RA PRIME MINISTER TOOK A VACATION
ArmRadio.am
26.06.2006 14:00
June 26 RA Prime Minister Andranik Margaryan left for a short
vacation. The Premier will use his one-week leave to undergo recurrent
prophylactic medical examination in France.

ERIK GEVORGYAN ACHIEVES A SILVER MEDAL AT THE EUROPEAN YOUTH JUDO CHAMPIONSHIP
ArmRadio.am
26.06.2006 14:05
Erik Gevorgyan of Yerevan achieved a silver medal and vice-champion’s
title at the European Youth Judo Championship held in Hungary. Six
other Armenian sportsmen were participating in the tournament.
RA Judo Federation informs that Erik Gevorgyan lost only in the final.
The trainer of the Armenian team is Martin Sargsyan.

ANDRANIK MARGARYAN TO PAY A WORKING VISIT TO GEORGIA JULY 7
ArmRadio.am
26.06.2006 14:13
July 7 RA Prime Minister Andranik Margaryan will pay a working
visit to Georgia to participate in the recurrent sitting of the
Armenian-Georgian Intergovernmental Cooperation Commission to be
held in Ajaria, Information and Public Relations Department of RA
government informs.

STEPAN HAKOBYAN SUSPECTED OF MURDERING SEDRAK ZATIKYAN
ArmRadio.am
26.06.2006 15:43
The police have arrested Stepan Hakobyan, who is suspected of murdering
Sedrak Zatikyan, son of the former head of Malatsia-Sebastia community
and MP Sedrak Zatikyan.
In the framework of investigation of the case Stepan Hakobyan’s
apartment was searched and illegal weapon was found, Press Secretary
of RA [prosecutor General Sona Truzyan told our correspondent.
According to our information, the deferred is the cousin of Hakob
Hakobyan, an MP elected from Malatsia-Sebastia community.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress

‘KARABAKH CAN CLAIM ITS PLACE IN THE FAMILY OF NATIONS’
Editorial
Yerkir.am
June 23, 2006
“Every nation lives and creates having the great goal of
independence. It should establish its own statehood on the territory
of its homeland and be able to defend it.
This idea has been accompanying our nation for centuries,” Armenian
Science and Education Minister Levon Mkrtchian said in his speech at
the ‘Nagorno Karabakh Republic: Past, Present and Future’ conference
held in Stepanakert.
“Many gave their lives to realize this goal, we have had irreversible
losses that we have to restore,” he went on saying.
Mkrtchian also voiced the congratulations of the Armenian prime
minister.
“The international recognition of the Nagorno Karabakh Republic
is important not only because of today’s political concepts, that
recognitions is the core of Armenia’s and Karabakh’s independence,”
Mkrtchian said. “And we should realize that we should strengthen the
first serious success of our liberation movement. Such strengthening
happens with an every-day work and through strengthening and
development of the Republic of Armenia and the Nagorno Karabakh
Republic.”
He also said that holding an international conference in Karabakh
demonstrates that the state has been established and it can claim
its place in the family of nations.

DUAL CITIZENSHIP ISSUES
Yerkir.am
June 23, 2006
National Assembly is set to hold hearings titled “Dual Citizenship:
International Law and Experience,” initiated by the Armenian
Revolutionary Federation’ s parliamentary faction.
Interested organizations, political parties, non-governmental
organizations and experts have been invited to participate.
For the Armenian people, who found itself in a unique situation spread
around the globe after it was subjected to genocide in its homeland
in the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century, the
dual citizenship is a special issue.
The Armenian Diaspora is a unique phenomenon of the history,
and Armenians have for decades preserved their ethnic culture and
awareness due to their quest to return to their independent homeland.
The uniqueness of our situation makes us create a united sphere of
national identity that would form a united responsibility for the
homeland and future of the Armenians.
Our wish is to make Armenia the homeland of all Armenians and at least
partially soothe the consequences of the history under the norms of
the international law.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress

‘NKR: PAST, PRESENT, FUTURE’ CONFERENCE HELD IN STEPANAKERT
Yerkir.am
June 23, 2006
“NKR: Past, Present, Future” international conference opened on June 21
at the Artsakh State University. The conference, dedicated to the 15th
anniversary of the Karabakh independence declaration, was attended by
about 200 representatives from over 10 countries, including Armenia,
France, United States, Russia, Germany and Great Britain.
The conference was held in three panels: history, culture,
political-legal and socio-economic.
NKR President Arkady Ghukasyan’s address to the conference
I have apprehended the news on the conduct of the international
conference dedicated to the 15th Anniversary of the Nagorno Karabakh
Republic’s declaration with solid satisfaction. It again provides
ample evidence of our state’s existence.
Last fifteen years showed to the world that the Nagorno Karabakh people
are entitled to have the independent state of their own declared
pursuant to the former USSR’s legislation and the international
law’s basic rules. Although the NKR has not been recognized by the
international community yet, however, by the level of conformity to
the European society’s standards our Republic noticeably outstrips
Azerbaijan, which endeavored to dispose of the Nagorno Karabakh’s
Armenian population having enforced a war on us.
However, our nation has not only survived in an unequal sanguinary
armed confrontation, but it managed to mainly cure the war’s wounds,
stage an economic recovery, restore social sphere, inspire new life
to the region’s cultural and spiritual development.
An efficient army equipped with modern weaponry, which is the safest
guarantor of the security and prosperity of the Nagorno Karabakh
Republic and our nation, has been formed in the NKR.
At present Azerbaijan exerts efforts to reverse history, deprive our
nation of freedom and independence gained at the cost of irreplaceable
losses. It is an unpromising way. I am convinced: the future is the
talks between the NKR and Azerbaijan on the search for the ways of the
problem’s advantageous solution and the establishment of cooperation
between the two states.
One is eager to believe that our conference will promote deeper
comprehension of the realities of the region, which is difficult to
imagine without the Nagorno Karabakh Republic’s existence.
In this connection it is pleasant that you intend to discuss a wide
spectrum of issues referring both to the Nagorno Karabakh’s history and
culture, its spiritual heritage and to the legal aspects of the NKR’s
functioning, the outlooks of our country’s social-economic development.
Levon Mkrtchain: “Karabakh can claim its place in the family of
nations”
“Every nation lives and creates having the great goal of
independence. It should establish its own statehood on the territory of
its homeland and be able to defend it. This idea has been accompanying
our nation for centuries,” Armenian Science and Education Minister
Levon Mkrtchian said in his speech at the ‘Nagorno Karabakh Republic:
Past, Present and Future’ conference held in Stepanakert.
“Many gave their lives to realize this goal, we have had irreversible
losses that we have to restore,” he went on saying.
Mkrtchian also voiced the congratulations of the Armenian prime
minister.
“The international recognition of the Nagorno Karabakh Republic
is important not only because of today’s political concepts, that
recognitions is the core of Armenia’s and Karabakh’s independence,”
Mkrtchian said.
“And we should realize that we should strengthen the first serious
success of our liberation movement. Such strengthening happens with
an every-day work and through strengthening and development of the
Republic of Armenia and the Nagorno Karabakh Republic.”
He also said that holding an international conference in Karabakh
demonstrates that the state has been established and it can claim
its place in the family of nations.

VIABLE INSTITUTES AS GUARANTEE FOR DEVELOPMENT
Yerkir.am
June 23, 2006
Only 15 years after Armenia launched market reforms Europe is mulling
granting Armenia a status of a country with market economy. It is
said that the issue could be solved by the end of the year.
How serious are these discussions and what actually a ‘country with
market economy’ means?
The experience of leading countries
The fact is that only 10 percent or 20-25 countries out of 200 have
developed market economies. While other have some infrastructures
typical for market economies, market stagnates in those countries
without ensuring a glut for society’s prosperity.
International donors spend billions of dollars to reform the economies
of those countries but the expected results are not reached. The gap
between the rich and poor is gradually widening.
The experience of developed countries indicates that the first
precondition for a developed market economy is an efficient formulation
of property rights. Only then we can expect that the property rights
could become permanently available, standardized and subject to
exchanges that could be centrally registered, legally formulated and
guarantee that their owners would not be deprived form their rights,
or nationalized or uncertainty.
The situation in other countries
Apparently, in countries with underdeveloped market economies not only
are the property rights weak and unclear but also their registration
and protection mechanisms are inefficient.
This means that institutional weakness and underdeveloped
infrastructures are obstacles for implementing efficient market
economy. And fist of all this applies to underdeveloped government
institutions.
In theory, government can both contribute to establishment of
efficient and viable market institutions and block its development
through beneficent institutions.
Statements of politicians on political goals and necessity of reforms
often do not correspond to the institutional mechanisms capacities
for implementing such reforms since the price a society is to pay is
not clearly defined.
In this regard, a choice for an institutional structure of a country
is a result of proactive measures to better implement reforms. Western
countries posses more developed institutions that are in line with
dominating method of economic coordination.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress

VISITING ISTANBUL, ARMENIAN ORTHODOX LEADER SAYS TURKS COMMITTED GENOCIDE AGAINST ARMENIANS
AP Worldstream
Jun 25, 2006
Armenian Orthodox leader Karekin II said in Istanbul Sunday that Turks
committed genocide against Armenians, a statement that is likely to
increase tensions during the last two days of his weeklong visit here.
Karekin II, whose official title is Catholicos of All Armenians, has
been facing protests since his plane landed at the Istanbul airport
on Tuesday.
The protesters included prominent lawyers from the Turkish Lawyers’
Union, who previously pushed for the prosecution of novelist Orhan
Pamuk after he said that Turks had killed 1 million Armenians.
Turkey vehemently denies that the killing of Armenians by Ottoman
Turks around the time of World War I was genocide, and several cases
have been brought against those who say otherwise. The cases have
been opened under a law making it a crime to “insult Turkishness.”
Armenians say that as many as 1.5 million of their ancestors were
killing in an organized genocidal campaign by Ottoman Turks, and have
pushed for recognition of the killings as genocide around the world.
Karekin II was unreceptive Sunday to Turkey’s requests that Turkey and
Armenia, which are neighbors but have no diplomatic relations, open
their historical archives to researchers from both countries to try
to ease tensions and reach an objective conclusion about the killings.
“For our people research is not an issue. This is something that
happened and it needs to be recognized,” the Dogan news agency quoted
Karekin II as saying. “The genocide issue has been researched for 90
years by academics.”
Karekin II said the protests hadn’t affected him.
“They didn’t break my spirit and they don’t reflect my visit,” he
said. “But if these kinds of protests continue, it shows that we have
a lot of work so that these two societies can live together.”
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress

THE MEETING OF NKR PRESIDENT
Azat Artsakh, Nagorno Karabakh Republic [NKR]
26 June 2006
On June 22 NKR President Arkady Ghukassian met with the participants
of the international conference “Nagorno Karabakh Republic: Past,
Present and Future”, which had kicked off on the eve under the auspices
of the NKR president.
Greeting the scholars from about 10 countries, Arkady Ghukassian
mentioned that this authoritative conference in Karabakh is another
step towards an adequate presentation and international recognition of
NKR. The president said that the settlement of the Karabakh issue is
not close, and the opponents, avoiding a dialogue, have shifted the
conflict to the political, economic and even scientific sphere. We
accept the challenge, and your scientific potential and experience
must provide a firm ground for this struggle, he said. The participants
exchanged opinions on the development of education and science in NKR.
Arkady Ghukassian expressed willingness to study all the ideas and
proposals heard during the meeting. Answering the questions of the
participants, he proposed to hold such conferences every year. NKR
Prime Minister Anoushavan Danielian, Deputy Prime Minister Ararat
Danielian and the minister of education, culture and sport Kamo Atayan
were also present at the meeting.