Author: Kalantarian Kevo

MAUD DE BOER-BUQUICCHIO: AUTHORITIES AND OPPOSITION OF ARMENIA ABLE TO ARRIVE AT AGREEMENT TO SET UP SPECIAL COMMITTEE TO INVESTIGATE 1 MARCH INCIDENTS

arminfo
2008-05-20 14:21:00

ArmInfo. The authorities and the opposition of Armenia are able to
arrive at an agreement to set up a special committee to investigate
1 March incidents, Council of Europe Deputy Secretary General Maud
de Boer-Buquicchio told ArmInfo when commenting on her meeting with
the first president of Armenia Levon Ter-Petrosyan on May 19 in
the evening.

She said that the role of the opposition is naturally to oppose
the actions by the government. Nevertheless, the opposition should
try to launch a constructive dialogue and make it possible to
engage to something which eventually leads to reconciliation. , she
said. Moreover, she stressed that they discussed the necessity of very
clear restoration of all the facts of 1 March incidents, the importance
of a special committee equally represented by both the government and
the opposition, as well as the possible contribution by international
community to this initiative through involvement of experts and civil
society. Maud de Boer-Buquicchio said she discussed this question also
with the power representatives and thinks a relevant agreement may be
achieved. She mentioned that establishment of the committee is among
the recommendations by PACE and its fulfillment is to be discussed
during June Session of PACE. That is why, she thinks, the authorities
must seriously think over the fulfillment of the given initiative.

To recall, debates on the recommendations by PACE Resolution 1609
on Democratic Institutions in Armenia are expected during the Summer
Session of PACE to be held 23-27 June. In particular, the resolution
says that negative assessment will lead to reduction of mandates and
deprivation of votes of Armenian delegates to PACE for a year.

TIGRAN SARGSIAN, "THE NEW GOVERNMENT HAS COME TO MAKE DRASTIC CHANGES"

ARMENPRESS
May 16, 2008

YEREVAN, MAY 16, ARMENPRESS: Armenian President Tigran Sargsian
received today the delegation headed by the U.S. coordinator of
European and Eurasian assistance Tom Adams.

Governmental press service told Armenpress that during the meeting the
prime minister said that Armenia underscores the further development of
relations with USA and particularly the activity of the U.S.-Armenian
inter-governmental task group dealing with the economic issues,
which he said, is ensuring progress for Armenia.

Tigran Sargsian thanked the U.S. government for the large volume of
assistance provided to Armenia since its independence and added that
in a number of spheres the results are obvious.

"At the same time we fully realize that there are spheres where the
reforms are not notable and U.S. assistance will greatly promote to
overcome the issues in those spheres as well," the prime minister said.

Congratulating Tigran Sargsian on being appointed in the office of
the prime minister, Tom Adams said that he is very glad as he had an
opportunity to cooperate with him when he was the chairman of the
Armenia’s Central Bank. T. Adams expressed assurance that Tigran
Sargsian will succeed in his new position.

During the meeting the prime minister also presented Armenia’s
macroeconomic situation, as well as the pace of reforms in tax and
customs systems.

Considering it one of the main issues of the newly formed government,
Sargsian said that the achieved results will directly promote the
solution of social and economic issues of the country.

He said that soon program of events and aims of the reforms in tax
and customs spheres will be published through which the public will
be able to control the steps of the government.

Among the prior issues he also noted the creation of favorable
conditions for the development of small and medium sized business,
effective fight against corruption. He said that the government is
cooperating with the international establishments in that direction.

Tom Adams noted that during the recent times the positive changes
are quite notable in the improving tax administration and pointed
out that there are still some issues connected with the development
of democracy, rule of law, promotion of business. He promised that
U.S. administration will continue cooperating with the Armenian
government in the mentioned spheres for making the country attractive
for foreign investments.

"People are tired of words and promises. We need to work and have
announced that the new Armenian government has come to make drastic
changes," Tigran Sargsian said.

COMMITTEE DISCUSSED 11 CHARITABLE PROJECTS

Panorama.am
19:16 16/05/2008

Today the session of the RA Government charitable projects committee
took place which was headed by the president of the committee Simon
Ter-Simonyan, reported the press and public relations department of
the Government. According to the source the committee has discussed
11 charitable projects.

According to the source the following projects have been affirmed: "RA
Shirak region, Artik city – furnishing of schools N 3; 4; 5; 6 and 7",
"RA Armavir region, Parakar city – reconstruction of Hovik Edgaryan
art school", the projects are supported by "Armenia" pan Armenian
foundation, as well as several projects on hospital reconstruction,
providing medical equipments.

The project presented by the Holy Church Echmiatsin "reconstruction
of Arabkir region church" has also been affirmed. A range of projects
on reconstruction of dispensers in Vardenis, Gyumri cities have also
been affirmed.

SPEAKER OF KARABAKH PARLIAMENT GAVE CONDOLENCES TO THE CHINESE PEOPLE

KarabakhOpen
17-05-2008 12:45:57

The speaker of the NKR National Assembly Ashot Ghulyan sent a telegram
to his Chinese counterpart Wu Bango, giving condolences to the Chinese
people, the families of the victims of the devastating earthquake.

STEPS TAKEN IN DIRECTION OF RATIFICATION OF TRANSACTIONS OF UN EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMISSION ON "HEAVY METALS" IN ARMENIA

Noyan Tapan

Ma y 15, 2008

YEREVAN, MAY 15, NOYAN TAPAN. The "Assistance for Ratification of
transactions of UN European Economic Commission on "Heavy Metals""
three-day workshop, which was attended by representatives of over ten
countries, launched its proceedings in Yerevan on May 14. Within the
frameworks of the UN corresponding convention eight transactions have
been adopted for 29 years, which regulate the exhaustion of almost
all the most important harmful materials into atmosphere.

Armenia ratified the convention in 1997. However, as Angella Turlikian,
the chief specialist of the Protection Department of the RA MInistry
of Environmental Protection, mentioned, none of those transactions
has been ratified up to now. The reason, according to her, is that the
implementation of the strict demands defined by those transactions are
not available for Armenia as yet. Among them are, in particular, the
detailed making inventory of exhaustions and the continuous running of
land-survey and the investment of "best available technologies." In
the words of A. Turlikian, the making inventory conducted in the
republic and the running of land-survey do not correspond to the
demands of the transactions as yet.

According to her, the objective of the workshop is to contribute
to the abolishion of obstacles for the ratification of one of those
transactions: the transactions on "Heavy metals." This transactions
regulates the exhaustions of mercury, lead and cadmium. A. Turlikian
mentioned that the issue is very up-to-date for Armenia, as there
are sources of exhaustions of heavy metals. They are, in particular,
the factories of non-ferrous metals and cement.

The given transactions has been ratified by 29 out of 51 countries,
which have voted for the convention. At present, steps are taken
in Armenia in the direction of its ratification and the settlement
of the problems connected with the implementation of the obligations
prodeeding from them. It was also mentioned that a cartography program
of the sources and quantities of exhaustions has been carried out
in the republic. In addition to this, the monitoring station of
transborder pollution will be put into operation in a month. The
government of Norway has sponsored the creation of this station
in Armenia.

AZERBAIJAN JOINS THE MIDDLE EAST
By John C. K. Daly

Eurasia Daily Monitor
le_id=2373054
May 13 2008
DC

Azerbaijan’s massive hydrocarbon resources have begun to attract
the attention of an increasing number of energy-poor nations in
the Middle East, including Israel and Jordan. While the logistical
problems involved in such deliveries would be daunting, as no direct
pipelines currently exist, the diplomatic intricacies involved in
such shipments would be even more formidable. Nevertheless, the
diplomatic implications of such interest are both interesting and
potentially significant.

Israel has recently attempted to increase its number of natural gas
suppliers, according to National Infrastructure Minister Benjamin
Ben Eliezer. On May 4 Ben Eliezer told a conference in Tel Aviv that
his Ministry had discussed possible future supplies of natural gas
to Israel with the energy companies BP and Gazprom as well as with
Caspian producers Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan. Last week
in Azerbaijan, National Infrastructure Ministry Director-General
Hezi Kugler held talks with Azeri officials about possible future
gas supplies, but no details of the negotiations have been released
(Trend news agency, May 6).

Azerbaijan produces gas from its Caspian offshore Shah Deniz field,
the country’s largest natural gas field, which is operated by BP. The
330 square-mile Shah Deniz gas and condensate field was discovered
in 1999 and began production in December 2006. The field lies under
2,000 feet of water, 44 miles southeast of Bakubat.

BP owns 25.5 percent of the joint venture. The other Shah Deniz
consortium partners are Statoil Azerbaijan (25.5 percent), State Oil
Company of the Azerbaijan Republic (SOCAR) (10 percent), France’s Elf
Petroleum Azerbaijan (10 percent), Russia’s LukAgip N.V. (10 percent),
Iran’s Oil Industries Engineering & Construction (OIEC) (10 percent),
and Turkiye Petrolleri Anonim Ortakligi (TPAO) (9 percent).

Shah Deniz holds an estimated 1.5 to 3 billion barrels of oil, and 50
to 100 billion cubic meters of gas. The United States is optimistic
about Azerbaijan’s natural gas future. The US Energy Information Agency
wrote, "With the addition of the Shah Deniz natural gas and condensate
field and the South Caucasus Pipeline, Azerbaijan will become a large
natural gas provider to Turkey and to Europe in the upcoming decade"
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The 430-mile-long South Caucasus Pipeline, also known as the
Baku-Tbilisi-Erzurum (BTE) Pipeline, became operational at the same
time as the Shah Deniz field and transmits Azeri gas through Georgia
to Erzurum in eastern Turkey. Shah Deniz oil is sent through the
1,092-mile-long, $3.6 billion Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) pipeline,
which terminates at Turkey’s eastern Mediterranean port of Ceyhan. The
BTC shares the same corridor as the BTE. In 2007 the BTC pipeline
exported roughly 650,000 barrels per day of crude and condensate.

The devil is in the details, in this case geography. While Israel
might be interested in possible imports of Azeri natural gas, the fact
remains that there are only two ways of transporting it, pipelines
and liquefied natural gas (LNG) tankers. LNG ports and tankers are
extremely expensive, while any pipeline extending from Erzurum to
Israel would either have to extend from southeastern Turkey under
the Mediterranean parallel to the Lebanese coast or traverse Syria,
with which Israel has yet to sign a peace treaty.

There are, however, interesting signs that a deal may yet be in the
works. According to recent newspaper reports, Israeli Prime Minister
Ehud Olmert already has informed Syrian President Bashar al Assad
that Israel is prepared to cede the Golan Heights to Syria in return
for a comprehensive peace agreement (Ha’aretz, May 6).

Such considerations may be the diplomatic subtext of the state
visit to Azerbaijan by Jordan’s King Abdullah, ostensibly in Baku to
attend the opening of Azerbaijan’s Second Jordanian exhibition and
the Azerbaijan-Jordan Business Forum. While in Baku, Abdullah held
extensive discussions with Azeri President Ilham Aliyev and signed
a number of bilateral documents (AzerTag, May 5).

In an interview with Azerbaijan’s State Telegraph Agency, Abdullah put
the Arab-Israeli conflict in a broader regional context, observing,
"It is common knowledge that the Palestinian problem is the core issue
in the Middle East conflict, and it is our conviction that solving
the interrelated issues in our region depends on our ability to find
a just and permanent solution to the conflict in Palestine" (AzerTag,
May 2). In comments that will undoubtedly resonate in Baku, Abdullah
offered his services in resolving Azerbaijan’s Nagorno-Karabakh
dispute with Armenia.

As Washington is prodding both Israel and the Palestinian Authority
toward resolving their disputes over the Middle East’s "core issue,"
Abdullah’s comments about "interrelated issues" would seem to indicate
a possible "twin track" approach to solving the region’s other
unresolved disputes. Syria, bracketed between Israel’s ally Turkey
to the north and Israel itself, the Middle East’s leading military
power, to the south, may now be ready to trade peace for territory,
especially if the deal were sweetened with increased access to both
natural gas and transit fees.

In such a situation, Turkey would win by further positioning itself
as a regional transit hub, and Azerbaijan would gain valuable
additional diplomatic support from Jordan for resolving its dispute
with Armenia. If Azerbaijan developed energy ties with Israel, this too
could have a diplomatic payoff over Nagorno-Karabakh, particularly if
Israel used its good offices with Armenia, its fifth-largest trading
partner. Finally, Syria and Israel would gain access to Caspian energy
from a reliable Western ally. For Israel, there could be no greater
60th birthday present than a peace treaty fired by natural gas from
Azerbaijan’s Caspian "King of the Sea" gas field.

5 MINI WATER POWER PLANTS IN THE FIRST STAGE

KarabakhOpen
14-05-2008 10:49:17

The meeting of government on May 13 focused on the energy sector,
and affirmed the program for development of the sector.

It was announced that it is foreseen to set up 24 or 25 mini water
power plants as part of a long-term program, 5 of which will be
built in the first stage. 3 will be built on the river Trghe, 2 on
the Tartar, near the village of Mataghis.

The head of the department of industrial infrastructures Valery Balayan
said in the upcoming 3 years 90 percent of the demand of NKR will
be supplied, and in the second stage Karabakh will be able to export
electric power. It was also noted that the sector will be modernized.

Prime Minister Ara Harutiunyan said the program will be implemented
on government investments, as well as private, both local and foreign
investments and the resource of the commercial banks.

The government has also affirmed the reorganization of Artsakh Water
Power Plant into an open joint-stock company. The NKR government
holds the state-owned shares.

$10,000 SAROYAN PLAYWRITING COMPETITION FINALISTS ANNOUNCED
by Zoe Kevork

AZG Armenian Daily #091
14/05/2008

Culture

The Armenian Dramatic Arts Alliance (ADAA) is pleased to announce the
three finalists of the inaugural William Saroyan Prize for Playwriting:
Nadia by Lilly Thomassian, Flesh and Tenderness by Kristen Lazarian
and The Living and the Dead by Matthew "Yazo" Yaldezian.

Play submissions were received from across the United States, the UK
and Armenia. Entries were required to be full-length plays written
in English and based on Armenian themes. The plays were required
to have a professional production or reading prior to submission,
which resulted in high quality entries.

First round judges were Claire Cox, playwright and writing instructor
at the Gotham Academy in New York; Enrique Urueta, playwright
and former literary manager at Impact Theatre in San Francisco;
Landon Vaughn, actor, writer and producer; Tanya Yerevanian, actor,
writer and graduate of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts in London;
and David Grillo, actor, writer and producer of the off-Broadway
production of Beast on the Moon.

The three finalist plays will be evaluated by an honorary jury
including Leslie Ayvazian, award-winning playwright and Professor
of Playwriting at Columbia University; Deborah Salzer, playwriting
educator and founder of The Playwrights Project; and, Mac Wellman,
Lifetime Obie-award winning playwright and the Donald I. Fine Professor
of Play Writing at Brooklyn College.

The winner will be announced at the ADAA’s 3rd Annual Celebrity
Gala on Saturday, August 23, 2008, which will be held at the Stars
Palace Theatre in Glendale, CA. The winner will be honored with a
$10,000 award.

Tickets are available at

The Armenian Dramatic Arts Alliance’s mission is to make the Armenian
voice heard on the world stage through the dramatic arts of theatre
and film. The organization accomplishes this mission by supporting
playwrights and screenwriters and providing production opportunities,
research tools, networking resources and writing awards. In addition
to the William Saroyan Prize for Playwriting, the ADAA administers
the $10,000 Lillian and Varnum Paul Prize for Screenwriting, the
deadline for which is February 15, 2009.

For more information about ADAA, its activities and how to
contribute to its important mission, please visit the website at
or call at 617.871.6764

HIS HOLINESS GAREGIN II CONCLUDES THE FRATERNAL VISIT TO VATICAN

armradio.am
13.05.2008 17:48

His Holiness Garegin II, Supreme Patriarch and Catholicos of All
Armenians concludes his one week fraternal visit to the Bishop of
Rome and Pope of the Catholic Church, His Holiness Benedict XVI,
Press Service of the Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin informed.

Accompanying His Holiness throughout the duration of the visit were
His Eminence Archbishop Nourhan Manoogian, Grand Sacristan of the
Armenian Patriarchate of Jerusalem; His Grace Bishop Aram Ateshian,
Grand Sacristan of the Armenian Patriarchate of Constantinople; and
approximately 20 additional archbishops and bishops of the Armenian
Church – primates of Armenian Dioceses in North and South America,
Europe, Asia and the Middle East.

On Tuesday, May 6, the Pontiff of All Armenians and his delegation
arrived at Ciampino Airport in Rome. Also joining His Holiness were
more than 75 devoted laymen of the Armenian Church from throughout
the world who were invited by the Catholicos to participate in this
historic visit to the Holy See and Italy. This was His Holiness’
third visit to the Vatican since his election as Catholicos of All
Armenians in 1999.

The visit to Italy was composed of three parts: a four-day visit to
the Vatican, a one-day visit to the Armenian community of Milan and
a two-day visit to the Mekhitarian Congregation on the Island of San
Lazzaro in Venice.

On Wednesday morning, His Holiness Karekin II and the Armenian bishops
visited the tomb of Pope John Paul II of blessed memory, in the crypt
below Saint Peter’s Basilica, and offered a solemn prayer for the
repose of his soul. The Catholicos and the Armenian delegation also
visited the newly named St. Gregory the Illuminator plaza inside
St. Peter’s courtyard and viewed the statue of the patron saint of
the Armenian Church, placed there during the pontificate of John
Paul II. Immediately afterwards, the Armenian delegation of clergy
and laity participated in the general audience in St.

Peter’s Square, jointly held by Pope Benedict XVI and Catholicos
Karekin II. The two church heads exchanged messages of greeting, a
fraternal embrace and kiss of peace on the platform in front of the
mother cathedral of the Roman Catholic Church, before a crowd of more
than 35,000 faithful.

In his message to the Pope and the faithful, the Catholicos stated in
part, "Dear Brother in Christ, today, on the threshold of the Feast
of Pentecost, when we unite our prayers to those of Your Holiness
and of your faithful sons and daughters, we praise and glorify the
Holy Spirit, Who is the fountainhead of unity and transforms our
steps on the paths of brotherhood with grace – steps which are for
the glory of God and are born from the love of Christ, for the sake
of establishing peace in the world and a blessed life for mankind. In
spite of different historical experiences and paths we have traversed;
in spite of dogmatic and cultural divergences, we are all children of
the one God, and we are all brothers and sisters in His Holy love. For
in our diversity, it is our unity of love that is the genuine testimony
that we are children of God.

"Intolerance and confrontation must not be allowed within the
brotherhood and love of Christ. Mankind has suffered much as a
result. Today as well, the creation of God – the world that surrounds
us – is imperiled through interfaith disagreements, through wars
and terrorism, through the effects of poverty and neglect. Our
brothers and sisters are in distress in the Middle East and many
other regions of the world; where women and children, the elderly and
disabled are endangered by the blows of disagreement and division,
unjust competition and enmity. This is not the Will of God. This
is not our calling. We aspire to live a life in peace, of creation
and creativity, to use the graces given to us by the Holy Spirit,
to serve the establishment of unity and solidarity with the love of
Jesus Christ and the message of the Gospel, since ‘for those that
love God, all things work together unto good.’ (Romans 8:28)

"We Armenians are a people who have survived genocide, and we know
well the value of love, brotherhood, friendship, peace and a secure
life. Today, many countries of the world recognize and condemn the
Genocide committed against the Armenian people by Ottoman Turkey,
as did the Holy See, by His Holiness Pope John Paul II of blessed
memory during our fraternal visit to Rome in 2000. Offering prayers
to his luminous memory, we as Pontiff of the Armenians, appeal to
all nations and lands to universally condemn all genocides that
have occurred throughout history and those that continue through
the present day, so that those who yield power and authority realize
their responsibilities and results of those crimes which have been
and continue to be committed against the creation of God, and that
the denial of these crimes is an injustice that equals the commission
of the same."

That same afternoon, His Holiness Garegin II was presented with
an Honoris Causa doctorate degree from the Pontifical Salesian
University recognizing his fruitful work in Christian Education and
Youth Instruction. Attending the ceremony representing His Holiness
the Pope were His Eminence Tarcisio Cardinal Bertone, Vatican State
Secretary and His Eminence Walter Cardinal Kasper, President of the
Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity.

On Thursday, May 8, His Holiness Karekin II and his delegation visited
the Pontifical Oriental Institute in Rome, and conveyed his blessings
and warm greetings to the participants of a symposium dedicated to the
study of the Armenian Divine Liturgy. The symposium was organized by
Fr. Robert Taft and included presentations by Armenian and Catholic
learned scholars from throughout Europe and North America. His
Eminence Leonardo Cardinal Sandri, Prefect for the Vatican’s Council
for Oriental Churches, also accompanied His Holiness to the symposium.

Friday morning, May 9, the delegation of 100 Armenian bishops and
faithful went to the Apostolic Palace of the Holy See, for a private
audience under the joint presidency of His Holiness Garegin II and His
Holiness Benedict XVI. The two pontiffs again exchanged warm messages
of greeting and brotherly love, embraced with a solemn kiss of peace
and spoke of the strong ties and increasing collaboration between
the Holy Armenian Apostolic Church and the Roman Catholic Church.

His Holiness Garegin II, addressing the head of the Catholic Church
and the Armenian faithful gathered for the audience, stated in part,
"We offer gratitude to the Almighty in heaven, as successor to Saints
Thaddeus and Bartholomew, and the saint co-equal to the apostles,
Gregory the Illuminator, that we are enjoying the light of this good
day when we exchange the divinely ordained kiss of peace with Your
Holiness, worthy successor to the See of Saint Peter, seven years
after experiencing the joy of receiving your predecessor of blessed
memory under the gaze of biblical Mount Ararat. It is even more joyous
that this kiss of peace is exchanged on this day, the 9th of May,
when we are celebrating Victory and Peace Day in our homeland – the
day which commemorates the conclusion of World War II – the cause of
great human tragedy and misery; as well as the triumph of our people
in the national liberation struggle for Nagorno Karabakh.

A short prayer service was held under the presidency of both church
heads, following which, the faithful approached the Catholicos and the
Pope to kiss their right hands and receive their blessings. At the
conclusion of the audience, Catholicos Karekin II and Pope Benedict
XVI met privately during lunch to discuss issues of importance to
both Churches.

In the afternoon, His Holiness Karekin II, met with His Grace
Archbishop Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury, in the Vatican
Guest House for a private meeting. The head of the Church of England
and the Anglican Communion was coincidentally also in the Holy See
this week, and the two fondly recalled the Archbishop’s fraternal
visit to Holy Etchmiadzin in September 2007, as well as discussed
the upcoming Lambeth Conference for the Anglican Communion and the
current state of relations with sister Churches.

The final event at the Vatican was an Ecumenical Prayer Service,
offered at the Basilica of Saint Paul Outside the Walls, where the
grave of St. Paul the Apostle is located. His Holiness Karekin II
presided during the service, which included the participation of
Roman Catholic and Armenian Church bishops and clergy.

In addition to the official events throughout the course of the week,
His Holiness and the church hierarchs also visited a number of Armenian
and Catholic churches and shrines. His Holiness and the high-ranking
clergymen departed Rome for Milan on Saturday morning.

Upon the invitation of the Pope Benedict XVI His Holiness Karekin
II paid an official visit to Vatican from May 6-9, 2008 accompanied
by 18 Archbishops, Bishops of the Armenian Church. The fraternal
relations between the See of Rome and the See of Etchmiadzin have
further developed and deepened in recent years. The Armenian Church
and the Catholic Church share a long history of mutual respect,
considering their various theological, liturgical, and canonical
traditions as complementary.

POLICE TESTIMONY IS NOT ENOUGH

A1+
[07:10 pm] 12 May, 2008

"No one can be imprisoned unless the arrest is grounded," says
barrister Dzerar Julhakian, member of the Armenian Advocates Union
(ADU) of Paris. Together with five other advocates he has arrived
in Armenia to get familiarized with the state of his Armenian
counterparts. The French advocates have met with RoA FM, Chairman of
the Advocates’ Chamber and detainees of the March 1 events.

We are mainly concerned over the state of advocates in Armenia
especially in pre- and post-election period," he says.

Though it is still too early to draw conclusions we can say that
certain pressure is exerted on advocates in Armenia. Some judicial
rules are ignored and even violated. We would give a detailed answer
in case we participated in trials and got acquainted with the material
thoroughly," says Mr. Julhakian.

The advocates will likely return to Armenia in the nearest future to
participate in the legal proceedings of March 1 events.

The ADU will issue a statement in this regard.

Courts must bring impartial and unbiased verdicts compliant with
the RoA Penal Code. At the same time they must respect the European
Convention on Human Rights. They should rely on all details at hand
and not suffice with policemen’s testimonies," he said.