Author: Emil Lazarian

TREND Information, Azerbaijan
May 5 2006
EC Human Rights Commissioner to receive full information on refugees
and forced migrants of Azerbaijan – Azeri Ombudsman
Source: “Trend”
Author: S.Agayeva
05.05.2006
CE Human Rights Commissioner will be informed on problems of human
rights protection for refugees and forced migrants of Azerbaijan that
were expelled from
their homeland by Armenians, reportedly said Azeri Ombudsman Elmira
Suleymanova, commenting on new CE Human Rights Commissioner Thomas
Hammerberg’s visit to Azerbaijan.
She said it was Hammerberg’s first visit to Azerbaijan as CE
Commissioner. “It is another chance for us to provide CE Commissioner
additional information on Nagorny Karabakh conflict, its
consequences, over one million of refugees and forced migrants,
losses Azerbaijan suffered in this respect”, – Suleymanova said. She
also expressed her hope for usability of such information for
Commissioner.
Mr Hammerberg arrived in Baku to participate in IV Baku international
conference of Azeri and Russian Ombudsmen. During his visit in Baku,
CE Commissioner is meeting with chairman of Milli Medjlis, Foreign
Minister, Ombudsman, etc.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress

Armenian foreign minister: “We are coming to the second stage of democratization”
Regnum, Russia
May 5 2006
By present day, Armenia has become a more democratic country than it
was while joining the Council of Europe, Armenian Foreign Minister
Vardan Oskanyan has announced at a conference held to honor fifth
anniversary of the Armenian membership in the Council of Europe. By
the way, according to him, Armenia is left to do a lot to become a
fully democratic country.
As a REGNUM correspondent informs, as the minister puts it, Armenia
has fulfilled almost all its obligations taken at joining the Council
of Europe. “We are coming to the second stage of democratization. It
is a very difficult stage, as it envisages reforms that would
directly touch upon the political elite. We should show our political
will,” noted the foreign minister. “We do comprehend that democracy
is a tough way, and it cannot be established in a night. Deciding to
become a member of the Council of Europe, Armenia has chosen the way
for democratization and exact steps have been undertaken in this
direction,” Vardan Oskanyan stressed.
In his turn, Director General of Political Affairs of the Council of
Europe Jean-Louis Laurens has announced that one of Armenia’s
achievements in recent years is the way to Europe chosen by it. “It
is not so important, what steps are taken and where Armenia is on the
way to democracy; the way it chose is important,” the Council of
Europe official noted. “It is very important that Armenia holds
transparent parliamentary and presidential elections,” noted
Jean-Louis Laurens, adding that the Council of Europe and
international institutions would render assistance to Armenia in
carrying out transparent and fair elections. According to him, the
Armenian authorities have elaborated 67 draft laws in accordance with
the new Constitution and a proportion of these laws has been
introduced to the CE for analysis. It is also important for Armenia
to establish the ombudsman institution, noted Jean-Louis Laurens.
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Azeri Press Agency, Azerbaijan
May 5 2006
Azerbaijani president Ilham Aliyev: “It is impossible to settle
Nagorno Garabagh conflict out of the international law norms”
[ 05 May 2006 15:30 ]
Azerbaijan is a country suffering from terror. As a result of more
than 30 terror acts of Armenians against Azerbaijanis more than two
million innocent people died.
President of Azerbaijan, Ilham Aliyev told these words at the 9th
summit of Organization for Economic Cooperation and called whole
world to join in the struggle against international terrorism.(APA).
President stated that all the Armenian aggression is a great obstacle
in the development of the region and noted that all terror
organizations should be treated on the same way. I.Aliyev stated that
Azerbaijan supports peaceful resolution of Nagorno Garabagh conflict
and noted that patience of Azerbaijan people is not endless.
President noted that the settlement of Nagorno Garabagh conflict on
the basis of international law norms is very important and it’s
possible to settle the conflict by the way of occupied territories of
Azerbaijan to be freed: ” No agreement exists outside of it.” Ilham
Aliyev expressed his gratitude to ECO member countries for supporting
Azerbaijan. /APA/
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French experts say radio signals are from A-320 black boxes
13:34 | 05/ 05/ 2006
RIA Novosti, Russia
May 5 2006
SOCHI, May 5 (RIA Novosti) – Airbus experts believe that radio
signals they have picked up were coming from flight recorders on
board an Armenian airliner that crashed Wednesday in the Black Sea,
an emergencies official said Friday.
“Experts from France confirmed that these were [signals from] radio
beacons [black boxes],” said Sergei Kudinov, the head of a regional
emergencies ministry center.
The ongoing recovery operation involves more than 700 rescue workers,
23 boats, deep-sea vehicles, a Be-200 amphibious aircraft and a
Ka-32 helicopter.
An experimental rescue boat, Katran, and a new Kalmar deep-sea search
vehicle are expected to arrive at the scene to help locate parts of
the wreckage and flight recorders.
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TREND Information, Azerbaijan
May 5 2006
Azeri and Armenian FMs meet in Strasburg to talk of future meeting
of presidents
Source: Trend
Author: A.Mamedov
05.05.2006
Today Vardan Oskanyan, Armenian Foreign Minister, said in Yerevan,
quoting ‘in two weeks Azeri and Armenian FMs are meeting in Strasburg
within session of CE’s Ministers Committee and talk of future meeting
of president of the two countries”.
Mediamax agency reports, Oskanyan said date and location of future
meeting were still uncertain.
Armenian FM called journalists not to seek for ‘strings attached’ in
the fact of last time’s individual visits of Minsk Group cochairmen
to the region. Oskanyan assured that was conditioned by lack of
convergence in arbitrators’ schedules.
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A look at key U.S. oil suppliers
By Associated Press
May 6, 2006
The nuclear standoff with Iran and insurgencies in Iraq and Africa
have rattled world energy markets. But the threat to supply extends
far beyond these hotspots.
The United States depends on resources from a number of overseas
markets, which threaten to become more of a risk.
Those suppliers also include:
â~@¢ Russia, whose brief energy conflict with Ukraine last winter
severely hit the European Union. Moscow, which is flexing its energy
muscle for geopolitical leverage, accounts for more than 10 percent
of the world’s daily oil output and a fifth of its natural gas.
President Vladimir Putin’s drive to reassert state influence over
the nation’s oil and gas sectors has spooked consumer nations.
â~@¢ Saudi Arabia, the world’s No. 1 oil producer and a key U.S.
supplier. It has been singled out as a target by Osama bin Laden, and
the country remains on alert after foiling an al-Qaida-linked attack on
its vast Abqaiq oil processing plant in February. That attack prompted
Kuwait to express concern about the security of its own oil facilities.
An additional threat to oil installations is the potential for
insurgency fomented by Tehran among the Saudi Shiite minority –
and those in neighboring oil-producing nations.
â~@¢ Venezuela and Bolivia, where moves by populist leaders to impose
more state control over the gas or oil sectors, gives them growing
leverage to use energy as a political tool. Bolivia, which recently
called out the army to enforce its claims, has South America’s
second-largest natural gas reserves after Venezuela.
Venezuela, whose President Hugo Chavez has threatened to blow up his
country’s oil fields in case of U.S. attack, is the fourth-largest
supplier of crude to the United States – for now. Chavez is
increasingly selling to China and Cuba, and his oil minister has
threatened to stop supplying America.
â~@¢ The Caspian Sea region, which has estimated oil reserves between
17 billion and 44 billion barrels and is potentially a key transit
point for oil to the West. But it is rife with ethnic conflicts in
Chechnya, Georgia and the autonomous enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh.
Energy nationalism is also a factor – with Turkmenistan recently
declaring its on-land gas and oil fields off-limits to foreign
companies. The Shanghai Cooperation Organization, a regional alliance
led by China and Russia, last year called on the United States to
set a date for withdrawing forces from the region.
â~@¢ The East China Sea, where conflicting claims to rich underwater
gas reserves have added to historical rivalries between Japan and
China.
In the first three months of this year, the Japanese military said it
had scrambled fighter jets 107 times to intercept suspected Chinese
spy planes – most of them over the East China Sea – compared to 13
times in all of 2005.
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No more bodies found at A-320 crash site
Interfax, Russia
May 6 2006
SOCHI. May 6 (Interfax-South) – No more body parts have been found
at the site of the Armavia plane crash during the past 24 hours,
Sergei Aristov, vice-chairman of the commission investigating the
air disaster, told journalists on Saturday.
“Fifty-one bodies have been retrieved, as reported previously.
Forty-four bodies have been identified and 34 repatriated to Armenia,”
Aristov said.
The remains of seven passengers have yet to be identified.
An Armavia A-320 passenger liner crashed near Sochi while attempting
to land early on May 3. All passengers and crew aboard the plane were
killed in the disaster.
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Armenian airline to buy lease 3 Airbuses after crash, fire
14:45 | 06/ 05/ 2006
RIA Novosti, Russia
May 6 2006
YEREVAN, May 6 (RIA Novosti) – Armavia, Armenia’s national airline,
said Saturday it would lease three new Airbus planes after losing two –
one with 113 people on board – in three days earlier this week.
An Armavia-owned A-320 crashed into Black Sea in stormy weather
Wednesday with the loss of 105 passengers and eight crewmembers,
and another one was destroyed in a fire at Belgium’s Zaventem airport
early Friday.
The company said in a news release that the additions to its fleet
would only be “new aircraft.”
The release said the first A-319 produced in 2004 or 2005 would start
operating by May 15.
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DMITRI ATBASHYAN’S VERSIONS ON THE CRASH of A320
Lragir.am
06 May 06
The president of the National Aviation Society Dmitri Atbashyan,
a meritorious pilot of the Soviet Union, gave his suppositions on
the crash of A320 on May 6.
“I rely on clearly reported facts. We do not know what records the
black boxes contain, we do not know what happened. We know that the
plane plunged into the water at an extremely high speed 6 km from
the shore. In addition, the fall was so heavy that the plane broke
to small pieces. The plane could break to small pieces for two reasons.
If the plane were airtight, even a light blow would make it explode.
Second, it could break into small pieces on plunging into the water
at a high speed. It is a fact that the plane was out of control
when it fell into the water. If on falling into the water the plane
were controllable, the pilot would manage to report that they were
running out of fuel and he decided to land on water, etc.” and land on
water. All the pilots are trained to land on water, both theoretically
and on special equipment.
Why did the plane fall? There can be different reasons. First, they
lost speed. The plane stays in the air as long as it has the minimum
speed required to stay in the air. If the speed is below the minimum,
the train falls on a spiral trajectory. Modern planes cannot resist
the fall, they need 1-1.5 km to regain control of the plane. They did
not have so much distance. In other words, if the plane is falling,
the disaster is inevitable.
When the aerodynamics of a plane is disrupted, the minimum speed may
be different for a dry, wet, frozen plane. A wet plane is dangerous.
It is very difficult to fly in the rain. Sometimes the rain does not
reach the plane. Sometimes the rain reaches the plane and increases
resistance. In such cases the power of the engine may not be enough
to overcome the extra resistance.
Thunder and lightning could also affect the plane. Lightning conductors
are installed on the wings of the plane to discharge natural lightning
and charges, occurring between the wings of the plane. There have been
cases when the examination of the fragments of crashed planes showed
that one part or another was missing. For instance, there have been
cases when the pipe inside the wing, which supplies pressure equal
to the atmospheric pressure, was shorter by 3 meters. The crashed
A320 was not new and had been repaired.
It is impossible to assert that the plane plunged into the water at
a 60° angle. If the visibility was 3000 m, and the plane plunged
into the sea 6000 m from the coast, who could calculate the angle of
the fall?”
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44 ships work at the search zone
ArmRadio.am
06.05.2006 17:35
44 ships work at the search zone, where the A320 Armavia plane crashed.
Head of the Southern regional center of the RF Ministry of Emergency
Situations Sergey Kudinov declared today.
He said that 30 out of the 44 ships belong to Sochi and Novorosiysk
ports, 13 belong to the Ministry of Emergency Situations.
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