Author: Emil Lazarian

Armenian men’s team leading in the World Chess Championship

ArmRadio.am
30.05.2006 13:05
In the 8th round of the World Chess Olympic Games the Armenian men’s team
scored 3:1 against the team of Cuba, thus gaining 24 points. Russian and
Ukrainian teams have 22 points each.
Vladimir Hakobyan and Gabriel Sargsyan won Dominges and Kuezada
correspondingly; Bryuzon-Aronyan and Delgado-Asryan games ended a draw.
Our women’s team scored 2:1 against the team of India. With 15.5 pints they
share the 9th-11th places with Slovakia and Slovenia. The Russian women’s
team is leading with 19 points.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress

PASSION WEEK IN BAKU
Yerevan. May 29. ArmInfo. The former co-chair of the OSCE Minsk Group,
Ambassador Vladimir Kazimirov has provided ArmInfo news agency with
his response to the actions of the Azeri side following his recent
statement in Yerevan.
It’s worth mentioning that Kazimirov’s statements concerned the
principles of territorial integrity and the right of the peoples for
self-determination, as well as the militant statements made by
official Baku. In connection with this, the Foreign Ministry of
Azerbaijan called the temporary charge d’ affaires of RF in Azerbaijan
and Deputy Foreign Minister expressed oral complaint to him. Besides,
Novrouz Mamedov, head of Foriegn Affairs Department at AR President’s
Staff, gave a press conference and stated that V. Kazimirov “lost the
ability to think logically.” He also condemned the diplomat for “close
relations with the Armenians” and “getting financial assistance from
them.” Mamedov said that Kazimirov’s statements may make harm to the
Nagorno Karabakh settlement process.
In his response to the Azeri side, the former co-chair of the OSCE MG
says: On May 20, the high ranked Azeri officials spared no efforts to
make good advertisement to Mr. Kazimorov, resigned ambassador, former
head of the Russian mediators’ group for Karabakh, the one who helped
all the sides in conflict cease the bloodshed 12 years
ago. Mr. Kazimirov wonders whether the Azeri officials are going to
response all the statements of retired diplomats. While none of the
Moscow officials responses the anti-Russian statements of a retired
official like Vafa Gouladze or Asim Molladze. At the same time, it’s
very hard to treat the response of Mamedov seriously, Mr. Kazimirov
said.
According to Mr. Kazimirov, Mamedov got irritated by the interview of
the former “peacekeeper,” where “he sometimes falsifies international
documents.” Mr. Mamedov began spreading the rumors he read, not
realizing that the journalists are capable of writing such things that
a beginner diplomat may never compose. Certainly, Mamedov didn’t find
out who was the author of the statements, the retired diplomat or the
journalist who interviewed him. Meanwhile, on May 18, Mr. Kazimirov
demanded from the agency to remove from the site the unknown text that
Mr. Kazimirov failed to correct. Mamedov didn’t even realize that he
should have criticized quite another text at the same sight already
edited by Mr. Kazimirov.
According to Mr. Kazimirov, Mamedov can think only about money and
market relations. And as Mamedov can think only about money, he lost
respect to even the old people. As a result, he expressed opinion that
the Armenians pay Kazimirov for persecuting Azerbaijan. At the same
time, Mamedov didn’t ground his statements with any sensible and
logical proofs.
Mamedov also touched upon another very serious point. It turned out
that Mamedov was “the invisible witness” of the conversation between
Heidar Aliev and Vladimir Kazimirov on May 20, 1993, as he stated that
he saw and heard everything. In fact, Mamedov wasn’t present at that
meeting.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress

AIRBUS EXPERTS NOT TO TAKE PART IN THE DECODING OF BLACKBOX RECORDERS
OF THE ARMAVIA A-320
Yerevan, May 29. ArmInfo. Airbus company denies the information by
certain Russian mass media that Airbus experts are taking part in the
examination and decoding of the blackbox recorders of the ArmAvia
A-320 liner. The representation of Airbus reported ArmInfo that
experts of that company did not take part either in examination or
decoding of the boxes’ content. It was said that the French experts
are not representing the Airbus company, as the latter has no
corresponding authority.
At present the blackboxes are in Paris. They are to be opened and the
extracted microchips are to be taken back to Moscow in order to decode
the information in them. The examination is jointly realized by
Armenian, Russian and French experts. As for 6:30 PM no news was
received from Paris.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress

GRAVES OF JEWS AND ARMENIANS ARE BEING DESTROYED IN AZERBAIJAN
Yerevan, May 29. ArmInfo. Graves of Jews and Armenians are being
destroyed in Azerbaijan. As the Baku “Real Azerbaijan” newspaper
informs in the article “Country of Vandals”, the Edition received a
letter of indignation from the residents of Sumgait, informing about
the destruction of graves of Jews and Armenians. The content of letter
is not given, however, the author informs that graves of Jews and
Armenians are also destroyed in Baku.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress

PRESS RELEASE
Catholicosate of Cilicia
Communication and Information Department
Contact: V.Rev.Fr.Krikor Chiftjian, Communications Officer
Tel: (04) 410001, 410003
Fax: (04) 419724
E-mail: [email protected]
Web:
PO Box 70 317
Antelias-Lebanon
Armenian version:
THE NORWEGIAN MINISTER OF CULTURE
VISITS HIS HOLINESS ARAM I
His Holiness Aram I met with the Norwegian minister of culture, Trond Giske,
in his office in Antelias on May 25.
The Pontiff and the minister discussed issues related to the Middle East,
the Christian-Muslim dialogue and ecumenical affairs. His Holiness also
spoke about the friendly relations between the Norwegian and Armenian
peoples and in this context referred to Fridtjof Nansen as a great friend of
the Armenian nation.
The minister and His Holiness continued their discussions over lunch.
The Catholicos also gave an interview to two important Norwegian newspapers
which had delegated their journalists with the minister.
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The Armenian Catholicosate of Cilicia is one of the two Catholicosates of
the Armenian Orthodox Church. For detailed information about the history and
mission of the Cilician Catholicosate, you may refer to the web page of the
Catholicosate, The Cilician Catholicosate, the
administrative center of the church is located in Antelias, Lebanon.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress

Armenian officers not to attend CIS meeting in Azerbaijan
Mediamax news agency
30 May 06

Yerevan, 30 May: Armenia will not take part in the forthcoming session
of the Council of CIS Defence Ministers to be held in Baku on 31
May. The Azerbaijani authorities have not produced security guarantees
to the Armenian delegation members, Mediamax has quoted the Armenian
Defence Ministry as saying. “As the secretariat of the Council of CIS
Defence Ministers failed to get security guarantees from the
Azerbaijani authorities for the Armenian Defence Ministry delegation,
they decided not to take part in the Baku session. This has been
reported to the secretariat of the Council of CIS Defence Ministers.
“This is another evidence of the fact that Azerbaijan is not able to
fulfil its commitments and ensure security of participants in the
international event being held on its territory. For its part, the
secretariat of the Council of CIS Defence Ministers, must ensure that
equal conditions are created for the participants from all CIS member
countries at the session. We are waiting for the secretariat’s
official reaction,” the Armenian Defence Ministry said in its
statement.
[ANS radio, Baku, in Azeri, 0500 gmt 30 May 06, reported that Armenia
had not even been invited because Azerbaijan notified the Council of
CIS Defence Ministers that an Armenian delegation was unwelcome in
Baku]
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress

Radio Liberty, Czech Rep.
May 29 2006
Armenian Soldier Killed In Fresh Skirmish On Azeri Border

By Emil Danielyan
Armenia’s Defense Ministry reported on Monday that one of its
soldiers has been fatally shot in what it described as a truce
violation by Azerbaijani forces in the tensest section of the
Armenian-Azerbaijani border.
The ministry said in a statement that Sergeant-Major Levon Adamian,
20, was wounded in the chest and died as he was rushed to hospital
late on Saturday. It said the incident occurred near the northern
Armenian town of Noyemberian. No other details were reported.
Adamian is at least the second Armenian soldier killed in the area
bordering Georgia since February. Skirmishes between Armenian and
Azerbaijani troops deployed there appear to have become more frequent
in recent months, with each side accusing the other of breaching the
ceasefire. The Azerbaijani military did not report any fighting in
the westernmost section of the heavily militarized frontier in recent
days, though.
According to the Azerbaijani news agency APA, an Azerbaijani soldier
was wounded and hospitalized on Saturday about 300 kilometers east of
the area, along the main Armenian-Azerbaijani line of contact around
Nagorno-Karabakh. The information was not immediately confirmed by
the Defense Ministry in Baku. The ministry said earlier that a
19-year-old Azerbaijani army conscript, Egdar Hajigayibov, was shot
and killed by Armenian forces near a village just north of Karabakh
on May 17.
The latest upsurge in Armenian-Azerbaijani shootouts followed the
collapse of long-awaited talks between Presidents Ilham Aliev and
Robert Kocharian near Paris last February. The two leaders are
scheduled to meet again in Bucharest early next week amid fresh hopes
for a breakthrough in the Karabakh peace process.
High-ranking diplomats from France, Russia and the United States
sounded cautiously optimistic about the outcome of the summit as they
wrapped up a two-day visit to Baku and Yerevan last Thursday. In a
joint statement, they said the conflicting parties are now `at the
point where a mutually beneficial agreement is achievable.’
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress

Interfax Russia,
May 30 2006
Nationalists murder ethnic Armenian in commuter train near Moscow
MOSCOW. May 30 (Interfax) – A 19-year-old ethnic Armenian was stabbed
to death in a commuter train near Moscow.
Lawyer Simon Tsaturian told Interfax on Tuesday that a group of young
men attacked Artur Sardarian, a permanent resident of the town of
Pushkino, in a commuter train northeast of Moscow in the evening of
May 25, stabbing him many times.
Quoting eyewitnesses, the lawyer said that the attackers were
shouting “Glory to Russia!”
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress

TREND Information, Azerbaijan
May 30 2006
Paris hopes for advancements in Nagorno-Karabakh conflict settlement

Source: Trend
Author: S.Agayeva

30.05.2006

Official Paris, alongside Washington and Moscow, hopes for
advancements in Nagorno-Karabakh conflict peaceful settlement, Trend
reports with reference to the release of French Embassy to Azerbaijan
issued on occasion of Azeri president Ilham Aliyev’s visit to Paris.
Mentioning talks with French president Jacques Chirac and Senate
speaker Christian Ponselet within the visit program, Embassy
officials state Nagorno-Karabakh problem among the other themes of
these talks.

Following Azeri-Armenian meeting in Rambouit February 10 to 11,
France jointly with other co-chairs of OSCE Minsk Group boosted its
activity in order to arrange the next meeting between the parties in
early June. Namely with this purpose high officials of Foreign
Ministries and co-chairs visited Baku and Yerevan in late May.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress

MOSNEWS, Russia
May 30 2006
Young Armenian’s Killing Near Moscow May Be Race-Related
MosNews
Prosecutors have opened a hate crime investigation into the fatal
stabbing of an Armenian teenager at a Moscow suburban train station,
a spokesman for the prosecutor’s office said Tuesday. Artur
Sardaryan, 19, was killed on Thursday in the latest in a string of
racially-motivated attacks in Moscow and throughout Russia, The
Associated Press reports.
Three young men approached Sardaryan as he was sitting on a commuter
train around 11:30 p.m. and stabbed him for no apparent reason. He
died later on the way to a hospital, Yelena Rossokhina, a spokeswoman
for Moscow regional prosecutors, told journalists.
Lawyer Simon Tsaturyan said that witnesses reported the youths
yelling `Glory to Russia!’ and `Long Live Russia!’, Ekho Moskvy radio
said.
Russia in recent years has seen an increase in racially-motivated
attacks on foreigners and migrants from the poorer Caucasus region
and Central Asia. Last month, a skinhead fatally stabbed an Armenian
student on a central Moscow subway platform.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress