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A. BAGHDASSARYAN MET ACTING SYRIAN CHARGE D’AFFAIRS IN ARMENIA
16.09.2005 07:10
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Today Armenian NA Speaker Artur Baghdassaryan met with
acting Syrian Charge d’Affairs in Armenia Mihlis Faraun, RA NA press service
reported. The parties discussed the Armenian-Syrian cooperation and Syria’s
participation in opening of the Center of Armenian Culture in Yerevan. The
Armenian parliament head thanked the Syrian government for good attitude
towards Armenians. By the guest’s request A. Baghdassaryan presented the
process of constitutional reform in Armenia.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress

ARMENIA AND LATVIA SIGNED TREATY ON MILITARY COOPERATION.
Pan Armenian News
07.09.2005 02:42
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ September 6 Latvia and Armenia concluded a treaty
on military cooperation. The document was signed in Riga by Defense
Ministers Einars Repse and Serge Sargsyan. To remind, Latvia has
expressed readiness to contribute to the Armenian defense sector
including exchange of experience in peacekeeping operations and to
assist in military training. Upon completion of the signing ceremony
the Armenian Defense Minister commented on Armenia’s plans as regards
NATO. “We consider that the cooperation with NATO is a constituent of
the national security. However joining NATO is not on our foreign line
agenda”, he noted. As for the agreement signed Serge Sargsyan said,
“The experience of bringing the Armed Forces to the NATO standards is
interesting for us. Without aiming to join the Alliance we take part
in the joint measures and think that our Armed Forces will benefit
from it. During the secret negotiations Serge Sargsyan familiarized
his Latvian counterpart in the process of defense reform in Armenia
noting that over insufficient financing Armenian defense cannot reach
the EU and NATO standards, however Armenia will strive for it in
future. In his words, Armenia intends to fully reorganize its Armed
Forces till 2015 that is why the republic is particularly interested
in cooperation with Latvia, a country with similar experience. The
Armenian Minister also showed interest in Latvia’s experience in
international operations and civic defense and invited his counterpart
to Armenia, reported by IA Regnum.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress

Two kings, but only one ruler
By RICK GROEN
Globe and Mail, Canada
Sept 3 2005
They are the co-reigning kings of movies in Canada, English fiefdom,
and have been for the last decade. Both are renowned abroad and the
darlings of the Cannes crowd, if not of any mass audience (no one said
kings have to be popular). Both are as amiable in person as their work
is disturbing on the screen. Both make difficult films that dole out
plenty of sex and violence, yet always in an individual style and in
pursuit of similarly modern themes. Both continue to live in their
home base of Toronto, whose namesake university both attended and in
whose film festival, this year, both have brand new pictures treated
as gala presentations.
So, with all that David Cronenberg and Atom Egoyan hold in common,
how is it that their movies are so completely, so emphatically,
so apples-and-oranges different?
Well, their destination may be the same, but they sure took divergent
routes to get there. In fact, their current offerings at next week’s
TIFF – Egoyan’s Where the Truth Lies, Cronenberg’s A Hi story
of Violence – speak volumes about those separate paths and their
competing talents. And, maybe, about who sits higher on the throne.
Each movie is essentially a genre flick, but – call out the palace
guard – one is very good and the other decidedly ain’t.
More about that later.
Advertisements Let’s first return to the beginnings, where, since
the two are almost a generation apart in age, we already find their
paths divided. Cronenberg is 62, an early baby boomer born and bred
in Toronto the staid, but soon exposed to the headier air of Sixties
rebellion. His artistic heroes were literary and openly subversive –
William Burroughs, Vladimir Nabokov. Egoyan is only 45, an immigrant
born in Egypt to Armenian parents, then raised in British Columbia
and required to adapt to Western ways. His heroes were theatrical
and existentially bleak – Samuel Beckett, Harold Pinter.
Now cue the further separation. “For me, art is almost a sacred thing,”
Egoyan has said, and from the outset he established himself as an
art-house director whose work – technically accomplished, non-linear
in plot, European in style – was almost immediately embraced by the
festival set. An early film, 1987’s Family Viewing, not only won the
top Canadian prize at TIFF but reaped further accolades (and some
money too) from none other than Wim Wenders himself. So Egoyan quickly
found his niche, and, thanks partly to him and his awardable skills,
that niche would set the dominant tone in our industry. He was the
artiste; he was the anti-Hollywood.
Not so the young Cronenberg. When TIFF started up 30 years ago,
Cronenberg had just made Shivers, a picture that stood about as much
chance of getting invited to a film festival as a squeegee kid does
to a Rosedale brunch. Not only did critics diss Shivers as schlock
horror at its depraved worst, but even the pols in the House of Commons
turned their collective thumbs down, wondering aloud why good Canadian
taxpayers should be funding such low trash.
Temporarily thwarted but hardly daunted, Cronenberg answered with a
succession of movies – Rabid, The Brood, Scanners, Videodrome – that
only upped the ante further. But by then, amid the ongoing spectacle
of exploding heads and mutating parasites, of syringes growing out
of armpits, and vaginas sprouting from stomachs, the discerning few
were beginning to detect something else, too – a brain at work, a
man grappling with a metaphor, pondering the age-old schism between
mind and body, contemplating the psyche at war with itself, wondering
whether we are consuming technology or technology is consuming us.
Later, in films like Family Viewing, The Adjuster (1991) and Exotica
(1994), Egoyan would also use technology, especially video technology,
but strictly as a distancing device – a symbol of alienation,
a tool for objectification, a means of revealing and concealing,
of sustaining illusions and masking reality. These films are cool,
dispassionate and cerebral. By contrast, in Videodrome and again in
eXistenZ, Cronenberg has people plunging cassettes into the gaping
portals of their tummies, whereupon the illusion/reality fun really
begins. These films are hot, outrageous and, yet, cerebral too. Same
theme, very different approach. Egoyan, the smart immigrant, is
conforming within an artistic model; Cronenberg, the smart baby boomer,
is rebelling within a commercial model.
The rebellion would continue. Who’s more commercial than Stephen
King, yet, in The Dead Zone, Cronenberg redeemed the book with an
infusion of melancholy, even as he extracted from Christopher Walken
one of the few unmannered performances in his ultramannered career.
He did the same in The Fly, turning a safe remake into a lovely
mediation on his favourite subject – the monster within us all. In
1988, when the subject got embodied in the twin gynecologists of Dead
Ringers, he spurned his usual special effects without giving up an
ounce of menace – that film is both profoundly creepy and creepily
profound. And everyone who saw it agreed. With Dead Ringers, Cronenberg
had completed his own metamorphosis from schlockmeister to auteur –
he was now critically respectable.
Of course, over on the Egoyan side of the ledger, respectability
was never at issue, and it skyrocketed with his 1997 adaptation
of the Russell Banks novel, The Sweet Hereafter. Hollywood itself
paid homage to our artiste, awarding him Oscar nominations for both
directing and writing. Not that Egoyan dumbed down his aesthetic
principles. Quite the contrary. He took Banks’s tragedy – on the
death of children – and overlaid it with his trademark complexity,
keeping the survivors alienated and their understanding fragmentary.
The movie’s few detractors argued that, in so doing, he robbed the book
of its raw, incisive emotion. But his legion of admirers countered
that the emotion in any Egoyan film lies in precisely this lack of
incisiveness, that his work (like a Beckett play) triggers anxious
feelings all the more powerful because they can’t be traced to an
“understandable” source. Perhaps.
Over approximately the same period, Cronenberg was taking his
hard-earned reputation and rolling the dice with it, heading off on
his boldest tangent yet. After a bravely hallucinatory attempt to
adapt the unadaptable novel of his beloved Burroughs ( Naked Lunch),
followed by another tiptoe along the illusion/reality boundary ( M.
Butterfly), Cronenberg brought that tangent to an extraordinary
culmination in Crash (1996) – a movie so artfully unsettling that
even the deep thinkers at Cannes couldn’t decide what to make of it.
They settled on conferring a special prize for “audacity.” Others,
appalled by the unholy trinity mating cars to sex to violence, and
by the grisly congress of metal and flesh, reached out for blunter
adjectives. “Pornographic” got thrown around a lot – Cronenberg was
back where he began in Shivers.
Still, whatever you may think of Crash – I find it truly provocative
– this is hardly the labour of a guy resting on his laurels. Unlike
most American directors of his generation, Cronenberg has forged an
independence that he uses to continually take risks, which, more often
than not, pay off in unique and worthy pictures. Like Spider (2002),
a stark yet poignant trip into the divided mind of a schizophrenic,
one more embattled psyche where objective reality wages war with
subjective perception.
Meanwhile, Egoyan has been spinning his wheels of late. Felicia’s
Journey, another tale of imperilled innocence, seemed less a revisiting
than a rehashing of the topic. In Ararat, Egoyan returned to an Armenia
he explored earlier in his most affectingly personal film (1993’s
Calendar). Here, however, the historical canvas is too broad, the
subplots are awkward, and the ending suffers from a near-sentimental
leap into hopefulness.
Which brings us, finally, to the present, to TIFF and the kings’
pair of galas. Where the Truth Lies is a backstage whodunit, a murder
mystery involving a celebrated comedy team. A History of Violence
is a contemporary retelling of that old yarn where an ex-gunslinger,
buoyed by the love of a good woman, tries to go straight even as his
past catches up with him. Okay, but when it comes to smartening up
a dull genre pic, mining for merit in commercial pits, guess who has
the upper hand?
Don’t pick Egoyan. Despite operating with his fattest budget to
date, he badly miscasts a crucial role and, beneath the surface of
the whodunit, finds precious little substance to chew on, nothing
much to interest either him or us. Conversely, Cronenberg, casting
impeccably throughout, converts his gunslinger into yet another study
of the “beast within,” and the movie into a subtle essay on society’s
investment in that beast. Typically, Cronenberg refuses to lyricize
the violence – it’s dirty and brutal. But he’s equally unwilling to
simplify our reaction to violence, insisting that what we abhor we
also lionize, that the same bloody fist that is repellent in the back
alley can be sexy in the bedroom.
Yes, the sex. Compare what both directors do with it. Egoyan has
managed to earn his film an NC-17 rating (in the U.S.) for a sexual
encounter that doesn’t shock, or dismay, or even titillate, that
doesn’t really do anything except forward the plot. While dodging
the censor’s pencil, Cronenberg includes a sex scene that does shock,
that does dismay, and that, both during and in its aftermath, gives
the central theme a wickedly intelligent twist.
In that scene, Cronenberg finds the art that Egoyan holds sacred. And
he finds it for the very reason that nothing is entirely sacred to
him – even art, especially his art, must co-exist with the profane.
So all hail our reigning monarchs who, in their different ways, serve
us well. As to who has served better, I don’t know where that truth
lies – but I’m damn sure where my affection does.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress

OPENING ARGENTINEAN EMBASSY WILL STRENGTHEN BILATERAL RELATIONS
Pan Armenian News
01.09.2005 07:16
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Armenian FM Vartan Oskanian the other day met
with Argentinean Minister of Foreign Affairs, International Trade
and Religion Rafael Antonio Bielsa, reported the Press Service of
the Armenian MFA. Welcoming the high rank guest, V. Oskanian noted
the importance of development of Armenian-Argentinean relations,
their strengthening and presence of Argentine in the region of the
South Caucasus. The parties discussed the current state and the
prospects of development of bilateral relations, noted the need for
political dialogue and activation of mutual visits to solve issues
of mutual interest. The parties also noted the large role of the
Armenian community of Argentine in the friendly relations of the two
countries. Thereupon, V. Oskanian welcomed the presence of Argentinean
capital in the Armenian economy, specifically the notable investment of
Corporation America Consortium Eduardo Eurnekian in Zvartnots Yerevan
airport. The parties also touched upon some international issues
referring to the UN reform. V. Oskanian also briefed his colleague
on the latest developments in the Karabakh settlement. The parties
noted the importance of the opening of the Argentinean Embassy in
Armenia to strengthen and develop the political, trade and economic
relations. At the end of the meeting the Ministers signed a number
of bilateral agreements on cooperation.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress

LE PIANISTE AMERICAIN D’ORIGINE ARMENIENNE, SERGEI BABAYAN, PASSE SOUVENT SES VACANCES EN TOURAINE
accueilli par Madeleine, dans sa maison de Saint-Cyr-sur-Loire. Rencontre.
– Correspondant NR : Philippe Haller.
La Nouvelle Republique du Centre Ouest – edition INDRE-ET-LOIRE
30 août 2005
Depuis qu’il a decouvert la Touraine en 1999 lors d’un concert
aux Semaines musicales de Tours, le pianiste Sergei Babayan revient
souvent passer ses vacances dans une maison de Saint-Cyr où Madeleine
l’accueille, comme jadis elle recevait Youri Bashmet et sa famille,
Vengerov, Repin ou Gergiev. Une maison accueillante, avec des souvenirs
du temps où la dame sillonnait le monde, camera en main.
” J’aime cette maison, confie Sergei, le regard brillant derrière ses
petites lunettes rondes, elle est pleine de paix. ” Entoure, choye,
il: trouve la, loin du bruit et de l’agitation des grandes villes,
le silence: et la serenite pour jouer et composer.
Petit garcon, a Erevan, Sergei a baigne dès son plus jeune âge
dans Tchaïkovski et Mozart. ” La musique etait comme un jeu. Mes
jouets c’etaient des disques. ” Très tôt, il montre des dispositions
particulières. A 3 ans, il s’assoit devant un piano et rejoue les
airs que travaille sa grande soeur. A 5 ans, un premier professeur :
” Un etre tellement delicat… Mes parents, mon professeur me donnaient
tout le temps dont j’avais besoin. ” Ce n’est que plus tard que Sergei,
sous d’autres latitudes, decouvrira des gens presses pour qui le temps,
c’est de l’argent.
L’itineraire d’un enfant doue
Un premier recital a 6 ans, un concert avec orchestre a 8 ans et
le bonheur continue avec l’entree au conservatoire Tchaïkovski de
Moscou. ” Le reve pour tous les musiciens en Union Sovietique. ”
Auprès de la fascinante Vera Gornostayeva qui ” avait ce don de tirer
de vous des choses que vous ignoriez “, ou du ” legendaire Naumov “, le
jeune Sergei, reconnaissant, va donner toute la mesure de son talent.
Un don ? ” Il y a bien sûr une part qui est donnee dans votre monde
interieur, mais il faut aussi la passion qui seule, peut rendre
realisable ce qui paraissait impossible. Je travaillais quand meme
huit a dix heures par jour ! ” (sourire).
En 1989, Sergei profite de la politique d’ouverture pour ” enfin ”
se presenter aux plus prestigieux concours internationaux : d’emblee,
quatre premiers prix ! Installe aux USA, devenu citoyen americain
il y a six ans, Sergei Babayan, marie a Rita, pianiste elle aussi,
poursuit sa carrière de soliste sur les plus grandes scènes a travers
le monde, emerveillant le public de la limpidite de son jeu et des
couleurs de son piano.
” On ne reve jamais assez ”
Sur le chemin parfois difficile de la vie, la musique parle a Sergei
de manière differente selon les temps. Dans un moment de doute vers
l’âge de 13 ans, c’est Rachmaninoff qui, avec son deuxième concerto,
” lui rappelle qu’il ne peut pas vivre sans la musique. Plus tard,
j’ai pense que Dieu existait en jouant Bach. Un jour, en voiture,
la musique de Rameau s’est ouverte tout a coup a moi. L’emotion etait
si forte que j’ai dû m’arreter immediatement “. Rameau au piano ? ”
La verite du style n’est pas dans l’instrument mais dans le coeur. ”
Le bonheur ? ” C’est de penser que lorsque je joue, je fais peut-etre
du bien a quelqu’un… Bach, Schubert, Mozart ou Messiaen et tant
d’autres nous font devenir meilleurs, car il y a dans leur musique
une incroyable puissance qui donne espoir. ”
L’art dans un monde tourmente ? ” Les artistes ont une mission parce
que l’art est une lumière interieure qui donne la possibilite a l’homme
de voler au-dela de ses limites. Si tous ceux qui ne pensent qu’a la
guerre et la violence ecoutaient chaque jour une cantate de Bach ou
un lied de Schubert, ils changeraient. ”
Rien d’etonnant a ce que Sergei se sente si bien chez Madeleine dans
cette maison si pleine de reve…
–Boundary_(ID_AdXLFJqvDZINUQ4PvkUWZQ)–

SecondsOut.com
Aug 23 2005
Darchinyan & Jimenez make weight in Sydney

By Paul Upham: IBF/IBO flyweight world champion Vic Darchinyan
defends his titles against Colombian Jair Jimenez on Wednesday night
at the Sydney Entertainment Centre in Australia. The 29 year-old
Armenian born Australian citizen predicted an early finish. “It won’t
go three rounds,” said Darchinyan confidently.
The hard hitting southpaw will be making the second defence of his
IBF title that he won by stopping long-reigning former world champion
Irene Pacheco last December in the USA. In his next fight, Darchinyan
added the IBO title around his waist with an 8th round TKO stoppage
of South African Mzukisi Sikali on March 27.
“He said he would knock me out,” Darchinyan 23-0 (18) said of
Jimenez. “I have watched him on tape and he is a good fighter, but he
is going to go down tomorrow.”
26 year-old Jimenez 22-4-1 (16) gave respect to Darchinyan’s ability
but predicted he would win.
“He is a good world champion,” said Jimenez. “It will be a difficult
fight. But at the end of the night, I will win.”
Darchinyan and Jimenez were both right on the 112lbs limit at the
Tuesday night weigh-in at the Mercure Hotel in Sydney. The undercard
will feature Billy Dib defending his IBO Asia Pacific junior
lightweight title against Michael Kizza, while Ahmed Elomar and
Denchai Sor Tiebkoon will face off for the vacant IBO Asia Pacific
featherweight title. The opponent for Victor Oganov did not arrive in
Australia and the Russian “Destroyer” is off the card. Tickets are
available from the fight venue with the action commencing at 7:30pm
AEST. Sky Channel and Main Event Pay-Per-View will televise the fight
live in Australia.
Paul Upham
Contributing Editor
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress

REPAIRS OF AKHTAMAR AROUSE INTEREST OF ARMENIAN AND FOREIGN TOURISTS
ISTANBUL, AUGUST 22, NOYAN TAPAN – ARMENIANS TODAY. Osman Bekleye from
Van wrote in “Milliet” that repairs of the church in Akhtamar has
become the reason for many tourists to visit Akhtamar and watch the
repairs work. The work started on June 20 and since that day,
Armenians from various countries have come to Akhtamar with the aim of
watching the church repairs. According to the newspaper “Marmara”,
Jahid Zeytanl, the head of the organization in charge of repair work,
noted that a lot of Armenians arrive in the island every day to follow
the process of construction work there.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress

Armenia offered IAEA help in constructing new power station
Noyan Tapan news agency
28 Jul 05
YEREVAN
Armenia is staying true to its policy of non-proliferation of nuclear
weapons and is following the principle of using atomic energy
exclusively for peaceful purposes. Armenian Prime Minister Andranik
Markaryan said this during the meeting with the visiting
director-general of the International Atomic Energy Agency [IAEA],
Muhammad al-Baradi’i, on 28 July.
The prime minister said that Armenia is a signatory to all the major
documents of the agency, and ratified the Additional Protocol to the
IAEA Comprehensive Safeguards Agreement in 2004.
The Armenian prime minister stressed that the Metsamor nuclear power
plant has its special role and significance in the energy security
system of Armenia. Consequently, the process of increasing the level
of security at the station is the country’s priority, the press
service of the Armenian government told Noyan Tapan. Markaryan noted
that Armenia values highly IAEA’s assistance in this matter.
It was also noted that the Armenian government is regards construction
of new nuclear generating units as a strategic task of protection and
strengthening the security of the country’s energy and its
independence.
In this connection, Muhammad al-Baradi’i noted that IAEA can render
assistance to Armenia in technical and economic assessment of the
construction of the new nuclear power station. He also said that
during his visit he noticed progress in safeguarding the nuclear power
station, although there is still a lot to be done.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress

Swiss-Turkish relations hit new low
SwissInfo.com
Thursday 28.07.2005
Turkey should recognise the Armenian genocide and stop
blackmailing Switzerland, says Swiss parliamentarian
Erwin Jutzet. Meanwhile, the Swiss ambassador in
Ankara has had to defend himself against a barrage of
criticism concerning the Swiss investigation of a
Turkish politician.

“Turkey has to stop reacting so sensitively to such
events,” Jutzet, the president of the House of
Representatives’ foreign-policy commission, told the
Tages-Anzeiger newspaper on Wednesday.
“It would do better to recognise once and for all the
genocide of the Armenians.”
On Tuesday Turkey presented a protest note to the
Swiss ambassador in Ankara and the Swiss foreign
ministry in Bern. The note concerned the investigation
of a Turkish politician on suspicion of violating
Swiss anti-racism laws.
DoÄŸu Perinçek, leader of Turkey’s Workers’
Party, has twice denied that the killings of Armenians
around the time of the First World War amounted to
genocide. He is the subject of two criminal
investigations.
Jutzet said it was up to Turkey to make a move
“instead of always taking offence and resorting to
blackmail”.
He added that the constant denial of genocide could
have ramifications for Turkey’s much sought-after
entry into the European Union.
“If Switzerland were to turn its back on Turkey, it
would be a bad sign for EU entry,” he said.

Ambassadors

On Wednesday the Swiss ambassador in Ankara, Walter
Gyger, was told in no uncertain terms about Turkey’s
dissatisfaction concerning the Perinçek
investigation.
Gyger countered by pointing to Switzerland’s
anti-racism laws and the strict separation of judicial
and political powers.
Under Swiss law any act of denying, belittling or
justifying genocide is a violation of the country’s
anti-racism laws.
The Turkish ambassador in Bern, Alev Kiliç, was due
to meet the relevant representatives from the Swiss
foreign ministry on Thursday.
The press attaché at the Turkish embassy in Bern,
Sibel Gal, told swissinfo: “This has caused discomfort
and disappointment in Turkey, and such a measure falls
short of freedom of speech and expression which is one
of the most fundamental human rights.”
“It’s even more regrettable that this was launched
by the authorities in a friendly country whose
reputation for upholding human rights is well known.”
Gal added that Perinçek’s views “reflected historical
facts based on scientific and academic findings of
events during the First World War at the easterm front
of the Ottoman empire”.

Questioning

The public prosecutor in Winterthur questioned
Perinçek on Saturday for more than two hours after a
news conference he gave on Friday in Glattbrugg, near
Zurich.
In the speech honouring the 82nd anniversary of the
Treaty of Lausanne, which fixed the borders of
modern-day Turkey, Perinçek called claims of genocide
against the Armenians an imperialist lie, authorities
said.
Turkey’s foreign minister, Abdullah Gül, described
Saturday’s questioning as “unacceptable” and
“absolutely contrary to the principle of free speech”.
“Do these actions suit a country like Switzerland?” he
asked.
On Sunday Perinçek repeated his denial of the
Armenian genocide at celebrations attended by about
2,000 Turks near the Beau-Rivage hotel, scene of the
treaty negotiations.
The House of Representatives has recognised as
genocide the expulsion and massacre of more than a
million Armenians, but the government has not.
Swissinfo with agencies
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From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress

Today, Azerbaijan
July 16 2005
Vafa Guluzade: “Referendum in Nagorno-Karabakh should not be held”
15 July 2005 [09:57] – Today.Az
The official Baku must not agree to hold a referendum in Nagorno
Karabakh, as this move will lead to the loss of the native territories
of Azerbaijan, the former state advisor on political issues of the
president of Azerbaijan, a political analyst Vafa Guluzade made such
a statement in his exclusive interview to Trend.
In his opinion, the OSCE Minsk group co-chairmen speak openly from
the anti-Azerbaijani positions and proposals, developed by them,
remain unchanged during the last ten years. “The Minsk group proposes
the Azerbaijani leadership to recognize the fact of the loss of
territories and make obvious surrender to Armenia, one of which is
signing the agreement on holding a referendum in the Nagorno Karabakh”,
a political scientist noted.
In the opinion of Guluzade, for today, the OSCE Minsk group prepared a
“very banal trick”, a referendum in Nagorno Karabakh has been proposed
to be held not immediately after returning the occupied territories
around the Upper Karabakh, but, say in 10 years.
“During the last census at the time of the collapse of the Soviet
Union, the Armenians in the Upper Karabakh exceeded in number the
Azerbaijani population, the political scientist reminded, having
underlined, that such referendum will mean the automatic seizure of
the part of the Azerbaijan’s territory, which is inadmissible.” In
the opinion of the former president’s state advisor, “such a step
will be equal to the high treason.”
Touching upon the Upper Karabakh status, Vafa Guluzade noted,
that any solution of the issue involves constitutional changes in
Azerbaijan. “The Constitution marks, that Azerbaijan is a unitary
state and changing of the basic law is possible only after holding a
referendum in the country”, the political scientist noted. “Peaceful
talks are the deception of the Azerbaijani public, and the status
of the Nagorno Karabakh may be only one – it is the integral part of
Azerbaijan”, summarized Guluzade.
In conclusion, the political analyst voiced the position in regard to
the proposals on bringing the international peacekeeping troops in the
region. “Bringing any peacekeeping troops to the region is fraught
with ruinous and fatal consequences for the integrity of Azerbaijan
and the issue must not be subject to discussion by the official Baku”,
Guluzade thinks.
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From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress