop effective cooperation having their
advantages. It is important for Armenia to have the right to choose
the measures and the type of cooperation with every organization in its
interest, and NATO supports Armenia in these aspirations, Simmons said.