Author: Aram Torosian

ArmenPress
Aug 26 2004
KARABAKH CONFLICT RESOLUTION IN FOCUS OF GERMAN TALKS WITH ILHAM
ALIEV
YEREVAN, AUGUST 26, ARMENPRESS: Azeri president Ilham Aliev
discussed bilateral cooperation with German president Horst Koehler
and chancellor Gerhard Schroder during his Wednesday meeting in
Berlin. Ilham Aliev arrived in Berlin on an official visit on
Tuesday.
Interfax cites a delegation source accompanying Ilham Aliev saying
that Aliev discussed bilateral cooperation with German authorities as
well as regional issues. The sides paid particular attention to
Karabakh conflict resolution.
In a press conference called on the occasion of Aliev talks,
German chancellor Gerhard Schroder stated that it is necessary to
resolve the conflict based on territorial integrity of Azerbaijan,
Interfax sources say.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress

THIS YEAR TECHNICAL EXAMINATION OF TRANSPORT MEANS TO COMPLETE ON
AUGUST 31
YEREVAN, August 13 (Noyan Tapan). The Public Relations Department of
the RA Police reports that according to the RA government’s decision
N461 of 24 July, 1998, this year the annual technical examination of
transport means will complete on August 31 . According to the report,
the State Motor Licensing Inspection calls on all the drivers and
reminds that it is necessary to present transport means for annual
technical examination in accordance with the set schedule in order to
avoid queues and gathering. The transport means, which will not pass
technical examination in the indicated terms, will be considered as
faulty and their further exploitation will be strictly prohibited.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress

The Times (London)
August 7, 2004, Saturday
Bridget Riley’ first solo show
by: Joanna Pitman
Ida Kar made some of the most brilliant artist portraits of the
Sixties.
This contact sheet of her session with the then 31-year-old Bridget
Riley, taken in 1962, is among her best.
Riley had been invited by Victor Musgrave, Kar’s husband, to do her
first solo show at his gallery, Gallery One. Monica Kinley,
Musgrave’s second wife, recalls how ahead of its time the work was.
“Victor gave Bridget Riley her first really serious show. Her work
was extremely challenging and avant-garde in those days and Victor
found it very interesting. Victor was very good at picking artists
with potential to show in his gallery. Many of them were at the start
of long and important careers.”
Born Ida Karamian of Armenian parents in Tambov, near Moscow, in
1908, Kar was educated at French lycees in Cairo and Paris. She took
up photography with her first husband, Edmond Belali, and worked in
Cairo as a surrealist photographer under the name Idabel. She met
Victor Musgrave in Cairo and moved to London in 1945. She lived and
worked in Soho, photographing London’s bohemia, including every new
and important writer and artist from Doris Lessing to T.S. Eliot,
from David Hockney to Margot Fonteyn. She had a solo show at the
Whitechapel Art Gallery in 1960, in which she showed large prints of
French and British artists. She died in 1974.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress

La Nouvelle République du Centre Ouest
20 juillet 2004
Beaucoup de réformes restent à entreprendre
La Turquie, a estimé récemment un rapport du Parlement européen, a
fait beaucoup de progrès pour remplir les critères dits de
Copenhague, sur l’adhésion à l’Union européenne, mais beaucoup de
réformes sont encore à entreprendre pour arriver à un État de droit.
Les eurodéputés critiquent l’influence exagérée de l’armée dans la
vie quotidienne, le recours à la torture et aux mauvais traitements
par les policiers, la violence exercée sur les femmes, les
intimidations envers les défenseurs des droits de l’homme, les
discriminations à l’égard des autorités religieuses, le manque de
liberté syndicale, les discriminations contre les Kurdes, la
persécution des partis politiques comme HADEP et DEHAP.
La Turquie vient de montrer sa bonne volonté sur deux points. Le
Parlement européen s’était insurgé de la peine de quinze ans de
prison infligés à Leyla Zana, inculpée le 6 novembre 1992 pour s’être
exprimée en langue kurde lors de l’inauguration de l’Assemblée
nationale turque. Sous la pression, celle-ci vient d’être remise en
liberté, en compagnie de trois autres députés. La Cour de sécurité de
l’État a, par ailleurs, été abolie.
En outre, la Turquie avait été priée d’autoriser d’autres langues que
le turc dans l’enseignement et les médias, et en particulier le
kurde. Elle vient d’obtempérer. La télévision d’État TRT vient de
briser un tabou en lançant la diffusion de deux émissions en
kurmandji et zaza, deux dialectes kurdes. C’est un début. La
réouverture du séminaire orthodoxe chrétien Halki, fermé depuis 1972,
est aussi un signe de bonne volonté.
Le Parlement réclame également l’abandon du système prévoyant des
peines réduites pour « les crimes d’honneur », commis pour des
raisons liées à une coutume ou une tradition, soulignant que ceux-ci
devraient être considérés comme des meurtres au premier degré. Les
élus européens protestent contre l’utilisation de l’histoire comme
moyen d’inculquer à la jeunesse des sentiments de haine raciale.
S’agissant de la question arménienne, le Parlement européen n’insiste
pas trop, « compte tenu des sensibilités turques », mais lance un
avertissement à la suite d’une approche très partiale du problème
présenté dans les écoles. « Pourquoi, dit la résolution, la Turquie
gaspillerait-elle le soutien dont elle dispose actuellement au sein
de l’Union ? »
Il reste deux mois à ses dirigeants pour tenir les promesses de « la
mise aux normes ».
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress

Cyprus Mail, Cyprus
July 18 2004
Third man held over woman’s murder
By Stefanos Evripidou
A 33-year-old Armenian man was remanded in custody for eight days
yesterday in connection with the murder of Lyudmila Zipir, 34, from
Ukraine, who was found dead in her apartment in Limassol last Sunday.
He is the third man to be arrested in connection with the case. The
33-year-old was arrested on Friday night after police had searched
his house for evidence. Various items have been sent for forensic
testing. According to reports, police found his fingerprints at the
scene of the crime. The same reports say he used to live in the same
block as Zipir and was on friendly relations with the other two
suspects. He has denied any involvement in the murder.
Zipir was found by police last Sunday after her employer had called
concerned at her failure to turn up for work. She had lived in Cyprus
for three years and worked in a bar in Limassol. Pathologist Panicos
Stavrianos said the girl’s bruised naked body was found on her bed in
a pool of blood.
Police first arrested two men who lived next door to Zipir the day
after the body was found. Armen Grigorian, 25 from Armenia, and
Dionysis Tokalides, 26 from Georgia, were remanded in court for eight
days on Monday.
Zipir’s employer told police the victim had repeatedly complained
that the two men used to harass her with sexual innuendoes. He had
even visited the men on several occasions to ask them to leave her
alone.
When police arrested the two suspects, they appeared to have
scratches on their bodies as well as streaks of blood. Blood was also
found in the apartment building.
Police noticed there had been no forced entry into the apartment via
the front door, but that the balcony door connecting the victim’s
apartment with that of the suspects was closed but not locked.
The two suspects deny any involvement in the murder, but cannot give
a clear story or confirm where they were at the time of the murder.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress

Anadolu Agency, Turkey
July 8 2004
Environment And Forestry Minister Pepe In Baku
”WE SHOULD IMPROVE COOPERATION BETWEEN TURKEY AND AZERBAIJAN”
BAKU – Turkish Environment & Forestry Minister Osman Pepe, who is on
an official visit to Azerbaijan said on Thursday that Turkey and
Azerbaijan should increase cooperation as a matter of friendship
between the two countries.
Pepe met Azerbaijani Ecology and Natural Resources Minister
Huseyngulu Bagirov.
Stating that there were significant changes in environment and world
climate, Pepe said that living in a healthy environment was among
basic human rights. Studies on forestation were speeded up in Turkey
recently, Pepe underlined. He also added that cooperation between the
two countries would conribute to the prosperity of both countries.
Bagirov, on the other nad, gave information about Azerbaijani Ecology
and Natural Resources Ministry’s activities.
Stating that there were some problems on fresh water, Bagirov said
that some rivers, including Aras River of Turkey, was polluted in
Armenia at great extent before reaching Azerbaijan. Bagirov noted
that they were concerned to face serious problems in the near future.
He stressed that they could cooperate with Turkish companies on water
treatment and fishery.
Pepe and Turkish businessmen accompanying him, met also Azerbaijani
Economic Development Minister Farhad Aliyev, sources said.
Investment and cooperation opportunities were discussed in the
meeting.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress

Hetq Online, Armenia
June 29 2004
Armenian children are neglected in Calcutta
by Aghavni Yeghiazaryan, Edik Baghdasaryan
`We were playing Rugby in the seminary yard and the ball hit me in
the left ear. I felt a stab of pain, and fell into the mud; then the
boys sat me down on the stairs. Then one day when we were playing, my
friend Harutik whispered something in my left ear, I couldn’t hear
it, I couldn’t hear it at all. Then he repeated it in my right ear
and I heard. I realized that I couldn’t hear with my left ear. I told
the doctor. He examined my ear and said that there was nothing wrong
with it. I put medicine into my ear for a few days, and then some
grains of sand came out of it. That was the end of my treatment,’
explains Narek Arshakyan, a student at the charitably-run Armenian
Seminary in Calcutta. Narek was subsequently examined by Doctor
Mirakyan at the Republican Hospital in Yerevan, who told his mother
that it was too late for the hearing in the boy’s left ear to be
restored.

The seminary in Calcutta, India was established in 1821 and is headed
by a director appointed by the Catholicos of All Armenians, at the
suggestion of the Board of Trustees. Since 1999, the seminary has
been headed by Sonya John (who is Armenian by origin). Max Galstown,
a member of the Indian-Armenian community, has been sending letters
to us expressing his anxiety about the situation in the seminary
since last February. He says, `This establishment, with a 180-year
history, has been turned upside-down under Sonya John’s management.’
Another member of the community, a well-respected woman who had
worked at the seminary with Sonya John, sent a letter to the
Catholicos in 2003 describing John’s working style and behavior. She
never received any reply. `Since appointing the director, the
Catholicos has not supervised her work,’ Max Galstown wrote us. He
says Sonya John misappropriates donations from Indian Armenians;
under the pretext of allocating money to the hospital, she
transferred 15 million Rupees to the Communist Party of India (of
which she is a member), 30 million Rupees for the construction of the
Armenian Embassy in New Delhi, and so on. `None of the local
Armenians is involved in the administrative matters of the seminary.
We consider it to be a conspiracy against us, and Echmiadzin is
taking part in it,’ Galstown writes.

Narek’s mother, Susanna Arshakyan, reported her son’s hearing loss to
Deacon Tigran from the information department of the Holy See of St.
Echmiadzin. The deacon promised to inform the Catholicos about it.
`The boy has lost his hearing because of negligence; if he had been
examined and treated in time it wouldn’t have happened. Our children
are disregarded and neglected there,’ Susanna says.
Sixty seminary students came to Armenia in May for a month’s
vacation, and were supposed to return to Calcutta on June 18 th . But
only one student, Elisa Matevosyan, and the families of teachers from
Armenia working there went back. The postponement of the return of
some of the students was explained by illness. It is clear that 80
percent of the students who came home for vacation will not return to
Calcutta.
Narek went to Calcutta in 2001, from the Zatik children’s home. Narek
has two brothers, and his socially vulnerable single mother decided
to send her son away to study. At the dictation of a Church
representative, she wrote that she had given her consent to her son’s
going abroad to study for ten years. She signed another document as
well, but she doesn’t remember what was it. `Whatever I signed, I am
not going to send Narek back. I haven’t abandoned my child, have I?
If they take the child, they are first of all responsible for his
health. Our children were still standing on their own two feet when
they brought them back, but we’ll find out later whether they have
any diseases,’ Narek’s mother says.
All of the children returned to Armenia with medical records
regarding annual checkups and individual diseases. There is a
separate document stating that they don’t have any contagious
diseases and don’t carry any infections. But eight children have
already been diagnosed with malaria, and two of them have been
hospitalized in the Nork Infectious Hospital. `They brought the
disease with them; it is too early for local malaria, this is not a
local malaria,’ says head physician Ara Asoyan.
Narek is not going to continue his studies at the seminary. The Zatik
boarding school no longer has a place for him. His English is better
than his Armenian, and it will be hard for him to go to ordinary
school, not to mention his hearing problem. Susanna’s only hope is
the Church. She believes that the Catholicos cannot remain
indifferent, since Narek studied at a seminary that the Church is
responsible for.
To be continued
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress

1ST LEAD: Horna replaces Nalbandian in Wimbledon draw
Deutsche Presse-Agentur
June 19, 2004, Saturday
Revised men’s draw for the 17.95-million-dollar Wimbledon
Championshiops starting Monday after withdrawal of fourth seed David
Nalbandian. Men Roger Federer, 1, Switzerland v Alex Bogdanovic,
Britain Julian Knowle, Austria v Alejandro Falla, Colombia Alberto
Martin, Spain v Fabrice Santoro, France Thomas Johansson, Sweden v
Nicolas Kiefer, Germany Feliciano Lopez, Spain v Richard Bloomfield,
Britain Cyril Saulnier, France v Michael Llodra, France Gilles
Elseneer, Belgium v Arvind Parmar, Britain Ivo Karlovic, Croatia v
Paradorn Srichaphan, 13, Thailand Carlos Moya, 9, Spain v Olivier
Patience, France Alex Corretja, Spain v Radek Stepanek, Czech
Republic Sargis Sargsian, Armenia v Marc Lopez, Spain Dmitry
Tursunov, Russia v Marat Safin, Russia Mikhail Youzhny, Russia v
Goran Ivanisevic, Croatia Jaime Delgado, Britain v Filippo Volandri,
Italy Irakli Labadze, Georgia v Kristof Vliegen, Belgium Jurgen
Melzer, Austria v Lleyton Hewitt, 7, Australia Guillermo Coria, 3,
Argentina v Wesley Moodie, South Africa Florian Mayer, Germany v
Wayne Arthurs, Australia Karol Kucera, Slovakia v Oscar Hernandez,
Spain Wayne Ferreira, South Africa v Ivan Ljubicic, Croatia Jonas
Bjorkman, Sweden v Raemon Sluiter, Netherlands Jan Vacek, Czech
Republic v Lu Yen-Hsun, Taipei Arnaud Clement, France v Joachim
Johansson, Sweden Ivan Pastor, Spain v Mardy Fish, 14, U.S. Sebastien
Grosjean, 10, France v Thierry Ascione, France Olivier Rochus,
Belgium v Gregory Carraz, France Daniele Bracciale, Italy v Jan
Hernych, Czech Republic Jan-Michael Gambill, U.S. v Max Mirnyi,
Belarus Robby Ginepri, U.S. v Janko Tipsarevic, Serbia-Montenegro
Fernando Verdasco, Spain v Glenn Weiner, U.S. Stefan Koubek, Austria
v Jose Acasuso, Argentina Julien Boutter, France v Juan Carlos
Ferrero, 6, Spain Tim Henman, 5, Britain v Ruben Ramierez Hidalgo,
Spain Flavio Saretta, Brazil v Ivo Hueberger, Switzerland David
Ferrer, Spain v Victor Hanescu, Romania Andre Sa, Brazil v Hicham
Arazi, Morocco Fernando Gonzalez, Chile v Martin Vassallo Arguello,
Italy Igor Andreev, Russia v John van Lottum, Netherlands Martin
Verkerk, Netherlands v Nikolay Davydenko, Russia Christophe Rochus,
Belgium v Mark Philippoussis, 11, Australia Jiri Novak, 16, Czech
Republic v Xavier Malisse, Belgium Antony Dupuis, France v Tommy
Haas, Germany Karol Beck, Slovakia v Jonathan Marray, Britain Potito
Starace, Italy v Tommy Robredo, Spain Dominik Hrbaty, Slovakia v
David Sanchez, Spain Mark Hilton, Britain v Albert Costa, Spain
Julien Benneteau, France v Tomas Berdych, Czech Republic Mario Ancic,
Croatia v Luis Horna, Peru Rainer Schuettler, 8, Germany v Robin
Soderling, Sweden Greg Rusedski, Britain v Davide Sanguinetti, Italy
Felix Mantilla, Spain v Kristian Pless, Denmark Todd Reid, Australia
v Vincent Spadea, U.S. Juan Chela, Argentina v Lars Burgsmueller,
Germany Thomas Enqvist, Sweden v Galo Blanco, Spain Todd Martin, U.S.
v Guillermo Canas, Argentina Lee Childs, Britain v Sjeng Schalken,
12, Netherlands Nicolas Massu, 15, Chile v Alexander Popp, Germany
Bohdan Ulihrach, Czech Republic v Albert Montanes, Spain Kenneth
Carlsen, Denmark v Richard Gasquet, France Andy Ram, Israel v Andrei
Pavel, Romania Taylor Dent, U.S. v Ramon Delgado, Paraguay Luis
Horna, Peru v Dennis van Scheppingen, Netherlands Alexander Peya,
Austria v Jeff Salzenstein, U.S. Yeu-Tzuoo Wang, Tailei v Andy
Roddick, 2, U.S. dpa bs gb
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress

A MONKEY TO EACH OFFICIAL?
A1 Plus | 14:34:20 | 17-06-2004 | Social |
The protest action held for defense of the political prisoners
near the General Office of Prosecutor has today ended in the unique
awards. Eleonora Manandyan, Chair of “New Armenia” social organization
introduced 3 statues of monkeys – the prizes set for attitude towards
the political prisoners. {BR}
The statue of the monkey closing its eyes with own hands, “I see
nothing”, was given to Armenian Ombudsman Larissa Alaverdyan.
The monkey with closed ears, “I hear nothing” was awarded to Pargev
Ohanyan, Judge of the First Instance Court of Kentron-Norq Marash
Communes, for the trial of Edgar Araqelyan.
“I say nothing”, the monkey closing its mouth, was given to Public
TV Company of Armenia. Other representatives of Mass Media as well,
“H2”, “Armenia”, “Arm News”, “Yerevan” TV Companies could win the
latter prize. But Public TV Company was preferred.
“The pickets proved that one can achieve his purposes just by
overcoming the sense of fear. We will keep fighting and will carry
it through”, Manandyan says.
Opposition representatives were present for the award. Albert Bazeyan
thinks a Grand Prix was to be handed to Robert Kocharyan.
All the prizes will be sent to the “winners” after the protest action.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress