Author: Kalantarian Kevo

CHIEF OF THE MAIN STAFF OF ARMENIA COLONEL GENERAL YURY KHACHATUROV PROPOSED INCREASING OF CONSCRIPT AGE FROM 27 TO 32-35 YEARS

WPS Agency
DEFENSE and SECURITY
Krasnaya Zvezda
April 26, 2010 Monday
Russia

At a broadened meeting of the drafting commission of Armenia
Khachaturov said, "Increase of the conscript age will also help
reduction of the quantity of evaders of military service." According
to Khachaturov, in Azerbaijan that has bigger mobilization capabilities
than Armenia the conscript age amounts to 35 years.

Participants of the meeting discussed the results of the autumn draft
of 2009 and preparation for the spring draft of 2010. Khachaturov said,
"Whereas between 2004 and 2009 we drafted almost an equal quantity
of conscripts, between 2010 and 2016 we would have problems and the
quantity of the drafted conscripts would decrease." According to
Khachaturov, bearing in mind efficiency of the contract sergeant
service the Defense Ministry plans to increase the quantity of
contract servicemen. For example, it is going to man all posts of
junior commanders with contract servicemen.

INCROYABLE MAIS VRAI, UNE JOURNALISTE DE 5 ANS !!
par Jean Eckian

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mardi27 avril 2010
USA

Cela se passe durant les manifestations commemorant le 95eme
anniversaire du genocide Armenien a Los Angeles.

La petite June Petra Mursulian, 5 ans, avec un naturel incroyable
et des questions pertinentes, interviewe plusieurs membres de la
communaute du pourquoi de leur presence devant le consulat turc.

Il faut dire qu’elle a de qui tenir, puisque son père Peter Mursulian,
lui-meme journaliste reporter d’images a dû l’entraîner pour en
arriver a un tel resultat.

Peter Mursulian avait defraye la chronique il y a quelques temps,
après avoir ete violemment expulse par Steve Cohen d’une conference
de presse a son domicile, a laquelle il n’avait pas ete convie.

Il reprochait a Steve Cohen, membre democrate du Congrès, d’avoir
participe a l’echec d’une resolution sur le genocide armenien.

Quoi qu’il en soit, l’avenir de Petra est assure !

Evangelists claim to have found Noah’s ark – 4000m up mountain

April 27, 2010

A group of Chinese and Turkish evangelical explorers said on Monday they
believe they may have found Noah’s Ark – 4000m up a mountain in Turkey.

The team say they recovered wooden specimens from a structure on Mount
Ararat in eastern Turkey that carbon dating proved was 4800 years old,
around the same time the ark is said to have been afloat.

"It’s not 100 per cent that it is Noah’s Ark but we think it is 99.9 per
cent that this is it," said Yeung Wing-cheung, a Hong Kong documentary
filmmaker and member of the 15-strong team from Noah’s Ark Ministries
International.

The group of evangelical archaeologists ruled out an established human
settlement on the grounds that one had never been found above 3500m in the
vicinity, Yeung said.

Local Turkish officials will ask the central government in Ankara to apply
for UNESCO World Heritage status so the site can be protected while a major
archaeological dig is conducted, Yeung added.

The biblical story says God decided to flood the earth after seeing how
corrupt it had become, and told Noah to build an ark and fill it with two of
every animal species.

After the flood waters receded, the Bible says, the ark came to rest on a
mountain. Many believe that Mount Ararat, the highest point in the region,
is where the ark and her inhabitants came aground.

AFP

NA SPEAKER: TURKEY TURNED TO BE NOT SERIOUS PARTNER

Panorama.am
15:57 26/04/2010

"We expected Turkey to ratify the protocols but they turned to be not
serious partner," Armenian National Assembly Speaker Hovik Abrahamyan
told pupils at a traditional open lesson in the Parliament.

He once again explained that preconditions should be ruled out in
Armenia-Turkey reconciliation process and the two countries had agreed
on it beforehand.

"The numerous statements made by the Turkish authorities prove that
they put forth preconditions over genocide and the Nagorno-Karabakh.

There is no eternal enmity for us. We want to establish ties, open
borders, but without preconditions," NA Speaker said, highlighting the
President’s decision on suspending the ratification of the protocols.

He said, the genocide issue is being discussed in the parliaments
of many countries and lots of states have already recognized the
Armenian Genocide, though, Armenia has a main misson: Turkey itself
should recognize the crime its ancestors committed.

Referring to Nagorno-Karabakh conflict and Turkey’s efforts to become
OSCE Minsk Group co-chair, Hovik Abrahamyan said we need no other
mediator in the process.

"Our mission is regulate the issue through peaceful talks.

Independence and status of Karabakh are not subject to discussion."

MANOYAN SAYS OBAMA’S STATEMENT ISN’T HONEST APPROACH

Panorama.am
15:26 26/04/2010

Giro Manoyan, the head of Armenian Cause Office says he isn’t satisfied
with Obama’s statement. This time again U.S. President avoided using
Genocide though having no reasons for not doing it.

"He has pointed unequally the role of those Turks who have helped
their neighbors or relatives to get survived. When you reject calling
things with their names, it’s in vain to do such recall," Manoyan
said adding that those words would be necessary only if Obama said
the annihilation of Armenians had been a state program.

"We shouldn’t be inspired by Great Tragedy, since they translate it
as they wish avoiding Genocide term. It’s not an honest approach,"
ARF politician said.

Manoyan deeply signifies Obama to use Genocide. If Obama says
Genocide, it will become a green light for many countries to call
those massacres Genocide.

APA, Azerbaijan
April 24 2010

Shukru Alakdag: `Protocols must be withdrawn from the parliament and
thrown into the trash can’

[ 24 Apr 2010 19:50 ]
Baku ` APA. Turkish main opposition ` The Republican People’s Party
(CHP) put forward a proposal to conduct discussions on relations with
Armenia at the parliament, APA reports quoting CNN Türk.

Taking the floor at the parliament’s meeting on April 24, MP from CHP,
former ambassador Shukru Alakdag noted that the government’s Armenia
policy had failed. According to him, there is no probability of the
protocols’ ratification at the parliament: Protocols must be withdrawn
from the parliament and thrown into the trash can.

AKP PARLIAMENTARIAN: "IF ARMENIA WITHDRAWS ITS TROOPS FROM THE OCCUPIED LANDS AND CHOOSES WAY OF FRIENDSHIP WITH TURKEY AND AZERBAIJAN, IT WILL SAVE ITS FUTURE"

APA
April 23 2010
Azerbaijan

Ankara. Mayis Alizadeh -APA. "Armenia tries to oppress Turkey with
its unilateral decisions instead of making steps towards peace in the
region. This is very wrong way because no one can press upon Turkey.

If Armenia withdraws its troops from the occupied lands and chooses way
of friendship with Turkey and Azerbaijan, it will save its future",
chairman of the Turkish parliament’s NATO Group and MP from the
Justice and Development Party (AKP) Vahid Erdem told APA Turkish
bureau. He said last decision of the Armenia’s coalition government
proved that Turkey was right. "First condition for peace and stability
in the region is the liberation of Azerbaijani lands from the Armenian
occupation. While Turkey is demanding that, Armenia chose the way of
"freezing" the protocols instead of meeting this fair demand".

Answering the question "The situation requires closer cooperation
between Turkey and Azerbaijan. Do you think to visit Baku with
this aim?" Erdem said: "I am natural friend of Azerbaijan, but not
on papers. I have not received invitation from Azerbaijan yet. If
I receive it, I will go to Baku to do my best. I talked with the
Azerbaijani journalists in Turkish at a press conference at the
Azerbaijani parliament after the NATO PA meeting in Baku and it
confused some Western parliamentarians".

JEWS DEMAND ERDOGAN TO RECOGNIZE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE BEFORE ACCUSING ISRAEL

PanARMENIAN.Net
April 23, 2010 – 20:07 AMT 15:07 GMT

A rally was held in front of Turkey’s Embassy in Tel Aviv April 22.

Demonstrators protested against Turkish Prime Minister accusing Israel
of Palestinians’ mass murder.

"Jewish activists emphasized that Ankara has no right to charge Israel
with Palestinians’ massacres, Turkey being the perpetrator of 1915
Genocide," Hai Tad representative in Jerusalem, Georgette Avakian
told PanARMENIAN.Net

Erdogan stormed off stage at the 2009 World Economic Forum in the
Swiss resort of Davos during a heated discussion over Israel’s 23-day
assault on the Gaza Strip.

Turkish Prime Minister accused Israeli President Shimon Peres of mass
murder of Palestinians during Operation Cast Lead.

2010-04-22THE ARMENIAN COMMUNITY TO HOLD A 24-HOUR LONG RALLY IN FRONT OF WHITE HOUSE CLAIMING TO RECOGNIZE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE

ARMENPRESS
APRIL 22, 2010
YEREVAN

YEREVAN, APRIL 22, ARMENPRESS: The Armenian National Committee of
America (ANCA), along with members of the Armenian community in the
US, will hold a 24-hour long rally April 23 in front of the White
House demanding the recognition of the Armenian Genocide by the US
President Barack Obama. ANCA Press Secretary Elizabeth Chouldjian
told Armenpress that during the rally the participants will read
the telegrams of the US Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire Henry
Morgenthau and many other ambassadors, which prove that the Ottoman
Empire did commit genocide against the Armenians. Rally entitled ‘We
will Always Remember’ will be organized April 24 in Washington, D.C.,
in front of the Turkish Embassy. Commemoration ceremony will be held
the same day in front of the cross-stone erected in the territory of
the Armenian Embassy. Elizabeth Chouldjian informed that a number of
commemoration ceremonies will be held in California and many other
states and cities of the US. She added that protest rallies will be
organized in all the cities, where Turkish consulates exist.

AZERBAIJAN PRAISES TURKISH MEDIATION IN NAGORNO-KARABAKH CONFLICT

Interfax
APril 20 2010
Russia

Azeribaijan’s foreign minister on Monday praised Turkish mediation
in efforts to settle the Nagorno- Karabakh conflict. "It is very
important. It is too early to speak of whether there will be any
progress, but it is important for us that, with Turkish participation,
we are stepping up negotiations on the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict,"
Elmar Mammadyarov told a joint briefing with his Turkish counterpart,
Ahmet Davutoglu.

Mammadyarov added that the American and Russian co-chairmen of the
Minsk Group, part of the Organization for Security and Co-operation
in Europe that is mediating in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, are
due in Baku on Tuesday.

Davutoglu, who earlier met with Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev,
said he had briefed the Azerbaijani leader on the results of talks
in Washington last week between Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip
Erdogan and Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan.

Mammadyarov and Davutoglu also discussed the Iranian nuclear program
issue.