Author: Frangulian Shushan

TRANSEURO ENERGY
500 ` 900 West Hastings Street
Vancouver, B.C. V6C 1E5

Ukraine Well to be Sidetracked

September 11, 2008 TSX-V/ Oslo Axess: TSU Vancouver, Canada: –
Transeuro Energy Corp. (`Transeuro’, or the `Company’) announces an
update on its drilling operations.

Further to the Company’s news release of August 8, 2008 in regards to
the Karlavoskoye 101 well, theCompany is reporting that fishing
operations have terminated. It has been determined that the most
appropriate course of action is to sidetrack the well bore at a
predetermined depth of 2,875 meters and continue drilling the well to
a targeted depth of 3,500 meters. All of the required equipment has
now been procured for the sidetrack and subsequent drilling
operations. Once the operations and drilling commence, the Company
will continue to update the shareholders and public as
appropriate. Sidetrack operations are expected to begin the week of
September 15, 2008 and are expected to take approximately eight weeks
as the Company has further upgraded the drilling rig in the last month
and expect new efficiencies from these improvements.

Harold Hemmerich, President of Transeuro Energy Corp, commented, `In
spite of the lost time and the obvious financial costs associated with
the challenges we have encountered while drilling this well, the gas
flows and log results are very positive and we have seen nothing that
curbs our enthusiasm for the potential of the well and the field we
are targeting. We continue to work with our Ukraine partners to
improve operational performance.’

In addition, the Company is pleased to announce that all matters put
to the Company’s shareholders atthe Company’s Annual General Meeting
held on September 9, 2008 passed with near unanimous approval. The
Company’s board of directors for the following year will be comprised
of: Harold Hemmerich, David Parry, Mark Sarssam, Aage Thoen and Pedro
Paulo.

Transeuro Energy Corp. is involved in the acquisition of petroleum and
natural gas rights, the exploration for, and development and
production of crude oil, condensate and natural gas. The Company’s
properties are located in Canada, Armenia, Ukraine and, through
majority ownership in Eaglewood Energy Inc, in Papua New Guinea.

On behalf of the Board of Directors
`Harold Hemmerich’ President and CEO

For further information contact:
David Parry – Vancouver, Canada Karen O. Jenssen ` Oslo, Norway
+1 (604) 681 3939 Phone + 47 917 29 787
[email protected]

The TSX Venture Exchange has not reviewed, and does not accept
responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of the content of this
news release. This press release does not constitute an offer to sell
or solicitation of an offer to sell any of the securities in the
United States.

The statements contained in this release that are not historical facts
are forward-looking statements, which involve risks and uncertainties
that could cause actual results to differ materially from the targeted
results. The Company relies upon litigation protection for forward
looking statements.

Barrel of oil equivalent (`boe’) amounts may be misleading,
particularly if used in isolation. A boe conversion ratio has been
calculated using a conversion rate of six thousand cubic feet of
natural gas to one barrel and is based on an energy equivalent
conversion method application at the burner tip and does not
necessarily represent an economic value equivalent at the wellhead.

CONTRACT SIGNED ON EXPORTING ELECTRICITY FROM ARMENIA TO TURKEY

Azeri Press Agency
Sept 10 2008
Azerbaijan

Yerevan – APA. Armenia will start selling electricity to Turkey as
from 2009, Armenia’s Energy and Natural Resources Minister Armen
Movsisyan said, APA reports quoting Novosti-Armenia agency.

He said that representatives of UNIT Company engaged in importation
and distribution of high-voltage electricity in Turkey also attended
the visit of President Abdullah Gul to Yerevan.

"Contract was signed during the visit on exporting electricity from
Armenia to Turkey through Kars. According to the contract, Turkey
will restore all the necessary infrastructures in its territory in
four or five months and begin receiving electricity," he said.

The minister said the volume of electricity to be exported to Turkey
will be 1.5 billion Kwh, later it is planned to reach 3.5 billion Kwh.

"The price for a kilowatt depends on the price of heating energy and
gas. But the price will be economically effective. If the electricity
would have been exported now, the price would have been 5.7 cents
per kilowatt-hour. The contract is successful enough. This is a new
market for Armenia, the agreement will make it available to use our
energy potential maximally," he said.

Armen Movsisyan underlined that the agreement had been reached on
the highest level and did not believe that there would be political
obstacles.

Armenian National Committee of Australia
The Peak Public Affairs Committee of the Armenian-Australian Community
259 Penshurst Street, Willoughby NSW 2068 ~ PO Box 768, Willoughby NSW 2068
Tel: (02) 9419 8264 ~ Fax: (02) 9411 8898
Email: [email protected] ~ Website:

9 September, 2008

MEDIA RELEASE: For Immediate Release

{CONTACT: Haig Kayserian (Communications Officer) ~ 0403 317 903 ~
[email protected]}

ANC AUSTRALIA CONDEMNS ABC GENOCIDE DENIAL

SYDNEY: The Armenian National Committee of Australia (ANC Australia) has
condemned the Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s (ABC) refusal to
adequately correct its use of the term `alleged’ as a qualifier for the
Armenian Genocide, labelling the network’s response to community concerns as
`unacceptable’.

ANC Australia wrote to the ABC last week, expressing serious concern about
the `alleged’ qualifier being used when referencing the Armenian Genocide
during the 28 August `Family Footsteps’ program, which broadcast the story
of Joanna Kambourian – an Armenian-Australian who travelled back to the
homeland of her ancestors to explore the rich culture of the Armenian people
and the tragic history of the Armenian Genocide.

ANC Australia’s correspondence was followed by letters from the
Armenian-Australian community, including one from Ms Kambourian herself,
classifying the qualifier `alleged’ as deeply offensive and calling for a
public correction by the ABC.

This week, the ABC responded to community concerns, claiming that, the
Armenian Genocide `remains a matter of contention within the international
community’.

The ABC letter read: `It is certainly true that many historians and
governments have recognised the events as genocide, but others have disputed
this categorisation.’

Despite apologising for any offense it may have caused, the ABC concluded
their response by stating that the use of the term `alleged’ was valid.

ANC Australia has responded on behalf of the Armenian-Australian community
seeking a correction for the original offence and subsequent response to
community concerns. The letter read: `We find your attempt to justify the
use of the offensive qualifier `alleged’ with respect to the Armenian
Genocide, which is one of the worst crimes against humanity in modern
history, unacceptable and no less repugnant than the original offence.

`Your letter suggests that the categorisation of the systematic
extermination of approximately 1.5million Armenian civilians by the Ottoman
Turkish Government as genocide is legitimately disputed and therefore
warrants the qualifier `alleged’.

`…your very letter completely ignores the unequivocal position taken by
the foremost Holocaust and Genocide scholars around the world who recognised
and teach about the Armenian Genocide.’

ANC Australia concluded its letter to the ABC with a request to meet with
relevant representatives in order to stress the importance of a public
apology from Australia’s national broadcaster.

The full text of the communication between ANC Australia and the ABC can be
found below.

09.09.2008 ANC LETTER TO ABC RESPONSE

ATT: Parker Bourke
ABC Audience and Consumer Affairs
[email protected]

RE: DENIAL OF THE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE BY THE ABC

Dear Mr. Bourke,

We refer to your email to Mr. Haig Kayserian of the ANC dated 8 September
2008.

We find your attempt to justify the use of the offensive qualifier `alleged’
with respect to the Armenian Genocide, which is one of the worst crimes
against humanity in modern history, unacceptable and no less repugnant than
the original offence.

Your letter suggests that the categorisation of the systematic extermination
of approximately 1.5 million Armenian civilians by the Ottoman Turkish
Government as genocide is legitimately disputed and therefore warrants the
qualifier `alleged’. Your letter has the temerity to refer us to Section 5.3
of the ABC Code of Practice that `Every reasonable effort must be made to
ensure that factual content is accurate and in context and that content does
not misrepresent other viewpoints’. Yet your very letter completely ignores
the unequivocal position taken by the foremost Holocaust and Genocide
scholars around the world who recognised and teach about the Armenian
Genocide.

This overwhelming preponderance of genocide scholarship is more eloquently
summarised in the letter dated 6 April 2005 to Turkish Prime Minister
Erdogan from the International Association of Genocide Scholars, which
represents the major body of scholars who study genocide in North America
and Europe. That letter was in response to the Turkish Prime Minister’s
call for a commission of historians to `investigate’ whether the Armenian
Genocide occurred. You may recall a similar `commission of historians’ was
held recently by the President of Iran to deliberate whether the Holocaust
of 6 million Jews took place.

Given the dismissive tone of your response, we are compelled to bring to
your attention the following pertinent passages of that letter as they
appear to apply to the ABC as much as the Turkish Government policy of
genocide denialism:

`We are concerned that in calling for an impartial study of the Armenian
Genocide you may not be fully aware of the extent of the scholarly and
intellectual record on the Armenian Genocide and how this event conforms to
the definition of the United Nations Genocide Convention.  We want to
underscore that it is not just Armenians who are affirming the Armenian
Genocide but it is hundreds of independent scholars, who have no
affiliations with governments, and whose work spans many countries and
nationalities and the course of decades. The scholarly evidence reveals the
following:

On April 24, 1915, under cover of World War I, the Young Turk government of
the Ottoman Empire began a systematic genocide of its Armenian citizens – an
unarmed Christian minority population. More than a million Armenians were
exterminated through direct killing, starvation, torture, and forced death
marches. Another million fled into permanent exile. Thus an ancient
civilization was expunged from its homeland of 2,500 years. ……….

The Armenian Genocide is corroborated by the international scholarly, legal,
and human rights community:

1) Polish jurist Raphael Lemkin, when he coined the term genocide in 1944,
cited the Turkish extermination of the Armenians and the Nazi extermination
of the Jews as defining examples of what he meant by genocide.

2) The killings of the Armenians is genocide as defined by the 1948 United
Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of
Genocide.

3)  In 1997 the International Association of Genocide Scholars, an
organization of the world’s foremost experts on genocide, unanimously passed
a formal resolution affirming the Armenian Genocide.

4) 126 leading scholars of the Holocaust including Elie Wiesel and Yehuda
Bauer placed a statement in the New York Times in June 2000 declaring the
"incontestable fact of the Armenian Genocide" and urging western democracies
to acknowledge it.

5) The Institute on the Holocaust and Genocide (Jerusalem), the Institute
for the Study of Genocide (NYC) have affirmed the historical fact of the
Armenian Genocide.

6) Leading texts in the international law of genocide such as William A.
Schabas’s Genocide in International Law (Cambridge University Press, 2000)
cite the Armenian Genocide as a precursor to the Holocaust and as a
precedent for the law on crimes against humanity.

As to your comment – `…, but others have disputed this categorisation’, the
above letter again relevantly states:

`We would also note that scholars who advise your government and who
are affiliated in other ways with your state-controlled institutions are not
impartial. Such so-called "scholars" work to serve the agenda of historical
and moral obfuscation when they advise you and the Turkish Parliament on how
to deny the Armenian Genocide’.

Put another way, the position adopted in your response is no different to
suggesting that because certain `historians’, like David Irving (and those
who attended the aforementioned `academic’ conference organised by the
President of Iran), who contest the historical veracity of the Holocaust,
the ABC is required by its Code of Conduct to refer to the Holocaust as the
`alleged Holocaust’.

The position taken in your response also flies in the face of various
`topical and factual content’ on the Armenian Genocide broadcast by the ABC
over the years (a sample of which is referred to in our initial email).
That content never used such offensive qualifiers in referring to the
Armenian Genocide. Has ABC TV Documentaries uncovered new evidence which
turns on its head the above internationally respected genocide scholarship
on the Armenian Genocide and the ABC’s previous practice?

We are, therefore, compelled to refer you to another section of the ABC’s
Code of Conduct, namely Section 5.4 which states:

`The ABC will correct a significant error when it established that
one has been made. When a correction is necessary, it will be made in an
appropriate manner as soon as reasonably practicable’

With respect, it is disingenuous to apologise for any offence caused as a
result of the use of the term `alleged Armenian genocide’ and still defend
and try to justify that very offence.

The position outlined in your response raises more concerns for
Armenian-Australian Community, most of whom are descendants of the survivors
of the genocide, than the offensive qualifier which gave rise to our initial
complaint. Whilst we appreciate that this offence is not intentional, we are
extremely concerned that the ABC is unwittingly making itself an instrument
of Armenian Genocide denial and obfuscation in the misguided guise of
`impartial reporting’.

Accordingly, we request an urgent meeting with relevant representatives of
the ABC to address the above concerns and to explain why an appropriate
apology is required for the offence caused.

We await your urgent response.

Yours Sincerely,

Varant Meguerditchian
President

Cc: Media Watch Program
[email protected]

09.09.2008 A BC RESPONSE TO COMMUNITY EMAILS

Dear Haig Kayserian

Thank you for your email regarding the episode of Family Footsteps broadcast
on 28 August. In line with ABC complaint handling policies, your
correspondence has been referred to me for response.

The ABC regrets that you were concerned by the use of the terms "alleged
genocide" and "alleged Armenian genocide" in this program to describe the
mass killing of Armenians by Ottoman Turks during World War I.

These terms were used by the narrator four times over the course of the
program, in the following contexts:
– "During World War I, the Turks killed over one million Armenians in the
first alleged genocide in modern history."
– "During that year [1915], refugees would have been fleeing the alleged
genocide, and taking their treasured rugs with them."
– "Verjine Svazlian is an historian specialising in the alleged Armenian
genocide."
– "Her Armenian experience also inspired Joanna to visit her grandmother in
America, who herself was a refugee from the alleged genocide."

It is the ABC’s understanding that the categorisation of these events as
genocide remains a matter of contention within the international community.
It is certainly true that many historians and governments have recognised
the events as genocide, but others have disputed this categorisation. Family
Footsteps is categorised by the ABC as topical and factual content for the
purposes of our Code of Practice. The requirement for accuracy in such
content is outlined in section 5.3 of the Code: "Every reasonable effort
must be made to ensure that factual content is accurate and in context and
that content does not misrepresent other viewpoints." On review, the ABC is
satisfied that each of the statements quoted above met this requirement.

Nonetheless, please accept the ABC’s apologies for any offence caused as a
result of the use of the terms "alleged genocide" and "alleged Armenian
genocide" in this program. Please be assured that your concerns have been
brought to the attention of the ABC TV Documentaries department and ABC
Television management.

Thank you for taking the time to contact the ABC about this matter. I have
attached a link to the ABC’s Code of Practice for your information:
/200806_codeofpractice-revised_2008.pdf

Yours sincerely

Parker Bourke
ABC Audience and Consumer Affairs

29.08.2008 ORIGINAL ANC AUSTRALIA LETTER TO ABC

ABC TV Documentaries
ATT: Stuart Menzies
Head of Documentaries
[email protected]

RE: ABC FAMILY FOOTSTEPS PROGRAM – ARMENIA

Dear Mr. Menzies,

The Armenian National Committee of Australia wishes to express serious
concern in relation to a recent ABC Television story. On Thursday 28 August,
the ABC’s Family Footsteps program broadcast the story of Joanna Kambourian,
an Armenian-Australian who travelled back to the homeland of her ancestors
to explore the rich culture of the Armenian people and the tragic history of
the Armenian Genocide.

The program covered Joanna’s journey as she learnt the ancient language,
customs and history of the Armenian people. She also discovered the reality
of the Armenian Genocide – an attempt to erase the Armenian people, their
cities, churches and homes.

The coverage included a meeting between Joanna and an Armenian Genocide
Historian who explained that in 1915, under the cover of WWI, the Turks
began a systematic genocide of the Armenians living in the Ottoman Empire.

Unfortunately, throughout the program the narrator referred to the Armenian
Genocide as the `alleged’ Armenian Genocide. `Alleged’ has become a
qualifier used by Armenian Genocide deniers to distort and blur the
historical accuracy and reality of the Armenian Genocide.

In legitimate academic circles, the Armenian Genocide has been classed as a
foremost example of Genocide. It has been condemned by the International
Association of Genocide Scholars and by the Australian Institute for
Holocaust and Genocide Studies. Further, the phrase `Armenian Genocide’ is
used to describe the events of 1915 by prestigious media outlets including
the New York Times, LA Times, The Washington Post and The Australian.

The Armenian Genocide has been recognised and condemned in Australia by the
State Parliament of NSW, and internationally by prominent governments
including those of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Greece, Russia,
Switzerland and Argentina.

It is only in Turkey that restrictions apply to the use of the term Armenian
Genocide. Under Article 301 of the Turkish Penal Code, individuals,
intellectuals, journalists and publishers can be prosecuted for insulting
Turkey. Thus qualifiers such as `alleged’ or `so called’ are placed before
mentioning the Armenian Genocide as a measure to distort the truth of the
Armenian Genocide and avoid prosecution.

Fortunately in Australia, individuals, intellectuals, journalists and
publishers are not bound by such restrictions. In April of the this year,
the ABC Television’s Foreign Correspondent program broadcast an Eric
Campbell story entitled `Armenia and Turkey – Ghosts of the Past’ (
929.htm ). During this, the
tragic events that befell the Armenian people where truthfully described as
the `Armenian Genocide’.

The Armenian Genocide was again described as an incontestable example of
genocide during an interview which respected ABC radio-journalist Philip
Adams conducted with genocide scholar Prof. Colin Tatz and bestselling
author Prof. Peter Balakian
( tories/2008/2217843.htm ). Also, an
ABC News story ( 2427.htm)
earlier this year echoed the same position.

On behalf of the Armenian-Australian community, the Armenian National
Committee of Australia questions why the ABC’s Family Footsteps program
referred to the Armenian Genocide as the `alleged’ Armenian Genocide?

The Armenian-Australian community expects a public correction for references
made to the Armenian Genocide which were preceded by the word `alleged’, and
we undoubtedly expect that the ABC will reaffirm its previously established
moral and historically accurate position when referring to the Armenian
Genocide.

In anticipation of your positive response, we thank you in advance.

Yours Sincerely,

Varant Meguerditchian
President

For more information on the Armenian National Committee of Australia and our
representation, please click the following link:

RUSSELL LECTURES ABOUT ARMENIAN-SLAVIC FOLKLORE CONNECTIONS THURSDAY

Belmont Citizen-Herald
fun/entertainment/books/x802009282/Russell-lecture s-about-Armenian-Slavic-folklore-connections-Thurs day
Sept 9 2008
MA

Prof. James R. Russell, Mashtots Professor of Armenian Studies at
Harvard University, will give the first lecture of NAASR’s fall
2008 series on Thursday, Sept. 11, at the National Association for
Armenian Studies and Research (NAASR) Center, 395 Concord Ave. in
Belmont. Prof. Russell’s lecture will be entitled "The Rime of the
Book of the Dove: Zoroastrian Cosmology, Armenian Heresiology, and
the Russian Novel." The lecture will be a "Roman Jakobson Memorial
Lecture" in honor of the pioneering linguist, Slavicist, folklorist,
and one of the intellectual giants of the 20th century, NAASR Founding
Member Prof. Roman Jakobson (1896-1982).

The spiritual ballad or poem, or Coleridgean "rime," the "Book of
the Dove" (Rus. Golubinaia kniga, Stikh o golubinoi knige) exists in
a number of transcribed oral variants, most of which were collected
in northern and northwestern Russia — emanating most likely from
the region of Great Novgorod. The poem relates the deep secrets,
that is, the ones that concern cosmology. It has been called the
"pearl of the Russian mythological epic."

Russian Text with Armenian and Iranian Sources Many aspects of the
"Book of the Dove" suggest an Iranian source, and in the Byzantine
period the route of transmission would have been Armenia, most likely
via oral teachings transmitted by itinerant preachers and minstrels,
of the adherents of heterodox sects that flourished in Armenia at
that time.

In this lecture, Prof. Russell will take a subterranean (and, at
times, submarine) journey through the dark world of medieval Russian
folklore and Armenian and Iranian religion and spirituality, with
detours through the visionary poetry of Grigor Narekatsi and the
groundbreaking novels of Vladimir Nabokov.

Prof. James R. Russell has been the Mashtots Professor of Armenian
Studies at Harvard University since 1992. His books include "Bosphorus
Nights: The Complete Lyric Poems of Bedros Tourian," "Armenian and
Iranian Studies," "The Book of Flowers, An Armenian Epic: The Heroes
of Kasht, Zoroastrianism in Armenia," and "Hovhannes Tlkurantsi and
the Medieval Armenian Lyric Tradition."

Tribute to Roman Jakobson, a NAASR Founding Member With Prof. Russell’s
lecture — one of numerous examples of his explorations of Armenian
and Slavic linguistic, cultural, and literary connections — comes
an opportunity to pay tribute to a predecessor at Harvard who looked
at similar issues. Roman Jakobson is considered the father of modern
structural linguistics, the founder of phonology, and one of the
leading Slavi-cists of his time. A founder of the pre-revolution Moscow
Linguistic Circle and later the famed Prague School of Linguistics,
his work has been a profound influence on all who have followed him,
including Claude Levi-Strauss, Roland Barthes, Paul Ricoeur, Gilles
Deleuze, and Jacques Lacan.

Among Jakobson’s interests, albeit not one for which he is well known,
was medieval Armenian literature and Armenian folklore. Jakobson
received his bachelor’s degree at the Lazarev Institute of Oriental
Languages in Moscow (established in the early 19th century by the
Armenian Lazarev/Lazarian family), where he learned Armenian and
became interested in Armenian affairs.

Jakobson was the Samuel Hazzard Cross Professor of Slavic Languages
and Literatures at Harvard when NAASR was developing in the 1950s
and NAASR Chairman Emeritus Manoog S. Young recalls meeting Jakobson
through Prof. Richard N. Frye, also a NAASR founding member. He took a
keen interest in NAASR’s early development and the growth of Armenian
Studies and participated in the first ever NAASR symposium in June
1955 on "Armenian Studies and Research — Problems and Needs." He also
spoke at NAASR’s second anniversary symposium in 1957, giving a talk
on "The Importance of Ancient and Medieval Armenian Liter-ature." In
1964, Prof. Jakobson gave a NAASR-sponsored lecture at Harvard on
"Slavic and Armenian Questions in the Middle Ages."

Admission to the event is free (donations appreciated). The NAASR
Center is located opposite the First Armenian Church and next to the
U.S. Post Office. Ample parking is available around the building and
in adjacent areas. The lecture will begin promptly at 8:00 p.m.

More information about the lecture is available by calling
617-489-1610, faxing 617-484-1759, e-mailing [email protected], or writing
to NAASR, 395 Concord Ave., Belmont, MA 02478.

ONLY TWO AZERBAIJANI REGIONS LOCATED NEARBY THE ZONE OCCUPIED BY ARMENIA NEED RECONSTRUCTION OF ABOUT 2,000 HOUSES

Azerbaijan Business Center
Sept 8 2008
Azerbaijan

Baku, Fineko/abc.az. As the international organizations did not
fulfill their responsibilities on restoring the housing in the regions
located the zone occupied by Armenia, there is an urgent necessity
in construction appeared.

The Governemntal sources informed that Agstafa, Gazagh, Terter and
Fizuli regions of Azerbaijan need reconstruction.

"At present it is necessary to reconstruct (factually to rebuild)
not less than 600 houses in Terter region and at least 1,100 houses
in Fizuli region," the source informed. The donor could be only the
Azerbaijani budget which earlier solved the problem concerning the
closing of tent towns for refugees and IDPs.

"Now it’s time to solve the problems of people who are neither
refugees nor IDPs, but keep living on the frontier line heroically,"
the source said.

On October 31, president Ilham Aliyev of Azerbaijan endorsed the
additions to the State Programme on Refugees’ Living Conditions &
Employment.

The additional measures will cover period of 2007-11.

The Programme, a continuation of a similar document for 2004-08,
differs with a larger volume of works and coverage of areas. It
will also be realized in three directions – improvement of living
conditions of refugees and IDPs, their employment and co-operation
with international, organizations. According to preliminary estimate,
the programme will cost around AZN 1 bn ($1.25 bn).

The new programme includes construction of 15,000 new houses with
floor space of 8,000 sq.m., new schools and hospitals.

Within the framework of the fresh programme in 2008 it is planned
to define future economic structure of country’s occupied regions of
drafting a programme "Great Return". All international organizations
and governmental agencies have made their remarks on the primary
version of the programme and at the moment we are preparing its
final draft.

Over the last four years it was spent AZN 700 million on improvement
of socio-economic conditions of refugees and IDPs. AZN 370 million
of this amount were finances from State Budget and AZN 330 million
from State Oil Fund of Azerbaijan.

The endorsed programme stipulates works aimed at improving
infrastructure in settlements for refugees and IDPs (in particular
in the Fizuli, Agdam and Bilasuvar regions), improvement of TV
and radio broadcasting, stabilization of power supply and full
gasification of Fizuli and Agdam regions, and disbursal of grace
loans for IDPs, running business and farms, creation of small-size
processing enterprises, weaving mills and other crafts, stock-breeding
development, seed-, grain-, vegetable and wine-growing in IDPs’
residence sites, drawing of donor countries, international and
domestic humanitarian organizations and their offices on different
humanitarian projects ad projects promoting to creation of new jobs
for IDPs, creation of production areas and meeting refugee needs.

ARMEN MARTIROSIAN ELECTED CHAIRMAN OF RA NA ZHARANGUTIUN FACTION

Noyan Tapan

Se p 8, 2008

YEREVAN, SEPTEMBER 8, NOYAN TAPAN. At the suggestion of Raffi
Hovannisian, the leader of the Zharangutiun (Heritage) party,
on September 8, deputy Armen Martirosian was unanimously elected
Chairman of the faction of the same name. Noyan Tapan was informed
about it by Zharangutiun party’s Press Service.

KUAR, AR
Sept 6 2008

Isabel Bayrakdarian: Tango Notturno

Soprano Isabel Bayrakdarian latest CD `Tango Notturno’ is a dramatic
and impressive work dedicated to the dynamic sounds of the tango.

by Joshua Rosenblum

Soprano Isabel Bayrakdarian is the latest classical artist to respond
to the siren song of the tango with a CD compilation, and it’s clear
from the opening bars of the first track, Armenian composer Arno
Babadjanian’s "Tcheknagh Yeraz," that we’ll be in good hands with
her. She sings luxuriantly and passionately, with a richly pulsing
mezzo quality in her lower and middle registers and a ringing fullness
on top. She also responds with unforced, idiomatic vocal colorings to
the demands of the texts and melodies. Her range – dynamic, timbrai
and dramatic is impressive at every turn, as is her command of the six
languages represented here.

Nary a track falls flat. Among the standouts are Carlos Gardel’s
classic "For Una Cabeza" and Kurt Weill’s sinuous "Youkali," to which
Bayrakdarian brings equal doses of fire and world-weariness, without
sacrificing any vocal luster. Astor Piazzolla’s "Che Tango Che" has a
rhythmically fragmented vocal line that reflects the violence of the
lyric; Bayrakdarian chews it up gleefully, practically turning the
song into a one-act play in the process. Farid ElAtraches "Ya Zahratan
Fee Khayali" provides an unexpected Middle Eastern take on the tango,
one of many examples on the disc of the appeal the form has had for
composers worldwide.

Bayrakdarian is accompanied by the eight member Tango Ensemble, led by
pianist Serouj Kradjian, to whom she happens to be married. Kradjian
is responsible for most of the arrangements; others were contributed
by the bandoneon player Fabian Carbone, or by the two in
collaboration. The arrangements are outstanding and expertly played by
the Ensemble. About a third of the tracks are instrumental only,
including Jacob Gade’s famous "Jalousie" and two intriguing Piazzolla
pieces ("Verano Portefio" and "Invierno Portefio") that pay homage to
Vivaldi’s "Four Seasons." "Oblivion," a signature Piazzolla number, is
rendered as a haunting vocalise. The ride track, "Tango Notturno," by
HansOtto Borgmann, from a film of the same name, could almost be
mistaken for Kurt Weill; Bayrakdarian caresses its phrases lovingly
and dispenses some teasing rubato. This disc stands up well to
repeated listenings; indeed, it’s downright habit-forming.

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Le Point, France
4 septembre 2008

Football diplomatique; Turquie-Arménie

par Guillaume Perrier

Abdullah Gül pourrait être le premier président turc à se rendre en
Arménie. Un événement historique. Invité par son homologue arménien
Serge Sarksian, il doit assister, samedi 6 septembre, au match de
football comptant pour les éliminatoires de la Coupe du monde 2010,
qui oppose l’Arménie à la Turquie, dans le vieux stade d’Erevan.
Ironie de l’histoire, l’enceinte est située au pied du mémorial du
génocide arménien commis en 1915. Le président Gül a réservé sa
réponse jusqu’au dernier moment, par crainte de réveiller l’opposition
nationaliste, à l’affût. Les deux voisins ont rompu toutes relations
diplomatiques depuis 1993 et Ankara maintient fermée leur frontière
commune en représailles à l’occupation du Karabakh par les troupes
arméniennes. Les présidents turc et arménien promettent un nouveau
départ dans leurs relations. Des rencontres secrètes entre diplomates
ont déjà eu lieu en juillet. Et la Turquie a proposé à l’Arménie de
prendre part à une plate-forme pour la stabilité dans le Caucase.

, Turkey
Sept 5 2008

US envoy: Turkish President’s visit to contribute to Caucasus peace

The top diplomat of the United States in Ankara said Thursday Turkish
President Abdullah Gul’s upcoming visit to Yerevan is a step forward.

Friday, 05 September 2008 07:51

Speaking to reporters at the national day reception of Macedonia in
Ankara, Ambassador Ross Wilson said that the U.S. supported
Turkish-Armenian dialog for a long time.

President Gul’s visit to Yerevan would contribute to a more peaceful
Caucasus, Wilson noted.

In regard to a question on Turkey’s proposal for a "Caucasus Stability
and Cooperation Platform", Wilson said that the U.S. works with Turkey
for joint interests in the region.

We welcome with pleasure initiatives designed to strengthen dialog in
the region, Wilson said.

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TURKISH PRESIDENT EXPECTED TO MAKE LANDMARK ARMENIA VISIT
by Burak Akinci

Agence France Presse
Sept 3 2008

President Abdullah Gul could become the first Turkish leader to
visit neighbouring Armenia on Saturday, taking a key step to end
almost a century of animosity over the massacre of Armenians under
the Ottoman empire.

A football match between the two countries, who have no diplomatic
relations, is the excuse for the landmark encounter.

Armenia’s President Serzh Sarkisian invited Gul to attend the World
Cup qualifier in Yerevan on Saturday.

Turkey has not officially said whether Gul accepted but Turkish media
said he will go and an informed source told AFP that Gul would go to
the Armenian capital for a few hours to attend the match.

Turkey’s Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Unal Cevikoz
was to go to Yerevan on Wednesday to finalise details, the source
said. Turkish security services were already in Yerevan to discuss
safety measures in case of demonstrations.

Turkey has refused to establish diplomatic relations with Armenia
since it became independent from the Soviet Union in 1991. The key
reason is Armenia’s campaign for the deaths of Armenian civilians in
1915-1917 to be classified as genocide.

Armenia says up to 1.5 million people were killed in orchestrated
massacres during World War I as the Ottoman Empire fell apart.

Turkey rejects the genocide label and argues that 300,000 Armenians
and at least as many Turks died in civil strife as Armenians fought
for independence in eastern Anatolia and sided with invading Russian
troops.

Tens of thousands of people take part in an annual memorial in
Yerevan each year and about 20 countries have recognised the events
as genocide.

In 2005, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan made a first
step towards easing relations when he proposed a joint commission of
historians to investigate the events. Armenia rejected the idea.

Erdogan’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) said Tuesday
none of its parliamentary members would attend the match to avoid
politicising any visit — which opposition parties and nationalists
fervently oppose.

"I would prefer to go to Baku for a football match but not to Yerevan,"
said opposition leader Deniz Baykal.

"The Armenian constitution is based on territorial claims from eastern
Turkey. How can a Turkish president visit this country?" said Mustafa
Unal, a professor of political sciences at Ankara University.

There are groups in favour though.

Tusiad, the main business association, sees the presidential visit as
an opportunity for Turkey to promote its Caucasus Stability Pact. The
pact aims to create deeper political and economic ties in the region
and prevent conflicts such as the current crisis in Georgia.

On the sporting side, Turkey’s national team coach Faith Terim said
Tuesday the match could help build better relations with Armenia. The
team are going to Yerevan "to play a game and not to fight a war,"
he added.