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Philippine Daily Inquirer
July 19, 2004
RAOLA KEEPS ARMENIAN GM WITHIN REACH
Standings after round 4:
4.0 pts.-GM Karen Movsziszian (Armenia); 3.5-NM Yves Raola
(Philippines), GM Aleksander Delchev (Bulgaria), GM Vladim Burmakin
(Russia), GM Mikhail Suba (Romania), IM Yuri Gonzales (Italy), IM
Fernando Braga (Italy), IM Ioan Cosma (Romania), IM Petr Velicha
(Czech Republic), IM Herman Van Riemsdijk (Brazil), IM Bernd
Kohlweyer (Germany); 3.0-GM Lazaro Bruzon (Cuba), IM Ronald Bancod
(RP), IM Jayson Gonzales (RP).
FILIPINO National Master Yves Raola outplayed Spain’s Jose Luis Ramon
Perez in the third round and then halved the point with Cuban
International Master Yuri Gonzales in the fourth to share second
place with 10 others yesterday in the Balaguer International Open
chess tournament in Spain.
Raola, the former national junior champion who is eyeing his third
and final IM norm in the event, pushed his output to 3.5 points, half
a point behind undefeated pacesetter Grandmaster Karen Movsziszian of
Armenia.
Raola shared second place with super GM Aleksander Delchev of
Bulgaria, GM Vladim Burmakin of Russia, GM Mihkail Suba of Romania,
IM Fernando Braga of Italy, Ioan Cosma of Romania, IM Petr Velicha of
Czech Republic, IM Herman Van Riemsdijk of Brazil and IM Bernd
Kohlweyer of Germany.
The bunch stood another half point in front of a big group that
includes Filipino IMs Jayson Gonzales, who drew his third- and
fourth-round matches, and Ronald Bancod, who lost his fourth-round
match to Delchev.
Filipina Winona Tan shared 56th place with 37 others at 2.0
points.Marlon Bernardino

ITAR-TASS News Agency
TASS
July 19, 2004 Monday 5:18 AM Eastern Time
Armenian N-power plant can operate at least for 12 more years
By Tigran Liloyan
YEREVAN
The Armenian nuclear power station can operate at least for another
12 years provided financing is sufficient, said on Monday in Yerevan
deputy managing director of the Inter RAO EES and director of the
International Power Corporation Mikhail Mantrov.
In compliance with the Russian-Armenian intergovernmental agreement,
this subsidiary company of the Unified Energy Systems of Russia
corporation was granted the administration of the financial and
economic operations of the station.
According to Mantrov, there has not been a single emergency over the
eight years after the re-start of the nuclear station, which points
to a high level of the station’s reliability. “The Armenian nuclear
power station is now in a working condition in compliance with
requirements of the IAEA,” he emphasized.
A new batch of nuclear fuel will be soon delivered to the station.
The Russian side will bring fuel without a rise in the price, despite
higher prices for uranium on world markets by more than 40 percent,
Mantrov stressed.
Put into operation in 1979, the Armenian station was shut down in
1989 after the devastating earthquake. It was re-started in 1996 with
the participation of Russian specialists. The station generates some
40 percent of all electricity, produced in Armenia by power plants.
In the meantime, the European Union strives for closing down the
station. The Armenian authorities state that its shutdown is possible
only if there are alternative sources of electricity. On July 31, the
station will be stopped for routine repairs and loading with fuel,
said station managing director Gagik Markosyan. It will be re-started
again on October 4.

M2 Presswire
July 19, 2004
US STATE DEPARTMENT: Press Statement; Richard Boucher, Spokesman;
Washington, DC July 16, 2004; U.S. Opposes Schiff Amendment to FY 05
Foreign Operations Appropriations Bill
M2 PRESSWIRE-JULY 19, 2004-US STATE DEPARTMENT: Press Statement;
Richard Boucher, Spokesman; Washington, DC July 16, 2004; U.S.
Opposes Schiff Amendment to FY 05 Foreign Operations Appropriations
Bill ©1994-2004 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD
The Administration strongly opposes this amendment which seeks to
restrict U.S. assistance to Turkey.
It should not become law. The amendment is detrimental to the cause
we all seek: reconciliation between Turkey and Armenia in pursuit of
regional peace and economic cooperation. Turkey and Armenia have been
pursuing these goals through direct meetings.
Turkey, our key NATO ally, and Armenia, our close friend, are
partners in the Global War on Terror and in advancing democracy,
prosperity and stability in the Caucasus. Our goal is to bolster
cooperation between these two countries rather than to separate them.
We welcome the statement by House Speaker Hastert, Majority Leader
DeLay and Majority Whip Blunt citing their strong opposition to this
amendment and their commitment to insisting that the amendment be
dropped in conference. We welcome the Leadership’s recognition of the
important relationship with our reliable ally and friend Turkey and
of the need for continued close economic and security relations
between our countries.
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Agency WPS
DEFENSE and SECURITY (Russia)
July 19, 2004, Monday
ARMENIAN SERVICEMEN WILL PARTICIPATE IN A NATO EXERCISE IN LITHUANIA
The Resceur-Medceur 2004 international military exercise organized
within the framework of the partnership for peace program will be
conducted in Lithuania from July 17 to August 4. Servicemen from
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Germany, Georgia, Latvia, Moldavia,
Poland, Romania, the US, Uzbekistan, Ukraine, Croatia and Estonia
will be involved in the maneuvers.
Source: PanARMENIAN.Net, July 16, 2004, 13:39
Translated by Alexander Dubovoi
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress

The Associated Press
July 19, 2004, Monday, BC cycle
Employee of Armenian magazine killed in Moscow
MOSCOW
An Armenian magazine employee died after being stabbed and beaten in
Moscow, the magazine’s chief said Monday.
The discovery of Pail Peloyan’s body on Saturday came eight days
after the killing of American Paul Klebnikov, editor of Forbes
magazine’s Russian edition, and raised additional concerns about
journalists’ safety in Russia.
The magazine for which Peloyan worked was much lower-visibility than
Forbes and covered topics less controversial than Klebnikov’s
reporting on Russia’s often-violent business sphere.
The Russian-language magazine, Armyanskii Pereulok (Armenian Lane),
focused on Armenian historical, cultural and religious issues, editor
Valentin Filoyan said. Peloyan was chief administrator for the
magazine and had written several articles, he said. The magazine’s
last issue appeared at the beginning of 2003.
Asked whether he believed the 37-year-old Peloyan’s death was
connected to the magazine’s work, Filoyan said, “I don’t think so.”
No other motive was known.
Peloyan’s body was found early Saturday on the edge of the expressway
that circles Moscow, near a pedestrian overpass, Russian news reports
said.
Filoyan said money and documents including Peloyan’s passport were
found on the body, an apparent indication that robbery was not the
motive.
Russia was rated by the Committee to Protect Journalists as one of
the world’s 10 most dangerous countries for journalists, with a
number of killings and beatings reported in recent years.
Klebnikov reportedly had been looking into the 1995 killing of a
prominent TV journalist and was interested in doing a series of
articles about journalist murders.

Associated Press Worldstream
July 19, 2004 Monday 2:58 PM Eastern Time
Nagorno-Karabakh hands over Azerbaijani serviceman
BAKU, Azerbaijan
Authorities in the Nagorno-Karabakh enclave said Monday that they
handed over an Azerbaijani soldier who they said had been detained
when he crossed a cease-fire line last month.
The handover of the 19-year-old serviceman, detained June 30, was
carried out after consultaions with reprsentatives of the
International Committee of the Red Cross, a commission on prisoners
of war in Nagorno-Karabakh said. It said Azerbiajiani authorities
agreed to the handover.
Armenian-backed forces won control of Nagorno-Karabakh, a largely
ethnic Armenian enclave in Azerbaijan, in a 1988-94 war that killed
some 30,000 people and drove a million from their homes.
Despite a cease-fire, the two countries continue to face off across a
heavily fortified no man’s land, and shooting occasionally erupts. No
final settlement has been reached, and the conflict continues to
aggravate economic troubles and threaten unrest in Armenia and
Azerbaijan.

Xinhua News Agency – French
July 19, 2004 Monday
Le Premier ministre turc entame une visite en France
ANKARA
Le Premier ministre turc Recep Tayyip Erdogan a quitte lundi Ankara
pour une visite a Paris pour essayer de convaincre les dirigeants
francais de soutenir les efforts de la Turquie de rejoindre l’Union
europeenne, a rapporte l’agence de presse turque Anatolie.
Le chef du gouvernement turc souhaite obtenir le feu vert de l’UE sur
l’ouverture des negociations avec la Turquie apres le sommet de l’UE
en decembre prochain.
La visite de M. Erdogan est destinee egalement a reparer les
relations entre Ankara et Paris, qui se sont refroidies apres que la
France eut reconnu le “genocide” en Armenie.
L’Armenie accuse les Turcs d’avoir tue 1,5 million d’Armeniens entre
1915 et 1923, alors que la Turquie a affirme que ces chiffres sont
exageres et que les victimes ont ete tuees dans des emeutes.
Selon le quotidien francais “Liberation”, Ankara considere la France
comme le plus grand obstacle a l’ouverture des negociationssur son
adhesion a l’UE.
L’Union europeenne appelle la Turquie a ameliorer la situation des
droits de l’Homme avant d’ouverture les pourparlers sur son adhesion
a l’union.

Xinhua News Agency – French
July 19, 2004 Monday
Le Parti socialiste francais “favorable” a l’entree de la Turquie
dans l’UE
PARIS
Le Parti socialiste de France a reaffirme lundi, premier jour de la
visite en France du Premier ministre turc Recep Tayyip Erdogan, qu’il
etait “favorable” a l’entree de la Turquie dans l’UE a condition que
les “criteres d’adhesion” soient respectes par Ankara.
“Nous sommes fideles aux engagements de la France qui remontenta tres
loin. Ce n’est pas l’entree de la Turquie qui fait l’actualite
d’aujourd’hui, c’est plutot la discussion sur les criteres
d’adhesion. Nous, nous y sommes favorables, a condition que ces
criteres soient respectes” par Ankara, a declare a la presse la
porte-parole du PS Annick Lepetit.
Elle a indique que le Premier ministre turc Recep Tayyip Erdogan
“sera recu a sa demande” mercredi (10h30) par le premier secretaire
du PS, Francois Hollande.
“Il faut saluer les efforts qui sont faits par la Turquie, memesi
tous ces criteres ne sont pas encore atteints. Je pense notamment a
la question des droits de l’Homme et a la reconnaissance du genocide
armenien”, a-t-elle poursuivi.
La porte-parole a souligne “l’embarras qui doit etre celui de Jacques
Chirac” sur ce dossier. “C’est quand meme le parti chiraquien, l’UMP,
qui n’a rien trouve de mieux pendant la campagne des europeennes que
de faire voter sa direction contre l’entree de la Turquie en Europe”,
a rappele Mme Lepetit.
Erdogan entame lundi une visite officielle de trois jours en France.
Il doit evoquer la candidature de son pays a l’UE avec lesplus hautes
autorites de la France et les dirigeants des principaux partis
politiques francais.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress

ARKA News Agency
July 19 2004
Georgian Foreign Minister Salome Zurabashvili to arrive in Armenia
with official visit on July 21-22
US Department of State Bureau of Consular Affairs internet web-site
renewed
Catholicos of All Armenians receives German Ambassador to Armenia on
the occasion of the completion of his diplomatic mission
The Editor in Chief of Armenian Lane Russian-language journal
murdered in Moscow
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GEORGIAN FOREIGN MINISTER SALOME ZURABASHVILI TO ARRIVE IN ARMENIA
WITH OFFICIAL VISIT ON JULY 21-22
YEREVAN, July 19. /ARKA/. Georgian Foreign Minister Salome
Zurabashvili will arrive in Armenia with official visit on July
21-22, RA MFA told ARKA. The visit envisages meetings with RA
President Robert Kocharian, RA NA Chairman Arthur Baghdasarian, Prime
Minister Andranik Margarian, and Foreign Minister Vardan Oskanian.
During the visit Zurabashvili will lay a wreath on Memorial of 1915
Armenian Genocide Victims, will visit St. Echmiadzin, Georgian Church
in Noragavit and the museum of Sergey Paradjanov. L.D. –0–
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US DEPARTMENT OF STATE BUREAU OF CONSULAR AFFAIRS INTERNET WEB-SITE
RENEWED
YEREVAN, July 19. /ARKA/. The internet web-site of the US Department
of State Bureau of Consular Affairs will be presented to the users
fully renewed. According to the Press Service Department of the US
Embassy in Armenia, the site has become more user-friendly. The
web-site has been improved both practically and functionally; new
classification tools are introduced for information search, which
will allow the users to quickly find the necessary precise
information. The press release also says that the new web-site will
allow the traveling US citizens register with the help of IBRS
(Internet-based registration system). The system will give the US
citizens the opportunity to keep necessary data, which will keep them
in touch in emergency situations in particular. Besides, countries’
and regions’ updated data necessary for safe traveling are placed on
the web-site L.V.–0–
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CATHOLICOS OF ALL ARMENIANS RECEIVES GERMAN AMBASSADOR TO ARMENIA ON
THE OCCASION OF THE COMPLETION OF HIS DIPLOMATIC MISSION
YEREVAN, July 19. /ARKA/. The Catholicos of All Armenians Garegin the
Second received German Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
to Armenia Hans-Wulf Bartels on the occasion of the completion of his
diplomatic mission. As ARKA was informed in the press-chancellory of
St. Etchmiadzin, in the course of the meeting the Head of the
Armenian church highly appreciated the longstanding activity of the
Ambassador targeting at strengthening the Armenian-German relations,
and expressed his satisfaction with tight connections between the
German Embassy in Armenia and St. Etchmiadzin.
As it is mentioned in the press release, at the end of the meeting
Garegin the Second wished H. W. Bartels success in his further
diplomatic work. A.A.-0 –
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THE EDITOR IN CHIEF OF ARMENIAN LANE RUSSIAN-LANGUAGE JOURNAL
MURDERED IN MOSCOW
YEREVAN, July 19. /ARKA/. Cheremushka interregional prosecutor’s
office of Moscow instituted proceedings about the murder of Pail
Piloyan, the Editor in Chief of Armenian Lane Russian-language
journal, according to NezavisimayaGazeta writing that the body of the
reporter with wounds in stomach caused by a knife and signs of
beating was found by Moscow police on Saturday in the district of the
43rd km of Moscow Circular Highway (MCH). According to Moscow Home
Administrative Department, the corpse of Piloyan was discovered at 7
a.m. on Saturday on the outer side of MCH near the pedestrian
crossing in the region of Tepli Stan. Experts-specialist in crime
detection found out that the reporter was killed at about 2 a.m.: the
wound caused by a knife was fatal. Operative -investigating group at
the head of Alexander Krokhmal, the Chief Deputy Prosecutor from
Moscow prosecutor’s office went to the place of murder. The staff of
the prosecutor’s office is not hurrying with making conclusions
regarding the motives of the murder of 37 year old reporter.
The administration of the Armenian Embassy in Russia also makes no
assumptions about the motives. The Press Secretary of the Armenian
diplomatic mission in Moscow Armen Ghevondyan expressed his
condolences about the murder of the Editor in Chief of Armenian Lane
journal and stated that `the Armenian Embassy together with
law-enforcing structures of Russia takes all measures to find out the
details of the murder of Pail Piloyan’. According to him, when the
representatives of RF Ministry of Internal Affairs sends official
note of the death of the reporter and the circumstances of the death,
`the Embassy will use the whole mechanism: send condolences, possibly
return the body to Armenia, and consular service will begin set to
its work’.
Meanwhile, according to the sources of Nezavisimaya Gazeta in Moscow
police station, the version that the murder of Piloyan is connected
with his professional work is not the main one. Armenian Lane is a
belles-lettres in Russian telling about the Armenian literature and
cultural values. The criminalsts consider some versions of the murder
of Piloyan, among which is the murder because of the so-called
everyday life reasons, as well as murder on the base of national
dislike. A.H. – 0 –

Tuesday 20th July, 2004
NATO holds exercises in Baltic states
Big News Network.com
Tuesday 20th July, 2004
NATO has launched massive exercises with former Soviet republics in
the Baltic states, the Interfax news agency reported Monday.
Forces from the former Soviet republics of Armenia, Georgia, Ukraine,
Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania are participating in the exercises,
along with troops from the former Soviet satellite nations of
Bulgaria, Poland, Croatia and Romania alongside U.S. forces, the press
service of the Ukrainian Defense Ministry said.
The servicemen will train how to clean up the aftermath of a natural
disaster and prevent terrorist acts in the Baltic states, Interfax
said. They are also developing cooperation between military and
civilian agencies in the prevention of humanitarian and natural
disasters.
Divers will train to expose terrorist groups and de-mine a sea area
and hydro-technical facilities, the news agency said.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress