Author: Andres-Papazian

We differ from all other nations – Union of Yezidis of Armenia Vice Chairman

news.am
November 10, 2012 | 13:58

YEREVAN. – The Yezidi nation differs from all other nations in the
world by their mode of life, pagan religion, humanism, and merits,
Union of World and Armenia Yezidis Vice Chairman Omar Mamoyan stated
during a press conference on Saturday.

`Our youth feel very well in Armenia. We consider Armenia our cradle
and feel ourselves embraced by close people. But we have numerous
talented youth, cultural representatives, athletes, [and] therefore we
ask the Government of Armenia for ordinary positions and jobs so they
may feel secure,’ Mamoyan said.

He assured that the Yezidis are not discriminated against in Armenia,
but he asked that they – being a national minority in Armenia – be given
privilege when enrolling in universities, or receiving jobs.

From: A. Papazian

Man, whose decapitated body was found in Armenian reservoir, was circumcised

news.am
November 10, 2012 | 12:37

YEREVAN. – The man, whose decapitated body was found in an Armenian
reservoir, was circumcised as well. Armenian News-NEWS.am’s Police
sources confirmed this information that was disseminated in the media.

Incidentally, the man’s identity is not yet determined, and the
investigation into the criminal case is still in progress.

To note, the Police Artashat city department had received call, on
Tuesday at 6:30pm, informing about a dead body in the Artashat water
canal that runs through Jrashen village. The operative team that was
dispatched to the scene discovered in the water canal the dead body of
an unidentified and athletically-built middle-aged man, whose body was
decapitated with multiple stab wounds, and he had no clothes except
for his underpants.

A criminal case is opened on murder charges. A forensic tracing and
medical examination is commissioned. An investigation is underway.

From: A. Papazian

The Lost and Found in Armenia to be screened in Los Angeles

armradio.am
14:04 10.11.20120

The Lost and Found in Armenia, starring Jamie Kennedy and Angela
Sarafyan, will be screened in the US. It premiere will take place on
Thursday, November 29th at the opening night of the AFFMA Film
Festival in Los Angeles at the Egyptian Theater on Hollywood Blvd.

The film recently was shown to a sold out audience at the Pomegranate
Film Festival in Toronto where it won the Audience Choice Award. It
also has secured national distribution and will be playing soon in
other theaters.

Lost & Found in Armenia is the story of Bill (Jamie Kennedy), an
American tourist who vacations to Turkey to get his mind off a bad
break up. In a comedic and dangerous turn of events, Bill unknowingly
ends up in a small village in Armenia, where he is accused of being a
Turkish spy. It is in that small village, he meets a beautiful
Armenian girl (Angela Sarafyan), who helps him escape from misfortune.

From: A. Papazian

Report: Israel to renew spy plane deal with Turkey
Decision would unfreeze first arms deal between the sides since Gaza
flotilla rift.
By Haaretz Staff Nov.11, 2012 | 2:40 AM |

Visitors queue up in front of a NATO Airborne Warning and Control
Systems aircraft (AWACS) to have a look inside a Boeing 747-8 aircraft
(not pictured) during the ILA Berlin Air Show, Sept.11, 2012. Photo by
Reuters

Elta, a subsidiary of Israel Aerospace Industries, has agreed to
resume the production of the airborne warning and control systems for
Turkish spy planes, the Turkish newspaper Hurriyet reported on Friday.

According to the report, this would allow the long-delayed transfer of
four Boeing 737 AWACS planes, that were built for a total of $1.6
billion, to be completed. More importantly, the decision, which would
have to be approved by the Defense Ministry, may indicate that the
government is softening its stance on defense exports to Turkey, the
report said.

Turkey had ordered the 737-700 AWACs plane from Boeing in 2002, and
Elta had committed to equip them with early warning systems for about
$100 million.

Elta is the only producer of such systems for the Boeing 737. The four
planes were to be delivered in 2006, but the systems integration took
longer than expected, and only two were delivered before the
deterioration in Turkish-Israeli relations began.

After the rift with Turkey erupted following the Israeli raid on the
Gaza-bound Mavi Marmara in May 2010, the Defense Ministry forbade
Israel’s defense industries to export products to Turkey, going so far
as to cancel contracts that had been signed with Turkey by Elbit and
IAI.

However, because the AWACS contract involved Boeing, it was only
suspended, not canceled. According to the Hurriyet report, the Elta
decision followed Boeing’s efforts to urge the Israeli company to
complete the production of the systems for Turkey. The newspaper
Defense News, reporting in March on the issue, quoted an Elta
spokesman as saying that Boeing and Elta were making efforts to
complete delivery of the systems.

According to foreign reports, these early-warning systems are designed
to detect aircraft, ships and vehicles at long ranges. The radars on
the aircraft allow operators to distinguish between friendly and
hostile aircraft from a distance of thousands of kilometers, and aid
in managing air and ground operations.

From: A. Papazian

Azerbaijan presents its unmanned jets on international exhibition

Sat 10 November 2012 09:31 GMT | 9:31 Local Time

The Indo Defence 2012 international defence industry exhibition held
in Indonesia featured Azerbaijani military products among others.
According to Cihan information agency, the unmannet jets produced in
Azerbaijan are based on the due Israeli license.
Azerbaijan has presented 125 products (different guns, combat
vehicles, optic and night vision devices and so on).

News.Az

From: A. Papazian

Belarus expands import of Azerbaijani military hardware

Fri 09 November 2012 09:40 GMT | 9:40 Local Time

Azerbaijan’s Ministry of Defence Industry is raising the number of
foreign partners.
Belarus expands the import of Azerbaijani military hardware.
The statement came from chairman of the State Military and Industrial
Committee of Belarus Roman Golovchenko, ANS reports,
`We buy military hardware from the Defence Industry Ministry of
Azerbaijan. We need further service maintenance since its volume is
great. We will further continue cooperation between our enterprises’,
he said.

News.Az

From: A. Papazian

Turkish Medical Experts: Ex-President Ozal Killed by Poisoning

15:30 | 2012-11-10

TEHRAN (FNA)- Full investigation by four medical teams, reviewing the
results of an autopsy on former Turkish President Turgut Ozal who died
in 1993, approved that he had been poisoned.

A primary state forensic report solved the 19-year mystery surrounding
Ozal’s death whose body was exhumed last month, Turkish newspaper
‘Haber Turk’ reported.

The report noted that four separate medical teams, who worked
independently from each other, confirmed the primary report of the
Turkish forensic medicine organization.

In April 1993, the Turkish media reported that Ozal had died of heart
failure, but his family believed that he had been poisoned.

According to the daily, four medical teams that were formed for final
investigation into Ozal’s death after conducting necessary
investigations confirmed that the former Turkish president had
undoubtedly died with a fatal poison.

Ozal went on to dominate Turkish politics during his period as prime
minister from 1983-89. Parliament then elected him president, but
those close to him believe his reform efforts displeased some in the
security establishment.

In 1988, while prime minister, Ozal survived an assassination attempt
by a right-wing gunman.

From: A. Papazian

Georgia’s President to be interrogated over ex-PM’s death case

tert.am
12:27 – 05.11.12

Georgia’s President Mikheil Saakashvili, former home affairs minister
Vano Merabishvili, ex justice minister Zurab Adeishvili that left the
country after the change of power, and deputy parliament speaker
Georgi Baramidze will be interrogated over ex-PM Zurab Zhvania’s death
in 2005, Russian paper reports, citing its corresponded in Tbilisi.

According to the official information, Zhvania died of gas poisoning.

Prosecutor General Archil Kbilashvili stated that the case has been
sent to the investigative department for double examination.

`We are going to interrogate everyone somehow connected with Zhvania,’
he said.

Kbilashvili said the investigators will cooperate with the family of
the deceased PM. Zhvania’s brother, member of Georgian Dream
coalition, stated that Saakashvili `personally headed the theatrical
performance of revelation of death circumstances.’

He said it was staged by home affairs, justice ministers and current
deputy speaker.

From: A. Papazian

Internet Prices Will Considerably Reduce

Friday, 09 November 2012 18:53

During November 7 session of the NKR State Commission on regulating
the public services and the economic competition the issue of
reviewing the Internet service prices defined by the “Karabakh
Telecom” CJSC was discussed.

The company offers new prices to all the Internet subscribers which
will soon be introduced. Stipulated by the solution of a number of
technical problems there were no time limits specified during the
meeting yet they assured to be ready in about 15 days.

Thus, the minimal speed of the DSL modem operated Internet will be 512
kb/s instead of the former 128 kb/s. For the minimal speed of 512
Kbps, the price of which now constitutes 7399 drams, the subscribers
will pay 3000 drams which is now paid for the Internet speed of 128
Kbps. Incidentally, at present 80% of all the subscribers make use of
the DSL modem connection at the speed of 128 and 256 Kbps.

The price for the 1024/1024 kb/s Internet connection will be 4200
drams instead of the present 9388 drams, in case of 2048/1024 kb/s it
will be 5600 drams instead of today’s 12399 drams, for 3072/1024 kb/s
the price will constitute 7600 against 15399 drams and for 6144 /1024
kb/s it will be 14600 drams instead of 22399 drams.

The prices for the optic fibre cable Internet will change as well.
Here again the minimal speed will be 512 Kbps with 3400 drams paid for
instead of today’s 7399 drams. The price for 1024/1024 kb/s Internet
connection will be 4400 drams instead of the present 9900 drams, for
2048/1024 kb/s 5800 drams will be paid against the 12399 drams of
today, the 3072/1024 kb/s Internet connection will be paid 7800 drams
instead of the 15 399 drams paid at present, in case of 6144 /1024
kb/s connection the price will constitute 14800 drams against the
current 22399 drams. New speed of 10240/10240 kb/s is going to be
defined for the optic fibre cable connection of the Internet with
18000 drams to be paid for.

From: A. Papazian

The Armenian Revolutionary Federation (ARF) Commission Will Supervise
Samvel Balasanyan

NOVEMBER 10, 2012 15:21

Immediately after the local elections, Hovsep Simonyan, the defeated
ARF candidate for the mayor of Gyumri and the head of the financial
and economic department of the Gyumri town hall, stated that his party
would not let Prosperous Armenia Party (PAP) member Samvel Balasanyan
govern single-handedly, it would supervise every step of his,
decisions and financial deals he made, in order that Gyumri didn’t
suffer from bad governance. The former candidate explained playing the
role of supervisor not by the ARF members’ being offended and
insulted, but having more than 10 thousand votes of the Gyumri
residents behind them. Let us remind that the ARF candidate won 10 281
votes and he didn’t consider this a defeat at all, since, according to
him, those were impartial votes, and he didn’t use money, people
weren’t taken from their graves and brought to polling stations to
vote for him. Anyway, yesterday it came out that the ARF regional
organization in Shirak is going to establish a 5-member commission
consisting of economists, architects, people from the field of
education and other specialists, which will participate in every
meeting of the town council, will raise the problems of the town and
will make the newly-elected mayor of Gyumri work jointly with the town
council for the benefit of the Gyumri residents.

Gevorg Alekyan, an official of the ARF regional committee in Shirak,
explained their goal during a conversation with Aravot in the
following manner, `After the local elections, at the meetings with our
comrades, we decided to establish a political commission, which will
participate in all the meetings of the Gyumri town council, will make
its proposals, which, in our opinion, are really in the interests of
the people, at the initiative of our party’s spine. All that is done
to make people understand that there is a political party in the town,
in the region, and if our proposals, which are in the interests of the
people, are not accepted by the town hall, serious criticism will be
made, we will let everyone know, we will tell the people that this
proposal has been made in their interest, for them, for the town that
belongs to all of us, but, unfortunately, the town authorities do not
accept it today.’ In response to our question who would be the
chairman of the commission, whether it would be former candidate for
mayor Hovsep Simonyan, Gevorg Alekyan said, `The commission will
surely have a chairman, secretary, records will be made, but since
specialists in different fields will be included, every one of them
will appear at the council’s meetings in accordance with his/her
office, his/her field, will be active in his/her field. You can notice
that there are certain drawbacks in kindergartens today, there is a
problem with heating – these are minor problems, which can be solved
quickly, but they have become fundamental problems, one can asphalt
the square in the vicinity of a kindergarten, but have no heating
inside. The specialist in education will have his/her say here.’

According to the ARF regional committee official, immediately after
establishing the commission, the party’s office will announce visiting
days for the residents, will register their complaints and present
them to the Gyumri council. `That commission will work like standing
committees of the National Assembly – a work schedule will be drawn up
and there will be visiting hours. We don’t establish the commission,
because our candidate lost to Samvel Balasanyan by votes, although we
don’t think it was a defeat, we won a moral victory, and we don’t
establish a commission to supervise Samvel Balasanyan, to find some
mistakes. I don’t want to draw attention to Samel Balasanyan’s
personality, since, in our opinion, he will carry out the council’s
decisions, and attending the council’s meetings, we will clearly see
what the relationship between the mayor and the council is like. I saw
Balasanyan’s speech on TV recently, when he, addressing the then
council of Gyumri, tried to convene an auditing group regarding Vardan
Ghukasyan’s debts, and when the council voted against his proposal, he
said, `OK, the next council will come and then we will convene an
auditing group.’ I didn’t like it at all, one shouldn’t make a
decision on the council’s behalf before time. Balasanyan was not and
will not be a problem for us, we take an interest in him insofar as he
is the incumbent mayor, and we are generally interested in the work
style of the current government of the town,’ the official of the ARF
regional committee in Shirak explained.

Nune AREVSHATYAN

From: A. Papazian