MEMBERS OF THE EU-ARMENIA COOPERATION COMMISSION TO VISIT THE ARMENIAN-TURKISH BORDER
ArmRadio.am
14.04.2006 16:16
Next week members of the EU-Armenia Cooperation Commission will visit
the Armenian-Turkish border.
The 8th sitting of the EU-Armenia Parliamentary Cooperation Commission
will be held April 18-19 in Yerevan.
In the framework of the visit members of the Commission will have
meetings with RA President Robert Kocharyan, Chairman of the National
Assembly Arthur Baghdasaryan, Prime Minister Andranik Margaryan,
Foreign Minister Vardan Oskanyan and Human Rights Defender Armen
Harutyunyan.
Members of the delegation will meet also representatives of independent
TV Channels, Head of the OSCE Office in Yerevan Vladimir Pryakhin
and Ambassadors of EU member states.

EVENTS DEDICATED ARMENIAN GENOCIDE 91ST ANNIVERSARY TO BE HELD IN MOSCOW
PanARMENIAN.Net
14.04.2006 19:07 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ A series of events dedicated to the 91st
anniversary of the Armenian Genocide will be held in Moscow in
April. As PanARMENIAN.Net came to know from the Armenian Apostolic
Church Ararat Diocese, today by the initiative of the “Mitq”, the
Union of Armenian Youth, a meeting with the Director of the Armenian
Institute of International Law and Political Sciences, professor
Yuri Barseghov will take place in the conference hall of the Russian
public-political center. The agenda includes the following issues:
the Armenian Genocide as a crime against humanity, international
recognition of the Armenian Genocide and Turkey’s legal responsibility,
acknowledgement and condemnation of the Genocide by Turkey, Hay Dat
decision on the basis of international law.
April 15 the cultural center of the Moscow department of the Union of
Armenians of Russia will host Armenian youth and outstanding Italian
writer Giovanni Guaita, the author of a series of books dedicated
to the history of Armenia, the Armenian Church and the Armenian
Genocide. The program includes the presentation of a unique multimedia
CD which contains documents, photos and video on the Armenian genocide,
questions and answers.
April 22 a mourning vigil will be held. Held for the second time
already, the action is targeted at the recognition of this crime
against humanity, commemoration of the Armenian Genocide victims and
prevention of such evils in future.
April 24 officials of the RA Embassy in Russia, representatives of the
New Nakhichevan and Russian Dioceses of the Armenian Apostolic Church
as well as members of Armenian NGOs will lay wreaths to the Khachkar
at the St. Harutyun Church, where a mass will be chanted afterwards.
Besides, April 24 a rally initiated by the Union of Armenians of
Russia and the Union of Armenian Youth will be held at the Turkish
Embassy in Moscow. “Araks” Belgian band will give a charity concert
dedicated to the Armenian Genocide victims. The purpose of the concert
is to attract public and political circles of Russia to the Armenian
Genocide issue and contribute to the consolidation of the Armenian
community, especially the youth.

AZERI PUBLIC DEMANDS INFORMATION ON KARABAKH TALKS CONTENTS
PanARMENIAN.Net
14.04.2006 19:28 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ The coordinating center of the Azeri opposition is
going to hold a rally in Baku May 6.
“The process of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict settlement should be put
for discussion of the political circles and parliamentarians. This
will be the burden of the action,” chairman of Umid (Hope) party,
MP Igbal Aghazade told Interfax-Azerbaijan.
In his words, the OSCE Minsk Group and other international structures
say that the year of 2006 is the most appropriate for the conflict
settlement however the Azeri society does not possess sufficient
information on the negotiations yet.
“The information may be published incompletely but the government
should hold consultations with the political circles and
parliamentarians. This is the problem of the state and the opposition
should elaborate a unified position on the issue,” Aghazade said,
reported Interfax-Azerbaijan.

RALLY AGAINST SAFAROV’S SENTENCE TO BE HELD IN BAKU TODAY
PanARMENIAN.Net
14.04.2006 19:32 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ April 14 an action in protest against the sentence
passed upon Azeri officer Ramil Safarov by the Hungarian court will
be held in Baku.
As reported by the Organization for Karabakh Liberation, members of
Safarov’s defense committee and a group of refugees and displaced
persons will demand “to change the punishment meted out to Safarov”.
Protest action will also be held in various regions of Azerbaijan,
reported Trend. To remind, yesterday the Budapest Court sentenced the
murderer of Armenian officer Gurgen Margaryan to life imprisonment
without the right of pardon during 30 years.

U.S. DEPARTMENT FOR JUSTICE OFFICIALLY REGISTERED NKR REPRESENTATION IN WASHINGTON
PanARMENIAN.Net
14.04.2006 20:30 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ The U.S. Department for Justice published a report on
the activities of formally registered lobbying organizations. According
to the report, the Department of Justice has officially registered
the Representation of the Nagorno Karabakh Republic lobbying
organization. At that the American sources remark it doesn’t mean
official recognition of Karabakh independence by the United States,
since organization by any name can be registered in the U.S.
The lobbying activities in the U.S. are regulated by the law and they
are considered to be the forth power, since their aim is to exert
influence of the U.S. policy, reported RFE/RL.

OSKANIAN: ARMENIA NOT READY TO JOIN NATO YET
PanARMENIAN.Net
14.04.2006 20:40 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Armenia is not ready to join the NATO yet, Armenian
Foreign Minister Vartan Oskanian stated when addressing the students
of the Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO)
in the Russian-Armenian (Slavonic) University. In his words, the
security system of Armenia consists of several components, these
being the membership in the Collective Security Treaty Organization,
development of relations with the NATO and participation in the EU
projects, reported Mediamax.

COMMITTEE ON ARMENIA-EU PARLIAMENTARY COOPERATION TO SIT IN YEREVAN
PanARMENIAN.Net
14.04.2006 21:36 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ The 8th sitting of the Committee on Armenia-EU
Parliamentary Cooperation will be held in Yerevan April 17-21. The
delegation members are scheduled to meet with Armenian President
Robert Kocharian, National Assembly Speaker Artur Baghdassaryan,
Prime Minister Andranik Margaryan and Foreign Minister Vartan
Oskanian. They are as well expected to meet with the representatives
of the Institute of Public Society, OSCE Yerevan Mission head Vladimir
Pryakhin, German Ambassador to Armenia Heike Renate Peitsch and the
Ambassadors of other European states accredited in Armenia. To note,
the EU delegation members intend to visit the Armenian-Turkish border,
RA NA press service reported.

CANADIAN TVO-2 TO SCREEN ANDREW GOLDBERG’S “THE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE”
PanARMENIAN.Net
14.04.2006 21:31 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ April 17 and 24 Andrew Goldberg’s “The Armenian
Genocide” will be screened by Canadian TVO-2, reported the RA MFA
press office. The Turkish organizations of Canada demanded to hold
a discussion with the participation of Turkish historians but it did
not go beyond a 5-7-minute talk with reporters.
“The Armenian Genocide” will be shown April 16 and twice on and April
24 by TVO-2. April 17 and 24 the film will be screened by WNED Buffalo.

ARMENIAN TV TO BROADCAST EASTER DIVINE LITURGY INTERNATIONALLY
Armenpress
Apr 14 2006
ETCHMIADZIN, APRIL 14, ARMENPRESS: The Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin
and the Shoghakat TV Company, working in conjunction with the “First
Channel” of Armenian television (“H1”) have announced live global
telecast of the Pontifical Divine Liturgy on Easter Sunday in Holy
Etchmiadzin. The celebrant will be His Holiness Karekin II, Supreme
Patriarch and Catholicos of All Armenians.
Armenian communities throughout the world will be able to watch
Easter Divine Liturgy broadcast live from the Mother Cathedral of
Holy Etchmiadzin on Sunday morning, April 16, 2006, on the Armenian H1
“First Channel” available through satellite providers.

ORINATS YERKIR EXPELS DISOBEDIENT MEMBER
Armenpress
Apr 14 2006
YEREVAN, APRIL 14, ARMENPRESS; The governing council of Orinats Yerkir
party of parliament chairman Arthur Baghdasarian voted late on April
13 to expel a fellow party member from their ranks ‘for disobeying
and ignoring party’s decisions.”
The lawmaker, Artak Sarkisian, was the only member of the party’s
faction that voted to approve a government report on fulfillment of a
privatization plan in 2001-2004, which Baghdasarian and his loyalists
dubbed as ‘shady.” Baghdasarian and his party members argued a day
before that 70 percent of 69 entities put up for sale during that
period were privatized with blatant breaches of the law. He said his
party members would voted against the report.
The report was voted by 65 to 9, with ten abstentions. The opposition
boycotted the voting. The expelled party member, Artak Sarkisian,
is the owner of a chain of SAS supermarkets.