RA POLICE MAKES A STATEMENT IN CONNECTION WITH DEATH OF OPERATIVE-INVESTIGATION DEPARTMENT HEAD OF RA STATE TAX SERVICE
ARKA News Agency, Armenia
Sept 6 2006
YEREVAN, September 6. /ARKA/. The RA Police made a statement
in connection with the murder of Shahen Hovasapyan,
operative-investigation department head of the RA State Tax Service.
According to the Information-Analytical Office of the Police, on
September 6, at 9.35 a.m. the Central Office of the Police received
a signal of explosion on Byron Str. in the center of Yerevan.
An operative group, which had drove out to the place of the incident,
found out that the explosion occurred in GAS-31 with 005LL03 state
number.
As a result of the explosion Hovasapyan, who was in the car, died
and his driver was injured and was taken to hospital.
Police found it difficult to announce the preliminary version of the
accident, emphasizing that details of the case are being investigated;
motives of the murder are not known yet.
Police continues its work in the place of the incident.
A criminal case is instigated into the fact, stipulated by the article
402 of the RA Criminal Code “Murder”, the case is processed by the
investigative department of the General Prosecutor’s Office.

ARMENIA PRESIDENT ORDERS TO SOLVE MURDER OF TAX SERVICE GENERAL
by: Tigran Liloyan
ITAR-TASS News Agency
September 6, 2006 Wednesday 08:45 AM EST
Armenian President Robert Kocharian ordered the republican law
enforcement agencies to solve the murder of a general of the tax
service as quick as possible, Kocharian’s spokesman Viktor Sogomonian
told Itar-Tass.
Chief of the investigation department of the Armenian State Tax
Service Shagen Ovasapian was killed in the blast in downtown Yerevan
on Wednesday morning. The blast went off, when the 49-year-old
Major-General of the tax service was getting in his service car to go
to work. The driver of the service car was slightly injured. Criminal
proceedings were instituted, the investigation is in progress.
Robert Kocharian offered condolences to the family of the killed
general and condemned “the criminal methods aimed against the
efforts of the state to tighten the tax administration and create
equal taxation conditions for all.” These criminal actions “cannot
change the task-oriented state policy in this field,” the Armenian
president pointed out.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress

LE PARLEMENT EUROPEEN DEMANDE A ANKARA DE RECONNAîTRE LE GENOCIDE ARMENIEN
Alexandrine Bouilhet
Le Figaro, France
06 septembre 2006
LE PARLEMENT europeen fait pression sur Ankara pour obtenir la
reconnaissance du genocide armenien dans le cadre des negociations de
la Turquie a l’Union europeenne. Lors d’un vote très serre, survenu
dans la nuit de lundi a mardi, a Strasbourg, la commission des Affaires
etrangères du Parlement europeen a adopte trois amendements appelant
“la Turquie a reconnaître le genocide armenien en tant que prealable
a l’adhesion”. Cette formulation, la plus radicale jamais adoptee au
Parlement europeen, a ete denoncee dès hier par Ankara.
“Nous sommes consternes par les efforts visant a imposer des
preconditions qui sont loin d’etre objectives sur des questions qui
necessitent une discipline academique serieuse”, indique le communique
du ministère turc des Affaires etrangères.
Pourparlers Ankara estime que c’est aux historiens, et non aux deputes,
de s’exprimer sur la question armenienne. Plusieurs Parlements
nationaux, notamment l’Assemblee nationale francaise et le Parlement
belge ont vote des resolutions demandant a la Turquie de reconnaître
le genocide armenien. Le Parlement europeen a egalement vote en ce
sens a deux reprises, en 2004 et 2005, sans toutefois faire de la
reconnaissance une condition a l’adhesion. Consultatif, le vote du
Parlement europeen nourrit la polemique autour de la candidature
turque, très mal en point depuis six mois. Pilote des pourparlers
d’adhesion, la Commission europeenne, qui doit rendre un rapport
strategique decisif le 24 octobre, estime que la question armenienne
ne peut pas devenir, en cours de negociations, une precondition
d’adhesion. “La reconnaissance du genocide armenien n’est pas un
prealable a l’adhesion turque” a repete lundi, a Bruxelles, Jose Manuel
Barroso, invite par les deputes liberaux belges. “Il faut du temps pour
ce genre d’exercice, qui doit etre effectue sur une base volontaire”,
a-t-il ajoute, demandant a son auditoire : “Combien de temps l’Eglise
catholique a-t-elle mis pour reconnaître les crimes de l’Inquisition
?” Levee de boucliers Les deputes europeens ont adopte cet amendement
conteste, a l’occasion d’un vote sur le rapport du depute conservateur
neerlandais Camiel Eurlings, dont la tonalite est très critique sur
la Turquie. (Nos editions d’hier). Sur la seule question armenienne,
chère aux Francais, une vingtaine d’amendements ont ete deposes. Ce
vote n’est pas definitif. Le Parlement europeen sera appele a adopter
le rapport Eurlings, en seance plenière, fin septembre. Compte
tenu de la levee de boucliers en Turquie, il n’est pas certain que
l’amendement pro-armenien tienne jusque-la. “C’est typiquement le
genre d’amendement qui peut etre remis en cause en seance plenière”,
indiquent les elus liberaux du Parlement, très favorables a la
candidature de la Turquie. Si elle fait l’unanimite en France, la
question armenienne divise encore l’Europe. Par solidarite avec la
Turquie, la Grande-Bretagne et l’Allemagne ont toujours evite de
faire pression sur Ankara pour la reconnaissance du genocide armenien.
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LE PARLEMENT ADOPTE UN RAPPORT TRèS CRITIQUE SUR LA TURQUIE
Le Monde, France
6 septembre 2006 mercredi
STRASBOURG. La commission des affaires etrangères du Parlement
europeen, reunie lundi 4 septembre, a adopte, par 53 voix contre 6
et 8 abstentions, un rapport critique, sur ” les progrès accomplis
par la Turquie sur la voie de l’adhesion “. Malgre l’opposition des
socialistes, des Verts et des liberaux, favorables a l’adhesion de la
Turquie, une majorite de deputes ont manifeste leur mecontentement
quant au fait qu’Ankara persiste a ne pas reconnaître Chypre. Leur
resolution ” rappelle a la Turquie qu’un manque de progrès a cet egard
aura des implications serieuses en ce qui concerne le processus de
negociation et pourrait meme l’arreter “. Les eurodeputes ont, en
outre, vote deux amendements socialistes qui appellent la Turquie ”
a reconnaître le genocide armenien ” et font de cette reconnaissance
” un prealable a l’adhesion a l’Union europeenne “. – (Corresp.)
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U.N. CONSIDERING DRAFT RESOLUTION ON FIRES IN KARABAKH
PanARMENIAN.Net
06.09.2006 14:53 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ The plenary session of the U.N. General Assembly
dedicated to the consideration of the draft resolution calling on the
international community to render assistance in extinguishing fires
in Nagorno Karabakh, was postponed.
The General Assembly was due to consider the item titled “Situation on
Azerbaijan’s seized lands” on Tuesday afternoon. However Ms. Margaret
Kelly, Director of General Assembly Affairs & ECOSOC Affairs Division,
said that intense talks are still being held on the draft and the
plenary session was postponed to Wednesday morning.
Earlier the Spokesperson of the President of the 61st session of the
U.N. General Assembly informed that the Armenian delegation has
already requested to put the draft resolution on vote, reported the
U.N. communication unit.

TURKEY WISHES TO APPEAR AS EU ALLY AND EUROPEAN DIPLOMACY WEAPON
PanARMENIAN.Net
06.09.2006 14:38 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ “Sending of Turkish peacekeepers to Lebanon is
by no means a growth of Ankara’s imperial pretensions, though some
forces in Armenia think so,” head of the department of international
relations at the institute of political and military analysis Sergey
Markedonov told a PanARMENIAN.Net reporter. In his words, Recep Tayyip
Erdogan despite his “stormy Islamic youth” has staked on Turkey’s
Europeanazation and its accession to the EU.
“However presently Europe demonstrates the whole world its fear to
participate in the peacekeeping operation.
In this situation Turks wish to appear as EU’s ally and even a weapon
of European diplomacy. For Israel a move of the kind made by Turkey’s
is quite admissible, since Turkey has been an ally to the Jewish state
for many years,” he remarked. However the Russian political scientist
considers that the Tel Aviv-Israel relations has considerably cooled
over the situation in Iraq.
“Anyway Turkey is a more favorable “peacekeeper” for Israel. Thus,
Ankara on one hand aspires for Europe and is ready to demonstrate
its loyalty towards the EU. On the other hand this operation will
become a test for relations with Israel. Third, this goal will not
be publicly announced in Turkey, since many Turks feel sympathy for
Hezbollah. Thus Turkish military should know how to behave in the
radical Islamist world. With this move Turkey will acquire a good
notion of the situation in Lebanon, Helbollah’s relations with Iran
and Iran’s intentions,” Markedonov said.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress

MATURE OFFICERS TO INVESTIGATE HOVASAPYAN’S KILLING
PanARMENIAN.Net
06.09.2006 15:07 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ September 6 at about 9.15 a.m. local time some
unknown blasted the GAZ-3102 service car of Shahen Hovasapyan,
the head of the operating and investigating department of RA State
Tax Service, says the statement of the Armenian Office of Prosecutor
General. The car exploded with Shahen Hovasapyan, his son Grigor and
driver Andranik Charchuan in it. The Armenian Office of Prosecutor
General has initiated a criminal case in accordance with Article 104.2
(murder with aggravation) of the RA Penal Code. The investigation
will be carried out by a group of mature officers.

RA PRESIDENT DECORATED JOHN EVANS WITH MKHITAR GOSH ORDER
PanARMENIAN.Net
06.09.2006 15:32 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Today Armenian President Robert Kocharian met with
U.S. Ambassador John Evans, who is completing his diplomatic service
in Armenia, reported the RA leader’s press office. By the decree of
05.09.2006 John Evans was decorated with Mkhitar Gosh order for the
contribution in the development of the Armenian-American friendly
relations. Handing the order Robert Kocharian thanked the diplomat for
the efficient cooperation and underscored that during the recent two
years considerable progress wax fixed in the Armenia-U.S. relations. He
also wished Mr Evans every success in his further activities. For
his part Amb. Evans remarked that the successful cooperation in
the service of the whole diplomatic staff of the U.S. Embassy. The
interlocutors also referred to the Nagorno Karabakh conflict settlement
process.

ERDOGAN SAYS RECOGNITION OF GENOCIDE BY TURKEY A ‘DREAM’
PanARMENIAN.Net
06.09.2006 15:11 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ At a joint press conference conducted after a
meeting with the Albanian Prime Minister Sali Berisha, referring
to the call of the European Parliament to recognize the Armenian
Genocide, Erdogan said that for the implementation of the decisions
of the Council of Europe the recognition of the Armenian genocide by
Turkey is not necessary, it is just a dream, reported Zaman.

BAKU: U.N. GENERAL ASSEMBLY MAY ADOPT DRAFT RESOLUTION ON KARABAKH WITHOUT VOTING
PanARMENIAN.Net
06.09.2006 17:24 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ The draft resolution on the situation in the “seized
Azeri territories may be passed by UN General Assembly without voting,
Azeri Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov said when commenting on
the delay of discussions at the U.N. General Assembly. The Minister
said the OSCE Minsk Group Co-chairs were holding consultations with
concerned parties in order to develop the adjusted version of
the resolution for its approval by the U.N. General Assembly. “I
cannot foretell the outcome. Our position is open and we are holding
consultations”, he said, reported Trend news agency.