THREE YEKATERINBURG RESIDENTS FOUND GUILTY OF BEATING ARMENIANS
Interfax News Agency
Russia & CIS General Newswire
September 11, 2006 Monday 2:23 PM MSK
Yekaterinburg’s Kirov District Court has found two teenagers aged
16 and 17 and Sergei Tkachuk, 19, guilty of fomenting ethnic hatred,
the press service of the Sverdlovsk region prosecutor’s office said
on Monday.
The court found them guilty of “fomenting hatred or enmity, as well
as humiliating human dignity,” a statement by the press service reads.
The youngest participant, a youth aged 16, was sentenced to 100 hours
of community service, his friend, 17, was fined 20,000 rubles, while
Tkachuk was sentenced to 18 months of corrective labor, the press
service said.
These young people humiliated the dignity of two Armenians in public
by using violence against them on March 28, 2006, the statement reads.
“Young nationalists shouting out slogans like “For a happy Russia,”
and “Glory to Russia” as they attacked the plaintiffs, the press
service said.

ATTEMPT AT TURKISH PRIME MINISTER COMMITTED
PanARMENIAN.Net
11.09.2006 18:26 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ September 10 a group of young men armed with knifes
assaulted the bodyguards of Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip
Erdogan, who was taking part in the ceremony of commemoration of
Ertogrul Gazi in the northwest of Turkey.
Two bodyguards were injured. Deputy chief of the regional security
service held a conference over the incident. It was reported that
the bus that conveyed the members of Justice and Development party
was also assaulted, said the Anatolian news agency.

NEW YORK LIFE TO PAY COMPENSATIONS TO ARMENIAN GENOCIDE VICTIMS’ HEIRS
PanARMENIAN.Net
11.09.2006 15:21 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ From today New York Life Insurance Co will pay
off insurance policy to the heirs of those who insured their lives
during the years of the Armenian Genocide. “Today the judge will take
a decision, according to which 3.5 thousand people will receive the
sum due for them. Till the end of September the heirs of the Armenian
Genocide living in Armenia will also receive compensation,” lawyer
Vardkez Yeghiayan told RFE/RL. In his words, some 1600-1700 appeals
were received from Armenia. The same number of appeals came from the
United States and some 500 appeals were received from Europe.
Presently the case of AXA Insurance company is being considered. A
special website with the names of those were insured by AXA will be
launched. On Monday the lawyers will proceed to the case of Deutche
Bank. Then work with other French and British insurance companies
will be started. “The process will go on,” Vardkez Yeghiayan said.

IRANIAN PARLIAMENT SPEAKER ATTENDED MEMORIAL TO ARMENIAN GENOCIDE VICTIMS
PanARMENIAN.Net
11.09.2006 15:38 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ The delegation of the Iranian Mejlis led by
chairman Gholam Ali Haddad-Adel laid a wreath to the Memorial to the
Armenian Genocide victims. The Iranian parliamentary delegation is in
Yerevan by invitation of Armenian National Assembly Speaker Tigran
Torosian. During the visit Gholam Ali Haddad-Adel is scheduled to
meet with Armenian President Robert Kocharian, Prime Minister Andranik
Margaryan and NA Speaker Tigran Torosian. He is also expected to meet
with the teaching staff and students of the Yerevan State University
and attend the Blue Mosque in Yerevan, reported newsarmenia.ru.

LUZHKOV: “YEREVAN” TRADE CENTER TO OPEN IN MOSCOW IN NEAR FUTURE
PanARMENIAN.Net
11.09.2006 15:59 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Mayor of Moscow Yuri Luzhkov met Monday with Mayor
of Yerevan Yervand Zakharyan. “Today were are glad to receive the
delegation from fraternal Yerevan. This is the city with which we
established good economic and cultural ties,” Luzhkov said during the
meeting. “I think we’ll open “Yerevan” trade center in Moscow within
the next several months and open the House of Moscow in Yerevan in
December,” he added.
The Days of Yerevan in Moscow are held September 9-11 within the
framework of the Year of Armenia in Russia.
Armenian products were set out at “Golden Pomegranate” exhibition. A
solemn gala concert will take place in the Music Theater after
Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko, reported Interfax.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress

GEORGIAN AND ARMENIAN MFAS HOLD CONSULTATIONS ON RA CITIZENS’ DETENTION
PanARMENIAN.Net
11.09.2006 16:10 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Presently the RA Foreign Ministry is holding talks
with the Georgian MFA on the fact of Armenian citizens’ detention,
RA MFA Acting Spokesman Vladimir Karapetian told a PanARMENIAN.Net
reporter.
In his words there were cases of detention of Armenian citizens in
Georgia. “We constantly contact with the Georgian Foreign Ministry
and the Armenian Embassy in Tbilisi,” Vladimir Karapetian remarked.
Meanwhile, RA Embassy advisor Levon Hakobian refused to answer the
question whether the information on detention of 100 Armenian citizens
corresponds to reality. “We are not empowered to comment on the issue,”
he underscored.

U.N. RESOLUTION ON KARABAKH CAN BE CONSIDERED ACCEPTABLE FOR STEPANAKERT
PanARMENIAN.Net
11.09.2006 17:45 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ “On the whole taking into account the final result,
namely an intention to send the OSCE Mission with support of the
U.N. experts to the region to assess the long-term and short-term
threats, which can lead to ecological catastrophe in the region,
the Resolution can be considered acceptable for the NKR,” NKR
Foreign Minister Georgy Petrosyan said. “Moreover, it is necessary
to emphasize that this process is a logical continuation of Nagorno
Karabakh authorities’ initiative. The NKR authorities were extremely
alarmed at the situation with the fires as those inflammations caused
damage to the agriculture of our republic. In connection with this
the NKR MFA sent a note to the Office of the Personal Representative
of the OSCE Chairman-in-Office with an urgent request to conduct a
crisis-monitoring in the area bordering with Azerbaijan. Two weeks late
the OSCE Mission conducted a series of monitorings, which resulted in
the report of Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairman-in-Office,
which refuted the accusations of the Azerbaijani side on alleged
burnings of settlements in the NKR security zone. Thus, the NKR
authorities were the first to address the OSCE for a dispatch of
a monitoring group to the region, which was passed over in silence
by the OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairmen in their report, which was made
public at the General Assembly’s session. However, if the report of
the OSCE high rank needs additional confirmation, – we are ready to
receive a new Mission of the OSCE to discredit Azerbaijani myths once
more,” the Minister added.
However, according to the NKR FM, the position of this issue in the
U.N. itself and some formulas of the Resolution are not acceptable. The
attempts to transfer the issues which are to be solved by the OSCE
Minsk Group to the UN cannot promote the advance of negotiation
process but only postpone the possible prospect of the Nagorno Karabakh
conflict settlement.
“The fact that the given Resolution, namely its contents is a result
of consensus between Armenia and Azerbaijan – rare phenomenon for
recent years, especially under the conditions of the absence of
confidence between the parties, is worthy of notice and it can be
only welcomed. We consider that such projects are to be discussed
with participation of all three parties to the conflict in order to
avoid problems in the course of implementation of accepted decisions
especially because these decisions concern the territories which are
exceptionally under the control of the Nagorno Karabakh republic’s
authorities.
The NKR’s position remains invariable – we are going to continue
our cooperation with the international structures and are ready to
assist the work of a group of experts sent by the OSCE exclusively
from neutral countries,” Georgy Petrosyan said, reported the NKR MFA
press office.

ERDOGAN: SOME FORCES “TRYING TO BLACKEN GLORIOUS HISTORY OF TURKISH PEOPLE”
PanARMENIAN.Net
11.09.2006 18:10 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Some forces are “trying to blacken the glorious
history of the Turkish people and the statements on the Armenian
Genocide are a typical example of this”, Turkish Prime Minister Recep
Tayyip Erdogan stated. “It’s hard to find a nation with such huge
historical heritage. As Turkey’s Prime Minister I personally proposed
Armenia to form a joint commission for investigation of the last years
of the Ottoman Empire,” Erdogan said, stressing that the government
headed by him does the utmost to support the department of Turkish
history and language. “These two departments lay in the basis of the
formation of the Turkish Republic,” the Prime Minister concluded.

US SENATOR MENENDEZ “FROZE” APPROVAL OF HOAGLAND AS AMBASSADOR TO ARMENIA
PanARMENIAN.Net
13.09.2006 16:58 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Senator Robert Menendez (D-NJ) placed a “hold” on
the confirmation of Richard E. Hoagland as the next U.S. Ambassador
to Armenia, reported the Armenian National Committee of America
(ANCA). In blocking the Hoagland nomination, Sen. Menendez stressed
that, “as a leader and defender of democracy, it is our nation’s
responsibility to speak out against injustice and support equality
and human rights. But if the Bush Administration continues to refuse
to acknowledge the atrocities of the Armenian Genocide, then there
is certainly cause for great alarm, which is why I am placing a
hold on this nominee.” He added that, “I will continue to work with
my colleagues in the United States Senate to make strides toward
ensuring that all people, regardless of race, religion, or ethnicity,
receive protection from policies of discrimination and hate that lead
to genocide.”
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress

YOUTH ORGANIZATION DEMANDS TO DEPRIVE OF CITIZENSHIP 10 AZERIS, WHO VISITED ARMENIA
PanARMENIAN.Net
11.09.2006 18:14 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ The Youth Organization of the Civic Solidarity
Party of Azerbaijan has issued a statement with a demand to deprive of
citizenship the Azeris, who spent their vacation in the camp of Gugark,
in the Lori region of Armenia. The statement says that chairman of the
Azerbaijani National Committee of the Helsinki Citizens’ Assembly Arzu
Abdullayeva, Niguar Abdullayeva, Rena Yuzbasheva, journalist Seymur
Mamedov and others (in total 10 people) should be declared parricides.
“We, the members of the Youth Organization, consider that having a rest
at the territory of a state that seized 20% of out land is nothing else
but treason. No circumstances can approve the Azeris, who went there.
We urge the state bodies to deprive them of the Azeri citizenship,”
the statement says, reported Day.az
To remind, the Helsinki Citizens’ Initiative organized a meeting of
Armenian and Azeri youth in the camp of Gugark. Young people from
Azerbaijan, Armenia and Nagorno Karabakh took part in the initiative
titled the Camp of Mutual Trust.