ARMENIAN FOOTBALL YOUTH NATIONAL TEAM DEFEATED BY UKRAINIAN ONE IN SECOND TOUR
Noyan Tapan
Jun 08 2007
KHARKOV, JUNE 8, NOYAN TAPAN. Armenian football national team was
defeated by the Ukrainian one with the score of 0 – 4 in the second
elimination tour of Europe Football Youth Championship on June 6
in Kharkov. The Armenian youth national team will receive the Czech
national team on September 8.
EU SUMMIT AGAIN CONVENES WITHOUT TURKEY
PanARMENIAN.Net
07.06.2007 15:34 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Turkey is once again not invited to the European
Council where the heads of EU states are coming together on June 21-22
in Brussels, and this will be the third EU summit Turkey is being
excluded from since 2006. The 27 members of the EU club will discuss
the European Constitution in the Council without the attendance of EU
candidate countries. Last month, Sarkozy said that the discussions
about Turkey will be brought up at the December summit of the EU
following his meeting with his Italian counterpart, Turkish Daily
News reports. The newspaper reminds that Turkey was not invited to
the event held for the 50th anniversary of the Treaty of Rome on March
25 in Berlin. The heads of EU member states come together every year,
during the handover of the presidency, in June and December.
NEXT RA GOVERNMENT HAS MUCH WORK TO DO IN A NUMBER OF SPHERES
Noyan Tapan
Jun 06 2007
YEREVAN, JUNE 6, NOYAN TAPAN. On June 6, RA President Robert Kocharian
conducted RA government’s last sitting. He said that the last 4 years
were efficient for Armenia and were noted for efficient reforms,
economic growth, which gave a possibility to the government to solve
some social problems, too. Mary Haroutiunian, Head of Information and
Public Relations Department of RA government, informed journalists
that R. Kocharian also mentioned that there is still a necessity of
reforms in a number of spheres and the next government has much work
to do in this direction.
Armenian National Committee of America-Western Region
104 North Belmont Street, Suite 200
Glendale, California 91206
Phone: 818.500.1918
Fax: 818.246.7353
E-mail: [email protected]
Web:
PRESS RELEASE
June 5, 2007
Contact: Haig Hovsepian
Tel: (818) 500-1918
Internet Poll Shows 99% Supporting Work of ANCA-Western Region
Los Angeles, CA – An internet poll conducted over a two week period showed
that the Armenian National Committee of America – Western Region (ANCA-WR)
enjoys support from over 99% of the Armenian American community. The poll
was conducted in May and June and included the participation of 848
participants.
Individuals who participated in the internet poll were asked if they
considered the ANCA-WR an effective organization, a mildly effective
organization or an organization that does not effectively represent the
Armenian American community. Over 80% (679 individuals) of the respondents
considered the ANCA-WR to be a trustworthy organization that effectively
advocates the concerns of the Armenian American community. Over 15%
considered the ANCA-WR a mildly effective grassroots organization. Over 4%
explained their support and opinions of the organization in additional
comments. Less than 1% of respondents conveyed that the ANCA-WR does not
work effectively for the community.
"We are honored to have broad and deep grassroots support in our community,"
commented ANCA-WR Executive Director Andrew Kzirian. "Our work on Armenian
issues in California and across the western United States reflects the hopes
and dreams of our community. The results of this poll reconfirms that our
agenda is a grassroots agenda and not one based on personalities or private
agendas," Kzirian added.
The ANCA-WR internet poll was conducted between May 25, 2007 and June 4,
2007 and included the participation of individuals across the Western United
States. The internet poll surveyed the opinions of 848 individuals and had
an error margin of plus/minus 3 percent.
The Armenian National Committee of America (ANCA) is the largest and most
influential Armenian American grassroots political organization. Working in
coordination with a network of offices, chapters, and supporters throughout
the United States and affiliated organizations around the world, the ANCA
actively advances the concerns of the Armenian American community on a broad
range of issues.
ARMENIAN LEADER NOTES "VERY LITTLE HOPE" FOR PROGRESS IN KARABAKH TALKS
Mediamax news agency
5 Jun 07
Yerevan, 5 June: In an interview with Mediamax today, Armenian
President Robert Kocharyan said that he "does not know the reason
for the optimism" of the US co-chairman of the OSCE Minsk Group.
The president was commenting on a recent statement by Matthew Bryza
that Armenia and Azerbaijan had made "substantial progress" towards
the resolution of the Nagornyy Karabakh conflict. He said that "if
the forthcoming 9 June meeting between Kocharyan and [Azerbaijani
President Ilham] Aliyev in St Petersburg is successful, the number
of key principles that the sides do not agree upon will be reduced
to close to zero".
Kocharyan’s comment was sent to Mediamax by the president’s press
service.
"I do not know the reason for optimism of the US co-chairman. The
current state of the negotiation process and also the known statements
by the Azerbaijani side in the past two months have left very little
hope for a positive result," Kocharyan said in his interview with
Mediamax.
Montreal Gazette , Canada
June 3 2007
Mustapha Kemal Ataturk: still worshipped after all these years
Founder of modern Turkey has his influence felt even today
NORMAN WEBSTER, The Gazette
Published: Sunday, June 03, 2007
"Revered" is too mean a word to describe how Mustapha Kemal Ataturk
is regarded by his countrymen. Hero worship is closer to the mark,
the way Mao Zedong was seen by Chinese in earlier days, but without
the brainless hysteria that used to play such a part in Mao idolatry.
Everywhere, Ataturk gazes down on his people – from portraits in
waiting rooms, from snapshots of his life (swimming, declaiming,
teaching the alphabet) posted on public walls, or pointing the way
dramatically forward, from astride a rearing horse, in the town
square of Nevsehir in Cappadocia, deep in Turkey’s Asian heartland.
Although he died in 1938, he remains a guiding force. Founding father
of the Turkish republic in 1923, he decreed that this overwhelmingly
Muslim nation should be Western-oriented and secular in its public
life. The army remains loyal to the vision, periodically overthrowing
governments it considers to be straying from the true path.
Ataturk. Take George Washington (father of his nation), add in some
Abraham Lincoln (moral force), then a dose of Maggie Thatcher
(implacable, often unpleasant) and our own Sir John A. (a visionary
with a fondness for the bottle – Ataturk died of cirrhosis of the
liver), put them all together and you approach the figure this man
still cuts in his world.
Westerners might know him best as the soldier who beat the British
(plus Aussies and New Zealanders) at Gallipoli in 1915. His real
contribution to history, though, was to rescue the republic from the
ruins of the Ottoman empire and drag it Westward by the scruff of the
neck.
His ambition was phenomenal. He abolished the sultanate and the
religious caliphate, changed the nation’s script from Arabic to a
Latin alphabet, adopted the Gregorian calendar, outlawed the fez and
the veil, granted suffrage to women and required all Turks to adopt
surnames, taking Ataturk ("Father of Turks") for himself.
This was a leader who literally changed the way people dressed,
spoke, worshipped, were named and governed, not little things by any
measure. And the amazing thing is, he’s still on the job.
Istanbul was the recent site of the annual assembly of the
International Press Institute, a global group which keeps a watch on
press freedom.
Nations that wish to stifle freedom of speech find all sorts of
ingenious ways to do so. Turkey has a beaut, Article 301 of the
Criminal Code, which applies savage penalties for "insulting
Turkishness" – such as, for example, indicating the Turks committed
genocide against the Armenians during the First World War.
We asked the prime minister what he was going to do to correct this.
He said he was working on it. He might be some time.
It has been 20 years since I first went to Turkey, and the change is
striking. The air is cleaner, the buildings sturdier, the streets in
better shape, the taxis no longer battered and polluting, the people
better dressed, the prosperity almost palpable.
Returning to Montreal these days feels less like returning from the
Third World than the other way round. You really have to go abroad to
appreciate how unbelievably badly our streets, roads and public
spaces compare – and how pervasive and degrading are our so-called
graffiti (a.k.a., mindless scrawls by vandals).
Face it, our town is scruffy, shabby and down at the heels. Less and
less do we resemble Paris or Singapore, and more and more Harare,
say, or Cairo. Mogadishu? Not yet, although our potholes would do
credit to a war zone.
The Topkapi Palace remains a wonder, especially its collections of
precious stones. We gape at a 68-carat diamond once used, incredibly,
as a ring before being retired to a turban ornament.
There are ropes of pearls, gigantic rubies, emeralds seemingly the
size of billiard balls. Then the famed Topkapi Dagger, with its three
huge emeralds, the one Melina Mercouri and her lads set out to steal
in the 1960 film Topkapi.
Those sultans might not be missed by the masses, but they did have a
certain style.
Finally, a quote that adds to the feeling that Turkey really must
succeed, eventually, in winning admittance to the European Union. It
comes from Jeffrey Kopstein, director of the Centre for European,
Russian and Eurasian Studies at the Munk Centre for International
Studies at the University of Toronto.
Kopstein writes that Europe’s political elites "fail to consider the
broader implications of refusing Turkey altogether. If left out,
Turkey will pursue its own security agenda and, in the context of
Iran’s nuclear ambitions, that can only mean developing its own
nuclear program. Who could blame them?"
I don’t know about you, but that made me sit up in my chair.
Norman Webster is a former editor of The Gazette.
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THE EVIL THAT MEN DO LIVES AFTER THEM
Iqbal Latif – Paris – 6/2/2007
Global Politician, NY
June 1 2007
Columbus known as great discoverer but deserves nomination as a
scoundrel of highest order, scold blooded killer of the vanquished
nations of conquered America and a true proponent of might is right.
If conquering Greeks, Romans, Sassanians or Arabs would have treated
their conquered nations with such treachery Middle East would have
diapered as cradle of civilisation and culture. 1.Columbus remains a
mysterious and controversial figure who has been variously described
as one of the greatest mariners in history, a visionary genius, a
mystic, a national hero, a failed administrator, a naive entrepreneur,
and a ruthless and greedy imperialist.
Imam Ghazali as great scholar of Islam deserved nomination for killing
free thinking amongst embryonic institutions of Islam.
Responsible for decadent thinking prevalent in nations of Islam today,
author of ascendency of faith over reason that destroyed open debate
Ijtehad and Ijtama.
2.Imam Ghazali -key member of the influential Asharite school of early
Muslim philosophy and the most important refuter of Mutazilites. His
11th century book titled " The Incoherence of the Philosophers"
marks a major turn in Islamic epistemology, as Ghazali effectively
discovered philosophical skepticism that would not be commonly seen
in the West until Rene Descartes, George Berkeley and David Hume. The
encounter with skepticism led Ghazali to embrace a form of theological
occasionalism , or the belief that all causal events and interactions
a re not the product of material conjunctions but rather the immediate
and present will of God. The Incoherence also marked a turning point
in Islamic philosophy in its vehement rejections of Aristotle and
Plato. The book took aim at the falasifa, a loosely defined group of
Islamic philosophers from the 8th through the 11th centuries (most
notable among them Avicenna and Al-Farabi ) who drew intellectually
upon the Ancient Greeks. Ghazali bitterly denounced Aristotle, Socrates
and other Greek writers as non-believers and labeled those who employed
their methods and ideas as corrupters of the Isla mic faith.
In the next century, Averroes drafted a lengthy rebuttal of Ghazali’s
Incoherence entitled the Incoherence of the Incoherence; how ever,
the epistemological course of Islamic thought had already been set.
Known as Chivalrous great Mongol but deserve nomination for
indiscriminate Mongol destruction of seat and cradle of civilisation
thus hampering the development of free thinking in Islam.
3.Hulagu Khan passionate with Persia and its culture, the reason why
he became the Khan of Persia under Ilkhanate dynasty. The Persian
influence was another f actor that encouraged Hulagu to attack the
Arabs.the sack of Baghdad by the Mongols made the sack of Rome
by Alaric look kindly. The Grand Library of Baghdad, containing
countless precious historical documents and books on subjects ranging
from medicine to astronomy, was destroyed. Su rvivors said that the
waters of the Tigris ran black with ink from the enormous quantities
of books flung into the river. Citizens attempted to flee, but were
intercepted by Mongol soldiers who raped and killed with abandon.
Although death counts vary widely and cannot be easily substantiated,
a number of estimates do exist. Martin Sicker writes that close to
90,000 people may have died (Sicker 2000, p. 111). Other estimates go
much higher. Muslim historian Abdullah Wassaf claims the loss of life
was several hundred thousand or more. Ian F razier of The New Yorker
estimates of the death toll have ranged from 200,000 to a million.
The Mongols looted and then destroyed. Mosques, palaces, libraries,
hospitals – grand buildings that had been the work of generations were
burned to the ground. The caliph was captured and forced to watch as
his citizens were murdered and his treasury plundered. The caliph was
trampled to death. Marco Polo reports that Hulagu starved the caliph
to death, but there is no corroborating evidence for that.
Most historians believe the Mongol accounts (and Muslim) that the
Mongols rolled the caliph up in a rug, and rode their horses over
him, as they believed that the earth was offended if touched by
royal blood. All of his sons but one were killed. Prior to this, the
Mongols destroyed a city only if it had resisted them. Cities that
capitulated at the first demand for surrender could usually expect
to be spared. Cities that surrendered after a short fight, such as
this, normally could expect a sack, but not complete devastation. The
utter ferocity of the rape of Baghdad is the worst example of Mongol
excess known. (It is said some Chinese cities suffered a similar fate,
but this is not documented).
Baghdad was a depopulated, ruined city for several centuries and only
gradually recovered something of its former glory. Of all the Mongol
Khans, he is, for obvious reasons, the most feared and despised.
Known as a fading peaceful Sultan but deserves nomination for Armenian
massacre and genocide still remains a fully untold story
4.Turkish caliph Abdul Hamid II- The crumbling Ottoman Empire headed
by the "bloody sultan" Turkish caliph Abdul Hamid II from August 31,
1876 to July 24, 1908 is credited with the "Hamidian massacres" or
"holocaust" of 5,000 – 200,000 Armenians in Erzinjan. Sultan’s power,
assumed by nationalist "Young Turks" of the CUP, sought Muslim
orthodoxy, implemented the shari’a (sacred Muslim Qu’ran law), &
provoked frenzied Armenian massacres, beatings, rapes, deportations &
pillaging ("continuum of dest ruction") in 1909 in Adana.
In aftermath of the Balkan Wars (1912-1913) Armenian Genocide (AG)
pinnacled after the coup d-etat of Jan. 26, 1913 led by Talat Pasha,
Enver Pasha, Jemal Pasha (Young Turk Trio) & Ziya Gokalp launching
nationalistic indoctrination ("New Religion") with paramilitary
training of youths, to revitalize into Golden Age as had Genghis Khan,
seeking to destroy Armenians as "dangerous microbes." The brutal, gory
details of bastinado, nail extraction, crucifixion, head splitting,
eye gouging, mass burnings, starvations, mass drownings, rapes,
etc. were carried out on CUP’s killing agenda, an hierarchial command
motivated by jihad that included Special Organization killing squads,
Kurdish Hamidiye forces, gendarmes, & military police all used in
the 1914-1915 AG when some 1,000,000. died. Final killings (6,000)
were at Kars in October 1920 and in Smyrna on September 1922 by the
Kemalist army. But the hatred & official Turkish denials persist, most
plausibly stemming from the inhumane, replusive, ghoulish & fiendish
massacres although threat of reparations including land exists.
Known as great conquerors and philanthropist backers of explorers they
deserve nomination for imposition of extremist views of Christianity
and proponent of inquisitions in a society that was hall mark of
medieval coexistence.
5.Ferdinand and Isabella’s and Segovian Dominican Tomas de Torquemada-
The Spanish Inquisition was an institution that had precedents in other
Inquisitions. The reconquest of Spain from the Moors resulted in a
relatively peaceful multi-religious society, but violent anti-Judaism*
ensued and Jews converted en masse to the Catholic faith. The Spanish
Inquisition was motivated in part by the multi-religious nature of
Spanish society following the reconquest of the Iberian Peninsula
from the Moors (Muslims). Much of the Iberian Peninsula was dominated
by Moors following their invasion of the peninsula in 711 until they
were expelled by means of a long campaign of reconquest. However, the
reconquest did not result in the full expulsion of Muslims from Spain,
but instead yielded a multi-religious society made up of Catholics,
Jews and Muslims .
Granada to the south, in particular remained under Moorish control
until 1492, and large cities, especially Seville, Valladolid, and
Barcelona , had large Jewish populations centred in Juderías.The
monarchs decided to introduce the Inquisition to Castile to uncover
and do away with false converts, and requested the Pope’s assent. At
first the request was turned down for a number of reasons. One reason
was that they had requested the Spanish Inquisition to be under the
control of the monarchs of Spain. This in turn would lessen papal
authority over the clergy involved and make methods difficult to keep
in line with official papal rules of inquisition, and instead easily
become a mere political and semi-military tool of Spain. Ferdinand
pressured Sixtus IV by threatening to withdraw militarily support
during a time when the Turks were a major threat to Rome. On November
1, 1478, Pope Sixtus IV published the bull Exigit Sinceras Devotionis
Affectus, through which the Inquisition was established in the Kingdom
of Castile . The bull also gave the monarchs exclusive authority to
name the inquisitors.
The reconquest produced a relatively peaceful co-existence – although
not without periodic conflicts – among Christians, Jews, and Muslims in
the peninsula’s kingdoms. There was a long tradition of Jewish service
to the crown of Aragon. Ferdinand’s father John II named the Jewish
Abiathar Crescas to be Court Astronomer. Jews occupied many important
posts, religious and political. Castile itself had an unofficial rabbi.
Known as great poet but deserves nomination for lack of tolerance of
the opposite view and unknown author of clash between civilisations….
6. Durante degli Alighieri, better known as Dante Alighieri or simply
Dante, ( May 14/ June 13, 1265 – September 13/14 [1] , 1321) was an
Italian poet from Florence . His central work , the Commedia (The
Divine Comedy), is considered the greatest literary work composed
in the Italian language and a master piece of world literature. In
Italian he’s known as "the Supreme Poet" (il Sommo Poeta).
As one travels into the depths of Hell, less and less light is seen:
Sowers of Discord include people such as Mohammed, Ali, Henry VIII,
Vlad Tepes…
Iqbal Latif-Paris writes for the Global Politician about Islam and
related issues.
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FORMER DEPUTIES LEAVE "PEOPLE’S PARTY OF ARMENIA"
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Vardan Lazarian, Secretary of the "People’s Party of Armenia"
presented an appeal to the regional organization of Shengavit that
he was leaving the party. "That was my choice, I want to cease my
party activities", explained Vardan Lazarian.
Stepan Zakaryan is also tired of politics. He stated that the
opposition was defeated: "No one rigged or stuffed the elections;
the nation sold its votes".
Stepan Zakaryan who is disappointed in methods of political fight
does not exclude that he may also leave the party.
Stepan Demirchyan, Head of the "People’s Party of Armenia" refused
to comment on his friends’ deed.
Ruzan Khachtryan, press secretary of the party, informed that their
step annoyed the party members.
"Some members of the party became deputies owing to the efforts of
ordinary parties and their annoyance can be understood".
To our question whether Mkrtchayn and Zakaryan were against the
formation of the Block, Mrs Khachtryan noted: "They were against
it. But it is not a problem.
The elections were rigged and the party did not enter the NA."
By the way, Stepan Demirchyan was astonished by Stepan Zakaryan’s
intention while Ruzan Khachtryan was not.
VLADIMIR KARAPETIAN: UNTIL NKR STATUS IS CLARIFIED, ENSURING OF PEOPLE’S SELF-DETERMINATION RIGHT IS STIPULATED AND CONSTANT GEOGRAPHICAL CONTACT WITH ARMENIA IS PROIVIDED, WE DO NOT SPEAK ABOUT SECONDARY ISSUES
Noyan Tapan
Jun 01 2007
YEREVAN, JUNE 1, NOYAN TAPAN. "Until Nagorno Karabakh status
is clarified, and without ensuring NKR people’s right of
self-determination, full integration and providing of constant
geographical contact between Armenia and Nagorno Karabakh, the
Armenian side is not going to speak about secondary issues," Vladimir
Karapetian, Acting Spokesperson of RA Foreign Ministry, stated.
In response to the question of PanArmenian Net news agency that
according to some media, OSCE Minsk Group Co-chair Matthew Bryza
touched upon the issue of returning territories adjacent to Nagorno
Karabakh, V. Karapetian stated: "Armenia’s position in the issue of
Nagorno Karabakh is obvious and irrespective of the fact who makes
such statements and how they comment upon the process of negotiations,
we can only reiterate what we have repeatedly presented."
COUNCIL OF EUROPE CONGRESS OF LOCAL AND REGIONAL AUTHORITIES HOLDS PLENARY SESSION IN STRASBOURG
Azeri Press Agency, Azerbaijan
May 30 2007
The Congress of Local and Regional Authorities of the Council of
Europe is holding its next plenary session which will last from 30
May to 1 June 2007 in Strasbourg (France), APA’s correspondent reports.
Co-operation on local democracy beyond Europe’s borders, in
particular with Morocco, Japan and Mexico, is one of the items on the
agenda. Delegations from these three countries will address the Chamber
of Local Authorities and the Chamber of Regions of the Congress.
A round table on "50 years of local democracy in the Council of Europe"
will take place on 30 May 2007 to mark the anniversary of the first
session of the Conference of Local Authorities, held on 12 January
1957 under the Chairmanship of the late French Prime Minister and
National Assembly Speaker Jacques Chaban-Delmas.
On the same day a debate is scheduled on the new Congress Charter,
which the Committee of Ministers adopted on 2 May this year and which
allows for the increasing political role played by the Congress.
Spain’s State Secretary for Territorial Co-operation, Ana Isabel Leiva
Diez, will speak on 1 June, inter alia to present the plans for the
Conference of European Ministers responsible for local and regional
authorities to be held in Valencia (Spain) on 15 and 16 October next.
This will be followed by a debate on the ‘European Local Democracy
Week" project. At the initiative of the Congress and the European
Committee on Local and Regional Democracy (CDLR), this proposal could
be officially launched at the Valencia Conference.
Other personalities who will be present include Liechtenstein’s
Minister of the Interior Martin Meyer, the Mayor of Moscow, Youri
Loujkov, and the Mayor of Rabat in Morocco, Omar Bahraoui.
Also on the session’s agenda are various debates on the monitoring of
local and regional democracy, election observation, social cohesion
and, in particular, territorial continuity, and also urgent societal
issues such as global warming.
6-member delegation is representing Azerbaijan at the session. The
head of the delegation is the chief of Nakhchivan municipalities
association Anar Ibrahimov.
Ibrahimov told the APA after the speech by Council of Europe Secretary
General Terry Davis, the delegation will ask him a question on the
Nagorno Karabakh conflict.