Author: Nahapetian Samvel

VIKTOR-YUSHCHENKO: ARMENIAN ARMED UNITS SHOULD WITHDRAW FROM AZERBAIJANI LANDS
Azeri Press Agency, Azerbaijan
Sept 8 2006
During his visit in Azerbaijan, Ukraine’s President Viktor Yushchenko
met with the professors and students of the Baku Slavic University,
APA reports.
He delivered a report “Foreign Policy of Ukraine” and talked about
the priorities of the country’s foreign policy.
Ukrainian President also commented on the Nagorno Garabagh conflict
between Armenia and Azerbaijan.
“The conflict should be solved because of the territorial integrity
of Azerbaijan. Armenian armed units should withdraw from the occupied
Azerbaijani lands in order to ensure the refugees to return to their
native lands. Nagorno Garabagh should be granted a high autonomy
through a referendum then. Ukraine is ready to deploy peacekeepers
to Nagorno Garabagh,” Mr. Yushchenko underlined.
The University students performed a show in Ukrainian.
The Baku Slavic University conferred honorary doctor of this
educational institution on Ukrainian President.

Armenpress
UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY CALLS FOR UN TO AID WITH FIRES IN
KARABAKH
YEREVAN, SEPTEMBER 8, ARMENPRESS: The Armenian
foreign ministry said the 60-th session of the UN
General Assembly has adopted a resolution calling for
the UN to help prevent environmental damage from fires
in the territory of Nagorno-Karabakh.
The ministry said Armenia had negotiated the draft
resolution agreeing eventually to its content and
wording. As a result, it said, the resolution in
general is acceptable to Armenia. The resolution,
says, in particular that the UN General Assembly ‘is
seriously concerned by the fires in the affected
territories, which have inflicted widespread
environmental damage.”
The resolution stresses the necessity to urgently
conduct an environmental operation to suppress the
fires in the affected territories and to overcome
their detrimental consequences and welcomes the
readiness of the parties to cooperate to that end and
considers such an operation to be an important
confidence-building measure.
It also calls upon, in this regard, the
organizations and programs of the United Nations
system, in particular the United Nations Environmental
Program, in cooperation with the OSCE to provide all
necessary assistance and expertise, including, inter
alia, the assessment of and counteraction to the
short-term and long-term impact of the environmental
degradation of the region, as well as in its
rehabilitation.
The resolution asks the Co-Chairs of the Minsk
Group of the OSCE to provide a report to member States
of the General Assembly by April 30, 2007. The
Armenian ministry said Armenia’s permanent
representative to the UN, Armen Martirosian, delivered
a statement at the session saying that the draft
resolution at hand addresses an issue, which ‘we
thought had been brought to a close, two weeks ago,
through discussions with the OSCE Chairman-in-Office,
the Minsk Group Co-chairs and the OSCE
Chairman-in-Office’s Personal Representative. A
decision was taken to send a mission of experts under
the OSCE to assess the fires.”
“The authorities of Nagorno Karabakh had already
accepted this proposal, and Armenia was certainly
ready to use its good offices to facilitate such a
mission. It was our understanding that Azerbaijan had
also agreed. Given all this, it was surprising to see
a draft resolution circulating at the UN on this same
issue, especially since it called for a parallel
mission under the UN auspices.
This approach was unacceptable. We considered such
a step to be an obstacle to continuing negotiations.
And, since it was clearly intended to pursue other
political ends, Armenia opposed this motion. However,
as a result of our consultations with the Minsk Group
Co-chairs, we have come to agreement on a text that
simply reiterates support for the OSCE mission. In
this regard we would like to welcome the readiness of
all the parties to negotiate in the spirit of
compromise under the able and very effective mediation
of the Minsk Group Co-chairs.
Nevertheless, although we support the content of
the agreement, we continue to remain opposed to the
general idea of this agenda item and a UN resolution
under it. That is the reason Armenia dissociates
itself from the consensus on this resolution.

SEPTEMBER 7, 2006
PRESS RELEASE
Western Prelacy of the Armenian Apostolic Church of America
H.E. Archbishop Moushegh Mardirossian, Prelate
6252 Honolulu Avenue
La Crescenta, CA 91214
Tel: (818) 248-7737
Fax: (818) 248-7745
E-mail: [email protected]
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THE LINCY FOUNDATION MAKES A GENEROUS $ 535,000 ANNUAL ALLOCATION TO
WESTERN PRELACY SCHOOLS
With distinct pleasure and heartfelt gratitude we announce that the
LINCY Foundation has once again made a generous donation in the
amount of $535,000.00 to the Armenian schools of our Western Prelacy
for the 2006-2007 academic year.
Renowned and respected for its charitable mission, the Foundation
continues to provide for the various and numerous needs of both the
Armenian Diaspora and our Homeland with its generous endowments.
The donation will be disbursed as follows:
– Ferrahian Armenian High School, Encino $100,000.00
– Rose and Alex Pilibos Armenian High School, Hollywood $100,000.00
– Mesrobian Armenian High School, Montebello $100,000.00
– Vahan and Anoush Chamlian Armenian School, Glendale $100,000.00
– Ari Guiragos Minassian Armenian School, Orange County $50,000.00
– Krouzian-Zekarian-Vasbouragan Armenian School, San Francisco $50,000.00
– Levon and Hasmig Tavlian Armenian School, Pasadena $25,000.00
– Richard Tufenkian Armenian Preschool $10,000.00
On this occasion, His Eminence Archbishop Moushegh Mardirossian,
Prelate, the Prelacy Religious and Executive Councils, and the Board
of Regents of Prelacy Schools, together with the committees
functioning under their auspices convey their heartfelt thanks and
gratitude to the LINCY Foundation and to its administrators for their
dedicated services to our people, our new generation and our
Homeland.
We would like to emphasize that for many years now the LINCY
Foundation has been providing invaluable moral and financial support
to the schools operating under the jurisdiction of the Western
Prelacy, and has participated in the implementation of their sacred
mission to educate our younger generations in the spirit of our
national heritage and the values of humanity.
May Almighty God reward the founders and the Administration of the
LINCY Foundation with His grace and bless their charitable and
humanitarian endeavors.
SECRETARIAT WESTERN PRELACY
September 10, 2006

Minneapolis Star Tribune , MN
Sept 7 2006
Father Bear taking Gopher son to Cal
Dr. John Najarian, patriarch of the football-crazy family, is taking
his son Pete to the West Coast to watch Cal’s home opener against
Minnesota.
Patrick Reusse, Star Tribune
Last update: September 06, 2006 – 10:16 PM
Dr. John Najarian reached across the desk of his office in the
Phillips-Wagensteen Medical Building on the University of Minnesota
campus. His right hand swallowed the chubby little mitt that was
extended in his direction.
The doctor will turn 79 in December, and yet the firmness of this
grip indicated that if you have a need to replace a vital organ, he
still would be the man to see.
“I’m in the office full time, and I usually operate one day a week,”
he said. “People say they retire so they can do what they love. I
don’t have to retire. This is what I love.”
Saving lives and training transplant surgeons have some competition
as the passions of Najarian’s life. There is the big, robust family
— wife Mignitte, sons Jon, David, Paul and Pete, their wives and a
current total of 11 grandchildren.
And there is another Najarian passion that shouldn’t be understated:
football.
“His teams are the Cal Bears, the Gophers and the Vikings,” son Pete
said. “Basically, he’s a very good-natured guy, but when his football
teams get beat, he gets angry.
“He was beside himself after watching Cal get whipped by Tennessee on
Saturday night. He was embarrassed.”
The Bears will attempt to reverse that embarrassment in Saturday’s
home opener in Berkeley, but the twist here is the opponent will be
the other college team that Dr. John fully supports: Minnesota.
Najarian’s career as a Cal tackle was from 1945-1948. He was a 6-4,
255-pound lineman.
“I was the second biggest player in the conference,” he said.
“Southern Cal had a 300-pounder. We couldn’t believe that — a
300-pound football player.”
The Najarian sons are two years apart. All played college football as
linebackers: Jon and David at Gustavus, Paul as a four-year letter
winner at Cal and Pete as a four-year letter winner for the Gophers.
“I can’t ever actually remember making a decision to play football,”
Pete said. “It was just something you knew you would do. If not, The
Sheik would’ve been the only one with football stories.”
The Sheik is Dr. John’s nickname with his sons. They put that label
on him one night at the pro wrestling matches in the St. Paul Civic
Center.
“The five of us went to the matches all the time,” Pete said. “Dad
was late one night. The Sheik was walking toward the ring and the
crowd was chanting ‘Sheik, Sheik’ at the same time he showed up.
“The Sheik. It fit.”
Sports and medicine
The Najarian family traces its roots to the Caucasus Mountains. The
Armenians from that area have been famous for living long.
“The story within the family is that my grandfather’s grandfather
died at 136,” Dr. John said. “I have no reason to doubt that, since
the people passing down this information all lived into their 100s.”
John was the middle of three brothers. His younger brother, George,
was John’s teammate at Cal. The brothers were raised in Oakland.
“When I was 12, I had a burst appendix,” John said. “The doctors and
the nurses were so determined to heal me. That’s when I decided I was
going to be a doctor.”
John enrolled at Cal-Berkeley at the same time World War II was
ending. America’s finest generation was coming home — many of whom
also wanted to save lives.
“I got into pre-med, and it was tough to keep up with the competition
and to play football,” Najarian said. “I had a season left of
football in 1948 when I was starting medical school. I told Pappy, ‘I
can’t play. There’s not enough time.’ ”
Pappy was Cal’s legendary coach, Lynn (Pappy) Waldorf. “In 1946, Cal
hired Frank Wickhorst,” Najarian said. “He was an all-time bad coach,
and we went 2-7. Waldorf came in in 1947 and with exactly the same
team went 9-1.”
The Bears had big hopes for 1948, and Waldorf didn’t want to lose his
biggest tackle. “We reached a compromise: I would play only defense,
so I could spend half as much time at practice,” Najarian said. “But
even that was too much. I had to quit. Then, one of our tackles was
hurt in midseason. Pappy said, ‘We need you,’ and that was that.”
Cal went 10-0 in the regular season and went to the Rose Bowl. On
Jan. 1, 1949, before a crowd of 92,000 in Pasadena, Calif.,
Northwestern pulled a 20-14 upset when Art Murakowski was awarded the
touchdown on a 1-yard plunge that put Northwestern ahead 13-7.
“I stripped Murakowski of the ball at the line of scrimmage, and Will
Lotter recovered for us,” Najarian said. “The refs gave them a
touchdown. The next day, there was a photo in the Los Angeles Times
showing the ball was loose a yard before Murakowski reached the goal
line.”
(A close-up view of that photo can be seen with this article on page
3C.)
The touchdown signal came from field judge Jay Berwanger, famous as
the first Heisman Trophy winner in 1935.
“I didn’t know Berwanger made that call,” Najarian said. “I just knew
it was a fumble, not a touchdown.”
Waldorf’s Bears went to three consecutive Rose Bowls from 1949-51,
losing all in narrow fashion to Big Ten teams. The members of those
teams came to be called “Pappy’s Boys.”
They have been holding reunions for a couple of decades in
conjunction with Cal’s home opener. Dr. John will be there again this
weekend, and his son Pete, the Gopher, is going along as a guest.
“We march in before the game, they introduce us as Pappy’s Boys, and
everyone cheers, even if they’ve never heard of us,” Najarian said.
Never enough football
The Najarians can’t get enough football conversation. And here’s
proof, straight from The Sheik:
“We were having dinner at the old Anchor Inn in Bayport a number of
years ago — Mignitte and her five guys. She didn’t get in a word for
two hours. We talked about the Vikings, the Gophers, Cal … nothing
but football.
“The check was paid and a couple of the guys went to the restroom,
and we got in two cars and headed home. We were in the living room,
still talking football, when the phone started ringing. I finally
said, ‘Why isn’t your mother answering that?’
“One of the boys answered, and Mignitte said, ‘Did your party forget
something at the restaurant? Maybe your MOTHER!’ ”
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ERDOGAN: IT IS A DAYDREAM TO EXPECT TURKEY TO RECOGNIZE “ARMENIAN GENOCIDE”
Azeri Press Agency, Azerbaijan
Aug 5 2006
“It is a daydream to expect Turkey to recognize the so-called Armenian
genocide. We’ll not change our position regarding the alleged “Armenian
genocide”. Let no one expect us to change our position,” Turkey’s Prime
Minister Rajab Tayyib Erdogan said while commenting on the European
Parliament’s today’s decision urging Turkey to recognize the alleged
“Armenian genocide”.
APA’s Turkey bureau reports said there are some initiatives for
normalizing the relations between Turkey and Armenia, and the Foreign
Ministry controls this process.
“The European Parliament’s decision is not compulsory. So, there
is no need to exaggerate the appeals addressed from Strasbourg,”
the Premier underlined.
Prior to that, the European Parliament twice (in 1987 and 2005)
appealed to Turkey for recognizing the alleged “Armenian genocide”.
Turkish Prime Minister wrote to Armenian President Robert Kocharian
offering to set up a joint commission to solve the problems between
the two countries, including the so-called “Armenian genocide”.
However, Armenia’s response was negative.
Turkish Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul concretely voiced Ankara’s stance
regarding this issue in his address to the parliament on 13 April.
“Turkey will not obey any pressure and will not recognize the
fabricated “Armenian genocide”. The Copenhagen principles-main document
on Turkey’s EU membership discussions do not mention the necessity
of recognition of the so-called genocide.”

ARKADY GHUKASIAN: WE MUST PRESS FOR NKR INDEPENDENCE DE JURE
PanARMENIAN.Net
04.09.2006 12:41 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ “The proclamation of the Nagorno Karabakh Republic’s
independence was the only salvation for Karabakh and life proved that
we were right. Otherwise we would have shared Nakhichevan’s fate,”
NKR President Arkady Ghukasian stated in Stepanakert over the 15th
anniversary of NKR’s independence.
In his words, the most important thing is that the people of Karabakh
have achieved their goal. They won the war imposed on them and built
a developing state.
“The recent 15 years symbolize free and independent life. Sometimes
it seems that independence means that we have overcome all the
difficulties bit unfortunately it’s not so. We have a long way ahead
and plenty of hardships that is why we mist press for independence
de jure. We face two priority tasks,” NKR President said.
The first task, according to Ghukasian, is peace and agreement with
Azerbaijan, the second is the international recognition of the NKR. “I
think we are capable to solve these tasks,” he underscored.
When touching upon the possibility of resumption of war, Karabakh
leader remarked that he does not see any reason for it, either
political, economic, moral or geographical.
“I am absolutely sure that now the international community is not
interested in resumption of war. As for Azerbaijan’s aggressive
calls, one should just see what they are made for,” Ghukasian said,
reported Newsarmenia.ru.

ITAR-TASS, Russia
Sept 2 2006
Nagorno-Karabakh marks 15th anniversary of independence

YEREVAN, September 2 (Itar-Tass) – Nagorno-Karabakh marks its 15th
anniversary of independence on Saturday.
Nagorno-Karabakh was founded on September 2, 1991.
`The declaration on Nagorno-Karabakh independence is a brave
political and legal act, which was adopted in compliance with the
fundamental norms of the Constitution of the former Soviet Union and
international law,’ Nagorno-Karabakh President Arkady Gukasyan said
in Stepanakert.
`Now our efforts are aimed to settle the conflict with Azerbaijan,’
Gukasyan said. In his view, `the settlement of the Karabakh conflict
is possible on the basis of mutual compromises. In order to reach any
compromise the leadership of both sides should show goodwill.’
Gukasyan confirmed that Karabakh is ready to hold a direct and
constructive dialogue with Azerbaijan without any preconditions.
`No one doubts that Nagorno-Karabakh became a real state,’ Abkhazian
President Sergei Bagapsh said in his greetings message.

AS RESULT OF SEVERAL EXPLOSIONS IN TURKEY, 4 PEOPLE DIED, 90 WOUNDED. IF THERE ARE ARMENIANS AMONG THE SUFFERED, IT IS UNKNOWN AS YET
Ankara, August 29. ArmInfo. As a result of several explosions in
Turkey, 4 people died, 90 are wounded. As ArmInfo was told today in
the Department of Information and Press of RA MFA, the latter has no
information yet if citizens of Armenia or other Armenians suffered as
a result of explosions. It is only known about two suffered Russians.
As the leading world information agencies inform, the first explosions
happened on the night of Sunday to Monday in Istanbul and in a resort
town of Marmaris. One explosion more happened in the evening the day
before in a resort town of Antalia. According to the eye-witnesses,
the explosion was of such a force that some cars turned into a heap
of metal. According to information, the Turkish police prevented one
act of terrorism more , being prepared in the seaport Ismir.

ARMENIANS BID FAREWELL TO RENOWNED POETESS
By Gayane Danielian
Radio Liberty, Czech Rep.
Aug. 29, 2006
Thousands of people gathered near the Opera House in Yerevan on Tuesday
to attend the funeral of famous poetess and outstanding public figure
Silva Kaputikian.
Many of admirers of her poetry, among them thousands of ordinary
people, Diaspora Armenians, as well as politicians, came to bid
farewell to the women on the poetry of which generations of Armenians
were raised both in Armenia and abroad.
The funeral was organized by a government-appointed commission led
by Prime Minister Andranik Markarian.
“It is a great loss not only for our literature, but also for the
people. An intellectual who left us precepts about our fatherland,
language, about national values died,” Markarian said in his speech
at the funeral.
The poetess, who died last Friday, at the age of 87, is known for her
active civil position both in the communist times when she was in the
forefront of the Karabakh movement and also in the post-independence
years when, as her friends and colleagues say, she was not afraid
to raise a voice of protest against what she considered to be unjust
and unfair.
Kaputikian returned the Mesrop Mashtots Order she received from
the state for her merits as a poetess and public figure after the
authorities used violence against peaceful demonstrators in April 2004.
“When such people leave our lives, it is a loss for the entire
nation. And today I want to express my condolences to the whole
nation,” Culture Minister Hasmik Poghosian said about the poetess.
Head of the National Assembly’s Standing Commission on Science,
Education and Culture Affairs Hranush Hakobian said Kaputikian will
stay in the memory of Armenians as their national poetess. “She lived
a glorious life and the state and the nation is saying good-bye to
her in a solemn way,” she said.
His Holiness Catholicos of All Armenians Karekin II was also among
those who came to bid farewell to Kaputikian.
When the coffin with Kaputikian’s body was to be placed onto a
catafalque on Abovian Street, a group of people volunteered to carry
‘the great daughter of the nation’ to the cemetery on their shoulders,
and they led the procession for about two kilometers to the Komitas
Pantheon where Kaputikian was buried next to great Armenian composer
Aram Khachatrian.

BRITISH COUNCIL LEADS FIRST PROJECT FOR ARMENIAN, GEORGIAN, AZERI JOURNALISTS
Author: À.Ismayilova
TREND Information, Azerbaijan
Aug. 29, 2006
British Council is, for the first time, leading a project for
journalists from Azerbaijan, Armenia and Georgia, said Andy Williams,
Director of British Council Baku office, giving the exclusive interview
to Trend. Mr Williams said journalists from these Countries had
already met in the United Kingdom.
The U.K Government-funded project aims at creation a network between
the conflicting areas. Upon completion of the project in U.K,
the journalists will continue working in their home countries and
will monitor governmental programs, society development, and most
importantly, keep an eye on transparency in the Government.
The most interesting program scientifically will be the “Science
is Beautiful” program. Its primary objective is to involve Azeri
youth to participate in scientific activities. “The same project is
implemented in the U.K. We are going to organize the international
version of this project by the name of “Fame lab”, said Mr Williams.
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