Author: Frangulian Shushan

TURKISH SPEAKER CALLS ON CANADIAN PARLIAMENT TO RECONSIDER RESOLUTION
ON ARMENIAN GENOCIDE RECOGNITION
PanArmenian News
June 17 2004
ANKARA, 17.06.04. Turkish parliament Speaker Bulent Arinch addressed
the Canadian parliament a letter of indignation at the recent
resolution by the Canadian House of Commons on the recognition of the
Armenian Genocide in the Ottoman Empire. As reported by Turkish media,
the letter says that the Canadian top parliamentarians `should have
closely watched the Lower House and impeded the adoption of such a
resolution`. In his interview to Turkish press Arinch noted that
this resolution `will deteriorate the unsettled Armenian-Turkish
relations`. `Stirring up the dissension between the countries situated
in the most sensitive region in the world at present will not be of
benefit to anyone. Canada should take it into account and review her
erroneous decision`, the Turkish Speaker said.

Vishwanathan Anand leads Rest of the world team to victory
Deepika, India
June 17 2004
Moscow, Jun 16 (PTI) Former World Champion Vishwanathan Anand led
the Rest of the world team to victory by drawing his final round game
with World No. 1 Garry Kasparov of Armenia team.
Despite a defeat in the sixth and final round, Rest of World held
on to their lead, winning the match with a narrow 18.5-17.5 score at
the Hyatt Ararat here yesterday.
Rest of the world began the last round with a cushion of two point lead
at 16-14, while Armenia looked for two extra wins, without defeats.
Playing the World No. 1 Garry Kasparov with white pieces, Anand
snatched the precious half point with a comfortable draw. The Sicilian
Pelican game between Anand and Kasparov, saw neither player willing
to take the risk.
A little out of the theoretical waters, Anand captured the center
“d” pawn and offered a draw which Kasparov accepted. Just into the
middle game, Anand held more than one even position on the queenside,
but Kasparov’s double bishop ensured splitting of the point.
Anand completed the event with two wins, a lone defeat to Leko and
three draws.
The only decisive game of the day came from the Vaganian-Adams game,
wherein the veteran Armenian brought in all his experience in the
Queens Indian game to down the English Grandmaster.

Hartford Courant , CT
June 15 2004
`Shield’ Cashes Out
Evidence Is Gone, But Threats Remain
– Roger Catlin
The millions of dollars that Det. Vic Mackey and his L.A.P.D. Strike
Team seized from the Armenian mob and decided to keep (for police
work as well as pension enhancement) has been more of a curse than
a blessing on “The Shield.”
Now they’re on the Armenians’ hit list even as their own department
is closing in. To free the team from the pressure, Curtis “Lemonhead”
Lemansky (played by onetime Central Connecticut State University
football star Kenneth Johnson) took it upon himself to burn nearly
all of the cash last week.
But that just leaves the Strike Team members at each other’s throats
as their problems continue to surround them in tonight’s gripping
third season finale on FX at 10.

Baku Today, Azerbaijan
June 9 2004
Ilham Aliyev: In No Way We Will Cede Karabakh
Baku Today 09/06/2004 11:09
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev on Tuesday reiterated his
government’s position not to cede sovereignty over Karabakh, warning
that he would resort to “other means” to liberate the territories
occupied by Armenia should peace talks yield no result.
“If the peace negotiations give no result, we will decide together with
our people on what to do [next],” the president said in Azerbaijan’s
central town of Yevlakh, which is some 300 kilometers west of
capital Baku.
President Aliyev visited Yevlakh to attend opening ceremony of a
new square and avenue named after his late father Heydar Aliyev,
who died last December at the age of 80.
“We are trying to resolve Nagorno-Karabakh problem peacefully within
norms of international laws. But we have to get ready to other means
of bringing the conflict to an end,” the President added.
Nagorno-Karabakh, a former autonomous region within Azerbaijan,
and also seven Azeri administrative districts — Lachin, Kelbajar,
Aghdam, Fuzuli, Jabrail, Zangilan and Gubadli — were captured by
Armenian troops in 1991-94 war with Azerbaijan.
The occupied territories make up almost 20 percent of Azerbaijan’s
total area and nearly 700,000 civilian Azeris were forced to leave
their homes as a result of the war.
Despite a shaky cease-fire agreement signed between Baku and Yerevan
in May 1994, no final settlement has been found to the conflict.

Controversial mobile carrier in Upper Garabagh owned by Armenian
AzerNews
3 June 2004
The recent rumors concerning the operation of a US mobile
communications company in the self-proclaimed Upper Garabagh Republic
have triggered a serious public outcry in Azerbaijan. Minister of
Communications and Information Technologies Ali Abbasov, touching upon
the issue, said ‘Telecom-2’ mobile communications company operating
in Upper Garabagh is owned not by the US but by an Arab country and
is managed by an Armenian.
Abbasov went on to say that in an effort to stop the company’s
unlawful activity, the Ministry has addressed the International
Telecommunications Union and GSM Association.
An appeal was also forwarded to all mobile communication operators
cooperating with Azerbaijan not to conclude any roaming agreements with
‘Telecom-2’.

Azer Tag, Azerbaijan State Info Agency
June 1 2004
SUCCESSFULLY REALIZED LARGE-SCALE PROJECTS ARE COMMON US-AZERBAIJAN
ACHIEVEMENTS
PRESIDENT OF THE AZERBAIJAN REPUBLIC ILHAM ALIYEV RECEIVES US
PRESIDENT’S SPECIAL ADVISOR ON CASPIAN ENERGY DIPLOMACY
[June 01, 2004, 21:58:27]
President of the Azerbaijan Republic Ilham Aliyev received the US
President’s special advisor on Caspian energy diplomacy, ambassador
Steven Mann, on 1 June.
Noting that the Conference-Exhibition starting today in Baku has been
conducted for 11 years, President Ilham Aliyev assessed the event as
a notable success. Today, the participants of the Exhibition total
340. Traditional events usually attract less interest. But interest in
the Exhibition-Conference, on the contrary, rises year by year. Of
course, this is connected with the significant and large-scale
projects. Azerbaijan is attractive for the foreign companies,
investors, and service firms.
President Ilham Aliyev further said: “First of all, I would like to
ask you to convey my gratitude to the US President for kind letter.
You presented it this morning. It is important and is a strong impetus
for our relations. I am rather pleased with it. I am convinced that
our cooperation in energy and other fields will successfully continue
in the coming years”.
Expressing his gratitude to Azerbaijan president for warm words, Mr.
Steven Mann appraised the today’s Exhibition-Conference as a landmark
event. In this oil-gas fair you have displayed your accomplishments
gained during the passed 11 years. I present the letter of President
Bush to You with a feeling of pride. In this letter, he expresses his
congratulations and personal greetings to You. My country is pleased
with cooperation in energy field and we have reached great success
in this direction. Next year, the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan oil pipeline
will be put into operation. Today’s arrangement clearly demonstrated
that Azerbaijan is a very attractive country for the energy companies
and other investors. Today, Your Country’s cooperation with the US
ambassador Reno Harnish and other investors is high level”.
The achievements gained in the oil and gas field are common
success of Azerbaijan and the United States, President Ilham Aliyev
emphasized. “Successful realization of the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan MEP
became possible due to strong support by the United States, and You,
Mr. Ambassador, have made your own contributions to these successes.
I am eyewitness of your efforts in this direction and would like once
again to stress that these are our common successes. I am confident
that these successes will continue in the coming years as well.
In the course of meeting, stating that Ambassador Steven Mann has
another important mission – he is the co-chair of the OSCE Minsk
Group for settlement of the Armenia-Azerbaijan Nagorny Karabakh
conflict, President Ilham Aliyev had comprehensive exchange of views
on resolution to the problem.
Ambassador of the United States to Azerbaijan Reno Harnish attended
the reception.

ANSA Notiziario Generale in Italiano
May 26, 2004
DIAMANDA GALAS A FERRARA PER ATERFORUM SU ‘FOLK SONGS’ ;
(NOTIZIARIO TURISMO EMILIA-ROMAGNA)
FERRARA
(ANSA) – FERRARA, 26 MAG – La prima europea di ‘Defixiones, Will and
Testament’ della cantante e pianista Diamanda Galas, chiudera’ il
13 giugno al Teatro Comunale di Ferrara ‘Aterforum’, la diciottesima
edizione del festival che a partire dal 4 giugno proporra’ sei concerti
all’insegna di ‘Folk songs’.
Straordinaria vocalist di origine greca, Diamanda Galas e una
performer di grandissima profondita’ espressiva. ‘Defixiones, Will
and Testament’ e’ una meditazione, intensissima, sul genocidio dei
popoli armeno e greco anatolico avvenuto ad opera dei turchi nei
primi decenni del Novecento.
La serata inaugurale (a Casa Romei) vedra’ l”Omaggio a Berio’ della
cantante Cristina Zavalloni, accompagnata da Andrea Rebaudengo al
pianoforte. Tutti in esclusiva italiana gli altri cinque concerti,
dislocati tra Palazzo Ludovico il Moro e Casa Romei (ore 21,15).
Il chitarrista e pianista brasiliano Egberto Gismonti (5 giugno)
proporra’ la sua ricerca musicale che mescola i suoni antichi degli
indios d’Amazzonia e la moderna improvvisazione. Seguira’ il 6 il
doppio concerto dedicato al folk inglese: prima il chitarrista John
Renbourn in duo con Clive Carroll, poi il trio con la cantante Norma
Waterson, il chitarrista Martin Carthy e il fisarmonicista Chris
Parkinson (Palazzo Ludovico il Moro). L’11 giugno il compositore Aldo
Brizzi sara’ affiancato dal gruppo brasiliano Aco do Acucar. Seguira’
il 12 un omaggio all’Armenia con il trio di duduk di Gevorg Dabaghyan e
il duo formato dalla violoncellista tedesca Anja Lechner e dal pianista
greco Vassilis Tsabropoulos. Il concerto sara’ preceduto la mattina
(ore 12, Biblioteca Ariostea) da un incontro con Tigran Mansurian,
considerato il massimo compositore armeno vivente.
Info: 0532/202675
(ANSA).

CANNES: ITALY FILM PRESENTS ELEGY OF MANKIND
ANSA English Media Service
May 22, 2004
(ANSA) – CANNES, May 22 – Italian film Oh, Uomo (Oh, Mankind), is
the last to arrive at the Cannes film festival but is expected to
make a vivid impression on film aficionados.
Oh, Uomo’s first copy left the film laboratory just three days ago. The
film was covered with great mystery and was completed in a time frame
recalling the medieval craftsmanship.
Oh, Uomo is directed by two of Italian cinema’s most peculiar and
isolated directors, Yervant Gianikian, who is of Armenian origin,
and Angela Ricci Lucchi. In their Milan house-laboratory the two
have been gathering, manipulating and transforming archive films,
old newsreels and amateur filmings for many years creating each time
an impact of emotions and stories similar to experimental cinema but
characterised with the warmth and originality of authentic poetry.
This time the two directors have used as a basis some rare films
from World War I collected by the museum of Trento, northern
Italy. The museum of Trento along with local Trento authorities, the
municipality of Rovereto and the province of Trento are among the Oh,
Uomo producers.
Oh, Uomo leaves apart the famous historical events in order to focus
on the everyday drama of the many infantrymen who found their death in
the mountains in northern Italy as well as on the memories of ordinary
people, whose names have been long forgotten. The film’s directors
have been driven exactly by this sense of the brevity of memory and
the vivid topicality of the signs of war, which unfortunately remains
the same atrocious massacre as it has always been.
Oh, Uomo has won the favour of Olivier Pere, artistic director of the
Cannes film festival Directors’ Fortnight section, but it is not clear
how it will be distributed in Italy. Italy’s public service TV RAI
has never shown interest in the previous works of Gianikian and Ricci
Lucchi. Thanks to the participation of Oh, Uomo in the Cannes festival,
however, numerous countries have shown interest in the film. (ANSA).

Words of grief, praise offered for Minnesotan killed in Armenia
By AVET DEMOURIAN
Associated Press
May 23 2004
YEREVAN, Armenia – Friends, colleagues and students shed tears and
shared words of praise at a memorial service Sunday for Joshua Haglund,
a Minnesotan who was teaching English in Armenia and was stabbed to
death in the capital Yerevan earlier this month.
About 100 people attended the ceremony in an auditorium at the
American University of Armenia. A portrait photograph of Haglund,
a 33-year-old from Shoreview, Minn., stood flanked by two burning
candles on a stand draped with black cloth, and mourners made entries
in a condolence book.
“I was fascinated with his sensibility and sense of humor. We shared
everything, good and bad,” Amelia Weir, a friend who met Haglund
on her first day in Armenia, told those assembled. “Something that
struck me – he was fully present in this life. He wanted us to be
dedicated to what we do.”
“Joshua was filled with emotion by nature, and his honesty and
decency amazed us,” said Zarui Shushanian, one of Haglund’s students
at Yerevan’s Linguistics University, where he taught under the aegis
of the U.S. State Department’s English Language Fellow program.
The U.S. deputy chief of mission in Armenia, Vivian Walker, recited
Psalm 23 from the Bible – “The Lord is my shepherd” – and an Armenian
priest, Father Ktrich Derezhian, said that Haglund had “wished people
well with all his heart, but his heart was broken.”
Haglund’s body was found in downtown Yerevan on the night of May 17,
with signs of beating and three stab wounds in his chest, Armenian
police said. An official with the Armenian Prosecutor General’s office
said on condition of anonymity that the killing had “personal motives”
and voiced hope that perpetrators could be quickly found.
Haglund had been planning to leave Armenia shortly for a trip through
Iran before returning to Minnesota for the summer. Before coming to
Armenia, a Caucasus Mountain nation that gained independence in the
1991 Soviet breakup, he had lived for extended periods in Japan,
India and Puerto Rico.

PrimeZone Media Network
May 20, 2004 Thursday
>>From the Book of One Thousand Tales – Author’s Short Stories
Chronicle Persecution of Armenian People
MARIPOSA, Calif., May 20, 2004 (PRIMEZONE) — In the early 20th
century, Diana Agabeg Apcar wrote a collection of stories that
revealed atrocities committed against Armenians. From the Book of One
Thousand Tales: Stories of Armenia and Its People 1892 – 1922 (now
available through AuthorHouse) reveals these incredible stories of a
persecuted people and their courage and determination.
Although fictional, the tales are based on real events that happened
during a dark time in world history. The horrors that took place in
the late 19th and early 20th centuries were largely ignored by the
world, permitting the Young Turk government of the Ottoman Empire to
cleanse Asia Minor of millions of Armenians. There is speculation
that this global indifference made way for Hitler’s Holocaust and
Hideki Tojo imposing force on many races in the Pacific.
Apcar never set foot in her beloved homeland of Armenia, but One
Thousand Tales reads as if she trod every inch and scrutinized every
face. The stories came from the mouths of survivors, who spoke with
Apcar after their arduous journey to Japan by way of the
TransSiberian Railway and other primitive modes of transportation.
With eloquence and vivid detail, she captured their joys, pain, and
unwavering faith. The stories describe locations that still exist
today, and a map of Asia Minor at the beginning of the book further
helps readers to place these historic and tragic events.
Born in Rangoon, then British East India, now Yangon, Myanmar, Apcar
lived her later years in Yokohama, Japan where she died in 1937. A
keen businesswoman, she assisted her husband in a prosperous trade in
Japan. She wrote 13 books, numerous pamphlets and papers that were
widely read in her lifetime. She corresponded with many noted
personalities in the academic, political and business world. Apcar
served as Consul to the Republic of Armenia, making her the first
woman to serve in a diplomatic capacity. This position enabled her to
provide assistance to hundreds of refugees fleeing Turkish and
Russian oppression, providing the stories for One Thousand Tales. The
manuscript for this book was discovered among family papers by her
granddaughter, Lucille Apcar, who realized the importance of sharing
these stories with the world.
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