ARMENIA-COE COOPERATION PLAN FOR 2006-2007 RATIFIED

PanARMENIAN.Net
16.03.2006 00:39 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ The Council of Europe Committee of Ministers ratified
the Armenia-CoE Cooperation Plan for 2006-2007. According to Armenia’s
Permanent Representative in the CoE Christian Ter-Stepanian, the
process of Armenia’s honoring the commitments to the CoE undertaken 5
years ago is taken into consideration. As RA MFA press office reported,
the constitutional reform that opens wide possibilities for the
human right protection, formation of independent juridical system and
consolidation of democratic reforms found its reflection in the plan.

The plan also calls for the development of civic society
by strengthening the local self-government bodies. Christian
Ter-Stepanian emphasized that the implementation of the plan is
conditioned by the fact that the Armenian government proceeding from
the outcomes of the referendum has fixed the terms of changes to be
introduced in to the legislation of the republic. “We understand that
this cooperation will help Armenia to bring the legislation up to
the European standards. This, for its part, will help to carry out
the policy of reforms essential for the integration in the European
community,” the Ambassador said.

RA AMBASSADOR TO GERMANY: AZERBAIJAN LIES

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16.03.2006 00:24 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ The information discrediting the Armenian officers,
who are taking a course organized by the European Center for Security
Issues in Garmisch-Partenkirchner is false from beginning to end,
Armenian Ambassador to Germany Karine Ghazinian told PanARMENIAN.Net
reporter. In her words, if the facts presented by the Azeri side were
true the course administration would have brought them to the notion of
the Embassy. “No one addressed us either from Garmisch-Partenkirchner
or the Marshall Foundations.

Moreover, the Embassy has already furnished the essential information
to the RA Ministry of Defense and the Department of Home Affairs,”
Ms. Ghazinian said.

To remind, earlier Azeri-press news agency published 2 reports on March
15. The first report said that an Armenian officer taking the course
of the European Center for Security Issues after George Marshall made
an attempt to rape Ukrainian police captain Natalia Kostroma. The
second report said “major Artem Hakobian uttered unquotable words
addressed to Georgia. During a discussion he said that the Samtskhe
Javakheti region of Georgia is historically Armenian territory and
that official Tbilisi is “U.S.’s gendarme” in the region.”

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress

COMPARING TEYLIRYAN WITH SAFAROV DOESN’T BEFIT EVEN AZERI IDEOLOGISTS

PanARMENIAN.Net
15.03.2006 22:09 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ The killing of Talaat Pash once again proved that
a nation that wants to live and is ready struggle will always defend
its interests, political scientist Levon Melik-Shahnazaryan told
PanARMENIAN.Net reporter. It is not accidental that Talaat was
the first young Turks criminal killed. And it is not accidental
he was killed in Berlin. It is impossible to escape from people’s
retribution even in the capital of a power,” he noted. According to
the political scientist, some figures in Azerbaijan draw parallels
between Soghomon Teyliryan and Ramil Safarov. “Drawing parallels
between the participants of Nemesis operation and a criminal like
Safarov does not befit even Azeri ideologists. People’s avenger and
night criminal with an axe are two absolutely different categories
of human ideology. Only mentally ill people do not understand it,
Levon Melik-Shahnazaryan said.

To remind, March 15, 1921 in Berlin Armenian student Soghomon Teyliryan
killed one of the young Turks’ leaders Talaat Pasha, the initiator
of the Armenian Genocide in the Ottoman Empire in 1915. The German
Court acquitted Teyliryan.

ARMENIA WAS SACRIFICED IN 1921

PanARMENIAN.Net
15.03.2006 21:59 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ The Moscow Treaty signed on March 16, 1921 was a
logical continuation of the Brest peaceful agreement, when Bolshevist
Russia wishing to quit World War I was ready for great territorial
concessions, political scientist Levon Melik-Shahnazaryan told
PanARMENIAN.Net reporter. In his words, the study of documents shows
that Germany was indifferent to the fate of eastern Armenia and did
not insist on its conveyance to Turkey. “It was Trotsky’s personal
initiative most likely coordinated with Lenin. The Kars agreement in
October 1921 strengthened the provisions if the Moscow one. As result,
representatives of Turkey and Russia gathered in Moscow and cut off
a considerable part of Armenia’s territory,” he noted.

The expert said the problem was that in March 1921 Armenia was not a
Bolshevik republic. “Bolsheviks wished to make friends with Turkey and
the conveyance of Armenian lands to Turkey proved their “sincerity”.

Moscow knew Armenians won’t resign to the role of a lamb destined to
sacrifice,” Melik-Shahnazaryan said.

In his words, for this purpose almost the whole staff of the Armenian
army was arrested and this caused the rebellion February 18, 1921.

“The February rebellion expelled Bolsheviks from the greater part of
Armenia. Yerevan and all major towns were ruled by the leaders of
the First Republic of Armenia. Blaming Armenians and saying “if it
were not the rebellion there wouldn’t have been the conveyance of
the lands” is incorrect from the historical viewpoint and immoral
from the national viewpoint,” the Armenian expert underscored.

LAND BERLIN COURT PREVENTED POLICE FROM PROHIBITING “TALAAT PASHA ACTION”

PanARMENIAN.Net
15.03.2006 21:52 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ The court of Land Berlin yesterday evening prevented
the police from prohibiting the so-called Talaat Pasha Action scheduled
for March 18-19. However the human rights advocating organizations
and political figures supported the police and censured the court’s
decision, which will be appealed in the supreme legal instances. They
called upon the leadership to bar actions targeted at denial of
genocides and crimes of war, reported Yerkir Media TV Channel.

To remind, the other day the German police barred a series of rallies
the Turkish organizations planned to hold in Berlin in mid March. The
prohibition was based upon Article 189 of the German Criminal Code,
which bars to express “disrespect for the dead”. In its statement
the German authorities used expression “dead in 1915” to avoid term
Armenian Genocide. The rallies are planned to start with an event
titled Talaat Pasha Action within “Big Program – 2006” initiative
advanced by a number of Turkish political figures urging the Bundestag
to withdraw the Resolution on the Armenian Genocide.

It should be also reminded that in 2005 the Bundestag apologized to
the Armenian people and adopted a resolution saying that Germany being
an ally to Turkey during World War I bears responsibility for the
Armenian Genocide. The Resolution also calls upon Ankara to recognize
the Armenian Genocide.

TURKEY INTERESTED IN ESTABLISHMENT OF RAILWAY COMMUNICATION WIT GEORGIA AND AZERBAIJAN

PanARMENIAN.Net
15.03.2006 21:30 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Turkey is interested in the establishment of
railway communication with Georgia and Azerbaijan, Turkish President
Ahmed Necep Sezer stated in Tbilisi. “We continue the works for the
realization of the Kars-Akhalkalaki railway project.

We wish this main to supplement the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) oil
pipeline and the Baku-Tbilisi-Erzerum gas pipeline,” Mr. Sezer said
at a briefing after the meeting with Georgian President Mikhail
Saakashvili. When touching upon the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) oil
pipeline Mr. Sezer said the ceremony of the first tanker loading
will take place in Ceyhan this summer. He also invited Saakashvili
to participate in the ceremony, reported ITAR-TASS.

To note, Armenia rates the construction of the Baku
-Tbilisi-Akhalkalaki-Kars as economically inexpedient, since the
project is a counterbalance to the existing Kars-Gyumri-Tblisi-Baku
railway.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress

U.S. CONGRESSMEN CALL TO PRESERVE PARITY IN MILITARY ASSISTANCE TO YEREVAN AND BAKU

PanARMENIAN.Net
15.03.2006 21:03 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Congressmen Frank Pallone (D-NJ) and George
Radanovich (R-CA) called on their U.S. House colleagues today
to join them in cosigning a letter calling on the leadership of
the House Foreign Operations Subcommittee to support pro-Armenian
provisions in the fiscal year 2007 foreign aid bill, reported the
Armenian National Committee of America (ANCA). The letter notes that
members of Congress are “deeply troubled” that the Administration’s
request for military aid for Azerbaijan is considerably higher then
the request for Armenia. By signing the letter, legislators will add
their voice to the effort to ensure that the agreement struck in 2001
between the White House and Congress to keep aid levels to these two
countries equal is fully respected. In addition, the letter calls
for a hard earmark of at least $75 million for Armenia, a one-year
$5 million allocation for Nagorno Karabakh, and the preservation of
Section 907 of the Freedom Support Act.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress

TIME PLAYS INTO THE HANDS OF KARABAKH?

A1+
09:47 pm 15 March, 2006

“Azerbaijan must understand that while the negotiations for the
settlement of the Karabakh conflict are prolonging, the de facto
independent status of Karabakh is gradually being recognized by the
international community”, the head of the RA NA Standing Committee
on Foreign Relations Armen Roustamyan told “A1+”.

“Time does its work. Time cannot harm this one ore that, but we are
in a blockade and still we manage to strengthen our economy. We must
enhance our inner resources and the country itself, so that Azerbaijan
understands that they cannot solve the problem by the military way”,
Mr. Roustamyan says.

DEAD BIRDS FRIGHTENED THE RESIDENTS OF GYUMRI

A1+
09:54 pm 15 March, 2006

A dead dove and a dead crow have been found in Gyumri.

In both cases the birds were found by the children.

The resident of the city applied to the Shirak region Veterinary
State Inspection immediately.

The workers of the Inspection found only the dead dove in the place
of incidence as the crow had been lost.

The investigations showed that the bird did not carry the bird flu
virus, and the concern was in vain.

According to the head of the Shirak region Veterinary State Inspection
representative Gagik Sargsyan, they get about 6-7 suchlike alarms
from the people a day, but up to now the bird flu virus has never
been found.

In this connection the Inspection is well prepared.

They have special tests with the help of which they can easily find
the virus.

“Tsayg” TV Company of Gyumri

MILITARY SHOOTING-RANGE INSTEAD OF THE CROSS-STONES

A1+
10:00 pm 15 March, 2006

more images After fully eliminating the remnants of the more than
ten thousand khachqars and removing them from the ancient Armenian
cemetery, according to the eyewitnesses, in early March of the current
year the Azeri soldiers turned the area into a military shooting-range.

The photos spread by the RA Foreign Ministry show that the Old Julfa
cemetery no more exists, deserving the fate of the Plomboz Church,
the St. Savior’s Church and the Church “Red”.