Margarov To Train "Kilikia"

MARGAROV TO TRAIN "KILIKIA"

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[01:52 pm] 29 May, 2008

Former forward of "Ararat" Eduard Margarov is to train "Kilikia" that
concludes the fixture list in the current championship. Margarov is
to substitute Yervand Krbashian who resigned the other day.

The 62-year-old new coach used to be one of the best-known forwards
in 1970s. In 1973 Margarov became a USSR champion in "Ararat", at the
same time winning the USSR Cup. The celebrated footballer was also
a USSR national team player, who thrice won a standing among the 33
best players.

Margarov began his professional practice in "Ararat" and 1986-1991 was
the coach of the USSR juvenile national team. 1992-1994 he trained
the Armenian national team and twice won the Armenian Cup in the
position of the coach of "Mika" in 2000.

Presidential Meeting: Not Achievement, But Progress

PRESIDENTIAL MEETING: NOT ACHIEVEMENT, BUT PROGRESS

armradio.am
27.05.2008 16:39

"I don’t think that the meeting of the Armenian and Azerbaijani
Presidents scheduled for June 7 can be assessed as an achievement,
but it can be viewed as progress," President of the Nagorno
Karabakh Republic Bako Sahakyan said, commenting on the importance
of the meeting between Serzh Sargsyan and Ilham Aliyev in view
of continuousness of the negotiation process on the Karabakh
settlement. According to Bako Sahakyan, the negotiations are already
progress.

Asked about the situation at the contact line, the NKR President noted
that there have always been shots, but everything is being done to
reduce them.

"The NKR Defense Army and the authorities of the country are always
taking joint measures in this direction," the President assured.

NKR: Welcome Speech Of Nkr President Bako Sahakyan To Participants O

WELCOME SPEECH OF NKR PRESIDENT BAKO SAHAKYAN TO PARTICIPANTS OF…

Azat Artsakh Daily
Published on May 26, 2008
NKR Republic

Dear participants of the conference "Karabakh movement: realities
and prospects", I heartly congratulate you on the beginning of your
work. The conference uniting the representatives of state authority
bodies, scientific expert circles, mass-media, is of course important
and appreciable event in public-political life of Nagorno-Karabakh
Republic.It is significant, that it is spent to a year of the 20
anniversary of the Karabakh movement, which has predetermined further
ways of development of our society. It is necessary to note the special
importance and urgency of the problems mentioned by you connected
with today’s process and prospects of settlement both Karabakh and
other ethnopolitical conflicts of the post Soviet space. Discussion
of these problems in present unusual geopolitic conditions should
assume analysis of the situation in the process of Karabakh
conflict settlement. I consider, that the conference should work
out the concrete type of Karabakh conflict settlement and practical
assignments, taking into account arisen realities and historical-legal
basis of creation of independent statehood of NKR, present tendencies
of development of international law. I think, the conference will
draw attention of the inetrnational community to the questions which
excite today NKR citizens.I hope, that discussions within the limits
of the conference will pass in a favourable atmosphere, and during a
constructive exchange of opinions its participants, using creative and
mental potential, will offer interesting ideas and initiatives, which
will give a postive impulse to the process of search of optimum ways
to the peace and consent.It is very important, that the work of the
conference finds the continuation in the activity of representatives
of corresponding state structures, scientific and expert community,
all those who are sincerely interested in the sanction of Karabakh
conflict and establishment of stable and strong peace in our region. I
wish the conference successful fruitful work, and its participants –
strong health, well-being and all the best!

Armenian And Georgian Prime Ministers Discuss Relationships

ARMENIAN AND GEORGIAN PRIME MINISTERS DISCUSS RELATIONSHIPS

ARMENPRESS
May 23, 2008

MINSK, MAY 23, ARMENPRESS: Armenian Prime Minister Tigran Sarkisian who
arrived in Minsk, Belarus, on May 22 afternoon to attend a recurrent
CIS summit of heads of governments, met today morning, before the
launch of the summit, with his Georgian counterpart Lado Gurgenidze.

The government press office said Tigran Sarkisian first congratulated
his Georgian counterpart on the occasion of the May 21 parliamentary
elections expressing hope that their results will become a serious
step towards democracy strengthening and resolution of the country’s
urgent problems.

The Georgian prime minister cited the assessments of international
observers who said the polls were held successfully. At the request
of Gurgenidze Tigran Sarkisian spoke about new Armenian government
and its priorities.

During their conversation both prime ministers stated the significance
of the bilateral inter-governmental cooperation commission from the
perspective of closer relationships between the two countries. They
agreed to continue steering the work of the commission and convene
its next meeting in July, which they said will give a new push to
strengthening of relations between Armenia and Georgia.

Tigran Sarkisian and Lado Gurgenidze also spoke about ongoing projects
and existing problems. Citing cooperation in energy as successful
they said they should enhance partnership in banking, financing and
other areas.

Taking advantage the Armenian prime minister spoke about some issues of
concern for the Armenian side requesting Gurgenidze’s intervention for
their solution. Particularly, Sarkisian spoke about high transit fees
imposed by the government of Georgia on Armenia-bound and vice-verse
goods. He said the Armenian government would like to learn the
rationale of how these fees are calculated.

He then drew his counterpart’s attention to the status of the Georgian
Diocese of the Armenian Church and encroachments of Georgian clergy
and laymen on Armenian churches in Georgia, which according to the
Armenian prime minister, cause extra tensions among the society.

In this sense he mentioned developments around the Armenian Surb
Nshan church in Tbilisi which is being fenced off illegally by a
Georgian Orthodox Church priest, who claims that it belongs to the
Georgian Church.

The Georgian prime minister condemned all manifestations of extremism
and provocative actions premising to learn more about this incident
and intervene.

Mining Is A Dominant Branch Of Industry

MINING IS A DOMINANT BRANCH OF INDUSTRY

KarabakhOpen
23-05-2008 13:49:55

In January-March 2008 the total value of production was 4969.3 million
drams, the volume of sales was 5141.1 drams, of which 2406.8 million
in the CIS, 123.3 million in other countries.

According to the head of the NKR National Statistics Service Manushak
Minasyan, the dominating industry is mining, 38.8 percent, 31.9
percent is the energy sector, 29.3 percent is processing industries.

"51.2 percent of industries are in Stepanakert, 39.2 percent are in
Martakert, the copper factory of Drmbon," said Manushak Minasyan. She
added that 93 percent of industries are small businesses but they
produce 17.9 percent of production.

BAKU: Political Scientist Rauf Rajabov: "OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs

POLITICAL SCIENTIST RAUF RAJABOV: "OSCE MINSK GROUP CO-CHAIRS HAVE CEASED TO BE MEDIATORS IN THE ISSUE OF THE PEACEFUL RESOLUTION OF NAGORNO KARABAKH CONFLICT"

Today
itics/45166.html
May 22 2008
Azerbaijan

"OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs have ceased to be mediators in the issue of
the peaceful resolution of Nagorno Karabakh conflict by demonstrating
open subjectivity".

The due announcement was made by Rauf Rajabov, editor-in-chief of
the "Third outlook" news agency, speaking at today’s international
conference "Caucasus-2007" in Yerevan.

He said serious internal differences are observed among the co-chairs,
which prevent them from being unbiased till the end. "Moreover, I do
not understand, how one can trust to speaker of Russia’s State Duma
Boris Gryzlov, who visiting Baku assures Azerbaijan of friendship and
at the same time holds a conference on the so-called Lezguin problem
in Moscow", says the Azerbaijani political scientist.

He noted that "a direct dialogue between Yerevan and Baku with
participation of the Armenian and Azerbaijani communities of Nagorno
Karabakh" is needed for the resolution of Nagorno Karabakh conflict.

http://www.today.az/news/pol

Head Of Helsinki Association M. Danielyan: Police Initiated Criminal

HEAD OF HELSINKI ASSOCIATION M. DANIELYAN: POLICE INITIATED CRIMINAL CASE ON FACT OF YESTERDAY’S INCIDENT BUT THE PERSON WHO FIRED AT ME HAS NOT BEEN DETAINED

arminfo
2008-05-22 14:50:00

ArmInfo. ‘ Police initiated criminal case on fact of yesterday’s
incident between Leader of Progressive Party Tigran Urikhanyan and
me, but Urikhanyan has not been detained so far’, Head of Helsinki
Association Mikael Danielyan told ArmInfo.

Yesterday at about 3:00 pm Mikael Danielyan and Tigran Urikhayan
squabbled in Teryan Street in Yerevan. Thus, Danielyan tells that
he stopped at the traffic lights when the driver of a BMW behind
him started impatiently honking his horn. While he was trying to
find out the reason of the horn, a young man who proved leader of
Progressive Party Tigran Urikhanyan, got out of the BMW, and fired
at M. Danielyan from a gas gun crying and insulting him. The later
says that his breast bled from the pot shot, but the wounds proved
not dangerous. ‘Later doctors told me that everything could be much
more worse if I were injured in throat’, he said.

Both the parties were taken to Police and gave explanations.

Rules Of Provision And Use Of Phone Services Approved

RULES OF PROVISION AND USE OF PHONE SERVICES APPROVED

Noyan Tapan

Ma y 20, 2008

YEREVAN, MAY 20, NOYAN TAPAN. At the May 20 sitting, the RA Public
Services Regulatory Commission approved the rules of provision and
use of phone services. The current rules were approved as long ago
as 1998. The commission chairman Robert Nazarian told reporters that
the new rules will regulate the relations between the providers and
users of the services.

Besides, the new rules qualitatively differ from the current ones
as they specify the obligations of the consumer and the provider of
services. In particular, in case of disconnection of the user’s phone,
the user has the opportunity to call on the phone numbers of rapid
response services, including 02 and 03. The issue of prepaid cards will
be clarified within the next two days. ArmenTel proposes not returning
the sum that remains on prepaid cards, whereas the commission claims
that the consumer is not obliged to pay for unused minutes.

R. Nazarian said that the previous rules were related to a
service-providing company with a monopoly position, whereas now the
market has been liberalized and made competitive, which prompted
the commission to revise the rules. Besides, according to him, the
telecommunication sector is rapidly developing and it is not ruled out
that a necessity to amend the rules will arise in the next six months.

In the period from the decision’s coming into force to July 1, 2009,
the agreements on phone services provision signed with ArmeTel’s
subscribers shall be brought into line with the new rules.

http://www.nt.am/news.php?shownews=113560

"Tolerant" Azerbaijan Carries Out Armenian Civilization’s Genocide

"TOLERANT" AZERBAIJAN CARRIES OUT ARMENIAN CIVILIZATION’S GENOCIDE

DeFacto Agency
May 20 2008
Armenia

Azerbaijan’s hereditary President Ilham Aliyev has again misinformed
the Azerbaijani and world public. He stated, "all historical
monuments belonging to Azerbaijani people have been destroyed" in
the Nagorno-Karabakh. He made the "sensational" statement on current
March 15, in the course of a ceremony of laying the foundation of
the State Museum of Azerbaijani Carpet and People’s Arts and Crafts’
building. Opposing to the above-mentioned>>>, Ilham Aliyev again
did not fail to speak of Azerbaijan’s confessional "tolerancy": "we
regard the history and the past of all nations residing in Azerbaijan
with great respect, we deal with these issues in the course of our
practice activity".

A bit below we’ll consider the way Azerbaijani "deal with the
issues". Now we would like to remind of the fact that it is not
the first time that Azerbaijani President is cunning taking refuge
in unfounded statements. It is for this reason that any mendacious
statement made by Azeris requires a grounded disproof.

One should require that Aliyev names "Azerbaijani people’s historical
monuments, which have been subject to destruction" in Artsakh. For
instance, what can he say about mosques in Shoushi and Aghdam, which
are there up till now? The same way as other mosques, which are not
as known as that ones. Aliyev should be reminded that "Azerbaijani
people’s historical monuments" in Artsakh were mainly built in XIX
century, when alien nomad Turkic tribes started settling down in the
Armenian region.

However, that is not the point. The thing is that the one who shouts
"stop thief" louder than others is the thief himself. In this
case he is a thief, who does not feel shame appropriating another
nation’s cultural inheritance, a thief, who is trying to create his
own history at the expense of other peoples. It is not accidental
that Armenian letters are scraped off ancient temples’ walls in
Azerbaijan, Armenian churches are impudently and shamelessly declared
"Azerbaijani" and where it is impossible to do so, constructions are
just destroyed. Only during last years the Republic’s authorities
destroyed Armenian churches of Ã~UVI-Ã~UIÃ~U centuries in Mirzik,
Erkech, Brajur, Tchiragidzor, Tchovdar and other Armenian villages
of Utik and Artsakh. The Armenian medieval cemeteries with thousands
of unique khachkars have been completely destroyed in Nakhijevan.

Surb Hovhannes Mkrtich (John the Baptist) Church sanctified in 1633
in Gandzak has been crippled out of all recognition; all Armenian
letters have been scraped off it, while the church itself was called
"Albanian" and turned into den of Wahhabis. In Gandzak Saint Sargis
Church has been "restored" in such a way that now one cannot differ
it from a Turkic caravanserai. It is well known that when Norwegian
embassy in Azerbaijan that was sponsoring the church’s "restoration"
in Nije learned that Armenian letters were being scraped off the
temple’s walls it refused to go on financing the theft’s "project". As
for the Azerbaijani Museum of Carpet and People’s Arts and Crafts, an
Armenian doudouk, as well as carpets deprived of Soviet Azerbaijan’s
deported Armenian population have been exhibited there. Even now
Armenian letters have been maintained on some of the carpets.

In Azerbaijan aboriginals – the northern regions’ dwellers – are being
impertinently deprived of mosques, while the henchmen of Pasha-zade,
Sheikh-ul-Islam, who profess Islam’s another version, are appointed as
mullahs. The Museum of Azerbaijan’s people was renamed as the Museum
of Azerbaijani People, while all its exhibits declared "Azerbaijanis’
creations".

Truly speaking, one could comprehend Azerbaijanis’ inferiority complex:
the only trace in their short history consists in autochthon nations’
pogroms and mass carnage. One could do it, unless Azerbaijanis,
being guided by the complex, tried to "overtake" their neighbors in
the sphere of culture confessing their sin. However, Azerbaijan has
chosen anther path – the path of continuation of pogroms, however,
in the sphere of culture this time. Today Azerbaijan pursues policy
of Genocide of Armenian civilization (and not only of this one),
and silence in this case can result in incalculable losses. Huge
spiritual and material wealth created by previous generations’ genius
can disappear without a trace.

Nowadays the past is being stolen from us and our children; the
present is being destroyed. Condescending silence is just criminal.

–Boundary_(ID_np3r618k13NUM70y3h9w2A)- –

The Karabakh Movement: Realities And Perspectives

THE KARABAKH MOVEMENT: REALITIES AND PERSPECTIVES

armradio.am
20.05.2008 12:38

"The Karabakh Movement: Realities and Perspectives" forum will take
place at the National Assembly of the Nagorno Karabakh Republic
on May 23-24, Mediamax was told from the Press Service of the NKR
national Assembly.

On this occasion the working group, which carries out the preparation
woks, convened its final sitting on Monday chaired by NKR Parliament
Speaker Ashot Ghulyan.

Issues related to the programs and participants of the forum,
the topics of the reports and speeches, other organizational and
procedural questions were discussed during the sitting.