PRIME MINISTER’S IS A MATTER OF VOTING
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Lragir.am
09 June 06
An opportunity of transition from personal to institutional governance
has occurred in Armenia, stated Member of Parliament Shavarsh
Kocharyan June 9. According to him, this opportunity emanates from
the new constitution. However it is just a half-step, says Shavarsh
Kocharyan. According to him, first it is necessary to use this
opportunity.
`Surprisingly we have become pessimistic in a time when we need tomake
efforts instead of waiting until the government, which was made to
take this half-set, the Constitutional reform, to do it,’ says
Shavarsh Kocharyan. He says the public, NGOs and the opposition should
seek for using this opportunity.
Shavarsh Kocharyan says the increasing influence of the office of the
prime minister on the levers of the executive is an expression of this
opportunity. The member of parliament thinks it is better if the
prime minister possesses the majority of levers than the president.
`Several cases of impeachment have been reported in the world. It is
impossible, impossible to impeach the president constitutionally. And
the question of the prime minister is a matter of voting.’

TIME WILL COME THEY WILL SAY
Lragir.am
09 June 06
On June 9 Aram Manukyan, All Armenian Movement, commended the
secession of the Orinats Yerkir Party from the coalition. At the
National Press Club Aram Manukyan said it speeded up the collapse of
the coalition, and the collapse of the coalition speeds up change of
power. However, the member of the All Armenian Movement is amazed by
the political process that followed the move of Orinats Yerkir.
`Within a few hours the coalition shrunk, became minority, and within
a few hours the minority became majority. Why? Because our members of
parliament are tools, not actors. The Armenian parliament is a group
of people set upby personal files,’ says Aram Manukyan.
The developments connected with Orinats Yerkir attracted Aram
Manukyan’s attention from the human aspect, or as he says, people at
the bottom. He meant those who betrayed the political party for the
sake of office. `Vano Siradeghyan used to say, never trust people
below 5 feet. You remember, Levon Ter-Petrosyan said dear Sergo, you
will not be fine. Sergo is not going tobe fine because he does not
dare and does not have the right to look in the eye of anybody. He
will not be fine in this country. Tamariks are not going to befine,
and all the other guys who let down are not going to be fine, because
their sons’ friends are going to say your father is a betrayer,’says
Aram Manukyan, adding that time will come when they will say, because
the generation is improving.

DASHNAKTSUTIUN AND REPUBLICAN WILL SWEAR AT ROBERT KOCHARYAN
Lragir.am
09 June 06
In two years time Dashnaktsutiun and the Republican will be swearing
at Robert Kocharyan, predicted Aram Manukyan, All Armenian Movement,
on June 9. For a lack of an ideological relation, he said. `I, for
example, will never swear at Levon Ter-Petrosyan, because accept him
or not, we were in the same ideological team. Whereas, the ARF and the
Republican Party, being in the same government with Robert Kocharyan,
do not have any ideological relations,=80=9D said Aram Manukyan.

Armenia-San Marino match to be held in Yerevan

ArmRadio.am
09.06.2006 11:00
Armenia-San Marino response match of the qualification round of under 21
European Championship will be held at the Republican stadium after Vazgen
Sargsyan.
To advance to the next round the Armenian team has to win with the vantage
of four goals, since after the match in San Marino UEFA registered 3:0
technical defeat for bringing to the field a disqualified player.

Ago Group to be in Armenia June 9-10

ArmRadio.am
09.06.2006 11:17
June 9-10 Ago Group of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of
Europe will be in Armenia. The group is headed by Permanent
Representative Germany to the Council of Europe Roland Vegener.
Members of the group will have meetings with RA Presidnet Robert
Kocharyan, NA Chairman Tigran Torosyan, Minister of Justice David
Harutyunyan, Human Rights Defender Armen Harutyunyan, as well as with
the Armenian delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council
of Europe, representatives of political parties and NGOs.
June 10 members of the Ago Group will meet RA Foreign Minister Vardan
Oskanyan, following which Roland Vegener and Vardan Oskanyan will give
a joint press conference.

Voice recorder of the crashed A-320 decoded

ArmRadio.am
09.06.2006 11:47
The International Aviation Committee has completed decoding of the
voice recorder of the crashed A-320 of Armavia Company. The Russian
Ministry of Transport informs that the box recorded information for
the last 33 minutes, including the start and the last stage of the
emergency situation. Most of the conversations were in Armenian;
therefore representative of the Armenian Embassy in Russia
participated in the decoding. According to the rules of the
International Civil Aviation Organization, the data of the recorders
cannot be made public. Other parameters of the plane are still being
corrected.

Armenian Assembly meets with Massachussets Legislators and Staff

ArmRadio.am
09.06.2006 12:46
In a major push to further educate Massachusetts legislators about the
Armenian Genocide, Armenian Assembly representatives met with nearly
200 State lawmakers or their assistants at the historic Massachusetts
State House. During those meetings, the Assembly distributed Peter
Balakian’s bestseller The Burning Tigris: The Armenian Genocide and
America’s Response, as well as a DVD on the subject of the Armenian
Genocide.
The Armenian Assembly and its affiliate organization, the KNOW
GENOCIDE Coalition, have been at the forefront of generating awareness
on the Armenian Genocide and combating genocide denial in the
Commonwealth of Massachusetts and beyond. These efforts have proven
critical given the recent attempts by the Assembly of Turkish American
Associations (ATAA) to deny and rewrite history with respect to the
genocide. Last year the ATAA along with two Massachusetts high school
teachers and a student brought a lawsuit in US District Court against
the Massachusetts Board of Education and its Commissioner, David P.
Driscoll, to insert materials in the State Curriculum Guide that deny
the Armenian Genocide.
The Burning Tigris, a New York Times bestseller published by
HarperCollins, explores America’s attempts to save Armenians from
extinction by the Ottoman Turks. Balakian, using eyewitness accounts,
survivor narratives and documents from the U.S. State Department,
chronicles how Americans responded to the first modern genocide of the
20th Century.
The DVD, entitled 1915 Turkish Genocide of the Armenians, was launched
this year by the Genocide Archive Project and its Executive Producer
David Davidian, specifically to educate students, teachers, and
lawmakers. It contains a powerful documentary segment on the genocide
as well as important survivor testimonies that forcefully document the
tragedy that befell the Armenian nation beginning in 1915.
The materials will allow State Representatives and Senators to better
understand and identify with this great tragedy that befell humanity
nearly a century ago.

Official Baku discontent that the international structures do not
intend to exert pressure over Armenia

ArmRadio.am
09.06.2006 13:20
Head of the Socio-Political Department of the Office to the President
of Azerbaijan Ali Hasanov is discontent with the fact that `the
international structures and the OSCE Minsk Group do not intend to
exert pressure over Armenia.’
Ali Hasanov declared that `Azerbaijan is not satisfied with the peace
talks on the Karabakh conflict settlement.
Turning to the prospects of continuing the dialogue between the
leaders of Armenia and Azerbaijan, Hasanov noted that the Presidents
themselves should decide this. `In case Ilham Aliev decides that the
meetings have no more prospects, Azerbaijan will apply other adequate
measures,’ he declared.
In Hasanov’s words, the OSCE Minsk Group has new suggestions, which
are not made public, but the sides are discussing these.
`We are not content with the current talks, since Armenia does not
refuse from its non-constructive position, and international
structures and the OSCE Minsk Group do not intend to exert pressure on
it,’ Ali Hasanov declared.

NATO Parliamentary Assembly delegation to arrive in Armenia

ArmRadio.am
09.06.2006 15:30
June 12-14 the joint delegation of the Future Security and Defense
Capabilities Subcommittee of the Defense and Security Committee of
NATO’s Parliamentary Assembly and the Subcommittee on Democratic
Governance of the Committee on Civil Dimension of Security will arrive
in Armenia.
June 12 the delegation is scheduled to meet the associated delegation
of RA National Assembly to NATO’s Parliamentary Assembly, OSCE Deputy
Ambassador F. Kramp, Military Attaché K. Hofstrey and Head of
the OSCE Department of the Ministry of Foreign affairs V. Nersisyan.
The same day the delegation will meet RA Foreign Minister Vardan
Oskanyan, Head of RA Security Service Gorik Hakobyan, member of the
Commission to Fighti Corruption, Head of Staff of RA Government Manuk
Topuzyan, and NGO representatives.
June 13 meetings with Chairman of RA National Assembly Tigran Torosyan
and Defense Minister Serge Sargsyan are scheduled.
June 14 the joint delegation will leave for Georgia.

Gor Vardanyan’s `Destiny’ film to be screened in Yerevan on June 11

ArmRadio.am
09.06.2006 14:56
First screening of Gor Vardanyan’s `Destiny’ film is expected June
11th. It is a movie telling about the Karabakh movement, where
concrete historical events and political figures have been replaced by
a collective image.
`Except the story of an Armenian, the ‘Destiny’ is a human story,’
said protagonist Gor Vardanyan. Everyone can find himself here. The
movie has been presented in the contest program of the `Golden
Apricot’ international festival.
`The film will have also an international screening,’ Gor Vardanyan
said. On June 13 it will be screened in Artsakh.