Author: Tatoyan Vazgen

Police in Slovakia break up gang of immigrant smugglers
The Associated Press
12/16/04 07:27 EST
BRATISLAVA, Slovakia (AP) – Railway police in Slovakia broke up a
gang of people smugglers who helped illegal migrants get into Austria,
officials said Thursday.
The 15-member gang was made up of Russians, Azerbaijanis, an Afghan,
an Armenian and Slovaks. One of the Slovaks was the head of a refugee
camp who illegally issued leave tickets to refugees.
The gang charged the migrants between US$200(euro150) and
US$600(euro448), said the head of Slovakia’s railway police, Tibor
Gaplovsky. Police estimate that the group earned some two million
koruna (US$69,300s, euro51,700).
The gang used trains or taxis to transport the refugees or just
walked them over to neighboring Austria. Police have been monitoring
the gang since 2003, and they estimated that the gang has helped at
least 115 migrants to get to Austria. Dozens of others were detained
in Slovakia.
An estimated 30,000 to 40,000 illegal migrants pass through
Slovakia on their way to the West every year, and nearly a third
are intercepted by police.

President wraps up visit to Great Britain
Assa-Irada, Azerbaijan
Dec 16 2004
President Ilham Aliyev wrapped up his official visit to Great Britain
on Tuesday.
On the last day of the visit Aliyev met with British Prime Minister
Tony Blair. Prospects for bilateral relations, regional and
international cooperation and Azerbaijan’s integration into Europe
were discussed.
The parties gave a high assessment to the current level of ties and
discussed ways of settling the Upper Garabagh conflict.
During his two-day visit President Aliyev attended a conference
entitled “Azerbaijan’s investment opportunities – 2004” and the
signing ceremony of an agreement on financing Azerbaijan’s share in
the Shahdaniz project. He also met with the British Foreign Minister
and presidents of BP and the European Bank for Reconstruction and
Development.*

Le Monde, France
mardi 14 décembre 2004
Les eurodéputés s’acheminent vers le “oui” à la Turquie
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Un débat organisé lundi soir a néanmoins séparé le camp des
partisans, espagnols et britanniques, pour qui l’adhésion est “une
question de conscience”, des députés français ou grecs qui craignent,
en cas d’adhésion de la Turquie, une métamorphose de l’Europe en
“organisation mondiale du commerce euro-asiatique”.
Les eurodéputés devraient voter à une nette majorité, mercredi 15
décembre, en faveur de l’ouverture de négociations d’adhésion avec la
Turquie. Mais un débat, organisé lundi soir 13 décembre, a confirmé
des clivages nationaux que l’on retrouve dans la population
européenne.

Le Parlement se prononcera, mercredi, sur le rapport du député
conservateur néerlandais, Camiel Eurlings, et ses quelque 80
amendements, un avis cependant consultatif car la décision finale
appartient aux chefs d’Etat et de gouvernement qui se réuniront jeudi
et vendredi à Bruxelles.
Suivant une ligne semblable à celle arrêtée par la Commission
européenne, le rapport préconise l’ouverture “sans délai inutile” des
négociations avec Ankara, tout en énumérant les conditions restant à
remplir, notamment la reconnaissance de Chypre et “une tolérance
zéro” contre la torture.
Soulignant que les négociations sont “un processus ouvert et qui ne
conduit pas automatiquement à l’adhésion”, le texte n’envisage pas,
dès à présent, d’alternative à l’adhésion, comme le “partenariat
privilégié” réclamé par les droites française et allemande. “Nous
devons envoyer un signal fort à la Turquie : saisissez cette chance.
Mais aussi un autre signal fort : nous suivrons les réformes”, a
commenté M. Eurlings, “très impressionné par les réformes en Turquie
où, davantage d’événements ont eu lieu ces dernières années que dans
les quarante précédentes”.
Si M. Eurlings est suivi au sein du Parti populaire européen par les
députés espagnols, italiens ou britanniques, il est en revanche
critiqué par les Allemands de la CDU ou les Français de l’UMP, une
diversité d’avis à l’image des sensibilités différentes des opinions
publiques dans l’Union européenne.
“CRIME” OU “CONTRIBUTION À LA PAIX”
“L’adhésion de la Turquie est une question de conscience ou
quasiment, donc nous acceptons que tout le monde vote en toute
conscience”, a souligné le leader du Parti populaire européen (PPE),
l’Allemand Hans-Gert Poettering. “Nous allons négocier avec un pays
qui viole massivement les droits humains”, a-t-il cependant dénoncé,
relevant que “s’il n’y a plus de torture systématique en Turquie, il
y a encore de nombreux cas de tortures”.
“Faire entrer la Turquie dans l’UE, c’est accepter le risque que
l’Europe se transforme en une organisation mondiale du commerce
euro-asiatique, sans pouvoir et sans puissance”, a renchéri le
Français Jacques Toubon.
Pour Bernard Lehideux (UDF), qui siège au sein du groupe libéral et
démocrate, “il faudra bien que l’UE se fixe un jour des frontières,
sinon elle va s’étendre comme une tache d’huile, sans objectif
politique”.
De son côté, le ministre des affaires étrangères français, Michel
Barnier, a souhaité que, pendant le processus de négociations, la
Turquie reconnaisse le génocide arménien, mais que cette
reconnaissance ne soit “pas une condition” d’adhésion d’Ankara.
Les courants souverainistes et d’extrême droite se sont, eux,
indignés sur le thème d’un “pays islamiste” et “qui n’est pas dans
l’Europe”. Pour le nationaliste grec Georgios Karatzaferis, ce serait
ainsi “un crime que d’accepter la Turquie dans l’Europe”.
L’addition de ces “non” est cependant nettement minoritaire au sein
de l’assemblée européenne, face au “oui” des socialistes, des Verts
et d’une bonne moitié des conservateurs et des libéraux. “Tous ceux
qui défendent les droits humains en Turquie nous disent que les
perspectives d’adhésion ont modifié ce pays et en font une démocratie
parlementaire”, a défendu le chef du groupe socialiste, l’Allemand
Martin Schulz.
“En s’ouvrant à un pays laïque à majorité musulmane, l’Union
européenne donnerait un signe majeur de contribution à la paix et la
compréhension entre les peuples”, a ajouté le Français Michel Rocard,
jugeant même le rapport du Parlement européen “trop agressif” à
l’égard des conditions posées à Ankara.

PRESS RELEASE
December 14, 2004
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AUA President Dr. Haroutune Armenian Receives Lebanese Cedar Medal
BEIRUT – AUA President, Dr. Haroutune Armenian, was awarded Lebanon’s Cedar
Medal last week during a ceremony that marked the 50th anniversary of the
founding of the Faculty of Health Sciences of the American University of
Beirut (AUB). The decision was made by Lebanese President Emile Lahoud to
recognize Dr. Armenian’s international, regional, and local accomplishments
in the field of public health, bringing prestige not only to the AUB, but to
all of Lebanon.
Dr. Armenian is currently the President of the American University of
Armenia, Dean of AUA’s College of Health Sciences, and a Professor of
Epidemiology at Johns Hopkins University, Bloomberg School of Public Health.
Between 1989 & 1996 he was the Director of the Master of Public Health
Program at Johns Hopkins. Previously, he was Dean and Professor of the
Faculty of Health Sciences at the American University of Beirut. Dr.
Armenian received his Medical Degree from the AUB and his Dr.P.H. in
Epidemiology from the Johns Hopkins University’s Bloomberg School of Public
Health.
He is the author of many scholarly works and has published close to a 100
scientific articles in prestigious international journals on a variety of
health issues including familial paroxysmal polyserositis, cancer
epidemiology, AIDS, psychopathology, war, disasters and infant mortality in
Armenian parish records. Dr. Armenian is the author-editor of about 20
volumes including a textbook on Epidemiology and Health Services that was
published by Oxford University Press in 1998. He is currently finishing a
textbook on the case-control method due to be published in late 2005 by
Oxford University Press.
AUB Associate Dean of the Faculty of Health Sciences, Iman Nuwayhid, said,
“He is truly a bridge between the east and west…At no time did Haroutune
Armenian miss an opportunity to link the US, Armenia, and Lebanon in
collaborative or joint academic activities. He remains the mentor, advisor,
and collaborator for many here at AUB and at other universities in the three
countries.” In bestowing the honor to Dr. Armenian on behalf of President
Lahoud, Minister Dr. Karam Karam said, “Dr. Armenian embodies the highest
level of cultural cooperation.”
Dr. Haroutune Armenian continues to contribute to the advancement of the
public health field in the region through his scientific works and academic
collaborations. Under his leadership, in September 2005, the American
University of Armenia will host the Association of Schools of Public Health
European Region’s annual conference, whereby 200 delegates from Europe and
the Middle East are expected to attend. The conference `Educating the
Public Health Workforce: Development Perspectives for the European and
Mediterranean Regions,’ is the first time to be hosted by a former Soviet
Republic and coincides with the 10th Anniversary of the College of Health
Sciences.
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the Regents of the University of California. Receiving major support from
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Photo: Lebanon’s State Minister Dr. Karam Karam pinning the national Cedar
Medal on AUA President Dr. Haroutune Armenian

Armenian ombudsman might meet pilots jailed in Equatorial Guinea
Noyan Tapan news agency
9 Dec 04
YEREVAN
The Amnesty International organization has expressed its readiness to
assist the Armenian human rights commissioner in meeting the
authorities in Equatorial Guinea over the fate of Armenian pilots,
Armenian ombudsman Larisa Alaverdyan told a news conference today.
Alaverdyan said she was currently preparing a report on the human
rights situation in the country, which will be published in March. It
cannot be ruled out that it will contain the names of several
government officials.
Since starting work on 1 March 2004, the ombudsman’s office has
received 1,590 complaints, of which 680 were filed from the
countryside. A total of 275 complaints concern local government
bodies, 178 courts, 164 the Ministry of Social Security, 124 the
police, 76 the State Committee for the Registration of State Property
and 65 the Ministry of Justice.

IRAQ WRAPUP 3-Churches bombed, US deaths in Iraq mount
By Maher al-Thanoon
MOSUL, Iraq, Dec 7 (Reuters) – Gunmen bombed two churches in the
tense Iraqi city of Mosul on Tuesday, fuelling fears of ethnic and
sectarian unrest ahead of an election next month.
President Vladimir Putin of Russia, a fierce opponent of the war,
told Iraq’s prime minister in Moscow he feared the country could
break up and said planned Jan. 30 elections were unimaginable.
U.S. troops suffered their 1,000th combat death in Iraq on Tuesday when
U.S. soldier was killed in Baghdad. The Pentagon also issued figures
for a record monthly U.S. death toll in Iraq. It said 136 American
soldiers were killed last month. The previous highest was 135 in April.
At least four Iraqi National Guard troopers were also killed in two
incidents, one in the capital and another further south.
“I cannot imagine how elections can be organised under a full
occupation of the country by foreign troops,” Putin told Iraq’s
U.S.-backed interim Prime Minister Iyad Allawi.
“I also cannot imagine how you on your own will be able to restore
the situation in the country and stop it from breaking up.”
Allawi reaffirmed the election date of Jan. 30 but raised the prospect
of troubled regions taking two or three weeks longer to vote —
a proposal that could not immediately be checked with election
officials and would break a U.N. deadline of Jan. 31 for the ballot.
A new CIA assessment, reported by the New York Times, gave a gloomy
picture of Iraq’s future, seeing further insecurity if the government
fails to assert itself and promote prosperity.
No one was killed nor, it appeared, injured, in the bombings in
Mosul; smoke billowed from one of the northern city’s Armenian
churches and one of its oldest Chaldean churches was ablaze and a
wall shattered. The attackers were not identified.
In a city of 1.2 million where the two main Sunni Muslim communities,
Arabs and Kurds, are already on edge following a rout of U.S.-trained
police last month by Sunni Arab insurgents, the latest in a series
of attacks on Christians was grist to the mill of those who believe
Iraq risks slipping into civil war.
At least 16 Kurdish peshmerga fighters were killed in a suicide car
bomb attack in Mosul on Saturday. U.S. troops have turned to the Kurds,
largely autonomous in the nearby mountains and with well-trained
fighting forces, to help police Mosul.
SUNNI DISCONTENT
Sunni Arabs make up about 20 percent of Iraq’s population but have
dominated the country for decades, including under fellow Sunni
Saddam Hussein. With the election set to transfer power to the 60
percent Shi’ite Muslim majority, many Sunnis are unhappy and some
have called for a boycott of the vote.
They argue that violence by insurgents led, apparently by former
Saddam loyalists and some foreign-inspired Islamists, will make it
impossible to vote safely in much of Sunni northern and western Iraq,
including much of Baghdad.
The small Christian community of about 650,000 or some 3 percent of
the population has suffered from an upsurge in militant Islam since
the fall of Saddam’s secular regime. Some have fled or closed down
traditional businesses, notably selling liquor, which flourished in
Iraq despite a Muslim religious ban.
At least one Christian leader has been quoted recently saying he
would form an armed militia to protect the community.
“There were two or three families in the church,” one frightened
worshipper from Mosul’s ancient Tahira Chaldean church told Reuters
after the attack on the white stone building, some of which is said
to date back to the 7th century.
“Gunmen came in, took the guard’s weapon and a couple of mobile
phones. Then they made everybody leave the church. After that there
was an explosion that did a lot of damage,” said the man, who asked
not to be named for fear of intimidation.
Christians, possibly targeted partly because radical Muslims link
them with the “crusader” invaders from America and Europe, have been
attacked several times in the past four months.
Coordinated car bombings, four in Baghdad and one in Mosul, killed
at least 12 in August and five Baghdad churches were bombed on the
Oct. 16 start of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.
At least eight people were killed in two church bombings in the
capital on Nov. 8, and a car bomber attacked police guarding the
hospital where the wounded had been taken.
U.S. CASUALTIES
An election that provides a legitimate Iraqi government that can
defend itself is a prerequisite for U.S. President George W. Bush to
declare the invasion a success and bring troops home.
International voting experts will meet in Canada this month to try
to find a way of monitoring the election in the likely absence of
outside observers, a top Canadian official said.
In order to protect the vote, Bush is increasing U.S. troop numbers
by about 10 percent to 150,000.
Bush sought to boost U.S. troop morale by promising to train Iraqi
forces to replace them, though he acknowledged mixed results so far.
“Some Iraqi units have performed better than others,” he told thousands
of camouflage-clad Marines at Camp Pendleton, California. “Some Iraqis
have been intimidated enough by the insurgents to leave the service
to their country.”
But he said “a great many are standing firm.”
(Additional reporting by Michael Georgy in Baghdad)
12/07/04 19:27 ET

Agency WPS
What the Papers Say. Part B (Russia)
December 6, 2004, Monday
DUAL-PURPOSE VISIT
SOURCE: Kommersant, December 6, 2004, p. 9
by Boris Volkhonskii
President Putin tried to end his official visit to India (the third
in the past four years) in a major key. In New Delhi on Saturday, he
denied media reports that Russia allegedly supports India’s aim to
join the UN Security Council but opposes granting veto power to
India. President Putin noted that the veto power should either be
extended to all members of the UN Security Council, or invalidated
for all members. Putin said that the latter would decrease the UN’s
influence.
After that, Putin visited India’s “Silicon Valley” – the city of
Bangalore. This is the center of India’s advanced technologies. When
in Bangalore, Putin proposed to covert part of India’s debt into
joint ventures.
Putin did not forget that military technology cooperation is the main
aspect of cooperation between Russia and India. He observed flights
of planes and helicopters built by Hindustan Aeronautics and examined
the Sukhoi fighter assembled by the Indian enterprise under license
from Russia.
Russia and India reached an agreement to conduct a joint exercise for
their paratrooper units in 2005. Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov said
that the Indian Airborne Troops are equipped with Russian weapons and
military hardware.
President Putin arrived in Ankara after his visit to India. Relations
with Turkey are not as optimistic as cooperation with India. Before
the Russian leaders visited Turkey 32 years ago.
In the meantime, the current state of bilateral relations between
Moscow and Ankara reached the level when a political visit by the
Russian leader became very topical. It should be noted that trade
turnover between Russia and Turkey reached $4.6 billion in the first
half of 2004. It is intended that economic cooperation with Ankara
will amount to $10 billion at the end of the year (to compare: trade
turnover with India, other than military technology cooperation,
reached only $1.7 billion in 2003).
At the same time, the state of political relations leaves much to be
desired. Mutual reproached for supporting the separatist movements
aggravate relations between Moscow and Ankara. Some economic issues
have political aspects. First and foremost, this concerns energy and
energy resources. Moscow does not hide its negative attitude to the
plan to build pipelines from the Caspian region to Turkish ports
bypassing Russian territory.
Moscow and Ankara often dispute over tanker routes in the straits
between the Black Sea and Mediterranean Sea.
These problems shed light on the goals of Putin’s visit. He intends
to sign the declaration on friendship and partnership in Ankara. In
addition, the Russian leader will sign a range of intergovernmental
documents and agreements. The anti-terrorist effort will become a
very important aspect of negotiations. Russia deleted the term
“international terrorism” and references to Chechnya from the text of
the joint declaration. However, it’s obvious that the Chechen issue
will be raised during negotiations. However, it’s hardly likely that
the parties will approve juridical documents: Turkey has grievances
against Russia regarding the presence of Kurdish separatists on
Russian territory.
In addition, Russia insists on the necessity of improving the
performance of the intergovernmental commission for cooperation in
the military technology sector. In particular, Russia will try to
convince Turkey to take Russian military hardware as repayment of its
debt ($350 million). Moscow also seeks to use the potential of the
Blackseafor group and create a counterweight to NATO in the Black Sea
on its basis.
The situation in the Trans-Caucasus region will also be raised. In
particular, President Putin will try to convince his Turkish
counterparts to give up plans to isolate Armenia by building the
Kars-Akhalkalaki-Tbilisi railroad bypassing Armenia.
The problems which Putin is trying to address in New Delhi and Ankara
have a very important aspect. This is an attempt to give an
“asymmetric response” to the hegemony of the US. Putin’s statements
in New Delhi concerned “dictatorship in international affairs” and
“attempts to restructure the God-given diversity of modern
civilization along the army barracks principles of a unipolar world.”
In addition, Putin announced the need for activating trilateral
cooperation between Russia, India and China. The Asian Age newspaper
states that a trilateral Russian-Indian-Chinese summit will be held
next year.
Attempts to build a certain center of forces in South-East Asia are
not new. At the same time, it’s a new phenomenon for Russia to
consider Turkey, which is a member nation of NATO, as an ally in the
new geopolitical layout. Russia has weighty reasons to do this. The
point is that Turkey is at a historical crossroads due to external
and internal factors. The issue of negotiations regarding Turkey’s
intention to join the EU has not been settled yet. In addition,
anti-American attidutes have become stronger in Turkey. All this
gives Russia a unique chance to play on this field.
In this regard, the visit to New Delhi and Ankara could become a
successful finale to 2004. At any rate, two joint declarations might
succeed in drowning out the echo of real foreign policy failures:
Ukraine, Abkhazia, the European Union and the CIS.
Translated by Alexander Dubovoi

The Times (London)
December 4, 2004, Saturday
Stained-glass exhibition illuminates expanding market for medieval
art
by Huon Mallalieu
SAM FOGG, the London medieval art dealer, could have a riot on his
hands if his second exhibition of early stained glass proves as
successful as his first.
In 2002 the Getty Museum bought the show in its entirety. This left a
good number of frustrated would-be collectors, who might not be too
kindly disposed toward Fogg if the same happened again.
Interestingly, a high proportion of the potential collectors are
British -which would not have been conceivable a few years ago.
Medieval is back in fashion, putting Fogg in an enviable position as
the only dealer in London -and perhaps the world -to cover the range
of arts and artefacts, including sculpture, glass, ivories,
metalwork, enamels, manuscripts and miniatures. He goes beyond Europe
to such related fields as Byzantine, Armenian and Ethiopian art, and
even on occasion to Islamic and Indian paintings and manuscripts.
After studying history of art at the Courtauld Institute, Fogg set
out to be a painter, but rather than starve picturesquely in a garret
he also sold secondhand art books in Portobello Road. This led him to
become a bookseller -until he lost most of his stock in a flood. He
then joined the art-reference booksellers Sims Reed, and in 1986 he
reopened on his own on a Bond Street upper floor, specialising in his
first love, Western medieval manuscripts.
The sideways expansion into related fields has been a natural
progression, and now his staff of nine includes specialists in
medieval artefacts and Middle Eastern art as well as manuscripts. His
exhibitions and catalogues have won unstinting praise. In 1991 The
Bookseller noted that his Medieval Manuscripts was “widely regarded
as the most sumptuous catalogue in the history of the British book
trade”. In 2001 he was able to seize the opportunity of a saddlery
business disappearing with its rent unpaid to take a prime site on
the corner of Clifford and Cork streets. It comes as a slight
surprise to find that he has no languages himself, but for him the
aesthetic properties of a manuscript are even more important than its
content or context. His eye for quality and rarity is greatly
respected among fellow dealers and collectors.
Eighty years ago there was a flourishing market for early stained
glass, although it was largely limited to such omnivorous
accumulators of works of art as William Randolph Hearst and Pierpont
Morgan in America and Sir William Burrell in Scotland. Thereafter,
though, the medieval generally fell out of fashion, particularly in
Britain where a residual puritanism was uncomfortable with “popish”
artefacts. With the exception of Wolseley in Buckingham Gate, which
closed around 1980, the nearest dealers were probably in Paris, and
British museums showed no interest in stained glass.
A number of factors have contributed to the revival of interest.
There is a surprising amount of good continental and English glass
about, often at quite reasonable prices by comparison with other
collecting fields. The worries about provenance which have created
difficulties in the antiquities market are not a great problem,
especially with English glass, which has often been divorced from its
original setting since the iconoclasms of Reformation and civil war
or the equally destructive period of Victorian restoration. Much that
is now available also has the Hearst provenance, since his vast
holdings were sold off half a century ago.
The secularisation of British culture has sparked new enthusiasm for
medieval arts, and so too has the realisation that they can sit very
happily with modern art in contemporary settings. There have also
been great advantages in glass scholarship and in lighting
technology. It is now far easier to display windows and fragments to
full effect using light boxes.
Among the 40 examples of work is a newly discovered Austrian double
panel of the Baptism of Christ and the Adoration of the Magi, dating
from around 1300, for which the price is “on request”. Other prices
range from about Pounds 10,000 each for shields of the de Vere and
Horne arms, to £300,000 for a Burgundian panel of the execution of St
John the Baptist, circa 1235.
Illuminating the Past: Stained Glass 1200-1550 will be at Sam Fogg,
15d Clifford Street, W1 (020-7534 2100) until January 15
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CIS security body blacklists 22 terrorist and extremist organizations
RIA news agency, Moscow
3 Dec 04
St Petersburg, 3 December: There are currently 22 organizations on the
list of terrorist and extremist groups which pose a threat to the
states of the Collective Security Treaty Organization [CSTO members
are Russia, Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan],
CSTO Secretary-General Nikolay Bordyuzha told journalists in St
Petersburg on Friday [3 December]. [Passage omitted]
Bordyuzha said “the list includes organizations of a non-Muslim and
non-religious nature which are also recognized as extremist”.
He said Russia has “13 such organizations beginning with Muslim
Brothers and ending with Al-Qa’idah”.

Armenian president, Iranian energy minister discuss cooperation
Public Television of Armenia, Yerevan
1 Dec 04
[Armenian] President Robert Kocharyan received a delegation led by
Iranian Energy Minister Habibollah Bitaraf today.
The Iranian minister informed President Robert Kocharyan that the
construction of the Iranian sector of the Iran-Armenia gas pipeline
will start in two and a half months. Iran intends to bring the
capacity of the power exchange with Armenia to 1,000 MW by the
construction of the third high-voltage power line, he added.
The Armenian president said that the launching of the construction of
the Armenian sector of the Iran-Armenia gas pipeline and the
construction of the Agarak-Shinuayr high-voltage power line were the
beginning of major cooperation between Armenia and Iran and created an
opportunity to discuss future projects.
Robert Kocharyan noted that the Armenian side was ready to do
everything possible to continue the current tempo of cooperation.
During the meeting, the sides also discussed the construction of the
Megri-Kadzharan tunnel and the import of fuel from Iran to Armenia.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress