Organization for Security and Co-Operation in Europe (OSCE)

June 30 2006

OSCE Yerevan Office presents its views on human rights to secondary
school teachers
YEREVAN, 30 June 2006 – An OSCE human rights expert shared her
knowledge today with 55 secondary school teachers who are taking a
year-long class on human rights.
Silvia Pogolsa, a Human Rights Officer at the OSCE Office in Yerevan,
delivered a lecture as part of the course, organized annually by the
non-governmental organization Armenian Constitutional
Right-Protective Centre.
That centre has organized a Human Rights School since 1996, and 405
participants, mainly secondary school teachers, have so far taken
part in the programme, which includes 11 months of distance learning
and one month of intensive education.
“OSCE considers human rights and democracy explicit elements of the
overall security framework, assigning them the same level of
importance as politico-military and economic security issues,”
Pogolsa said. “We believe education in and for human rights is one of
the effective means of creating peaceful and stable societies.”
The Office donated the latest OSCE publications on human rights and
good governance to the NGO’s Human Rights Library, which consists of
six libraries in different Armenian towns.
The lecture was part of the Office’s human rights education and
public awareness raising programme, which started in 2001. The Office
also has produced documentary movies on human rights issues and
organized public screenings of those movies. It is preparing a series
of Public Service Announcements on torture, tolerance and
non-discrimination and other human rights issues to be broadcast on
national TV-stations starting in September 2006.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress

Persian League, Iran
June 30 2006

Teymourian’s performance rakes in the offers
Fri 06-30-2006
AFC – Upcoming Iranian star Andranik Teymourian is flooded with
offers from European clubs after his powerful performance in the
World Cup.
The 23-year-old Iranian of Armenian descent won hearts back home in
Iran with his courageous approach and never-say-die attitude, and
came close to scoring for Team Melli against Portugal in the match
they lost 2-0.
And, Iranian fans were not the only ones sitting up and taking notice
of the midfielder’s outrageous talent.
Speaking exclusively to , Teymourian confirmed that
the club he currently plays for – Iran Pro League outfit Abo Moslem –
had already been approached by several European clubs.
`My club has already received offers (for me) from the Bundesliga,
Italy, Turkey and the Emirates,’ said Teymourian, who has a one-year
contract with Abo Moslem.
`The decision will be made by my club and I will be talking to them
(Abo Moslem) shortly on this issue.’
`Going to Europe is a dream come true for a football player like me,’
added Teymourian.
Teymourian started his football career at Tehran’s Ararat Club and,
after a series of age group competitions, caught the eye in Iran’s
third place finish at the Islamic Solidarity Games.
It was only a matter of time before he broke through to the senior
ranks as coach Branko Ivankovic handed the promising midfielder his
international debut against Libya last August. Since then Teymourian
has made the defensive midfielder’s position his own in 10 starts for
Team Melli.
`I always believed that I would be a regular player in Germany,’ said
Teymourian. `I trained hard and was inspired. When people say I got
my chance because of injuries to Nikbakht Vahedi and Fereydoon Zandi
it doesn’t matter as I would have been better prepared had they been
fit.’
The midfielder said the key to his playing uninhibited football
against vaunted rivals was his fitness. `I took great care about my
sleep and food and worked hard on my fitness. I knew that I had to
make the most of this opportunity.’
The Iranian refused to find fault with Ivankovic’s tactics at the
World Cup, saying the team could have done better with a little bit
of luck. `I regret our elimination. Tactical issues are none of my
business. I am a player and should follow the rules. But I wish we
were more lucky.’
The one abiding memory for Teymourian in this World Cup is decidedly
the fierce shot which shook the woodwork in the match against
Portugal. `Yes…it was offside but I enjoy it when I remember it. It
was my biggest slice of action out there!’
`But the goodbye was as painful as it was untimely. I will never
forget the moment when Farakki (Hossein; assistant coach) came to me
and said `don’t cry…this is football, we should accept it…we can show
our ability in next year’s AFC Asian Cup and in the 2010 World Cup.
The world has not come to an end’.’

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Kathimerini, Greece
June 30 2006
Genocide
A nationalist Turkish lawyer said yesterday that he has petitioned
prosecutors to bring an Armenian religious leader to trial for
`insulting Turkishness.’ Karekin II, whose official title is
Catholicos of All Armenians, made a visit to the Greek Orthodox
leader in Istanbul last week. While calling for improved relations
between the two countries, he repeated Armenia’s long-held view that
the Turks committed genocide against Armenians. Lawyer Kemal
Kerincsiz asked an Istanbul prosecutor to bring charges against
Karekin. (AP)

TREND Information, Azerbaijan
June 30 2006
Withdrawal of Armenian armed forces from conflict zone would relax
tension in region – US Amb at OSCE Minsk Group

Source: Trend
Author: R.Abdullayev

30.06.2006

The Co-chairs of OSCE Minsk Group have led the peaceful dialogue to a
certain stage after which the presidents of Azerbaijan and Armenia
should make a decision, Mathew Bryza, the USA state secretary advisor
on Europe and Eurasia, co-chair of OSCE Minsk Group, told in his
interview with Radio Liberty, Trend reports.
`My words may urge people to create a condition for healthy debates
in the region,’ told Brysa.
`I am surprised not at the debates, but at the issue that several
persons who are not familiar with the recent statement of co-chairs
of Minsk group in Vienna gave a rapid reaction to the meeting. In the
statement of co-chair, everything was stated obviously, but my
statement was shorter and common,’ Bryza added.
Bryza answered the question `May you peaceful plan statement be
considered part of the strategy on beginning of debates?’ that `May
be yes or may be no. I only gave information on happening events. The
document offered to the Permanent Council of OSCE is open for
society.’
`Co-chairs of Minsk Group used all their abilities and energy to
prepare a `framework agreement’ where the main principles of
settlement found their reflections. The president need time to make a
decision on the agreement,’ stressed Bryza. I’m very energetic and
familiar with the leaders enough. We will continue working with them
and don’t state that the process has been ceased forever. However, we
want to note that the dialogue was held till the definite level,
after which the heads of the conflict countries should themselves
take a resolution.
Touching on the contradictory statements on the conducting of
referendum on the status of Nagorno-Karabakh, American co-chair noted
that the sides couldn’t come to an agreement on main principles of
the solution. Therefore, both presidents take responsibility that no
agreement was reached up to now. `I cannot say which president takes
greater responsibility. The presidents may declare that an agreement
was reached on the main principles or may announce that the agreement
was made changes and a packet plan will be prepared,’ told new
co-chair.
At the same time Bryza noted that he withdrawal of the Armenian armed
forces from the conflict zone, undoubtedly, increase the tension in
the region. `Therefore, the issue is important element of the major
principles of resolution. However, stating to Armenians that withdraw
the arms from the region and it will relax the tension in the region
and we will achieve the desired. The Armenians will go to it, if they
will receive anything in exchange. That is the major principle. The
experts are right -the withdrawal of the Armenian armed forces will
relax the tension. But they should receive something in exchange.
Therefore, the heads of state ought to take a difficult resolution.
Bryza noted that the demilitarization of the region will be
accompanied with national voting or referendum on future status of
Nagorno-Karabakh.
The problem is linked with coordination of the time parameters for
withdrawal or re-dislocation of Armenian forces with the status of
Karabakh. That’s the major problem complicating the process.
In the end Bryza voiced his hope that the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict
will be included in the agenda of the meeting of G8 in St-Petersburg.
The Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov stated that the issue will
be under discussion. `We’d like the issue to be included in the
agenda of the meeting,’ the adviser to the US Secretary of State in
Europe and Eurasia, said.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress

TREND, Azerbaijan
June 30 2006
Istanbul Prosecutor’s Office field lawsuit against Catholicos of all Armenians

Source: Trend
Author: R. Abdullayev

30.06.2006

Istanbul Prosecutor’s Office has filed a lawsuit against Garegin II,
Catholicos of all Armenians as per the Article “encroachment on Turks
dignity”. Trendreports with reference to Turkish media that during
his visit to Istanbul Armenian Catholicos announced the necessity in
recognition of fake “Armenian genocide”, which resulted in complaint
lawyers group dispatched to the prosecutor’s office.
It is noted that it is not possible to take evidences of Garegin II
himself as there is no agreement on legal cooperation between Turkey
and Armenia. However, in case the prosecutor’s office considers this
necessary, it can assign all country’s checkpoints to immediately
apprehend Catholicos as soon as he visits Turkey again.

Today, Azerbaijan
June 30 2006
US Ambassador to Armenia refuses to say “Armenian genocide”

30 June 2006 [11:00] – Today.Az

New US Ambassador to Armenia Richard Hoagland has taken up his
duties. Former US Ambassador to Armenia John Evans was discharged
after he claimed his recognition of the so-called Armenian genocide.

According to APA, the Senate confirmed Richard Hoagland as
Ambassador. Prior to this post, Hoagland was US extraordinary and
plenipotentiary Ambassador to Tajikistan.
Before the voting in the Senate, pan-Armenian senators George Allen,
Norm Coleman and Paul Sarbanes said the earlier recall of the
previous Ambassador John Evans caused dissatisfaction in Armenia.
Claiming that the United States should recognize the “Armenian
genocide”, these senators demanded the new Ambassador Hoagland to
make assessment of the 1915 events. Despite insistence of the
senators, Hoagland did not use the expression “Armenian genocide” in
his speech.
“President Bush assessed the 1915 events as unforgettable tragic
events. I represent the President and share his opinions,” Richard
Hoagland said.
Hoagland also said he will try to implement projects on regional
cooperation among Turkey, Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia during his
new mission.
The previous US Ambassador to Armenia John Evans was recalled on
March 7 this year. The newspaper “California Courier” writes it was
due to his statement on the policy of genocide against Armenians by
the Ottoman Empire.
In his meeting with Armenian community in San Francisco a year ago,
John Evans pointed out possibility of recognizing the so-called
Armenian genocide. Seeing this statement sparked serious
dissatisfaction, Evans told a news conference in US Embassy that his
statement was unofficially made and does not represent his country’s
official position.
“At the meeting with Armenian community, I told that US position
regarding the Armenian tragedy remains the same. I used the word
“genocide” that time but this word belongs to me-John Evans only, not
a politician. But I must admit my statements were out of place,” the
Ambassador said.

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Serbianna.com, Michigan
June 30 2006
G-8 FMs call for prompt resolution of Balkans
Thursday, June 29, 2006 10:26 AM
MOSCOW-Foreign ministers from the Group of Eight major industrialized
nations on Thursday called for a prompt resolution to regional
conflicts that continue to plague some ex-Soviet territories and
Balkan countries.
In a joint statement, diplomats called for the ex-Soviet South
Caucasus states of Armenia and Azerbaijan to reach an agreement this
year on the long and bitterly disputed territory of Nagorno-Karabakh.
“We call on Azerbaijan and Armenia to show political will with the
aim to reach an agreement this year and prepare their peoples for
peace and not for war,” the document said.
Nagorno-Karabakh is inside Azerbaijan, but is populated mostly by
ethnic Armenians, who have run it and seven contiguous districts
since an uneasy 1994 cease-fire ended six years of full-scale war.
Sporadic border clashes regularly break out. The unresolved conflict
has held up development in the strategic region.
The ministers also urged a solution for the Serbian province, Kosovo.
The ethnic Albanian majority want to become independent, but the Serb
minority wants it to remain part of Serbia.
“We welcomed the launch of direct Belgrade-Pristina talks and in this
regard we urge the parties, including the Kosovo Serbs, to negotiate
in good faith and make every effort to reach a negotiated agreement,”
the ministers said.
“We underline that Kosovo must remain multiethnic. The Kosovo
leadership should

The Standard, Kenya
June 30 2006
Revealed: How NSIS cleared Armenians

By Biketi Kikechi and Patrick Mathangani
The National Security Intelligence Services (NSIS) gave a clean bill
of health to the alleged Artur brothers, whose real identities are
now a mystery.
Yet it wasn’t just the NSIS, Kenya’s own equivalent of the United
States Federal Investigations Bureau (FBI) and Britain’s MI6, which
slept on the job; three other Government agencies, which also play
the role of security watchdogs, merely opened their doors wide to the
duo, now believed to be international crooks on the run.

Principal Immigration Officer, Joseph Ndathi, displays the travelling
documents belonging to Artur Margaryan at the Kiruki Commission of
Inquiry at the Kenyatta International Conference Centre on Thursday.
Pic by Jacob Otieno

It has also emerged, at the commission of inquiry into the bogus
Artur Margaryan and Artur Sargasyan, that even when their moment of
disgrace came and they had to be “kicked” out of the country, they
still enjoyed luxury of choice, a rare thing for deportees.
In the end, even as they boarded an Emirates plane to Dubai – a
destination they had the luxury to choose – they left no doubt as to
the extent to which they had compromised Kenya’s security apparatus.
To crown the scandal, the bogus Margaryan checked out as Arthur
Gevorkiyan with a Russian passport, also believed to be forged, and
the police and Immigration officials just let him be.
Emergency certificate of travel
On that day, Sargasyan, the sunglass bedecked one who always passed
for Margaryan’s sibling – claimed not to have a passport, even a
forged one.
But the Immigration Department was again at his beck-and-call,
processing for him an emergency certificate of travel that should
only have been valid for the day he flew out.
However, the document, which indicated he was on a business trip to
the United Arab Emirates, was valid for an entire month, contrary to
the law. The Immigration Department came under increasing scrutiny at
the Commission of Inquiry on Thursday when it emerged that foreigners
can, in fact, present forged documents and be issued with Kenyan
passports and other permits.
The commission heard that the NSIS, which should have ascertained
whether or not the mysterious foreigners had criminal records, simply
gave them a clean bill of health.
Another top Government organ – an inter-ministerial committee to boot
– sat at Nyayo House gave the foreigners a green light as investors.
And so did the Criminal Investigations Department (CID), which was
supposed to provide a certificate of good conduct before permits
could be issued.
It was, however, not clear from the evidence whether the security
lapse by the NSIS was deliberate. NSIS conducts investigations for
security clearance of persons who hold or may hold sensitive posts or
have access to sensitive information.
Brothers registered a company
On Thursday, Principal Immigration Officer Joseph Kathuri Ndathi took
to the floor as the Kiruki Commission of Inquiry entered its second
day and revealed that the Arturs got entry permits with the approval
of the NSIS, whose role was to conduct security vetting.
Ndathi told the commission he first got to learn about the presence
of the Armenians in the country on January 23, while processing their
entry permits.
It also emerged that the alleged brothers registered a company,
Brotherlink International Ltd, long before they got entry permits.
“We don’t undertake verification on documents forwarded to us by
applicants unless we suspect they are criminals,” said Ndathi.
Among the details in their application forms were Personal
Identification Numbers (PIN) from the Kenya Revenue Authority, where
they had presented themselves as civil servants. They presented the
firm’s incorporation documents to justify their request for the
permits.
The evidence was adduced after documents were tabled to show the
alleged brothers travelled to Kenya and processed their business
documents using forged documents.
Said Ndathi: “We did not verify the authenticity of their passports
or bank statements produced to support their application because we
don’t do that”.
He blamed the department’s ineptitude on a “serious shortage of staff
and the high number of applications” they receive everyday.
Interpol reported criminal dealings
The NSIS failed to notice that Artur Margaryan’s passport number
AB0322223 had been reported lost in Armenia. Interpol Armenia also
reported in March that Artur Sargasyan lost his passport number
AF0599780 that was replaced, and yet the same passport number had
been approved as valid by the NSIS, according to Ndathi’s evidence.
Ndathi’s mitigation was that he would have declared the permit void,
arrested, prosecuted and later deported the alleged brothers had the
fraud been exposed. He agreed with Assisting Counsel Warui Mungai
that the entry permits were never cancelled despite the publicity
surrounding their activities.
“They were only cancelled on June 9, 2006, the day they were deported
and that means they were valid until that date,” said Ndathi.
Interpol Armenia first reported the criminal dealings of the two
foreigners to their Kenyan counterparts on March 18, 2006. Artur,
whose real identity remains a mystery, stole the passport from Artur
Margaryan who still works in Yerevan as a tax collector.
Ndathi admitted that the passport his officers received from
Margaryan was the one Armenian police had said was lost and
cancelled. He confirmed that the department solely depended on the
documents presented by the Armenians and NSIS’s approval.
Commission chairman Shedrach Kiruki was keen to know from the witness
why he never saw anything peculiar in the Armenians despite the
hullabaloo about them.
“My lords, I didn’t see anything peculiar and it is only now that we
are seeing that the documents given to us were fake,” replied Ndathi.
Potential threats to local security
The NSIS is responsible for identifying potential threats to local
security and advising the President on action to be taken. It also
carries out investigations for security clearance of persons with
access to sensitive information.
NSIS is tasked with advising the Government of any security threats,
and taking steps towards protecting the country and its people.
NSIS, formerly known as the Special Branch, was created in 1952 and
operated under the Commissioner of Police. It acted as a secret
intelligence unit for the colonial government during the Mau Mau
uprising.
In 1963, the Special Branch was delinked from the police and it was
not until 1969 that a presidential charter defined its functions. It
was later transformed into the Directorate of Security Intelligence
through a presidential charter in 1986.
The institution became infamous at the peak of the one-party rule in
the 1980s. Its agents were used in holding and torturing individuals
who were perceived to be anti-government. After local and
international outcry, NSIS was created in January 1999, with the
enactment of the National Security Intelligence Service Act.
Brig (Rtd) Wilson Boinett was appointed NSIS Director-General in 1999
and it was during his tenure that the outfit transformed itself into
a professionally run intelligence service. The current head of NSIS
is a military officer, Michael Gichangi.

The Standard, Kenya
June 30 2006
Artur brothers `were to be deported to Armenia’

By Biketi Kikechi and Patrick Mathangani
The following are excerpts from Thursday’s examination of witness
number two, Joseph Kathuri Ndathi, the Principal Immigration Officer,
by Kiruki Commission assisting counsel Warui Mungai.
Mungai: My lords, appearance as yesterday and we are ready to
continue.
Kiruki: Mr Ndathi, let me remind you that you are still on oath,
proceed.
Mungai: Is it possible to use a deportation order that is not
cancelled to travel back to the country?

A bird’s eye view of the Kiruki Commission of inquiry sitting at the
Kenyatta International Conference Centre, Nairobi, on Thursday. Pic
by Jacob Otieno

Ndathi: My lords, whether this documents is cancelled or not, it is
not practical for you to go to another country and then that country
allows you to come back. It is internationally accepted that it is a
one-way document and to me whether you cancel it or not, it is not
possible to return while using it.
Mungai: What about the air ticket? Who must request that?
Ndathi: In circumstances where a traveller has an air ticket, he
would be allowed to use it, but in a situation where you don’t have
money, the Government is bound to prepare a ticket for you to be
deported.
Ndathi: So, the Government buys the ticket and gives you?
Ndathi: Yes, the Government will buy the ticket but at that time you
are not a free person. So either immigration officers or police
officers will escort you to the airport and hand over your ticket to
the carrier.
Mungai: Is it possible for the Government to buy you a return ticket?
Ndathi: That will be a miracle. They don’t deport you because you are
wanted.
Kiruki: Can a person who has been deported from this country go and
return?
Ndathi: Mr chairman, I have said he can return illegally and as I
have already explained there are people who travel by air all the way
from Bombay to Entebbe before crossing back into the country by road.
Mungai: Is there any provision in the Act?
Ndathi: There is a provision and it is true the minister can revoke
the order.
Mungai: Let us now deal with the Artur brothers. When did you first
learn about the presence of these people in the country?
Ndathi: I think, my lords from a practical point of view, when you
are at the headquarters it is not possible to get all the information
about who and who is entering the country unless there are specific
issues that are required. But having said that, I think although we
had handled their documents prior to when they started appearing in
the newspaper I cannot tell the Commission that those were the kind
of people we were dealing with. But according to our records, they
came into the country last year.
Kiruki: When?
Ndathi: My lords, my officer from the airport will come to give
specific dates.
Mungai: I want your opinion. When did you first learn of their
presence here?
Ndathi: My lords, I can specifically say, it is from the day we
issued these two brothers with entry permits.
Mungai: Do you remember the date?
Ndathi: Yes, it was on January 23rd.
Mungai: Last year?
Ndathi: No, on January 23rd this year.
Kiruki: That is when you first heard about it?
Ndathi: That is when we issued them with entry permits and at that
particular time there were no issues about the brothers.
Kiruki: When you issued them with entry permits, did you issue them
with the `R’ number?
Ndathi: They were issued with an `R’ number, their file was vetted
like other files by NSIS, they were issued with requisition, their
file was summarised, the application was forwarded to the ministerial
committee. It was then approved and paid for.
Mungai: That is fine. Let us now look at the press release that I
took the minister through yesterday. The minister said he received
information from the immigration department. Did you pass such
information to the minister?
Ndathi: My lords, I remember it was the time when I accompanied the
minister on an official trip to Western region. The press people met
the minister after he arrived that morning from his rural
constituency.
I recall him saying, `I have just come from my constituency. What I
can tell you is what I have just read from the newspaper. These
people could be Czechs, Armenians or Russians.’
We later called Nairobi to confirm their nationality and based on the
records held in the files those people were Armenians.
Mungai: I want to show you two files marked 1B and 1C. Did the
information you gave the minister come from those files?
Ndathi: My lord commissioners, yes. The information in folio says
their nationality was Republic of Armenia and that is the information
I gave to the minister.
Mungai: Did you confirm with Armenia that they were their citizens
before giving the minister that information?
Ndathi: Not our office.
Mungai: Your office relies entirely on the information provided by
the applicant, is that so?
Ndathi: Yes.
Mungai: Confirm to the commissioners whether the procedures that they
followed were proper?
Ndathi: My lords, to the best of my knowledge, that was the standard
procedure.
Mungai: I want us to go through the files with you. You can have one.
I have one.
Ndathi: Yes, my lords.
Mungai: Let us look at folio one. That is the personal identification
for a company by the name Brother Link International Ltd. Have you
seen it?
Ndathi: Yes, my lords.
Mungai: Was their any verification of the PIN (Personal
Identification Number) before your department accepted the same?
Ndathi: My lords, we don’t undertake verification on documents that
are forwarded to us by applicants unless we suspect that whoever is
bringing the documents is a criminal.
Kiruki: Mr PIO you have been having that file when people have been
making a lot of kelele (noise). Did you notice anything peculiar
about that applicant?
Ndathi: My lords, I wouldn’t say I have seen anything peculiar,
because all the requirements on a permit application are basically
there.
Kiruki: Up to now?
Ndathi: It is now that discoveries are being made that these
documents are basically fake.
Kiruki: At what stage did you know that some of the information given
to you could be not true?
Ndathi: I think until at the time when police reported to us that
these people were dangerous fellows and they required to be deported.
Kiruki: Was that brought to your attention?
Ndathi: Yes, that was on 9th of this month.
Kiruki: You didn’t know before that there was anything wrong with
these people?
Ndathi: My lords, we never had any problems with those people before
that.
Kiruki: Carry on please.
Mungai: Let us go to folio two where we have particulars for
incorporation for the same company. Did you verify the authenticity
of that document from the Registrar of Companies?
Ndathi: My lords, I can say it wasn’t done because there is no
evidence that it was done.
Mungai: So you didn’t know who were the directors and the
shareholders of that company?
Ndathi: The details of the shareholders are indicated in the
application.
Mungai: But did you check?
Ndathi: My lords, what I’m saying is that when you forward an
application, you enclose required documents.
Mungai: That verification was not done, is that so?
Ndathi: The verification of an application form is not mandatory.
Mungai: I want to refer you to a document here, which was referred to
by the minister yesterday. (Reads a report by Interpol, which
indicated the Arturs travelled on stolen passports.) Had you seen
this report before?
Ndathi: My lords before I answer that, I require a clarification.
This report emanated from Interpol of which country?
Mungai: Open the next page. You can see on top there at the top. It
was in Nairobi as of March 18.
Ndathi: My lords I’m seeing this report for the first time.
Mungai: Look at the report where Interpol in Armenia has said
`Margaryan Artur’. It says a person by the name Artur Sargasyan who
is in Armenia received a passport number AF0599780. And it is said
not to have left Armenia.
Ndathi: It is the same number.
Mungai: Again had you received that letter, what would you have done?
Ndathi: The permit would have been declared void, the person ought to
have been arrested and taken to court.
Mungai: Let’s now come to the deportation order signed by the
minister. We heard from the minister yesterday that he received a
request from you that he signs deportation orders. Is it correct that
you gave that information?
Ndathi: My lords it’s correct. On the 9th of this month, I did
receive communication from the commissioner and his staff that these
four persons must be deported by the end of the day.
Mungai: How did you receive the communication?
Ndathi: It was on telephone and he did send his senior deputy
commissioner to his office, Mr Kimaiyo, who came accompanied by PCIO
Nairobi area and DCIO Central and discussed the modalities. We
decided they were dangerous criminals who must be deported. On
receiving that information, I went to the minister’s office, I
briefed him that on the way they had been appearing on the national
papers there appeared to be serious security issues that are being
raised by the Commissioner of Police.
Mungai: Were there any particular issues which had necessitated that
request?
Ndathi: My lords, my officer had made a request on the telephone
although later he prepared a small brief that they had caused a
fracas at the airport within customs area although they had already
left. I also got information that they had been arrested in the wee
hours of the night.
Mungai: What action did you take?
Ndathi: I briefed my minister and he agreed they were a security
concern. We agreed to prepare a deportation order. They were signed
by the minister and executed accordingly.
Mungai: Look at the deportation order again, that of Artur Margaryan.
Where was he supposed to be deported to?
Ndathi: They were supposed to have been deported to Armenia.
Mungai: We have information that they were deported to Dubai. What
necessitated that?
Ndathi: They did indicate that they are residents of Dubai, where
they were staying and had their businesses.
The law is very clear. It says a person who an order is given shall
be removed to the place where he came or with the approval of the
minister to a country where he belongs.
These people had come from Dubai, and they requested to be taken
where they came from and the law allows that.
The hearing continues.

The Standard, Kenya
June 30 2006
Raila and Nyong’o demand minister’s sacking
By David Ohito
Legislators Raila Odinga and Anyang’ Nyong’o have challenged the
Government to sack Cabinet ministers John Michuki and Gideon
Konchella over their roles in the Armenian brothers saga.
Raila said the Government would only redeem itself and prove it was
genuine in its investigations by sacking the ministers mentioned in
the saga. He said Kenyans had lost confidence in the ministers.
Said Nyong’o: “It confirms President Kibaki’s government needs an
external force to keep it in power, having lost the political support
of the people of Kenya”.
Michuki is the Internal Security minister and Konchella is his
Immigration counterpart. Raila, who is Lang’ata MP, said when he
raised the flag on the bogus Artur Margaryan and Artur Sargasyan,
Michuki accused him of being a self-seeker who wanted political
mileage out of the saga.
“Michuki and Konchella have no business holding ministerial positions
after protecting criminals and aiding them in their activities, they
should have quit long ago,” said Raila.
Criminal record
“Michuki defended the Arturs as investors and asked me to keep off.
Now the truth is coming out and the Government is merely engaging in
a public relations exercise to blackmail Kenyans,” added Raila.
He wondered why the Government had decided to investigate the saga
long after Interpol informed it that Margaryan had a criminal record.
“The brothers committed crimes and breached security at the Jomo
Kenyatta International Airport, but they were still escorted by
Government details. What moral authority do they have to investigate
the Armenians?” he asked.
He said the duo should have been put on the dock to face criminal
charges in Kenya before being deported. The MPs were attending an
education conference in Kisumu.
Raila challenged Michuki and Konchella to resign to pave way for
investigations.
“The Government is on a desperate cosmetic attempt to clean itself
from the revelations that the brothers were criminals,” Raila said.