Author: Emil Lazarian

Public Radio, Armenia
Nov 11 2006
RA Parliamentary delegation leaving for Saint Petersburg
11.11.2006 12:20
November 14 the delegation headed by Chairman of RA National Assembly
Tigran Torosyan will leave for Saint Petersburg to participate in the
27th plenary session of the CIS Interparliamentary Assembly. The
delegation comprises member of the Standing Committee on Social
Policy and Human Rights of the CIS Interparliamentary Assembly
Hermine Naghdalyan, President of the CIS Interparliamentary
Assembly’s Economy and Finance Committee Gagik Minasyan, member of
the Standing Committee on International Cooperation and Political
Issues of the CIS Interparliamentary Assembly Grigor Ghonjyan.
In the framework of the 27th plenary session on November 17
conference on `Improvement of cooperation of CIS member states to
counter current security challenges and threats’ will be held in
Saint Petersburg.
The meeting of the Caucasian four, featuring Parliament Speakers of
Armenia, Georgia, Russia and Azerbaijan is scheduled November 16.
November 17 NA Chairman Tigran Torosyan will leave Saint Petersburg
for San Marino to participate in the sitting of PACE Standing
Committee, where the question of affirming the stability pact for the
South Caucasus will be discussed.
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ArmInfo News Agency, Armenia
Nov 10 2006
CONSTRUCTION OF THIRD HIGH-VOLTAGE TRANSMISSION LINE, CONNECTING
POWER SYSTEMS OF ARMENIA AND IRAN, TO START IN BEGINNING, 2007
It is scheduled that construction of the third high-voltage
transmission line (PTL), which connects the power systems of Armenia
and Iran, will start in the beginning, 2007, RA deputy Energy
Minister, Ara Simonyan, told ArmInfo correspondent.
According to him, a credit Agreement is signed between Armenia and
Iran as of today, as well as a Contractor Agreement. The total amount
of the third PTL construction will make up about 65 mln EURO with
15%-share of Armenia’s co- financing . To note, the Principal of the
third PTL construction is the “High-Voltage Transmission Lines”
Armenian CJSC and the Contractor is the “Sanir” Iranian Company. It
is scheduled that the extension of the third two-chain PTL through
armenia’s territory will make up 300 km and 100 km – through the
territory of Iran. Its transfer capacity will make up 400 MW with
voltage of 220 kV in the RA territory and 230 kV in the Iranian
territory. A Memorandum had been signed in Yerevan on February 12,
2004, on construction of the third power transmission line between
Iran and Armenia. The Energy Minister of Iran, Habibolla Bitaragf,
had informed the journalists then that the construction of three PTL
is called to assure power flows between Iran and Armenia, exchange of
the Armenian power energy by the Iranian gas, as well as repayment
for the rendered engineering-technical services and electric
equipment of Iran by power energy. Two PTL with capacity of 200 MW
each connect Iran and Armenia at present. After construction of the
third line, the transfer capacity between the countries will rise to
800 MW.
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Public Radio, Armenia
Nov 11 2006
Richard Giragosian: Democrats may prioritize issues other than the
Armenian Genocide
11.11.2006 12:11
Marlena Hovsepyan
“Radiolur”
`US elections can give new quality to Armenian-American relations, as
well as to the US policy in the region and Iraq,’ famous
American-Armenian political analyst Richard Giragosian said in an
interview with `Radiolur.’ The most important for Armenia is that
Democrats having pro-Armenian position comprise majority.
`The Party which is more close to Armenians has become more powerful,
Democrats are prevailing in the Congress, and now the competition
should launch with Bush, the Republican Party and the White House,
the expert said.
According to his prediction, after the elections the Democrats,
particularly the Armenian Issue supporter, will get more active.
After these elections Armenians have the opportunity to reinforce the
Armenian-American relations: `This is one more window for the
Armenian Genocide recognition.’
According to the analyst, Turkish-American relations are surviving
the worst period because of the war in Iraq and the Kurdish issue.
For the first time in US history military relations are worse than
the political ones.
New House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is known for her pro-Armenian
position. Can we anticipate that the newly elected Senate might
recognize the Armenian Genocide? `Speaker Pelosi’s past is really
associated with the Armenian Genocide recognition, she is really
famous for her pro-Armenian position. But the US policy has more
important questions in the outlook – Iraq, Afghanistan, domestic
issues, economic questions, etc. `I’m afraid they will not attach
that much attention to Armenian issues, considering other challenges
more important,’ Richard Giragosian responded. Nevertheless, if the
Congress undertakes a pro-Armenian step and recognize the Armenian
Genocide, the White House can just veto the bill.
Is it possible that after the elections the Department of State will
decide to recall the newly appointed Ambassador to Armenia Richard
Hoagland? `The White House will continue backing Hoagland’s candidacy
not to yield to the victory of Democrats and the pressure of the
Armenian lobby,’ Richard Giragosyan says.
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The Calgary Herald (Alberta)
November 10, 2006 Friday
Final Edition
Ancestral ties of the Great War
by John Weissenberger and George Koch, For The Calgary Herald
When tomorrow we remember the sacrifice in Canada’s wars, the names
Vimy Ridge, Ypres and Passchendaele will be mentioned.
The slaughter of the now almost century-past Great War still evokes
emotion — the muddy trenches that served to fill fields with tight
rows of white headstones or grim ossuaries holding anonymous fallen.
Many Canadians have family ties to the young men who fought and died
there.
The family stories passed around in Canadian homes may not all have
to do with Flanders fields, however. For the conflict was the First
World War. If you lost an ancestor, it could well have happened in an
even more distant land.
If you’re of east Asian origin, you may have ancestors among the more
than one million British Indian troops who fought. These colonial
soldiers were sent to the Middle East, to Africa and to the Western
Front. More than 40,000 were killed, to Canada’s 57,000.
In contrast to the relentless, industrial-scale slaughter in Europe,
the exotic East Africa campaign fascinated audiences. The British
used thousands of Indian troops to chase the small but resourceful
German force, made up largely of locals. Fighting continued until the
Germans received belated word of the Armistice from an English
prisoner.
When the Ottoman Empire (now Turkey) entered the war as a German
ally, it triggered almost four years of fighting ranging from the
Suez Canal to Britain’s conquest of Jerusalem. A similar campaign
took place in Mesopotamia — now Iraq. Canadians of Middle Eastern
origin may have had family fighting with or against the Turks.
The Turks suffered 250,000 killed in the war, while inflicting
massive casualties on others, including Armenians. A few years ago, a
Canadian filmmaker chronicled aspects of the Armenian genocide in the
film Ararat.
Numerous Canadians likely have ancestors among the almost 700,000
Italian dead of the Great War. This figure is 40,000 greater than
Britain’s losses, which ripped the guts out of a whole generation of
young men. Most of the Italians were slaughtered in 12 battles along
the Isonzo River, near today’s border with Slovenia.
Italy also saw some of the only alpine fighting in the war, with
barbed war strung along precipitous rock ridges and huge bunker
networks carved into glaciers. The Austrians once blasted away an
entire mountainside, collapsing it onto the Italian trenches.
Glaciers to this day disgorge detritus from the war, plus the
occasional body.
Michael Ignatieff’s grandfather was the Russian czar’s minister of
education, concerned about the fate of a different “nation.” The
Russian “steamroller” was meant to crush the Germans and
Austro-Hungarians but, after more than two years of war and almost
1.5 million men killed, the czar’s empire was sliding toward
revolution. Inadequate equipment, primitive logistics and clumsy
leadership sealed her fate.
One of our grandfathers, as an Austrian infantryman, tried his best
to speed the demise of Ignatieff the elder’s regime. His story
reflects the complexity of eastern Europe’s ethnic mix. Some members
of the multi-national Austro-Hungarian Empire were less than enthused
about getting killed for the Habsburg emperor. German-speaking
regiments were interspersed along the front to shore up their less
enthusiastic comrades.
During the Russian attack on Lutsk in Ukraine in 1916, the Czech
regiments on either side of grandfather W.’s position gladly threw
down their arms and crossed over. Instead of receiving a bayonet to
the midriff, grandpa W. spent 18 leisurely months in pleasant
captivity in the Caucasus, making his way home during Russia’s
revolution. Meanwhile, the Czechs were formed into a kind of foreign
legion and dragged into the Russian civil war. Scores of idealistic
Bohemians perished in the wastes of Siberia fighting Trotsky’s Red
Army.
If your family is Serb or Romanian, your relatives might have fought
“alongside” Canada in distant corners of the war. But if you’re
Polish or Ukrainian, they could as easily have been fighting with
Canada’s past enemy, or even on both sides of the conflict.
Nor did the Armistice of Nov. 11, 1918, truly stop the war.
Brutal ethnic cleansing of minority Greeks and Turks in each obverse
country occurred years later, ending only after a huge population
swap. There are probably Canadians whose ancestors were among them.
As we admire the newly restored Canadian memorial at Vimy, we are
reminded of those who paid with their lives in battles that helped
forge our nation. We should also remember those with nothing to mark
their final resting place — in the wilds of Africa, the wastes of
Iraq or the forests of Siberia.
John Weissenberger is a Calgary geologist. George Koch is a Calgary
writer. More of their writing can be read at the weblog: drjandmrk.com
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The Business Times, Singapore
November 10, 2006 Friday
Odds stacked against Turkey joining EU
Shada Islam, Brussels Correspondent
IT’S crunch time for relations between Turkey and the European Union
(EU). Ankara opened membership talks with the EU last year but the
past few months have seen a rise in tension between the two sides
over an array of issues, including Turkey’s troubled relationship
with Cyprus.
The mood has soured. In the latest blow, the European Commission
threatened to recommend freezing entry talks unless Turkey opens its
ports and airports to EU member Cyprus by mid-December.
The outlook is not good. Tempers are fraying on both sides. Leading
EU officials have warned Ankara repeatedly in recent months to speed
up political reforms or face a ‘train crash’ which could fatally
derail the 12-month-old membership talks.
Turkish leaders, on their part, are accusing the Europeans of being
impatient, making excessive demands and constantly moving the goal
posts. Many have warned that the EU stance – with many politicians in
Europe openly opposing Turkish accession to the EU – is turning
ordinary Turks against EU entry.
The current difficulties centre on Ankara’s slow progress in
reforming its political structures. But many in Europe continue to
insist that Turkey as a Muslim nation – albeit with a secular
Constitution – has no place within a largely Christian club.
The suspicion that religion, rather than politics, is the key
obstacle to Ankara’s EU membership bid also persists in Turkey and
other countries in the Muslim world. Officials in Brussels insist,
however, that religion is not the issue. With Turkey under EU
pressure to open its ports and airports to Greek Cypriot vessels,
Ankara argues that the EU must first agree to end the economic
isolation of the poor, northern Turkish part of the divided island of
Cyprus.
After months of sterile argument, Finland as the current EU
president, has started work on a plan under which the EU would end
its current economic boycott of Turkish Cypriots in exchange for a
commitment by Turkey to allow Greek Cypriot vessels to access its
harbours. The Finnish initiative has won praise from Turkish Foreign
Minister Abdullah Gul but reaction from Greek Cypriot President
Tassos Papadopoulos has been less supportive.
A key problem for Turkey is that apart from Britain, it has few
friends in Europe. Most other countries, including heavyweights
France and Germany, remain lukewarm on Turkey’s EU entry, with many
politicians in both countries saying Ankara should be offered a
‘special relationship’ instead of membership. Spotlighting increasing
French hostility towards Turkish accession, the French Parliament
last month passed a law declaring that anyone who denies that the
mass murder of Armenians in eastern Turkey in 1915-1917 was genocide
will face a year in prison.
EU commissioner for enlargement Olli Rehn has cautioned European
politicians against talking tough on Turkey’s membership.
‘This weakens our credibility and the strength of the reforms in
Turkey, and through this we shoot ourselves in the foot,’ Mr Rehn
said recently. ‘It is much better to be fair but firm. Fair in
keeping our word and commitments in terms of Turkey’s membership
goal, but meantime firmly demanding reforms and fulfilment of the
membership criteria,’ he said.
Few are listening, however. As a result, Turkey-EU relations face an
uncertain future. The speculation in Brussels is that faced with the
commission’s damning assessment of Ankara’s failure to meet many of
the EU’s requirements, the bloc’s governments will decide to suspend
current accession negotiations. While Islam’s role in curbing EU
enthusiasm for Turkey cannot be ruled out, it is also true that most
EU governments are suffering from a bad case of ‘enlargement
fatigue’.
>From January next year, Romania and Bulgaria will be full-fledged EU
members. Negotiations are also under way with Croatia while Macedonia
has been acknowledged as a future member. Further down the road, all
western Balkan states are waiting to join – and the queue may one day
also include Ukraine and Georgia. New applicants therefore face tough
tests ahead. With the mood definitely not expansion-friendly, EU
policymakers are cautioning that more members will only be allowed
into the bloc if the EU can ‘absorb’ newcomers without undergoing
financial and institutional strain.
Turkey’s only hope is that at least some thoughtful EU leaders
attending an EU summit in December will argue that a decision to
suspend Ankara’s accession talks will send a grim message to
reformists in Turkey.
To make an even more compelling case, they must also argue that a
freeze in EU relations with Turkey will further strain Europe’s
already difficult ties with other Islamic countries.
And signal worldwide that the EU is closed to membership of Muslim
nations.r
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Radikal, Turkey
Nov 7 2006
Translated from Turkish {KMP}

`Before challenging check it’
Murat Belge
When our Prime Minister speaks, he speaks tough. He sounds very self-
confident. This might be ok. But there is a concept called
philosophical doubt which implies that strong declarations need to be
avoided.
Upon being challenged by an Armenian journalist last week, our
Premier boasted saying, `I am challenging…’. What is the challenge?
The current `archives question’. Prime Minister Erdogan said, ‘We
have made our state archives public; you Armenians should also make
yours public. All archives around the world should be accessible to
judge whether the Genocide happened or not.’
As long as I know the Armenians do not reject this. They are also
asking, `Is the Genocide issue so much unknown that we will be able
to discover it now?’
Anyhow, it is not important what the Armenians are saying. It is much
more important and meaningful what we say.
More than a year ago (17 August, 2005), in Turkey, Mr. Nihat Sahin,
the Assistant Director of The Land Registry Office sent a letter to
the National Security Counsel. In this letter, he asked for advice
regarding the question of all property-registration books, whether or
not these documents should be sent to the administration of the State
Archives. At the time, there was an ongoing program called TABIS to
update and digitalize the old registry of real property.
The Brigadier General of the National Security Counsel, Mr. Tayyar
Elmas, replied to this with a letter. We learn from the daily
Hurriyet that he is the chief of the Department of Mobilisation and
War Planning. He wrote in his letter:’ The contents of the
above-mentioned registry books dated from the Ottoman era are liable
to ethnic and political manipulations (like the unfounded genocide,
the Ottoman Foundation, property claims, etc.).For the sake of
national interests, it is undesirable that those documents, partially
or completely, be multiplied, or delivered to centers where archival
work and research are done. Hence, it is more desirable that those
books stay in the Land Registry Offices with limited access’.
Every body knows that in the state archives mentioned by Mr. Erdogan
the possibility to discover something new is very small. There is no
smoking gun since there have been no official written orders. Nobody
does this. No one has discovered any written order by Hitler to
exterminate the Jews either. But undoubtedly, it is impossible in a
state mechanism that a deed in this magnitude has not been registered
somewhere in the archives. Back to Talat (Interior Minister), Enver
(War Minister) Bahaettin Sakir (Chief of Special Organisation) and
others; after their defeat, they escaped the country on board a
German U- boat. It is well-known that they took a load of top secret
archival documents with them.
The land Registry books will not unveil such a `kill order’ but they
will prove who the owners at the time were and when and in which
circumstances did changes in ownership occur. We know that it is
forbidden to search in the old land registry books. This means a lot.
Thus, we advise the Prime Minister to be more careful when he raises
his voice. For his sake, he shouldn’t use the word `challenge.’
The original in Turkish
no3718
Meydan okumadan meydanı okumak
Murat Belge
07/11/2006 (2826 kişi okudu)
Başbakanımız konuştu mu sert konuşuyor.
Kendine güvenle dolu bir tavır ve ses tonuyla konuşuyor.
Bu, herhalde iyi bir şeydir, gene de, ‘felsefi şüphe
payı’ diye bir şey var! Çok kesin edalardan kaçınmakta
yarar var sanki.
Geçen gün Başbakanımıza karşı bir ‘Ermeni
harektı’ olmuş gene. O da, “Bakın, buradan meydan
okuyorum” demiş. Neyin meydan okuması? Bir süredir devam
eden ‘arşiv’ konusu. Başbakan, “Biz açtık, siz de
açın” diyor; “Herkes serbestçe çalışsın,
olmu&amp ;#351; mu, olmamış mı, ortaya çıksın.”
Bildi&#28 7;im kadar Ermeniler de buna ‘Açmayız’ diye cevap
vermiyorlar. “Şimdiye kadar bu olay bilinmiyordu da şimdi
mi ne olduğunu öğreneceğiz?” diyorlar.
Neyse, onların ne dediği o kadar da önemli değil
bence. Bizim ne dediğimiz ve burada ne olduğu çok daha
anlamlı.
Burada, bir yılı aşkın bir zaman önce,
Tapu-Kadastro Genel Müdürlüğü’nden Genel Müdür
Yardımcıs&#3 05; Nihat Şahin, Milli Güvenlik Kurulu’na
bir yazı göndermiş (17 Ağustos 2005’te) ve Tapu Tahrir
Defterleri’nin Devlet Arşivleri Genel Müdürlüğü’ne
devredil mesi konusunda mütalaa istemiş. Bir süreden beri,
‘TARBİS’ denilen bir proje yürütülüyor ve tapu
kayıtlarına otomasyon teknolojisi getirilmeye
çalışı lıyor. Bu da çerçevede olan bir şey.
MGK’dan tuğgeneral Tayyar Elmas gelen yazıyı
cevaplandır& #305;yor. Tuğgeneral Elmas’ın ‘Milli
Güvenlik Kurulu Seferberlik ve Savaş Hazırlıkları
Planlama Daire Başkanı’ olduğunu Hürriyet’te bu
yakınlarda yayımlanan haberden öğreniyoruz. Cevap
şöyle:
“Osmanlı devleti dönemine ait söz konusu defterlerin
içerdiği bilgilerin etnik ve siyasi (asılsız
soykır&#30 5;m, Osmanlı Vakıfları mülkiyet
iddiaları ve benzeri) istismara malzeme olabileceği ve
ülkemizin içinde bulunduğu koşullar dikkate
alındığ&#30 5;nda, kısmen ya da tamamen
çoğaltılarak dağıtılmamalar&#305 ;nın,
genel arşiv çalışması yapılan merkezlere
devredilmemelerinin, dolayısıyla bulundukları Tapu ve
Kadastro Genel Müdürlüğü’nde muhafaza edilmelerinin ve
kullanılmasının ülke menfaatleri açısından
sın& #305;rlı tutulmasının uygun olacağı
değerlendirilme ktedir.”
Erdoğan’ın ‘meydan okuyarak’ ‘Biz açıyoruz, siz de
açın’ dediği devlet arşivlerinde Kıyım’la
ilgili yepyeni belgelerin çıkma ihtimalinin son derece
düşük olduğunu herkes biliyor. ‘Ele verme’ mahiyetinde
yazılar, talimatlar, zaten hiçbir zaman resmen gönderilmedi,
gönderilmez de. Söyleye söyleye dilimizde tüy bitti, ama Hitler’in
‘Yahudileri öldürün’ dediği bir belge ele geçmemiştir.
Şüphesiz, sonuçta koca bir devletin işleyişi içinde
böyle bir olayın arşive hiç yansımaması mümkün
değildir. Gelgelelim, Talt, Enver, Bahattin Şakir vb.
savaş sonunda Alman denizaltısıyla ülkeyi terk ederken
yanlarında çuvalla arşiv belgesi götürdükleri de o zamandan
beri bilinir.
Tapuda da ‘ölüm emri’ çıkmaz. Ama bir gayrimenkulün kime ait
olduğu, ne zaman bu sahiplik durumunda değişiklik
olduğu, mülkiyetin nasıl ve hangi koşullarda el
değiştirdiği çıkar.
Tapu dairelerinde araştırmaya izin verilmediğini,
bazan bu yüzden dramatik denebilecek olaylar olduğunu zaman
zaman haber alıyorduk, işitiyorduk. Bu haberden
öğrendiğimiz gelişmeler son derece anlamlı.
Dolayısıyla Başbakan da bu gibi konularda
konuşurken, sesini o bildiğimiz tona yükseltmese, hele hele
‘Meydan okuyorum’ gibi cümleler sarf etmese, herkesten önce kendisi
için sonuçların daha hayırlı olacağını
dü&# 351;ünüyorum.
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The St. Petersburg Times
The $2-trillion CitiBlunder
CitiMortgage processed Carl Varadian’s payment, then wrote him to say he was
$18 short of the $853.15 owed on his house. Too bad it overlooked its own
$2-trillion mistake.
By HELEN HUNTLEY
Published November 11, 2006
Carl Varadian made a mistake when he sent in his mortgage payment. But his
$18 error was small potatoes compared with the mistake CitiMortgage made
when it wrote him back:
“We have received and applied your check in the amount of
$2,001,004,113,835.15,” the company’s cash processing department informed
him. That’s 2-trillion 1-billion 4-million dollars. And some change.
The company said the Bradenton retiree and his wife, Ida, still owed $18 on
their $853.15 monthly payment. Send it in, CitiMortgage said.
Varadian, who worked in government and taught college government classes
back in Michigan, decided to have a little fun with CitiMortgage. He wrote
back:
“Please deduct the $18 from my check and return the balance to me,” he
wrote. “I may buy CitiMortgage in its entirety with the proceeds.”
Actually, he could buy all the outstanding stock in parent Citigroup Inc.,
which has a current market value of “only” $249-billion.
CitiMortgage officials responded to the St. Petersburg Times’ inquiry with a
little humor of their own:
“We would like to apologize to Mr. Varadian, our potential future boss, for
this error,” spokesman Mark Rodgers said. “In all seriousness, however, we
want information going to our customers to be 100 percent correct, and we
will make sure to understand why this happened and correct it for the
future.”
Sadly, his account has not been credited with $2-trillion.
Varadian, 76, figures he must have transposed a couple of numbers on one of
his checks, writing $835 instead of $853. But the big numbers in
CitiMortgage’s letter were a shock.
“I couldn’t believe it when I got the letter,” he said. “I had to set it
aside so I could calm down a little bit.” But he added, “If they want $18,
I’ll give it to them.”
The company’s letter suggested that Varadian consider automatic payments,
allowing CitiMortgage to draft its monthly payment from his bank account.
Varadian said no thanks.
“I don’t know if you can trust them,” he said. “But if they were adding to
my account I wouldn’t mind.”
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress

AzerTag, Azerbaijan
Nov 11 2006
POLAND UPHOLDS AZERBAIJAN’S INTEGRATION TO EURO-ATLANTIC STRUCTURES
[November 11, 2006, 11:14:29]
On November 10, the deputy minister of foreign affairs of Azerbaijan
Khalaf Khalafov received the delegation led by Speaker of the Senate
of Poland Bogdan Borusevich, the press-service of the Ministry of
Foreign Affairs said.
In meeting, Mr. Khalafov noted that between Azerbaijan and Poland
there are traditionally friendly relations and this country assists
Azerbaijan for integration in European and Euro-Atlantic structures.
The Azeri Deputy Foreign Minister noted importance of strengthening
of partnership in sphere of policy of the European Neighborhood and
power safety.
In turn, head of the Senate of Poland has noted successes of
Azerbaijan for last years and has stated that his country acts as the
supporter of expansion of the European Union and NATO. As he said,
Poland is interested in close cooperation of Azerbaijan with the
above-stated structures.
The Polish guest noted that the Armenia-Azerbaijan, Nagorno Karabakh
conflict should be solved in the frame of territorial integrity and
inviolability of borders.
In meeting, also discussed were questions on cooperation in combat
against international terrorism, international and regional
situation, and other issues mutual interest.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress

PanARMENIAN.Net
Turkey Fulfilled One of EU Conditions
10.11.2006 14:16 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ The Turkish parliament adopted a
law, which broadens property rights of the non-Muslim
communities of the country. Thus, Ankara has fulfilled
one of the EU conditions on national minorities rights
protection. The new law to be signed by the President
will allow the Greek, Armenian and Jew communities to
claim for the property expropriated by the Turkish
government in 1974, reports Mediamax.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress

Armenpress
AZERI ANALYST CALLS FOR SETTING CENTER TO DEFINE
BAKU’S AMERICAN POLICY

BAKU, NOVEMBER 9, ARMENPRESS: In an interview to
Azerbaijani Trend news agency Vafa Guluzade, a former
advisor to the late Azerbaijani president Heydar
Aliyev on foreign policy issues, said diplomats in
Baku should establish a special center to deal with
and define the policy that Azerbaijan must assume in
its relations with Washington after Democrats won
elections to Congress and Senate.
He said Azerbaijan must be represented by such
people who will be able to talk to Nancy Pelosi, a new
speaker of the Congress is known as a longtime
supporter of Armenian-American issues.
Guluzade recalled that once the official Baku used
to enjoy good relations with the White House when it
was controlled by Democrats that was reflected in
signing the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan and some other oil
project’s.
“I have tried many times to explain that no
Armenian state exists in fact. What is called the
Republic of Armenia is just part of Russia which is
keen to make Azerbaijan its colony and Moscow is using
Armenians as a means to attain its objective,”
Guluzade claimed in his interview.
Guluzade said though Nancy Pelosi is tending to
defend the Armenians of Nagorno-Karabakh the U.S.
administration did not recognize the Armenian
genocide. He said relations of Baku and Washington
will be firm.
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