SERGE SARGSYAN DOES NOT KNOW THE HISTORY?
Lragir.am
04 July 06
The participants of the war in Karabakh, condemning the stance of
official Yerevan on the settlement of the Karabakh conflict on July 4,
addressed strictures against Foreign Minister Vardan Oskanyan, who is
conducting a defeatist diplomacy, they say. The same azatamartiks,
however, did not criticize Serge Sargsyan, the minister of defense,
who upholds compromise, moreover, he would not utter a word against
the return of territories, as a minister of defense should have done.
Moreover, the famous phrase that “Aghdam is not our homeland” belongs
to Serge Sargsyan.
“Perhaps he does not know the history well, because Aghdam is our
homeland, and formerly it was not called Aghdam, and used to be
one of the capitals of Armenia, Tigranakert can still be found near
Aghdam. Varazabun, the summer residence of the kings, is near Aghdam,
in the land where there are traces of Armenians everywhere, but not
traces of Turks,” says the former commander of the National Army for
the Liberation of Artsakh Arkady Karapetyan. As for an assessment of
the duties of Serge Sargsyan, Arkady Karapetyan is quite brief.
“By saying army I understand ideology. Our army today does not have
an ideology,” says Arkady Karapetyan.
His brief speech is completed by Lyova Sahakyan, a former soldier of
the Army of Independence, who recalled the interview of a TV channel
with Serge Sargsyan in 2003.
“He asked have you ever thought about what our army lives on, and
so on, and so forth, our budget is not sufficient, we lack this and
we lack that.” Now I am asking who sustains our defense ministry,
our troops. The state should sustain our troops. If someone else is
sustaining the army, it is not an army, it is not a ministry. Draw
your own conclusions,” says the former azatamartik.

PEOPLE LIVING ON THIS LAND MUST SPEAK ON BEHALF OF NAGORNO KARABAKH
Lragir.am
04 July 06
Ashot Bleyan announced July 4 at the Pastark Club that he is ready
to visit Baku again. “I will go to Baku directly, not to be taken
there by other ways. A politician is obliged to step into fire if
the resolution of the question requires that.”
In the meantime, Armen Ashotyan, who debated with him, thinks
that the best variant for us is the status quo in the question of
Nagorno Karabakh. “We need to digest these territories, resettle
these territories. If there are only soldiers, there are no farmers,
doctors, teachers, there is no society, it contains certain dangers.”
“There cannot be a status quo. It would mean that life stops,”
counters Ashot Bleyan. “If the occupied territories are your homeland,
you are government, go and live there, build houses there. Establish a
branch of the National Assembly and live there, set a model. You have
money and power. Whereas you tell people living in Armenia to leave
their houses and move to live there because I want you to go. This is
adventurousness. Are we captives?” asks Ashot Bleyan. He is convinced
that we turned the question of self-determination of people into
struggle against the territorial integrity of Azerbaijan. “We did
it. Ashot Bleyan did not do it,” noted Ashot Bleyan.
According to him, people who live in that land, should speak in the
name of Nagorno Karabakh. “Honor and glory to the people of Nagorno
Karabakh, who showed that they struggle for the land by living in
that land. We benefited because the people of Artsakh stayed to live
on this land. But there were more people until 1988. I do not think
that it is in my interests that the ethnic Azerbaijanis left Nagorno
Karabakh,” announced Ashot Bleyan. And the loss, the greatest loss
for Ashot Bleyan is that “in 1988 250 thousand Baku Armenians became
refugees and now we do not know where these people are. The loss of 250
thousand Armenians of Baku with their property was a destructive loss,
people who could have privatize the oil pipeline. The Mantashov family
came from Karabakh, and at one time they bought Baku with money. We
also lost Shahumyan and Getashen forever.”

THE CONFLICT WAS NOT INSTIGATED BY ONE PERSON
Lragir.am
04 July 06
Ashot Bleyan, the New Way Party, announced July 4 at the Pastark Club
that the statement of the OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chair Mathew Bryza is
favorable, for it allows to become alert, understand, focus attention
on the fact that the conflict is not resolved and the resolution is
not likely in the nearest future. The conflict was not instigated
by one person, and if all of us took part in the occurrence of the
conflict, consequently this complicated conflict cannot be resolved
without participation of everyone of us in person, believes Ashot
Bleyan. After this statement he noticed, “It is useful that people
worry about Bryza’s statement, why are you afraid?”
Republican Armen Ashotyan, debating with mutual accusations and stings,
says Mathew Bryza who has experience of a mediator in Georgian-Ossetian
and Georgian-Abkhazian conflicts, has assumed a greater goal. He must
expedite the settlement of the conflict for the sake of the economic
interests of the United States and the question of Iran. And these
interests are the ways of energy resource supply, notes Ashotyan and
announces that Bryza’s statement smells the oil of Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan
and the gas of Baku-Tbilisi-Erzrum. This gas pipeline will supply
Europe, says Ashotyan. He is also hopeful that one day Iran-Armenia
will become a transit pipeline to Europe.
Ashot Bleyan says, “It is clear that at one time the former government
was busy hampering Azerbaijan, allegedly it has no oil and gas and a
strike is enough to make it collapse. It is obvious that Azerbaijan
is not going to collapse, on the contrary, the rates of development
of Azerbaijan in the past few years and in the upcoming two years
exceed the rates of development in Armenia several times.
It is known that the state budgets, state wealth cannot be compared.
If we are trying to measure our budgets by hundreds of millions,
they are already measuring by billions of dollars, it is obvious
that Azerbaijan increasingly feels confident as a powerful state in
the region.”

ARMENIA TO PARTICIPATE IN THE CONFERENCE ON HIV/AIDS ISSUES
ArmRadio.am
04.07.2006 11:31
August 29-30 a conference on issues of availability of measures for
HIV/AIDS prevention, treatment and care will be held in Tbilisi. The
conference will be attended by specialists from Armenia, Georgia
and Azerbaijan. Head of HIV/AIDS program of the WHO Armenia Office
Gayane Ghukasyan told “Armenpress” that representatives of the three
countries will report on the measures of prevention undertaken and
the progress achieved.
WHO specialists will present how to undertake effective preventive
measures with small expenses. German experts will present their
experience.
At the end of the conference a national plan of HIV/AIDS prevention
will be elaborated for every country.

RA PRESIDENT ROBERT KOCHARYAN TO LEAVE FOR IRAN
ArmRadio.am
04.07.2006 12:35
July 5 RA President Robert Kocharyan will leave for the Islamic
Republic of Iran on a two-day working visit. The delegation headed by
the President comprises RA Ministers of Foreign Affairs and Energy,
Head of Staff of the Office to the President, Ambassador of Armenia
to Iran, and other officials.
Robert Kocharyan will have a meeting with the President of the
Islamic Republic of Iran Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Later the meeting of
Armenian and Iranian delegations will continue in an enlarged format,
bilateral documents will be signed. Leaders of the two countries will
give a joint press conference.
In the framework of the working visit RA president will have a meeting
with the Foreign Minister of Iran Manouchehr Mottaki.
Robert Kocharyan will visit also the Armenian Embassy in Iran and
will meet representatives of the Iranian-Armenian community.

PRESIDENT ROBERT KOCHARYAN RECEIVED AAA EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR BRYAN ARDOUNY
ArmRadio.am
04.07.2006 13:47
President Robert Kocharyan received today the Executive Director of
the Armenian Assembly of America (AAA) Bryan Ardouny and the Regional
Director of the Assembly Arpi Vardanyan.
The President characterized the cooperation with the Armenian Assembly
of America as productive.
Bryan Ardouny presented the major directions of the Assembly’s activity
for the welfare of Armenia. The interlocutors exchanged views on a
number of issues on the agenda of Armenian-American relations and
regional questions.

AMENDMENTS TO BE IMPLEMENTED IN RA LAND CODE
ArmRadio.am
04.07.2006 14:33
July 3 RA President Robert Kocharyan signed the Law on implementing
amendments in the Land Code of the Republic of Armenia.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress

TODAY IS TALENTED ACTOR MHER MKRTCHYAN’S BIRTHDAY
ArmRadio.am
04.07.2006 15:06
Today is Mher Lazarian’s birthday. He was a person who stayed a child
up until his death, a person for whom love was the most important
thing in the universe. Today at the Komitas Pantheon his friends and
relatives again remembered and told about this talented individual
and actor of our times.
In response to the question what talent is, Mher Lazarian had
responded, ” Talent is a burden, responsibility and obligation.”
“Is it worth saying how talented he was? Together with the word
“talented” we can use today all superlative adjectives having a
positive sense, and they all would suit Mher,” said actor Azat
Gasparyan.
In Albert Lazarian’s words, his characteristics of his brother are
extremely egoistic and non-objective, since for him, Mher Lazarian
was a God both as a talented person, a brother, an Armenian, and as
a father. Love was the highest value for him.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress

RA MINISTRY OF EDUCATION AND SCIENCE TO FIGHT SHADOW EXPRESSIONS IN SCHOOLS
ArmRadio.am
04.07.2006 15:33
New officials of the Ministry of Education and Science are elaborating
new programs to resole the problems existing in the schools of the
Republic.
“From now on any headmaster or teacher, who will try to collect money,
will be severely punished,” declared Bagrat Yesayan, RA Deputy Minister
of Education and Science.
Hereafter the citizens can report about concrete shadow cases through
52-73-43 hotline.
Bagrat Yesayan assured that these cases will be definitely addressed.
According to the Deputy Minister, an unfair approach is dominating
in schools today, the respect for the teacher’s profession should
be retrieved.
“Cash payments in schools will be prohibited,” Bagrat Yesayan said.

NATIONAL ASSEMBLY TO HOLD AN EXTRAORDINARY SESSION
ArmRadio.am
04.07.2006 15:42
Chairman of RA National Assembly Tigran Torosyan signed a decree,
according to which under Article 70 of RA Constitution, at the
initiative of the Government of Armenia an extraordinary session of
the National Assembly will be called at 10.00, July 6, 2006.