Author: Zaminian Bedik

ARMENIANS CULTIVATING NARCOTIC PLANTS IN THE OCCUPIED LANDS OF KHOJAVEND

Today.Az
02 October 2008 [14:42]
Azerbaijan

Armenian separatists occupied the Khojavend region of Azerbaijan on
October 2 of 1992, reports Day.Az with reference to the Ministry of
Ecology and Natural Resources of Azerbaijan.

Khojavend covers an area of 145,647 hectares. This region is rich in
lame reserves, making 989,000 tons.

Armenian occupants have cut oaks, terminated natural woods on the
Khojashin river bank in the Khojavend forest at an area of 25.5
hectares.

In the occupied Khojavend, Armenians cultivate narcotic plants, which
are further supplied to different countries. Armenians systematically
commit arsons, affecting the flora and fauna and the woods are exported
to Armenia and other countries.

Reports say that Armenians purposely terminate our national wealth
in the said territory, destroy the natural and historical memorials,
ignoring the demands of international conventions.

GAS SUPPLY RESTORED

Hayots Ashkhar Daily
30 Sep 2008
Armenia

To provide the high level of "carrying capacity" of North Caucasus-
Trans-Caucasus gas pipeline, 500 millimeters in diameter pipeline
has been replaced by the one with 1000 millimeter in diameter.

The works have been implemented by the financial means allocated
by "ArmRusGasIndustry" CSC and Georgian specialized construction
organizations. During the realization of the works the gas allocated to
Armenia was temporarily stopped and the whole gas supply was provided
by Abovyan underground gas-store station.

"ArmRusGasIndustry" CSC informs there will be no limitation in the
supply market. The construction work was to finish yesterday evening
and the gas supply will be completely restored.

Armenian National Committee of America
1711 N Street, NW
Washington, DC 20036
Tel. (202) 775-1918
Fax. (202) 775-5648
[email protected]

PRESS RELEASE

September 30, 2008
Contact: Serouj Aprahamian
Tel: (202) 775-1918

ANCA CAPITAL GATEWAY PROGRAM OPENS
PUBLIC POLICY DOORS FOR FALL 2008 PARTICIPANTS

WASHINGTON, DC – The Armenian National Committee of America
(ANCA) Capital Gateway Program welcomed five new participants to
the nation’s capital this month, each eager to embark on careers
in politics and public policy.

Now in its fifth consecutive year, the Gateway Program helps
applicants attain exciting internships and challenging full-time
public policy jobs in the nation’s capital. To date, over forty
fellows have gone through the program and secured positions in
dozens of Congressional offices, as well as esteemed media and
political institutions such as Congressional Quarterly, the US
Chamber of Commerce, Export-Import Bank (EXIM), SRCP Media and
the World Bank.

The five Fall, 2008 participants hit the ground running in
Washington, landing Congressional internships within weeks of
their arrival. "Being in DC for only a week and having already
secured internships on the Hill is very exciting for both me and
my colleagues," said Meri Telelyan, a recent University of
California, Santa Barbara graduate currently interning for Rep.
Mike Thompson (D-CA). "Of course, our ultimate goal is to find
permanent positions working in Congress."

Joining Telelyan is fellow UC Santa Barbara graduate Grigor
Mirza-Avakyan, who is interning with central California
Congressman Sam Farr (D-CA). Mikael Kourinian and Shant
Nahapetian, both from California and both with Masters degrees
in Public Administration, have also set in motion their careers
in DC with internships for Rep. Joseph Crowley (D-NY) and Rep.
Howard Berman (D-CA), respectively. A fifth participant from
Detroit, Aleek Kahramanian, was the final Fellow to arrive and
join her new roommates at the Gateway house, located just a
stone’s throw away from the White House. Kahramanian is
currently interning with Senate Armed Services Committee
Chairman Carl Levin (D-MI)

"It is often difficult to pick up one’s life, leave family and
friends, and move across country to pursue a dream," says
Nahapetian. "But the ANCA Capital Gateway program provides the
resources, mentoring, and encouragement to significantly ease
the burdens such a drastic life change may entail."

In addition to excelling academically and having a passion for
politics, each of the five Fellows has also demonstrated a track
record of commitment to the Armenian American community.
Kourinian, recently wrapped up a summer internship with the ANC-
WR and looks forwarding to handling Armenian American issues as
one of his main tasks for Congressman Crowley. "I am grateful to
the ANCA Capital Gateway Program for giving me the opportunity
to make my dream of working in Congress and addressing Armenian
American issues a reality," says Kourinian. Kourinian is also
interning with the Hudson Institute, in his pursuit of a policy
position in a think tank.

As in the past, Washington DC area Armenian American policy
professionals have reached out to the ANCA Capital Gateway
Fellows, offering them valuable advice and encouragement. Among
community activists always ready to share insights is Senate
Banking Committee Senior Counsel Dean Shahinian, who brings
insight both from the Congressional and U.S. government agency
perspective.

"It’s wonderful how many doors suddenly appear in front of you
when you get here," says Mirz-Avakyan. "Regardless of what
preconceptions you might have had, it’s hard to have anything
but confidence that you’re in the right place at the right
time."

Established through a generous donation from the Cafesjian
Family Foundation, the Capital Gateway Program, over the years,
has benefited tremendously from the generosity of donors
committed to creating public service opportunities for young
Armenian Americans. The leading financial contributor to the
Program has been the family of Hovig Apo Saghdejian, a 23-year
old youth leader and community activist from Fresno, California,
who lost his life in 2004 in a tragic car accident. His family
established the Hovig Apo Saghdejian Memorial Fund in his
memory. Substantial support has also been provided by longtime
ANCA benefactors Mr. and Mrs. Frank and Barbara Hekimian and the
Armenian American Veterans Post of Milford, Massachusetts
(AAVO).

For more information, email ANCA Capital Gateway Program
Director Serouj Aprahamian at [email protected]

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Caption: ANCA Capital Gateway Program Fall 2008 participants Grigor
Mirza-Avakyan, Meri Telelyan, Mikael Kourinian, Aleek Kahramanian, and
Shant Nahapetian.

BONDS OF VALLETTA CJSC’s THIRD TRANCHE LISTED ON ARMENIAN STOCK EXCHANGE

Noyan Tapan

Se p 29, 2008

YEREVAN, SEPTEMBER 29, NOYAN TAPAN. Registered coupon bonds of Valletta
CJSC were listed as Bbonds (lowest category) on the Armenian Stock
Exchange (ASE) on September 25, 2008. The company’s 10 thousand bonds
of the nominal value of 50 thousand drams (about 165.6 dollars) each
were listed. They have 36 months’ redemption period and an annual
coupon yield of 11%. The bonds have an abbreviation VALTB3 on ASE.

The first two tranches of Valletta’s corporate bonds with an annual
coupon yield of 10.5% (to be redeemed in 2009) – VALTB1 and VALTB2
are also listed on ASE now.

Valletta CJSC () operates in various spheres of
business, including food production, wholesale and retail trade,
sale and service of domestic appliances, and a network of public
catering facilities and entertainment centers.

TURKEY PUSHES FOR MORE NAGORNO-KARABAKH TALKS AMID WARMING TIES WITH ARMENIA
Emil Danielyan

EurasiaNet
9/29/08
NY

EURASIA INSIGHT

Turkey is sponsoring additional Armenian-Azerbaijani negotiations
on the unresolved Nagorno-Karabakh conflict in an apparent effort
to hasten the normalization of its historically strained ties with
Armenia.

Turkish Foreign Minister Ali Babacan sat down with his Azerbaijani
and Armenian counterparts in New York on September 26 as Ankara
sought to keep up the momentum in its unprecedented rapprochement
with Yerevan. [For background see the Eurasia Insight archive]. The
trilateral meeting came amid signs that the United States and other
international mediators will make another attempt to hammer out a
framework peace accord on Karabakh before the end of this year.

Babacan and Foreign Ministers Eduard Nalbandian of Armenia and
Elmar Mammadyarov of Azerbaijan disclosed few details about their
discussions, telling journalists only that they focused on a Turkish
proposal to create a new regional organization that would include the
three South Caucasus states as well as Russia and Turkey. "We discussed
the Caucasus Cooperation and Stability Platform, an initiative proposed
by Turkey, and started negotiating on some concrete regional issues
during today’s meeting," Babacan said in remarks broadcast by Armenian
state television. He said Nalbandian and Mammadyarov reaffirmed their
countries’ support for the platform and asked the Turkish side to
initiate more tripartite talks.

The three ministers’ meeting, held on the sidelines of the UN General
Assembly, is widely linked to a dramatic thaw in Turkish-Armenian
relations that culminated in Turkish President Abdullah Gul’s historic
September 6 visit to Yerevan. His talks there with Armenian President
Serzh Sargsyan raised hopes for the establishment of diplomatic
relations and the reopening of the border between the two neighboring
states. [For background see the Eurasia Insight archive]. Turkey has
long made the normalization of relations with Armenia conditional
on a resolution of the Karabakh conflict acceptable to Azerbaijan,
a country with which it has a close ethnic and cultural affinity.

The Turkish-Armenian "football diplomacy" raised fears in Azerbaijan
that Ankara might soon drop this precondition in return for Armenian
concessions on other issues. Gul clearly sought to allay these fears
when he flew to Baku just days after his trip to Yerevan. Both he
and other Turkish officials stressed the importance of a Karabakh
settlement for Turkish-Armenian dialogue. "These two processes have
a mutually reinforcing character – any positive development on one
would significantly have a stimulating effect on the other," Babacan
wrote in a commentary published by the International Herald Tribune
on September 23.

"It will be much easier for the Turks to move forward with Armenia
if there is progress on Nagorno-Karabakh," one well-informed Western
observer dealing with Turkey and the region told EurasiaNet. Just
how they hope to help achieve a breakthrough in the long-running
Armenian-Azerbaijani peace talks is not clear.

While the Armenian leadership continues to believe that Turkey
is inherently unfit to act as an impartial Karabakh mediator, it
does not object to some kind of a Turkish involvement in the peace
process. In a September 24 speech, Sargsyan stressed that the Turks
can only "assist" in that process by creating a "positive atmosphere"
for US, Russian and French mediators acting under the aegis of the
OSCE’s so-called Minsk Group.

Armenia and Azerbaijan are understood to have already agreed on
most of the basic principles of Karabakh peace that were formally
put forward by the mediators in November 2007. The framework peace
accord envisages a gradual settlement of the bitter conflict that
would let Karabakh’s predominantly Armenian population to determine
the disputed territory’s status in a future referendum.

At the start of 2008, US officials involved in the peace process
were optimistic that the conflicting parties could bridge their
few remaining differences and conclude a peace deal by the end of
the year. The ensuing political turmoil in Armenia, along with a
toughening of the rhetoric coming out of Baku, seemed to dash those
early hopes. Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev and his new Armenian
counterpart, Sargsyan, re-energized the talks when they held their
first face-to-face meeting in Saint-Petersburg, Russia, in June.

Russia’s war with Georgia appears to have heightened the Western
and possibly Russian mediators’ sense of urgency. Deputy Assistant
Secretary of State Matthew Bryza, Washington’s top Karabakh negotiator,
indicated during a recent visit to the conflict zone that the
outgoing US administration will step up its efforts to resolve the
Armenian-Azerbaijani dispute in the coming weeks. "The recent events
in Georgia underscore the importance of a timely resolution of the
Nagorno-Karabakh conflict," Bryza told a news conference in Baku on
September 18.

Bryza and the French and Russian diplomats co-chairing the Minsk Group
are now pushing for another meeting of the Armenian and Azerbaijani
presidents. According to the Armenian Foreign Ministry, Nalbandian
and Mammadyarov discussed the possibility of such a meeting during
their separate talks in the mediators’ presence in New York earlier
on September 26. Speaking to journalists after his September 16 talks
in Moscow with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, Aliyev said there
is now "a good basis" for ending the Karabakh conflict.

Gul similarly spoke of his "feelings of great content and optimism" as
he returned to Ankara from Baku on September 11. Armenia and Azerbaijan
both have "an honest and sincere desire for a settlement," he said,
according to the Anatolia news agency. Writing in the Turkish Daily
News on September 25, Cengiz Candar, a veteran Turkish columnist,
said Ankara expects an Armenian-Azerbaijani deal to be cut shortly
after the October 15 presidential election in Azerbaijan, which the
incumbent Aliyev is widely expected to win. "Diplomatic ties between
Turkey and Armenia will be formed concurrently, and the sides will
announce the opening of borders," he said.

What the Turkish government will do if the Karabakh conflict remains
unresolved is an open question. Ankara and Yerevan are reportedly close
to overcoming another Turkish precondition for normalizing bilateral
ties: an end to the decades-long Armenian campaign for international
recognition of the World War One-era massacres of Armenians in the
Ottoman Empire as genocide. The Sargsyan administration seems ready to
accept a Turkish proposal to form a commission of Turkish and Armenian
historians that would jointly study the mass killings and deportations.

Many in Armenia and especially its worldwide Diaspora oppose such a
study, saying that it would call into question the very fact of what
many historians consider the first genocide of the 20th century. They
also view the Turkish proposal as a ploy designed to scuttle the
genocide’s recognition by more foreign nation. [For background see
the Eurasia Insight archive].

Sargsyan appeared to dismiss such concerns as he addressed hundreds
of influential members of the Armenian-American community in New
York on September 24. "We must talk about all topics," he said. "Only
those people who have nothing to say and suffer from complexes avoid
contacts, conversations."

Editor’s Note: Emil Danielyan is a Yerevan-based journalist and
political analyst.

PRESS RELEASE
Birthright Armenia
Contact: Linda Yepoyan
September 24, 2008
Phone: 610-642-6633
[email protected]

Young French-Armenians Connect with Their Homeland Through Birthright
Armenia

Yerevan, Armenia – In 2008, Birthright Armenia welcomed more French-Armenian
participants than any other year. Six dedicated individuals – Antoine Asik
(Villeneuve-Tolosane), Jerome Lafazan (Montreuil, Seine-Saint-Denis), Maria
Balian and Vera Guerguerian (Paris), and Vivien and Florie Darakdjian
(Clamart) – volunteered this summer with various organizations in Armenia.
Though there is a natural tendency in any diasporan community for the gap
between Homeland and Diaspora to widen over the generations, these six,
along with dozens of other Birthright Armenia volunteers from around the
world, prove that in fact, this can easily be bridged.

With over 500,000 Armenians living in France, the country is home to one of
the largest Armenian Diasporas in the world and one of the oldest in Europe
as a result of the direct aftermath of the 1915 Armenian Genocide. Despite
the separation caused by decades and distance, there is a growing movement
among second and third generation French-Armenian youth to come to Armenia,
experience the Homeland and participate in its development. What’s more, the
means to do so are becoming increasingly accessible, and thanks to
Birthright Armenia sponsorship, more and more tenable and affordable.

Jerome Lafazan served in the northern city of Gyumri, working for several
organizations including the Rural Development Program and Nor Serount NGO.
Jerome’s reason for volunteering in Armenia is one that seems to reverberate
through many Birthright Armenia participants. He simply states, "There isn’t
a more beautiful place on earth than the land you come from."

The positive outlook shared by Birthright Armenia’s dynamic group of
participants from France affirms the spirit of volunteerism that is growing
among young French-Armenians and their eagerness to form a bond with their
homeland through this type of immersion experience.

For Maria Balian, who volunteered through the Armenian Volunteer Corps
(AVC), the benefits of her experience in Armenia far exceeded her
expectations. Not only does she feel a closer bond with her homeland, but
she has also formed lifelong connections with Diaspora youth from around the
world. "Armenia gave me a lot," says Maria, reflecting on her experience
after returning to Paris, "I understood for the first time what it means to
‘belong to a country’. Emotionally, it was very strong, very moving. Also, I
met many people from around the world and made friendships that will last a
lifetime."

Florie Darakdjian, an AVC volunteer and second generation French Armenian,
also finds one of the many advantages of volunteering in Armenia to be the
connections she made with other volunteers. "Working for two months in
Armenia has turned out to be a unique opportunity, a lesson in
resourcefulness and a mind-opening experience," she says. "Through my work
with the children at a social center in Gyumri, I was able to meet people of
different profiles, fellow volunteers, and local Armenians." What pushed
Florie to volunteer in Armenia was her desire to discover the life of this
country. "Being Armenian has always been an important part of my
personality," she says, "One that I’m very proud of. But except for a short
visit as a tourist in 2004, my knowledge of Armenia way very limited. In
addition to my desire to get to know my homeland, I hoped to participate, in
one way or another, in its day-to-day life." And through her volunteer
placement, Florie has found the direct participation she sought. For the
past month, she has been working at Kasa Swiss Foundation in Gyumri.
"Getting to know the children at the center was the most intense
experience," she says, "Despite the language barrier, communication was
possible, and almost natural."

In addition to strengthening ties between Diaspora Armenians and their
Homeland, the organization’s international profile is forming strong and
long-lasting bonds between the youth of Diaspora communities from around the
world. The friendships formed today will lead to a stronger, more united
Armenian Diaspora. With a solid international network of up-and-coming
leaders who feel a direct connection to their homeland and to each other,
the prospect of creating a brighter future for Armenia has just become that
much more within reach.

Birthright Armenia’s mission is to strengthen ties between the homeland and
diasporan youth by affording them an opportunity to be a part of Armenia’s
daily life and to contribute to Armenia’s development through work, study
and volunteer experiences, while developing a renewed sense of Armenian
identity. For more information, or to make an online donation, please visit
our web site at

WINNERS OF COMPETITION ANNOUNCED

Panorama.am
19:23 29/09/2008

Third Armenian Annual Olympics on Microelectronics is over. 115
participants were competing for 17 awards. This year people from Gyumri
came to participate in the competition. The mission and objectives of
the competition are to stimulate interest towards microelectronics,
to create a spirit of competition, etc.

The Olympics has been conducted in two stages. The first one
was a testing stage, when simple tests have been written by the
participants. The best passed to the second stage, which was
a difficult step as the tests were complicated also. From 115
participants 32 passed to the second stage and the winners will be
announced by Sinopsis.

ASSISTANCE CREATING A POSITIVE ATMOSPHERE

Hayots Ashkhar Daily
26 Sep 2008
Armenia

"During our meeting, the Turkish President expressed willingness
to assist in the process of the peaceful settlement of the Karabakh
conflict upon necessity. I want to emphasize the word ‘assist’. We
have always welcomed any assistance creating a positive atmosphere for
the intermediary activity of the OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs, and the
initiative of the Turkish President may really create such atmosphere.

Our principal goal in the settlement of the problem of Artsakh
is to convince the Azerbaijani party, through peaceful methods and
negotiations, that the recognition of the right to self-determination
is inevitable.

I am sure that after the recognition of that right, we’ll move forward
with joint efforts and long steps," President S. Sargsyan said in a
meeting with the representatives of the American-Armenian community.

TURKISH, ARMENIAN LEADERS HOPEFUL TO SOLVE PROBLEMS BETWEEN COUNTRIES

Hurriyet
HotNewsTurkey.com
Friday, September 26, 2008 14:46
Turkey

Turkish President Abdullah Gul said Thursday his aim was to create
a positive climate between Turkey and Armenia, while his Armenian
counterpart said "the time has come" to solve the problems between
the two countries.

The Turkish president said Thursday he wanted the positive climate
to eliminate the problems between the two countries.

"I am very hopeful about this," he said in a meeting organized by
the American-Turkish Society in New York.

He said Turkey and Armenia did not have diplomatic relations, and
their borders were closed, although Turkey was one of the first
countries recognizing Armenia’s independence.

"However, the two countries have had humanitarian activities," Gul
said, reminding of Turkey’s wheat assistance to Armenia in 1990s.

Gul said thousands of Armenian citizens were working in Turkey due
to economic reasons and flights and cultural activities are organized
between the two countries.

"My recent visit (to Armenia) was for a soccer game, but I did not
only watch the game with Mr. Sargsyan (the Armenian President). We
had the opportunity to discuss bilateral relations, the Caucasus and
Azerbaijan," he was quoted by Anatolian Agency as saying.

Gul said it is necessary to solve regional problems through dialogue,
and added he hoped that everything would normalize in the end.

Gul also said one of indicators that relations would normalize was
the trilateral meeting the foreign ministers of Turkey, Azerbaijan
and Armenia would hold in New York on Friday.

"What leaders should do is to eliminate the problems, not to feed
enmities," Gul also said.

Gul said that many projects could be carried out between Turkey and
Armenia, like establishing industrial zones at the border, after the
problems were solved.

A warmer period began between Turkey and Armenia, who for more than a
decade have not had any diplomatic relations, after Turkish President
Abdullah Gul paid a landmark visit to Armenia early September.

Turkey hopes this period would lead to the normalization of the
relations. Turkey and Armenia do not have diplomatic relations because
of Armenia’s aggression against Azerbaijan.

The conflict between Azerbaijan and Armenia began in 1988 due to
Armenian territorial claims against Azerbaijan.

Since 1992, Armenian Armed Forces have occupied 20 percent of
Azerbaijan including the Nagorno-Karabakh region and its seven
surrounding districts.

Some 10 percent of the Azeri population was displaced due to a
series of bloody clashes both between and within the two neighboring
countries.

In 1994, Azerbaijan and Armenia signed a ceasefire agreement at which
time the active hostilities ended. The Co-Chairs of the OSCE Minsk
Group are currently holding peaceful negotiations.

"TIME TO SOLVE PROBLEMS" "It is high time to solve our problems with
Turkey," Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan told at the United Nations
(U.N.) General Assembly in New York.

"We hold the same views with President Gul on not passing the current
problems to future generations," Sargsyan said.

The Armenian president said he would settle the problems with
neighboring countries through dialogue.

He also praised the outcome of Gul’s visit to Armenia, saying
Mr. Gul shares his determination to move quickly and resolutely in
that direction.

Sargsyan also criticized what he called Azerbaijan’s "belligerent"
stance on the breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh, Voice of America
reported.

Nevertheless, he vowed to continue negotiations with Azerbaijan to
seek recognition of the largely Armenian-inhabited region, which he
characterized as effectively independent, the American broadcaster
said.

The Armenian president added the recent bloodshed in the South Caucasus
threatened the entire region and beyond. He said the General Assembly
must work to modernize its institutions and prevent a return to Cold
War-era divisions.

THE U.S. STATE DEPARTMENT AND ANTI-SEMITISM
Armen Tsatouryan

Hayots Ashkhar Daily
25 Sep 2008
Armenia

The authors of the annual report on the "International Religious
Freedom" believe that in May and June 2008, "Hayots Ashkharh" and
"Golos Armenii" Armenian newspapers and the first channel of the Public
Television and Radio Company displayed anti-Semitist sentiments in
their publications and broadcasts.

Let’s try to understand what happened in reality. The publications
and broadcasts discussed in the State Department report on the
"International Religious Freedom" definitely refer to the mediation
of the "Big East" powerful Jewish Masonic organization, "The
Jewish-American Committee" and other structures and individuals,
as well as the sums of tens of millions of Dollars spent on the
pre-election campaign in our country.

All that gives rise to the following questions:

First: Has L. Ter-Petrosyan or his closest circles refuted those
facts so far?

Second: Have the above-mentioned organizations and individuals ever
been dissatisfied with the "unfounded accusations" ascribed to them?

Third: Have these facts of interfering in the internal affairs of a
sovereign state received a relevant assessment by the State Department
– the Number 1 specialist in this sphere, which now acts in support
of the sovereignty of Georgia, making relevant s tatements in this
connection every week?

So, what’s the matter?

In none of our articles have we ever published critical statements
either about Israel or the Jewish people. We never did anything of
the kind even at the moments when we saw the Israeli flag swaying
on the Theatrical Square during the rallies of the opposition which
was struggling for power. So, what was happening was an obvious
political provocation. If our country weren’t a democratic state and
our authorities and people weren’t extremely tolerant, there would
really be concrete manifestations of anti-Semitism.

And after all that happened, after the opposition tried to launch
attack on the government hoisting the Israeli flag, did any Jew suffer
in Armenia or was anyone vilified or insulted by rude words on account
of his/her ethnic origin and religious affiliation?

The answer is quite clear. Those who applied to the Jewish
organizations with the purpose of overthrowing the Government received
relevant sums from them and, as a sign of gratitude, swayed the
Israeli flag on the square. But because no anti-Semitist sentiments
were observed in Armenia even after all that happened, it is obvious
that instead of punishing the culprit, innocent people are now being
held accountable.

That’s to say, instead of recording the obvious facts of interfering
in the internal affairs of a sovereign country and demanding that the
Arm enian and foreign authors of such attempts respect the independence
of Armenia, the State Department is trying to accuse us of protecting
ourselves by using legal and quite civilized methods.

If, some time in future, the wife of the Armenian President appears to
be a Russian or Chinese and receive financial assistance in the amount
of several millions of Dollars from Russian or Chinese organizations
with the purpose of overthrowing the authorities in Armenia,
will the State Department express concern about the anti-Russian or
anti-Chinese sentiments allegedly existing in our country? Definitely,
it won’t. Moreover, the things will go just the other way about.

Mildly speaking, we are dealing with an illiterate attempt
of falsifying the content of the universal accusation called
anti-Semitism and using it as a lever of political pressure. If its
authors tried to go into the heart of the matter, they would find out
that anti-Semitism, as a political phenomenon, is a manifestation of
aggression or intolerance against the Jewish nation vs. an attempt
of resisting the obvious aggression against any country with the help
some representative of this particular nation.

And such attempt, as we know, is characterized as a lawful resistance
to the Jewish-Masonic or Zionist ambitions, and by the way, this
practice is common in the United States as well.