Federation of Armenian Organizations in The Netherlands
Address: Weesperstraat 91 – 2574 VS The Hague, The Netherlands
Phone: +31704490209
Website:
E-mail: [email protected]
K.v.K. 27264382
Contact: I. Drost +31624272574 and D. Migdesyan +31653306224
PRESS RELEASE
Armenian ship Cilicia (Kilikia) in Amsterdam
Date: From 8 to 10 June 2006
Place: Nederlands Scheepvaartmuseum Amsterdam
Kattenburgerplein 1 – 1018 KK Amsterdam
The Armenian ship Cilicia (Kilikia) will be in Amsterdam from 8 to 10 June
2006.
The ship will arrive in Amsterdam on 7 June late in the evening and will be
moored up at the Scheepvaartmuseum of Amsterdam up to 10 June.
The ship Cilicia is a replica of an Armenian Cilician trade sailing ship
from 13th century. The ship is made of wood with a total length of 20 m.

On Thursday 8 June the Dutch Armenian community will organise a welcoming
ceremony with Armenian music and dance, which starts at 12.00 am. This
ceremony will take place at the Nederlands Scheepvaartmuseum Amsterdam,
Kattenburgerplein 1 – 1018 KK Amsterdam (
museum.Netherlands/index.php? TreeID=1).
You can visit the ship also on 9 and 10 June during the opening hours of the
museum from 10 am to 5 pm (Ticket prices: Adults 9 Euro, Children 6 – 18
years old 4,50 Euro, Children 0 – 6 years old  Free, Senior 65 +  4,50
Euro, Family (2 adults, 3 children 6 – 18 – 22,50 Euro).
For 3 years the ship has been travelling along the old commercial routes of
Armenian traders from Cilicia. On 11 July 2004 the ship left, under Armenian
flag, from the port of Poti in Georgia and up to present has sailed to the
following ports: Poti, Sochi, Kaffu, Istanbul, Athens, Ayas, Beirut, Haifa,
Alexandria, Iraklion, Dubrovnik, Venice, Messina, Valetta, Tunis, Rome,
Genoa, Marseilles, Barcelona, Kartakhena, Kadiz, Lisbon, Drawer, La Korunya,
San Sebastian, Drawer Rochelle, Brest, Cork, Dublin, Portsmouth. Before
arriving in Amsterdam on 7 June the ship first will call in at the port of
Antwerp.
The crew of 13 persons, among whom the Armenian writer Zori Balayan, will
organise several cultural events and meetings with the local governments and
the Armenian community.
Armenia has no sea ports at present. However the fact that she had sea ports
in the past with her own trade fleet, is probably unknown to lots of Dutch
people, a maritime and trading nation and the former trade partner of
Armenian Cilicia.
This event also means a lot to Armenia and the Armenian community. The
maritime and trading past of both Dutch and Armenian nations will become
visible, as both replica’s, namely the VOC ship “Amsterdam” and the
“Cilicia” will lay tied up near each other at the Scheepvaartmuseum from 8
to 10 June 2006.

BLACK BOXES CAN BE DECIPHERED
Lragir.am
30 May 06
The News Armenia Agency reports that the state of black boxes of the
Armenian A320, which crashed on May 3 in Sochi, is satisfactory for
deciphering.
Armenian, Russian and French experts are involved in the deciphering
effort of the Interstate Aviation Committee. `Today the recorders of
the plane were opened. The memory devices have been separated and are
ready for processing. The voice and parameter recording devices are in
a satisfactory state and ready for deciphering,’ says the May 30 news
release of the agency.

VACANT PARLIAMENT POSTS WILL BE TAKEN UP

Lragir.am
30 May 06

An extraordinary meeting of the National Assembly will be held on May
31 to elect a new speaker. Earlier on May 29 a consultation was held
late in the event at the office of the president of Armenia with the
Republican Party, the Armenian Revolutionary Federation and other
pro-governmental forces of the National Assembly. It was decided that
the Republican Party will nominate Tigran Torosyan. The vacant posts
of chairs of committees were distributed as well. Dashnakatsutiun
will probably receive the post of the chair of the Committee of
Defense, Security and Internal Affairs. The post of the chair of the
Health and Social Committee will be handed over to the Republican
Party.

UEFA to discuss the fault at San Marino-Armenia match

ArmRadio.am
30.05.2006 10:47
UEFA will discuss today the fault of the Armenian team at San Marino-Armenia
match in the framework of the qualification matches of the European Youth
Championship. A football player disqualified earlier was participating in the
match. Most probably, the UEFA will register a 3:0 technical defeat. In this
case our team will have to win with a bigger score in the response match.

The Armenian delegation will not participate in the sitting of the CIS
Council of Defense Ministers

ArmRadio.am
30.05.2006 12:26
RA Ministry of Defense issued a statement today, which says that in
case of lack of security guarantees the Armenian delegation will not
leave for Baku to participate in th esitting of the CIS Council of
Defense Ministers.
`Considering that the Secretariat of the CIS Council of Ministers did
not manage to get guarantees for the security of the members of the
Armenian delegation, the decision was taken not to participate in the
sitting to be held May 31 in Baku.
This fact evidences once again that Azerbaijan is not able to
accomplish its duties ` to guarantee the security of the participants
of an international event on its territory. In its turn, the
Secretariat of the CIS Council of Foreign Ministers is obliged to
provide for conditions for participation for all CIS countries. We
anticipate the official position of the CIS Council of Minister in
this regard,’ the statement says.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress

Armenian men’s team leading in the World Chess Championship

ArmRadio.am
30.05.2006 13:05
In the 8th round of the World Chess Olympic Games the Armenian men’s team
scored 3:1 against the team of Cuba, thus gaining 24 points. Russian and
Ukrainian teams have 22 points each.
Vladimir Hakobyan and Gabriel Sargsyan won Dominges and Kuezada
correspondingly; Bryuzon-Aronyan and Delgado-Asryan games ended a draw.
Our women’s team scored 2:1 against the team of India. With 15.5 pints they
share the 9th-11th places with Slovakia and Slovenia. The Russian women’s
team is leading with 19 points.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress

Zaruhi Harutyunyan wins her second title in Constantinople

ArmRadio.am
30.05.2006 13:25
15 year old Zaruhi Harutyunyan has stunned the tennis world, the Armenian
community of Bolis, Turkish sports officials as well as her supporters in the
Armenian diaspora with her two consecutive ITF Championship titles in Bolis.
She dedicated her second consecutive win to the first Armenian statehood and
the heroes of May 1918.
Her latest five wins to the finals came against Francesca Romano (ITA) 6-1,
6-7, 6-1, Diana Marchencvich (LAT) 6-0, 7-6, Margarita Skripnik (ISR) 6-3,
6-2, Anjelika Aliev (ISR) 6-1, 7-6, while in the final she defeated Bianca
Swanepoel of South Africa 7-5, 6-2.

Armenian wrestlers achieve two medals in Turkey

ArmRadio.am
30.05.2006 13:30
Freestyle wrestler of Armenia Narek Sanoyan won in the International Youth
Freestyle Wrestling Tournament held in Marmara, Turkey. Armenian sportsmen
Hayk Manukyan achieved a silver medal in the same tournament, the Wrestling
Federation of Armenia informs.

PASSION WEEK IN BAKU
Yerevan. May 29. ArmInfo. The former co-chair of the OSCE Minsk Group,
Ambassador Vladimir Kazimirov has provided ArmInfo news agency with
his response to the actions of the Azeri side following his recent
statement in Yerevan.
It’s worth mentioning that Kazimirov’s statements concerned the
principles of territorial integrity and the right of the peoples for
self-determination, as well as the militant statements made by
official Baku. In connection with this, the Foreign Ministry of
Azerbaijan called the temporary charge d’ affaires of RF in Azerbaijan
and Deputy Foreign Minister expressed oral complaint to him. Besides,
Novrouz Mamedov, head of Foriegn Affairs Department at AR President’s
Staff, gave a press conference and stated that V. Kazimirov “lost the
ability to think logically.” He also condemned the diplomat for “close
relations with the Armenians” and “getting financial assistance from
them.” Mamedov said that Kazimirov’s statements may make harm to the
Nagorno Karabakh settlement process.
In his response to the Azeri side, the former co-chair of the OSCE MG
says: On May 20, the high ranked Azeri officials spared no efforts to
make good advertisement to Mr. Kazimorov, resigned ambassador, former
head of the Russian mediators’ group for Karabakh, the one who helped
all the sides in conflict cease the bloodshed 12 years
ago. Mr. Kazimirov wonders whether the Azeri officials are going to
response all the statements of retired diplomats. While none of the
Moscow officials responses the anti-Russian statements of a retired
official like Vafa Gouladze or Asim Molladze. At the same time, it’s
very hard to treat the response of Mamedov seriously, Mr. Kazimirov
said.
According to Mr. Kazimirov, Mamedov got irritated by the interview of
the former “peacekeeper,” where “he sometimes falsifies international
documents.” Mr. Mamedov began spreading the rumors he read, not
realizing that the journalists are capable of writing such things that
a beginner diplomat may never compose. Certainly, Mamedov didn’t find
out who was the author of the statements, the retired diplomat or the
journalist who interviewed him. Meanwhile, on May 18, Mr. Kazimirov
demanded from the agency to remove from the site the unknown text that
Mr. Kazimirov failed to correct. Mamedov didn’t even realize that he
should have criticized quite another text at the same sight already
edited by Mr. Kazimirov.
According to Mr. Kazimirov, Mamedov can think only about money and
market relations. And as Mamedov can think only about money, he lost
respect to even the old people. As a result, he expressed opinion that
the Armenians pay Kazimirov for persecuting Azerbaijan. At the same
time, Mamedov didn’t ground his statements with any sensible and
logical proofs.
Mamedov also touched upon another very serious point. It turned out
that Mamedov was “the invisible witness” of the conversation between
Heidar Aliev and Vladimir Kazimirov on May 20, 1993, as he stated that
he saw and heard everything. In fact, Mamedov wasn’t present at that
meeting.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress

AIRBUS EXPERTS NOT TO TAKE PART IN THE DECODING OF BLACKBOX RECORDERS
OF THE ARMAVIA A-320
Yerevan, May 29. ArmInfo. Airbus company denies the information by
certain Russian mass media that Airbus experts are taking part in the
examination and decoding of the blackbox recorders of the ArmAvia
A-320 liner. The representation of Airbus reported ArmInfo that
experts of that company did not take part either in examination or
decoding of the boxes’ content. It was said that the French experts
are not representing the Airbus company, as the latter has no
corresponding authority.
At present the blackboxes are in Paris. They are to be opened and the
extracted microchips are to be taken back to Moscow in order to decode
the information in them. The examination is jointly realized by
Armenian, Russian and French experts. As for 6:30 PM no news was
received from Paris.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress