CHIRAC STATES THE NECESSITY IN URGENT SETTLEMENT OF NK CONFLICT
Author: À.Mamedov
TREND, Azerbaijan
May 30 2006
At his today’s meeting with Azeri president Ilham Aliyev, President of
France Jacques Chirac stated the necessity in the urgent settlement of
Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. Trend reports with reference to ITAR-TASS,
head of France said, quoting ‘there could be no other process but
peaceful one’ and reminded of peace significance for Azerbaijan,
Armenia and the rest of the region.
French government official said that president of France, quoting,
‘confirmed the principles of joint statement made by three co-chairs
of Russia, the US and France may 25 in Yerevan, which states that the
time has come for both the parties to come to an agreement on basic
principles of the conflict settlement’.
Chirac and Aliyev also exchanged opinions on the situation in region,
in particular conflict around Iran, French official said, reminding
journalists that nowadays Azerbaijan is chairing in Islamic Conference
Organization.
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THIRD PHASE OF TURKEY-ARMENIA UNOFFICIAL TALKS YIELDS NO RESULT EITHER
Azeri Press Agency, Azerbaijan
May 30 2006
Since a letter that Turkey’s Prime Minister Rajab Tayyib Erdoghan
sent to Armenia’s President Robert Kocharian diplomats from both
states have had three private meetings (APA).
The last round of the talks closed to media and public took place
in March in Vienna. Though Turkish diplomats offered “to discuss
political problems and genocide issue between the states but let
historians investigate the genocide not just politicians,” official
Yerevan rejected this proposal. Armenian diplomats wanted to discuss
the genocide issue at the joint commission of the two countries.
Ankara, however, did not accept this proposal. The sides are preparing
for the next round of the talks.

FIRE ENGULFS SIX RESIDENTIAL BLOCKS IN ARMENIAN CAPITAL
RIA Novosti, Russia
May 30 2006
YEREVAN, May 30 (RIA Novosti) – A major fire has engulfed at least six
residential blocks in the center of the Armenian capital, Yerevan,
but a spokesman for the emergency services said no injuries had yet
been reported.
Nikolai Grigoryan said a fire alarm had gone off at about 4 p.m.
local time (1 p.m. GMT), and eight fire engines had been summoned to
the site.
“There are some problems here because the roads in the area are narrow,
which makes it difficult for fire engines to pass, and accordingly low
pressure in the hoses is preventing us from extinguishing the blaze,”
Grigoryan said.
The spokesman said rescuers had contacted the municipal water supply
service but were told that the pressure in the pumps could not be
raised because of an accident.
He said water was being brought by special water carriers and street
sprinklers. Electricity has been switched off in the area.

UPDATE: FIRE IN CENTRAL YEREVAN EXTINGUISHED
RIA Novosti, Russia
May 30 2006
(Adds details, corrects GMT)
YEREVAN, May 30 (RIA Novosti) – A fire that affected a residential
area in the center of the Armenian capital, Yerevan, Tuesday has been
put out, emergency services said.
“The fire that swept five small houses was extinguished at 4.55 p.m.
[12.55 p.m. GMT], and there are no victims,” Ara Movsisyan, senior
spokesman for the rescue service, said.
Earlier spokesman Nikolai Grigoryan said a fire alarm had gone off
at about 4 p.m. local time (12:00 p.m. GMT) and eight fire engines
had been summoned to the site in the Kond district.
Firefighters experienced difficulties in extinguishing the blaze
because fire engines could not pass easily through narrow streets
and an accident the municipal water supply meant that pressure in
the hoses could not be increased.

KARABAKH CONFLICT TO BE CONSIDERED IN CONTEXT OF TRANSFORMATION OF BLACK SEA REGION
Today, Azerbaijan
May 30 2006
Black Sea Forum for Dialog and Partnership will be held in Bucharest
(Romania) June 4-5.
As head of the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry’s press office Vassily
Filipchuk informs, participants of the forum are expected “to continue
their dialog about democracy, stability and development started by a
forum of the Commonwealth of Democratic Choice held in Kiev in December
2005 and Vilnius conference ‘Common Vision for Common Neighborhood’.”
The final goal of the process, according to Filipchuk, will be
transformation of the Black Sea region into a Euro-integration space
of interaction of sovereign states in the territory with active market
economy systems, transparent and effective governmental bodies.
“This process is also aimed at maintaining strong ties with the
Euro-Atlantic community aimed at further extension and consolidation of
the zone of freedom, security and stability in the Black Sea region,”
he said.
It is worth mentioning, within frameworks of the forum a meeting of
Armenian President Robert Kocharyan and Azerbaijani President Ilham
Aliyev is planned. By the way, Robert Kocharyan did not participate
in the events in Kiev and Vilnius that anticipated the summit in
Bucharest.
It is also worth mentioning that neither Armenia nor Azerbaijan
are states with assess to the Black Sea. Meanwhile, according to
the Armenian Foreign Minister Vardan Oskanyan, there is a document
at the negotiation table over Nagorno Karabakh settlement, and the
presidents are expected to work it out. Last meeting of the Armenian
and Azerbaijani presidents was held in Rambouillet and bore no positive
results, though, became a stage to more intensified activity of the
mediators in the settlement process, especially in the US.
As independent Armenian experts believe, the fact of holding another
Kocharyan-Aliyev meeting in Bucharest means that the Karabakh problem
is being treated in the context of processes in the Black Sea and
Caspian region on the whole, REGNUM reports.
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PRESIDENT ILHAM ALIYEV MEETS JACQUES CHIRAC TODAY
Today, Azerbaijan
May 30 2006
President Ilham Aliyev today met with France’s President Jacques
Chirac in France.
As APA informs, the discussions focused on international and regional
issues as well as prospects of settlement of the Nagorno Karabakh
conflict.
President Aliyev is also due to have talks with President of French
Senate Christian Poncelet during a businesslike dinner party today.
Mr.Aliyev attended the opening of new premises of the Azerbaijan’s
Embassy in France yesterday. He also received president of French
Teknip Group of Companies, representative of Total Company as well
as met with French businessmen.
The Azerbaijani President today also addressed to the NATO
Parliamentary Assembly’s session.
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ARMENIA BACKS OUT OF CIS MEETING IN AZERBAIJAN
Radio Free Europe, Czech Rep.
May 30 2006
May 30, 2006 — Armenian officials are refusing to attend an upcoming
meeting of defense ministers of the Commonwealth of Independent States
(CIS) in neighboring Azerbaijan.
A spokesman for Armenia’s Defense Ministry says Azerbaijani officials
cannot guarantee their safety.
Fourteen years after a cease-fire was agreed, Azerbaijan and Armenia
remain at loggerheads about the final status of the disputed region
of Nagorno-Karabakh, which has been ruled by ethnic Armenians since
a separatist war in the early 1990s.
The meeting of CIS ministers begins on May 31.

ARMENIAN TEEN SLAIN ON TRAIN
By Carl Schreck
Staff Writer
The Moscow Times, Russia
May 31 2006
A group of young men yelling “Glory to Russia” stabbed an Armenian
teenager to death last week on a crowded commuter train, prosecutors
and the lawyer of the victim’s family said Tuesday.
Prosecutors are classifying the fatal attack as a hate crime.
Artur Sardaryan, 19, was on the train at about 11 p.m. Thursday when
he was approached by the assailants and repeatedly stabbed in the
chest with a knife, said Yelena Rossokhina, a spokeswoman for the
Moscow region prosecutor’s office.
There were thought to be about 20 people on the train, heading from
Moscow to the city of Pushkino, at the time of the attack.
No suspects had been detained as of Tuesday.
“According to witnesses, the killers were yelling, ‘Glory to Russia’
and ‘Long live Russia,'” said Simon Tsaturyan, the Sardaryan family’s
lawyer.
Tsaturyan said the attackers pulled the train’s emergency lever after
stabbing Sardaryan and fled the scene. Sardaryan died on the spot,
Tsaturyan said.
Tsaturyan said he did not know why it took the authorities five days
before issuing any public statements about the stabbing. Rossokhina
did not comment on the time lag.
Sardaryan was a Russian citizen.
The killing came one month after a 17-year-old ethnic Armenian was
stabbed to death on the platform of the Pushkinksaya metro station
in central Moscow.
There have been numerous hate crimes across the country in recent
months, with victims including Africans, Central Asians and other
dark-skinned people. President Vladimir Putin, in his Victory
Day speech earlier this month, linked skinheads and other violent
extremists with the fascists of the previous century.
On April 23, a group of young people attacked Vagan Abramyants, with
one of them stabbing him with a knife in the chest. Abramyants died
at the scene. One student was detained but was released after police
failed to find enough evidence to charge him.
Tsaturyan, who is also representing Abramyants’ family, said there
had been no breakthroughs in the investigation of last month’s
slaying. Abramyants was also a Russian citizen.
Ara Abramyan, head of the Union of Armenians in Russia, called
Thursday’s slaying a “clear provocation” ahead of the G8 summit in
St. Petersburg “by the forces of evil that don’t want the democratic
and civilized development of Russia,” Interfax reported Tuesday.
Abramyan said Armenians had not been singled out. “Fascists don’t
choose people by their ethnicity,” he told Interfax. “They choose
their victims according to the color of their skin and eyes.”
Abramyan said his organization would organize a conference on hate
crimes by mid-July. The conference would include representatives from
civic organizations and law enforcement officials.
“We believe it’s necessary to organize a round table as soon as
possible to discuss the problem of xenophobia and cultivating
tolerance,” Abramyan told Interfax.
According to Tsaturyan, Sardaryan and his family fled anti-Armenian
pogroms in Baku, Azerbaijan, in 1989. Artur Sardaryan obtained Russian
citizenship in 1992.

AZERBAIJAN WILL NEVER AGREE WITH AGGRESSORS OF AZERBAIJANI LANDS – ILHAM ALIYEV
Author: A.Mammadov
TREND, Azerbaijan
May 30 2006
The Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev properly stressed in his speech
at the meeting of the Parliamentary Assembly of NATO the necessity
of keeping the territorial integrity of his country.
“Each peaceful solution of the Karabakh problem should be based on
the territorial integrity of Azerbaijan,” told Ilham Aliyev, Trend
reports with reference to ITAR-TASS.
“We will never agree with aggressors of our lands,” stated Aliyev.
“To become national minority doesn’t mean the right to establish an
independent state,” said Ilham Aliyev.
He remembered that due to Karabakh problem 20% of Azerbaijan territory
was occupied and more that one million people became refugees in
their own country.
It is necessary to note that the chairman of the Parliamentary
Assembly of NATO Pyer Lelush expressed his regret that Armenian
president Robert Kocharyan abandoned the invitation to take part at
the meetings in Paris.

ARMENIA STAY IN FRONT
by Malcolm Pein
The Daily Telegraph (LONDON)
May 30, 2006 Tuesday
Armenia stayed at the head of the field at the 37th Chess Olympiad
in Turin with an impressive 3-1 win over the Netherlands. World No 3
Levon Aronian bounced back from his defeat by Vladimir Kramnik and
dispatched Ivan Sokolov before the latter had developed any of his
kingside. This victory set the tone for the match and the Armenians
stretched their lead to a full point.
Russia also won 3-1 against Belarus, with Kramnik demolishing the
Berlin Wall, an opening variation he popularised by confounding
Garry Kasparov with it in their world title match in London in
2000. This game also finished rapidly after a bizarre blunder by
Alexey Alexandrov.
England lost to Norway as the teenage prodigy Magnus Carlsen ground
down Michael Adams in a long endgame. Nigel Short played superbly
and has now drawn three with black and won three with white, but
Jon Speelman’s switch from solidity to creativity failed and a pawn
sacrifice never worked out.
Scotland are the leading British team again after defeating
Finland 2.5-1.5. Jon Shaw now has 4/4, quite a way to celebrate the
ratification of his GM title. Jonathan Rowson outplayed Tommy Nyback
and missed a difficult win.
Leaders: 1 Armenia 21; 2 Russia 20; 3 Cuba 19.5; 4-7 Uzbekistan,
Ukraine, Georgia, Czech Rep 19; 8-13 Netherlands, Germany, Denmark,
France, USA, Sweden 18.5. (36 Scotland 16.5; 38 England 16; 68 Ireland
14.5, 84 Wales 14, 126 Guernsey 10.5 130 Jersey 10; 148 teams.)
N Short – LE Johannessen
37th Olympiad Turin (7)
Caro Kann Advance
1.e4 c6 2.d4 d5 3.e5 Bf5 4.h4 h5 5.c4 (Nigel plays a straightforward
attacking line that Boris Spassky also favoured.) 5…e6 6.Nc3
Nd7 7.cxd5 cxd5 8.Bd3 Bxd3 9.Qxd3 Ne7 10.Nf3 Nc6 11.0-0 Be7 12.Bg5
(Safeguarding the h4 pawn and threatening Nc3-b5-d6+) 12…a6 13.Rac1
Nb6 14.Ne2 Qd7 15.Nf4 Nc4 (Not satisfactory but Black has no safe
place for his king if 15…0-0-0 16.Rxc6+ bxc6 17.Qxa6+ Qb7 18.Qxb7+
Kxb7 19.Bxe7 or 15…g6 16.Bf6 Bxf6 17.exf6 Qd6 18.Nxe6 fxe6 19.Qxg6+
Kd8 20.Qg7 Rf8 21.Qxb7 or 15…Rc8 16.Bxe7 Qxe7 17.Ng5 Rc7 18.Ngxe6
fxe6 19.Ng6) 16.b3 Na3 17.Rfd1 Rc8 18.Bxe7 Qxe7 19.Rc5 Rc7 20.Rdc1
(White has two plans, Nf3-g5 with sacrifices on e6 or g6 and Qd3-c3-b2
and a queenside pawn advance) 20…g6 21.Ng5 Rd7 22.Rxc6! bxc6
23.Nxg6! fxg6 24.Qxg6+ Kd8 25.Rxc6 1-0
Johannessen
Short
Final position after 25.Rxc6, 26.Nxe6+ will win the queen.