Author: Kalantarian Kevo

THE “MOSCOW” CINEMA TO DEMONSTRATE “SUNRISE OVER LAKE VAN”

ARMENPRESS
AUGUST 3, 2012
YEREVAN

Yerevan, August 3, ARMENPRESS: “Sunrise over Lake Van” will be
demonstrated in the “Moscow” cinema on August 6.

The full-length feature film shootings were done in Western Armenia,
the USA, France. Karen Jhangiryan (Armenia), Jean-Pierre Nshanyan
(USA), Aren Vatyan (Russia), Arevik Martirosyan (France), Gyunesh Zan
(Turkey) are in the main roles.

As “Aremenpress” reports by the “Armenia” All Armenian Fund, the film
tells about Karapet Pambukchyan, who is one of the survivors of the
Genocide implemented by the Turkish government and whose family is
standing before the danger of Americanism like thousands of other
Armenians who live in America. He tries to awaken love towards their
lost Fatherland, but in vain. The son is only concerned about his
financial successes and the reputation of lawyer, and the grandson
Gevorg, who was born and educated in America, considers himself a
“real” American. There is no one to share Karapet’s concerns and
deepening crisis. The unexpected visit of Gevorg’s Turk girlfriend
became the axis around which the film actions are developed. Memories
and issues come out which expect an answer and solution. However,
Karapet is confident that genetic memory is in each Armenia, wherever
he lives. Only this will save his family and nation. Only this will
return his son and grandson back to their national roots.

ALEXANDER KRYLOV: FIGHT AGAINST ASSAD THROUGH EXTERNAL SUPPORT OF THE OPPOSITION WILL CONTINUE TO THE LAST DROP OF THE SYRIAN BLOOD
by David Stepanyan

arminfo
Friday, August 3, 17:42

Interview of Alexander Krylov, President of the Scholarly Society of
Caucasologists at the Institute of World Economy and International
Relations, Russian Academy of Sciences, with ArmInfo News Agency

The U.S. experts say that Iran will be on the verge of creating a
nuclear bomb in 18 months. Then the United States will deliver a
blow on Iran. How possible is it and is the nuclear program of Iran
the only reason for which Washington wants to deal shortly with the
Ayatollah power?

The date of an attack on Iran has been announced for many times. Yet
ten years ago at a conference in Istanbul the American political
experts ‘close to the U.S. Administration’ declared that the only thing
Washington thought of after occupation of Iraq was where to go next:
either to Iran or to Syria. Then the nuclear threat by Iran was not
so relevant as the idea of U.S. politicians to tighten energy like
a ‘running knot’ around the neck of China. They thought that in 15
years China would constitute real threat to the USA’s interests.

Obviously, Iran’s nuclear program is just a link in the chain of the
U.S. priorities in the Near East and Middle East, with the energy
factor being a top priority. The concerns about the Iranian nuclear
program are not groundless. Iran’s neighbors, Pakistan and India, had
long ago obtained nuclear weapons. It is not a secret that Israel also
did it. External threat from the USA, Israel, NATO and their allies
is as big for Iran as the Arab threat for Israel. In such situation,
it would be strange if the Iranian leadership did not strive to have
nuclear weapons like neighboring Pakistan and India, Israel, North
Korea and others.

Is the military operation the only way to neutralize Iran or are there
any other ways, for instance, the factor of “Southern Azerbaijan”?

There may be no military operation against Iran if the U.S.
Administration manages to achieve its goals through destabilizing
the domestic political situation in Iran, changing the power in that
country and making it its ally. There are many scenarios of how to
achieve that goal, he said, even by means of the factor of “Southern
Azerbaijan” and splitting of the Iranian country. Even if Iran manages
to create a nuclear weapon before it is attacked from outside, there
may be no such attack considering the inadmissible level of damage and
loss the potential participants in the military operation will suffer.

It is obvious that in that case Saudi Arabia, Turkey and other
neighbors of Iran will also try to create nuclear weapons. As a result,
proliferation of nuclear weapons may get out of control.

On July 30 the U.S. Congress approved a new package of sanctions on
Iran. The sanctions imply big penalties for the companies that have
failed to reduce the purchase of oil and gas from Iran. Are these
sanctions, together with the previous U.S. and European sanctions,
possible to undermine the Iranian economy given its coherence with
China?

The sanctions will seriously damage the Iranian economy and become a
factor of internal destabilization. However, the Iranian economy is
not very dependant on the USA and EU, and these sanctions will hardly
settle the Iranian problem for the USA and Israel. Therefore, those
countries make genuine efforts to change power in Tehran and create
conditions for occupation of Iran and settlement of the problem by
military force.

Which of the foreign actors doesn’t need Assad’s Syria and why? What
role does Iran play in it?

The United States seeks change of power in Syria, as for the USA
and Israel Syria and the Islamic movements like Hezbollah and Hamas
are Iran’s allies. Libya under Muammar Gaddafi was also perceived as
Iran’s ally. Consequently, neutralization or liquidation of Iran’s
allies facilitates military operation against Iran.

Russia and China are taking join efforts to prevent adoption of a
resolution on Syria by the UN Security Council. Do you expect Russia
to defend Assad’s Syria till the end given that after the fall of
Assad’s Syria the Russians will be forced to leave Syria?

It is not because of Moscow’s special attitude to the Syrian leader
Bashar Assad. Syria is a typical model of a situation when a de-facto
coalition of states assumes the right to itself to openly violate the
International Law, and first of all, the principle of non- interference
with the domestic policy of independent states through financing and
arming of the oppositional forces. Such approach destabilizes the
entire system of international relations, contributing to uncontrolled
proliferation of nuclear weapons. It is sad but true that the
countries and regions where such interference led to liquidation
of the powers undesirable for the USA have not turned into ‘Oases
of Prosperity’. Quite on the contrary, most of the countries have
found themselves even in worse situation than they were under the
dictatorships. Instead of promotion of the institutions and ideals
of the western democracy there is quite favorable environment for
the supporters of radical Islam and “universal Halifat”. As a result,
the zone of chronic instability keeps expanding: to the south to Mali
and the neighbor states, in the south from the permanently instable
Horn of Africa.

What trends are you observing in today’s developments in Syria given
the latest realities?

Everything in Syria is now settled on battlefield. If the Syrian
army manages to defeat the armed opposition, a military operation
and intervention by external forces is quite possible. At least,
the fight against Assad through external support of the opposition
will continue to the last drop of the Syrian blood.

Do the interests of Russia and the USA have any common points in the
region, particularly, in the South Caucasus and Armenia?

Certainly, the interests of Russia and the USA have more common
points in the region, particularly, in South Caucasus and Armenia,
than it may seem. In the current situation Russia and the USA are
equally interested in prevention of new war in Nagorno Karabakh. All
the participants in the Minsk Group have the same stance on the given
problem. Such state of affairs will continue, at least, unless the
situation in the region radically changes, for instance, in case
of war in Iran. Russia and the USA are equally not interested in
strengthening of the radical Islam in the region and in political and
socioeconomic destabilization of the region. Nevertheless, the goals
and interests of the USA and Russia are different, but it is essential
that achievement of those goals do not lead to confrontation. After
the August War of 2008, the Russian-U.S. discrepancies in the South
Caucasus have softened, to some extent. If such trends continue also
after the presidential election in the USA, it will be in favor of
our and all the other countries in the South Caucasus.

The Kurds have taken the northwestern regions of Syria under control
without any clashes. Does this demonstrate Assad’s weakness or his
smartness given that this news has strongly startled Ankara?

For Turkey the situation in Syria like in Iraq is fraught with
serious threats to its national security. The threats come not
from the Syrian army, which is in a heavy situation, but from the
progressing destabilization on the Turkish borders. This leads
to aggravation of Turkey’s old problems like the Kurdish one, and
creates many new problems. For Turkey much will depend on who will
finally win in Syria and whether the united Iraq will collapse soon
and whether the political map of the region will get new countries,
including Kurdistan.

Irrespective of further developments, Turkey and all the other
countries and peoples in the region will face new problems and
difficulties.

CITY COUNCIL OF SAN ISIDRO UNANIMOUSLY ADOPTS RESOLUTION ON RECOGNITION AND CONDEMNATION OF ARMENIAN GENOCIDE

arminfo
Thursday, August 2, 19:37

On August 1, the City Council of San Isidro, Buenos Aires province
(Argentina) unanimously adopted a resolution on recognition and
condemnation of the Armenian Genocide of 1915-1923. The City Council
also joined the December 13, 2006 law adopted by Argentina’s Senate.

The law declares April 24 the Day of Tolerance and Respect Among
Nations.

Armenia’s Ambassador to Argentina Vahagn Melikyan, Primate of the
Argentine and Chilean Diocese of the Armenian Apostolic Church,
Archbishop Gisak Muradian, as well as representatives of the Armenian
community and organizations in Argentina attended the Council’s
session. The voting was followed by speeches of Vahagn Melikyan,
Archbishop Gisak Muradian, who stressed the significance of the
adoption of the resolution and expressed their gratitude on behalf
of Armenia and Armenian people.

IRANIAN AMBASSADOR VOWS TO BOOST COOPERATION BETWEEN YEREVAN AND IRANIAN CITIES

Panorama.am
03/08/2012

Yerevan Mayor Taron Margaryan received newly appointed Ambassador of
Iran to Armenia Mohammad Reisi.

Presenting development programs in the capital and municipal economy
reform process, Taron Margaryan attached great importance to expanding
cooperation with Iranian cities, in particular, in the field of
investment, tourism and management of municipal economy.

In return, the Ambassador expressed his gratitude for the warm welcome,
vowing to boost cooperation between Yerevan and Iranian cities and
assist with implementation of new programs, press service of Yerevan
Mayor’s Office reported.

ANOTHER ARMENIAN WEIGHTLIFTER FAILS TO MAKE THE GRADE

hetq
13:54, August 3, 2012

Minutes ago, Armenian weightlifter Ara Khachatryan from the town of
Gyumri, failed to advance in the Olympic Games when his best snatch
attempt was 165 kilos.

Vardanyan was attempting to advance in the 85 kilo classification of
Group B.

Many believe that the failures of Armenia’s weighlifiting Olympic
Team must be answered Armenia’s Olympic Committee President Gagik
Tsarukyan, men’s team coach Poghos Poghosyan and women’s team coach
Artashes Nersisyan.

At the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, three of Armenia’s six
weightlifters won bronze medals.

So far in London, three of Armenia’s six weightlifters haven’t won
anything.

BITS OF THE ARMENIAN CAVALRY WERE FOUND IN IJEVAN

August 2, 2012 17:40

Shahvalad Evanesyan, a resident of Ijevan from the village of Koti,
found items of scientific value in a crack of one of the cliffs around
Ijevan a few years ago – metal parts of a horse’s bridle, bits. Sargis
Ter-Hakobyan, a resident of the town of Ijevan and a former worker of
the historic museum, informed that bridles with such a tight bit had
been mainly used for war horses; they are genealogically connected with
the Eastern countries. One of them is small in size; one can assume
that horses with such bridles were ridden since young age. The bit of
the bridle was put in the horse’s mouth, the double check pieces that
were of leather were placed on the horse’s tongue and the rear part
of the big round ring attached to the check piece was in the horse’s
teeth. The bit was attached to the jaw with a throat lash through two
front rings. The reins of the bridle were attached to the big round
ring. Maneuvering was made easier by pushing the ring to the nostrils.

Probably this kind of bridles were brought to Armenia in the first
part of the second century from China through Persia and starting from
as early as the fourth century, it was the main type of bits of the
Armenian cavalry in the early Middle Ages. Those bits gave horses a
set of advantages – they couldn’t neigh while riding and reveal their
whereabouts, they could trot longer distances without getting tired,
they couldn’t bite other riders while riding and during a battle
or impede each other. Sargis Ter-Hakobyan informed that he kept the
finds of high historic value.

Voskan SARGSYAN

STATEMENT OF THE NKR MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS ON THE NOTE SPREAD BY AZERBAIJAN’S PERMANENT MISSION TO THE OSCE

Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Nagorno-Karabakh Republic
2012-08-02 16:34

The Nagorno-Karabakh Republic Ministry of Foreign Affairs in connection
with the note spread by Azerbaijan’s Permanent Mission to the OSCE,
concerning the alleged resettlement of the NKR territories, draws the
OSCE and its country-members’ attention to the propagandistic character
of the given document, which aims to deceive the international
community and destabilize the negotiation process and the situation
in the region.

In spite of the obvious fact that the NKR has its sovereign right
to receive migrants in its territory, the spread misinformation
is absolutely groundless, and the results of the monitoring
on the situation in these territories, carried out by the OSCE
Assessment Mission in 2010, can proof it. As for the report by the
OSCE Fact-Finding Mission in 2005, which the Permanent Mission of
Azerbaijan refers to, we consider necessary to remind that according
to the statement by the OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairmen, the mission
did not find out “any clear organized resettlement” and “did not
determine that the resettlement resulted from a deliberate policy”.

In this context, we consider necessary to once more draw the attention
of the Organization on Security and Cooperation in Europe to the fact
that Azerbaijan continues the policy of resettlement in the Shahumyan
region, Getashen subregion and the other NKR regions, being under
the occupation of Azerbaijan. Moreover, Azerbaijan has over the years
withheld its consent to carry out such a monitoring in these regions,
which testifies to the unquestionable fact of their resettling and
cannot but provoke the OSCE and other international organizations’
serious anxiety.

As for the attacks of the official Baku concerning the July 19
presidential elections in the NKR, attended by representatives from
22 countries as international observers, including the OSCE, members
of European Parliament, and recognized as free, just, transparent
and meeting the international standards, similar attitude is another
proof of the fact that Azerbaijan with its totalitarian regime, where
the power passes from father to son, where “the elections” – are just
a show and farce, cannot respect democratic values, human rights and
freedom, as well as the principle of electiveness of authorities on
the basis of real expression of citizen’s will.

SOME ASPECTS OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF MILITARY AND POLITICAL SITUATION ROUND THE NAGORNO-KARABAKH CONFLICT

02.08.2012

Sergei Sargsyan
Deputy Head of the Center for Political Studies,
“Noravank” Foundation; Lieutenant Colonel (Ret.)

Currently military and political situation round Nagorno-Karabakh
conflict is mainly characterized by a general influence of the
following factors:

– Combat readiness and fighting capacity of the armed forces of the
conflicting parties, sustaining of the acceptable balance of
offensive/defensive arms between them;

– Availability of a sufficient level of mobilization resources,
including Diaspora potential by Armenia, NKR and Azerbaijan;

– Military and technical, military and political cooperation of
Armenia and Azerbaijan with neighboring states; their direct
involvement in military and political blocks;

– Tendency of development and availabilityabsence of threats to the
domestic political situation in all three states;

– Level of interest in the conflict on behalf of the regional and
global powers;

– Dynamics and efficiency of the negotiations process;

– Condition and dynamics of economic development of Armenia, NKR and
Azerbaijan;

– Development of military and political situation in the Black Sea,
Caspian and Middle East regions in general.

Amid the situation when a process of accumulation of an experience of
appearance of new states – from East Timor and Kosovo to Abkhazia,
South Ossetia, Eritrea and South Sudan – with different levels of
recognition, the Armenian sides of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict are
sure that Azerbaijan will not manage to attain its separate
advantages, and that time is not on Azerbaijan’s side either.

This is also proved by drastic changes in the attitude towards NKC of
a wide range of international organizations which previously gave
absolute preference to the principle of a territorial integrity of
Azerbaijan and did not go into judicial details of appearance of
Nagorno-Karabakh Republic, which proceeded in compliance with the
existing laws in the period of collapse of the USSR.

Such a tendency is among other factors which are conditioned by the
dynamics of the development of domestic political situation in
Azerbaijan which is on the one hand characterized by the public
discontent by the authoritarian state control methods and on the
other hand by the intensification of the process of Islamization of
the society.

The latter factor make Azerbaijan more vulnerable to the influence of
the “wave of revolutions” coming from the Muslim
countries of Africa and Middle East, because these states, under the
availability of definite social and cultural, ethnic-national,
social-economic and public and political differences, are united by
the practice of using the mobilization potential of the so-called
“Muslim street” – most socially unprotected part of the
population which is more exposed to the reception of the Islamist
propaganda as an alternative to the ideology of the ruling regime.

The current interests of the key actors of the global politics, which
are in variance to a large extent, due to a number of reasons
objectively promote non-admission of initiating a force solution of
the conflict by Azerbaijan.

For the EU Azerbaijan is of some interest first of all as a source of
energy carriers which can be alternative to the Russian, and as a
corridor for gas and oil supply from the countries of Central Asia
by-passing the territory of Russia. Its role has become even more
important against the background of increasing instability in the
countries of North Africa and Middle East and especially in the
context of developments round Iran which was manifested in the form
of imposing and gradual strengthening of economic and political
sanctions, not to speak of a possibility of carrying out military
operation against the Islamic Republic.

The interest of the United States (and Israel) is supplemented by
assigning a minor but important role to Azerbaijan in case of
carrying out military operation against Iran.

Russia is interested in close partner relations with Azerbaijan first
of all in the context of mutually advantageous cooperation on the
Caspian Sea, not-allowing the warships of non-Caspian states in its
water zone, as well as prolonging the lease agreement of
“Daryal” Information-analytical center (phased-array
early warning radar) dislocated near the population center of Gabala,
which expires in 2012 (it is rather of military and political than
military and technical interest).

But the prospects of such economic cooperation with the EU and
military cooperation with the USA and Russia, directly depends on
preservation of at least relative stability in the zone of
Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, maintaining of current status-quo and
continuation of negotiation process within the framework of the OSCE
Minks Group, which has been stated for many times on different levels
and from different political grounds. It means that it depends on an
absolute exclusion of military and political risks connected with
escalation of the military actions in the zone of the
Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.

Consequently, resumption of military actions by Azerbaijan may be
initiated exclusively under the influence of growing threatening
tendencies of the development of domestic political situation in the
country, prospects of loosing a control over the country by the
political elite of the Azerbaijani Republic and fear for their
political, and may be even physical survival.

It should be mentioned here that the scenario of escalation of
tension in the zone of Nagorno-Karabakh conflict can be triggered
only by Azerbaijani party as resumption of military actions by
Nagorno-Karabakh Republic:

– firstly, will bring to the loss of a whole political and diplomatic
groundwork and all the achievements of the Armenian diplomacy for
recent 20 years on explanation, prospects and historical background
of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict;

– secondly, is irrational from the military and political viewpoints.

There is no practical sense in changing current and established
configuration of a confrontation line by the Armenian parties – today
it is the most optimal for the minimization of the defense expenses –
mobilization and technical. The balance of strength today is mainly
provided due to the modern and consistent engineering infrastructure
of deep layer in depth defense. Going beyond this line will cause
undesirable and may be even catastrophic for Armenia and NKR
rebalancing in favour of Azerbaijan.

– thirdly, it differs drastically from the purpose of Yerevan and
Stepanakert to obtain recognition of the independence of the NKR
through a wide democratization of authorities and society, which sets
the NKR apart from Azerbaijan with its tendency to strengthen
authoritarian methods of control.

– fourthly, resumption of military actions by Armenian parties will
put a pressure on the economies of the Republic of Armenia and NKR,
bring to a breakdown of social and economic and moral and
psychological condition of the population. In order not to allow
resulting of this situation in uncontrollable political processes,
very forcible arguments of resumption of war should be presented;
objective and real goals and tasks should be set, meanwhile today
there are no such goals, tasks and motivation.

Real distribution of political forces in Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh
Republic, free functioning of oppositional parties and movements,
democratic way of transition of authority by means of elections (in
contrast to dynastic moves, like in Azerbaijan), does not threaten
domestic destabilization, create necessity of artificial shift of the
attention of the Armenian society to the situation in the conflict
zone or demand an occasion for strengthening of the control over the
public and political life in the country under the precise of
“being at war”.

Besides, the Azerbaijani authorities need softening of the critics –
on behalf of both nominal secular opposition and real gaining in
weight Islamic or Islamist opposition – of their actions taken in the
direction of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict resolution by any means –
both diplomatic and military – concerning not keeping their promises
and factual useless embezzlement/spending of budget funds directed to
the strengthening of the force structures of the state.

Absence of any tangible results from the armaments race carried out
for many years, sounding of numerous threats of using the armed
forces for returning “20% of occupied territories”,
without substantiating it by real strengthening of combating activity
in the conflict zone, is considered by opposition as a direct
indicator of non-efficiency of the incumbent authorities, large-scale
plundering of the military budget on the state level and
strengthening of the security agencies only for the reason of
self-preservation of a ruling elite.

At the same time escalation of tension in the conflict zone against
the background of a continuing race of armaments, supplemented by the
policy of promising a military revenge and enrooting of the image of
the enemy-Armenian, is dangerous because very soon it may come out of
control and spin up autonomously.

According to the statement of the Minister of Defence of
Nagorno-Karabakh Movses Hakobyan, Azerbaijani side mounts tension at
the front line year after year: in the first six months of this year
the number of cease fire regime violation cases by Azerbaijan has
doubled as compared to the same period of last year and the number of
diversions has quadrupled. In the first six months of the last year
enemy arranged two diversions and this year four diversions have been
registered1.

Such provocations tend to obtain some military and political goals
for both domestic and foreign political purposes, such as:

– exposure of

* a level of battle readiness and combat effectiveness of the units
of the Armed Forces of the NKR and Republic of Armenia;
* system of defence of the Army of Defence of the NKR, mode of the
protection of the state frontier of the RA; density of firepower
at lines of engineering facilities;
* tactics and operational flexibility of the units of the Army of
Defence of Nagorno-Karabakh and Armed Forces of the RA;

– writing off non-combat losses among the personnel of the armed
forces of Azerbaijan for the sporadic minor actions and mutual
exchange of fire;

– presenting such combat activities to the Azerbaijani society as an
indicator of military build-up and justification of mismatch of the
stated rates of the economic growth of Azerbaijan with the real
improvement of the social and economic condition of broad layers of
population;

– sustaining in the society of Azerbaijan a psychological
“state of war”- revanchist organizations and individual
activists state about the reduction of its level among the modern
Azerbaijani youth;

– justification of authoritarianism in domestic policy, restriction
of the activity of the public and political, human rights
organizations, freedom of expression as well as their possible
stiffening in the future;

– attraction/retention of the attention of the international
community at the issue of pendency of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.

At the same time the ruling elite in Azerbaijan should realize that
the escalation of the military situation in the zone of
Nagorno-Karabakh conflict plays into hand of the Islamic and Islamist
opposition, because, first of all almost any scenario of development
of the military actions, excluding a “Blitzkrieg”, will
affect the stability of the ruling regime, and secondly, it will
become a convenient occasion to turn for help to the Islamic
countries, receiving financial support from them (in some cases
bypassing official state structures) as well as recruitment for
military actions human resources, which mostly adhere Islamist
ideology and proved their mobility during the events in Libya and
Syria in 2011-20122.

The appeals of the Islamic Party of Azerbaijan to declare martial law
in the country and declare jihad3 prove that the Islamist opposition
in Azerbaijan has stirred up for recent years; in August it
established the “Organization of Karabakh Resistance”4,
which acts alongside with “secular” organizations of the
same kind, and the most active and odious among them is the
“Organization of Liberation of Karabakh”.

Increase in number of the revanchist statements by the
representatives of the Azerbaijani authorities, threats to withdraw
from the negotiations process which is held through the intermediary
of the OSCE Minsk group and to solve the conflict by military means
caused the correction of the mode of military and technical
cooperation not only with Azerbaijan but with Armenia either. Despite
the concern expressed by Baku regarding fomenting tension in
Azerbaijani-Iranian relations and using it as a pretext for strike
heavy arms build up, a tendency of tightening of control over the
stock-list of the arms and military equipments tap to Azerbaijan can
be observed. The latest example is the decision of the Department of
State of the United States to remove Azerbaijan from the list of
countries eligible to purchase American military equipment, which was
taken on the assumption of justified anxiety that it might be used
against Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh5.

And alternatively, possible negative aftermaths in case of increasing
military and technical imbalance between Armenian and Azerbaijani
conflicting parties resulted in reconsideration of the restrictions
to the stock list of heavy attacking arms tap to Armenia by Russia
within the framework of Military and Technical partnership of the
CSTO member countries and increasing of the level of military and
political cooperation by two parties.

Formation of deceptive feeling of military dominance in the
atmosphere of military euphoria in isolation from the realities and
tendencies of the regional and global policy should not tempt
Azerbaijan to use power in the zone of Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, at
least taking into consideration a negative experience of the
authorities of the neighboring Georgia which went through such
psycho-emotional condition on the eve of war in August 2008.

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arminfo
Friday, August 3, 12:45

Failing to take control over the underground radical-Islamic forces
in the Middle East, the West is currently implementing in the Middle
East countries the same scenario as in Palestine i.e. establishes
governments under its control through bringing Islamists to power,
Vardan Voskanyan, Assistant Professor at the Iranian Studies
Department, Yerevan State Univeristy, told ArmInfo.

“Coming to power with the help of the West, radical Islamists, as a
rule, discredit themselves and lose the public confidence, for they
have no experience of state governance. As a result, they become fully
dependant on the western superpowers that keep them in power. In the
same way, western superpowers gradually take control on the Middle
East countries. Now, Syria is the target,” the expert explained.

Nevertheless, he said, Assad will manage to stay in power unless the
opposition gets foreign support. Voskanyan thinks that it is not just
oil resources that attract Western superpowers to the Middle East.

“Extension of influence in the Middle East will make it possible for
the West to ‘sneak into’ Russia and China,” he said.

TURQUIE : INTERDICTION D’ACHAT DE BIENS IMMOBILIERS AUX CITOYENS DE SIX PAYS

Publie le : 02-08-2012

Info Collectif VAN – – ” Le conseil des ministres
de Turquie est en train de finaliser une loi adoptee par le Parlement
en mai dernier, qui interdit aux citoyens de six pays – l’Armenie,
Cuba, le Nigeria, la Coree du Nord, la Syrie et le Yemen – d’acheter
des biens immobiliers en Turquie, rapporte le journal Sabah. Aucune
raison n’a ete donnee pour la mise sur liste noire de ces pays. La loi
demontre l’hostilite persistante des officiels turcs, contredisant
leurs annonces mielleuses de desir de normalisation des relations
avec l’Armenie. ” Le Collectif VAN vous livre la traduction de
l’editorial du journaliste armeno-americain Harut Sassounian, paru
dans The California Courier le 2 août 2012.

L’Armenie devrait exercer des represailles contre l’interdiction
turque d’achat de biens immobiliers

De : Harut Sassounian Editeur de : The California Courier Editorial
de Sassounian du 2 août 2012

Le conseil des ministres de Turquie est en train de finaliser une loi
adoptee par le Parlement en mai dernier, qui interdit aux citoyens de
six pays – l’Armenie, Cuba, le Nigeria, la Coree du Nord, la Syrie
et le Yemen – d’acheter des biens immobiliers en Turquie, rapporte
le journal Sabah. Aucune raison n’a ete donnee pour la mise sur liste
noire de ces pays.

La loi demontre l’hostilite persistante des officiels turcs,
contredisant leurs annonces mielleuses de desir de normalisation des
relations avec l’Armenie. Après examen des restrictions imposees a
ses citoyens, le Parlement armenien devrait envisager d’adopter des
mesures de represailles contre les citoyens de la Turquie, interesses
par l’achat de proprietes armeniennes.

La loi turque proposee est doublement provocatrice puisqu’elle impose
une interdiction aux citoyens de l’Armenie, tout en etendant de 53 a
129 la liste des pays autorises a investir en Turquie, et elle permet
aussi aux citoyens de 52 autres pays d’investir, moyennant quelques
limitations. La nouvelle loi permet meme a des ressortissants dont
les gouvernements interdisent les investissements turcs d’acheter
une propriete en Turquie. Alleger les restrictions d’investissements
etrangers sur le marche immobilier turc rapporterait 300 milliards
de dollars supplementaires de revenus pour les 10 annees a venir,
ecrit le journal Sabah.

Voici les restrictions que la nouvelle loi impose a certains pays :
les citoyens de la Chine, du Danemark, du Timor Oriental, de Fidji
et d’Israël peuvent acheter uniquement une seule residence en Turquie.

Les Jordaniens, pour leur part, peuvent acheter deux maisons et un
lieu d’affaires. Les Russes et les Ukrainiens peuvent acheter un bien
immobilier n’importe où en Turquie, sauf sur la côte de la mer Noire,
tandis que les Georgiens ne peuvent pas acquerir des biens immobiliers
dans les zones frontalières et côtières. On ne permet pas aux citoyens
grecs d’acheter une propriete près de la mer Egee et dans les zones
frontalières, sauf ceux qui sont d’origine turque. Les citoyens
d’Afghanistan, d’Egypte, de Lettonie, du Maroc et d’autres pays
africains ne peuvent acheter des terrains agricoles, des vignobles ou
des vergers. Les Albanais peuvent acheter une residence ou un commerce,
mais pas de terre. Les citoyens de 16 autres pays, y compris l’Iran,
la Palestine et l’Inde, ont besoin de l’autorisation du ministère
de l’Interieur avant d’acquerir un bien immobilier en Turquie. Les
Irakiens, d’autre part, ont besoin d’un permis emis par le ministère
turc des Affaires etrangères. Un individu etranger ou une societe ne
peuvent pas acheter plus de 10 % de terre dans un quartier particulier
ou un total de 30 hectares dans toute la Turquie. La loi interdit
aussi a des etrangers d’acheter ou de louer un bien immobilier dans
les zones militaires et de securite.

Parmi les 129 pays autorises a acheter une propriete en Turquie sans
conditions ou restrictions on retrouve : l’Azerbaïdjan, le Bangladesh,
la Bielorussie, Brunei, le Kazakhstan, le Kosovo, le Koweït, le
Kirghizstan, le Liban, la Libye, le Maroc, le Sultanat d’Oman, le
Pakistan, le Qatar, l’Arabie Saoudite, le Soudan, le Tadjikistan,
le Turkmenistan, les Emirats Arabes Unis et l’Ouzbekistan.

Quelles mesures l’Armenie devrait-elle prendre en represailles de cette
nouvelle loi turque ? L’article 31 de la Constitution de la Republique
d’Armenie stipule : ” Des citoyens etrangers et des personnes apatrides
ne pourront jouir du droit a la propriete foncière, excepte dans des
cas prescrits par la loi. ” Selon un rapport soumis par le gouvernement
armenien a l’Organisation Mondiale du Commerce (OMC) : ” Les etrangers
sont autorises a utiliser la terre en signant des contrats de bail
avec un homologue armenien. En outre, les etrangers ont le droit
de posseder des proprietes immobilières construites sur la terre
armenienne et d’exploiter des ressources naturelles renouvelables et
non-renouvelables sur la base de contrats de concession accordes par
le gouvernement. ” Le rapport de l’Armenie a l’OMC declarait aussi
que ” La legislation accorde au gouvernement le pouvoir de limiter
et d’interdire tout investissement etranger pour des questions de
securite nationale. ”

Il serait important de connaître le nombre de societes et d’individus
etrangers qui louent une terre ou qui possèdent des bâtiments et des
activites commerciales en Armenie, leurs noms, leur citoyennete,
les lieux, leur taille et leur valeur marchande. Combien de ces
contrats relèvent de citoyens turcs ? Il est pertinent de soulever
ces questions, car, dans le passe, les responsables armeniens avaient
declare qu’il n’y avait aucun besoin d’imposer des restrictions aux
etrangers interesses par un placement dans l’immobilier armenien.

S’il est comprehensible que l’Armenie encourage les investissements
etrangers, on ignore si certaines zones frontalières sensibles sont
interdites de location a des etrangers, tels que des Azeris et des
Turcs, pour des raisons de securite nationale. Il existe egalement des
terres qui contiennent des reserves strategiques de certains metaux
precieux et de mineraux. Elles ne devraient pas non plus etre louees
aux etrangers qui sont des citoyens de nations hostiles.

En represailles de la nouvelle loi turque interdisant aux citoyens
armeniens d’acheter de l’immobilier en Turquie, l’Armenie devrait
immediatement passer une loi interdisant aux citoyens turcs toute
acquisition ou tout bail dans le marche de l’immobilier. Aucune
exception ne devrait etre faite !

Les Armeniens ne devraient pas s’inquieter de ne pouvoir acheter des
terres en Turquie. On espère qu’un jour ou l’autre, ils recupereront
les leurs sans avoir a les payer !

©Traduction de l’anglais C.Gardon pour le Collectif VAN – 2 août 2012 –
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