Author: Hambardsumian Paul

ARKA News Agency
Dec 6 2004

RA Prime Minister receives Editor of Moscow Magazines “Armenian
Guide” and “Citizen”

Condition of arrested in NKR penitentiary institutions is
satisfactory – monitoring of Civil Initiatives Center

Deputy Foreign Ministers of Armenia and GB discuss several bilateral
issues

European films festival to be held in Armenia on December 13-19

Whole Armenian people interested in settlement of Nagorno Karabakh
issue

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RA PRIME MINISTER RECEIVES EDITOR OF MOSCOW MAGAZINES “ARMENIAN
GUIDE” AND “CITIZEN”

YEREVAN, December 6. /ARKA/. RA Prime Minister Andranik Margarian
received Editor of Moscow Magazines “Armenian Guide” and “Citizen”
Karen Mikaelian, RA Government press office told ARKA. During the
meeting Margarian highly estimated contribution of Mikaelian in the
issue of integration of Diaspora and its participation in political
and public life of Armenia. L.D. –0–

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CONDITION OF ARRESTED IN NKR PENITENTIARY INSTITUTIONS IS
SATISFACTORY – MONITORING OF CIVIL INITIATIVES CENTER

STEPANAKERT, December 6. /ARKA/. According to monitoring of Civil
Initiatives Center, condition of arrested in NKR penitentiary
institutions is satisfactory, CIC Director Albert Voskanian stated
today. According to him, during monitoring CIC came to a conclusion
that in the whole moral-psychological and physical condition of
arrested, observation of their rights, sanitary conditions of cells
is at a good level.
Note Civil Initiatives Center conducts monitoring of penitentiary
institutions of NKR since Apr 2003. L.D. –0–

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DEPUTY FOREIGN MINISTERS OF ARMENIA AND GB DISCUSS SEVERAL BILATERAL
ISSUES

YEREVAN, December 6. /ARKA/. RA Deputy Foreign Minister Ruben
Shugariana received today the Head of East Department of GB MFA Simon
Smith, RA MFA told ARKA. The parties discussed the importance of
development of Armenian-British relations and the increase of
cooperation level of South Caucasus with European community,
especially in the context of European neighborhood. The parties also
exchange views on ways of optimal use of advantages of given policy
by South Caucasus countries. They also discussed the issues of
Armenian-Turkish relations. The parties discussed present condition
and settlement perspectives of Karabakh conflict. L.D. –0–

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EUROPEAN FILMS FESTIVAL TO BE HELD IN ARMENIA ON DECEMBER 13-19

YEREVAN, December 6. /ARKA/. Festival of European films will be held
in Armenia in December 13-19. According to the published press
release, films from Germany, Greece, Poland, Great Britain and France
will be demonstrated in Moscow Cinema in Yerevan. The festival is
organized by the Embassies of Greece, France, Italy, Poland and
Germany in Armenia, as well as by the British Council and European
Commission. L.V.–0–

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WHOLE ARMENIAN PEOPLE INTERESTED IN SETTLEMENT OF SETTLEMENT OF
NAGORNO KARABAKH ISSUE

YEREVAN, December 6. /ARKA/. The whole Armenian people is interested
in settlement of the Nagorno Karabakh issue, as Armenian Foreign
Minister Vardan Oskanian said in his interview to local TV company
Kentron. He declined the critics to Armenia’s address that it delays
the settlement of the Nagorno Karabakh issue. At that he mentioned
that the Armenian people is not ready to agree to solutions that are
in contradiction of its interests. Therefore, in his words, it is
necessary to find a correct balance around the issue, that would be
not easy. “We must not hold maximal positions and must agree to
compromise options”, he added. He stressed the importance of peaceful
co-existence with neighbours adding that there is no other choice for
us, “We need to solve all problems with our neighbours, to overcome
all obstacles, to create good relations with our neighbours”,
stressing that no long-term and stable economic growth and self
security can be secured without this. “This is unavoidable and I am
confident that we will achieve this one day”, he stated. T.M. –0–

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Azeri officer on trial in Hungary complains of abuse

Assa-Irada, Azerbaijan
Dec 6 2004

Senior lieutenant of Azerbaijani armed forces Ramil Safarov charged
with murdering an Armenian serviceman in Budapest, has sent a statement
to Hungarian prosecutor’s office, Safarov’s lawyer Adil Ismaylov said.

“We have forwarded a statement to Hungary’s Military Prosecutor’s
Office due to the fact that prison guards used force on my client.”
Islmaylov said a criminal case has been started based on the document
and that the Hungarian prosecutor’s office is investigating the
incident. The investigation does not concern the trial of the
Azerbaijani officer currently under way, the attorney added.

Safarov’s trial started in Budapest on November 23. The proceedings
have been adjourned until February 8 due to the summoning of new
witnesses to court.*

Armenianow.com
3 Dec 2004
;id= 342

Return Journey: Refugees from Turkmenistan struggle to adjust to Armenia

By Arpi Harutyunyan
ArmeniaNow Reporter

Most of a group of 205 Armenians who were airlifted to Armenia from
Turkmenistan have returned to that country.
The group were flown to the republic over the past two years ago with the
help of the International Organization for Migration (IOM) following a
crackdown on illegal migrants by the Turkmen authorities.
Rubik Zohrabyan, 52, from Goris, is one of the few who has not gone back to
live in Turkmenistan. He does not even want to remember recent times, though
his living conditions have been satisfactory. As he says, he has been doing
every job except crime in Turkmenistan: he has been a carrier, a driver, a
shoemaker, a trader, a cook.but he has not complained because he earned
enough money.
“Life is easy there, whoever wants to work can find it. We had gas, light,
water, the transport is free of charge.Nobody bothers us. I was happy in
that country,” says Zohrabyan.
He left Goris aged 26 because he realized he could earn more money in
Turkmenistan and traveled there with his wife to work with his uncle because
he was unable to provide for his family in his motherland. He settled there
and the couple had two sons.

Only a few of the Armenians from Turkmenistan remain in Armenia
But during the last few years life for Armenians in Turkmenistan became more
difficult because of their lack of citizenship.
“For several years there have been checks at people’s homes to find those
without citizenship. My house had two doors, so that we could leave through
one of them when the police approached. If we had been caught, we would have
had either to serve three years in prison or pay $5,000,” explains
Zohrabyan.
Earlier this year, he returned to Goris thanks to the International
Organization of Migration and his family will also be back soon. They want
to sell their property in Turkmenistan and resettle in Armenia.
“There is no way back, and I am glad. For the last 15 years I have slept and
woke up with the idea of coming back to Armenia in my mind. My heart has
always been here, in Turkmenistan I lived only physically. I am now in my
motherland: I don’t need anything else,” says Zohrabyan.
He says that one of the reasons he doesn’t want to leave Goris is that he
has got a job there and can provide for his family. He works as a locksmith
at a hydro-electric station.
In contrast to Zohrabyan, others feel sad that they have come back to
Armenia without preparing for the life that awaited them. They mostly live
in poverty: few have found jobs in Goris and the money they brought back
with them has finished.
“You know, I wouldn’t have thought I would face such problems: we don’t work
for already 7-8 months, we buy everything on credit,” says Nvard
Hakhverdyan. “I just wonder how we are going to pay back our debts. Whatever
money we brought we spent in a month or two. We would rather go on living in
fear than think every morning that the children are hungry.”
Nvard’s two children were born in the city of Mari in Turkmenistan. They
lived there for 6 years from 1998 to 2004. Her husband, 38-year-old Vahan
Melkumyan, was a small trader who says that $100-150 dollars a month was
enough to provide for a family of four.
This year Vahan’s family returned to Armenia.
“We were romantic to think we were coming to our homeland to help build it.
But now all that seems funny, when we realize that you do not exist for your
state. No one will pay attention even to those dying of hunger,” says
Hakhverdyan.
It is already 10 months that Nvard and Vahan quarrel every single day. The
husband blames the wife for making him return to Goris and finding
themselves in poverty as a result.
According to the IOM, more than 20,000 Armenians live in the Turkmen cities
of Ashgabad and Mari. The majority are illegal migrants without
registration, who therefore have a status of temporary dwellers. They will
live until they are expelled or return of their own accord.
In 2002 upon the initiative of the IOM and the Embassy of Armenia in
Turkmenistan 113 people were returned to Armenia. A second repatriation took
place in January 2004, when 92 people returned to Armenia.
“We were aware there are many Armenians in Turkmenistan who wanted and
needed to come back to Armenia. We addressed the Embassies of Turkmenistan
and Armenia and got support,” explains IOM Program Officer Ovsanna Babayan.
“Then we asked for financial support from the governments of the Netherlands
and Great Britain. As a result 205 Armenians returned home for free.”
The majority of those who returned to Armenia are dwellers of Goris, the
second largest city in Syunik marz after Kapan. According to the
municipality, the population of the city is 23,500, although local people
insist that many left for abroad even though they remain registered in
Goris.
Babayan explains that once a chain migration began from Goris to
Turkmenistan, people began to follow their relatives there one after
another.
“The mentality in the Goris area is such that as soon as one leaves for a
country others follow him. In this case, it was Turkmenistan,” says Nelson
Voskanyan, the Mayor of Goris. “However, the migration from Goris to
Turkmenistan occurred mainly before the 1980s. There isn’t any more. The
municipality does not keep information about the numbers of emigrants and
repatriates.”
Many of the Goris people met by ArmeniaNow had left Armenia for Turkmenistan
in the1990s. The main reason was the social crisis that existed in all the
cities and villages of Armenia after the collapse of the USSR, as well as
the Artsakh war. Goris was no exception and, since hardly a single resident
of the city did not have a relative in Turkmenistan, many left for that
country.
The family of 38-year-old Karmen Ishkhanyan left in 1992. It was the hottest
period of the war and their apartment block had suffered from shelling by
Azerbaijani forces. Besides, the children were young and they needed
care,something Karmen’s husband Haykaz Hakobyan couldn’t afford.
“During the war, three or four shells fell only on our building. Together
with the neighbors we moved to the basement to be a little bit safer.
Besides, we didn’t have any means of earning a living and my son decided to
move to Turkmenistan to make money,” recalls his mother, 68-year-old Genofya
Melkonyan.
Haykaz and Karmen took their youngest son aged only a few months with them
to Turkmenistan, leaving their two four and five-year old daughters with the
grandmother. They lived there for 10 years.
“We were well-off in Turkmenistan, I had no complaints. My husband used to
repair cars and managed to provide both for us and the family in Goris. But
we couldn’t stay there anymore because we did not have registration” says
Ishkanyan.
They returned to Goris in 2002, but they already think about going back and
are sorry they left their life there.
“Life is boring here. We have become old during these two years. It’s
abnormal, but at this age already we live in memories. We will likely move
there again. It’s ok if we live on the run, in exchange we will have the
means to live,” says Ishkanyan.
Her words anger the grandfather of the family, 70-year-old Henrik Hakobyan.
Of course, he realizes that his son cannot earn enough money in Goris but he
does not want to hear about them going back.
“I have five sons, three of whom are not in Armenia. I haven’t seen my
middle son for 14 years, and I don’t know my grandchildren. If this son
leaves again, I will not be able to stand missing them. But there is no
other way. I don’t know.”
Of the 20 families returned from Turkmenistan, ArmeniaNow managed to find
only five. Others have left for Turkmenistan again, driven in many cases by
the same reasons – unemployment which means an inability to provide the
families.

IRANIAN ARMENIAN WRITER R.BEN PASSES AWAY

TEHRAN, December 3 (Noyan Tapan). Ruben Hovhannisian, Iranian Armenian
poet and prosaist, known to the literary world as R.Ben passed
away. NT was informed about this by the Marmara Istanbul daily
newspaper.

R.Ben was born in 1916 in Tehran where he attended the Haykazian
college, then Persian schools. Being an architect by speciality, he
held a position in the Iran National Oil Company for many years.

R.Ben was an active member of the “Nor Edge” (“New Page”) literary
society, which has been engaged in publishing starting from 1935. 26
issues of “Nor Edge” were released owing to Ruben Hovhannisian’s
efforts by 2003. The writer closely knew and worked with H.Falian,
Dev, Vostanik, G.Khanents, Z.Mirzoyan and a number of other writers
who gave new spirit to Iranian Armenian literature with their
publications in “Nor Edge.”

R.Ben died on November 14 in Tehran.

The Messenger, Georgia
Dec 2 2004

Georgia benefits from Ukraine’s revolution

Over the last week the Georgian administration has declared its
position regarding the political turmoil in Ukraine, including
obvious statements in support of the opposition by Parliament, the
Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Mayor’s Office and even an allusion
by President Mikheil Saakashvili that the country is proud to see
other countries in the region following Georgia’s example.

In a comment published by the International Herald Tribune on
Tuesday, Saakashvili signed off noting that Georgians “also see that
the message of our revolution – that democracy is universal and can
be successful in post-Soviet states – is widely spreading in the
region.”

His political opponents have begun speculating that the Georgian
revolutionary leader has been contaminated with ‘Trotsky’ and ‘Che
Guevara’ illness and wants to export revolution. Leaders of the Labor
Party say that it would have been better for Georgia not to openly
assert its sympathies so as not to irritate Russia.

But Russia’s increasingly obvious meddling in another country’s
presidential election have backfired not only in Kiev but have also
drawn greater attention to Moscow’s inclination to interfere into
neighboring countries’ affairs, including Georgia’s. Tbilisi’s
current support for the opposition, and for democratic norms like
fair elections, serves to increase this attention.

Russia under Putin has drifted farther from democracy and is
gradually backing away from democratic reforms. It continues to
export its own administrative model to neighboring countries so as to
exercise its influence in post-Soviet countries. But already there is
a tradition of notable failures. In Serbia Russia supported Milosevic
yet he lost. In the last two months Russia has supported Khadjimba in
the Abkhaz presidential elections, and Yanukovich in Ukraine’s; but
in both cases popular support has been expressed for another
candidate; and there is the suggestion that support for Baghapsh and
Yushchenko is partly due to Moscow’s interference.

Although in Georgia one year ago Russia did not openly support
Shevardnadze, it did demonstrate its staunch support for Aslan
Abashidze. Within months Saakashvili was hailed as a hero in Batumi
and Abashidze was on a plane retreating to Moscow. Here too,
undemocratic interests in Russia lost.

The Georgian political establishment is trying to foresee future
developments in Ukraine and its impact on Georgia. Some forecast that
2005 will be very difficult year for Georgia no matter what: if the
Orange Revolution in Ukraine fails to materialize, it will equate to
a victory of Russian neo-imperialism and Georgia may become the
target of Russia’s next attack. If Yushchenko wins, some Georgians
worry that Russian imperialist forces will try to take revenge on
Georgia to compensate for their failure in Ukraine.

While Russia meddles, Georgia has taken a remarkably prudent approach
to elections in Abkhazia. The Tbilisi administration has taken very
wise steps from the very beginning, ufficials refusing to comment and
withholding statements even when the situation began to boil over.
Such an approach deprived neo-imperialists in Russia of the ability
to speculate on Georgia’s threat to Abkhazia.

Until recently Russia has demonstrated ‘skilled’ experience in
supporting separatism in South Ossetia and Abkhazia (Georgia),
Transdnestr (Moldova) and Karabakh (Azerbaijan). Recent events
indicate that policy managers for these regimes are losing their
grip. The worry in Ukraine is that Russia is increasingly desperate
and determined to prove that it can still influence satellites as it
did two decades ago.

Of course the best development for Georgia is the victory of
Ukrainian democracy, which will open the way for this country into
European integration and accelerate Georgia’s movement toward Europe
as well. This will facilitate further close collaboration between two
countries keen on European integration.

It will have inevitable repercussions for other post-Soviet states
too; and even in Russia questions will be asked about how long a
country can stand against the desire for genuine democracy.

2ND IRAN-ARMENIA ELECTRICITY LINE TO BE LAUNCHED TODAY

Asia Pulse
Dec 01, 2004

TEHRAN, Dec 1 Asia Pulse – A second line of the Iran-Armenia electricity
network with a capacity of 230 kw is due to be inaugurated today.

Iranian Energy Minister Habibollah Bitaraf and his Armenian counterpart,
Armen Movsisian, will be attending the inaugural ceremony.

“Electricity exchanges between the two countries will reach a total of 450
megawatts through this project,” the managing director of the Iranian SANIR
Electricity Company said.

Alireza Kadkhodaei said that the project costs US$8.4 million.

He also announced that the two countries` energy ministers are scheduled to
sign an agreement for construction of a third line of the the two countries`
electricity network.

Meanwhile, Iran and Armenia on May 13 signed an agreement to construct a
42-km gas pipeline between the Armenian cities of Megri and Kajaran.

The project is to be inaugurated during an upcoming visit of Energy Minister
Bitaraf in Armenia.

The Iran-Armenia trade volume is expected to reach US$10 billion in the next
20 years with implementation of the above-stated project.

Le Figaro
29 novembre 2004

Djorkaeff : un challenge difficile aux allures de CDD;
Pour sa troisième saison en Angleterre, l’ancien international vit
une période délicate avec Blackburn, soulagé par un succès à Fulham

Dominique PAGNOUD

Avec son bonnet de laine sur la tête et son blouson en toile sur la
poitrine, Youri Djorkaeff se fond facilement dans la population de
Manchester pressée de rentrer chez elle par les durs frimas
d’automne. Malgré ses apparences d’éternel teenager,
l’ex-international arrive théoriquement au terme de sa très honorable
carrière ponctuée par des titres de champion du monde en 1998,
d’Europe en 2000, et, avec les clubs, des trophées tels que la Coupe
de France (Monaco), la Coupe des Coupes (Paris-SG) et la Coupe de
l’UEFA (Inter Milan).

Les vêtements luxueux, les belles voitures, Youri les laisse aux
autres. En souvenir du génocide infligé par les Turcs aux Arméniens
et de la vie difficile de ses grands-parents, tailleurs, contraints
de faire les marchés du côté de Marseille puis de Lyon, il savoure
dans la simplicité, à 36 ans, le temps présent et ses ultimes matches
chez les professionnels de Blackburn Rovers, en Angleterre, un pays
qu’il considère « étonnamment serein pour être en guerre avec l’Irak.
A voir ces Anglais si flegmatiques, nul ne pourrait deviner qu’ils
ont des enfants en danger du côté de Bagdad ».

Ses propres préoccupations concernent des terrains qu’il espère moins
minés pour y tirer des cartouches beaucoup plus pacifiques. Les
toutes dernières ? Actuellement en retrait à cause d’une
microdéchirure au quadriceps droit, Youri Djorkaeff ne l’espère pas
car il a signé, challenge insolite, un contrat de trois mois
seulement, courant jusqu’à la fin de l’année mais en principe
prolongé de quinze jours à la suite de sa récente indisponibilité.
S’il continue à se comporter en leader d’attaque exemplaire, comme il
le fit avant sa blessure, il devrait permettre à son nouveau club,
sorti de la zone de relégation samedi grce à un succès à Fulham
(0-2), de reprendre de l’altitude. Youri pourrait retrouver le
championnat samedi prochain contre Tottenham ou dans quinze jours à
Londres contre Crystal Palace.

Avec enfin, un peu de chance, le fils de Jean, l’international des
années 60, pourra encore humer l’atmosphère mancunienne au printemps
et, pourquoi pas, poursuivre jusqu’à 37, 38, voire 40 ans, une
formidable carrière à l’égal des Baresi, Bergomi, Maldini ou
Virchwood. Après deux saisons à Bolton, succédant à Kaiserslautern,
l’Inter Milan, Paris-SG, Monaco, Strasbourg et Grenoble, soit vingt
années de bons et loyaux services lui ayant valu le surnom de « Snake
», un serpent se faufilant à travers les défenses les plus
hermétiques, il aurait pu tout aussi bien prendre le chemin du Qatar
et rejoindre ses amis champions du monde Leboeuf, Dugarry et Desailly
pour signer un juteux contrat.

La retraite dorée attendra, si elle doit arriver. Actuellement, il la
verrait plutôt du côté de Decines, où, avec son père et ses frères,
Denis et Misha, il bichonne le club arménien de l’UGA, actuellement
en division d’honneur, qu’il voudrait voir évoluer en Ligue 2 d’ici à
six ans. Le présent de ce pigiste se trouve naturellement à
Manchester, la ville où il est installé depuis deux ans et demi avec
femme (Sophie) et enfants (Sacha, 11 ans, Oan, 7 ans, et Angelica, 5
ans) sans oublier Blackburn, à trois quarts d’heure de voiture où
l’ex-sélectionneur du Pays de Galles, Mark Hugues, a insisté pour
l’engager après le départ du coach écossais Graham Souness.

Dans une équipe-multinationale réunissant un Américain (Friedel), un
Italien (Amuroso), un Espagnol (De Pedro), un Slovaque (Gresko), un
Suédois (Johansson), un Norvégien (Pedersen), un Irlandais (Reid),
deux Australiens (Neil et Emerton, un Turc (Tugay) et quand même…
une grosse poignée d’Anglais, le numéro 15 des Rovers a amorcé dans
la douleur son pari un peu fou puisque Blackburn a perdu six fois
pour sept nuls et deux victoires. L’homme dont la carrière approche
les 535 matches tous championnats confondus promet de se racheter
très vite à Ewood Park, le jardin des Rovers, ou à l’extérieur. Comme
d’habitude, il jettera toutes ses forces dans l’une de ces batailles
« made in England », sous la pluie et le froid, devant des tribunes
pleines et chantantes. Le championnat anglais est le plus complet en
Europe, explique-t-il, puisque « plus de la moitié des
présélectionnés tricolores y fourbissent leurs armes. Ici, on
retrouve une envie comparable à celle des gamins dans les cours des
écoles primaires ».

Pour assouvir cette passion, le généreux « neuf et demi » ne cache
pas qu’il faut être doté d’un tempérament bien trempé et faire
abstraction des conditions de jeu. Conscient de la fugacité des bons
moments, le cinquième réalisateur de l’histoire des Bleus avec 28
buts veut s’accrocher à son CDD, fidèle à un enthousiasme qui, à
l’image de son physique, ne s’est pas altéré. Depuis ses débuts, il a
également conservé sa décontraction et sa bonne humeur, conscient
d’exercer l’un des plus beaux métiers du monde. Après des galères il
est resté entre autres sans nouvelles des dirigeants de Bolton lui
ayant donné leur accord verbal pour une prolongation de contrat , il
se réjouit tous les matins d’être bien vivant au milieu de sa petite
famille. Et de pouvoir apprécier un cortège d’excellents souvenirs.
De Kaiserslautern notamment, où son entraîneur Otto Rehagghel l’a
profondément marqué.

« Notre entraîneur devenu champion d’Europe avec la Grèce entretenait
des rapports très humains avec les joueurs. De toute ma carrière
professionnelle, c’est même le seul entraîneur à m’avoir donné le
numéro de son portable. Lors de mon arrivée, il m’a dit : « Si tu as
le moindre problème, tu peux m’appeler de jour comme de nuit. » Tout
le monde l’appréciait dans l’équipe et je comprends qu’il ait été
récompensé cet été au Portugal. »

Naturellement, dans son musée de la mémoire, il accorde une place
particulière au triomphe français du Mondial 98 : « Nous avons formé
pendant un mois et demi un vrai club, soudés, unis dans la souffrance
et dans la réussite. Je crois qu’aujourd’hui l’équipe de France
possède de la qualité, mais elle doit surtout se débarrasser de tout
complexe d’infériorité dans un groupe qui est largement à sa portée.
»

Youri se rappelle aussi avec délectation la remise de sa Légion
d’honneur au palais de l’Elysée. « Nous avions droit à cinq invités
par joueur. Mes parents étaient là, bien sûr, mon oncle Rajak et M.
Moratti (le président de l’Inter Milan, mon club de l’époque) et son
épouse. Je l’ai présenté à M. Chirac : . « Président, voici mon
président », ai-je murmuré avant que M. Chirac se tourne vers lui et
lui dise à son tour : « Maintenant, il va peut-être falloir songer à
nous le rendre. »

Le Point
25 novembre 2004

Hitler le nazisme et les Allemands;
Traudl Junge: un destin peu ordinaire

par François-Guillaume Lorrain

Comment devient-on la secrétaire de Hitler à 22 ans? En 1942, Traudl
Humps est dactylo à Munich. Son père a participé au putsch de Hitler
en 1923. Une collègue de la soeur cadette de Traudl, danseuse à
Berlin, est apparentée au frère de Martin Bormann, Albert Bormann,
qui dirige la chancellerie de Hitler. Il recrute. Traudl bondit sur
la proposition de travailler à Berlin. Peu après, Hitler, qui emploie
les mêmes secrétaires personnelles depuis 1930, a besoin de sang
neuf. Deux arguments jouent en faveur de Traudl: elle est munichoise
et ressemble à Eva Braun. Elle épouse Hans Junge, ordonnance de
Hitler, et restera avec le Führer jusqu’au 1er mai 1945. Après une
tentative de fuite pour rejoindre la zone américaine, elle revient à
Berlin en juin 1945, où elle est appréhendée par les Soviétiques.
Grâce à un interprète arménien, elle s’échappe en zone anglaise puis
rallie Munich, où elle est arrêtée par les Américains. Lors d’un
interrogatoire, un officier lui demande de raconter sur trois pages
ses derniers jours dans le bunker et lui propose 5 000 dollars pour
les droits du texte. Elle refuse. Libérée en 1946, elle répond aux
131 questions du formulaire de dénazification. Elle n’est pas
inquiétée. Sur l’insistance de ses proches, elle rédige en 1947 des
souvenirs, qui n’intéressent aucun éditeur. Elle n’y cache pas sa
fascination pour un Hitler charmant, attentionné. En 1948, elle est
interviewée par un historien américain, Mussano, qui prépare
l’ouvrage «Ten Days to Die». Le livre est porté à l’écran en 1955 par
Pabst, elle est conseillère sur le tournage. En 2000, seule
survivante du proche entourage de Hitler, une journaliste la persuade
de publier son texte, qu’elle présente comme«une tentative [?]de
réconciliation avec [elle]-même» . S’y adjoint un film, «Im toten
Winkel», où elle parle face à la caméra. Elle est morte le lendemain
de sa projection au Festival de Berlin 2002

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Du Toit gets 34 years’ jail for Guinea coup plot
By Raymond Whitaker in Cape Town

The Independent – United Kingdom
Nov 27, 2004

A COURT in Equatorial Guinea found Nick du Toit, a South African
former special forces soldier, guilty of a plot to overthrow the
President of the oil-rich country and sentenced him to 34 years
in prison yesterday. Sir Mark Thatcher and several other prominent
Britons have been implicated in the failed coup attempt.

Prosecutors in Equatorial Guinea had sought the death penalty for du
Toit, who confessed to leading an advance guard for the abortive coup
before retracting his statement, saying he had been tortured. Four
other South Africans and six Armenian aircrew were jailed for long
terms.

The collapse in March of the plan to oust Equatorial Guinea’s
President, Teodoro Obiang, and replace him with an opposition
politician in return for lucrative oil contracts has led to criminal
trials in three countries.

Simon Mann, an Old Etonian former SAS officer has been jailed for
seven years in Zimbabwe for illegal arms buying, along with more
than 60 South Africans who were intercepted at Harare airport while
allegedly on their way to Equatorial Guinea.

South Africa’s elite Scorpions detective unit arrested Sir Mark in
August and charged him with helping to finance the plot, but this week
the case was postponed until April to give investigators more time.

Lawyers acting for President Obiang were due to question Sir Mark
yesterday on his alleged part in the affair, but a Cape Town magistrate
agreed to defer the issue while he seeks leave to appeal.

LA FRANCE CHERCHE UNE ALTERNATIVE A L’ADHESION PURE ET SIMPLE DE LA TURQUIE

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La formulation exacte de cette alternative n’est pas encore arrêtée et doit
être calibrée pour ne pas heurter la Turquie. Ce serait une solution si,
“pour une raison ou pour une autre”, l’adhésion à l’Union européenne était
impossible.

La France souhaite que les dirigeants européens évoquent dans les
conclusions de leur sommet de Bruxelles la possibilité d’une “alternative” à
l’adhésion pure et simple en cas d’échec des négociations avec la Turquie,
a-t-on appris, lundi 22 novembre, de source française.

La Commission européenne a recommandé en octobre dernier l’ouverture “sans
délai” de pourparlers d’adhésion avec la Turquie, mais la décision revient
aux chefs d’Etat et de gouvernement de l’UE, qui se réunissent les 16 et 17
décembre.

Jacques Chirac est l’un des plus fervents partisans de l’intégration de la
Turquie dans l’Union européenne, mais il doit tenir compte d’une opinion
publique réticente et de l’opposition de membres de son parti, l’UMP, qui y
sont tout à fait opposés.

LA TURQUIE REFUSE D’ÉVOQUER UN “PARTENARIAT PRIVILÉGIÉ”

L’UMP et son futur président, Nicolas Sarkozy, prônent la conclusion d’un
partenariat privilégié avec la Turquie, ce qu’Ankara rejette avec force
puisqu’il s’agirait d’un recul par rapport aux engagements pris. Certaines
capitales cherchent à concilier les deux.

“Jacques Chirac veut que les négociations soient ouvertes avec pour objectif
l’adhésion”, a-t-on déclaré de source française, ajoutant que la date
d’ouverture serait “fin 2005, début 2006”, afin de ne pas provoquer
d’interférence avec le référendum de 2005 sur la Constitution européenne.

“Mais si, pour une raison ou un autre, ce n’est pas possible, peut-être
peut-on envisager ce qu’on ferait au cas où les négociations n’aboutiraient
pas”, a-t-on ajouté, en soulignant que l’Autriche et les Pays-Bas
souhaitaient aussi qu’une alternative à l’adhésion puisse être évoquée dans
le texte.

La formulation exacte de cette alternative n’est pas encore arrêtée et doit
être calibrée pour ne pas heurter la Turquie.

“Je ne sais pas quels mots on utilisera”, a expliqué la source. “C’est une
discussion qui commence.” Le 14 novembre, Jacques Chirac avait déjà indiqué
la possibilité d’une “troisième hypothèse” entre l’adhésion pure et simple
et le maintien du statut actuel des relations UE-Turquie.

Le président de la République affirmait alors : “Il y a une troisième
hypothèse : c’est que dans trois ans, dans quatre ans, dans cinq ans, on
s’aperçoive que certes il y a des progrès, que certes on a fait des choses,
mais qu’il y a encore des obstacles qui sont tels que l’on ne les surmontera
pas. A ce moment-là, il faudra trouver une autre solution, c’est-à-dire la
création d’un lien suffisamment fort pour être conforme à nos ambitions de
paix et de coopération, sans être l’intégration dans l’Union européenne.”

Avec Reuters

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