Author: Nalbandian Eduard

TUSIAD TO HOLD TALKS WITH US CONGRESSMEN

ArmRadio.am
20.03.2007 17:59

A team of top officials from the Turkish Industrialists and
Businessmen’s Association (TUSÄ°AD) is due to have talks with
prominent US Congressman and Administration authorities as part of
Turkey’s efforts to prevent the passage of congressional resolutions
calling for recognition of World War I-era killings of Armenians in
the Ottoman Empire as genocide, the Turkish Daily News reports. The
team includes TUSİAD Chairwoman Arzuhan Dogan Yalcındag, Deputy
Chairman Ferit Å~^ahenk and Deputy Chairwoman Umit Boyner.

The TUSÄ°AD delegation will meet with Democratic lawmaker Robert
Wexler, Cairman of the House Foreign Relations Subcommittee on Europe
and co-chairman of the Turkey Caucus in the US Congress.

Also planned are talks with State Department officials and a senior
official with the International Monetary Fund and meetings at the
Brookings Institution and the Council on Foreign Relations.

"Turkey is involved in an overall effort to stop the resolutions,
and the TUS Ä°AD visit is aimed at contributing to that effort,"
said the TUSÄ°AD official.

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THE ARMENIAN CHURCH PARTICIPATES IN THE INTERNATIONAL SEMINAR ON DIALOGUE
OF CULTURES AND CIVILIZATIONS
03/15/2007

The international seminar ‘Dialogue of cultures and civilizations: the
bridge between human rights and moral values’ convened in Paris, March
13-15.

The seminar was organized by the World Public Forum ‘Dialogue of
Civilizations’, under the patronage of UNESCO. There were over 250
representatives of international NGOs, scientists, experts, religious
leaders from 25 countries.

The Armenian Church took an active part in this conference. The
Catholicosate of All Armenians, Echmiadzine, Armenia, was represented by
Rev. Fr. Vazken Nanian, Dean of the Spiritual Djemaran at St. Etchmiadzine.
The Catholicosate of the Great House of Cilicia, Antelias, Lebanon, was
represented by Archbishop Sebouh Sarkissian, Primate of the Diocese of
Tehran, and Ms. Teny-Piri Simonian, a senior staff of the World Council of
Churches.

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the Armenian Orthodox Church. For detailed information about the Ecumenical
activities of the Cilician Catholicosate, you may refer to the web page of
the Catholicosate, The Cilician Catholicosate, the
administrative center of the church is located in Antelias, Lebanon.

PanARMENIAN.Net

Turkey will acknowledge Armenian Genocide if West and U.S. demand this
19.03.2007 12:45 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ The danger to the Turks is that the Armenians will
want recompense for losing their land, just as the Jews of Europe
demanded from the Germans, Robert Fisk, the Independent’s Middle East
correspondent said in an interview with Armenian Reporter. `I suppose
the EU will have to help Turkey out with that. But you can’t go on
forever denying it. It will come back and back and back. And then you
die and then there’s your children and their children’s children, and
it’ll keep on going, like it does with the Palestinians and anyone
who’s been dispossessed; they’ll keep it going. You know you will not
get Turkish Armenia back, it’s not going to happen – maybe in 10,000
years, but not now – but at least you can have that recognition. Of
course there will be claims. After all, American insurance companies
have at last started paying out insurance claims against victims of
the Armenian Genocide – or `the Armenian tragedy,’ as they call
it. Even the insurance companies will not call it by its rightful
name,’ he said.

`More and more Turkish academics are trying to push it through. The
problem is, if the Western governments, including the United States,
stood up to the Turks and said they must acknowledge it, they
would. But since they don’t, the Turks don’t have to. They get away
with it,’ Mr Fisk underscored.

Turkish Press
March 18 2007

PRESS SCAN

TURKIYE (RIGHT)

GUL: DO NOT BE DECEIVED

Abdullah Gul addressed the countries that attempt to accept the
Armenian genocide claims: "I hope that those who make political
material out of the genocide claims would not forget the bloodshed of
Armenian terrorist organization ASALA. These murders took place even
in countries that claim to be the most civilised. This is why no one
should be deceived by Armenians."

Panorama.am

18:45 17/03/2007

UKRAINIAN BORDER GUARDS ARREST 395 ARMENIANS IN 2006

In the course of 2006, some 395 illegal migrants from Armenia were
detected in the Ukraine. Most migrants were from Moldova (1734),
followed by Uzbekistan (825), Tajikistan (727), Azerbaijan (352),
Ghrghzstan (208), Georgia (182), Russia (177), India (71), Turkey
(60), Pakistan (42), Iraq (38), Vietnam (30) and China (24).

Source: Panorama.am

OVER 5 DOZENS OF ISSUES INCLUDED IN DRAFT AGENDA OF MARCH 19-22 NA
PLENARY SITTINGS

YEREVAN, MARCH 16, NOYAN TAPAN. Regular four-day sittings of RA
National Assembly are to start on March 19. As Noyan Tapan
correspondent was informed from RA NA Public Relations Department, 48
issues and 6 international agreements are included in the draft agenda
formed at the March 16 working consultation of parliament
leadership. Four out of the questions were discussed at the February
27 sitting and are only subject to voting.

ATTORNEYS OF HRANT DINK’S FAMILY DEMAND TO HOLD LEGAL INVESTIGATION
TOWARDS OFFICIALS INVOLVED IN CRIME

ISTANBUL, MARCH 16, NOYAN TAPAN – ARMENIANS TODAY. Attorneys of the
family of Hrant Dink, the Istanbul Armenian Agos weekly murdered
editor-in-chief, demanded to hold a legal investigation towards those
officials who "were involved in the crime."

According to the Istanbul Marmara daily, Fethiye Cetin from the
attorneys of Dink’s family showed a copy of the note by which the
Trapizon policemen informed their Istanbul colleagues about the murder
being prepared. According to the attorney’s evidence, 17 notes of the
same contents were sent to the Istanbul Police.

US STRUGGLE AGAINST ‘JERMUK’ IS ARTIFICIAL

A1+
[09:43 pm] 13 March, 2007

The guests in "Urbat" club started their meeting by drinking "jermuk"
mineral water.

The US Agency of Food and Medicine announcement had a great
repercussion among Armenian consumers. "Jermuk Group" company, as
well as "Mother Jermuk" factory together with experts gave a press
conference to satisfy public anxiety.

"Jermuk "representatives find that the announcement itself is very
suspicious and gives ground to different interpretation.

They suppose that an illegal mineral water is exported to the
USA. "The picture of the examined bottle is on the site. There is
no such brand in the Armenian market. One of the deer is missing,
which is a confusing sign,"

The companies are surprised to hear no specific company. "First of all
the agency should have discussed it with the corresponding producer,
to see whether it belonged to it or not. None of our company got
any notification."

"Jermuk Group" company has got certificates given by both EU and
Russian Federation. And the USA has been importing the mineral water
since 2000, and there have been no complaints about the brand.

As to the companies, it has some political background." Without a
special allowance the brand could never enter the market if it were
unhealthy and of low quality. Why wasn’t it banned in 2000? " Edgar
Ghazaryan mentions and adds, "This is a deliberate action towards
Armenian mineral water. It is neither the ownership of "Jermuk Group"
nor that of "Mother Jermuk"; it is RA ownership as far as it is of
mineral wealth."

Vice-head of epidemiology department of Ministry of Health, Marieta
Basilyan affirms that "There is 0.1% less arsenium in product
exported to US as compared with Armenian brand. It is strange to
believe that this quantity could result in poisoning. According to
the information provided by world health organization, no cases of
disease are reported. "

NATO ASSISTANT SECRETARY GENERAL AND RA FOREIGN MINISTER ATTACH IMPORTANCE TO SOCIETY’S INVOLVEMENT IN RA-NATO DIALOGUE

Noyan Tapan
Mar 13 2007

YEREVAN, MARCH 13, NOYAN TAPAN. RA Minister of Foreign Affairs
Vartan Oskanian received on March 12 Jean Fournet, the NATO Assistant
Secretary General for Public Diplomacy. Jean Fournet mentioned the
importance of holding the NATO week started in Armenia on March 12
from the viewpoint of spreading corresponding information about the
Alliance, especially emphasizing usefulness of the discussions on the
promoting dialogue, NATO place and role for the Alliance as well. The
interlocutors attached importance to the society’s involvement in
the Armenia-NATO dialogue, which is not limited only by the security
problems and involves a wide circle of public interests. They touched
upon implementation of the Indivudual Partnership Actions Plan of
the Armenia-NATO cooperation as well. According to the information
submitted to Noyan Tapan by the RA Foreign Ministry’s Press and
Information Department, the official opening ceremony of the NATO
information center in Yerevan, with participation of Minister Oskanian
and J. Fournet, followed the meeting.

ISTANBUL GOVERNOR SATISFIES THE REQUEST OF THE ARMENIAN PATRIARCH OF CONSTANTINOPLE

armradio.am
12.03.2007 16:20

Istanbul Governor Muammer Guler has instructed to satisfy the request
of the Armenian Patriarch of Constantinople Mesrop Archbishop Mutafian
to guarantee the security of Armenian Churches, schools and other
establishments after the assassination of the editor-in-chief of the
Agos weekly Hrant Dink. For this purpose forces from special services
will also be involved.

The Armenian Patriarch of Constantinople had applied to the Governor
of Istanbul still on February 1 and 14. As early as October 2006
the Patriarch Mutafian had applied to the Istanbul Governor with the
request to guarantee the security of Armenian Churches, schools and
other establishments, considering the "rather strained political and
social situation."