Author: Kanayan Tamar

“ARMENPRESS” INTRODUCES 12TH BESTSELLER BOOKS LIST

11:33, 5 April, 2013

YEREVAN, APRIL 5, ARMENPRESS. “The Return of Kikos” by contemporary
Armenian writer Armen Ohanyan continues to top the Bestseller Books
List exclusive project introduced by “Armenpress” News Agency for
the second week. 225 readers bought “The Return of Kikos” in previous
week. Notwithstanding their number currently reduced to 60, but this
book remains the sole leader of the rating. Popular “Masha and the
Bear” tale occupies the second position this time. “The Alchemist”
novel by contemporary Brazilian writer Paulo Coelho occupies the
third position of the list.

“The Book of Lamentations” of outstanding Armenian author St.

Gregory of Narek appeared in the fourth position. This masterpiece
by St. Gregory of Narek has always been included in our bestseller
books list. Tales by prominent Armenian writer Hovhannes Tumanyan
occupy the fifth position. The tales are followed by Mark Aren’s
“Where the Wild Roses Bloom”, which occupies the sixth position.

“Memories of My Melancholy Whores” (original Spanish-language title:
Memoria de mis putas tristes) by Columbian novelist Gabriel García
Marquez occupies the seventh position of the project. This book
is followed by “The Little Prince” by French author Antoine de
Saint-Exupery.

“The Old Man and the Sea” by the American author Ernest Hemingway
appears in the list for the first time and occupies the ninth place.

Nvard Vardanyan’s “Talkative Palette” occupies the final place of
the Bestseller Books List introduced by “Armenpress” News Agency.

HAYK KOTANJYIAN INTRODUCED REPORT IN FRAMES OF HARVARD BSSP WORKSHOP

11:31, 5 April, 2013

YEREVAN, APRIL 5, ARMENPRESS. The Chairman of the Political Science
Association of Armenia Dr. Hayk Kotanjian introduced report entitled
“Regional Security Dynamics in the South Caucasus” within the framework
of the Harvard Black Sea Security Program Workshop held in Bucharest
on March, 2013. “Armenpress” represents the report in its entirety:

“Dear Chairman,

Dear Colleagues,

I would like to express my gratitude for organizing this 11th Harvard
Black Sea Security Program Regional Workshop in the format of Alumni
Reunion which brings together distinguished experts on regional
security dynamics to share ideas and discuss possible developments in
the Greater Black Sea Area. In my presentation of personal capacity,
I’m going mainly to deal with some aspects of regional security
dynamics in the South Caucasus; such as perspectives of the Karabakh
conflict resolution and current situation in the Armenian – Turkish
relations.

First of all, it should be mentioned that the large-scale changes
gaining an intense circulation in the geopolitical system of the
Greater Middle East provide new problems for the security of the South
Caucasus fraught with dangerous aggravation of existing intra-regional
threats.

The unfolding “Arab Spring” with unpredictable developments in Syria
and the neighboring countries, the growing role of Turkey in the
Middle East with shift in its foreign policy from the traditional
Western-oriented approach to the “Neo Ottomanism” vision with a broader
emphasis on Turkey’s relations with the Muslim world, the complexity
of development prospects of the security dynamics in Central Asia in
connection with the scheduled withdrawal of the Coalition troops from
Afghanistan at the end of 2014, as well as the ongoing system crisis
in the geostrategic space of the European Union – all these are the
factors affecting the dynamics of security environment’s changes in
the South Caucasus.

The dynamics of Armenia’s, Georgia’s and Azerbaijan’s involvement in
the international security system in both bilateral and multilateral
dimensions plays a unique role in maintaining the security in the
South Caucasus. Here as a positive factor it should be mentioned
that in comparison with its neighbors Armenia is more effective
in maintaining the balanced diversity of its security orientations
and the development of security cooperation with NATO and the CSTO,
Russia and the US, as well as with other world power centers like
the EU actively influencing the region.

Armenia’s partnership with NATO within the framework of cooperative
security goes back to 2002, when the country joined the PfP Planning
and Review Process (PARP) and then the Individual Partnership
Action Plan (IPAP), thereby getting the opportunity to make its own
contribution to multinational training, exercises and operations, as
well as to international security in general – under the auspices of
the Alliance. Since 2004 Armenia has been engaged in the NATO-led
peacekeeping Kosovo Force (KFOR) that furthered the relations
between the parties. Armenia’s peacekeepers participated in the
US-led Coalition in Iraq in 2005 – 2008. Since 2009 Armenia has been
contributing peacekeeping contingent to the International Security
Assistance Force (ISAF) in Afghanistan.

Armenia appears to be in a unique position combining the knowledge
and experience gained both from the NATO-led peacekeeping operations
and the CSTO drills within the framework of the Collective Rapid
Reaction Forces and has a solid willingness to become a bridge for
sharing experience with the members of the two respected partner
organizations. For instance, the developments in Afghanistan and
particularly NATO’s decision to terminate its combat operations in
that country by 2014 emphasize the importance of consultations on the
NATO-CSTO cooperation in post-2014 Afghanistan – after the withdrawal
of the NATO Coalition Forces. Both NATO and the CSTO are interested
in neutralizing the possible threats coming from Afghanistan and in
this context the Armenian experience can serve as a good basis for
fertilizing the ground to launch the NATO-CSTO cooperation mechanisms.

It should be emphasized that the main threat to the peace and security
in the South Caucasus has been and remains the possible resumption
of the war by Azerbaijan against Armenia and Nagorno Karabakh. Thus,
the peaceful and just resolution of the Karabakh armed conflict is of
crucial importance for the security and stability of our vulnerable
region. The peaceful civil movement for the protection of the
Artsakh Armenians’ rights in the process of Perestroika and Glasnost
became a challenge to the inertia of the Stalinist value system not
recognizing the priority of individual and collective human rights,
ignoring the aspirations of ethnic minorities which were arbitrarily
driven by the will of the “father of peoples” to the mini-empires of
the Soviet Azerbaijan type.

The Armenians responded to the pogroms organized by the Azerbaijani
authorities in Sumgait, Kirovabad and Baku with a law-governed
referendum in Artsakh that recorded the adamant will of its people to
freedom. In the political-legal sense, the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic
is established as a result of the referendum on the basis of the USSR
Law of the Perestroika period “On Procedures for Regulation of Issues
Related to Separation from USSR Republics” during its effectiveness –
before signing the Alma-Ata Declaration on the official dissolution
of the Soviet Union.

Another distinctive feature of the Karabakh referendum is that the
Azeri minority in compliance with the aforementioned USSR Law was
involved in the preparation of the referendum, although consequently
boycotted it on the orders of the Baku authorities. This is evidenced
by the saved documents of the Referendum Commission. World practice
shows that in this way – without intervention of the metropolis –
the right of peoples to self-determination of Bangladesh, Eritrea,
East Timor, Montenegro, and just two years ago in the South Sudan
were implemented through the expression of free will at referendums
exactly among the self-determining peoples, and not the population
in their former metropolises represented by Pakistan, Ethiopia,
Indonesia or Yugoslavia – Serbia and Sudan.

Since the armistice was signed in 1994 by the Azerbaijani, Armenian and
Nagorno Karabakh parties to the armed conflict, both Armenia and the
Nagorno Karabakh Republic have supported the peace process under the
auspices of the OSCE Minsk Group. Armenia’s and the Nagorno Karabakh
Republic’s efforts aimed to foster confidence building, as mutual
trust is the key for long term peace and stability among Armenia,
NKR and Azerbaijan. Meanwhile, the Azerbaijani leadership actions are
destroying any base of confidence building. As a symptomatic example
of such activities we can mention a case of rude falsification of the
history of the Eastern Transcaucasia with the efforts of political
“balancing” the genocidal crimes against the Armenian population in
the early 20th century with the non-existent “genocide against the
Azerbaijanis”. In 1998 the Decree of the President of the Republic
of Azerbaijan “On the genocide against the Azerbaijanis” was issued
on the basis of these falsifications.

The Azerbaijani authorities are implementing generously financed
campaign of falsifying authorship of mockery of the corpses of victims
of the Khojaly tragedy. The details of this provocation as a tool of
political struggle for power in Baku were freshly stated in the famous
interview of the then Azerbaijani President Ayaz Mutalibov to the Czech
journalist Dana Mazalova. The Armenian side has all the evidence that
the corpses were in the vicinity of the city of Agdam, which then
was in the area of responsibility of the Azerbaijani authorities,
under the control of their military forces, and the physical contact
of the Armenians with the dead bodies in order to mutilate them was
not possible.

The policy of fomenting the anti-Armenian sentiment currently is not
limited only to fooling the Azerbaijani people, but also is exported to
the international community. The denunciation of the “Ghuba” impulse of
xenophobia against the Armenians – with the attempts of manipulatively
involving the Jewish Diaspora in negative anti-Armenian sentiments,
nurtured by the Head of the neighboring state – is symptomatic. It
is his decree on the establishment of the genocide memorial complex
that actually canonized the untested version of the perpetrators
of the mass death of people buried in the excavated graves in North
Azerbaijan and their national and religious affiliation. The colleagues
from Israel and the Jewish Diaspora are resentful that the Head of
Azerbaijan includes in the state protocol the visits of the Jewish
organizations leaders to the memorial built allegedly on the remains
of the Jews killed by the Armenians, but in fact – on the graves of
the Armenians killed in expeditionary raid into the North Azerbaijan
in 1918 by the Caucasian Islamic army led by Turkish General Khalil
Pasha and Caucasian Tartar gangs.

Another vivid example of Azerbaijani leadership deliberate policy
toward preventing any possibility of confidence building process
between Armenia, the Nagorno Karabakh Republic and Azerbaijan is the
persecution orgy with public mass burning of books of Azerbaijani
eminent writer Akram Aylisli. In his novel Aylisli dared to truthfully
describe along with the peace and good neighborliness of the Armenians
and Caucasian Tartars in Nakhichevani city of Agulis also the cruelty
of Turkish and Caucasian Tartars against the Armenian population
of Nakhichevan and Baku. The official and committed-to-authorities
public circles reacted with repressions and treachery accusations as
per the worst traditions of Nazi Germany. The parallels between the
fires of the books by Heine, Mann, Freud, and Remarque burned by the
Nazis of Hitler’s Germany and the publications of the people’s writer
and honored artist of Azerbaijan are obvious.

The symptoms of hyper-chauvinism of the Aliyev regime is also expressed
in the glorification of Ramil Safarov – a cowardly murderer of the
sleeping colleague – an Armenian officer at the NATO international
training program. This provocation by the Azerbaijani authorities
aimed at undermining the participation of the three permanent members
of the UN Security Council – Russia, the US and France – in the format
of the OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs in the peaceful resolution of the
Karabakh conflict – has been condemned by the authorities of all the
three Co-Chair countries.

We believe that the only realistic way which can lead to a lasting
peace between Armenia, the Nagorno Karabakh Republic and Azerbaijan
passes through the recognition of the legitimacy of 1991 referendum
and independence of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic by Azerbaijan. The
participants of the confidential negotiations based on the results
of the Karabakh war of 1992-1994 witnessed that the former President
of Azerbaijan Heydar Aliyev with his Armenian counterparts was also
inclined to the possibility of such an effective resolution of the
conflict.

The preparation of the Azerbaijani, Armenian and Nagorno-Karabakh
populations for the recognition of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic, as
well as for parallel negotiations among the Republic of Azerbaijan,
the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic and the Republic of Armenia on the
status of some territories of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic’s security
zone – to guarantee the security of the population and sustainable
development of all the three independent states – could be a factor in
the establishment of lasting peace and security in the South Caucasus
and its integration into the international community.

Another obstacle on the road toward peace and stability in the South
Caucasus is the Turkey’s policy of isolation and blackmail against
Armenia. As we know, heavily influenced by Azerbaijan the Turkish
leadership has rejected the ratification of the Armenian-Turkish
protocols signed in 2009 with mediation efforts of Switzerland
and support of the US, Russia, France and the EU. Being involved in
struggle with the Turkey’s “Deep State”, current Turkish leadership in
its relations with Azerbaijan ironically backs the ideological notion
of “one people, two states” which was jointly elaborated by the former
leaders of Azerbaijan and their partners from Turkey’s “Deep State”.

Turkey continues to put preconditions on Armenia demanding unilateral
concessions in the Karabakh negotiations as well as stepping up its
state policy of denial concerning the fact of the Armenian Genocide
committed in the Ottoman Empire.

As it is well known, Armenia strongly believes that the productive way
ahead in the Armenian – Turkish relations is the ratification of the
Armenian-Turkish protocols without preconditions and establishment of
diplomatic relations between two states with simultaneous opening of
the Turkish – Armenian border, as it was signed under the auspices
of the three permanent members of the UN Security Council – France,
Russia and the United States. Meanwhile, as the Armenian President
Serzh Sargsyan has recently emphasized, Armenia cannot and will not
wait indefinitely for the ratification and will consider the recall of
its signature from protocols within the reasonable time frame. In my
personal view, normalization of the Armenian – Turkish relations on
the basis of 2009 Protocols could foster significantly the security
and stability in the South Caucasus and the surrounding Greater Black
Sea Region.

I would like also to touch upon the perspectives of Georgia’s
domestic and foreign policy in the light of recent political
developments in Georgia. It’s worthy of mention that after October
2012 well-done democratic Parliamentary Elections we are witnessing
the ongoing consultations and sometimes tensions between the President
Saakahsvili’s team and the Prime Minister Ivanishvili’s coalition. One
thing is obvious: till now the level of uncertainty is too high for
making any valid forecasts either on Georgia’s domestic or foreign
policy mid- and long-term developments. At the same time, we expect
that normalization of the Georgian – Russian relations in parallel
with keeping the advanced Georgia-West strategic partnership in
balanced harmony may play a significant role in furthering mid-
and long-term regional stability.

In the meantime, taking into account the constitutional amendments
which are set to come into force in October 2013, the center of
political power will be gradually shifted from the Government and the
President’s Office to the Georgian parliament and, in my viewpoint,
our expert community should pay more attention to the developments
within the Georgian National Assembly where the Prime Minister’s
coalition holds a majority.

At the end of my presentation I would like to highlight the importance
of the Harvard Black Sea Security Program role which since its
inception in 1997 has been playing a key role in fostering the frank
and academic discussions at expert and political level on several
issues concerning the Greater Black Sea Region. These workshops present
an important opportunity for expert community and policymakers to share
views on regional security dynamics and to come up with new ideas
which may be useful in overcoming the complicated set of challenges
facing our region through its sustainable development. I would also
like to express my gratitude to the Romanian side for hospitality and
creating all conditions necessary for organization of this workshop.”

INVESTIGATION LAUNCHED AGAINST EDITOR-IN-CHIEF OF “AGOS” CAUSED DISCONTENT IN TURKISH SOCIETY

10:13, 5 April, 2013

YEREVAN, APRIL 5, ARMENPRESS. The investigation launched by the
Republican Prosecutor’s Office of Istanbul against the Editor-in-Chief
of Armenian “Agos” periodical Rober KoptaÅ~_ and Turkish writer Umit
Kıvanc caused a serious discontent in the Turkish society. As reports
“Armenpress” citing “Agos” periodical, a number of individuals voiced
about their dissatisfaction regarding the recent event in Twitter
social website. In particular one of the users stated that this is a
result of discrimination and ignorance and the same factors resulted
in Hrant Dink’s murder.

Another user stated: “Now I can say one thing. I also think like them,
launch another investigation against me too.” Also one of the users
highlighted that it’s not the Armenian editor’s statement regarding
Hrant Dink’s trial that will serve as a reason to sue a new case,
but the national identity of the editor.

Resident of Antalya, Aydin Tascin filed a complaint against the
statement, Rober KoptaÅ~_ and Turkish writer Umit Kıvanc issued on
January 17, 2012 on Haber Turk TV. Turkish citizens Rober KoptaÅ~_
and Turkish writer Umit Kıvanc dubbed the Turkish state an assassin
that keeps masterminding murders.

LAURE MARCHAND ET GUILLAUME PERRIER A L’UGAB

Rencontre-Debat (La Turquie et le fantôme Armenien)

Jeudi 4 avril, les journalistes Laure Marchand et Guillaume Perrier,
respectivement correspondants en Turquie des journaux Le Figaro et Le
Monde, ont donne une conference organisee par Les Nouvelles d’Armenie
Magazine et l’UGAB devant une assemblee particulièrement attentive
aux revelations de ceux, qui, vivant la realite de la societe turque
depuis près de 10 ans, ont relate leur vecu dans un livre fondateur
intitule La Turquie et le Fantôme Armenien (Actes Sud). Un temoignage
unique, passionnant et bouleversant, que chacun se doit de lire pour
comprendre l’extreme complexite et les tenants et aboutissants d’un
Etat enferme dans son deni, mais dont certains signes avant-coureurs
pourraient laisser a penser qu’une evolution, aussi lente soit-elle,
semblerait vouloir se dessiner en sa societe.

La rencontre a ete presentee par Alexis Govciyan et moderee par
Isabelle Kortian et Ara Toranian.

Chapitres

Introduction : Le Genocide Armenien et la loi

1 – Marseille : La petite Armenie

2 – Les Voyages d’Armen Aroyan, l’Archeologue du Genocide

3 – Des Grands-mères et des petits-enfants

4 – Les Convertis, Armeniens de l’ombre

5 – Dersim : Terre rebelle

6 – Le Genocide de la pierre

7 – Le Don Quichotte armenien

8 – Vakif, le dernier village

9 – La Diplomatie du football est passee a côte de son but

10- L’Obsession negationniste de l’Etat

11- Sevag Balikci : “1 500 000 + 2”

12- Le Palais de Cankaya, le peche originel de la Republique

13- “Celui qui a detruit un nid ne pourra pas faire le sien”

14- L’Âme du maquis

15- Hrant Dink l’Armenien et ses heritiers Turcs

16- Les Kurdes : Aiguillon de la conscience turque ?

17- Le sous-prefet assassine

18- Les Justes Turcs

Preface de Taner Akcam

218 pages

ISBN 978-2-330-01787-3

En vente en librairie et sur Amazon ICI

Laure Marchand et Guillaume Perrier seront ce soir a l’auditorium
d’Issy-les-Moulineaux/Cine d’Issy pour une nouvelle Rencontre-debat
presentee par le Collectif VAN, dans le cadre des commemorations
du genocide armenien de 1915 placees sous l’egide de la Ville
d’Issy-les-Moulineaux .

vendredi 5 avril 2013, Jean Eckian ©armenews.com

NOUVELLE POLEMIQUE ENTRE LES PARTENAIRES DE LA MAJORITE

Le Parti republicain d’Armenie (HHK) et son ancien partenaire de
coalition, Armenie prospère (BHK), se sont adresses de nouvelles
attaques verbales avant les elections municipales d’ Erevan dont ils
sont censes etre les principaux pretendants.

Les responsables des formations du HHK et du BHK se sont livres
jeudi a une guerre des mots sur reseaux sociaux en ligne. ” Pourquoi
n’ont-ils pas exprime leurs critiques et fait des propositions quand
ils etaient au gouvernement ? ” s’est demande Hovannes Sahakian,
le secretaire du groupe parlementaire du HHK, le plus important a
l’Assemblee nationale. Il visait notamment l’ancien ministre des
Affaires etrangères Vartan Oskanian, du BHK : ” Un ministre qui a
grandi et prospere au sein du gouvernement pendant dix ans vient
maintenant … critiquer le gouvernement”, a-t-il declare. “Je ne
peux pas comprendre cela. Une personne doit se comporter d’une facon
plus digne, au moins en reconnaissant ses propres erreurs. ”

Tigran Urikhanian, depute du parlement et porte-parole BHK, a fustige
le parti au pouvoir dirige par le president Serge Sarkissian lors d’une
conference de presse quasi simultanee. “Ce qui se passe n’est pas un
conflit, mais des reactions inadaptees et incorrectes de certains
representants HHK aux questions posees par les deputes BHK sur les
problèmes qui preoccupent l’opinion “, a-t-il dit.

Les relations entre les deux partenaires de la coalition ont commence
a se deteriorer a la fin de 2011 avec les reticences de son leader
Gagik Tsarukian a soutenir la reelection de Sarkissian. La discorde
a debouche sur le retrait du BHK du gouvernement de coalition de
Sarkissian en juin 2012.

Dans la foulee de ces dissensions publiques, la candidature de
Tsarukian a la presidentielle etait attendue. Mais elle ne s’est pas
produite, pour des raisons encore obscures.

Le BHK, qui est le deuxième plus grand groupe parlementaire, a une
fois encore renforce ses critiques du gouvernement après le scrutin
presidentiel conteste et dans le cadre de la campagne pour les 5
elections municipales de mai a Erevan. Urikhanian affirme que le
parti Tsarukian a “de très bonnes chances de gagner” ces elections.

Sahakian, a pour sa part, a estime que le HHK gardait de grandes
chances de conserver le contrôle de la majorite des sièges au conseil
municipal d’Erevan et donc de prolonger de cinq ans le mandat du
maire sortant Taron Markarian.

vendredi 5 avril 2013, Ara ©armenews.com

LES COMPTES OFFSHORE D’ILHAM ALIYEV ET DE SA FAMILLE

Publie le : 04-04-2013

Info Collectif VAN – – Alors que l’affaire
Cahuzac ebranle la Republique francaise, le quotidien britannique The
Guardian du mercredi 3 avril 2013 revèle, sous le titre “Demasquees,
des personnalites de premier plan avec des societes off-shores
secrètes”, le nom de plusieurs personnalites qui ont des comptes
caches a l’etranger. Parmi elles, le President d’Azerbaïdjan Ilham
Aliyev et sa famille : le contrôle des entites offshore mises en place
au nom de Arzu et Leyla, les deux filles du president Ilham Aliev,
a ete confie a un magnat local de la construction, Hassan Gozal qui a
remporte des contrats majeurs en Azerbaïdjan. Le Collectif VAN vous
presente la traduction d’un article en anglais paru sur le site The
Guardian le 3 avril 2013.

Demasquees, des personnalites de premier plan avec des societes
off-shores secrètes

The Guardian

David Leigh

3 avril 2013

Les societes offshore de la famille Aliyev, creees en 2008, se nomment
Arbor Investments, LaBelleza Holdings, Harvard Management et Rosamund
International. Une autre societe off-shore creee en 2003, est, quant
a elle, enregistree sous le nom d’Ilham Aliyev et de sa femme Mehriban.

Selon le Guardian, les personnes concernees ont decline l’invitation
a commenter ces informations.

Comme tous les dictateurs qui se “respectent”, Ilham Aliyev protège
sans doute ses arrières au cas où la population azerie – qu’il
maintient sciemment dans la misère afin d’alimenter la haine et
le ressentiment a l’encontre du voisin armenien – deciderait de
se rebeller.

Le Guardian ne dit pas si cette manne financière du clan Aliyev,
a l’abri dans les paradis off-shore, pourrait egalement servir a
obtenir les faveurs de decideurs politiques. En France, en Europe,
aux Etats-Unis ou ailleurs, ils sont nombreux ceux qui se pressent dans
l’entourage du couple de Bakou : une chose est sûre, ce n’est pas pour
ce que Mehriban et Ilham Aliyev apportent a l’ideal democratique…

Traduction Collectif VAN – 4 avril 2013 – 12:00 –

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Azerbaidjan : grâce octroyee a M. Safarov

Grâce de l’assassin Ramil Safarov : Obama preoccupe

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Le procès des crimes de Soumgaït (Fevrier 1988)

Les 20 ans du pogrom anti-armenien de Soumgaït

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Source/Lien : The Guardian

EX-MINISTER RULES OUT TURKEY’S OPENING BORDER WITH ARMENIA WITHOUT AZERBAIJAN’S CONSENT

AzerNews, Azerbaijan
April 4 2013

Opening Turkey’s border with Armenia is only possible after an
agreement with Azerbaijan, former Turkish Foreign Minister Hikmet
Cetin told Trend news agency on Thursday.

According to him, Azerbaijan and Turkey have a very close relationship,
and Turkey can not unilaterally open the border with Armenia.

“Turkey and Azerbaijan have a special relationship. Nobody has
described it better than the great leader Heydar Aliyev: “One
nation – two states.” Turkey’s border with Armenia can not be opened
unilaterally. This is very important in terms of relations with the
South Caucasus, in particular with Azerbaijan. The border was open back
when I was the Minister of Foreign Affairs. However, we shut it down
when Armenia occupied Nagorno-Karabakh and the surrounding regions.

The opening of the border between Turkey and Armenia is only possible
after an agreement with Azerbaijan has been reached. Turkey should
not make any decision potentially harmful for Azerbaijan,” Cetin said.

With regard to the opening of the Van-Yerevan flight, the ex-minister
said that was a decision of a private company, not the Turkish
government.

“Turkey is an open country, and private companies can make any
decisions. However, observing Azerbaijan’s concern on the issue,
the decision was canceled,” Cetin said.

According to him, peace must be established in the region. However,
this peace must be consistent with international laws and the UN
resolutions.

“The Nagorno-Karabakh conflict should be solved step by step. At the
first stage, at least five regions surrounding Nagorno-Karabakh must
be freed. This would mark a sign to promote the settlement of the
conflict,” Cetin said.

Azerbaijan and Armenia fought a lengthy war in the early 1990s.

Armenian armed forces have since occupied over 20 percent of
Azerbaijan’s internationally recognized territory, including
Nagorno-Karabakh and seven adjacent regions. The UN Security Council
has adopted four resolutions on Armenia’s withdrawal from the
Azerbaijani territory, but they have not been enforced to this day.

A precarious cease-fire was signed in 1994. However, units of the
Armenian armed forces commit armistice breaches on the frontline
almost every day.

Russia, France and the U.S. — co-chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group
— are mediating peace negotiations. Peace talks have been mostly
fruitless so far.

IRAN CALLS FOR IRAN-ARMENIA ACADEMIC COOPERATION

Islamic Republic News Agency IRNA, Iran
April 3 2013

Foreign Ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast said on Wednesday that
academic cooperation between Iran and Armenia would help consolidate
mutual ties.

Mehmanparast told Ruben Safrastian, director of the Institute for
Eastern Studies of the Armenian National Academy of Science that
Iran has throughout history had the best kind of relations with other
countries and currently favors restoration of peace, tranquility and
security in the region.

Terming current world order as ~Sunfair~T, Mehmanparast said,
~SDue to the same reason, we are witnessing that advanced sciences
are monopolized by few states and the big and deep rooted problems
emanated from monopoly.

Safrastian in turn called Iran-Armenia relations friendly and cordial
and said while maintaining a balance in the region for tens of years,
the Islamic Republic of Iran has had good relations with Armenia.

He said the stance and policies of Iran in the region are of importance
for Yerevan, so, thanks to endeavors of the Institute for Eastern
Studies of the Armenian National Academy of Science, the studies have
been published about a special country and on the region in a book:
~SArmenia, Iran ~V Way for 20-Year Cooperation~T.

IRAN AND ARMENIA, IN FAVOR OF INCREASING UNIVERSITY PARTNERSHIPS

PRAVDA, Russia
April 4 2013

Iran and Armenia on Tuesday decided on expanding their cooperation and
communication between universities of the two neighboring countries.

The rector of the Yerevan State University (ESU), Aram Simonian,
during a meeting with the Speaker of the Iranian Foreign Ministry,
Ramin Mehmanparast, held in Yerevan, capital of Armenia, requested
an increase in the number of Iranian students in their country and
increased university cooperation in the fields of geology, seismology
and book publishing.

Mehmanparast, at this meeting, said Iran has 45 million people under 35
years of age, so it is considered a young country with high academic
abilities, so they welcome the increase in university partnerships
with other countries.

Currently, he continued, Iran’s universities occupy a good place
internationally and despite pressure and sanctions policies that
prevent student access to Persian scientific sources, Iranian
university students have advanced even further because of their
talents and their efforts.

Elsewhere in his remarks, the Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman
referred to the good relations between Tehran and Yerevan and then
ensured that they should strive for these links to reach the highest
level.

He noted that Tehran and Yerevan’s diplomatic relations are currently
at their best level, and called for further trade, economic, cultural,
and tourism ties between the two countries.

Mehmanparast highlighted that Iran and Armenia’s support for each
other at the international level clearly attests to the fact that
both states enjoy excellent relations.

Armenian Deputy Foreign Minister Shavarsh Kocharyan, for his part,
said that Armenia seeks peace and tranquility and thinks the Islamic
Republic of Iran plays a significant role in the establishment of
regional stability.

After a visit to Belarus, Mehmanparast traveled to Armenia to hold
a series of meetings with the authorities of this country.

Armenian Diaspora Minister, Hranush Hakobyan, expressed her
satisfaction with the Iranian government’s policy towards religious
minorities, particularly the Armenians. Armenians are respected in
Iran, says Iranian MFA spokesman, and Iranian-Armenian relations
develop in atmosphere of mutual trust. Armenians are overwhelmingly
Orthodox Christians,

According to Iran’s state-run news agency IRNA, the spokesman is to
meet with Armenian Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian on Wednesday.

Translated from the Spanish version by: Lisa Karpova Pravda.Ru

ARMENIA: FORTY PERCENT OF GALLUP POLL RESPONDENTS WANT OUT

EurasiaNet.org, NY
April 4 2013

Armenia has had various firsts in its history — from establishing
Christianity as a state religion to setting up a winery — but now,
it has scored the lesser honor of being named in a Gallup poll as
the post-Soviet country residents are most eager to leave.

Based on personal interviews with 41,072 people throughout 12 former
Soviet republics between 2010 and 2012, the survey found that 40
percent of the Armenian respondents would like to move permanently to
another country. (The number of respondents was not provided. Online
data sets reflected numbers only for 2005 and 2006.)

Moldova, at 32 percent, followed in second place.

By comparison, Armenia’s Caucasus neighbors, Georgia and Azerbaijan,
were far less inclined to acknowledge their willingness to seek
greener grass for good — a mere 14 percent of the respondents in
both countries. Respondents in Caucasus player Russia expressed the
same level of wanderlust.

Armenia long has topped the charts for labor migration; most
particularly to Russia, but also to Europe and the United States.

After a brief economic rally, malaise set in for good with the 2009
international financial crisis. Despite various attempts by the
government to kickstart the economy, unemployment, according to
unofficial estimates, remains dizzily high, at well over 50 percent.

The Gallup survey reflects that trend. Fifty-two percent of the
respondents polled throughout all 12 countries cited improving
standards of living as their main reason for wanting to move abroad.

At 13 percent of those interviewed, securing a better future for
their children trailed far behind as a reason.

Armenia is well aware of its migration problem. It recently
successfully pushed for the closure of a Russian migration program
that offered applicants cash, citizenship, and accommodation to move
for work to Russia, the destination of most Armenian migrants.

The easing of European Union visa rules, anticipated for 2013, though,
could raise fresh concerns. The EU last month allotted 1 million euros
(over $1.28 million) to Armenia for a migration program, which, among
other aims, would further the “prevention of emigration,” in the words
of Armenian Deputy Labor and Social Affairs Minister Araik Petrosian.

Others, though, pointing at perceptions of rampant corruption within
the country and scant signs of political change, believe that larger
issues must first be addressed before more Armenians will agree that,
east or west, home is best.