Author: Emil Lazarian

AZERI TV CRITICAL OF ARMENIAN PRESENCE AT BAKU-HOSTED OSCE FORUM

ANS TV, Baku
16 Mar 06

[Presenter] We have just learnt that representatives of the occupying
state [Armenia] have set foot in Azerbaijan. It is intriguing that
the government does not think this is a sign of Baku’s cooperation
with Yerevan.

[Correspondent] The 14th OSCE economic forum entitled
“Enhancing transport security in the OSCE area” was held in Baku
today. Regrettably, representatives of occupying Armenia have attended
this closed-door forum. The Armenian delegation led by a Nersesyan
of the Foreign Ministry includes this country’s representative to the
OSCE, Minasyan, and Vaan Badalyan of the Transport and Communications
Ministry.

Frank Geerkens, who represents the OSCE’s Belgian chairmanship, said
that the key aim of the forum was to ensure the security of transport
networks and develop transport in the OSCE area.

[Geerkens, talking to reporters with Azeri voice-over] We mainly
focused on regional cooperation. The OSCE mainly deals with three
key issues. First, political and military issues, second, economy
and environment, and third, human rights.

[Correspondent] The Belgian representative sees nothing extraordinary
in the fact that representatives of occupying Armenia are attending
official events in Baku.

[Geerkens] The OSCE deals with conflict settlement and crisis
management. From this point of view, the main priority of the OSCE
chairman-in-office is to find the best way, a diplomatic way, for the
resolution of a conflict and play a coordinating role in this sphere.

[Correspondent] What is more shocking is that Azerbaijani Deputy
Prime Minister Abid Sarifov, who is attending the forum, also sees
nothing extraordinary in the fact that Armenian representatives are
attending the Baku event.

[Sarifov] The presence of the Armenian representatives at the
conference does not mean that we cooperate with Armenia.

[Correspondent] Members of the Karabakh Liberation Organization
attempted to stage an unsanctioned protest but the police thwarted it.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress

ARMENIAN INTELLECTUALS DEMAND THAT 1921 MARCH 16 MOSCOW TREATY BE INVALIDATED

Noyan Tapan
Armenians Today
Mar 16 2006

YEREVAN, MARCH 16, NOYAN TAPAN – ARMENIANS TODAY. The Treaty of
Sevres concluded by Europe and Japan with Armenia and sultan Turkey
on August 10 1920 was invalidated by the shameful Russian-Turkish
Treaty concluded 85 years ago, on March 21 1921, in Moscow. In
accordance with the Treaty of Sevres, Turkey was obliged to give
back more than 90 thousand sq.km. to Armenia from the occupied
lands. Rafael Hambartsumian, Executive of the National Council of
Armenian Intellectuals, declared this at the March 16 intellectuals’
meeting at RA National Academy of Sciences.

Armenian political parties’ and compatriot unions’ representatives
who were present at the meeting, touching upon the historical
facts of concluding the treaty, mentioned that the main goal of
the Russian-Turkish illegal bargain was to keep Armenian and Greek
territories annexed to Turkey, to preserve the state of Azerbaijan
established in 1918 for the Caucasian Tatars and to conclude the
Armenian Genocide by this: to kill and deport the rescued Eastern
Armenians from their historical homeland and to annihilate the Republic
of Armenia.

The Russian-Turkish Treaty of Moscow was signed without the presence
of the third, Armenian party, which was considered by historians
and lawyers illegal from point of view of the international law
norms. According to historians, today it can be fully considered
illegal at international judicial instances.

The participants of the intellectuals’ meeting made a statement at
the end of the event demanding that RA National Assembly consider
illegal and invalid the Russian-Turkish treaty of 1921 and invalidate
the Kars Treaty of 1921 October 13 compulsed by this bargain to the
Soviet Armenia by Soviet Russia.

The meeting participants also made another statement applying
to representatives of Russian Embassy in Armenia, in particular,
demanding that the “position to be adopted by Russia towards the
Russian-Turkish Treaty of Moscow be considered a precondition of
Armenian-Russian proper relations, a question to invalidate the Treaty
be raised before the Russian State Duma”.

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Gianikian et Ricci Lucchi, defricheurs d’archives

Couple singulier dans le petit monde du cinema experimental italien, Yervant
Gianikian et Angela Ricci Lucchi sont d’infatigables resistants qui filment,
retravaillent et recadrent des archives oubliees du debut du XXe siècle.
Pour en faire resurgir, photogramme après photogramme, l’histoire des
guerres, des maux, des cruautes. Mais aussi la siderante beaute de certains
paysages.
Dans leur Trilogie de la guerre, ils montrent des images de batailles a
Monte Pasubio entre soldats autrichiens et italiens pendant la première
guerre mondiale, des prisonniers de guerre qui errent comme des fantômes,
perdus dans la neige des Alpes. Des camps d’enfants orphelins, affames et
mourants en Russie. Des corps mutiles. Le pauvre rafistolage des gueules
cassees au nom d’une science positiviste. La silhouette si douce d’une
infirmière qui vient en aide a des aveugles. Des images recolorisees – en
bleu, rouge, jaune – a ne pas oublier pour ne plus permettre la repetition
des catastrophes. Pour nommer les bourreaux, les victimes, les survivants.
Leur oeuvre – diffusee dans le cadre d’une retrospective au Jeu de paume, a
Paris – est grave, violente, eblouissante.
Pourquoi voir et montrer autant de douleurs ? Savoir que dans chaque boîte
de pellicule les maux du siècle sont tapis et peuvent surgir comme un
serpent pret a mordre a nouveau. “Le monde est plein de dictateurs”, dit
Angela Ricci Lucchi, en ajoutant : “On a d’ailleurs notre propre dictateur
mediatique en Italie.” “Les artistes doivent montrer la guerre, affirmait
deja Leonard de Vinci”, explique Yervant Gianikian. Quitte a en tomber
simultanement malades, a peine termine Oh, Uomo, le plus effroyable de tous
leurs films, presente il y a deux ans au Festival de Cannes.
Tous les deux sont nes en fevrier 1942. Le père de Yervant, chimiste, est
armenien, l’un des rares survivants du genocide de 1915 en Turquie
orientale. Sa mère est autrichienne. Yervant etudie l’architecture a Venise
et passe une thèse atypique sur le cinema muet des annees 1920. De son côte,
Angela Ricci Lucchi suit une formation de peintre a Salzbourg aux côtes
d’Oskar Kokoschka avant de se lancer dans le mail art. Elle envoie des
questions, et les reponses composent ses expositions. Une amie poète lui
suggère d’aller voir quelqu’un qui travaille dans les Dolomites. “Tu me
diras, c’est un fou ou un genie”, la previent-elle. “C’est ainsi que j’ai
rencontre Yervant en 1975”, dit-elle. Ils ont decide de travailler ensemble
et de faire du cinema. Leur premier film a quatre mains se nomme Erat-Stora,
anagramme d’un poème d’Ezra Pound.
Dans les annees 1970, ils collectionnent des milliers d’objets, de jouets,
de cartes postales, des photographies qu’ils reorganisent dans des petites
boîtes, mi-theâtres de poche, mi-paysages duchampiens. Ces objets sont
filmes, catalogues. Fascines par cette idee de catalogue – qui leur vient
d’une inclination pour le Siècle des lumières et les encyclopedistes -,
Yervant Gianikian et Angela Ricci Lucchi se lancent dans ces films poetiques
de found footage (en retravaillant une pellicule deja impressionnee), comme
Catalogue 9,5 Karagoëz.
L’idee de liberer des parfums pendant la projection de ces films vient aussi
du siècle des Lumières, du Traite des sensations de Condillac. Les cineastes
s’inspirent des theories de ce philosophe contemporain de Diderot pour
chauffer et diffuser des essences de rose, d’oeillet ou de framboise, en
fonction des images diffusees a l’ecran. Le plus stupefiant, Cesare
Lombroso, sur le parfum d’oeillet, rend hommage a un criminologue italien,
convaincu que les femmes capables de tuer n’avaient pas d’odorat. Ces
performances d’alchimie et de cinema experimental fascinent le public
americain, mais lassent assez vite les cineastes. Ils ne veulent pas devenir
des magiciens qui promènent de ville en ville leurs valises de films et de
parfums.
Tout bascule quand ils trouvent en 1977 des films muets de format Pathe
Baby. Pour les lire, tous deux mettent au point une technique, “la camera
analytique”, qui leur permet de s'”approcher, de descendre en profondeur
dans le photogramme, d’intervenir sur la vitesse de defilement, sur le
detail, sur la couleur”. Une manière de faire emerger le sens cache des
actualites ou de decrypter des images de propagande. Personne ne connaît
mieux qu’eux les fonds d’archives. L’histoire et la memoire. Ils ont utilise
l’etonnante collection de Luca Comerio, pionnier du documentaire italien,
decrypte les fonds russes, pragois, madrilènes, berlinois autant que ceux de
la Cinemathèque francaise ou du Cinema des armees de Paris. Pour Du pôle a
l’equateur, 347 000 images sur le thème du voyage ont ete retravaillees pour
saisir un incroyable bazar d’exotisme où les marchandises peuvent etre aussi
humaines. On y voit des conquistadors, des chasseurs, des pretres, des
soldats et Mussolini.
Dans Animali criminali, on assiste a des combats de coqs, au festin d’un
serpent mangeant une grenouille ou celui, plus medusant, d’un boa avalant un
petit cochon. Vision tetue, sans intention ni a priori, des combats
effrayants comme des scènes de jours heureux. “Le travail, c’est une drogue.
On n’arrete jamais”, affirme ce couple qui presente desormais son oeuvre aux
quatre coins du monde dans des installations museales ou des retrospectives
cinematographiques.
“Il existe toujours une part d’enfance dans leurs films. Chaque generique
est d’ailleurs une etiquette d’un cahier d’ecolier”, souligne Patrice
Rollet, l’un des fondateurs de la revue de cinema Trafic. Danièle Hibon,
responsable de la programmation cinematographique du Jeu de paume, a montre,
la première, leur travail en France, en 1995. Elle a incite Yervant
Gianikian a filmer son père, dans le très emouvant Retour a Khodorciur. A
plus de 70 ans, ce dernier est retourne voir son pays perdu, a pied, seul,
et raconte la tragique histoire de sa famille. Angela Ricci Lucchi et
Yervant Gianikian sont, eux aussi, alles en Armenie. Ils ont ramene des
stocks d’images. Pour faire un jour un film, le leur, qui ne provienne plus
d’images d’archives. Sauf peut-etre celles laissees par le père de Yervant,
qui avait pris le soin d’emporter une camera Super-8 dans son pèlerinage.
Nicole Vulser
Article paru dans l’edition du 15.03.06

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Press Release
Catholicosate of Cilicia
Communication and Information Department
Contact: V.Rev.Fr.Krikor Chiftjian, Communications Officer
Tel: (04) 410001, 410003
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HIS HOLINESS ARAM I MEETS WITH PATRIARCH SFEIR

His Holiness Aram I met with Patriarch Sfeir, Head of the Maronite
Church in Bekerki on March 15.

The two discussed issues related to the internal situation of Lebanon,
the ongoing dialogue in the Parliament and the future perspectives.

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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.

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BAKU NEEDS NOTHING “EXTRAORDINARY,” ALIYEV ASSURES

PanARMENIAN.Net
16.03.2006 19:37 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ “Yerevan’s withdrawal from occupied Azeri lands”
will result in establishment of neighborly relations with Armenia, said
Azeri President Ilham Aliyev. “We need nothing extraordinary. We merely
demand releasing our lands from occupation and withdrawal of Armenian
troops, after which we can live as neighbors,” the Azeri leader said at
a meeting with a Turkish delegation, which arrived in Baku to take part
in the Second World Azerbaijanis Congress. “We live in this region,
we are neighbors, we are destined to live together. However, there is
a precondition of ending separatism, return of Azeri citizens to the
lands of their genuine residence and, of course, territorial claims,”
the Azeri President said, Interfax reports.

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RUMORS ABOUT WITHDRAWAL OF AMBASSADOR JOHN EVANS ARE GETTING INCREASINGLY PHANTOMATIC

YEREVAN, MARCH 15. ARMINFO. For the fourth time in the last week,
the State Department’s official spokesperson has failed to directly
respond to questions raised by journalists during the Department’s
daily press briefing about reports that the U.S. Ambassador to Armenia,
John Marshall Evans, has been recalled due to his truthful statements
on the Armenian Genocide, report the Armenian National Committee of
America (ANCA).

“It’s certainly disappointing seeing State Department officials
hiding behind their spokesperson to avoid directly answering questions
about whether Ambassador Evans is being recalled because he had the
courage to stand up against what effectively amounts to a ‘gag-rule’
preventing our nation’s diplomats from speaking truthfully about the
Armenian Genocide,” says ANCA Executive Director Aram Hamparian.

The US Embassy has once again refuted the reports, while Haykakan
Zhamanak daily reports the Armenian Foreign Ministry to have received
an agrement on Richard Hoagland’s candidacy for new US ambassador to
Armenia. Now Hoagland is ambassador to Tajikistan. The FM has refused
to comment on the withdrawal reports.

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KENYA: EX-MINISTER RECORDS STATEMENT WITH POLICE OVER ALLEGED MERCENARIES

Easy FM, Nairobi
15 Mar 06

[Presenter] Former environment minister and ODM [opposition Orange
Democratic Movement] luminary, Stephen Kalonzo Musyoka, is at this
very hour recording a statement with police over his involvement with
the alleged Armenian mercenaries.

Kalonzo was directed to report at Kilimani Police Station [Nairobi]
moments after he arrived in the country from a trip in Ethiopia. On
arrival, Kalonzo held a brief discussion with his bodyguards and MP
Kiema Kilonzo at the airport before being led by CID officials to
Kilimani Police Station. Kalonzo who appeared calm told Easy FM that
he would comply with the order requiring him to state what he knows
about the mercenaries saga.

[Musyoka] We have just arrived from Addis Ababa. I gather I’m required
to record a police statement and I am prepared. In fact from here I
want to proceed straight to police HQ.

[Presenter] Meanwhile, Makadara MP Reuben Ndolo and his Westlands
counterpart Fred Gumo today stormed the residence of the two Armenian
nationals accused by Langata MP Raila Odinga of being mercenaries.

The two have given government an ultimatum to explain the presence
in the country of the two foreigners failure to which they have
threatened to mobilize 1,000 youths to flush the alleged mercenaries
out of their Runda residence and have them deported.

However, police were nowhere to be seen when the MPs stormed the
residence.

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COMUNISTS OF VANADZOR CONVENE NO PRESS CONFERENCE FOR ONE YEAR, BUT THEY DON’T THINK THEY ARE PASSIVE

Noyan Tapan
Armenians Today
Mar 14 2006

VANADZOR, MARCH 14, NOYAN TAPAN – ARMENIANS TODAY. The Vanadzor City
Committee of the Communist Party of Armenia convened a press-conference
on March 14, after a year of silence. City Committee First Secretary
Andranik Ghukasian criticized the rise of the gas price accusing in
this issue not Russia but “Hayrusgasard” which, according to him,
pursues a superprofit. On the occasion of the regular rise of the
food prices, Ghukasian made such a statement: “Does fish also come
from Russia: it costs 600 drams in the market.”

Responding the Noyan Tapan correspondent’s question by what the
one-year passivity of the Vanadzor communist party was provided,
the City Committee First Secretary mentioned that it’s right,
they haven’t convened press-conferences for a year, but have had
correspondence relating to the social-economic problems of the marz
with the Governor of the marz of Lori. Responding the next question,
that the Governor of Lori mentioned in the TV interview that no
party presented proposals relating to the conception concerning the
prospects of social-economic development of the marz worked out
by the regional administration, one of the communist gave a cue:
“The Governor tells a lie.” On that occasion A.Ghukasian presented
to media a document consisting of 5 points addressed to the Governor.

Among the other proposals, decrease of the electricity price during
the winter months was also proposed in it. The communists of Vanadzor
also criticized the fact of regular creation of new parties. The City
Committee First Secretary proposed that parties unite according to
the ideology, and repeating the idea of Ruben Tovmasian, the First
Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Armenia,
stated, that the only political party in Armenia is the commmunist
party.

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DEMOYAN: AZERBAIJAN INTERESTED IN RAPID COMPLETION OF SAFAROV’S TRIAL
Karine Karapetyan

DeFacto Agency, Armenia
March 15 2006

The Azeri party is interested in the rapid completion of a trial over
Ramil Safarov accused of a willful murder of an Armenian officer Gurgen
Margaryan, a RA Defense Ministry representative on the Budapest trial
Hayk Demoyan stated.

In Hayk Demoyan’s words, the reason is Ramil Safarov’s affidavits,
according to which the Azeri servicemen are trained on the territory of
the North Cyprus. “If Ramil Safarov had been in Azerbaijan, he would
have had to face court martial”, the representative of RA Defense
Ministry stated having added that Safarov’s utterances had already
had a negative response in Azerbaijan.

In the course of a press conference the outcomes of a current, sixth
sitting of the trial on the case of the murder of the Armenian officer
Gurgen Margaryan held in Budapest March 7 were presented.

According to Hayk Demoyan, the sitting has put an end to the history
of a two-year shameless lie of the Azeri party. “The two years
of the trial may be called Ramil Safarov’s period in Azerbaijan”,
Demoyan said.

The injured party’s lawyer Nazeli Vardanyan informed that testimonies
of the two Hungarian officers – Zoltan Balkoni and Attila Demeter –
had been listened in the course of the sitting. According to the
witnesses, there were no conflicts between the Armenian and Azeri
servicemen during the English courses. To remind, the Azeri party
insisted that one of the motives of Gurgen Margaryan’s murder had
been the provocative behavior of the Armenian servicemen, who had
allegedly insulted the Azeri officers.

The conclusion made by the third expert group was also heard at
the sitting. In Nazeli Vardanyan’s words, there was a psychologist,
psychiatrist and stressologist in the expert group. As it is known,
the third group was to compare the materials of the first two
medical examinations and reveal the reason for disparity between the
conclusions of the first and second expert groups. The third expert
group came to the conclusion that the accused was psychically healthy,
and he had committed a premeditated murder.

The last sitting on the case of the Gurgen Margaryan’s murder will be
held April 4, in the course of which representatives of prosecution
and defense will speak, and then Ramil Safarov will get the floor.

The trial will deliver a verdict April 13.

The press conference’s participants refrained from making prognosis
on the precise term of the criminal’s punishment. “For us it is not
important how many years Ramil Safarov will stay at prison. It is a
principle: the Azeri army’s officer is condemned as a criminal, who
can murder a sleeping man”, Hayk Demoyan stressed. He does not doubt
that the trial’s verdict will be just.

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JUSTIN MCCARTY: “IF ARMENIANS HAD ANYTHING TO SAY THEY WOULDN’T HAVE MINDED THE TV DEBATES ON “GENOCIDE”

Today, Azerbaijan
March 15 2006

Turkey should maximally speed up the measures undertaken within the
Armenian issue.

Historians should deal with historical issues and Turks should think in
this direction, staunch defender of official Turkey’s position on the
Armenian Genocide Justin McCarty stated during the “New rapprochement
in the Turkish-Armenian relations” symposium held in Istanbul.

McCarty also touched upon the protest of the Armenian lobby against
the TV debates to take place after the show of Andrew Goldberg’s film
titled Armenian Genocide.

“The resolution of the issue is unclear yet. But if Armenians had
anything to say they wouldn’t have minded the program,” the American
historian said, reported Marmara Istanbul-based newspaper.
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