Author: Babajanian Karo

TBILISI-YEREVAN CHARTER FLIGHT TO OPERATE FOR AZERBAIJANI BOXERS

November 21, 2012 – 17:21 AMT

PanARMENIAN.Net – Tbilisi-Yerevan charter flight will operate for
Azerbaijani boxers, first vice-president of Azerbaijan’s Boxing
Federation Aghajan Abiyev told ExtraTime.az.

Yerevan will host 2012 AIBA Youth World Boxing Championships from
November 25-December 8, with Tural Ahmadov (52 kg), Nasraddin Mammadov
(56 kg), Parviz Bagirov (64 kg), Sagi Salahli (69 kg), Orhan Mailly (75
kg), Rauf Rahimov (81 kg) and Rahil Mammadli to represent Azerbaijan
at the event.

“Armenia has ensured security guarantees for the Azerbaijani
delegation. Armenia offered ground transportation as means of getting
to Yerevan, but Baku resolved to organize Tbilisi-Yerevan charter
flight,” Abiyev said.

THE INTERNATIONAL COMMITTEE OF THE RED CROSS VISITED TWO PRISONERS OF WAR FROM AZERBAIJAN HELD IN ARMENIA

15:55, 21 November, 2012

YEREVAN, NOVEMBER 21, ARMENPRESS: The Responsible for Community
Delegation of Armenian ICRC Ashot Astabatsyan stated in a conversation
with “Armenpress” that the International Committee of the Red
Cross Office visited two prisonersn of war from Azeerbaijan held in
Armenia on November 20, one of which is a serviceman and the other
is a civilian. Information regarding the marital details have been
clarified.

There was a boundary violation in Armenian-Azerbaijani frontline on
November 12. Telman Javashiroghlu Aliev, the dweller of the Mazamli
village of Gazagkh region of Azerbaijan, born in 1971, crossed
Armenian-Azerbaijani border near Tavush Region of the Republic of
Armenia at 07:45.

The dweller of the Republic of Azerbaijan, serviceman Firuz Farazov
gave himself up to the Armenian soldiers serving on the frontline
on Jule 26 by 06:00 o’clock, at the north-eastern part of the
Armenian-Azerbaijani border.

In accordance with the official data the five member family crossed
Azerbaijani border from the part of Eraskhavan on January 10 of 2010.

They are now kept in Azerbaijan.

ARMENIAN APOSTOLIC CHURCH NOT PRIVATE VENTURE – PRIEST

tert.am
21.11.12

The Armenian Apostolic Church (AAC) is not a limited liability company,
neither does it own any, says priest Vahram Melikyan, a spokesperson
for the Holy See of St Echmiadzin.

His comments came in response to the media reports that a parking
coupon provided to the AAC Vazgenyan College gives full information
on the owner of the territory and the people it serves,

“The Holy See St Echmiadzin, with its subordinate organizations, has
adjacent parking lots in different places, which give drivers coupons
for the parked cars. There’s nothing unlawful or what’s even more,
indecent, about that,” he said.

A follower of the Armenian Apostolic Church, Artak Minasyan, was
earlier said to have expressed anger at seeing a parking coupon marked
Armenian Apostolic Church. He reportedly said that the AAC is little by
little turning into an ordinary LLC, having totally forgotten its role.

Commenting on the report, Melikyan said he can understand the
implication behind the statement (that maintaining a parking lot
requires means which are never donated by people like Artak Minasyan).

“As to why the Holy See’s name is marked on the coupon, that’s for
making people aware that unlike numerous other similar payments, their
money will serve for the welfare and mission of this structure. If
there are people who are unwilling to have their investment in the
Armenian Church and its projects, I don’t see any need to make comments
then,” he added.

RULING COALITION FAILS EXTRAORDINARY SITTING INITIATED BY OPPOSITION IN ARMENIA

ARMINFO
Wednesday, November 21, 12:51

The extraordinary sitting of the Armenian Parliament that was initiated
by the Armenian National Congress has been failed for lack of quorum,
as forecasted. Only 44 out of the necessary 66 votes were received. The
coalitional parties: Republican Party and Orinats Yerkir, fulfilled
their promises and did not attend the sitting.

Head of the RPA faction Galust Sahakyan explained such behavior of
the Republicans with an unwillingness to participate in the political
show of the opposition. “It is our constitutional right and no one can
blame us. In addition, 15 parliamentarians of the RPA faction are on
business trips,” Sahakyan said. “Too little time is left before the
presidential elections to make any legislative reforms,” he said when
commenting on the legislative amendments suggested by the opposition.

He said that the opposition has become quite skillful in organization
of political shows. “We remember what happened 4 years ago on March
1 2008. They again organized a show and then gave marching orders to
the people. Now these forces try to remind about themselves at the
expense of other parties,” Sahakyan said hinting at the Armenian
National Congress that, as he thinks, exploits the potential of
Prosperous Armenia and ARFD parties in its political goals.

To recall, ANC with the support of Heritage, ARFD and Prosperous
Armenia parties initiated extraordinary sitting of the parliament
for Nov 21 to suggest amendments to the Electoral and Criminal Codes,
and to the Law on the Population Register.

It is noteworthy that even the oppositionists did not attend the
extraordinary sitting in full staff. Only 44 out of 53 oppositionist
MPs were present at the sitting.

POSSIBILITY OF NEW WAR SERIOUS THREAT TO BAKU, NKR EX-FM SAYS

November 21, 2012 – 16:20 AMT

PanARMENIAN.Net – The year 2012 has seen no breakthrough in Karabakh
conflict settlement, NKR ex-Foreign Minister said.

As Arman Melikyan told a November 21 news conference, many were
concerned over a probability of a new war which would pose a serious
threat to Azerbaijan as well.

“In the next 5 years, Azerbaijan will increase its oil income to
further solve the issue to fit its interests,” Melikyan said.

“Presidential elections in the U.S. will be followed by deepening
disintegration worldwide, with Armenia in the center of projected
clashes. Turkey, though partially stable, may later intensify its
involvement,” the former official said.

FAILED STAR TIME
Haik Aramyan

Comments – Wednesday, 21 November 2012, 10:51

Vartan Oskanian wrote on his Facebook wall that though his nomination
for president was discussed upon the initiative of the PAP leader
Gagik Tsarukyan, the PAP territorial offices want Tsarukyan to run.

Oskanian implies that he will not run.

It~Rs difficult to say what played a role in this. The authorities
have brought serious charges against Vartan Oskanian ~Sfabricating~T a
criminal case against him, which may turn into a verdict every moment.

On the other hand, the logic of the domestic developments has led to
a situation that Oskanian~Rs nomination for president would split or
even ruin the PAP which currently has several wings.

Clash of interests be seen between the PAP wings, as well as growing
controversies. In fact, only Gagik Tsarukyan~Rs nomination will be
a temporary solution for the PAP.

This is interesting to the society if we ignore the fact that
Tsarukyan~Rs nomination will mean that the political bar of Armenia is
again lowered. Tsarukyan is not a bad guy. He has a lot of positive
features but his characteristics has nothing in common with the
politics about which Vartan Oskanian used to speak.

In theory, the society would benefit from Oskanian~Rs nomination more,
which would raise the political bar.

Oskanian has considered several options of his political career:
join a party, set up a party or join the civil sector. Oskanian chose
something in the between. His Civilitas Foundation was in the civic
field, while he joined Prosperous Armenia.

Oskanian understood that he would be asked a lot of questions which
he cannot answer. Besides, no matter how long Oskanian speaks on a new
level of politics, it would be impossible to implement it in the PAP.

Instead, by joining the party Oskanyan had to take into account a lot
of circumstances which have nothing in common with the ~Snew-quality
politics~T.

There is another option as well if Oskanian and his ~Sallies~T are
able to take PAP. But this is a doubtful option since no one will
give away their ~Sportion~T of the huge conglomerate, and PAP would
simply collapse.

Oskanian is trying to keep the intrigue in his statement underlining
the importance of a joint candidate to achieve success hinting that
he could be the best candidate.

Everyone, including Oskanian, understands that the upcoming
presidential election will be the ~Slast~T in one for the
anti-Constitutional system existing in Armenia for already 25 years.

This system is exhausted, and an inevitable crash, not a ~Ssystemic
change~T awaits it. In this sense, Vartan Oskanian~Rs choice is still
wrong, even if he becomes the ~Sjoint candidate~T.

TURKEY DETAINS 152 SUSPECTED PKK MEMBERS

November 21, 2012 – 13:44 AMT

PanARMENIAN.Net – Turkish police detained 152 Kurdistan Workers’ Party
(PKK) militants and supporters, including PKK Self-Defense Units
(Ã~VSB) chief C.A., in the southeastern province of Diyarbakır on
Tuesday, Nov 20, for various crimes related to violent demonstrations
held across the country, Today’s Zaman reported.

Members of the Ã~VSB, who are specially trained to cause social unrest,
were included among those detained, as well as others accused of
masterminding several incidents of assaults with stones, fireworks
and Molotov cocktails, as well as blocking vehicles on roads and
setting car tires on fire.

Roughly 100 of the detained were minors. Of the total number, 128
of the detained, including all minors, were released, while 15 were
referred to a court and later arrested.

During a press conference following the detentions, Diyarbakır
Governor Mustafa Toprak said Ã~VSB Turkey chief C.A. and five other
Ã~VSB members were detained and their weapons as well as documents
related to the organization seized. According to Toprak, the Ã~VSB
chief came to Turkey from the PKK headquarters located in the Kandil
Mountains after receiving training there on carrying out assassinations
and armed attacks.

ARMENIAN SECURITY COUNCIL SECRETARY TO PARTICIPATE IN CSTO MEETING IN SANKT-PETERSBURG

YEREVAN, November 21. /ARKA/. Secretary of Armenian National Security
Council Arthur Baghdasaryan will participate in the joint session of
Parliament Assembly and Committee of Secretaries of Security Councils
of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) to be held in
Sankt-Petersburg on November 22-23, the press service of the Security
Council reported.

Issues of cooperation between the PA and the Committee of Secretaries
of Security Councils will be discussed at the meeting, says the report.

Heads of parliaments and secretaries of security councils are expected
to make statements.

Apart from this, secretaries of security councils are expected to
meet separately to discuss a number of issues, the preparation of
December session of the Collective Security Council of CSTO in Moscow
in particular. -0-

ARMENIA-POLAND RELATIONS DEVELOP BASED ON MUTUAL TRUST – AMBASSADOR

news.am
November 21, 2012 | 12:59

YEREVAN.- Armenian-Polish relations date back to the Middle Ages
and now two countries are cooperating as free independent states,
Poland’s Ambassador Zdzislaw Raczynski said speaking about 20th
anniversary of diplomatic relations.

“Partner relations between our states are based on mutual trust,”
he told reporters on Wednesday.

As to economic relations, Ambassador said the annual trade turnover
reaches 30 million euro, which he considers not satisfactory as no
progress is registered.

“The reason is that often goods are transported from Poland to
Armenia via Russia, Ukraine and Turkey which hampers turnover growth,”
Raczynski said, noting that there is only one Polish company with a
turnover of 10 million euro functioning in Armenia.

HAYKAKAN ZHAMANAK: RUSSIAN PRESIDENT TO DEMAND ARMENIAN LEADER’S CLEAR STANCE ON EURASEC

tert.am
21.11.12

The issue of Armenia’s full membership in the EurAsEC, as well as
in the Customs Union and Eurasian Union (Armenia is now observer at
the EurAsEC), which are to be based on it, will once again be raised
point-blank this December.

Next month, at the CIS Summit in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan, Armenian
President Serzh Sargsyan is to meet with his Russian counterpart
Vladimir Putin.

The newspaper’s sources say that the Russian leader is expected to
demand that the Armenian president clearly state Armenia’s stance –
getting fully involved in the EurAsEC or retaining its observer status.

The point is that EurAsEC membership is the “criterion” to determine
Armenia’s movement either toward the West or toward Russia.

In contrast to Armenian Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan, who does not
miss a chance to express his negative opinion, Armenia’s president has
never stated his position on Armenia’s possible membership in EurAsEC.