RUSSIAN FOREIGN MINISTER TO BRING PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE TO YEREVAN
Tert.am
06.07.11
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov will visit Azerbaijan on July 8,
according to an Azerbaijani news site.
Lavrov is set to meet with the Azeri president to pass him Russian
President Medvedev’s message on the settlement of the Karabakh
conflict. He will then travel to Armenia with the same mission.
VARDAN KHACHATRYAN : DIFFICILE DE S’ATTENDRE A UNE PERCEE DANS LE PROCESSUS DE REGLEMENT AU KARABAKH
Stephane
armenews.com
mercredi 6 juillet 2011
“Il est difficile de s’attendre a une forte activite dans le processus
de règlement du conflit au Karabakh” a declare le depute Vardan
Khachatryan lors d’une conference de presse. Selon lui, il y a peu
de gages d’une percee dans le processus, dans la mesure où aucun
prealable n’a ete cree l’annee passee.
Vardan Khachatryan a rappele qu’une des formulations de la declaration
d’Astana invitait les parties a prendre des pas decisifs vers la
resolution du conflit du Nagorno Karabakh.
Selon le depute cet appel n’a pas travaille directement, mais a change
les approches des parties dans une certaine mesure. En particulier, la
rhetorique militaire de l’Azerbaïdjan s’est considerablement reduite,
ce qui est un resultat des pourparlers.
Trend Daily News (Azerbaijan)
July 2, 2011 Saturday 1:35 PM GMT +4
FM: Azerbaijan ready to consider Izvestia newspaper’s appeal
Azerbaijan, Baku, July 2 / Trend, S.Agayeva /
If the Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry receives an appeal from the
Russian daily Izvestia, the country’s relevant agencies will review
it, Foreign Ministry spokesman Elkhan Polukhov told Trend.
Azerbaijan will act further in accordance with the decision to be
taken in this regard, he added.
“Izvestia is one of the oldest Russian publications, and we would
believe that the newspaper will be able to maintain its image of an
impartial media publication,” Polukhov said.
Editor-in-chief of Izvestia Alexander Malyutin intends to talk with
the Azerbaijani authorities, who, he thinks, are going to include the
publication’s journalist preparing reportage on the Nagorno-Karabakh
conflict to a “black list” on entry into the country.
Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry has included Izvestia newspaper
journalist Yuri Snigirev in the list of persona-non-grata.
“Statement by the Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry (regarding “Izvestia”
correspondent) arouses pity, because the measures that it wants to
take against the journalist, hampers fulfilling tasks he was
entrusted,” Malyutin told RIA Novosti.
In late May, Deputy Chief Editor of the Russian radio station “Echo of
Moscow” Sergei Buntman was banned to enter Azerbaijan. He interviewed
the separatist leader Bako Saakyan. The Azerbaijani authorities stated
that Buntman paid “illegal visit to Azerbaijan’s territory under
Armenian occupation”.
The conflict between the two South Caucasus countries began in 1988
when Armenia made territorial claims against Azerbaijan. Armenian
armed forces have occupied 20 percent of Azerbaijan since 1992,
including the Nagorno-Karabakh region and 7 surrounding districts.
Azerbaijan and Armenia signed a ceasefire agreement in 1994. The
co-chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group – Russia, France, and the U.S. – are
currently holding the peace negotiations.
Armenia has not yet implemented the U.N. Security Council’s four
resolutions on the liberation of the Nagorno-Karabakh and the
surrounding regions.
ARMENIE-TRANSPORTS
Erévan-Sévan par voie ferrée à partir du 7 juillet
Les amateurs du lac Sévan pourront désormais s’y rendre par train.
Après des années d’inactivité, la voie ferrée Erévan-Sévan
fonctionnera à partir du 7 juillet. Achot Ounoussian, le responsable
de presse de la société des chemins de fers d’Arménie «
Haravgovgassian yergatoughi » (Chemins de fer sud-caucasiens) l’a
affirmé. D’Erévan, le départ sera près de l’usine « Almast » et
l’arrivé est la gare de « Chorja ». La société des chemins de fer
d’Arménie réalise actuellement des travaux de rénovation afin
d’aménager l’aire de l’usine « Almast » qui accueillera dans quelques
jours les premiers voyageurs Erévan-Sévan. La ligne
Erévan-Sévan-Erévan fonctionnera chaque week-end d’été.
Krikor Amirzayan
dimanche 3 juillet 2011,
Krikor [email protected]
MUSIQUE CLASSIQUE
Narég Hakhnazarian gagne le concours Tchaïkovski au violoncelle
Narég Hakhnazarian représentant l’Arménie vient de gagner le premier
prix au violoncelle lors du concours international Tchaïkovski qui se
déroule tous les quatre ans à Moscou. Les représentants de cinq pays,
l’Italie, l’Allemagne, le Belarus, la France et l’Arménie étaient
arrivés en finale du concours. L’Arménie finit première, devant la
France et le Belarus. Narég Hakhnazarian reçut ainsi le premier prix
doté d’une valeur de 20 000 euros. Narég Hakhnazarian inscrit pour la
première fois le nom de l’Arménie dans le tableau des médailles de ce
prestigieux concours.
Krikor Amirzayan
dimanche 3 juillet 2011,
Krikor [email protected]
Agreement to be Implemented the Same Night
Story from Lragir.am News:
Published: 15:28:51 – 01/07/2011
Foreign Minister of France Alain Juppé told `Echo Moscow’ that new
proposals will be made to the parties to the Nagorno Karabakh
conflict.
After the meeting in Kazan, they started talking in Armenia that some
agreements however have been reached in Kazan, perhaps, even a
document had been signed but the mediators and the president preferred
not announcing it.
Such a version, despite its seemingly impossibility, is possible under
the current level of autocracy in Armenia and Azerbaijan. Levon
Ter-Petrosyan’s silence indirectly confirms this idea. Nonetheless, it
is likely that the sides have agreed some very important point.
Does the Armenian party have right to know what they plan behind its
back? If by now, the society was likely to learn about dangerous
developments and tendencies from the opposition, then now, after the
authorities and the opposition started their dialogue, the Congress
prefers keeping silent. And the society loses the last source of
information and worrying signals.
The authorities monopolized the right to information not only on
Karabakh but the foreign policy sector. The authorities refer to
confidentiality. A citizen of Armenia does not know what was proposed
in Kazan, what Armenia agreed and disagreed with, what kind of new
proposals can arise. A citizen of Armenia does not know whether
Armenia is ready to recognize Palestine what its position on the
Russian-American dialogue is etc.
And if these questions have been at least raised by the opposition so
far, now the opposition is on the side of the power and prefers to
keep everything confidential. The fact that Ter-Petrosyan has no
information is somewhat unbelievable: in any case, confidentiality has
never before prevented him to voice questions and concerns. The
current silence means that either Ter-Petrosyan has no anxieties, or
pushes Serzh Sargsyan to some unwanted steps.
Some Western experts say in private conversations that Ter-Petrosyan
is trying to `not disturb’ Serzh Sargsyan to sign a bad document on
the Karabakh issue, to accuse him after of treason and demand his
resignation. But after the signing, these demands will not cost
anything. Everyone understands that if one night passes between the
signing and the implementation of the agreement, the latter will not
be brought to life. If Azerbaijan says `yes’ to the self-determination
of Karabakh and Armenia agrees to withdraw its troops, then that same
night peacekeepers will deploy at the new `border’ and the next
morning it will turn out that five countries have already recognized
Karabakh within the borders of NKAR.
So playing with the signing of the treaty in the hope that it, if
something happens, can be cancelled isn’t necessary.
Law suits on over 100 books filed in Turkey in 2008-2011
July 1, 2011 – 14:35 AMT
PanARMENIAN.Net – Law suits surrounding more than 100 books were filed
in Turkey between 2008 and 2011, while around 30 writers and
translators went to court during the first half of this year,
according to reports published by the Turkish Publishers Association.
Comic magazines and websites have also been sued in court, some for
`hurting people’s moral feelings,’ and others in connection with
anti-terror laws.
`I cannot believe what I am going through, but I am determined to keep
treading on this path insistently. Fancy a mindset, such that it
brought even the Appolinare, a milestone of world literature, before
the court,’ Ä°rfan Sancı, owner of Sel Publishing House, said, Hürriyet
Daily News reported.
A lawsuit was filed against Sancı when his publishing house began
issuing copies of `The Exploits of a Young Don Juan’ by the 20th
century French literary figure Appolinare. Sancı, however, continued
publishing books under the title `the Erotic Series,’ which only
intensified the legal pressure on him, as he was forced to face one
trial after another.
`I sat before court in the morning and received an award in the
evening. I was punished by my country and I was granted an award from
abroad. That is a great irony,’ said Sancı, who received the Freedom
to Publish Prize Special Award from the Geneva-based International
Publishing Association, or IPA, last November.
`I could not believe my ears when the prosecutor asked me whether I
read these books with my family; I could not muster up any response,’
he added.
Regarding the freedom of thought and expression, the year 2011 has
turned out to be even grimmer than 1980 when the military delivered
Turkey’s infamous coup d’état, according to Metin Celal, the president
of the Turkish Publishers Association.
`Writers and translators are being sued, journalists are being jailed,
statues are being demolished… As if all this was not enough,
world-renowned director Emir Kusturica was invited to the Antalya Film
Festival as a member of the jury, [only to be] protested against. Our
Nobel laureate author Orhan Pamuk was almost sentenced to paying
indemnities to each Turkish citizen [just] because he expressed his
thoughts. Another Nobel laureate writer, Naipul, was invited to an
organization in Istanbul and made into a pariah on the grounds that he
insulted Islam,’ Celal told Hürriyet Daily News in a phone interview.
Exodus has hit alarming figures, intellectuals say
13:18 – 01.07.11
A group of Armenian intellectuals held a news conference today to blow
a whistle over the alarmingly growing size of emigration.
Levon Ananyan, the president of the Writers’ Union, said the steps
taken in this regard are imitation after all. He said a village mayor
told him that recently about a hundred young men have moved to Russia.
Environmentalist Karine Danielyan said that the Russian project aimed
at making Armenians immigrate to Russia is very concerning.
“We give other countries our educated professionals,” Economist Tatul
Manaseryan, who heads the Alternative Research Center, said.
The news conference was also attended by other intellectuals who all
called on the government to take “concrete and reliable” measures to
seriously address the issue.
Tert.am
The General Prosecutor’s Office of Azerbaijan is to provide
information on the RA General Prosecutor’s Office’s written request
armradio.am
01.07.2011 12:51
The Coordinating Council of Prosecutor Generals of CIS Member States
suggested the General Prosecutor’s Office of Azerbaijan to discuss the
written request made by the RA General Prosecutor’s Office’s on legal
assistance concerning the criminal case initiated on the death of the
RA citizen Manvel Saribekyan who had been killed in October 2010 in
Baku and to provide information about the results to the Coordinating
Council and the RA General Prosecutor’s Office.
Under the aegis of the International Committee of the Red Cross on
November 4, 2010 the body of the citizen of the Republic of Armenia
Manvel Mamikon Saribekyan killed in October 2010 in Baku was returned
to Armenia. On November 5, 2010 a criminal case was initiated case
according to the RA Criminal Code Article 104, parts 5 and 13 (murder
committed with particular cruelty and out of motives of national, race
or religious hate or fanatism) by the Investigation Division of
Tsambarak of the RA Police. The preliminary investigation of the
criminal case was tasked to the Investigation Department of the
National Security Service adjunct to the RA Government.
In order to carry out comprehensive and complete investigation and
guided by the Minsk Convention `On Legal Assistance and Legal
Relations in Civil, Family and Criminal Matters’ 22 January 1993, the
RA Prosecutor General on December 14, 2010 sent a letter to the
Prosecutor General of Azerbaijan Mr. Zakir Bekir with the request to
provide assistance to the investigation of the mentioned criminal
case, in particular to inform whether any investigation on the case of
Manvel Mamikon Saribekyan’s violent death had been carried out by the
Investigation Bodies of Azerbaijan. The General Prosecutor’s Office of
the Republic of Armenia had also assured that the received data and
documents would be used only in the framework of the investigation.
The General Prosecutor’s Office of Azerbaijan did not reply to the
request made by the RA General Prosecutor’s Office. Taking into
consideration that the reply is of vital importance for the
preliminary investigation of the criminal case on April 5, 2011 the
Prosecutor General Aghvan Hovsepyan sent a letter to the Chairman of
the Coordinating Council of Prosecutor Generals of the CIS Member
States and the Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation Yuri
Chaika asking to assist in receiving a response to the written
request.
The Coordinating Council of Prosecutor Generals of CIS Member States
responded to the RA General Prosecutor’s Office’s request and
suggested the General Prosecutor’s Office of Azerbaijan to provide
information about the results to both the Coordinating Council and the
RA General Prosecutor’s Office.
Garnik Isagulyan: Karabakh should return to the bargaining table as a
full party to the talks
30.06.2011 18:57
Lena Badeyan
`Radiolur’
`We made concessions before 1995 and in 1998, and it would not be
correct to make concessions today and expect Azerbaijan to change its
position,’ RA President’s Representative at the National Assembly
Garnik Isagulyan told a press conference today.
`The fact that we do not recognize Nagorno Karabakh is another
concession on the part of Armenia. That is to say Armenia has made
these concessions step by step after the conclusion of the ceasefire
agreement. Now we need to demonstrate to the international community
that Armenia is not about to make any more compromises, since not of
the concessions has ever resulted in the softening of Azerbaijan’s
position or its military rhetoric,’ Garnik Isagulyan stated.
RA President’s Representative at the National Assembly expects changes
in the negotiation format, stating that otherwise the settlement of
the conflict is impossible.
`All meetings, talks and visits will be of advisory character unless
Nagorno Karabakh becomes party to the talks. Karabakh must return to
the bargaining table as a full party to the talks,” he said.