Author: Kalantarian Kevo

ELECTIONS ARE FALSIFIED IN REGION OF TSALKA TO DETRIMENT OF ARMENIANS

Noyan Tapan News Agency, Armenia
Oct 5 2006

AKHALKALAK, OCTOBER 5, NOYAN TAPAN – ARMENIANS TODAY. The real number
of voters of the region of Tsalka and the national staff was falsified
by the list presented by the Tsalka regional electoral commission,
the A-Info agency states.

In words of Hayk Meltonian, a deputy of the Georgian Parliament,
the number of voters artificially increased, reaching from 13.638 to
20.961. Hayk Meltonian mentions the number 13.638 according to the
number of voters involved in the lists of the parliamentary elections
held in March, 2004.

Names of Greeks migrated from Javakhk to Greece still 10-15 years ago,
at present already considered citizens of Greece or even died ones are
mainly involved in the list today. If the number of Armenian voters
of the region was 7488 in 2004, that number was now decreased to
6100. According to A-Info, this "substitution may greatly influence"
especially on results of the elections being held by the proportional
electoral system.

SAUDI DOCTORS BATTLE FOR HEARTS AND MINDS IN LEBANON
by Haro Chakmakjian

Agence France Presse — English
October 4, 2006 Wednesday

On the edge of Beirut racetrack, a horseshoe-shaped field hospital
is dispensing free medical care, as Saudi Arabia tries once again to
bankroll a Lebanese revival with hundreds of millions of dollars.

"I like horse-racing but we barely have time to call our families,"
said Saud al-Omani, a British-trained trauma surgeon from Riyadh
who heads a team of 115 doctors and nurses as well as 40 Lebanese
medical staff.

"We are all paid of course," he said, from the petrodollars aplenty
of the Saudi government.

Groups of patients waited in shaded areas complete with seats in
front of 18 air-conditioned containers built as clinics on wheels,
painted in white and with the sign of the Saudi Red Crescent Society.

The medics have been operational since August 5, three weeks into
Israel’s 34-day war on the Shiite group Hezbollah that wrought
destruction mostly in south Lebanon and the Shiite southern suburbs
of Beirut, barely a few kilometres (miles) from the hospital.

The Saudi kingdom has been the single biggest aid donor to Lebanon,
comprising a one-billion-dollar deposit with the central bank to
shore up the currency and a grant of 500 million dollars.

It also sponsored the 1989 Taif accord which ended Lebanon’s
15-year civil war and gave massive financial support for post-war
reconstruction, especially during the five-time premiership of the
late Rafiq Hariri, a dual Saudi-Lebanese national.

On Tuesday in Saudi Arabia, US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice
urged Washington’s allies to help "young governments in places like
Lebanon … against the extremist forces", partly in reference to
Hezbollah.

In a hearts and minds campaign open to all religions, the Saudi doctors
in their fluorescent orange and turquoise outfits have seen more than
50,000 patients, with a maximum treatment time of 24 hours each that
they aim to extend to three days.

"We don’t ask where they come from. We ask their name, age, and sex.

Most of the time, we know, by looking at them, the last part," said
Omani, who was trained in Edinburgh and has also been involved in
relief operations in Kosovo, Iran and Iraq.

"We have no time-limit on humanitarian care," he said, asked when
the operation would wind down.

"Our patients may be indirectly sick from the war, or it may be a
follow-up. Don’t forget the infrastructure has gone in this country
and medicine is expensive," said Omani, 47, who wears a hearing aid
due to a 1991 Gulf War injury.

But the team does face some problems in terms of local habits. "The
trouble is convincing people to queue for registration and triage to
be able to classify patients," explained Omani.

"We also have psychiatric cases, especially for children, and illnesses
due to the war," said Omani.

The heaviest demand is for general practitioners but the clinic
also provides orthopaedic care, obstetrics, cardiology, psychiatric
treatment, paediatric, ultrasound and X-rays, as well as a laboratory.

It is equipped with an intensive care unit, recovery room, pharmacy,
an area for Muslim prayers, five ambulances, a sterilisation unit,
computers, in short all the latest in short-term medical care.

"We can handle 100 emergencies a day and more than 700 operations
have been carried out," said Omani, although the number of patients
has eased from the normal 1,300-a-day, and hours have been curtailed
for the dawn-to-dusk fasting month of Ramadan.

Alongside aging Druze men in their white caps, black clothes and
traditional baggy pants, veiled Sunni and Shiite women milled around
with their children in tow.

Others, untroubled by the Ramadan fast, helped themselves from cooled
water dispensers.

"Thank God, they are looking after us, not like the government. Even
if you are dying, our government will not let you in hospital for
treatment if you don’t have the money," said Majida Habash, 32,
a Shiite woman from the bombed-out suburbs.

"We have also had no help from Hezbollah, maybe because our house was
not damaged," she said, referring to the 12,000-dollar cash handouts
being offered by the Shiite group backed by Tehran and Damascus.

Others were also impressed by the largesse of the oil-rich Saudi
government.

"I heard from the people that the Saudis have good doctors and are
giving free medicine. The people are saying good things," said Nazih
Allwan, a Sunni from west Beirut, who had been waiting two hours to
be seen for a stomach infection.

Berdjouhi Nazarian, 52, from the Armenian Christian district of Bourj
Hammoud in east Beirut, said her husband needs heart surgery for a
blocked artery.

"Bravo to them (the Saudis) for helping the people. We can’t even
afford the medicine," she said.

Saudi King Abdullah has also decided to pay all fees for state
school students in Lebanon for the delayed academic year, while
neighbouring United Arab Emirates is footing the bill to repair
schools and provide textbooks.

PM MARGARIAN: GEORGIA’S BLOCKADE BY RUUSIA HAS NOT YET AFFECTED ARMENIA

Noyan Tapan News Agency, Armenia
Oct 4 2006

YEREVAN, OCTOBER 4, NOYAN TAPAN. The transport blockade of Georgia by
Russia has not yet affected the Armenian economy, RA Prime Minister
Andranik Margarian stated in the RA National Assembly on October 4.

According to him, the crossing points on the Georgian border were
already closed prior to that, and since June Armenia has been deprived
of the opportunity to transport goods in vehicles through Lars.

The prime minister said that in accordance with the agreement reached
with the Georgian side, goods are transported by Batumi and Poti
ports. "We have no additional problems that would make us reach new
agreements with the Russian or Georgian side," he said.

Responding to deputy Victor Dallakian’s question about whether the
government is ready to act as a mediator in the Russian-Georgian
relations, the prime minister said that so far no such proposal has
been made. "If the Russian or Georgian side makes such a proposal,
the Armenian government will discuss it," A. Margarian noted.

ANKARA TO HOST MERKEL
By Azamat Damir, Berlin

Zaman, Turkey
Oct 4 2006

Shortly after the EU Commissioner Olli Rehn’s visit, Turkey will
welcome German Chancellor Angela Merkel Thursday.

During the visit, bilateral relations between Turkey and Germany,
Turkey’s EU membership bid and the Cyprus issue will be discussed.

However, because of the anti-Turkey stance of her party, full support
for Turkey’s EU membership from Merkel is not expected.

The German Chancellor will arrive in Turkey for a two-day official
visit tomorrow. Merkel, who will meet with President Ahmet Necdet
Sezer and Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, will also touch on
Turkey’s EU membership process and intercultural dialogue. However,
experts assert that Merkel, who will have to consider the promise
her predecessor’s support for Turkey’s full membership in the EU,
as well as the anti-Turkey views prevalent in her party, has to take
a very balanced view during the visit.

Merkel, who will head to Istanbul, will attend the Turkish-German
Business Congress. She will also meet with Greek Orthodox Patriarch
Bartholomew I, Patriarch of Turkish Armenians Mesrop Mutafian, and
officials from the Directorate of Religious Affairs. In the meetings,
the status of Turkish minorities, and the tension caused by Pope
Benedict XVI’s remarks that Muslims found offensive will be discussed.

OF HEARTS, MINDS AND WALLETS IN SOUTH OSSETIA
By Shaun Walker

The Moscow Times, Russia
Oct 5 2006

My visit to Tskhinvali this summer, the capital of the breakaway
republic of South Ossetia, provoked a sense of disappointment
similar to that which I felt when visiting Tiraspol, the capital of
Transdnestr, last year. With my information about the places filtered
through the occasional sensationalist Western media report, I turned
up in both cases excitedly expecting to find the final frontier;
a gangster-ridden epicenter of weapons and human smuggling; a dark
and wild version of the Soviet Union. Instead, what I got in both
wannabe capitals was a sleepy provincial town, with tree-lined
streets and ordinary people going about their business trying to
make ends meet. Tskhinvali is little more than a village, with a
population similar to a medium-sized dacha colony somewhere outside
Moscow. Children play on the swings, old ladies chatter noisily on
benches and mothers carry enormous circular lavash bread home to
their families.

As Georgia and Russia this week moved beyond verbal sparring into
something more serious, the fate of these breakaway regions again came
under discussion. That Moscow supports the Abkhaz and South Ossetian
separatist regimes is one of the biggest problems Georgia has with
Russia. The South Ossetian leadership promised Monday to withdraw
from peace talks, and the conflict over the small patch of land on
the southern side of the Caucasus Mountains rumbles on with no end
in sight. While South Ossetian leader Eduard Kokoity is something
of a suspicious character, and many in the leadership there are
obstructionist and unhelpful, the idea of them as Soviet throwbacks or
Russian puppets resisting the forward march of a modern and democratic
Georgia needs some adjusting. Actually visiting the unrecognized
republic has made me rather skeptical about pronouncements about
re-integrating South Ossetia in order to restore Georgia’s territorial
integrity, in the way that many Georgians seem to think is possible.

If Tskhinvali seems for all the world like a normal provincial town
in the Caucasus, the one thing that is noticeably different is the
lack of working- age people, especially men. Almost every family
has someone working in Russia earning money, which they send home to
support their families. In South Ossetia, as Vakhtang Dzhigkayev, an
economic adviser to the administration, told me, there are two choices:
"Work in the government, or go to North Ossetia."

Unlike Transdnestr, there is no Soviet-era industrial complex
and there are no natural resources. Unlike Abkhazia, there is
no strategic coastline providing an outlet to the world beyond
Russia and Georgia and the chance to attract tourists. And unlike
Nagorno-Karabakh, there is no wealthy diaspora coming to invest in
rebuilding infrastructure. This makes the Ossetians dependent to a
large degree on support from Moscow.

The Georgians would have people believe that Russian influence in
South Ossetia is simply the Kremlin maneuvering to punish Georgia for
its pro-Western stance. There is certainly an element of that. But
aside from the Russians installed in high positions in the Ossetian
leadership and the propaganda posters of a grinning Vladimir Putin
with the slogan "Nash Prezident," any visitor to Ossetia will notice
significant ground-level pro-Russian sentiment, or at least an
appreciation of the possibilities that being close to Russia offers.

The "passportization" of the region by Russia (more than 90 percent
of residents hold Russian passports) is usually represented as
Moscow’s meddling hand stirring up trouble. But on the ground,
a Russian passport represents a lifeline for South Ossetians — a
way to get an education or a job in Vladikavkaz or Moscow. Walking
the streets and talking to people, it seems inconceivable that these
people could integrate back into the Georgian state without it being
a long and painful process. For a start, only the eldest generation
speaks the language well. On the streets, people speak Ossetian, an
Iranian language very different to most of the surrounding Caucasus
languages. Almost everyone speaks Russian fluently, but as for
Georgian, "We only know the swear words," one young man told me with a
smile. These people would not be able to get jobs or study in Tbilisi.

Russia provides them with their only chance to do something with
their lives.

Few in the Ossetian leadership seem ready to address their image
problem, however. When I visited, I was told by the head of the
republic’s press and information committee that for many months
entrance had been barred to foreign journalists, because they weren’t
trusted to write positive articles. Dzhigkayev, the economic advisor,
told me that he had worked for days to persuade people to allow
three constitutional experts from the Council of Europe to visit the
republic. Officials had been suspicious of the experts and had wanted
to keep them out. But it is exactly this type of contact that will help
the Ossetians in the long run — letting in as many Western experts
and journalists as possible, explaining their position and problems,
and putting across their side of the argument. It might not lead to
recognition of their right to self determination, but it would at
least help people to understand their position better.

As things stand, it’s hard to see any progress any time soon. One
respected Georgian journalist told me: "There is not a single person
in Georgia who would be willing to compromise over South Ossetia
remaining part of Georgia in some way." Meanwhile, a senior Ossetian
official said: "While there is anyone still alive in Tskhinvali,
the Georgian army will not be here." These sentiments are so far
apart that a solution in the near future seems inconceivable. If the
starting positions of both sides were two circles in a Venn diagram,
they would not even come close to touching.

But the Ossetians’ hatred for Georgia does not translate into
unquestioning admiration for Russia. "We know Russia only supports us
because it’s in their interests to do so," Irina Gagloyeva, the head
of the republic’s Press and Information Committee, told me. People
are wary of Russia and its intentions, and admit they are no more
than Russia’s plaything in the South Caucasus. "But we at least want
to be a plaything treated in a dignified manner," said Gagloyeva.

It really doesn’t seem much to ask. It also suggests that if Georgia
begins to offer more carrots than sticks and works at trying to
build a prosperous society, one day more ordinary Ossetians might
come to think that looking south towards Tbilisi is a better option
than looking north to the North Ossetian capital of Vladikavkaz and
Beslan. After all, when joining the Russian North Caucasus seems like
your best option, your other options must be pretty bad.

For now, the Georgian rhetoric, especially coming out of the Defense
Ministry, confirms all the Ossetians’ fears about Tbilisi’s intentions.

Military construction in Gori and the insistence that the New Year
will be celebrated in Tskhinvali are clearly more reminiscent of
shock and awe than hearts and minds. Back in Tbilisi, Mamuka Kudava,
the Georgian deputy defense minister, met me in his office — which
contains a large NATO flag – and told me: "There are only 10,000
people in Tskhinvali. It makes no sense to talk about what they
want." Barring the unlikely options of an ethnic cleansing campaign
in South Ossetia or a Chechnya-style destruction of the territory,
Georgia might have to start talking about it soon.

Shaun Walker is a Staff Writer for Russia Profile.

OSCE MG CO-CHAIRS RETURN TO BUCHAREST OPTION

PanARMENIAN.Net
03.10.2006 18:00 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ In case of agreeing to another round of talks
the parties to the Nagorno Karabakh conflict will have to discuss
a modified documents over the Karabakh settlement, OSCE MG Russian
Co-Chair Yuri Merzlyakov said. "During coming talks discussion of a
document, proposed in Rambouillet, then edited in Bucharest and now,
having undergone changes, will be presented at the next meeting,"
the Russian diplomat noted.

Merzlyakov also said that the new ideas are based on specification
of the document, presented to parties in May, Day.az reports.

PRESIDENT ALIYEV: "NO TRADE-OFFS IN NK ISSUE DURING MY PRESIDENCY"

Today, Azerbaijan
Oct 2 2006

President Ilham Aliyev participated in the opening of the parliament’s
autumn session.

Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev said on Monday he was in favor of
an active policy in the settlement of the conflict around the mostly
Armenian populated Azerbaijani enclave of Nagorno Karabakh.

The President emphasized a need to use all possibilities for a
peaceful settlement of the conflict, noting that "Azerbaijan will
continue cooperation with international organizations on that issue."

He told a parliament session that co-chairmen of the OSCE Minsk group
for Nagorno Karabakh arrived on Monday in Baku and stressed that his
country "is not going to reject that format of the settlement."

"However, we believe that the activity of other international
organizations can also contribute to a peace process," Aliyev said.

At the same time he stressed that "Azerbaijan will never allow the
setting up of a second Armenian state on its territory."

"Azerbaijan will never sign a peace agreement that would not meet
the national interests of the country," he said. "As a President,
I will never sign it," he emphasized.

The president also said that under a 2007 draft budget, Azerbaijan’s
defense expenditures will grow 17.8 percent, and will reach 900
million dollars.

"The growth of military expenses must not worry anyone. This is our
sovereign right. Besides, a growth of the military budget cannot
automatically lead to a war. We must ensure our security and be ready
for any development of the events," the President said.

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PRESIDENT SEZER: FUNDAMENTALIST THREAT AIMS AT CHANGING BASIC CHARACTERISTICS OF OUR STATE

Turkish Press
Oct 2 2006

ANKARA – "Fundamentalist threat aims at changing the basic
characteristics of our state," said Turkish President Ahmet Necdet
Sezer on Sunday.

Addressing the parliamentary general assembly to mark the beginning of
the new legislative year, President Sezer noted, "the globalization
process deepens mutual dependence and shapes geo-political and
geo-strategic situation in the world. Global security and global
economy became the most important concepts in our century."

"The new security atmosphere has changed traditional perceptions of
threat. As a result, dimension of security has changed from the concept
of national security into the regional and global security," he said.

"Turkey has been face to face with gradually increasing internal
and external threats and risks targeting its territorial integrity,
national unity and political regime. Those risks and threats stem
from separatist and fundamentalist activities, international
terrorism, proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, and
regional problems. Turkey has succeeded in protecting its stability
and prosperity against these security issues thanks to its sound
democratic and secular structure, and our social attitude rejecting
all kinds of ethnic and religious discrimination," he stressed.

"Success of the fight against terrorism requires a global
cooperation. And success of such a cooperation depends on definition
and evaluation of all terrorist organizations as a joint target.

Supporting terrorist organizations and remaining silent against acts
of terrorism targeting the other countries affect the global fight
against terrorism negatively. Any country cannot win this fight on
its own," he said.

President Sezer noted, "as one of countries which suffered most from
terrorism, Turkey supports the global fight against terrorism with
great determination. Unfortunately, our friendly and neighboring
countries failed to support Turkey in its fight against the terrorist
organization. A common attitude and an active cooperation are the
only way of solution against the separatist terrorism stemming from
the northern part of Iraq. Turkey preserves its legitimate right to
defense itself against external terrorism."

"Separatist terrorism is a universal crime against humanity. Turkey
is determined to maintain its fight against separatist terrorism
within the rules of the state of law till the terrorist organization
is totally eliminated. I want to highlight the importance of efforts
to resolve socio-economic problems of the eastern and southeastern
regions besides our armed fight against terrorism," he said.

-"THREAT OF FUNDAMENTALISM"-

"Another threat targeting our security is fundamentalism.

Fundamentalist threat aims at changing the basic characteristics
of our state. The key point in our fight against fundamentalism is
secularism. The fight against fundamentalism entails us to protect
the secular structure of our Republic, to prevent use of religion and
religious values for political purposes and to inform our people,"
he said,

President Sezer emphasized that the Turkish Armed Forces is the
guarantee of existence and continuity of the Turkish state and
political regime.

-"DEVELOPMENTS IN FOREIGN POLICY"

"There are important developments in the foreign policy. In line with
our national interests, we have to provide a convenient atmosphere
around us with the aim of sustaining our development in security.

Turkey`s unique position between the west and the east entails us to
pursue a realistic, influential and multi-dimensional foreign policy,"
he said.

Referring to the EU membership process, President Sezer said,
"our target of EU full membership is one of the priorities of our
foreign policy. The EU has put forward a strategic point of view by
formally opening entry talks with Turkey. We believe that progress of
our accession process without interruption will also make valuable
contributions to global peace. However, some circles oppose to our
membership on the basis of cultural and religious differences, and
support Greek Cypriot efforts for opening of Turkish ports and airports
to the Greek Cypriot traffic. They encourage the uncompromising
attitude of the Greek Cypriot administration. The EU should direct
the Greek Cypriot administration to a comprehensive solution based on
political equality and bi-zonality in line with the United Nations`
parameters."

"Our target of the EU full membership and the bilateral relations
with the United States are leading topics of our foreign policy. Our
relations with the EU and the United States complete each other and
form the European-Atlantic tie. Current conditions in the world has
increased importance of the Turkish-American relations. We attach
great importance to our cooperation with the United States in the
fight against the terrorist organization. Creation of a zone of
harmony and stability is one of our essential targets," he said.

-RELATIONS WITH NEIGHBORING COUNTRIES-

"I believe that development of Turkish-Greek relations on the basis
of mutual confidence and friendship will help efforts to resolve the
bilateral problems. Any progress to this end will also have a positive
impact on the Mediterranean region. We expect Greece to fulfil its
commitments stemming from the international agreements and to resolve
problems of the Turkish minority in Western Thrace," he stressed.

Highlighting importance of stability in the Balkans, President Sezer
said, "Turkey attaches great importance to creation of a peaceful
atmosphere in the Balkans on the basis of mutual understanding and
cooperation, and will continue maintaining its contributions to
protection of regional stability."

Referring to relations with Russia, President Sezer said, "Turkey
and Russia maintain their cooperation to reach their joint target
of a multi-dimensional partnership. Development of the cooperation
between Turkey and Russia, two important countries in Eurasia and the
Black Sea region, will contribute to peace, stability and prosperity
in the whole region."

"One of the most important targets of our foreign policy is
to make Eurasia a region of stability and cooperation. The
Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan oil pipeline became a meaningful symbol of the
regional cooperation. This cooperation will extend to the Central Asia
after participation of Kazakhstan in the project. We aim at creating
an atmosphere of friendship and cooperation in southern Caucasus,"
he said.

Expressing Turkey`s pleasure with steps taken by Azerbaijan to
consolidate its distinguished place in the international community,
President Sezer said, "the Upper Karabakh dispute should be resolved
and Azerbaijan should regain its territorial integrity."

-IRAN-

Stating that they have been monitoring developments regarding Iran`s
nuclear program with a great concern, Sezer said, "Turkey respects
Iran`s right to develop nuclear technology with peaceful objectives.

However, Iran should have a transparent cooperation with international
community."

-IRAQ-

"The situation in Iraq where several people die every day has turned
into a tragedy of humanity. Turkey will keep assisting Iraq and Iraqi
people during their difficult days. The main goal of our relations
with all sections in this country aim at maintenance of territorial
integrity and political unity of Iraq."

-MIDDLE EAST-

Stating that problems in the Middle East prevented the region from
reaching a lasting stability in the region, he said, "Turkey hopes
that the Middle East will be a region of friendship and cooperation."

"Turkey believes that if all countries in the Middle East adopt
universal democratic values, it will contribute to peace and
cooperation in the region," he stressed.

Sezer noted that there was no need to redefine universal values like
democracy and modernism with additions like `moderate Islam`, stating
that secularism was the criterion of modernism which regulated the
relation between Islam and democracy.

Recalling that Turkey condemned terrorist attacks on the United States
on September 11th, 2001, Sezer indicated, "some circles` efforts
to make a parallelism between Islam and terror are meaningless. It
is clear that mentioning terrorist activities (in the Middle East)
together with Islam can cause dangerous results. Within this scope,
leaders of Christian world should refrain from statements and attitudes
which may cause the people who have different belief to offend."

Sezer said, "the solution of Palestinian issue is the key factor for
settlement of peace and stability in the region." He stated that the
solution frame that was put forward by the UN is that "Israel and
Palestine should live together peacefully within borders recognized
by international community."

"Turkey believes in this solution frame. Turkey`s close relations with
Israel and Palestine will contribute to this objective. The country
will continue its initiatives on this direction," he underlined.

Sezer indicated that the countries in the Middle East should fulfill
their duties and should be in favor of peace.

-CENTRAL ASIA-

Stating that Turkey aimed to boost its relations with countries
in Central Asia, Sezer said that Turkey would keep assisting these
countries in its efforts on development, democratization and the area
of human rights.

"Humanitarian aids that Turkey extended to several regions of the
world, our location and our sound attitudes made the country which
is wanted in solutions of global problems," he stressed.

Sezer added that the motto of Ataturk, the Founder of Turkish Republic
who said, "Peace at Home, Peace in World" caused Turkey to advance
in the course of history.

OCALAN URGES KURDS TO RECONCILIATION WITH TURKEY

PanARMENIAN.Net
28.09.2006 18:37 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Kurdish leader Abdullah Ocalan, who is in a Turkish
prison at present, urged activists of the Kurdish Working Party
(KWP) to announced ceasing hostilities against official Ankara,
reports AFP referring to a source, close to Kurdish separatists.

"The KWP should not use arms, except cases it is actively attacked
in order to kill," Ocalan writes in a message.

Having been indicted for terrorism, the KWP leader also noted
the importance of arranging the democratic union between Turks and
Kurds. "With the start of that process a way for diplomatic dialogue
will open," Ocalan is sure.

We remind that the Kurdish separatist leader is serving a life sentence
in a prison on Imarli Island.

FIGHT IN PRISON

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[02:11 pm] 29 September, 2006

According to the information provided by the office of the Public
Prosecutor, on September 1 prisoners of the Vardashen prison
G. Mnatsakanyan (born in 1966) and G. Qaramyan (born in 1962) had a
fight. During the fight G. Mnatsakanyan stabbed G. Qaramyan with a
knife as a result of which the latter was taken to hospital with a
wound on his chest.

The Erebuni department of the RA Police has initiated a criminal case
in connection with the incident.