IS MURDER OF OTHER NATIONALS A POLICY IN RUSSIA?
Panorama.am
18:55 08/06/06
Murder of other nationals has become common in Russia.
Our nationals also are murdered and abused in the country. Only the
last case was qualified as murder based on national identity. However,
none of the criminal cases has been unveiled. Many think that this is a
national policy and some think that they are individual cases. Today
Armenian foreign minister Vartan Oskanyan said that they try to
regulate the issue through ambassadors. “We believe that these are
individual cases and not a policy,” he said. Many think that Russia
chief prosecutor was dismissed particularly because he could not
discover the murders.
Several days ago about 10 public organization and young people staged
demonstration in front of Russian Embassy and Armenian foreign ministry
on that issue.

IS TRAFFICKING A NATIONAL PROBLEM?
Panorama.am
19:23 08/06/06
Americans Have Found New Way Of Spending Their Credits
In a recent US State Department report on Human Trafficking Armenia
has appeared in 2nd group. This ‘status’ granted by State Department
is stricter than last year. Jon Miller, US State Secretary Adviser has
delivered this “misfortune” to the Armenian government recently at US
Embassy in Armenia. The report supports why Armenia has appeared in
“specially monitored list”. One of the arguments says that “Armenian
authorities do not take necessary efforts to protect victims of
trafficking, do no punish those engaged in trafficking and do the
prevent the phenomenon.
“The report is based on information provided by several public
organizations (it must be said that some public organizations
exaggerate the figures in order to get bigger grants.) The State
Department has been more favorable to Azerbaijan and Georgia granting
them a more favorable status.

KARABAKH ISSUE HAS LIMIT OF COMPROMISE ARMENIA WILL NEVER GO BEYOND
PanARMENIAN.Net
09.06.2006 13:08 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ There is a limit of compromise in the Nagorno
Karabakh problem Armenia will never go beyond, RA Foreign
Minister Vartan Oskanian stated in an interview with the Armenian
television. “There is a border of compromises, a red line we cannot
cross even if the settlement is protracted or Azerbaijan blackmails
us with oil dollars and appliance of force,” Vartan Oskanian
underscored. At that he remarked that the people will never allow the
Armenian leadership to cross this line. According to the Minister,
Armenia has already made serious concessions and our conscience is
clear if Azerbaijan makes a recurrent mistake and starts hostilities,”
the RA FM said, reported Novosti-Armenia new agency.

AGO GROUP OF COE COMMITTEE OF MINISTERS ARRIVED IN YEREVAN
PanARMENIAN.Net
09.06.2006 13:18 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Ago Monitoring Group of the Council of Europe
Committee of Ministers led by Germany’s permanent representative
in the CoE Roland Wegener is in Yerevan to meet with RA President
Robert Kocharian, NA Speaker Tigran Torosian, Foreign Minister Vartan
Oskanian, Justice Minsiter David Harutyunian and Ombudsman Armen
Harutyunian as well as representatives of Armenian NGOs, reported
the RA MFA press office.

THE INFORMATION OF “MULTI-NATIONAL GEORGIA” WAS CAPTURED
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On the night of June 7 unknown people broke into the office of
“Multi-National Georgia” organization (located in Tbilisi). According
to Arnold Stepanyan, the head of the office they mainly took items
holding information; computers, discs etc.
According to “A – Info” Arnold Stepanyan noted that they contained many
facts and documents on the rights of national minorities and their
voilation. There was also huge material on the cases of human rights
breaches realized by the Javakhq authorities which the organization
was going to present to the international community.

OSKANIAN: THIRD ATTEMPT TO START WAR TO BECOME BAKU’S ULTIMATE MISTAKE
PanARMENIAN.Net
09.06.2006 13:29 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Presently resumption of the Nagorno Karabakh war
is unreal, Armenian Foreign Minister Vartan Oskanian stated in an
interview with Kentron Armenian television. At that he remarked that
taking into account Azerbaijan’s statements the situation may change
in future. However, the Minister said, according to international
military analysts, Azerbaijan is not ready for a military resolution
of the Karabakh problem and will not be ready within next 10 years
even with the oil possibilities it possesses.
“Even if Azerbaijan is ready, war is war. Azerbaijan has gained bitter
experience when trying twice to settle the problem by force. The
third attempt will be the ultimate one,” Vartan Oskanian said. “I
think in this case the problem will be settled by force, however this
settlement will not be in favor of Azerbaijan,” he added, reported
Novosti-Armenia news agency.

RA DEFENSE MINISTER TO PAY FORMAL VISIT TO BELGIUM AND LITHUANIA
PanARMENIAN.Net
09.06.2006 13:43 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ June 12 a delegation headed by Armenian Defense
Minister Serge Sargsyan will depart for Belgium on a formal visit. June
14 the delegation will attend the NATO Headquarters; June 15-16 it
will be visiting Lithuania. RA Defense Minister’s Spokesman, Colonel
Seyran Shahsuvaryan told PanARMENIAN.Net, meetings with the Belgian
Defense Minister and the Chief of the Defense Staff as well as a
visit to the Royal Military School are scheduled.
June 14 Serge Sargsyan will take part in the sitting of the North
Atlantic Council during which the Armenia-NATO Individual Partnership
Action Plan will be discussed. In Lithuania the Armenian delegation
will meet with the Lithuanian President, the Minister of Defense,
Chairman of the National Security and Defense Committee and also
attend some military units.

KARABAKH ISSUE TO BE SETTLED AFTER “COLLAPSE OF RUSSIAN EMPIRE”, AZERI POLITICAL SCIENTIST CONSIDERS
PanARMENIAN.Net
09.06.2006 13:56 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ “International structures with undisguised
assurance reiterated the year of 2006 will become the year of
settlement of the Nagorno Karabakh problem. They attempt to force
Azerbaijan to concessions, that is cede Nagorno Karabakh, Lachin
and Kelbajar to Armenia,” Azerbaijani ex-President Heydar Aliyev’s
former advisor for external political affairs Vafa Guluzade told
Zerkalo Baku-based newspaper. In his words, all these attempts are
absolutely fruitless. “Azerbaijan’s position is precisely outlined. It
means that the territorial integrity of Azerbaijan is not a subject
of discussion and our state is guided by the fulfillment of the U.N.
Security Council Resolution on withdrawal of all occupying troops
form the Azerbaijani territory,” he remarked.
As for Armenia, the Azeri political scientist considers that this
state sounds the position of its “elder brother” – Russia. “The core of
Armenia’s position is that it has no intention to renounce Karabakh’s
independence supported by Russia. Russia prohibited Armenia from
signing any peaceful document with Azerbaijan. I have stated many
times that we should wait for the collapse of the Russia Empire. I
foretell it will happen in 10 years. All my forecasts have proved
true so far,” the Azeri political scientist said.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress

AZERBAIJANI PARLIAMENT DENOUNCES CONGRATULATIONS ADDRESSED TO TIGRAN TOROSIAN
PanARMENIAN.Net
09.06.2006 14:16 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ “The reports on the congratulations allegedly
addressed by Azeri Parliament Speaker Oktay Asadov to newly elected
Chairman of the Armenian National Assembly are groundless and
false,” Akif Nasirov, the Spokesman of the Azerbaijani Milli Mejlis
stated. “There was no congratulation of the kind and such reports
appear as a part Armenia’s anti-Azerbaijani propaganda,” he added.
Meanwhile, as RA NA Speaker Tigran Torosian told a PanARMENIAN.Net
reporter, Asadov’s congratulatory address was read June 8 by Asif
Hajiyev, the head of the Azeri delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly
of the Black Sea Economic Cooperation Organization at the BSECO PA
plenary session in Yerevan.
“Oktay Asadov has really addressed a message to the BSECO PA and a
congratulatory message to me. It was read during the session. By the
way, the Echo, Baku-based newspaper, has already written that Asadov
was right to invite the delegates to Baku but the congratulation to
Tigran Torosian on the occasion of his election to the post of the
Speaker was, to put it mildly, was unnecessary,” the RA NA Chairman
reminded.

OSCE MG TO CHOOSE STEPWISE SETTLEMENT OF KARABAKH PROBLEM, BAKU SAYS
PanARMENIAN.Net
09.06.2006 14:50 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ “The Bucharest talks proved that Armenia is
not ready for the stepwise settlement of the Nagorno Karabakh
problem. International organizations including the OSCE Minsk Group
come to understand that only the stepwise settlement can lead to
conclusion of a peaceful agreement,” Azeri political scientist Eldar
Namazov stated in an interview with Real Azerbaijan newspaper. In his
words, the possibility of signing a peaceful agreement will appear
after 2008 only.
“Sooner or later Azerbaijan will liberate all its lands by force. There
is no third variant. The longer the problem lasts the more Armenia
loses. It fell aside all the economic projects in the region. If
Armenians chose a correct position they would actively participate
in all the regional projects referring to oil, gas and railway
communications,” he remarked.
Namazov considers that the OSCE MG Co-chairs will choose the stepwise
settlement. The Co-chairs understand that not Nagorno Karabakh’s
status but the problem of territories should be discussed at the first
stage. It’s known that Armenia tries to exclude Lachin and Kelbajar
from the list of territories, but this position is inadmissible for
Azerbaijan,” he said.