AZERBAIJAN IS WINNER OF CURTAILING FREE SPEECH – NEWSPAPER
news.am
January 31, 2012 | 10:50
YEREVAN. – Azerbaijan is the winner of curtailing free speech, Apaga
newspaper writes.
“During a recent anti-government demonstration, the police forcibly
took to the precinct a 5-year-old girl, who was standing beside her
mother, for shouting ‘[Azerbaijani president Ilham] Aliyev, go away!’
on the street,” Apaga newspaper writes.
From: A. Papazian
LA TURQUIE EXIGE LE DROIT DE NIER !
Stephane
armenews.com
mardi 31 janvier 2012
En France une loi est discutee / passee pour limiter la liberte
d’expression en interdisant le dementi du genocide.
Notre pays, un paradis de libertes, est mobilise encore une fois
[pour la liberte de parole].
S’il est inopportun pour un Parlement de passer des resolutions sur
l’histoire, cela signifie-t-il que nous n’avons rien a attendre du
Parlement Turc sur le genocide armenien ?
S’il est inopportun pour les politiciens de choisir finalement les
sujets d’histoire, donc pourquoi etions-nous si enthousiastes des
paroles sur le Dersim ?
Cependant cette fois, la loi francaise va au-dela de la reconnaissance
du genocide et interdit son dementi.
Cela a donne a la Turquie une chance de cacher son esprit negationniste
et sa position injuste sous une mince couverture de legitimite.
Il est evident que nous tous semblions reconnaître que la negation
du genocide ne doit pas etre penalise.
Cela signifie-t-il que nous croyons tous que la negation n’est pas
une infraction morale ?
N’est-ce pas la Turquie, en fin de compte, qui exige le droit de nier
le genocide ?
N’y a -t-il pas le desir de continuer le luxe d’exercice ce ” droit ” ?
Si la negation n’est pas un crime, quel crime la Turquie a-t-elle
commis pendant ces longues annees ?
Est que les 9 personnes de Turquie, incluant Hrant Dink et Ragip
Zarakolu, ont discute en 2006 en France vraiment la meme realite que
celle que la Turquie dispute aujourd’hui ?
Est-ce que Turquie n’est pas honteuse d’employer les mots de Hrant
Dink a son propre avantage ?
Est-ce que le choix de Hrant Dink – la dernière voix des armeniens
de Turquie – de ne pas employer le mot ” genocide ” peut se voir
attribuer la meme signification que celle des autres qui veulent
aujourd’hui ne pas employer le mot ” genocide ” ?
Quel est la vrai parole de la Turquie [pour cela ?]
La politique de negation a commis beaucoup de crimes après 1915 car
[la Turquie] a donne son consentement a cela et a fraye la voie pour
l’assassinat de Hrant Dink.
La negation, en causant aux victimes du genocide de vivre le meme
trauma a maintes reprises, pose le danger de nouveaux actes de violence
et pour cette raison c’est un crime.
La liberte de discours d’expression qui est base sur la negation emet
une très mauvaise odeur d’hypocrisie.
Vous ne le sentez pas ?
Le bras le plus mince de l’arbre de la liberte d’expression où la
Turquie s’accroche n’est pas assez fort pour porter ce lourd fardeau.
Oui, nous devons prendre la question de pays tiers et le ramener sur
la terre où il appartient.
Peut-etre c’est la raison la plus legitime de la resistance au projet
de loi en question.
Laissez donc la France de côte.
Ca va, peut etre la France est dans l’erreur, ses intentions sont
inutiles.
Mais comment la Turquie projette-t-elle de faire ?
Arat Dink
Garo Paylan
Hayko Bagdat
Markar Esayan
Sibil Cekmen
Tamar Nalcý
Tatyos Bebek
From: A. Papazian
SYRIAN GOVT FORCES CLAIM TO REGAIN DAMASCUS
PanARMENIAN.Net
January 31, 2012 – 16:52 AMT
PanARMENIAN.Net – Syrian security forces on Tuesday, January 31,
continued wide-scale military operations against rebel forces,
claiming gains against the “outlaws,” M&C reported quoting DPA.
However, fighting continued against defectors who have joined the
ranks of the opposition on the outskirts of the capital.
Syria’s state-television reported that the operation carried out by
‘the courageous troops of the country’ resulted in returning stability
to al-Ghotta and nearby regions, only eight kilometers away from
Damascus.
The broadcaster quoting an unnamed Interior Ministry source saying
“our forces managed to cleanse the area from terrorists.”
Since Sunday, fierce clashes have been raging between regular army
troops and defectors, who managed to take control of several areas at
the outskirts of Damascus. Activists reported that members of the Free
Syrian Army have retreated from areas close to the Damascus suburbs
area after army forces launched a wide-scale operation backed by tanks
in the area. They added the more than 150 people had been rounded up
in the area of al-Ghotta and its neighbourhoods since Monday morning.
The Local Coordination Committees, a group that coordinates anti-regime
protests on the ground, said in a statement that 100 people were
killed on Monday, most of whom were in areas located in Damascus
Suburbs. The intensified violence came as the UN Security Council
is due to meet later Tuesday in what was described to be a ‘heated
meeting’ over Syria.
From: A. Papazian
IRANIAN FM COMPARES MEDIA INFLUENCE TO MILITARY POWER
PanARMENIAN.Net
January 31, 2012 – 17:01 AMT
PanARMENIAN.Net – Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi said
on Tuesday, Jan 31, that the role and power of media is the same as
military power in a way that it can determine losers or winners in
global challenges.
According to state-run IRNA news agency, Salehi made the remarks during
a ceremony marking the launch of new Spanish TV network, Hispan TV.
“Media has the power to shape the global public opinion, a capability
that military power lacks,” he said. “The only way to confront the
arrogant media is to launch new media charged with promoting ethics
and sincerity and adopting unbiased policies and approaches.”
Salehi delivered his speech in Spanish to show the importance of
the language.
From: A. Papazian
ARMENIA’S PRESIDENT ‘AT TOP OF CORRUPTION PYRAMID’ – OPPOSITION REP
Tert.am
31.01.12
Zoya Tadevosyan, a member of the opposition Armenian National Congress
(ANC), believes that Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan is the main
culprit in corruption in Armenia.
At a Tuesday discussion of Armenian political parties’ agenda, she
stated that the Armenian president is “at the top of the corruption
pyramid.”
“The first factor is rigged elections. If a person has no political
will and is unable to rule and lets corruption spread, what can we
speak of?” Tadevosyan said.
She reminded the participants that corruption is a crime, and the
rapidly growing emigration is one of its consequences.
“Who’s going to bear responsibility for emigration? Who’s raising the
problem of the grave socio-economic situation in the country forcing
people to leave their motherland?” she asked.
From: A. Papazian
TAKE 2: WAVING WHITE FLAGS, PROTESTING HOMEOWNERS TRY TO DELIVER THEIR LETTER TO PRESIDENT
epress.am
01.31.2012
Homeowners promised apartments in the new buildings constructed on
Aram, Buzand, Yekmalyan and Saryan streets were out again demonstrating
on the corner of Baghramyan and Demirchyan streets – this time,
they came waving white flags in the hope that this might catch the
president’s attention as he drives by on his way to work.
“After yesterday’s unsuccessful attempt, we came more prepared today.
The white flags attached to our umbrellas perhaps will draw attention
and the president will notice us,” one participant, Sona Maghakyan,
told Epress.am.
Seeing the president’s motorcade, demonstrators waved their white
flags and the letter they want to give to him personally, shouting
“President, answer!” However, like yesterday, so too today, the
motorcade drove past without stopping.
Later, Aida Asatryan, head of the desk for receiving citizens,
proposals, appeals and claims at the president’s office, approached
demonstrators and urged them to give their letter to her, but they
refused.
“No way – we trust no one and we don’t want to give a letter through
an intermediary. This is the umpteenth time we’ve delivered a letter
and have not received an answer, neither written nor verbal. If today
[assistant to the president Armen] Abelyan troubles himself to come
down [i.e. outside], I’ll give him the letter,” said Maghakyan.
Recall, yesterday demonstrators refused to hand over the letter to
Abelyan when he approached them.
Later, demonstrators moved from the intersection to across the
street from the president’s office, where they were approached by
Armen Abelyan. They spoke, after which the homeowners asked him to
personally deliver their letter to Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan.
Abelyan assured demonstrators that the president was aware of their
concerns and has instructed the Presidential Oversight (Control)
Service to look into resolving the matter.
The homeowners objected, requesting a meeting with the president
personally; however, Abelyan assured them that Oversight Service
staff will contact them in the coming days to schedule a meeting.
Recall, in 2006, the residents (whose apartments were recognized
as public priority interest) agreed to leave their homes on the
condition that they would be given apartments in the new buildings
to be constructed on the same site. For this they signed an agreement
with a developer by the name of Gagik Papoyan, but the residents still
haven’t received their new apartments – in fact, the units have been
resold to third parties.
Late last year, Armenia’s Special Investigation Service (SIS) launched
a criminal case against Papoyan, but he cannot be found. The homeowners
say the SIS informed them that that the case could take months as
hundreds of people have to be questioned in connection with the case.
From: A. Papazian
RED CROSS EMPLOYEES VISIT AZERBAIJANI POW IN NAGORNO-KARABAKH
Trend
31 January 2012
Employees of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)
visited Azerbaijani POW kept in Nagorno-Karabakh on Jan.30, the ICRC
Baku Office Spokesperson Shahla Gahramanova told Trend on Tuesday.
He said the ICRC employees delivered a “Red Cross” letter to the POW,
and received a “Red Cross” letter from him. The POW’s family was
informed about the meeting.
Junior sergeant of Azerbaijani Armed Forces was captivated near the
Yukhary Chayli village on the contact line of Azerbaijani and Armenian
troops. Azerbaijani Defense Ministry also confirmed the fact.
The conflict between the two South Caucasus countries began in 1988
when Armenia made territorial claims against Azerbaijan. Armenian
armed forces have occupied 20 percent of Azerbaijan since 1992,
including the Nagorno-Karabakh region and seven surrounding districts.
Azerbaijan and Armenia signed a ceasefire agreement in 1994. The
co-chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group – Russia, France, and the U.S. –
are currently holding the peace negotiations.
Armenia has not yet implemented the U.N. Security Council’s four
resolutions on the liberation of the Nagorno-Karabakh and the
surrounding regions.
From: A. Papazian
ARMENIAN AMBASSADOR, LEBANESE PM HAIL THE LEVEL OF BILATERAL POLITICAL RELATIONS
armradio.am
31.01.2012 17:03
On January 30 Armenian Ambassador to Lebanon Ashot Kocharyan had a
meeting with Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati.
The parties discussed the bilateral Armenian-Lebanese ties, the
perspectives of improvement of relations, particularly in the field
of trade and economy.
The interlocutors hailed the current level of bilateral political
relations between the countries and praised the results of the visits
of thee Lebanese President and Parliament Speaker to Armenia at the
end of 2011.
The Armenian Ambassador and Lebanon’s Prime Minister attached
importance to the high-level reciprocal visits, the recurrent sitting
of the intergovernmental commission and the conduct of a business
forum.
From: A. Papazian
TURKISH PM THANKS FRENCH SENATORS WHO OPPOSE GENOCIDE BILL
news.am
January 31, 2012 | 16:29
Turkey’s PM Recep Tayyip Erdogan commented on the French Constitutional
Council’s acceptance of the appeal submitted by the French senators
who oppose the bill that criminalizes the denial of genocides,
including the Armenian Genocide.
Turkish PM expressed a deep gratitude, on his behalf and on behalf of
the people of Turkey, to those French senators who have signed this
appeal so that the bill could be forwarded to Constitutional Council.
“This was fitting for the French politicians. I believe they did
everything necessary,” Erdogan said, Haberler news agency of Turkey
informs.
To note, the French Constitutional Council accepted, on Tuesday,
the aforesaid appeal which was signed by 72 French senators.
From: A. Papazian
IT’S UP TO MG TO STRIP FRANCE OFF MANDATE – KOBIA
Tert.am
31.01.12
The Minsk Group of the Organization for Security and Cooperation
in Europe (OSCE) is the only competent body to recall France as
a mediator in the Nagorno-Karabakh peace deal, according to Roland
Kobia, the head of the EU delegation to Azerbaijan.
1news.az has quoted the European official as telling reporters in
Baku that proposals and statement on suspending France’s membership in
the Minsk Group have gone very far, failing often to reflect the truth.
Kobia said the EU has no authority to intervene in the decision that
was adopted on a national level.
It comes after Azerbaijan slammed France for the bill criminalizing
the Armenian Genocide denial.
The members states the OSCE Minsk Group are France, the United States
and Russia.
From: A. Papazian