Author: Zaminian Bedik

NKR PRESIDENT: "THE WHOLE WORLD NEEDS ARMENIAN GENOCIDE TO BE RECOGNIZED"

DeFacto Agency, Armenia
April 25 2007

"It is very important for Turkey to recognize the Genocide. The
recognition is necessary not only for the Armenian nation, but for
the whole world. Evil must be punished, otherwise it can recur",
the Nagorno-Karabagh Republic President Arkady Ghoukassian stated
in Stepanakert, in the course of the measures devoted to the 92nd
Anniversary of the Armenian Genocide committed in the Osmanian Turkey.

At the same time the Karabagh state’s head voiced confidence in
course of time the number of the countries that had recognized the
Armenian Genocide would grow. Arkady Ghoukassian noted the Armenian
nation must always be united and strong not to let the tragedy of
1915 happen again, the NKR MFA Press Center reports.

ARMENIANS STAGE DEMONSTRATIONS ON APRIL 24 ANNIVERSARY

Today’s Zaman, Turkey
April 25 2007

Tens of thousands of Armenians on Tuesday marked the 92nd anniversary
of killings of Anatolian Armenians in the Ottoman Empire, an event
they label as genocide, reiterating their call on Ankara as well as
the world to recognize the killings as genocide.

"We came here to pay tribute to the victims so that our neighbors
wouldn’t for a minute think that we could forget about this, so that
this won’t happen in the future," said acting Defense Minister Michael
Arutyunian. Top officials, including President Robert Kocharian,
were among those paying tribute.

While Armenian television stations in the past used images from Mt.
Ararat in Turkey during anniversary broadcasts, this year they used
images of an Armenian church on Akdamar Island in Lake Van that was
reopened earlier this year as a museum. Banners reading "1,500,000+1,"
were also shown in images in an apparent reference to the murder
of prominent Turkish-Armenian editor Hrant Dink. Dink was killed
by a Turkish nationalist gunman outside the Ýstanbul office of his
bilingual newspaper, Agos, in late January. His funeral drew 100,000
mourners including government officials who condemned the killing.

In neighboring Iran, authorities blocked a traditional march by
ethnic Armenians on the anniversary of the alleged genocide. A group
of Iranian Armenians gathered in the garden of an Armenian church in
Tehran, first attending a service there, and then laid flowers at a
genocide monument in the garden of the church. The group dispersed
without a march to a historic church located near the Turkish Embassy
in Tehran. It was not clear why Iran refused to allow the march, which
has previously been a traditional part of the April 24 demonstrations
in Tehran.

In Moscow, a group of 200 ethnic Armenians threw Molotov cocktails
in the garden of the Turkish Embassy building. The group also tore up
Turkish flags and posters of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, the founder of the
modern Turkish Republic. Russian police officers avoided interfering
in the protest while some demonstrators waved flags of the outlawed
Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) and held aloft posters of now-jailed
PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan. Some protestors also waved Greek Cypriot
flags, an administration that is not officially recognized by Ankara.

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DIASPORA DOUGH

Ottawa Citizen, Canada
April 25, 2007 Wednesday
Final Edition

Most diplomats know that accessing the diaspora in the country
in which they are posted is one of the keys to forging links in
the community. They also understand that the diaspora can play an
important role in developing business relations back home. When he
arrived in Canada earlier this year, Pakistani High Commissioner Musa
Javed Chohan made that very point. Other diplomats have too, including
Croatian Ambassador Vesela Mrden Korac in her actions this week.

But exactly how are countries accessing these valuable human resources
around the world? That was the question posed by Anahit Armenakyan,
a PhD candidate at Carleton University’s Sprott School of Business.

Ms. Armenakyan’s research showed that while there is plenty of social
and psychological research on the diaspora, there is little that looks
at the role it can play in business, specifically homeland development.

Governments do target citizens originally from their country, but
their attempts are rarely "holistic" or "comprehensive" in terms
of marketing strategies, Ms. Armenakyan found. At the same time,
she discovered a diaspora can contribute significantly to foreign
direct investment, remittances, and tourism.

"I was trying to find out whether governments of developing countries
understand diasporas and whether they appeal to them to build
relationships, and nurture links between different generations,"
said Ms. Armenakyan, who is originally from Armenia. "What I found
is that they do, and it’s really important in different areas such
as foreign direct investment, remittances, and in tourism."

Scotland, for example, has "identity discovery tours" where those
with Scottish ancestry can return to their roots. Israel does the
same thing and does it very effectively, she said.

But what the governments fail to do, she said, is come up with cohesive
marketing strategies that would harness foreign direct investment,
remittance and tourism opportunities at the same time.

"They are scattered," Ms. Armenakyan said, and added that she studied
several countries including El Salvador, Armenia, the United Kingdom,
China, India, Israel and Dominican Republic. "My conclusion was that
the marketing researchers need to focus on it and help the governments
to develop marketing strategies."

Jennifer Campbell is a freelance writer and editor in Ottawa.

Reach her at [email protected] .

KOCHARIAN TO ATTEND RUSSIAN EX-PRESIDENT’S FUNERAL
By Ruzanna Khachatrian

Radio Liberty, Czech Rep.
April 24 2007

President Robert Kocharian will fly to Moscow to attend the state
funeral of Russia’s former President Boris Yeltsin scheduled for
Wednesday, his office said on Tuesday.

Yeltsin, who died of heart failure on Monday aged 76, had presided
over the 1991 break-up of the Soviet Union and governed Russia until
handing over power to his handpicked successor, Vladimir Putin, in late
1999. He had also played a key role in close political and militaries
relations forged by Armenia and Russia following the Soviet collapse.

Kocharian sent a message of condolences to Putin late Monday, paying
tribute to Yeltsin’s contribution to democratic change in Russia
and Russian-Armenian ties. "Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin is an era,
a reference point in the history of relations between our fraternal
peoples," he said.

Former President Levon Ter-Petrosian, who had closely dealt with
the Yeltsin administration throughout his eight-year presidency,
sent a separate message of condolences to the Russian ex-president’s
wife Naina. "I have lost a sincere and faithful friend who combined
unwavering moral principles, kindness, humanity with the wisdom of
a distinguished statesman," wrote Ter-Petrosian.

"I would particularly like to emphasize the Boris Nikolayevich’s
contribution to the establishment and deepening of allied relations
between Russia and Armenia in the interests of peace and stability
in our region," he said.

A spokesman for Ter-Petrosian told RFE/RL that the Armenian
ex-president will not attend Yeltsin’s funeral. Yeltsin met both
Ter-Petrosian and Kocharian during his last, private visit to Armenia
in October 2002.

Yeltsin’s political legacy was also praised on Tuesday by two Armenian
opposition leaders who held senior government positions in the early
1990s. Former Prime Minister Vazgen Manukian and former Foreign
Minister Raffi Hovannisian said the Russian-Armenian relationship
was based on an equal footing at the time.

"Yeltsin’s Russia had no imperial designs on Armenia, and Armenia’s
[former] leadership behaved more independently," Manukian told
RFE/RL. "Relations with Russia were based on political, economic
and military interests, rather than [the current Armenian leaders’]
desire to retain power."

"The Boris Yeltsin era was a time of real partnership, mutual respect,
and friendship of equals," agreed Hovannisian.

ROSATOM CHIEF HEADS FOR ARMENIA

RosBusinessConsulting, Russia
April 23 2007

RBC, 23.04.2007, Moscow 09:44:18.A Russian delegation led by head of
the Federal Atomic Energy Agency (Rosatom) Sergei Kiriyenko is due
in Yerevan, Armenia, today on a one-day visit. Kiriyenko has been
invited by Armenia’s Minister of Environmental Protection Vardan
Ayvazian. During the visit, the parties are expected to sign a
memorandum of intentions between the Russian agency and the Armenian
ministry based on the revised joint uranium geological prospecting
and development plan for Armenian fields.

Sergei Kiriyenko will also meet with President Robert Kocharian,
Prime Minister Serzh Sarkisian and Energy Minister Armen Movsisian.

TURKEY BOLSTERS ITS REGIONAL ENERGY ROLE
Walid Khadduri

Dar Al-Hayat, Lebanon
April 22 2007

Three major projects to transport natural gas from the Middle East
and the Caspian Sea via Turkey to Europe, and building two refineries
for crude oil in the Turkish Mediterranean port of Gehan are currently
in the study and design stage.

These projects are seen as a response to the US’ insistence not to
export oil and gas from the Caspian Sea area via Iran or Russia,
and the decision by the EU to diversify sources of imported gas,
particularly aimed at reducing dependence on Russian gas supplies.

Once executed, these projects, along with the (Kirkuk-Gehan)
Iraqi oil pipeline, which has a capacity of 1.6 million barrels
per day, will certainly allow Turkey – despite its low oil and gas
production levels – to play a key role in the oil industry in the
East Mediterranean area.

These three gas projects include the Trans Adriatic Pipeline to the
south of Italy, near the Brindisi port, from where it will link with
European gas network.

Construction of this pipeline is set to begin in 2008, and will
have an annual capacity of 10 billion cubic meters. Gas fields in
the Middle East, as well as the Shah Deniz gas field in Azerbaijan,
will supply this pipeline with gas.

The Greece-Italy Pipeline, also running through Turkey, supplied with
gas from Azerbaijan and Russia, reaching Turkey via the Blue Stream
Pipeline, and providing Turkey with quantities exceeding its domestic
consumption levels.

There is a future possibility of feeding this line, planned to reach
northern Italy, with natural gas from northern Iraq.

The third line, the Nabucco Natural Gas Pipeline, which delivers gas
produced from the Caspian Sea and Iran (which currently exports natural
gas to Turkey) to Austria, is estimated to cost more than $6 billion.

Negotiations over this line underwent difficulties, however, following
Turkey’s decision to temporarily suspend talks with Gaz de France,
a main partner until after the French presidential elections in
the coming days, due to the French Parliament’s vote last year for
the decision to make denying that Armenians suffered genocide under
Ottoman rule a crime.

Bulgarian, Romanian, Hungarian, Austrian and Turkish companies are
also partners in this project.

There is also the possibility of linking the pipeline in Turkey with
the Arab Gas Pipeline, which receives supplies from the northern
Egyptian border city of al-Arish via the Jordan port of Aqaba (Jordan
has completed constructing the pipeline across its territory) and Syria
(where the project is currently in progress).

Proposed projects are not limited to Turkey’s role in the transport
of gas to Europe, as a number of companies have expressed interest
in exporting oil and gas to Israel, as well.

These projects, nevertheless, have not reached the same advanced stages
as their European counterparts, where in addition to the projects
outlined here, there are plans to construct an oil pipeline to transfer
oil from Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan to Israel through the Turkish port
of Gehan, and to build two refineries there by a consortium of Turkish,
Kazakhstani, Azerbaijani and international companies.

The oil pipeline running through the Mediterranean is also expected
to be linked to the Eilat Ashkelon Pipeline to re-export oil to Asian
markets. There are also plans for a project to construct another gas
pipeline for domestic consumption.

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PROSECUTOR’S OFFICE REJECTS APPLICATION ON PASSPORT COLLECTION

Panorama.am
21:26 18/04/2007

Central Electoral Committee (CEC) has sent applications to the police,
prosecutor’s office and territorial administration ministry concerning
cases of passport collection by different political parties.

Garegin Azaryan, CEC chairman, said only the prosecutor’s office has
sent a reply. The office has said "the applications are out of facts."

In the words of Garegin Azaryan, CEC has rejected the application,
signed by New Times Party, Republic Party and Impeachment, which
offers to broadcast political advertisement at a later time. Azaryan
said the application was not "well grounded."

GOVERNOR OF NEVADA OFFICIALLY DECLARES APRIL 24 "ARMENIAN GENOCIDE COMMEMORATION DAY"

Noyan Tapan
Armenians Today
Apr 16 2007

CARSON CITY, APRIL 16, NOYAN TAPAN – ARMENIANS TODAY. The governor
of the state of Nevada James Gibbons issued an official statement,
in which April 24 is declared a day of commemoration of the Armenian
Genocide. The document in particular underlines that the Armenian
Genocide was the first genocide committed in the 20th century.

In this connection the Armenian National Committee of America (ANCA)
reminds that earlier a similar decision was made by the Governor of
California Arnold Schwarzenegger. Besides, Congressmen Porter and
Brackley from this state are also in support of the resolution on
the Armenian Genocide. The number of congressmen in favor of this
resolution currently amounts to 200.

ANOTHER AMERICAN SENATOR SPEAKS FOR RECOGNITION OF ARMENIAN GENOCIDE

Noyan Tapan
Armenians Today
Apr 16 2007

WASHINGTON, APRIL 16, NOYAN TAPAN – ARMENIANS TODAY. Barack Obama,
Senator from the state of Illinois spoke during a public speech on
April 12 for the importance of the Armenian Genocide recognition. The
Armenian National Committee of America states about it.

The statement was made during the weekly "morning briefing" when two
senators of the state, Obama and deputy head of the Senate majority
Richard Durbin had possibility to respond voters’ questions.

Karine Birazian, the Executive Director of the U.S. Eastern Region
of the Armenian National Commitee participated in the briefing. She,
taking the opportunity, expressed her gratitude to Senator Durbin
for presenting the resolution concerning the Armenian Genocide and
called on Senator Obama to assist that resolution.

In response Senator Obama stated: "I want to say for everybody who
is not aware that the one committed against the Armenian people was
a genocide. It is also a situation where we obviously see the Turkish
government’s constant denying position towards the happened. It became
a painful side of diplomacy."