Author: Baghdasarian Karlen

ANC AUSTRALIA HONORARY CHAIRMAN MEETS WITH HIS HOLINESS ARAM I

ARMENPRESS
7 June, 2012
YEREVAN

YEREVAN, JUNE 7, ARMENPRESS: Catholicos Aram I received in his
office Greg Soghomonian, the Honorary Chairperson of the Armenian
National Committee of Australia (ANC Australia), Hagop Pakradouni,
the representative of the Armenian Parliamentarians in Lebanon,
and other dignitaries from Australia and Lebanon, reports Armenpress
citing Armenian National Committee of Australia.

After Soghomonian reported on ANC Australia’s plans and activities in
pursuing the Armenian cause in Australia, His Holiness thanked the
Committee and said that he greatly appreciated the concerted effort
of all committees demanding justice from Turkey.

He then informed the delegation of the recent initiatives of the
Catholicosate of Cilicia.

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ERZERUM : SYMPOSIUM NEGATIONNISTE A PROPOS DES RELATIONS TURCO-ARMENIENNES ET LES GRANDES PUISSANCES
Stephane

armenews.com
jeudi 7 juin 2012

Un symposium negationniste a propos des relations turco-armeniennes
et des grandes puissances a ete organise par l’universite Ataturk
d’Erzurum du 2 au 4 mai 2012.

Dans la seance d’ouverture du symposium qui se presentait comme
” international ” sont intervenus le Professeur Erol Kurkcuoglu,
Directeur du Centre de recherches des Relations armeno-turques a
l’universite Ataturk, le Directeur general des Archives d’etat le
Professeur Ugur Unal, le Recteur de l’Universite le professeur Hikmet
Kocak, l’Ambassadeur Reha Keskintepe, Directeur de Recherche et des
Affaires de Securite au Ministère turc des Affaires Etrangères, le
Maire d’Erzurum Ahmet Kucukler et le Gouverneur d’Erzurum Sebahattin
Ozturk. Professeur a l’Universite Bilkent et Professeur invite par
l’Universite Paris Dauphine Orhan Guvenen a fait le discours inaugural.

12 sessions se sont succedees confinant a l’auto-persuasion plutôt
qua la demonstration academique.

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PLUS D’UNE CENTAINE D’AVOCATS FERONT GRèVE LUNDI
Laetitia

armenews.com
jeudi 7 juin 2012

Plus d’une centaine d’avocats ont l’intention de faire grève lundi
11 juin 2012 pour protester contre les ” décisions arbitraires ”
de la Cour de cassation. ” Les citoyens ordinaires ne peuvent pas
comprendre pourquoi un appel est accepté et pourquoi un autre ne
l’est pas. C’est impossible a comprendre ”, a dit un des avocats
qui protestent, Hayk Alumian, a RFE / RL (Azatutyun.am).

La Cour de cassation, qui est l’organe suprême de la justice pénale
et civile en Arménie, a refusé de faire des commentaires sur
â~@~Kâ~@~Kla manifestation prévue de lundi. Un porte-parole a dit
qu’il parlera plus tard cette semaine.La Cour a déja fait face l’an
dernier a des manifestations d’avocats. Le juge Samuel Mnatsakanian
a décrié le manque d’indépendance judiciaire dans le pays après
son limogeage en juillet 2011. Il a affirmé que de nombreux juges
préfèrent se soumettre aux autorités étatiques de haut niveau
plutôt que de faire appliquer les lois.

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ARMENIA PREVENTED GROUP OF SABOTEURS FROM AZERBAIJAN FROM ENTERING ITS TERRITORY

Interfax
June 4 2012
Russia

The Armenian Armed Forces prevented an attempt of a team of Azeri
saboteurs on Monday from infiltrating the republic from the northwest,
Interfax was told at the press service of the Armenian Defense
Ministry.

“On June 4, the Azeri side on the northwestern section of the
Armenian-Azeri border once again crudely violated the ceasefire mode
by trying to reach Armenian combat positions in the direction of
the villages of Berdavan and Chinari in Tavush region. The enemy was
thrown back as a result of due measures taken by Armenian servicemen,”
the Defense Ministry said.

Three Armenian servicemen were killed and several others wounded,
the ministry said.

The military prosecutor of Armenia and a special team of Defense
Ministry investigators drove to the scene.

“The Armenian Armed Forces control the situation on the separation
line and take adequate action,” the ministry said.

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CZECHREP SIGNS AGREEMENT ON COOPERATION WITH ARMENIA

CTK Business News Wire
Czech Rep.

June 4, 2012 Monday 8:06 PM (Central European Time)

Petr Kuzel, president of the Czech Economic Chamber, signed an
agreement on mutual cooperation with his Armenian counterpart Martin
Sargsyan in Yerevan today, Economic Chamber spokeswoman Lenka Vodna
has told CTK.

The agreement should contribute to the development of trade relations
between the Czech Republic and Armenia, Vodna said.

Kuzel was today received in Yerevan by Armenia’s Deputy Minister of
Economy Tigran Harutyunyan.

“The main topics of our discussion were above all the energy industry,
solar energy and investment in infrastructure. We also discussed the
possibilities of investors’ support by the Czech Export Bank, among
other things,” Kuzel said.

All these topics are in line with the Czech Republic’s new export
policy, he said.

Kuzel also met Yerevan mayor Taron Margaryan with whom he talked about
possible contracts for Czech companies with the Armenian capital city,
for example.

“To be more specific, we discussed with Mr. Mayor a supply of new
buses for Yerevan’s public transport, for example, as part of which
the key parameters will be communicated through both the chambers,”
Kuzel said.

Czech exports to Armenia increased almost three times year-on-year to
Kc1.518bn last year from Kc532m in 2010, according to data of the
Czech Statistical Office (CSU).

The main part of the exports was made up of aviation technology which
accounted for almost Kc1bn of the value.

In contrast, the value of Armenian goods imported to the Czech
Republic stagnated at Kc47m in 2011.

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ARMENIA MAINTAINS RESISTANCE TO RUSSIA FOR INTEGRATION WITH WEST

Trend
June 5 2012
Azerbaijan

Armenia maintains resistance to Russia for integration with the West,
head of the Center of Political Innovations and Technologies Mubariz
Ahmedoglu said at a press conference.

He said, during a discussion of integration projects of Russia at the
CIS summit in Moscow, Armenia, considered as a strategic partner of
Russia, stated that it isn’t interested in the integration projects,
proposed by Russia.

“The geographical boundaries had been given as an explanation.

Armenian Prime Minister said the EU is more appropriate space for
Armenia. However, Armenia has no geographical boundaries with the
European Union, and Prime Minister of Armenia can know it. Just by
this resistance Armenia shows Europe how important it is for Armenia
to avoid Russia,” Ahmedoglu said.

He also added that the development of the CSTO is easier than to turn
the CIS into a single integrated space.

The political scientist said Russia is not able to compensate the
economic obligations of the CIS countries to foreign partners.

“At present, deep integration within the CIS may lead to the detriment
of Russia. It can be seen at the South Caucasus. Accidentally or not,
but all three South Caucasian republics have sympathy for the West,”
the head of the center said.

According to him, the sympathy of Georgia to the west runs parallel
with the anti-Russian attitude.

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ARMENIAN PRESIDENT REAPPOINTS NEW MINISTERS OF DEFENSE, FOREIGN AFFAIRS, EMERGENCIES

Vestnik Kavkaza
June 5 2012
Russia

Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan has reappointed Edward Nalbandian
as the Foreign Minister, Seyran Oganyan as the Defense Minister and
Armen Yerytsyan as the Minister for Emergencies, as recommended by
Prime Minister Serzh Sargsyan, News Armenia reports.

The new parliament held its first session on May 31. Tigran Sargsyan
was reappointed as the Prime Minister on June 2. He has 20 days
to form the Cabinet after the appointment. The new Cabinet will be
announced on June 15.

The parliamentary program will be discussed in June.

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U.S. CONCERNED BY AZERI-ARMENIAN TENSIONS

San Mateo Daily Journal

June 5 2012

June 05, 2012, 05:00 AM By Bradley Klapper The Associated Press

YEREVAN, Armenia – Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Monday
kicked off three days of diplomacy in Europe’s Caucasus, expressing
concern about recent clashes between Armenia and Azerbaijan as she
hopes to mediate progress on a slew of trade and territorial disputes.

In the middle of a weeklong European tour, Clinton decried the
“senseless deaths of young soldiers and innocent civilians” as part
of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict – just hours after the latest border
clash. Armenia said three of its soldiers died and five were wounded.

It wasn’t clear if any Azeri soldiers died.

“I am very concerned about the danger of escalation of tensions and the
senseless deaths of young soldiers and innocent civilians,” Clinton
told reporters after a dinner with Armenia’s president and foreign
minister. “The use of force will not resolve the Nagorno-Karabakh
conflict,” she said, urging the sides to refrain from violence.

The border clash underscored the instability of a region with
long-simmering problems and surrounded by powerful neighbors Russia,
Turkey and Iran. She left Armenia Monday night for neighboring Georgia,
looking to strengthen security ties with a stalwart U.S. ally that
was crushed in its 2008 war against Russia and hopes to regain control
over two lost provinces. She visits Azerbaijan Wednesday.

Warning that Azeri-Armenian tensions could escalate into a broader
conflict with terrible consequences, she said the U.S. would continue
to press with France, Russia and others on mediation efforts.

The mountainous Nagorno-Karabakh enclave is within ex-Soviet
Azerbaijan, but was taken over by Armenia during a six-year separatist
war that killed about 30,000 people and displaced 1 million. Since
the war’s end in 1994, it has remained under the control of Armenian
troops and ethnic Armenian forces.

Violations of the cease-fire have been frequent, and diplomatic efforts
to solve the conflict have failed. The U.S. hopes that at the least
Armenia and Azerbaijan can agree to a set of basic principles that
might lead toward peace. These include the return of territories
and uprooted people to their homes, and an eventual vote on the
area’s future.

Washington also wants to normalize relations between Armenia and
Turkey, whose enmity reflects the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict and the
Ottoman Empire-era killing of some 1.5 million Armenians.

The Obama administration has tried hard to help Armenia improve its
economy, not least as a nod to the influential Armenian-American
community, which is particularly strong in the Los Angeles area.

Clinton, making her second trip to the region as secretary of state,
helped Armenia and Turkey reach an agreement in 2009 that would have
opened up their borders and normalized relations.

But the deal stalled back as Turkey’s parliament refused to ratify it.

“The ball remains in Turkey’s court,” Clinton lamented.

Armenia’s problems are compounded by its geography. Cut off from trade
with its booming neighbor Azerbaijan on one side and Azerbaijan’s ally
Turkey on the other, it must conduct all its international commerce
through Georgia and Russia to the north. It is heavily dependent on
Moscow for fuel.

In Georgia, Clinton will underscore America’s commitment to its
pro-Western partner’s defense and its hope of regaining control of
breakaway South Ossetia and Abkhazia. Both declared independence
after Russian troops routed the Georgian military over five days of
fighting. Few governments beside Moscow have recognized them.

In Azerbaijan, America’s top diplomat will continue efforts toward a
breakthrough in the Nagorno-Karabakh region, while addressing democracy
and media freedom shortcomings. But she’ll also underline oil-rich
Azerbaijan’s close cooperation with the U.S. on counterterrorism
and its booming economy, which has expanded fourfold since 2004,
attending an energy industry gathering in the capital of Baku to
promote American companies and future investments.

She will likely speak to officials as well about Azerbaijan’s southern
neighbor, Iran.

Azerbaijan has arrested dozens of people it claims were hired by the
Islamic republic to carry out attacks against the U.S. and Israeli
embassies, as well as Western-linked groups and companies.

Associated Press writer Avet Demuryan contributed to this report.

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LA COMMUNAUTE INTERNATIONALE DOIT CONDAMNER L’AZERBAIDJAN
Ara

armenews.com
mercredi 6 juin 2012

La communaute internationale doit condamner l’Azerbaïdjan pour la mort
de 3 soldats armeniens et ses attaques contre le territoire armenien

Le CCAF condamne fermement l’Azerbaïdjan pour sa responsabilite dans
la mort de trois soldats armeniens lors d’une operation de diversion
qui s’est deroulee dans la nuit du 3 au 4 juin, dans le village de
Chinari, au nord-est de la Republique d’Armenie. Un jour après, les
troupes azerbaïdjanaises ont lance dans la meme zone une nouvelle
operation qui s’est soldee par la mort de 5 soldats azerbaïdjanais.

Depuis un certain temps, Bakou multiplie les provocations sur la
ligne de front avec la Republique du Haut-Karabakh et la Republique
d’Armenie, menacant la vie des populations et la paix regionale.

Bakou lance toujours ses operations avant ou après un evenement
important ou la visite d’une personnalite dans la region, comme
l’atteste cette fois-ci la tournee dans le Caucase du Sud de Hillary
Clinton, secretaire d’Etat americain, du 4 au 6 juin.

Ces attaques orchestrees par les plus hautes autorites de l’Etat
azerbaïdjanais sont une insulte a l’adresse des Etats-Unis, de la
France et de la Russie, ces trois pays qui co-president le Groupe
de Minsk de l’OSCE charge de regler la question du Haut-Karabakh. La
strategie belliqueuse de Bakou contredit la signature de son propre
president dictateur, Ilham Aliev au bas de documents officiels en
faveur du non-usage de la force pour resoudre ce conflit. Cette
strategie du double langage viole egalement les efforts du Groupe de
Minsk en vue d’etablir une confiance entre les protagonistes et en
faveur de la paix et de la securite dans la region.

Le CCAF profite de la prochaine visite des ministres des affaires
etrangères armenien et azerbaïdjanais annoncee pour le 18 juin a
Paris, sous l’egide du Groupe de Minsk, pour rappeler que la communaute
internationale ne peut plus se contenter de rejeter dos a dos Armeniens
et Azerbaïdjanais lors de la moindre violation du cessez-le-feu alors
que nul n’ignore la responsabilite de l’Azerbaïdjan dans l’usage
de la violence. Bakou ne s’en cache plus et veut avec le soutien de
son allie, la Turquie, torpiller le processus de paix. La communaute
internationale doit donc fermement condamner l’Etat azerbaïdjanais.

L’unite du Groupe de Minsk est une obligation ; sa fermete, une
coherence pour le bon deroulement des negociations garanti par le
règlement pacifique du conflit, seule option valable pour la stabilite
et la paix regionale fondee sur le droit a l’autodetermination.

L’independance de la Republique du Haut-Karabakh doit etre reconnue.

C’est le seul moyen de garantir la securite de sa population.

Le Conseil National du CCAF

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VACHE TERTERYAN ATTENDS CONFERENCE ON EUROPEAN NEIGHBOURHOOD PROGRAMME FOR AGRICULTURE AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT

ARMENPRESS
5 June, 2012
YEREVAN

YEREVAN, JUNE 5, ARMENPRESS: Senior agriculture officials from European
Neighbourhood countries met on 31 May and 1 June in Brussels to
discuss the strategic modernisation of the agricultural sector in their
countries at a Conference on the European Neighbourhood Programme for
Agriculture and Rural Development (ENPARD). First Deputy Minister of
Territorial Administration Vache Terteryan attended the conference as
well, Armenia’s Ministry of Territorial Administration told Armenpress.

ENPARD is a new policy initiative, part of the EU’s commitment to
inclusive growth and stability in its Neighbourhood, which recognises
the potential importance of agriculture in terms of food security,
sustainable production and rural employment.

As the key ENPARD event in the year 2012, the conference will be
opened jointly by Commissioner Dacian CioloÅ~_ (Agriculture and Rural
Development) and Commissioner tefan Fule (Enlargement and European
neighbourhood Policy).

The objective of the conference is to present the Programme’s vision
and approach to high level officials in charge of agriculture,
rural development and international cooperation from all European
Neighbourhood Policy partner countries South and East of Europe.

It will also provide the opportunity for participants to have in-depth
discussions on how the Programme can best respond to the difficulties
of agriculture and rural areas in their countries. Participants will
hear from the experiences in the EU-12 in modernizing agriculture and
rural areas, through the presentation of lessons learnt under SAPARD
and IPARD programmes, which yielded significant results during the
pre-accession phase.

Within the visit Vache Terteryan met with Pascal Georgen,
newly-appointed Secretary General of the Assembly of European Regions
(AER). Issues on bilateral cooperation were mostly discussed.

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