Author: Kajoyan Gevork

Does U.S. Believe In Success More After September 3?

Clinton said and left and who will stop Putin?

Russian President Putin is trying to restore the USSR but we will not
allow taking us back in time. The U.S. ex-secretary Hillary Clinton
said so during the meeting of the OSCE foreign ministers in Dublin in
December. It was a blunt statement which many explained by Clinton’s
retirement.

However, it is hard to think whether the ex-first lady, ex-candidate
for president and the state secretary for four years did not realize
that retirement from the post of foreign minister of a country like
the United States cannot be an `alibi’ for the author of the statement
and the country that she represents.

This statement was made by the United States, not Clinton, therefore
the United States is responsible. Hence, the question is how the
United States is going to prevent return to the past, how it will
thwart Putin’s attempts to restore the USSR.

Armenia needs to know this urgently because not only is it at the
border of the former USSR, in a region of high geopolitical
importance, but has also engaged in the Russian efforts to restore the
USSR, whether voluntarily or by force.

How is the United States going to prevent Armenia’s return to the
past? It should be noted that this is the problem of Armenia, the
government and citizens of Armenia. Since power in Armenia does not
belong to the citizens, and the government has placed itself under
Putin’s ambitions with the connivance of most political parties, only
the citizens of Armenia are to resolve the problem of the ruling
system and prevent return to the Soviet past.

However, the United States has made a statement and thereby assumed
responsibility. If the citizens of Armenia had sufficient power and
resource, the steps that the United States could take would hardly
interest us. However, since the citizens have been left alone
vis-à-vis the government and the so-called political system so the
steps of the United States can be an additional opportunity for the
citizens to address the problems.

In this regard, after the Customs Union the United States displayed an
attitude that differs from the attitude of the United States. The
United States did not make tough statements expressing its
frustration. Moreover, it expressed its readiness to continue its
policy of supporting internal reforms.

In addition, over the past few days the United States has been active
in Armenia, discussing issues of modernization in different sectors of
economy and governance.

The question is what has happened in Armenia for the U.S. attitude to
the success of this initiative. Does the United States believe in
success after September 3 more or less strongly? Does the United
States think about change of balance of partnership and reduction of
the government’s share in it?

There are no answers to these question, and these questions will
hardly have a direct answer. They are from the circle of diplomatic
and political subtleties, and there are mostly hints.

Sometimes, however, these hints are quite transparent, like the U.S.
Ambassador John Heffern’s statement that there is nothing in the
Customs Union that would impede internal reforms in Armenia. In other
words, the United States announces that the Customs Union in Armenia
cannot be a hindrance to the United States. This could be a model
behavior for Europe which has been telling us since September 3 how
disturbing the Customs Union is.

If Europe did not have a plan B on Armenia, it is evidence to Europe’s problems.

By the way, the chair of the EP Committee of Foreign Affairs Elmar
Brok told Radio Liberty they did not lose Armenia but Armenia lost the
European prospect.

Brok is right, Europe has not lost Armenia, Europe is losing itself,
and this is a problem. The problem is equally unimportant whether the
USSR is restored exactly or with some differences. Europe’s role is
that of a strategic dam.

Hakob Badalyan
14:23 28/09/2013
Story from Lragir.am News:

New honour for CRC Chair Stepan Kerkyasharian

September 26, 2013.
Saved under Australian News

e Chair of the Community Relations Commission of NSW, Stepan Kerkyasharian,
has been awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Western Sydney,
in recognition of his “distinguished service to multiculturalism”.

The degree was presented today by the Chancellor of the University,
Professor Peter Shergold, as part of a graduation ceremony at the
university.

Professor Shergold told the gathering such doctorates were presented to
“individuals who had contributed to the advancement of knowledge or the
betterment of society and who have achieved eminence in their field of
endeavour at local, state, national or international level”.

Delivering the occasional address at the graduation ceremony, Dr
Kerkyasharian referred to the impact on Australia of international acts of
terrorism like the two violent attacks committed at the weekend in Kenya and
in Pakistan.

“The First Gulf War, the invasion of Iraq, September 11, the war in
Afghanistan and then Iraq again, the bombings in Bali, London and Spain,
have left Australian Muslims feeling in danger of being isolated and
rejected,” Mr Kerkyasharian said.

“However, it has to be said that it has also made non-Muslim Australians
feel insecure and defensive, fearful of the spectre of the unknown and the
unexpected act of terror.

“The use of religion to pursue geo-political agendas, particularly through
terrorism, is a fearful and ultimately uncontrollable destructive force.

“The impact of seeing pictures of what happened in Nairobi and in Peshawar
(Pakistan) in the last few days on ordinary Australians cannot be ignored.”

“It does present us with a challenge which we have to face collectively and
for which leaders of all religions in Australia have a collective
responsibility”, he said.

Today’s presentation is Mr Kerkyasharian’s second honorary doctorate, as he
already holds a Doctor of Letters from the University of Sydney (Honoris
Causa). He is also a Fellow of the University of Technology, Sydney. Other
awards include Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) in 2011, the Olympic
Order in 2000 and the Gold Cross of Poland.

At the end of November, Mr Kerkyasharian will conclude 24 years in his post
having served seven New South Wales State Premiers. He was previously
founding head of SBS Radio for nine years.

Mr Kerkyasharian will continue as part-time President of the Anti
Discrimination Board of NSW.

Contact details
Warren Duncan
[email protected]
+61 2 8255 6767

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WESTERN MEDIA CAN’T HIDE TRUTH FOREVER: STEPHEN LENDMAN

09:21 27/09/2013 ” INTERVIEWS

Press TV has conducted an interview with Stephen Lendman, an author
and radio host, from Chicago, about an article published by an
American journalist in MintPress News who claims to have found,
after interviewing insurgents in Syria, that chemical weapons were
supplied to them by Saudi Arabia ordered by Prince Bandar Sultan.

– Here we have another example of proof that the insurgents were behind
this chemical attack in Ghouta and that Saudi Arabia was complicit
in this, of course, Prince Bandar quoted as saying that he provided
the chemical weapons or a party linked to him.

Why wouldn’t this get widespread coverage in Western media as acts
that they claim the Syrian government was responsible for the chemical
attack in Ghouta?

– Well, of course, the US media, the reason I call them scoundrel
media, they only publish what I call the big lies. So, they publish
one lie after another wrongfully blaming Syria for blames committed
by these insurgents – the most extremist types: al-Qaeda, al-Nusra,
other extremist groups.

And there is overwhelming evidence that these people have chemical
weapons. They’re supplied by Saudi Arabia. Prince Bandar is very,
very much involved. He is head of Saudi intelligence; he’s been doing
these kinds of nefarious things for years.

The insurgents were responsible for the Ghouta attack. Russia published
information last March that the insurgents were responsible for a
chemical weapons attack in an Aleppo suburb. It supplied the UN with
this information and the UN buried it; didn’t report it and neither
did the US media.

– It’s becoming more evident from other alternative media, if you want
to call them that, such as I’d like to mention Russia Today where
there was a former Pentagon official Michael Maloof who had a paper
in his hands saying that US intelligence is aware that insurgents are
in possession of sarin gas and that this was supplied through Turkey.

This is becoming somewhat now out in the open for the general public’s
view. How can the US then think they can get away with it?

In addition, as you said, the Russian government is providing the UN
with a detailed report provided by Syria about the insurgents being
complicit in this.

– On the one hand, there is an old saying that if a tree falls in
the forest and nobody hears it or sees it, I guess it didn’t fall.

But there’s another wonderful saying that goes, “What can’t go on
forever, won’t.” And I agree.

America may get away with this for year after year after year, but
at some point push comes to shove and the day of reckoning will come
when America will no longer be able to get away with this.

There are wonderful things happening in terms of supplying people
with real information. Press TV is in the forefront of doing it,
Russia Today does a wonderful job, Voice of Russia does the same
thing and other alternative media including in America where people
are turning more to these sources for information and tuning out what
I call the scoundrel media.

And I write about this all the time. At some point these people
simply will not be looked to for information and people will get it
from credible sources and then the tide of truth will no longer be
able to be held back.

There is no question that Syria has been invaded; Washington has
been very much responsible; they’re using terror gangs to commit
horrendous crimes against the Syrian people; it’s important that this
gets reported.

It is being reported and increasingly more and more people are finding
out about it. I hope they’ll do something about it.

MARK GERAGOS CALLS U.S. STANCE ON ARMENIAN GENOCIDE ISSUE HYPOCRITICAL

12:16, 27 September, 2013

YEREVAN, SEPTEMBER 27, ARMENPRESS. American-Armenian attorney Mark
Geragos voiced about the Turkish strategy of the Armenian Genocide
denial and the double standards policy of the United States in
this issue. As reports “Armenpress” the participants of Anderson
Cooper 360 program unanimously condemned the policy adopted by Iran
regarding the Holocaust of the Jewish people by Nazis. Mark Geragos
has also participated in the aforesaid program and reminded the
interlocutors that the United States conduct similar policy in the
Armenian Genocide issue, which was followed by the other genocides of
the 20th century. Among other things Mark Geragos underscored: “Turkey
is our greatest ally in that region. But Turkey denies the Armenian
Genocide. As a presidential candidate Barack Obama stated that he will
recognize the Armenian Genocide, if he is elected. So in my opinion
the political dynamics in this issue is a little bit hypocritical.”

Mark John Geragos (born October 5, 1957) is an Armenian-American
criminal defense lawyer. Clients that he represented include Michael
Jackson, actress Winona Ryder, politician Gary Condit, Susan McDougal
and Scott Peterson.

As the Principal with the internationally known trial lawyer firm of
Geragos & Geragos, Mark Geragos cemented his national reputation as
a trial lawyer a dozen years ago with back-to-back State and Federal
Court jury trial acquittals for renowned Whitewater figure Susan
McDougal, later securing a presidential pardon for Ms. McDougal for
a conviction sustained prior to his representation of her.

During the last decade, Geragos has won two consecutive dismissals
of murder charges against clients by proving flawed eyewitness
identification. One of those clients later won a $1.7 million
settlement when the Geragos firm sued the City of Glendale for their
false arrest of that client. In another twelve-week murder trial where
the victim was the defendant’s four-year-old daughter, Geragos was the
lead lawyer where the jury did not convict his client. He convinced a
San Mateo Superior Court Judge to grant probation in a weapons and drug
case brought against Victor Willis, former Village People frontman, and
was the attorney who successfully represented Chris Brown last year.

Geragos won dismissal of prostitution charges against James Bond movie
director Lee Tamahori; dismissal of all felony charges – including
kidnapping and torture – for Hung Bao Zhong, the recognized exiled
leader of China’s shadow government with an estimated 38 million
followers worldwide; dismissal of murder charges for the third time
for a USC co-ed charged with murder in the death of her fetus; and
dismissal of a decades-old murder charge against Japanese national
Kazuyoshi Miura, a case christened the “Japanese O.J. Case” by
Japanese media.

Geragos was one of the lead lawyers in a pair of groundbreaking
Federal Class Action Lawsuits against New York Life Insurance and
AXA Corporation for insurance policies issued in the early 20th
century during the genocide of over 1.5 million Armenians by the
Ottoman Turk Regime, eventually settling these two cases for more
than $37.5 million. He is currently suing the Government of Turkey
for reparations arising out of the Armenian Genocide.

Geragos is the only lawyer besides Johnnie Cochran ever named “Lawyer
of the Year” in both Criminal and Civil arenas. California Law Business
Magazine named Geragos “One of the 100 Most Influential Attorneys in
California” three years in a row, and Geragos has repeatedly been voted
by his peers as one of Los Angeles’ SuperLawyers. His $59 million jury
verdict in a trade secrets case against pharmaceutical giant Pfizer
Corporation was voted both “Top Ten Verdicts in 2008 in California”
by the Daily Journal, as well as “Top Fifty Verdicts in the United
States” by the National Law Journal.

Mark Geragos has represented some of the most prominent figures in the
world. His client list has included former Congressman Gary Condit,
former first brother Roger Clinton, Academy Award-nominated actress
Winona Ryder, pop star Michael Jackson, Nicole Ritchie, singer Chris
Brown, hip hop stars Nathaniel “Nate Dogg” Hale and Sean “Diddy”
Combs (aka Puff Daddy), international arms dealer Sarkis Soghanalian,
and the Sarkisyan family, whose seventeen-year-old daughter died when
Cigna Corporation refused to authorize a liver transplant. For the last
several years, Geragos has represented Barry Bonds’ personal trainer,
Greg Anderson, in his matter relating to the Federal Investigation
into steroid use in Professional Sports.

Geragos has regularly appeared as both guest and legal commentator
on the “Today Show,” “Good Morning America,” “Dateline NBC,” “Larry
King Live,” “Greta Van Susteren’s On the Record,” “60 minutes,” and
“48 hours,” and has lectured extensively and authored numerous articles
and Law Review publications on the subject of Media and the Law.

Mark Geragos attended Haverford College in Pennsylvania as an
undergraduate, and later earned his Juris Doctorate from Loyola Law
School. He was born in Los Angeles

SERZH SARGSYAN: WE LOST A GREAT ACTOR, A GREAT INTELLIGENT AND A GREAT ARMENIAN

Today – 12:35

Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan sent a letter of condolences on the
occasion of death of Armenian great actor Sos Sargsyan. Press service
of Armenian President informs about this. The message by President
especially says:

“Today we all have great pain. We lost a great actor, a great
intelligent and a great Armenian.

Sos Sargsyan’s presence in our art and social life was important. He
made us kinder, more honest and better by his behavior. His roles
are a complete era in the history of our cinematography and theatre.

I present my deep condolences to the relatives, friends and
counterparts, fans of Sos Sargsyan’s art and the whole Armenian nation
on this terrible and great loss”.

TURQUIE : L’EGLISE ORTHODOXE TURQUE CONNECTEE AUX AFFAIRES POLITIQUES ?

TURQUIE

La voix du pretre resonnait sur le crepi s’effritanr du sanctuaire
alors que seulement deux fidèles prenaient part a un recent service
dimanche dans l’eglise d’Istanbul de Meryem Ana. Le faible taux
de participation est typique de ces journees. L’Eglise orthodoxe
turque est peut-etre la plus petite confession chretienne du pays et
certainement la plus controversee.

Les Procureurs turcs soutiennent l’eglise, qui trouve ses racines
dans la tourmente entourant la fondation de la Republique turque,
et est connecte a un mouvement ultra-nationaliste, connu sous le nom
d’Ergenekon , qui aurait complote pour renverser le gouvernement du
Premier ministre Recep Tayyip Erdoðan.

La porte-parole de l’Eglise Sevgi Erenerol, la s~ur du patriarche
actuel, est emprisonnee depuis 2008 sur des accusations qui incluent
la creation et direction d’une organisation terroriste arme dans
le cadre de la conspiration Ergenekon. Une multitude de groupes
ultranationalistes creee en 2004 et 2005 avaient ” les memes ”
fondateurs, et ” ils etaient tous rassembles au siège du Patriarcat
orthodoxe turque ” affirme Orhan Kemal Cengiz, avocat des droits
de l’homme.

Pendant ce temps, Vural Ergul, avocat de Sevgi Erenerol, qualifie les
arguments du gouvernement de ” faux et imaginaire “. Vural Ergul a
reconnu les liens de l’eglise a des ultra-nationalistes, y compris
Veli Kucuk de l’organisation Ergenekon, qui est lie a l’assassinat
en 2007 de trois missionnaires chretiens dans la ville orientale de
Malatya, mais a soutenu que son client et l’Eglise orthodoxe turque
sont victimes de persecutions par le gouvernement.

” Les membres de l’eglise sont effrayes et angoisses ” a dit Vural
Ergul. ” Il est impossible de ne pas voir … l’intolerance [du
Premier ministre Erdoðan] contre l’Eglise “.

Au-dela de la connexion possible avec Ergenekon, Orhan Kemal Cengiz,
avocat des droits de l’homme, qui a beaucoup travaille avec les
minorites non musulmanes de Turquie, soutient que les membres turcs
de l’Eglise orthodoxe ont regulièrement harcele des membres d’autres
confessions chretiennes en Turquie. ” Elle [l’Eglise orthodoxe turque]
a un rôle central qui n’a pas ete traitee correctement par les
procureurs “, a declare Orhan Kemal Cengiz. Comment et pourquoi une
petite eglise chretienne peut acquerir une reputation d’etre hostile
envers les autres chretiens ? La reponse reside dans ses origines.

Le fondateur de l’Eglise orthodoxe turque, Pavlos Karahisarithis
etait un turcophone, pretre grec orthodoxe, qui, en 1922, a la fin
de la guerre greco-turque, a rompu avec le patriarcat ~cumenique de
Constantinople, pro-grec, patriarcat supreme orthodoxe, et s’allia avec
les nationalistes turcs victorieux diriges par Mustafa Kemal Ataturk.

Ataturk a pris un interet personnel dans l’Eglise orthodoxe turque,
et lui a exprime son soutien. Karahisarithis, quant a lui, a pris le
titre de Papa (” Pope ” en turc) Eftim, et plus tard a change son nom
de famille pour le nom de famille turque d’Erenerol. ” Ataturk a pu
avoir une vue prononce laïque du monde, mais il allait a l’encontre
d’une tendance important dans l’histoire où la religion vous marque
ainsi qu’un groupe particulier “, a commente Anthony O’Mahony,
directeur du Centre pour le christianisme oriental a l’Universite de
Heythrop College de Londres.

Mais une fois que l’echange 1924 de la population de la Turquie avec la
Grèce a eu lieu, les adeptes potentiels d’Eftim ont diminue. La raison
d’etre de l’Eglise orthodoxe turque a disparu avec les 1,2 millions
de chretiens qui ont quitte l’Anatolie dans le cadre de l’echange,
a declare O’Mahony. ” L’histoire l’a laisse derrière elle “.

Les autres patriarcats orthodoxes n’ont jamais reconnu l’eglise.

Ataturk, cependant, ne l’a pas oublie. Papa Eftim et sa famille ont
ete exemptes de l’echange de population et ont demenage a Istanbul,
où ils ont recu l’eglise Meryem Ana, où le gouvernement a pris au
Patriarcat ~cumenique. ” Elle [l’eglise turque] a ete concu comme
un remplacement pour le Patriarche ~cumenique et l’Eglise orthodoxe
reel, et comme une sorte de proxy totalement au service de l’Etat
” a declare Cengiz Aktar, politologue a l’Universite Bahceþehir
d’Istanbul. Au cours des decennies qui ont suivi, Eftim a châtie
les autres minorites chretiennes, deux fois a occupe le bâtiment du
Patriarcat ~cumenique a Istanbul, et a pris plus de deux eglises
dans le quartier de l’Eglise orthodoxe turque au cours des emeutes
anti-grecques de 1955 et 1956 (Aujourd’hui, le Patriarcat ~cumenique
conteste les saisies immobilières).

En collaboration avec ses fils, Turgut et Selcuk, qui, a leur tour,
lui a succede en tant que patriarche, Eftim a continuellement peste
contre les groupes chretiens, affirmant qu’ils etaient des agents de
puissances etrangères.

Son petit-fils, l’actuel patriarche Papa Eftim IV, a largement evite
la publicite. Jusqu’a son arrestation, cependant, sa petite-fille,
Sevgi, a continue a se rallier aux sentiments contre les autres
groupes chretiens. Lors d’une conference de 2006 organisee par la
securite militaire, elle a decrit les missionnaires comme ” des pions
d’echecs politiques ” dont le ” seul but est d’envahir cette terre “.

Elle a egalement participe au harcèlement contre redacteur en chef
armeno-turc Hrant Dink , en jetant des pièces de monnaie et des
crayons a ses avocats au cours d’une comparution devant un tribunal.

Dink a ete abattu en 2007 par un mouvement ultra-nationaliste turc.

” Sevgi Erenerol etait l’une des personnes les plus eminents mènent une
guerre contre les non-musulmans en Turquie ” a commente Cengiz Aktar
, qui a affirme que le nombre d’attaques et de menaces a l’encontre
des non-musulmans a diminue depuis l’arrestation d’Erenerol et ceux
d’autres importants suspects d’Ergenekon. ” Bien qu’ils sont censees
etre une minorite, ils detestaient les autres minorites, en particulier
les Armeniens “, a ajoute Aktar.

Les procureurs devraient clore leur enquete contre Erenerol ce
mois-ci. Les ceremonies a l’eglise Meryem Ana se poursuivent sans
interruption, bien que son avenir n’ait jamais ete aussi incertain. ”
Le nombre de membres est en baisse … avec chaque jour qui passe ”
a declare Ergul, l’avocat.

Pendant ce temps la famille Erenerol, qui constitue l’essentiel de la
congregation de l’eglise, les accusations ne diminuent en rien leur
croyance en la justesse de leur cause. ” Tant que nous avons la foi en
Dieu “, a declare Claudia Sevgi Erenerol mère de 84 ans l’une des deux
fidèles au recent service ” nos problèmes semblent insignifiants “.

Note de l’editeur :

Alexander Christie-Miller est une journaliste independante basee
a Istanbul.

Eurasianet.org

vendredi 27 septembre 2013, Stephane ©armenews.com

REPENSER LES MIGRATIONS : LES DACHNAKS PARLENT DE SECURITE NATIONALE EN DANGER, D’INTRODUIRE DES MESURES POUR ARRETER LES DEPARTS

ARMENIE

Le nouveau projet ” Nous allons vivre dans notre pays “, developpe
par la Federation Revolutionnaire Armenienne (FRA), vise a suspendre
les taux alarmants de migration en croissance, dont les experts disent
qu’ils menacent la securite nationale de l’Armenie.

Armen Rustamyan, membre de la faction a dit que l’Armenie a toujours
eu des taux eleves de migration, cependant, la dynamique a change au
fil des annees, causant des problèmes demographiques graves.

” La migration est une question complexe, refletant toutes les lacunes,
les echecs, les erreurs que nous avons faites depuis l’independance
et avons ete incapables de les resoudre. Il serait errone d’attendre
que le pouvoir se penche sur cette question. Des mesures urgentes
doivent etre prises aujourd’hui, maintenant. La migration est comme
une hemorragie pour le corps, elle doit etre arretee immediatement,
de sorte que le corps puisse commencer sa recuperation ” a explique
Armen Rustamyan.

Le projet se compose de 11 points principaux englobant tous les
domaines fondamentaux de la vie.

Le depute de la FRA Artsvik Minasyan affirme que le projet suggère
qu’en premier le monde des affaires et de la politique doivent
etre separes, de nouveaux emplois seront crees avec un système
de remuneration equitable, l’impôt et les politiques douanières
seront previsibles, on passerait d’une agriculture sociale a une
agriculture industrielle. Il prevoit egalement de rendre l’education
plus abordable et de tourner le système vers une gestion apolitique,
d’introduire une assurance medicale obligatoire, d’elever le niveau
de la securite nationale.

” Nous suggerons que les fonctionnaires qui presentent un comportement
anti-chretien, anti-humanite, remuant les sentiments du public
de facon negatives soient remplaces ; que des restrictions soient
fixes pour les fonctionnaires, tels que : un fonctionnaire n’a pas
le droit de se presenter a un casino, d’acheter des biens de l’Etat
ou de faire d’autres investissements a l’exterieur du pays au cours
de son mandat… ” a detaille Artsvik Minasyan.

A la question qui, parmi les fonctionnaires considèrent-ils comme etant
indignes les dachnaks disent qu’ils ont decide de ne pas divulguer les
noms, parce que la responsabilite principale de la mise en ~uvre du
projet est sur les autorites et les autorites ont tendance a commencer
a proteger les personnes dont les noms sont divulgues. ” Pour cette
raison, nous avons laisse cette partie jusqu’a la dernière etape des
discussions du projet redige sur la base du sens commun.

Ensuite, nous allons la soumettre aux autorites le paquet avec les
noms et les positions de ceux qui evoque des sentiments negatifs
publics en Armenie ” a dit Artsvik Minasyan.

Il faut cooperation pour mener a bien tout projet, disent-ils, ce
qui ne signifie pas, cependant, ils sont de retour dans la coalition.

” Si nous fixons l’objectif d’augmenter l’efficacite de la gouvernance
dans le pays, et que les leviers de contrôle sont remis a l’opposition,
alors que c’est la cooperation aussi – la cooperation dans l’interet
du developpement de notre Etat, cependant nous ne sommes pas guides
par le principe de l’administration coalitionnelle ” a explique
Artsvik Minasyan.

Les Dachnaks disent que le gouvernement doit assumer ses obligations
dans la mise en ~uvre du projet, tandis que l’opposition, les medias,
la societe civile, l’eglise, la diaspora, l’intelligentsia, les jeunes
– ont tous leur part de travail a faire.

Les donnees du Service de migration de l’etat pour le premier trimestre
de 2013 montrent que le nombre de ceux qui partent d’Armenie a depasse
celui des arrivees de 95000. La plus grande part des departs (617 411)
et les arrivees (563 931) ont ete fait par le transport automobile, le
solde negatif est de 53 480 personnes. Les chiffres respectifs pour le
transport aerien etait de 390 996 et 350 342, le solde negatif etant
de 40 654 personnes. Les chiffres de l’arrivee / depart par autobus
et les minibus etaient de 8574 et 7696 respectivement, par consequent,
le solde negatif etait de 878 personnes.

Par Gayane Lazarian

ArmeniaNow

vendredi 27 septembre 2013, Stephane ©armenews.com

AZERBAIJANI FM: NAGORNO-KARABAKH MAY HAMPER COMPLETION OF SOUTHERN GAS CORRIDOR

AzerNews, Azerbaijan
Sept 26 2013

26 September 2013, 13:00 (GMT+05:00)

By Sara Rajabova

Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov has said that
Nagorno-Karabakh conflict hinders the completion of the Southern Gas
Corridor (SGC).

“Regional conflict between Azerbaijan and Armenia is not a “frozen”
conflict. It might be a problem on the way of completion of the
construction,” Mammadyarov said during panel discussions of Caspian
Forum in New York.

“Armenian armed forces occupied Azerbaijani territories, committed
ethnic cleansing. But I have a positive view, how we should keep up
the sustainable development. The question is not only oil and gas,
in general, it is related to the development of the region. It is a
message to our Armenian neighbors “, Mammadyarov said.

He said Azerbaijan is ready to assist Armenia, if this country obeys
the norms of the international law.

Armenia occupied over 20 percent of Azerbaijan’s internationally
recognized territory, including Nagorno-Karabakh and seven adjacent
regions, after laying territorial claims against its South Caucasus
neighbor that caused a brutal war in the early 1990s. Long-standing
efforts by US, Russian and French mediators have been largely fruitless
so far.

As a result of the military aggression of Armenia, over 20,000
Azerbaijanis were killed, 4,866 are reported missing and almost
100,000 were injured, and 50,000 were disabled.

The UN Security Council has passed four resolutions on Armenian
withdrawal from the Azerbaijani territory, but they have not been
enforced to this day.

SAAKASHVILI IN UN: THE CURRENT RISE OF A MODERNIZED, DYNAMIC AZERBAIJAN IS A NIGHTMARE FOR THE RUSSIAN LEADERS

Azerbaijan Business Center
Sept 26 2013

Baku, Fineko/abc.az. Mikheil Saakashvili, the President of Georgia,
who is leaving his post, had a speech at the General Assembly of
UN where he expressed consolidated estimation of Russian policy by
Russia’s neighbors and Georgian Government.

In his words, the threat of tyranny and confrontation exists
today because “old Empire” wants “to reclaim its bygone borders”,
or “margins”. Saakashvili said that he was speaking in the name of
one of such “margins” and accused Russian Federation that it has no
interest in having stable states around it and rejects the very idea
of strong governments there.

“Do you think that Vladimir Putin wants Armenia to decisively triumph
over Azerbaijan, for instance? No. This would make Armenia too strong
and potentially too independent. Do you think then that the contrary
is true, that Moscow wants Baku to prevail over Yerevan? Obviously
not. The current rise of a modernized, dynamic Azerbaijan is a
nightmare for the Russian leaders, as it can lead to integration into
the European common space”, – Saakashvili said.

He also accused Russia that it’s preparing to divide Ukraine into
parts after it signs Association Agreement with UN.

“The current Russian authorities know perfectly well that as soon
as strong institutions are built, they will reflect and enforce the
will of their people, which is to become fully independent and move
towards Europe”, – Saakashvili said.

Saakashvili said that Eurasian Union is just a concentration of
“efforts to roll back the advances of the EU and NATO in our region”.

It makes him sick “when KGB officer Vladimir Putin lectures the world
about freedom, values and democracy – this is the least of the things
he can do to the world”. The President of Georgia considers such
lectures to be a dictatorial approach.

The main target of Saakashvili’s speech was to tell why people should
not make a choice in favor of Eurasian Union.

“Unity should be our rule in Eastern Europe, including in the
Caucasus”, – Saakashvili said.

AZERI PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES TARGET WEST IN TV DEBATE

ITV, Baku, Azerbaijan
Sept 21 2013

At their third TV debate, which took place on 21 September, Azerbaijani
presidential candidates targeted foreign countries, Western media
and international organizations for their “negative” role in ongoing
political processes in Azerbaijan. Public TV aired the debate live.

USA, CNN, BBC

The candidate of the opposition alliance National Council of Democratic
Forces, Camil Hasanli, repeated his earlier remarks that President
Ilham Aliyev should explain his reported purchase of foreign properties
for his family.

Self-nominated candidate Zahid Oruc said that an anti-Azerbaijani
campaign was launched after US President Barack Obama’s visit to
Turkey in 2011. He added that certain steps were required at the time
for the ratification of Turkish-Armenian protocols on the opening of
borders between these two countries, which had been signed in Sweden.

“Mr Aliyev was invited to that event, [former US Secretary of State]
Mrs Clinton made four phone calls, the head of the country [Aliyev]
did not join the event thinking about the country’s national
interests. After they saw that the project failed to work, a war
involving compromising materials against Azerbaijan started,”
Oruc said.

He also said that media outlets, such as CNN and BBC, are the main
tools of fight in the modern world.

“What he [Hasanli] has said [at election debates] is not specifically
against the Azerbaijani president. His remarks are mostly part of
a plan to weaken the Azerbaijani state… At present, generally in
the world the fight to seize states and capture countries is not
conducted using tanks or artillery. The main weapon used in the fight
today is information. Today, the main tanks and artillery are CNN,
BBC and other major, giant information systems,” Oruc said.

The deputy executive secretary of the ruling New Azerbaijan Party,
Siyavus Novruzov, who represented President Aliyev, described Hasanli’s
accusations as unfounded. He accused the opposition of passing
“materials” to the OSCE, the US Department of State and forming
“wrong” opinions about Azerbaijan.

Mais Gulaliyev, proxy of presidential candidate Ilyas Ismayilov, said
that the US policy on the South Caucasus, especially on Azerbaijan,
stands behind “negative” things in the economy, finance, health and
education in his country.

“Super powers, particularly US special organizations, control
Azerbaijan’s economy, health and education today, even developments
on our TV channels, events related to our morality, and the state of
our non-governmental organizations and political parties,” he said.

Russia, Turkey, OSCE

Farac Quliyev, leader of the National Awakening Movement Party,
said that Azerbaijan should make some changes to its foreign policy.

“Armenia has occupied Azerbaijani lands and Russia stands behind this.

They cooperate within the Collective Security Treaty Organization
[of which Azerbaijan is not a member]. Every day, we hear this
organization’s threats when Azerbaijan expresses some opinion against
Armenia… Azerbaijan is an associate member of NATO and we do not
think that it needs to maintain simply symbolic ties with NATO, but
[should] make use of its opportunities,” Quliyev said.

He urged closer military ties with Turkic states and also called for
the establishment of a new military bloc “on the axis of Azerbaijan
and Turkey, including Moldova and Georgia”.

He added that Russia and France should be replaced with Turkey and
Georgia as two of the three co-chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group which
mediates a peaceful solution to the Karabakh territorial dispute
between Armenia and Azerbaijan.

“If this is not the case, no result will be achieved,” he said.

In turn, Chairman of the Social Democratic Party Araz Alizada said
that the Karabakh problem should be solved using a strong army,
not through using the OSCE Minsk Group.

“The OSCE Minsk Group should be rejected. We need to form a
professional army. This army should be an army of men over 25.

Azerbaijan should win this war [referring to Karabakh conflict],”
he added.

Alizada said that not only Azerbaijani oligarchs, but also Russian
oligarchs finance the National Council to “cause chaos in Azerbaijan
and to ensure that Azerbaijan fails to conduct an independent foreign
policy and solve its social problems”.

Presidential candidates Qudrat Hasanquliyev, Sardar Calaloglu and
Iqbal Agazada pledged to fight corruption and to develop the country’s
agrarian, health and education sectors.

[Translated from Azeri]