NATO Highlights Peaceful Settlement of Conflicts in South Caucasus
PanARMENIAN.Net
31.07.2006 16:30 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ The key security aspects are political issues
including the Euro-Atlantic integration of the South Caucasian states,
the integration with EU and NATO, the national security concept,
national defense strategy and foreign policy goals, NATO Liaison
Officer in the Caucasus Romualds Razuks said in an interview with
PanARMENIAN.Net. In his words, it’s essential to develop practical
regional cooperation among the partners from the South Caucasus and
the Black Sea region as well as with Russia.
“One of the principal directions is combating terrorism. We also
highlight struggle against corruption and bringing of the national
legislation in line with international standards, ratification
of relevant CoE conventions (e.g. social chapter, national
minorities). The IPAP also provides for steps towards economic reforms
including remuneration system for public servants, management of
public enterprises, privatization process, state procurement process,
statistical records for tax collection, foreign trade and balance
payments statistics, antimonopoly legislation and competition policy,”
he said.
The NATO Liaison Officer underscored that NATO attaches importance
to a peaceful settlement of conflicts. “We consider that the leading
role in the peaceful conflict resolution policy belongs to the OSCE
and U.N. The measures include determination of status of autonomies,
return of refugees and IDP’s rehabilitation of conflict zones and
complementarity of actions of international organizations in Georgia.
NATO partnership policy is developing and covering new regions as
well as setting new priorities with a strategic goal of enhancing
security and stability.
South Caucasus was declared NATO’s geographical priority. New
partnership tools and schemes of cooperation including the IPAP are
introduced well adjusting them to already existing ones and making a
good use of both. Joining by Armenia, Georgia and Azerbaijan of the
IPAP process is a promising step towards promoting regional as well
as Euro-Atlantic security,” Razuks said.

Keeping Goran Lennmarker on reporter position for Nagorno-Karabakh
will not change anything – Azeri PM
TREND Information, Azerbaijan
July 31, 2006
The chairman of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly Goran Lennmarker’s
remaining on the position of reporter for Nagorno-Karabakh will
not bring benefit or damage to Azerbaijan, Fazil Gazanfaroglu, the
member of Azerbaijani delegation in PA OSCE and the chairman of Great
Establishment Party, told Trend.
Yesterday, the official member of PA OSCE Andreas Baker announced
that together with position of chairman of the Assembly, Goran
Lennmarker will fulfill the mission of reporter on Nagorno-Karabakh.
Lannmarker was elected the chairman of the Assembly during the summer
session of PA OSCE held in Brussels.
Gazanfaroglu stressed that Lennmarker’s fulfilling the mission of
reporter on Nagorno-Karabakh will not have any impact on the process.
“Because the report developed by Lennmarker regarding Nagorno-Karabakh
didn’t satisfy the sides. Therefore, the fact that he again assumed
this mission isn’t of importance. Because the report that was prepared
before and will be prepared will not be presented to the discussion of
the Assembly without agreeing between the sides,” Gazanfaroglu added.
Besides, the deputy pointed out that as Lennmarker is well familiar
with Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, he considered that there is no need
to appoint new reporter. Therefore, he decided continuing the mission.

RA MFA: Armenia Ready for Cooperation on Ecology Issues with Baku
PanARMENIAN.Net
31.07.2006 16:40 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Yerevan attaches importance to the creation of
atmosphere of trust in the region and is ready to cooperate on ecology
issues with the Azeri side, RA Foreign Ministry’s Acting Spokesman
Vladimir Karapetian told a PanARMENIAN.Net reporter.
For his part, head of the department of press and information policy
at the Azeri MFA Tahir Taghizade remarked that Azerbaijan is ready
to cooperate with Armenia in order to liquidate the consequences of
the fires at the Karabakh border, reported Trend.
It should be noted that EU Special Representative for the South
Caucasus Peter Semneby said both parties should be interested in
formation of a joint committee for combating fires.

OSCE MG Knows Karabakh Settlement Impossible without Stepanakert’s Participation
PanARMENIAN.Net
31.07.2006 17:39 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ “Of course, one of the items discussed was Nagorno
Karabakh’s participation in the talks and I think Mr Bryza, like
the other mediators, understands that it’s impossible to resolve the
conflict without Karabakh,” NKR President Arkady Ghukasian said after
the meeting with OSCE MG U.S. Co-chair Matthew Bryza.
Arkady Ghukasian said he presented NKR’s official position on the
various aspects of the problem. “Certainly I cannot reveal all the
details of the talks. It’s clear that our position differs from the
approaches proposed by the mediators but I gave not heard any serious
objections,” the NKR leader said.
When touching upon the proposals promulgated by the mediators Arkady
Ghukasian said, “Though I cannot analyze the whole package of proposals
I can say that they allow us to assert our positions.” He remarked
that one should not extract separate elements from the context and
consider the problem of the Azeri refugees apart of the problem of
Armenian refugees while the issue of territories should not be viewed
beyond the context of Nagorno Karabakh’s status. When asked whether the
mediators exert pressure upon the parties in conflict Ghukasian said,
“I have never noticed anything of the kind since 1992,” reported
IA Regnum.

I HAVE NO GOVERNMENT. I’M A DISENFRANCHISED AMERICAN.
OpEd News
July 31, 2006
By Linda Milazzo
I do not kill babies. I do not kill children. I do not condone
ANY circumstance that ends the life of a child or brings harm to
innocents downed in the cross hairs of adult perversion. There is NO
circumstance whatsoever that legitimizes the murder of children. The
term “collateral damage” ascribed to dead children or to the shredded
bodies of living children is hideous.
The rite of passage from childhood to adulthood relinquishes the right
to such irresponsibility. The whole process of maturation teaches the
protection of children at all costs. Animals, both wild and domestic,
abide by these instincts unconditionally. It is the aberrant adult dog
who kills a puppy. And on the rare occasion such anomaly occurs, it
confounds attendant humans due to the sheer unnaturalness of the act.
Our expectation for the compassion of canines transcends like
expectations we hold for ourselves.
In the current debacle between Israel and Hezbollah, with the
mounting deaths of Lebanese children, it is unconscionable for
Israel to justify murdering these children by labeling them embeds of
Hezbollah. One should convulse in shame at the insidiousness of such
a declaration. To publicly declare the right to kill a child using
proximity as exoneration of guilt, forfeits any claim to humanity. To
willingly betray the life of a child, betrays every principal learned
during the “normal” ascendancy from child to adult.
To these self-righteous ideologues I say: MAY YOU ENVISION FOR YOUR
LIFETIMES THE FACES OF EVERY INFANT AND CHILD YOU HAVE SLAIN FOR YOUR
CAUSE! What a pernicious badge of inhumanity.
Sadly, this badge of inhumanity isn’t only worn by Israel who slays
the children of Lebanon. Or by the Hezbollah who slay the children
of Israel. It is worn by the Sudanese, who willingly decimate the
children of Darfur. It is worn by the Congolese soldiers who savage
the children of Congo. It was worn a dozen years earlier in Rwanda,
when willing Hutus murdered hundreds of thousands of Tutsi children in
a span of 100 days. The same badge of inhumanity was worn in Bosnia
by the Serbs who murdered Muslim children, by the Turks who murdered
Armenian children, by the Nazis who murdered Jewish children, and on
and on and on.
Throughout the history of un-civilization, the badge of inhumanity
has been worn by one genocidal ideology after another.
Shamefully, this very same badge of inhumanity is also worn by the
United States, where I live. Where the Government’s decision to
willingly overtake the nation of Iraq has triggered the murders of
tens of thousands of children. And where the ideological refusal to
support a ceasefire between Lebanon and Israel willingly adds to the
murders of Lebanese and Israeli children each and every day.
Even though Hezbollah has stated its willingness to honor a ceasefire
with Israel, Mr. Bush, along with his former incompetent National
Security Advisor and current incompetent Secretary of State, Condoleeza
Rice, believes Israel has the right to pursue its arbitrary barrage
on Lebanon, with no neighborhood, no apartment building, no hospital,
no school, no market, removed from its artillery sights.
As a resident of the United States, I am by default, in the eyes of
the world, a presumed willing supporter of the murders of Lebanese
and Israeli children. The President of this nation and members of
both Houses of Congress overwhelmingly endorse the continued military
assault by Israel upon Lebanon, which indiscriminately kills more
children every day. Just as Israelis presume the people of Lebanon
endorse Hezbollah when they share the same region, the world will
presume I endorse Mr. Bush when we share the same nation.
More egregiously, just as Israelis and Hezbollah sacrifice each
other’s children for the ‘crime’ of shared terrain, so one day may
America’s children be sacrificed for sharing terrain with the world’s
most undeniably hated man, George W. Bush.
Horrifying, but not unlikely, if Bush is allowed to stay on.
As the daughter of a Jewish American mother and Italian American
father, a second generation American living in the United States,
I am bound by the laws of this nation, governed by its regulatory
agencies, and represented to the world by its elected officials. But
when the beliefs and behaviors of those elected officials are in
constant moral opposition to my own, I can no longer permit them to
represent me. I refuse to have the citizens of the world, my global
brothers and sisters, believe I am a willing partner to imperial
atrocities. Worst of all, to the murder of children.
If one unquestioningly subscribes to the mantra “America, love it or
leave it,” one is blind to the more essential mantra, “Humanity, love
it or grieve it.” My refusal to be morally distorted by George W.
Bush can only be accomplished by relinquishing all connection to
his governance. As of now, I don’t know how to categorize the state
of residing in a nation as a full citizen while not governed by its
leadership. I didn’t vote for this leadership and I’m not willing
to remain a voiceless mass falsely portrayed by the Bush imperial
regime. I must somehow broadcast beyond the borders of America
that residing within its boundaries are millions of leaderless,
unrepresented lovers of peace trying unceasingly to win back their
nation. Not just to save America. But to save the whole world. To
save the children. The children.
For now, I’ll contend I’m a Bush government ex-patriot living in the
United States. I won’t seek out another nation. This is MY nation and
I’m a viable entity within it. I uphold its Constitution. I pay my
taxes. I make my living. I honor my neighbors. I feel no superiority
to those beyond its borders. I share conscientiously in our nation
and our planet.
But I have NO GOVERNMENT. I’m a disenfranchised American. George
Bush doesn’t know my heart. He’s never looked in my eyes and seen my
“soul.” If he did look in my eyes, he’d see a disenfranchised American
looking back. Not with warmth or admiration. Not as a member of his
electorate. But as an ex-patriot of his government who resides within
the nation. A disenfranchised American.
America, leave it or SEIZE IT. Humanity, know it and show it. Save
the children!! Save the children!! Save the children!!
In Lebanon. In Israel. In Iraq. In sub-Saharan Africa. In Aceh,
Indonesia. In Haiti. In the Dominican Republic. In South and Central
America. In North America.
Save the children… the way adults are supposed to do.
(cross-posted on winogradwatchdog.com)
Linda Milazzo is a Los Angeles based writer, educator and activist.
Her writing has appeared in numerous newspapers, magazines and
domestic and international journals. She’s a member of CodePink
Women For Peace and Progressive Democrats of America. Over the past
three decades Linda has divided her time between the entertainment
industry, community projects and education. A political and
social activist since the Vietnam War, Linda attributes her
revitalized-fully-engaged-intense-head-on-non- stop-political activism
to the UNFORTUNATE EXISTENCE OF GEORGE W. BUSH and her disgust
with greed-ridden American imperialism, environmental atrocities,
egregious war, nuclear proliferation, lying leaders, and global
tyranny. Whew… try saying that one three times fast…
inda_mi_060731_i_have_no_government.htm

Malefactors Attempted to Set Fire to Museum of Russia-Armenian Friendship
PanARMENIAN.Net
31.07.2006 18:49 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ On July 31 night malefactors damaged the Museum
of Russian-Armenian Friendship located in the Surb Khach Church. As
reported by the Yerkramas, the newspaper of Armenians of Russia,
when coming to work the museum employees saw outraging inscriptions
of the museum walls. The vandals could not enter the museum but broke
the windows. Experts suspect skinheads; law enforces have not issued
any versions so far.

Who Edited My Cheese?
Five subjects that get Wiki-maniacs fighting mad
GQ, USA
July 31, 2006
July 31, 2006-In the contentious alternate universe of Wikipedia,
the back-and-forth over even the most obscure of topics can get pretty
vitriolic. As the online encyclopedia’s most avid contributors prepare
to descend upon Boston for the second annual “Wikimania” get-together
later this week, we asked the company’s spokesperson Wayne Saewyc to
name a few topics likely to start a Wiki-brawl.
MySpace: “People are advertising their MySpace accounts in the MySpace
article. It gets removed but it happens a lot. The most common form of
vandalism is to say, ‘So-and-so is gay.’ People go through and put in
‘gay’ after any construction that includes ‘MySpace is.’ ”
2006 World Cup: “Zidane’s head butt caused a big flurry of activity.
The French supporters were very disappointed and upset but they
supported their man, and the opposite is true as well. People were
watching the match and live editing on Wikipedia at the same time.”
Scientology: “This has been a hot war in the past. There are arguments
over word choices, like quiet birth versus silent birth. Right now
it’s fairly neutral, so Wikipedia is winning. We want things to
be neutral!”
Cheese: “This one gets vandalized regularly. One anonymous IP said
that cheese was made out of the ‘pubic hair of migratory elephants.’ ”
Nagorno-Karabakh: “It’s a portion of the South Caucasus which
should be part of Azerbaijan but is effectively unruled or de facto
independent. The arguments are about stuff like whether the Azerbaijani
coat of arms should be included on the page or not. They’re trying
to work towards a compromise.”
– Staff

Armenia Sent Humanitarian Assistance to Lebanon
PanARMENIAN.Net
31.07.2006 18:54 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ The humanitarian assistance rendered by the Armenian
government has been delivered to Lebanon via Syria. The 7.5-ton
humanitarian cargo includes 52 types of medical products and first-aid
means that can alleviate the pains of the Lebanese who suffered from
the Israeli bombings. The move by the Armenian government was broadly
covered by Lebanese media, reported the RA MFA press office.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress

ROBERT KOCHARIAN AND MATTHEW BRYZA DISCUSS LATEST
DEVELOPMENTS IN NAGORNO KARABAKH SETTLEMENT PROCESS
YEREVAN, JULY 31, NOYAN TAPAN – ARMENIANS TODAY. On July 29, RA
President Robert Kocharian received American Co-chair of OSCE Minsk
Group Matthew Bryza.
As Noyan Tapan was informed from RA President’s Press Office,
the interlocutors discussed the latest developments in the Nagorno
Karabakh settlement process.

Azerbaijan will never agree up on isolation of Nagorno-Karabakh from Azerbaijan – Azeri President
TREND Information, Azerbaijan
July 31, 2006
Azerbaijan will never agree on the isolation of Nagorno-Karabakh from
Azerbaijan, Ilham Aliyev, the president of Azerbaijan, told at the
session dedicated to the results of work of government within the
first half year, Trend reports quoting AzTV.
The territorial integrity of Azerbaijan may not be the topic of
negotiations, the president said.
“Azerbaijan will not agree with the conditions which may cause
isolation of Nagorno-Karabakh from Azerbaijan,” Aliyev stressed.
The president considers the Paris format of negotiations a positive
approach and success of Azerbaijan diplomacy.