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.

10 SUPREME CONGRESS OF ARF DASHNAKTSIUTIUN COMPLETES
By Nana Petrosian
AZG Armenian Daily
13/09/2006
On September 8, the 10th Supreme Congress of ARF Dashnaktsiutiun
launched in Armenia. The representatives of the party discussed
the report of the Supreme Body of ARF Dashnaktsiutiun in Armenia,
the social-economic situation of the country, the home and foreign
political developments, the national problems, as well as the issues
concerning the coming parliamentary elections.
In the course of the congress, the party members elected 21
representatives of the Supreme Body of ARF Dashnaktsiutiun in Armenia.

TURKISH OFFICIAL: TURKEY’S RECOGNITION OF THE GENOCIDE ISN’T EXCLUDED IF …
AZG Armenian Daily
12/09/2006
According to Azeri mass media, Ali Babajan, Turkish economy minister,
special representative of Turkey in the negotiations with EU, said
in the interview to a Dutch newspaper that “Ankara may recognize
the Armenian Genocide, if the joint Armenian-Turkish commission of
historians comes to such a conclusion.”
Commenting on the decision of the European Parliament concerning the
issue of the Armenian Genocide, Babajan stated that the deputies are
no historians, while the European Parliament is no proper institution
to find out what had really happened.

AZERIS ARE SCARED OF THEIR COMPATRIOTS WHO HAVE VISITED ARMENIA
By Aghavni Harutyunian
AZG Armenian Daily
12/09/2006
Recently, Armenia and Azeri youth met in Gugark camp in Lori region,
Armenia. This meeting of the young people from two countries caused
hysterical and declarative statements in Azerbaijan, including demand
to deprive the young Azeris of their citizenship.
In fact, Azerbaijan is scared of the Azeris that have visited Armenia
and Nagorno Karabakh. Azerbaijan is even ready to forbid its own
citizens to enter their homeland. Perhaps, one beautiful day, the
Azeri citizens deprived of their native citizenship will have to beg
for political shelter in Armenia.

A WIDE CIRCLE OF ISSUES WAS DISCUSSED WITH THE CO-CHAIRS
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Yesterday RA Foreign Minister Vardan Oskanyan met OSCE Minsk group
co-chairs in Paris.
The sides discussed issues about the three levels concerning the
present situation of the negotiations about the settlement of the
Karabakh conflict.
Referring to the content of the negotiations the sides pointed out
the disputable problems of the document in question investigating
the possibilities of avoiding them.
The sides paid special attention to the obstacles out of the main
process of negotiations and the initiatives taken in other structures
which lead the sides astray from the peaceful negotiations. They
also referred to their future actions discussed the possibility of
organizing another meeting of the Foreign Ministers of Armenia and
Azerbaijan.