Author: Badalian Vardan

Fishing to be banned in Lake Sevan on December 8-25

Lake Sevan and the rivers flowing into it on December 8-25 was
announced at a consultation in the regional administration of
Gegharkunik province yesterday. An action plan based on the order was
discussed at the consultation attended by Deputy Chief of the Armenian
Police Samvel Hovhannisyan, Deputy Governors of Gegharkunik Andranik
Hakobyan and Karen Hakobyan and other officials, the regional
administration said.

By December 8, it is planned to remove all fishing nets from Lake
Sevan and mobile homes from the lake shores and establish
round-the-clock control on the lake, in markers and points of sale, at
some sections of motorways and roads leading to the lake.

The deputy police chief expressed hope that joint efforts will produce
the desired result – to reduce poaching to a minimum.

06.12.14, 15:31

It is meaningless to wait for the actions of the government (video)

15:34 | December 6,2014 | Social

“Support to borderline villages” initiative has organized a charitable
auction sale. People have provided handmade Christmas gifts- socks,
hats and other symbolic presents. The money gathered from their on
line sale will be directed to the organization of New Year events in
borderline villages since December 20.

The members of the initiative note that the residents of borderline
villages are unprotected and they need support, it is meaningless to
wait for the actions of government and the authorities.

We note that is the third action by the initiative.

Alliance for Kurdish Rights
Dec 6 2014

`To deal with its past, Turkey must first recognise PKK’s fight for freedom’

by Sultan Coban

Last week’s most discussed topic in Turkish media was the Dersim
Massacre of 1937-1938. The Turkish Prime Minister’s visit to Dersim at
the beginning of last week ignited a heated debate about Dersim. Three
years ago, Erdogan issued a controversial apology for the Dersim
Massacre that was in a way groundbreaking. It sent a strong message to
the public seeing as former ruling parties had previously refused to
call it a massacre or genocide.

The responsibility for the Dersim Massacre lies especially with the
Republican People’s Party (CHP, founded by Atatürk), which ordered the
ethnic cleansing of Kurdish clans led by Seyid Riza. Both Kurdish and
AKP-friendly crowds have criticized the current leader of CHP, Kemal
KılıçdaroÄ?lu, partly because he has hesitated upon speaking about his
own background in Dersim but especially because he as the leader of
the party behind the massacre and several other shameful events in
modern Turkish history has failed to take the responsibility upon
himself.

Following Erdogan’s apology, it has been discussed on several
occasions whether the official name of the city Tunceli should be
changed to Dersim. Der-sim in Kurdish means `silver door’ while
Tunc-eli means `a steel area’. Allegedly, the latter was meant to
symbolize the strength of the inhabitants. Dersim was changed to
Tunceli in 1935, just two years before the massacre.

According to the Turkish-Armenian online newspaper Bolsohays, a great
number of Armenian, Kurdish, Laz and Greek city and village names were
changed during the period between 1923, when the Republic of Turkey
was established, and 1940. The changing of names continued after 1940
when it was officially decided to change location names that did not
have roots in the Turkish language and culture. These alterations were
just a small part of the assimilation policies encompassed by the
Turkification process against the country’s ethnic groups. The
Turkification process is what caused opposition from Seyh Said (1925),
Seyid Riza (1935-1938) and the PKK revolt from the beginning of the
80’s until today.

Bahçeli in Dersim

Shortly after Prime Minister DavutoÄ?lu visited Dersim, the leader of
the ultra-nationalistic party, The Nationalist Movement Party (MHP),
Devlet Bahçeli announced that he, too, would pay a visit to `Tunceli’
on Friday. Prior to that, Bahçeli had expressed at a party meeting
that the objective of the Dersim Massacre was to crack down on
`hypocritical terrorists’ and that he would strike them the same way
today. Bahçeli compared the Dersim resistance to PKK and called those
resisting `that time’s terrorists’. It is not the first time Bahçeli
has voiced such opinions. On the contrary, this was a mild statement
compared to previous ones. However, his statement is important because
it puts the perception of Dersim shared by the majority of Turkish
politicians into words.

It is therefore not surprising that Bahçeli came with a convoy of 500
people from ElazıÄ? when he showed up in Dersim; 250 of them security
guards and police meant to protect Bahçeli from the `rage’ of Dersim.
It was comical to see that Bahçeli had to cut his trip short as he was
met by protesters who obstructed the entrance of Bahçeli and his
nationalistic crowd into the city. Bahçeli was forced to give a speech
on the stairs of the governor’s office where party members could
applaud his speech uninterrupted.

What About Erdogan?

Another important visit took place in Istanbul. It was the Catholic
Pope Francis’ first visit to Turkey. He met with President Erdogan but
also Prime Minister DavutoÄ?lu and Mehmet Görmez, head of the Ministry
for Religious Affairs. The meetings were broadcasted live.

Both Görmez and the Pope expressed messages of peace. Görmez
especially emphasised that ISIS was a threat against the whole world,
including Islam. Görmez furthermore stated that there was a tendency
to Islamophobia in the West, saying it is just as bad as
anti-Semitism.

I noticed that Erdogan’s speech focused mainly on war and chaos, among
other things speaking of ISIS who he called `Daesh.’ He turned the
focus to Assad and expressed disappointment that the West has ignored
Bashar al-Assad, the Syrian war’s real perpetrator, in the coalition’s
strikes against ISIS. As usual, when Erdogan has the chance to speak,
he does not neglect to bash PKK. Erdogan stated that the international
community behaves unjust regarding the `terror’ committed by PKK, a
continuation of a previous comment when he likened PKK to ISIS.

It is interesting that Erdogan continues to use the `terror’ label
whenever he mentions PKK during such a volatile time when Kurds in
Turkey have shown that without PKK there can be no peace negotiation.
AKP, Erdogan’s ruling party, is aware of this seeing as they are in
negotiations with Abdullah Ã-calan, the imprisoned leader of PKK. Yet
it is understandable that Erdogan is trying so hard to create a
monster out of PKK in a moment where voices in the West have expressed
support for PKK’s (and YPG, Kurdish forces in Rojava/Syrian Kurdistan)
rescue of the Yezidis and defense against ISIS in Kobanê. More and
more academics and journalists are re-evaluating the rhetoric used
when talking about PKK and YPG. Some politicians have even called for
delisting PKK from terror lists.

The Danish Foreign Minister, Martin Lidegaard, admitted that the
military aid sent from Denmark to the soldiers in Kurdistan Regional
Government might end up in the hands of YPG. The other country members
of the coalition against ISIS have also found themselves in this
dilemma. When the Western allies `indirectly’ support the YPG with aid
and assistance (the US has openly said they are working with the YPG),
they are sending a strong signal that these so-called Kurdish
`terrorists’ are doing something right. Erdogan is worried that this
change might amount to an international recognition of the Kurdish
people’s history, suffering and freedom movement; something that
provokes him to continue his smear campaign against PKK.

Kobanê and the established confederal self-rule in Rojava is a good
example of a functioning democracy in the Middle East that promotes
women rights by use of positive discrimination. It is a system
inclusive of groups with different ethnic and religious backgrounds; a
system that defends and promotes multiculturalism and multilingualism,
for example by introducing education in every language spoken in the
region. It is a system built on freedom of thought, speech and press.

A young democracy

The situation in Rojava is more complex than portrayed above. Rojava
is a young and growing democracy and there have been incidents of
harsh crackdowns on internal opposition and critics (as reported by
Human Rights Watch in 2013).

Recently, a delegation from a Danish socialist party, the Red-Green
Alliance, visited the Cizire canton in Rojava. One of the delegates,
the political spokesperson Nikolaj Villumsen, spoke at a meeting about
how he witnessed a diverse society in blossoming, which could continue
on to be an example for Iraq and Syria, both currently marred by war
and corruption.

Søren Søndergård, another delegate, spoke of a meeting he had with the
head of Rojava’s human rights commission who openly said that there
had been a number of violations of human rights in the self-ruled
region. Søndergård highlighted the importance of daring to speak of
the flaws and shortcomings of the system.

He mentioned that it is important to view Rojava in the context of
century’s life under dictatorial regimes:

Units like police forces need to understand that you can get people to
talk without beatings and without torture unlike what they are used to
seeing but they know it and it takes time to understand and implement.
But it must not be the reason we refuse the democratic and socialistic
ideology behind the uprising in Rojava.

I recently read an article about PKK on an online website with
statements from a Middle East expert who described PKK as an
authoritarian and suppressive terror movement that kills civilians.
The words are like taken from Erdogan’s mouth.

The article quotes a former PKK spokesperson for Scandinavia, Zeynel
Çelik, who calls PKK dictatorial and totalitarian. Çelik compares
Ã-calan to Saddam and claims that anyone who dares to criticize Ã-calan
is either killed or shunned.

The criticism of Ã-calan as the eternal leader is important but there
are stronger counter-arguments that the article failed to bring. It is
easy to name several former PKK fighters who have spoken against PKK,
conducted smear campaigns against PKK in Turkish media and helped the
Turkish intelligence in the state’s fight against PKK (Ã…?emdin Sakık,
Abdülkadir Aygan og Adil TimurtaÅ?) who have not been killed.

Regarding Çelik’s comment on being shunned, I do not have to emphasize
that it is a culture that exists and is seen in every form of
political organization. Take the Cuba-revolution as an example and
read Che Guevara’s memoirs about members who turned their back on the
movement. We do not even need to go that far back. Even ordinary
political parties distance themselves from former members who conduct
smear campaigns against the party.

If PKK is so totalitarian and authoritarian, would it have progressed
as much as it has since its establishment in 1978? To me, there is a
long way from independence to self-rule and from armed struggle to
ceasefire.

The smear campaign against PKK comes in many shapes and colours but
the common denominator is fear; the fear that there will be an
international recognition of PKK’s struggle and its grounds for
establishment.

Bahçeli and other Turkish politicians’ racist discourse on PKK and
Erdogan’s wish to eliminate PKK by using Kobanê will not be enough to
stop the Rojava revolution.

Originally for Translated to English by Alliance for
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Patriarch of Jerusalem Speaks out against Karekin II
12.14.2014 09:59SOCIETY

A letter penned by the Armenian Patriarch of Jerusalem Nourhan Manougian
addressed to Catholicos of All Armenians Karekin II about lowering of the
status of the Jerusalem Patriarchate to a Diocese has created great debate
in the Armenian Church.

The Patriarch of Jerusalem stated that he published this second letter on
the internet because he had not received a response to the first letter he
wrote on the same subject matter. The Patriarch’s letter contains strong
criticism of Karekin II.

The Jerusalem Armenian Patriarchate, on of the four autonomous seats of the
Armenian Church along with the Etchmiadzin Catholicosate, the Catholicosate
of the Great House of Cilicia, and the Patriarchate of Istanbul, has
suffered turbulent times since the period during which the late
Patriarchate Torkom Manoogian could not fulfil his duties due to illness.
Archbishop Manougian was elected Jerusalem Armenian Patriarch in January
2013, and made headlines the following May when he wrote a similar letter
accusing Karekin II of meddling in the internal affairs of the Jerusalem
Patriarchate.

`They only think of dollars’

Born in Aleppo, Patriarch Manougian summarizes the reason he penned his
letter published on the internet on the weekend with the words, `As if the
everyday problems the Armenian Church faces with other Christian
communities and the state of Israel were not enough, Etchmiadzin priests,
spurred on by your statement that `The apple never falls far from the tree’
have begun to crucify the Jerusalem Armenian Patriarchate’. The letter also
contains the striking statement, `You tried to pacify the Patriarchates of
Jerusalem and Istanbul before, yet failed. Come, do not attempt this again!’

The Patriarch of Jerusalem accused Karekin II of carrying out all these
actions for material gains, and ended his letter with the words, `The
Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin will continue to be a source of hope and
inspiration for us, but you…’
Etchmiadzin: `Unacceptable’

The tremors the letter caused found a swift response from the Mother See of
Holy Etchmiadzin. On December 1, the Supreme Spiritual Council met in the
Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin and released a statement declaring that `the
manner of the steps taken by His Beatitude Archbishop Nourhan Manougian
[are] unacceptable’. The statement added that Manougian harmed the
reputation and prestige of the Armenian Church with inappropriate language
and actions for a clergyman. The statement also underlined that the
accusation voiced by Manougian relating to the Mother See of Holy
Etchmiadzin turning the Constantinople Patriarchate into a Diocese was
false. Archbishop Aram Atesyan, too, in a statement to the Marmara
newspaper, stated that such a plan did not exist.
Not the first time

This is not the first time that claims have surfaced that the patriarchates
of Jerusalem and Istanbul will be turned into dioceses. It is known that
similar debates took place during the period when Patriarch Mesrob II was
in charge of his duties. For instance, in a letter to Catholicos of All
Armenians Karekin II that he wrote in the year 2000, Patriarch Mesrob II
expressed his discomfort regarding this issue. Mesrob II stated that he
made clear his position to Karekin II the year he assumed his position with
various practices and letters, and added that a patriarch could never be
considered equal to a primate.

On the other hand, heavy criticism aimed at Karekin II continues to build
by the day. Catholicos of All Armenians Karekin II is criticized for his
indulgence in money. His appointment of his brother as the Primate of the
Diocese of Russia, his forcing of Archbishop Norvan, Primate of France, to
resign, and his creation of division within the Armenian community in Nice
are all seen as an outcome of his lust for money and power.
Discussed on September 18

The issue had been discussed at the 5th Universal Church Representatives
Meeting held at the Etchmiadzin and chaired by Catholicos Karekin II on
September 28. Vazken Barın, who on behalf of the Istanbul Armenian
Patriarchate travelled to Armenia along with Archbishop Aram Atesyan for
the meeting, said in his statement to Agos on September 26 that the binding
of the Jerusalem and Istanbul Armenian patriarchates to Etchmiadzin had
been discussed at the meeting. Barın had explained that, after he reminded
the meeting that the Istanbul Armenian Patriarchate, founded in 1461
following the conquest of Constantinople by Mehmed II, had existed for
almost 6 centuries and opposed the changing of its status, the decision had
been removed from the final declaration.

RUSSIA TO ASSIST IN NAGORNO-KARABAKH CONFLICT’S SETTLING

AzerNews, Azerbaijan
Dec 5 2014

5 December 2014, 19:02 (GMT+04:00)

By Sara Rajabova

Following the recent escalation of tensions between Armenia and
Azerbaijan, experts are mulling over Russia’s role in the settlement
of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. They say Moscow can play an important
role in resolution of the long-lasting conflict.

Sergei Lavrov, Russian Foreign Minister has assured his country will
continue rendering assistance to the sides of the Nagorno-Karabakh
conflict to resolve it.

He said the settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict is a
long-standing and difficult process and approaches has been changed
in it.

“Together with the OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs, for many years we have
been engaged in efforts to reach consensus over a common approach to
start negotiation on the practical implementation of fixed principles
including: respect for territorial integrity, non-use of force and
respect for the right of peoples to self-determination,” Lavrov said
at a press conference in Basel, Switzerland on December 5.

The minister added that this is a very complicated process, but it
is still going on. “I’m confident that as before, we and our partners
from the U.S. and France will assist Azerbaijan and Armenia in reaching
mutually acceptable agreements,” Lavrov said.

He also added that on the sidelines of the 21st OSCE Ministerial
Council the co-chairs made a joint statement reiterating their
determination to assist the sides in seeking new ways to resolve
the conflict.

“There is no military solution, and we call on the sides to refrain
from violence and work actively towards a lasting settlement,” the
statement read.

Lavrov further said his country is concerned about the fate of
Azerbaijani hostages, noting that Russia takes a serious approach
to the problem and advocates the release of all the hostages on a
mutual exchange.

He recalled a statement made following the Astrakhan meeting of the
presidents of Russia, Azerbaijan and Armenia, according to which the
heads of Azerbaijan and Armenia undertook to create a mechanism that
will allow exchanging hostages and dead bodies, if there are killed.

Lavrov expressed hope that this statement will be taken into account
in the parties’ practical steps along the frontline and in the region.

Armenian special forces killed Azerbaijani citizen Hasan Hasanov
and took hostage Shahbaz Guliyev and DilgamAsgarov in the Shaplar
village of the occupied Kelbajar region on July 11. The civilians
were visiting the graves of their relatives. The Armenians have put
on trial on October 27 the two Azerbaijanis, who were captured in
their native lands by the Armenian separatists.

The bloody war, which flared up in the late 1980s due to Armenia’s
territorial claims against its South Caucasus neighbor, left without
home over a million of civilians of Nagorno-Karabakh and the regions
adjoining it, as well as the regions bordering with Armenia and
Nagorno-Karabakh.

As a result of the military aggression of Armenia, over 20,000
Azerbaijanis were killed, 4,866 are reported missing and almost
100,000 were injured, and 50,000 were disabled.

The UN Security Council has passed four resolutions on Armenian
withdrawal from the Azerbaijani territory, but they have not been
enforced to this day.

ARMENIA ON EURASIAN UNION: BETTER THE “RUSSIAN YOKE” YOU KNOW

EurasiaNet.org
Dec 5 2014

December 5, 2014 – 9:15am, by Giorgi Lomsadze

Armenia has sealed its Russia-deal, cinching its choice of the
Russian-led EU over the EU proper, but is not entirely happy about it.

By a 103-7 vote, the National Assembly on December 4 endorsed Armenia’s
long-expected accession to the Eurasian Union, but even some of the
lawmakers who pressed the yes-button think that it was Armenia’s
unfortunate fate that brought the Caucasus country to this junction.

“It is better to be under the Russian yoke,” reasoned MP Mher Sadrakian
of the ruling Republican Party of Armenia, echoing other lawmakers’
views that alliance with Russia is a necessary evil. “Our people
always have been under a foreign yoke,” Sadrakian went on saying,
RFE/RL reported. “We are used to someone standing above us…

the Persians, the Turks, the Russians… ”

Without Russia, Armenia would not have “conquered” predominantly
ethnic-Armenian Nagorno Karabakh, claimed by Azerbaijan, he continued.

“Without them [the Russians], they will devour us,” Sadrakian said
in reference to Azerbaijan and its longtime ally, Turkey.

Another Republican, Seryan Saroian, offered more transcendental
reasoning, though getting somewhat confused in the process.

“Why are you lamenting us joining the European Union… the
Euronews… I don’t know, Eurasia…Let’s say you eat two more kilos
of sausage, will it change anything?” Saroian was quoted by RFE/RL’s
Armenian service as saying.

Arguing that the deal undercut Armenian sovereignty, protesters had
made their presence known outside parliament, but not imposing enough
to sway the vote. The country’s two largest opposition forces, the
Prosperous Armenia Party and the Armenian National Congress, earlier
had stated that they would not try to derail the Eurasian-Union plans.

The Armenian government says that accession to the Union will ease
access to the Russian market, the main outlet for Armenian goods.

Many observers agree that membership in the Eurasian Union makes
economic sense for Armenia, but they also see potential issues. The
weakening of the Russian economy, now under siege by Western sanctions
over Ukraine, will ripple through Armenia, one observer Karen Kocharian
told Kavkazsky Uzel website. That threat, though, would exist whether
or not Armenia signed on with Russia’s Eurasian Union, he noted.

Other observers spoke of potential pitfalls associated with what could
happen when the South Caucasus becomes a bit of a game of Twister,
with countries’ economic interests going across and around each other.

Neighboring Georgia is going full-speed toward integration with the
European Union, while Azerbaijan remains an economic and political
maverick.

For now, though, Armenia reckons it can contort itself sufficiently
to stay up.

AZERBAIJANI, ARMENIAN FMS DID NOT MEET AS PART OF OSCE MEETING FOR FIRST TIME

Trend, Azerbaijan
Dec 5 2014

By Elchin Huseynov – Trend:

Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Elmar Mamedyarov has not met with
Armenian counterpart Edward Nalbandian as part of the meeting of the
OSCE Ministerial Council, Trend’s special correspondent in Basel said
Dec. 5.

This information was also confirmed by acting spokesman for the
Azerbaijani foreign ministry Hikmet Hajiyev.

However, the ministers have recently met with the OSCE Minsk Group
co-chairmen separately and discussed the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict
settlement.

The conflict between the two South Caucasus countries began in 1988
when Armenia made territorial claims against Azerbaijan.

As a result of the ensuing war, in 1992 Armenian armed forces occupied
20 percent of Azerbaijan, including the Nagorno-Karabakh region and
seven surrounding districts.

The two countries signed a ceasefire agreement in 1994. The co-chairs
of the OSCE Minsk Group, Russia, France and the US are currently
holding peace negotiations.

Armenia has not yet implemented four UN Security Council resolutions
on the liberation of the Nagorno-Karabakh and the surrounding regions.

PETROLE : LA TURQUIE SE REJOUIT DE L’ACCORD ENTRE BAGDAD ET LA REGION AUTONOME DU KURDISTAN

TURQUIE

La Turquie s’est felicitee mercredi d’un accord conclu la veille entre
le gouvernement irakien et la region autonome du Kurdistan pour regler
un long differend sur les exportations petrolières.

“Nous considerons cette reconciliation comme un developpement positif
en ce qui concerne la securite du flux international d’energie et
notre cooperation energetique avec l’Irak” voisin de la Turquie,
a indique un communique du ministère de Affaires etrangères.

L’accord signe mardi a Bagdad prevoit qu’a partir de debut 2015 la
region autonome du Kurdistan va mettre a disposition du gouvernement
federal 250.000 barils de petrole par jour, tandis que 300.000 barils
seront transferes de la province disputee de Kirkouk.

En contrepartie, Bagdad va debloquer la part devolue au gouvernement
regional kurde dans le budget national, qui etait gelee depuis plus
d’un an.

Le differend petrolier empoisonnait depuis un an les relations entre
les parties. En juillet, les autorites kurdes etaient meme allees
jusqu’a annoncer leur volonte de tenir un referendum d’independance.

La Turquie a etabli ces dernières annees des rapports commerciaux
etroits avec la zone kurde irakienne.

vendredi 5 decembre 2014, Stephane (c)armenews.com

LES ETATS-UNIS ET LA RUSSIE APPELLENT BAKOU ET EREVAN A EVITER L’ESCALADE DE LA TENSION AUX FRONTIERES

DIPLOMATIE

Une fois n’est pas coutume en ces temps de guerre froide, les
Etats-unis et la Russie ont uni leurs voix jeudi 4 decembre pour
appeler l’Armenie et l’Azerbaïdjan a mettre tous les moyens en
oeuvre afin d’eviter une escalade de la tension dans le conflit du
Haut-Karabagh et d’engager des negociations en vue d’un accord de paix
“durable” et mutuellement acceptable. Le Secretaire d’Etat americain
John Kerry et le ministre russe des affaires etrangères Sergey Lavrov
ont par ailleurs appele a des “mesures supplementaires en vue de
renforcer le cessez-le-feu” dans la zone du conflit, qui a ete le
theâtre d’un regain de violences au cours des dernières semaines.

Au titre de ces violations du cessez-le-feu, ils ont cite le tir
azeri fatal qui a abattu un helicoptère armenien le 12 novembre
dernier, tuant ses trois occupants dans la region d’Aghdam, a l’est
du Karabagh, et provoquant un brusque regain de tension de part et
d’autre de la ligne de contact et de la frontière armeno-azerie. Dans
une declaration commune qui a ete egalement signee par un diplomate
francais de haut rang, MM. Kerry et Lavrov ont toutefois evite de
rejeter la responsabilite de cet incident sur l’une ou l’autre partie
en conflit, se contentant de denoncer une “tragedie qui aurait pu etre
evitee et qui souligne la necessite des mesures que doivent prendre
les parties en vue de reduire les tensions.” “Nous appelons toutes
les parties a faire preuve de retenue afin d’eviter une escalade
des tensions”, indique notamment le texte de la declaration commune
diffusee a l’issue de leur rencontre en Suisse.

La declaration indique par ailleurs que les presidents armenien
Serge Sarkissian et azeri, Ilham Aliyev, sont tombes d’accord pour
“intensifier” leurs efforts dans la recherche d’un plan de paix
mutuellement acceptable lors de leur dernière rencontre a Paris a la
fin octobre. Ele precise que MM. Sarkissian et Aliyev devraient adopter
un projet d’accord de paix tel qu’il a ete presente par les Etats-unis,
la Russie et la France comme ” base pour un règlement durable”. “Les
negociations sur un accord de paix durable sous l’egide des pays
copresidant [le Groupe de Minsk de l’OSCE] devraient commencer le
plus tôt possible”, poursuit le texte de la declaration.

L’idee de negociations armeno-azeries sur un accord definitif et
durable a ete proposee par Bakou depuis plusieurs annees. La partie
armenienne s’y etait opposee jusqu’a ce jour, estimant que les parties
en conflit devaient au prealable surmonter leurs divergences concernant
les Principe de base d’un règlement du conflit du Karabagh tel qu’ils
avaient ete enonces dans le plan de paix presente par la troïka du
Groupe de Minsk.

vendredi 5 decembre 2014, Gari (c)armenews.com

SENIOR LIEUTENANT CHARGED WITH SHOOTING A SERVICEMEN

12.05.2014 11:57 epress.am

Senior lieutenant H. Ghazaryan was arrested on December 2, on the
charge of inflicting a gunshot wound to 20-year old contract serviceman
Karen Ananyan, reports the Armenian Investigation Committee.

According to the Committee’s official statement, an argument arose
between senior lieutenant H. Ghazaryan and contract serviceman,
private D. Saribekyan in one of the military base’s combat positions.

Ghazaryan released irregular shots with his service gun, consequently
wounding Ananyan in the thigh. Ananyan was transferred to the Ministry
of Defense Central Clinical Soldiers’ Hospital. At the moment, there
is no threat to his life.

Ghazaryan is being charged with assaulting a subordinate with
a firearm.

Note, that yesterday aravot.am had reported that the incident took
place on December 3 and according to the site, Ananyan’s wound was
due to an Azerbaijani attack. Epress.am spoke to Ministry of Defense
Media Spokesperson Artsrun Hovhannisyan who did not wish to comment
on the news of the serviceman’s injury.