Author: Jalatian Sonya

DEMOCRAT CONGRESSMAN CALLS FOR BUSH IMPEACHMENT

PanARMENIAN.Net
10.06.2008 15:46 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Democrat Dennis Kucinich introduced a 35-count
resolution to impeach U.S. President George W. Bush, claiming that
the president set out to deceive the nation, and violated his oath
of office with the Iraq war.

Addressing the House of Representatives on Monday evening, the
Ohio congressman and former presidential candidate accused the
administration of a number of offenses, including lying to Congress
and the public about its reasons for the 2003 invasion of Iraq.

He said Bush "fraudulently" justified the war on Iraq and misled "the
American people and members of Congress to believe Iraq possessed
weapons of mass destruction so as to manufacture a false case for war."

"President George W. Bush, by such conduct, is guilty of an impeachable
offense warranting removal from office," Kucinich said.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Congress would not pursue the
impeachment of Bush saying it was "off the table," RIA Novosti reports.

Last time impeachment process was launched against President Bill
Clinton in 2000 over the Lewinski case.

Clinton was accused of sexual harassment and abuse of power. However,
he succeeded to avoid impeachment.

AMBASSADOR OF ARMENIA TO CHINA VAHAGN MOVSISIAN DIES SUDDENLY

Noyan Tapan

Ju ne 10, 2008

YEREVAN, JUNE 10, NOYAN TAPAN. Vahagn Movsisian, the Ambassador of
Armenia to the People’s Republic of China, died suddenly on June 10,
at the age of 47. Noyan Tapan was informed about it by the RA Foreign
Ministry Press and Information Department.

Vahagn Movsisian was born in 1961. In 1983 he graduated from the
Mechanization Faculty of Yerevan Agricultural Institute. In 1986 he
maintained a candidate thesis and received the degree of candidate of
technical sciences. In 1989-1990 he studied at the High Commercial
School attached to the USSR government, in 1991-1993 at the Russian
Academy of People’s Economy. In 1989-1993 he worked in the top links
of ArmRosgazprom, then of the Prometevs company. In 1993-2000 he
worked in the banking system of Armenia. In 2000-2007 he worked as
Executive Director of the Armenian Development Agency, Secretary of
the Council for Assistance to Business under the RA Prime Minister,
Secretary of the Council for Assistance to Development of Information
Technologies under the RA Prime Minister. In 2007 he was appointed
Ambassador of Armenia to the People’s Republic of China.

TURKISH NUMISMATIST TO SELL HIS COLLECTION OF OTTOMAN BANKNOTES

Turkish Press
June 10 2008

ANKARA – Prominent Turkish numismatist has decided to sell his Ottoman
banknotes collection, the most comprehensive collection of Ottoman-era
banknotes in the world, in an international auction.

Mehmet Tezcakin, a third generation member of the family that owns
the historic meatball restaurant in Istanbul’s Sultanahmet district
known as "Tarihi Sultanahmet Koftecisi", put his collection for sale
through London-based auction company Spink after his initiatives to
keep the collection in Turkey failed.

In an interview with the A.A, Tezcakin said, "I started collecting
Ottoman banknotes with a few ones I inherited from my grandfather
some 20 years ago. For two decades,I have gathered almost all types
of Ottoman banknotes that entered circulation."

"I decided to put the collection up for sale six months ago to afford
passing on our restaurant to the next generation. Since I do not prefer
that someone from abroad purchases this collection, I tried to sell
it in Turkey as a whole. But, I could not find a purchaser. Now, this
unique collection will be sold in an international auction. Israeli
and Arab numismatists have showed great interest in the collection,"
he said.

The collection includes many unique samples such as the first
handwritten banknote of the Ottoman Empire, the first counterfeit
Ottoman banknote dated 1870 and the world’s one and only paper
currency printed in four separate languages (Ottoman, French, Greek
and Armenian).

Saudi Arabian numismatist Ahmad al Jafari offered 1 million USD to
purchase 25 pieces from the collection.

DEFENCE SPHERE TO BE IN FOCUS OF RA GOVERNMENT’S ATTENTION, SEYRAN OHANIAN STATES

Noyan Tapan

Ju ne 9, 2008

YEREVAN, JUNE 9, NOYAN TAPAN. This year defence problems will be in
the focus of RA government’s attention. RA Defence Minister Seyran
Ohanian stated at the June 9 meeting with journalists. According
to him, the government will come up with a legislative initiative,
the goal of which is to expand civil control over Armed Forces. A
special attention will be paid to social problems of freedom-fighters,
perished and disabled, as well as current servicemen.

The Minister said that this year the law On Defence is envisaged to
be adopted. At present the bill is at the stage of discussion. This
year it is also envisaged to modernize Armed Forces armament and
military equipment. In particular, communication automatic management
system, border positions’ engineering equipment will be improved,
and the number of fighting positions will be increased in a number
of populated areas.

According to S. Ohanian, 26 border populated areas of Armenia are in
the the immediate danger of bombardment. 21 out of them are in the
Tavush region, 5 in the Yeghegnadzor region. He attached importance
to the necessity to pay a special attention to border populated areas.

Beeline calls its subscribers not to trust in the ‘Nigerian letters’

2008-06-06 21:50:00

ArmInfo. Over the last week Beeline mobile communication subscribers
received a big number of SMS-messages allegedly about big lottery
winnings. As ArmInfo was informed from press-service of ArmenTel, one
of the standard types of the ‘Nigerian letters’ is used: a subscribers
receives a message about big lottery winning, after that certain, not
so big amount of money is taken from him. Beeline calls its subscribers
to be more careful and not to trust in such false information.

From: Catholicosate of Cilicia <[email protected]>
Subject: ANTELIAS: Live TV Broadcast of The Blessing Of Holy Muron 6/7/08

PRESS RELEASE
Catholicosate of Cilicia
Communication and Information Department
Contact: V.Rev.Fr.Krikor Chiftjian, Communications Officer
Tel: (04) 410001, 410003
Fax: (04) 419724
E- mail: [email protected]
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PO Box 70 317
Antelias-Lebanon

Armenian version: nian.htm

LIVE TELEVISION BROADCAST OF THE BLESSING OF HOLY MURON FROM ANTELIAS – June
7th, 2008

The Lebanese Broadcasting Corporation International (LBCI) will broadcast
the Blessing of Holy Muron by His Holiness Aram I, from St. Gregory the
Illuminator Cathedral in Antelias, on Sunday 15 June 2008.
For the Americas 11:00 (EST time), 08:00 (PT time)
Europe – 05:00 (UTC/GMT)
Australia – 08:30 (Sydney time)

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AZERI LEADERS’ STATEMENTS ON KARABAKH RESOLUTION BY USE OF FORCE MERE BLACKMAIL

PanARMENIAN.Net
04.06.2008 13:32 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Azerbaijani Defense Minister’s statements on
resolution of the Karabakh conflict by use of force is mere blackmail
aimed to destabilize talks, Armenia’s Foreign Minister said.

"To respond to these warlike statements would mean to tense the
situation on the threshold of the presidential meeting. We stand for
peaceful process and understand that it’s dictated by interests of
the Armenian and Azeri people. However, the problem can’t be resolved
under Azerbaijan’s constant militaristic rhetoric," Edward Nalbanidian
told a news conference in Yerevan.

The Minister reminded that in 2001, after the Key West talks, the
sides were close to resolution of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict. "It
did not happen because Azerbaijan said its population was not ready
for settlement. According to recent social surveys, 29 per cent of
Azeris stand for resolution of the conflict by use of force. 82 per
cent disapprove the OSCE Minsk Group activities. I do not know any
other country where so many people could speak out for war. It’s
absurd to condemn the countries wiling to help peaceful resolution
of the conflict," Mr Nalbandian underscored.

WORLD BANK’S REPORT ON ARMENIA’S DEVELOPMENT POLICY FOR 2008-2012 PRESENTED

ARMENPRESS
June 3, 2008

YEREVAN, JUNE 3, ARMENPRESS: Prime Minister Tigran Sargsian met
today with the World Bank Regional Director Donna Daouset-Coirolo
and representatives of the World Bank Armenian office.

Governmental press service told Armenpress that at the meeting present
were chief consultant of the Armenian president on economic affairs,
finance, economy, justice, education and science, health, labor and
social affairs ministers, deputy chairman of the Central Bank, heads
of state customs and tax committees. During the meeting the report
of the World Bank over the choice of variants of development policy
in Armenia for 2008-2012 was presented.

The aim of the report is to present the main variants of the policy
for confronting the challenges the country is facing. The regional
director of the World Bank said that in parallel with the program of
the new government and Poverty Reduction Strategic Program the report
is also viewed as a basis for cooperation for the coming four years.

Prime Minister Tigran Sargsian said that the report, overall, is
corresponding to the program of the government and said that there are
some issues which must be additionally discussed. After the discussions
and summing up the results they will be presented to the World Bank.

5th CONGRESS OF "HERITAGE" PARTY TO BE HELD ON JULY 11

Noyan Tapan

Ju ne 2, 2008

YEREVAN, JUNE 2, NOYAN TAPAN. At the extended sitting of "Zharangutyun"
(Heritage) party on May 30, a decision was made to convene the 5th
congress of the party on July 11, NT was informed by the party’s
head office.

Proposals for amendments and additions to the Program and the
Regulations of "Heritage" party were discussed at the sitting. The head
of the group on amendments to the party program Movses Aristakesian
said that the amendments to be presented to the congress for approval
mostly include provisions of the pre-election program adopted before
the 2007 parliamentary elections.

The chairman of the regulations commission Hovsep Khurshudian
presented the proposed amendments, by which the position of the party’s
chairman will be replaced with that of chairman of the party board,
and the chairman is to be elected by the board. Amendments are also
envisaged in the order of forming the party council. In particular,
it is envisaged to remove restrictions on the right of the heads
of the party’s territorial subunits to be elected a member of the
council. The new Regulations will also coordinate the relations of
the party’s board and its parliamentary faction.

During the discussion, the council members were mainly in favor of
the party’s active participation in the elections to local government
bodies in the autumn – through nomination of its own cadidates and
support of alternative candidates.

PRESS RELEASE
National Association for Armenian Studies and Research (NAASR)
395 Concord Avenue
Belmont, MA 02478
Phone: 617-489-1610
Fax: 617-484-1759
E-mail: [email protected]

LECTURE AT NAASR ON ARMENIAN GENOCIDE BY LEMKIN AWARD-WINNER DONALD BLOXHAM

Prof. Donald Bloxham, Professor of Modern History at the University of
Edinburgh and currently the J. B. and Maurice C. Shapiro Senior
Scholar-in-Residence at the U.S. Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C.,
will give a lecture entitled "The Role of the Great Powers in the
Armenian Genocide" on Thursday, June 5, at 8:00 p.m., at the National
Association for Armenian Studies and Research (NAASR) Center, 395
Concord Ave., Belmont, MA. This lecture will be Bloxham’s first in the
Boston area. (The lecture was originally scheduled for December 2007 and
was postponed due to a snowstorm.)

Bloxham is the author of the acclaimed book The Great Game of Genocide:
Imperialism, Nationalism, and the Destruction of the Ottoman Armenians
(Oxford Univ. Press), for which he was awarded the Raphael Lemkin Award
for 2007 by the International Association of Genocide Scholars.

Interaction Between Ottoman Empire and Great Powers

Bloxham has written, "The project from which the book evolved originally
intended to focus upon Turkish denial of the Armenian genocide, and
Western acceptance of that denial. But it soon became clear that denial
and its accommodation could not be properly understood without knowledge
of how the outside world related to the deeds of the Ottoman Empire
during and immediately after the First World War … [and that] it was
impossible to explain this pattern of interaction between the Ottoman
state and the ‘Great Powers’ in the Armenian Question up to and during
the genocide."

Bloxham is the youngest full professor of history in the UK and the
winner of several prizes and honors for his work in addition to the
Lemkin Award for genocide scholarship. He is also the author of
Genocide on Trial: War Crimes Trials and the Formation of Holocaust
History and Memory, The Holocaust: Critical Historical Approaches (with
Tony Kushner), and the forthcoming Genocide, the World Wars, and the
Unweaving of Europe. He is also author of nearly fifty articles and
book chapters, and serves on the editorial board of four journals:
Holocaust Studies, Patterns of Prejudice, Zeitschrift für
Genozidforschung, and the Journal of Genocide Research.

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.