Author: Boshkezenian Garik

OSCE CHAIRMAN-IN-OFFICE TO DISCUSS PROCESS OF PEACEFUL REGULATION OF NAGORNO-KARABAKH CONFLICT IN SOUTH CAUCASUS

Trend News Agency, Azerbaijan
June 1 2007

Azerbaijan, Baku / corr. Trend A.Gasimova / The OSCE
Chairman-in-Office, Miguel Angel Moratinos, intends to discuss the
process of peaceful regulation of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict in the
region of the South Caucasus. The OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Spanish
Foreign Minister, Miguel Angel Moratinos, will visit Azerbaijan and
Yerevan on 4-5 June, Spanish Foreign Ministry’s representative for
Caucasus, Gudman Palassio, informed on 1 June.

In 2007 Spain chairs the Organization for Security and Co-operation in
Europe. According to Palassio, as Moratinos is OSCE Chairman-in-Office,
he decided to visit Azerbaijan and Armenia and therefore, 90% of the
negotiations will take place within OSCE and 10% within bilateral
relations between Azerbaijan and Spain.

Moratinos will arrive in Baku in the evening of 4 June and held talks
with Azerbaijan’s President, Ilham Aliyev and Foreign Minister, Elmar
Mammadyarov. In the morning of 5 June, Moratinos will meet with the
Head of the Azerbaijani Community of Nagorno-Karabakh, Nazim Bahmanov
and representatives of the political parties of Azerbaijan. After
the meetings, Moratinos will leave for Yerevan to hold meetings with
Armenia’s President, Robert Kocharyan, Prime Minister, Serj Sarksyan,
Foreign Minister, Vardan Oskanyan, as well as with the "President"
of the self-declared Nagorno-Karabakh Republic, Arkady Kukasyan and
other representatives of Armenian political parties.

Moratinos will return to Madrid in the evening of 5 June.

The conflict between the two countries of the South Caucasus appeared
in 1988 due to the territorial claims of Armenia against Azerbaijan.

Armenia has occupied 20% of the Azerbaijani lands including the
Nagorno-Karabakh region and seven districts of the country surrounding
it. From 1992 to the present time, these territories have been under
the occupation of the Armenian Forces. In 1994, Azerbaijan and Armenia
signed a cease-fire agreement at which time the active hostilities
ended. The Co-Chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group ( Russia, France and USA)
are holding peaceful negotiations.

U.S. OFFICIAL CITES PROGRESS IN ARMENIA-AZERBAIJAN TALKS OVER KARABAKH

ARMENPRESS
Jun 01 2007

WASHINGTON, JUNE 1, ARMENPRESS: After more than a decade of efforts
by international mediators to broker a deal on the territory of
Nagorno-Karabakh, the Azerbaijani and Armenian presidents are
close to solving most remaining obstacles to an agreement on basic
principles, Matthew Bryza, U.S. deputy assistant secretary of state
and a cochairman in the OSCE Minsk group was quoted by news agencies
as saying.

President Ilham Aliyev of Azerbaijan and Armenian President Robert
Kocharian are expected to focus on the sticking points during talks
in St. Petersburg, Russia, on June 9.

"If the St. Petersburg meeting is successful, then the number of
differences remaining on basic principles could be reduced to close
to zero," Bryza told The Associated Press.

"The leadership of Armenia and Azerbaijan should be lauded for their
courage in trying to bring stability and prosperity to their peoples,"
he said.

In a related news an Azerbaijani parliament member said the June 9
meeting of presidents of Armenia and Azerbaijan may become a crucial
one for resolution of the long-running Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.

Aidin Mirzazade, who is also a political analyst, said both presidents
have good chances to narrow their differences over a settlement option.

"If their approaches towards the solution go on with the same pace and
tempo, we shall see very soon a draft peace agreement and societies
in both countries will be able to discuss it," he was quoted by
Azerbaijani Trend news agency as saying.

He was also quoted as saying that the latest developments give ample
grounds for saying that the final agreement is within sight.

HEARINGS ON CLAIM OF FOUR OPPOSITIONAL PARTIES, DISPUTING RESULTS OF MAY 12 PARLIAMENTARY ELECTION, HAVE STARTED IN RA CONSTITUTIONAL COURT

ArmInfo
2007-06-01 16:22:00

Hearings on the claim of four oppositional parties, the "New Times",
"Republic", "Orinats Yerkir" and "Impeachment" bloc, which dispute
the results of May 12 parliamentary election, have started in RA
Constitutional Court.

As Head of CC Gagik Haroutyunyan said, the joint claim is unprecedented
by its scale and exceeds 4,000 pages. The defendant’s party,
represented by Justice Minister David Haroutyunyan, deputy Head of
Police Ararat Makhtesyan, Head of CEC Garegin Azaryan, CEC lawyer
Nune Hovhannissyan, is also unprecedentedly representative. There
were so many people wishing to participate at the session that the
staff of CC even prepared special tickets with places indicated. In
the beginning of the session, the lawyer of CEC N. Hovhannissyan
presented a petition to dismiss the claim since representatives of
the "Impeachment" bloc, editor of the "Haikakan Zhamanak" newspaper
N. Pashinyan and a journalist of the same newspaper cannot represent
the bloc as they have no juridical education. The Head of CC responded
that they represent not themselves but a political force. However, N.
Hovhannissyan insisted on consideration of the petition, in view of
which the session was interrupted not for long. After a short break,
the CC dismissed the petition and the hearings have started.

To note, security measures have been intensified in CC building and
around it.

CEC’S RESPONSE TO HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVIST TO MR. VOSKANYAN, CHAIR OF CIVIC ACTION CENTER NGO
Sergey Nasibyan

chair NKR Central Electoral Commission
KarabakhOpen
01-06-2007 18:49:09

Considering the NKR presidential election as an important stage in
the establishment of the state of NKR and development of democracy,
the NKR Central Electoral Commission performs all the activities
necessary for the preparation and conduct of the presidential election
provided for by the NKR Electoral Code, providing a public process.

According to the April 11, 2007 Decision 29/102 of the NKR Central
Electoral Commission, the head of the NKR police department of the
city or region where the citizen is registered issues a reference
to the citizen named NKR president that the person has lived in
Nagorno-Karabakh Republic over the past ten years.

Since all the five citizens named president are residents of
Stepanakert, the police department of Stepanakert discussed and issued
the abovementioned reference in the appointed period of time.

As to the "description" and "conclusions" of the head of the Civic
Action Center NGO Albert Voskanyan alleging with the air of universal
truth that Bako Sahakyan has not lived in Nagorno-Karabakh Republic
over the past 10 years, and the "evaluations" of the decision on
registration of the NKR presidential candidates to be made by the NKR
CEC, we would like to advise this NGO to mind the objectives set in
its regulations, to disturb to read through the NKR legislation on
the passport system and not to interfere with the activities of the
NKR Central Electoral Commission, an independent government body,
and outline the decisions to be adopted by the CEC.

The NKR Central Electoral Commission will continue to perform its
duties and functions in accordance with the Electoral Code, will
continue to discuss and make a decision on the registration of the
presidential candidates from May 30 to June 19, 2007 and inform
the public.

ARTEM MIKOYAN WAS A PERSON OF EXCLUSIVE TALENT AND EXCLUSIVE MODESTY, MIKOYAN’S GRANDSON REMEMBERS

Noyan Tapan
Jun 01 2007

YEREVAN, JUNE 1, NOYAN TAPAN. In the opinion of the grandson of one
of the most renowned specialists in aircraft designing in the 20th
century, Artem Mikoyan, the Armenian people has full right to be
proud of the activity of its great son. Businessman Sergei Mikoyan,
who is the son of A. Mikoyan’s daughter, resides in Moscow, but, in
his words, he strives for visiting Armenia as soon as possible. At
the June 1 meeting with journalists he said that he remembers his
childhood with love, when Russian Armenian artists, public figures
gathered at their place. A. Mikoyan, as his grandson witnessed,
was a person of exclusive talent and exclusive modesty.

In S. Mikoyan’s words, in the opinion of many modern specialists, the
aircraft designer as early as many decades ago authored such projects,
at creation of which anothers are just beginning to work. "Suffice it
to say that the first jet-propelled aircraft in the USSR was created
by Artem Mikoyan," Sergei reminded.

He added that though in the recent years, in the 1990-s, some changes
of attitude towards Armenians happened in the Russian environment,
nevertheless, people perceive him and his relatives first if all as
representatives of Mokoyan family and only then as Armenians. As
S. Mikoyan evaluated, in all times in Russia they treated Armenia
better than another Caucasian countries.

NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF PUBLISHERS OF ARMENIA PARTICIPATES IN INTERNATIONAL FAIR-EXHIBITION OF BOOK IN SALONIKA

Noyan Tapan
May 30 2007

YEREVAN, MAY 30, NOYAN TAPAN. The National Association of Publishers
of Armenia (NAP) participated on May 16-21 at the 4th International
Fair-Exhibition of Book being held in the city of Salonika, Greece. As
Vahan Khachatrian, the Chairman of the association informed the
Noyan Tapan correspondent, literary-fiction, popular scientific,
children’s and educational publishing product of about 200 titles of
50 Armenian publishing houses were presented in a separate pavilion
at the exhibition. In his words, books printed by the Edit-Print
publishing house are also presented in a separate pavilion. About
150 publishing houses from Greece as well as publishing houses of 30
European countries participated in the exhibition.

V. Khachatrian mentioned that the invitation to participate in the
exhibition was got from the Ministry of Culture of Greece and by the
Directorate of the International Fair-Exhibition of Salonika, and
representatives of the Armenian community of Greece, particularly,
Karapet and Anahit Galfayans assisted the Armenian publishers.

Armenian publishers met with representatives of the Armenian community
of Salonika and Athens, gave education books to local Armenian
seminaries and to the library built attached to the Armenian church
of Salonika. An agreement was reached with the Embassy of Armenia
to Greece that an exhibition of books published in Armenia will be
organized in Athens as well, starting from the next year.

The NAP Chairman also mentioned that Armenian publishers will this
year participate in exhibitions of book to be held in Moscow, Saint
Petersburg and Frankfurt as well. And on the initiative of the Ministry
of Culture and Youth Issues of Armenia, a seminar under the slogan
"Translation as Crossroads of Cultures" will be for the first time
organized in Yerevan in October, with participation of publishers
of the CIS countries. An exhibition of book will also be organized
within the framework of the seminar.

‘HEROES OF THE EUROPEAN FAIRY TALES’ EXHIBITION OPENS IN YEREVAN

ArmInfo News Agency
2007-05-30 12:19:00

An exhibition "Heroes of the European Fairy Tales" will be held on
May 30 at 15:00 at the Children’s Art Gallery of the National Centre
of Aesthetics, the Delegation of the European Commission to Armenia
told ArmInfo.

The exhibition is dedicated to the 50th Anniversary of the Treaty of
Rome, and is organized by the Delegation of the European Commission to
Armenia and the National Centre of Aesthetics. Opening speeches will
be made by Mr. Raul de Luzenberger, Charge d’Affaires of Delegation
of the European Commission to Armenia, Mr. Armen Baibourtyan, Deputy
Foreign Minister of Armenia and Mr. Gagik Gyurjyan, Deputy Minister
of culture, Sport and Youth Affairs of Armenia.

Schoolchildren not only from Yerevan, but also from other marzes of
Armenia are participating in the exhibition. They have been selected
by the National Centre of Aesthetics from the different branches
of the Centre, thus representing Gyumri, Vanadzor, Goris, Sevan and
Nerqin Getashen.

Certificates will be given to all the participants (more than two
hundred), which will be handed over to their teachers (eleven).

Different works under the mentioned title will be exhibited during
the exhibition (more than two hundred), namely paintings, batik,
as well as ceramics.

YEREVAN’S PYUNIK WINS JUBILEE, 10th TOURNAMENT OF HAKOB TONOYAN SUPERTOURNAMENT

Noyan Tapan
May 29 2007

YEREVAN, MAY 29, NOYAN TAPAN. Jubilee, 10th tournament of Hakob Tonoyan
Supercup finished on May 27 at the Republican sports ground. Pyunik
and Mika competed for the supercup. Additional time of 30 minutes was
given according to the contest rules. Pyunik won with the score of 2
to 1 and received the supercup. Pyunik captain Sargis Hovsepian was
given the supersup by Hakob Tonoyan’s grandson, Arsen Tonoyan.

DEVEDJIAN : L’UMP DOIT "GAGNER FORTEMENT" LES ELECTIONS LEGISLATIVES

Agence France Presse
24 mai 2007 jeudi 6:46 AM GMT

Patrick Devedjian, secretaire general delegue de l’UMP, a souhaite
jeudi que la majorite presidentielle "gagne fortement les elections
legislatives" et obtienne "la majorite absolue" a l’Assemblee
nationale.

"Il s’agit de gagner les elections legislatives et de les gagner
fortement", a-t-il dit sur France 2, en pointant "le risque" d’une
moindre participation aux scrutins des 10 et 17 juin après des taux
records a la presidentielle.

"On a besoin d’une majorite très forte parce que nous avons un
programme audacieux", "un projet de rupture", a souligne M. Devedjian.

Le depute des Hauts-de-Seine a reconnu que "cela lui aurait plus
d’entrer au gouvernement". "Mais la responsabilite de l’UMP, meme
une responsabilite partagee, cela occupe son homme", a-t-il ajoute.

Patrick Devedjian est aussi candidat a la presidence du conseil
general des Hauts-de-Seine, que vient de quitter Nicolas Sarkozy.

Interroge sur le fait que Francois Hollande ne briguerait pas un
nouveau mandat de premier secretaire du PS, M. Devedjian a indique
qu’"après un tel echec, (il) comprenait qu’il s’en aille".

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Pyunik clinch Supercup win
Sunday, 27 May 2007
League champions FC Pyunik claimed their fourth
Armenia Supercup title by defeating FC MIKA 2-1 after
extra time.

Sahakyan breakthrough
After a goalless 90 minutes, Pyunik captain Sargis
Hovsepyan finally created the opener as he broke
through and crossed for Norajr Sahakyan to head in on
104 minutes. Pyunik refused to sit back on their lead
and Gevorg Kazaryan was rewarded when he earned and
converted a free-kick with two minutes left on the
clock. MIKA pulled one back through Artyom Adamyan,
not enough to prevent them losing the Supercup for the
third time in their history.

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