Author: Khondkarian Raffi

AMERICAN OBSERVERS TO PARTICIPATE IN JUNE 19 NKR ELECTIONS AT INVITATION OF NKR LEADERSHIP
YEREVAN, JUNE 17, NOYAN TAPAN. At the invitation of Nagorno Karabakh
Republic leadership the Public International Law and Policy Group
from the US led by James Hooper, head of the group, will participate
in the June 19 parliamentary elections as observers. As Noyan Tapan’s
correspondent was informed, Louis Sell from American University in
Kosovo Foundation, Paul Williams from Washington college of law,
Vladimir Matic from Clemson University and others are among the
observers included in the group.

PUBLIC TV OF ARMENIA TO TRANSMIT WORLD FOOTBALL CHAMPIONSHIP
Pan Armenian News
17.06.2005 07:23
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ According to the agreement signed by the Public
Television of Armenia (PTA) and Infront Sports & Media, the PTA
obtained the exclusive right of transmitting the final matches of
the World Football Championship in 2006. June 9-July9, 2006 the PTA
will transmit all the 64 matches via the First Channel and Nor Aliq
Channel. As PTA Executive Director Armen Arzumanian noted, in 2006
with enlightening such great event in football the PTA will discharge
its obligations to the viewers. “The first-class football shown on
TV will help to raise the level of the Armenian football”, he added.

PM slams German parliament over Armenian resolution
NTV MSNBC, Turkey
June 17 2005
The Turkish Prime Minister criticised German Chancellor Gerhard
Schroeder for not taking a stand or preventing his deputies from
backing the Armenian bill.
Güncelleme: 17:43 TSI 17 Haziran 2005 Cuma- Turkey~Rs Prime Minister
has described the passing of a motion by the German parliament
recognising alleged massacres of Armenian citizens of the Ottoman
Empire as wrong and ugly.
Speaking at a press conference at Istanbul~Rs Ataturk Airport on his
return from a visit to Lebanon late Thursday, Prime Minister Recep
Tayyip Erdogan said that history would make the German parliament
ashamed of their decision.
On Tuesday, the German parliament endorsed a resolution supporting
claims that massacres of Armenians had taken place within the ottoman
Empire 90 years ago and calling on Turkey to acknowledge these
events. Turkey has always denied that any massacres or acts of
genocide was carried out against the Empire~Rs Armenian community.
The Prime Minister noted that the motion of the German parliament had
avoided the usage of the term genocide and instead applied the term
massacre.
This bill was passed without debate and was politically very wrong
and had been tabled as a sacrifice for small lobbies, Erdogan said.
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APPEAL TO THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT
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| 20:18:22 | 15-06-2005 | Official |
In the House of Lords in Great Britain an International Conference
devoted to Genocide took place organized by the British-Armenian
multi-party Parliamentary group. RA Foreign Minister Vardan Oskanyan
who had arrived the previous evening from Peking was invited to the
Conference as the main speaker.
The issue of the Armenian Genocide was discussed in the context of
Turkey’s membership to the EU, according to which Ankara ought to
recognize it and regulate relations with Yerevan.
Oskanyan invited attention to the contradiction between the words
and actions of the Turkish Government, which on the one hand tries
to show itself as proponent of conciliation before the International
community and on the other hand criminalizes the term “Genocide”,
prohibits as public discussion with that theme in their country and
even demands the British Government to reconsider the history recorded
by diplomat James Brown and historian Arnold Toynbee.
Nevertheless, Oskanyan expressed the readiness of Armenia to regulate
the Armenian-Turkish relations without preconditions as he did not
see any alternative.
In the afternoon the British-Armenian Parliamentary group appealed to
the British Government with a petition ratified with 3000 signatures
demanding to recognize the Armenian Genocide carried out by the
Ottoman Empire in 1915 and contribute to the reconciliation of the
two countries.
In the same evening Minister Oskanyan left London for Brussels to
represent the plan of actions of Armenia to the North-Atlantic Council
and the EU.

Turkish Press
June 14 2005
Press Scan
VATAN
ARMENIAN YOUTHS WANT TO ATTEND UNIVERSITIES IN TURKEY
Turhan Comez, a parliamentarian from the ruling Justice & Development
Party (AKP), said that he paid a visit to Armenia with the support of
the government, stating that Armenian students told him that they
wanted to attend universities in Turkey. He added that he would
expend efforts for exchange of Turkish and Armenian students.

Belgian Senate Rejects Draft On Armenian Genocide
BRUSSELS (AA) – Belgian Senate Justice Commission rejected on Tuesday
a draft resolution aiming to punish those who deny allegations on
so-called Armenian genocide.
The draft was submitted to the parliament by the Valon Liberal Party
(MR) and the Valon Greens (ECOLO). It envisaged imprisonment terms
and fines to those who do not admit the so-called genocide.
After the rejection of the draft, the Belgian Senate will take
into consideration only the genocides recognized by international
organizations.

TURKISH MP IMPRESSED BY WARM WELCOME IN YEREVAN
Armenpress
YEREVAN, JUNE 13, ARMENPRESS: A Turkish parliament member from the
ruling Justice and Development Party, Turhan Comez, told Armenpress
he was impressed greatly by what he saw in Armenia. “I was given a
very warm welcome in Yerevan and liked the city very much,’ Comez,
the first Turkish parliament member to have visited Armenia said.
Comez and several Turkish journalists arrived in Armenia last Friday
and met here with students and professors of Yerevan State University,
parliament chairman Arthur Baghdasarian, officials of the foreign
ministry, Yerevan mayor.
Comez said the goal of his visit to Armenia is to seek ways to bridge
differences between the two neighboring nations, though the visit is
unofficial, “but what is important is its results.” He said his trip
to Armenia was a step towards normalization of relations and opening
of borders.
He said Armenian journalists, businessmen and parliament members are
welcome in Turkey. The Turkish MP said then it was a wrong policy
to make relations between Armenia and Turkey contingent on a third
country (Azerbaijan). He said the best way to solve the existing
problems is through dialogue, but when asked to express his views on
the 1915 genocide, he reiterated official Ankara’s views that it was
a painful event, but not a genocide.

BP News, TN
June 10 2005
IN SEARCH OF NOAH’S ARK: Wyatt’s quest: Part 3, Earthquake
revelations 1979
Jun 10, 2005
By Mark Kelly

Astonishing
An earthquake in December 1978 caused the earth around the mysterious
remains to drop — revealing what looked to Ron Wyatt like a giant
shipwreck! Photo courtesy Wyatt Archeological Research

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (BP)–Sixteen long months ground by while Ron Wyatt
waited for another opportunity to return to Turkey. He still had no
idea how he could get permission from the government to excavate what
he knew in his heart were the remains of Noah’s Ark.
Then one day, late in November 1978, news reports carried a casual
mention of an earthquake in a remote part of Turkey near the Russian
border. His heart leapt. Wouldn’t it be just like God to do the
excavation himself!
The next seven months dragged even more slowly than the 16 before.
When his next two-week vacation finally arrived, Wyatt rushed back to
Dogubeyazit with an Armenian preacher from California who spoke
Turkish. They arrived on Aug. 11, 1979.
Wyatt’s jaw dropped at the sight.
The earth around the mysterious object had dropped, revealing what
looked to him like a giant shipwreck. He noted evenly spaced grooves
all around the object, which reminded him of the ribs of a ship’s
hull. The collapse of the dirt enabled him to take soil samples in
the very heart of the ruin.
He also was able to take precise measurements. He noted a total
length of 512 feet, except for a three-foot section that looked like
it had broken off the lower end. That gave him a total length of 515
feet.
Most experts said the Ark was 450 feet long, multiplying the biblical
measure of 300 cubits by 18 inches, the standard in ancient
Mesopotamia. But Wyatt believed the Ark would have been built
according to the older — and longer — Egyptian cubit of 20.6
inches. Applying that measure meant the Ark would have been 515 feet.
Combined with the anchor stones, the ancient house and the graveyard
he had seen two years earlier, Wyatt couldn’t dismiss the
measurements as a coincidence. What would the chances be of
discovering an ancient ship the same size as the Ark in the same
mountain range named in the Bible?
Bill Shea of the Biblical Research Institute in Silver Springs, Md.,
agreed. In September 1976, he had written in Creation Research
Society Quarterly, “One might put these two sites in perspective by
reflecting upon what would have happened had this formation been
found on Agri Dagh [Mt. Ararat]. I may be wrong, but I suspect that
news of it probably would have been heralded far and wide as the
discovery of the site where the Ark had rested. What a difference a
mountain makes.”
Back home, Wyatt sent his soil samples to Galbraith Labs in
Knoxville, Tenn., for an analysis of basic mineral content. A sample
taken outside the formation showed carbon content of 1.88 percent,
but one from inside the object registered 4.95 percent carbon — the
kind of reading one would expect if it contained matter that had once
been alive. Living matter like wood. The sample also had an iron
content higher than would have been expected.
Another piece of positive evidence, but applications to excavate
still were being denied. Wyatt decided his next investigation would
pursue the iron content clue. Would a metal detector show that the
iron content was evenly spaced like the “ribs” he had seen at the
site?

“FREE MOTHERLAND” KARABAKH PARTY TO ASSIST PROCESS OF NKR
INTERNATIONAL RECOGNITION
STEPANAKERT, JUNE 9. ARMINFO. Assistance to international recognition
of Nagorny Karabakh Republic, deepening of democratic processes,
creation of civil society, as well as creation of the united economic
one with Armenia – all this underlies in a program of “Free
Motherland” right-centrist party.
ARMINFO’s reporter in Stepanakert informs that party’s leaders
confirm that their position “reflects the vital interests of Karabakh
people, guarantees country’s freedom and security, as well as the
self-determination right”. Co-chairman Artur Tovmassyan notes that
the determination of an independent status of NKR is a prior task of
the negotiation process. Otherwise, in his opinion, “people of NKR
will suffer the fate of Nakhichevan”. -r-

Azerbaijan News Service
June 9 2005
QARABAQ AND AZERBAIJAN’S OBLIGATIONS BEFORE THE COUNCIL OF EUROPE TO
BE FOCUSED AT JUNE SESSION
2005-06-09 18:00
Sub-committee on Daqliq Qarabaq issue of the Parliamentary Assembly
of Council of Europe will hold session on June 22nd during the summer
session. Head of Azerbaijani delegation to PACE Samad Seyidov informs
that the sub-committee has undertaken to carry out monitoring of
Qarabaq related issues. Lord Rassel Johnson will deliver speech at
June session. We proposed that representatives of opposition to be
represented here as well. According to Samad Seyidov Azerbaijan’s
honoring obligations before the CE will also be discussed during the
session including right on free assembly and activity of Public TV.
Besides exchange of opinions will be held regarding the list of
so-called political prisoners presented by non-governmental
organizations. However Mr. Seyidov considers that official Baku has
fulfilled obligation regarding the so-called political prisoners and
the issue is closed. Discussions still held concerning the case of
three inmates Elchin Amiraslanov, Safa Poladov and Arif Kazimov.
`Mainly three prisoners are mentioned. Discussions are on hand and I
offer to find a common point with NGOs’.