Author: Nahapetian Boris

THE NEW YORK TIMES LAUNCHED WEB SITE DEDICATED TO ARMENIA

PanARMENIAN.Net
13.04.2007 14:51 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ The New York Times has launched a web site dedicated
to Armenia. 1915 Genocide Bracelet () tells
about Armenia’s history since ancient times up to present day. Special
attention is paid to the history of the Armenian Genocide and Armenia’s
fate after the World War I, when the Turkish government concluding
an agreement with Soviet Russia consigned to oblivion U.S. President
Woodrow Wilson’s plan which provided for conveyance of 6 Turkish
provinces, including Kars and Ardahan, to Armenia.

Last week The New York Times corrected an article which mentioned of
the Armenian Genocide. The editorial staff changed term ‘massacre’
into term ‘genocide’ that will be henceforth used in all articles
concerning the events of 1915.

SYRIA STANDS FOR THE PEACEFUL SETTLEMENT OF THE KARABAKH CONFLICT

ArmRadio.am
12.04.2007 16:39

Syria stands for the rapid resolution of the Karabakh conflict in
the within the framework of the principles of international law,
the Foreign Minister of Syria Valid al Mualim declared during the
meeting with his Azerbaijani counterpart Elmar Mammadyarov, Press
Secretary of the Azeri MFA Khazar Ibrahimov informed.

Mammadyarov informed his counterpart about the Nagorno Karabakh issue
and the peace talks on the settlement of the conflict. Issues related
to the development of bilateral ties were also discussed.

APPEAL TO BE FILED AGAINST HUNGARIAN COURT DECISION ON AZERBAIJANI ARMY OFFICER

Azeri Press Agency, Azerbaijan
April 12 2007

An appeal will be field against the decision of Budapest Appeals
Court upholding life sentence on Azerbaijani officer Ramil Safarov
soon, lawyer Ikram Shirinov, representative of the officer’s family
and Defense Ministry told the APA. He said that he got the court’s
decision several days ago and is now analyzing it.

"After analyzing the document we will make a decision on filing an
appeal against it," he said.

Though there is no time limit in filing the appeal in Hungary,
Shirinov considers that the appeal should be fled as soon as possible.

"We will file the appeal by June. We will make a decision with regard
to it after analyzing the document," he said.

Ramil Safarov, was accused of murdering Armenian officer Gurgen
Markaryan and sentenced to life in jail by Budapest Court on April 13,
2006.

YOUTH STIR UP A REBELLION

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[05:41 pm] 11 April, 2007

Today "Sargis Tkhruni" Youth Student Union held an action of protest
opposite the RA Ombudsman’s Office.

"The acting regime has got an opportunity to control the whole
public on the eve of the RA presidential elections," Narek Galstyan,
representative of the union, announced.

We boycott the March 30 decision of the National Commission Regulating
Public Services under which the subscribers of the advance mobile
communication must sign an agreement and fix whom the cellar phone
belongs to.

We call on the RA Human Rights Protector to see to the matter and
stop the process. Otherwise he will turn to a tool in the hands of
the acting administration," Narek Galstyan says.

In Narek Galstyan’s words, the union won’t tolerate any permissiveness,
"the times of the Stalin dictatorship are left behind, all new-born
Stalins are doomed to failure." The union announces civil disobedience
to the acting authorities.

To note, the demonstrators tied their mouths with black ribbons and
handed their demands to the Ombudsman in a sealed parcel.

ALEXANDER SARGSYAN DOESN’T PROMISE THE MOON

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[06:02 pm] 11 April, 2007

Electoral area 37 includes the territories of Sisian and Goris. The
main struggle in the given precinct will be between Alexander Sargsyan,
member of the PPA and Serge Sargsyan’s brother and freelance candidate
Samvel Harutyuanyan. To note, Samvel Harutyunyan also runs on the
proportional list of the Heritage Party.

Alexander Sargsyan has been visiting villages and presenting his
pre-election programme since the official onset of the campaign.

In Mr. Sargsyan’s words he doesn’t promise the moon; he will do
his best to curtail social-economic problems and to reduce them to
the minimum.

"I am a man of his word and I shall prove my words via my actions,"
Alexander Sargsyan noted during his meeting with the residents
of Sisian.

TV Company "Syuni," Sisian.

PSRC APPROVES AEN INVESTMENT PROGRAM

ARMENPRESS
Apr 10 2007

YEREVAN, APRIL 10, ARMENPRESS: Armenia’s Public Services Regulatory
Commission (PSRC) has approved today the investment program of the
Armenian Electrical Networks (AEN) company for 2007-2009, whereby
the Russian-owned company has pledged to spend a total of 27 billion
Drams in the next three years to upgrade one of the biggest power
grid facilities of the country.

Yury Gavrilenko, an official of the AEN, owned by a subsidiary of
the Russian Unified Energy Systems (UES), said the company plans
to invest 12,2 billion Drams this year to upgrade the facility and
improve its safety operation.

AEN was sold to Interenergo BV, a subsidiary of the Unified Energy
Systems (UES), Russia’s main power utility, for $73 million.

Before the sale it was owned by a British-registered Midland Resources
Holding Ltd, which bought the energy distributing networks at $37
million in 2002. The Armenian government expected at that time the
privatization to put an end to huge annual losses, about $50 million,
at the state-run enterprise.

HRANUSH HAKOBIAN: WOMEN SHOULD BE EQUALLY REPRESENTED IN ALL SPHERES

YEREVAN, APRIL 9, NOYAN TAPAN. The Day of Motherhood and Beauty marked
on April 7 at the state level is one of the most beloved holidays in
Armenia, though in 1994 the parliament adopted it with great
difficulty. RA National Assembly deputy, member of RPA faction Hranush
Hakobian reported this at the April 7 press conference. In her words,
the necessity of holiday of women’s glorification emerged after the
collapse of the USSR when in addition to a number of Soviet values,
March 8 was also considered as unacceptable. Later, in her words, when
April 7 started to be marked at the state level, March 8,
nevertheless, was not forgotten by the people. As H. Hakobian
affirmed, she made a statement calling for starting women’s month from
March 8 and concluding it in April.

H. Hakobian said that when comparing laws adopted by RA parliament
with the legislation of another CIS member-countries one obviously
sees presence of greater care for women in Armenia. For instance, she
reminded the circumstance that three years after childbirth, when
nursing the child, the mother does not lose her job and she is given
benefit of two hundred thousand drams in connection with the birth of
the third child. As H. Hakobian said, currently NA RPA faction is
going to add a clause in the respective law, by which bigger material
assistance will be provided in case of fourth and more children, too.

The MP added that a law was adopted for the purpose of raising the
role of women in political life, according to which 15% persons
included in preelection proportional list should be women. "So, by the
force of the law we tried to make parties take into consideration
women’s potential," H. Hakobian said stressing that women should be
equally represented in all spheres.

TURKEY SUSPENDS PIPELINE TALKS WITH GDF, SAYS DECISION NOT FINAL

Agence France Presse — English
April 6, 2007 Friday 4:22 PM GMT

Turkey has suspended talks with Gaz de France (GDF) over the proposed
acquisition by the French group of a stake in a major gas pipeline
project, but the decision is not final, a foreign ministry official
said Friday.

A press report claimed Thursday the talks had been suspended because
of a political row sparked by French pressure to label Turkish action
against Armenians during World War I as genocide.

"This is not a final decision. We understand that the negotiating
process has not yet come to an end," the diplomat told AFP on the
condition of anonymity.

"This is a commercial issue between companies and they will make the
final decision on the basis of financial considerations," he added.

The five-company Nabucco consortium involving BOTAS plans to build
a 3,300-kilometre (2,000-mile) pipeline that will carry natural gas
from the Middle East and Central Asia to the European Union via Turkey
and the Balkans, bypassing Russia.

"Negotiations have been complicated and slowed down by the genocide
issue," confirmed another source close to the case.

The other partners in Nabucco are Austria’s oil and gas group OMV,
Hungary’s MOL, Bulgaria’s Bulgargaz and Romania’s Transgaz.

The consortium is seeking a sixth partner in the six-billion-dollar
(4.5-billion-euro) project, expected to become operational in 2012.

The other partners reportedly approved GDF’s participation, but BOTAS
has opposed it because of a French draft law on the Armenian massacres.

A bill was adopted by the National Assembly in Paris in October
calling for jail sentences for those who deny that Ottoman Turks
committed genocide against Armenians during World War I.

It must still go before the Senate, then back to the lower house
before becoming law.

Turkey had at the time threatened unspecified measures against the
bill, which followed a 2001 resolution by the French parliament
recognising the killings as genocide.

In November, the Turkish army froze bilateral military ties with
France over the bill.

Armenians say up to 1.5 million of their kin perished in orchestrated
killings between 1915 and 1917 under the Ottoman Empire.

Turkey categorically rejects the genocide label and says thousands of
Turks and Armenians were killed in civil strife when Armenians took
up arms for independence in eastern Anatolia and sided with Russian
troops invading the crumbling empire.

"TRIUMPHANT RESURRECTION" FROM TORONTO
Jean Eckian

KarabakhOpen
07-04-2007 10:57:07

"Triumphant Resurrection" live from Toronto with Isabel Bayrakdarian
and Serouj Kradjian, Sunday at 4:00 pm (Erevan) – 3:00 pm (Moscow)
2:00 pm (Athen – Cyprus – Beirut – Istanbul) – 1:00 pm (Paris)

In this Sunday of resurrection, great Canadian-Armenian soprano
Isabel Bayrakdarian and the virtuoso pianist Serouj Kradjian, also
Canadian of Armenian origin, will interpret with a chorus made up of
150 singers having learned Krapar for this occasion, it "Triumphing
Resurrection". The concert is diffused online from Toronto by CBC
Radio 2 starting to 4:00 pm (Erevan).
(Listen Live)

ARF DASHNAKTSUTYUN TO START THE ELECTION CAMPAIGN FROM "MOSCOW" CINEMA

ArmRadio.am
07.04.2007 14:03

The election campaign of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation
Dashnaktsutyun will start on April 9 at 19:00 next to the "Moscow"
cinema.

Speeches will be delivered by representative of the ARF Bureau Hrant
Margaryan, member of the ARF Bureau, Vice Speaker of RA National
Assembly Vahan Hovhannisyan, representative of the ARF Supreme Body in
Armenia Armen Rustamyan and Head of the ARF faction Hrayr Karapetyan.

According to the Press Service of ARF Supreme Body in Armenia, there
will be a gala concerr, featuring popular Armenian singers.