Author: Hovhannisian John

KLO ACCUSES BUDAPEST COURT OF UNKINDLY POSITION
Author: S.Ilhamgizi
TREND, Azerbaijan
April 5 2006
The Budapest court took unfair position anew in relation to the case of
Azerbaijani officer Ramil Safarov. Prosecutors and lawyers defending
Armenian side gave unkindly estimation, Trend reports referring to
the statement adopted by the Karabakh Liberation Organization on the
last hearing of Safarov’s case.
According to KLO, the Budapest court, Andrash Vashkuti presiding at
the legal procedure evidently prepares to punish Safarov strictly at
the order of the Armenian side. It arises serious doubts on bribing
of the Budapest court by the Armenian authorities. “Vashkuti must
change his position and make a fair sentence,” the statement says.

GOAL OF ARCHEOLOGICAL EXCAVATIONS IMPLEMENTED IN ARTSAKH IS RE-SETTLEMENT OF LIBERATED TERRITORIES WITH ARMENIANS AND KEEPING THEM ARMENIAN
Noyan Tapan
Armenians Today
Apr 05 2006
YEREVAN, APTIL 5, NOYAN TAPAN – ARMENIANS TODAY. The goal of the
archeological excavations implemented during the last one year in
three places of Artsakh, in historic Tigranakert (Martakert region), in
Shushi and at the Handaberd monastic complex (the region of Karvajar)
is to again remind the authorities of Armenia that towards those
territories “the Armenian people has a historic national obligation
to make them Armenian, and if it doesn’t, the history will condemn
us.” Vigen Arabian, the Executive Director of the U.S. branch of the
“Yerkir” Union of NGOs’ for Repatriation and Settlement, stated about
this at the April 4 opening ceremony of the “Culture of Borders”
archeological researches’ exhibition at the “Narekatsi” cultural
center. Results of joint archeological excavations in the liberated
territories of Artsakh of the “Yerkir” union and “Kenats Tsar” cultural
reseaches center are presented at the exhibiton. According to Vigen
Arabian, the goal of those excavations is one: “re-settlement of the
liberated, especially strategic bordering territories of the Fatherland
with Armenians and keeping them Armenian.” The most part of them,
including the NK Autonomous Region, was annexed to Azerbaijan during
the last 80 years, as a consequence of what not only the number of the
Armenian inhabitation reduced, but the centuries-old Armenian culture
existed in them was destroyed. “We came to implement a propaganda and
educational work in general for an Armenian, particularly, for our
state,” Vigen Arabian emphasized. He is sure that one liberates a land
not only by fighting: that war will be valued only at the time when
Armenian will live in those territories. V.Arabian also mentioned that
since 1994 if the war has not been finished, then it has been stopped,
“but we were not able to solve that problem, we gave a huge number
of victims and economic losses for those territories.” “Our people
paid the price of those territories but they are less populated today:
there is a problem of re-populating the solution of which is, in fact,
left for public organizations. And the state has no clear policy
of re-populating and keeping them Armenian yet,” he stated. Vigen
Arabian is sure that “we’ll not historically be the owners of those
territories for a long time as they are empty.”

DESTRUCTION OF ARMENIAN MONUMENTS IN NAKHICHEVAN CULTURAL GENOCIDE
PanARMENIAN.Net
05.04.2006 22:35 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ The destruction of the Armenian monuments in Old
Djulfa is cultural genocide, Armenian Deputy Foreign Minister Gegham
Gharibjanian stated at news conference in Yerevan today. Laying an
emphasis on the difference between Iran, the representative of an
ancient civilization, and Azerbaijan he remarked that Azerbaijan
keeps on the destruction of the Armenian cultural monuments on its
territory. “I want to mark the fact that the Iranian authorities
treat the maintenance of the monuments belonging to other nations
with great responsibility,” he said, reported Novosti-Armenia.

ARMENIA DOES NOT ACKNOWLEDGE THE BORDERS?!
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[07:43 pm] 04 April, 2006
“We recognize Armenia as an independent country. We do not have
diplomatic relations with Armenia but we respect the independence of
the country, as well as the independence of the former USSR countries,”
the Councillor of the Turkish Prime Minister and the Parliament Deputy
Egemen Bagish said in New York. In his words Turkey will not open
the borders with Armenia as Armenia does not acknowledge those borders.
“The RA Constitution calls for the non acknowledgement of the borders,”
he said.

NEWLY ELECTED EU SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE TO SOUTH CAUCASUS TO PAY COGNITIVE VISIT TO ARMENIA ON APRIL 5-7
Noyan Tapan
Armenians Today
Apr 04 2006
YEREVAN, APRIL 4, NOYAN TAPAN – ARMENIANS TODAY. Ambassador Piter
Semneby, newly elected EU Special Representative to the South Caucasus,
will be in Armenia on a cognitive visit on April 5-7. As Noyan Tapan
was informed from RA Foreign Ministry Press and Information Department,
during his stay in Armenia Semneby will meet with RA President Robert
Kocharian, Prime Minister Andranik Margarian, National Assembly
Speaker Artur Baghdasarian, Foreign Minister Vartan Oskanian, Defence
Minister Serge Sargsian, Catholicos of All Armenians Karekin II and
NKR Foreign Minister Georgi Petrosian. Ambassador Semneby is also to
meet with heads of a number of diplomatic representations accredited
in Armenia. Semneby’s meeting with RA Foreign Minister Vartan Oskanian
will take place on April 5. Immediately after the meeting the joint
press conference of Minister Oskanian and Ambassador Semneby will be
held at RA Foreign Ministry press hall.

FORCE IS INADMISSIBLE
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[06:34 pm] 03 April, 2006
The Foreign Minister of the Nagorno Karabakh Republic Georgi Petrosyan
and the delegation of the Russian-American working group on regional
conflict issues of the Dortmund Conference discussed the draft circular
agreement concerning the peaceful settlement of the conflict. It was
prepared within the framework of the Dortmund conference as a result
of the nine phases of the dialogue between the representatives of
Azerbaijan, Armenia and Nagorno Karabakh.
Appreciating the efforts of the working group towards the finding of
mutually acceptable solutions, the Karabakh Foreign Minister mentioned
the participation of the NKR representative in the dialogue within
the framework of the Dortmund Conference as a positive side.
At the same time Georgi Petrosyan found the preservation of
the ceasefire regime, as well as the realization of the moral
responsibility of the concerned international structures and
organizations in the inadmissibility of the usage of force in the
conflict zone, irregardless of the participation in the negotiation
process extremely important.

KARABAKH OFFERS MAMEDYAROV NK CITIZENSHIP TO NEGOTIATE WITH HIM
By Aghavni Harutyunian
AZG Armenian Daily
04/04/2006
Karabakh conflict regulation talks steadily proceed, NK prime
minister Anushavan Danielian told journalists in Yerevan. He thinks
that Karabakh issue is a complicated one and cannot be settled at one
stroke, and the present tension does not mean that the issue will be
settled in 2006.
According to NK prime minister, Nagorno Karabakh regulation can become
a model for other persisting conflicts. Dubbing usual the numerous
cases of break of ceasefire, PM Danielian touched on the recent
statement of Azerbaijani foreign minister Elmar Mamedyarov according
to which Azerbaijan will negotiate with Nagorno Karabakh directly if
the people of Karabakh accept Azerbaijani citizenship. Danielian on
his part stated that Karabakh will talk to Mamedyarov if the latter
accepts citizenship of Karabakh as a representative of the Azeri
community of Nagorno Karabakh.

BEIRUT TO HOST THIRD PAN-ARMENIAN WRITERS CONFERENCE
Armenpress
April 3 2006
YEREVAN, APRIL 3, ARMENPRESS: The third pan-Armenian jamboree of
writers, to open on April 6 in Lebanon’s capital Beirut, will bring
together about 150 Armenian writers from Armenia, Nagorno-Karabakh
and Diaspora communities.
Levon Ananian, the chairman of the Union of Armenian Writers, told a
news conference today 50 writers will be from Armenia and Karabakh,
others from Diaspora communities. Lebanese ambassador to Armenia,
Jebrail Zhaara, said Beirut has always been open for Armenians.

Interfax News Agency
Russia & CIS Military Newswire
March 31, 2006 Friday 12:59 PM MSK
Russian bases to be withdrawn from Georgia to North Caucasus, Armenia
SOCHI March 31
The Russian forces will be withdrawn from Georgia to the North
Caucasus and Armenia, Colonel General Alexei Maslov, Russian Land
Forces commander-in-chief, told a news conference in Sochi held on
Friday after signing agreements with Georgia on forces withdrawal
“Most of the military hardware and personnel now stationed in Georgia
will in 2008 be withdrawn to the North Caucasus Military District,
while part of the equipment will be dispatched to arm the 102nd
Russian base in Gyumri, Armenia,” Maslov said.
According to him, the agreements will provide legal framework for
cooperation with Georgia in domains determined in the documents.
Georgian First Deputy Defense Minister Mamuka Kudava, who signed the
agreements on behalf and for Georgia, estimated the importance of the
documents as very high.
“We will stick to the provisions outlined in the papers and assist
the Russians in preparation and organization of the withdrawal,” he
said.

TURKEY INITIATES RECONSTRUCTION OF RUINS OF ARMENIAN CITY OF ANI
ISTANBUL, MARCH 31, NOYAN TAPAN – ARMENIANS TODAY. The Ministry of
Tourism of Turkey initiated a program of reconstruction of ruins of the
historic Armenian city of Ani. According to the Turkish “Zaman” daily’s
correspondent from Erzrum, excavations will last in Ani for 10 years,
after what the reconstruction is envisaged. Professor Hamza Gundogdu,
the Chief of the Art History Department of the “Ataturk” University
was elected by the Ministry for implementation of the program. He
will gather a staff to start works in Ani just this year. Lecturers
and 35 students will be involved in works. This year the excavations
will start from the so called Arslanl door of the Ani ruins and will
get to the door of Kars. Work will be done near Manuchehri in 2007,
and near the castles and city of Ani in 2008. In 2010 th inner
part of the castle will be taken out, and in 2011-2015 work will
be done for strengthening ruins and taking out the inner riches of
the castle. Before excavation works, Gundogdu carried out necessary
researches and assured that he will do an impartial work. The first
excavations were carried out in Ani in 1892 by Nikoghayos Marr.
The excavations were again re-started in 1917. Turkish Professor
Kemal Balkan was engaged in that affair in 1964. His works lasted two
years. Beyhan Karamaghal from the “Hajettepe” University implemented
the same work in 1988-2005.
The interesting issue of this initiative of the Turkish Government
is the one that, as the “Marmara” daily of Istanbul emphasizes, name
of Armenians was mentioned nowhere. It’s written under the picture
representing the present state of the city of Ani that Ani which
is the first city captured by Turks, has “numerous historic riches”
belonging to Seljuks.