WHEN IS STATE SECRETARY GOING TO ARRIVE?

Panorama.am
14:38 14/03/06

As we have been informed from the USA Embassy in Armenia, in the
scopes of regional visit the deputy of US State Secretary in European
and Eurasian affairs Daniel Freed accompanied by Major Consulter
in Eurasian affairs Steven Mann is going to arrive in Armenia from
March 15-16.

In the latest 10 days it is going to be the visit of the second
representative of USA State Secretariat to.

Several days ago the deputy of the deputy of the US State Secretary was
in Armenia. Tomorrow the deputy of the Secretary is going to arrive
in Armenia. Following the logical chain we must expect the US State
Secretary Condoleezza Rice to visit the region in the near future.

And what is the main reason of the interest towards our modest country
and region? There are several opinions concerning this question among
the political circles. Some think the USA is trying to find out the
positions of the governments of the region, to get some assistance
before the diplomatic- political “attack” on Iran. The other part
tends to think that the USA is trying to increase its influence in the
region and presses over Armenia and Azerbaijan trying to activate the
go-between role in the matter of Karabakh issue regulation. Moreover,
it is trying to agree the sides over a certain variant.

ARMENIA EXPECTS JUST AND SEVERE PUNISHMENT FROM BUDAPEST COURT

Panorama.am
14:38 14/03/06

The 7th court sitting on the case of Armenian Army Officer Gurgen
Margaryan’s murder by Azeri ramil safarov will be continued on April
4 and the verdict will be probably passed on April 13.

But before that the representative of the interests of G. Margaryan’s
legal successor in Budapest Court, lawyer Nazeli Vardanyan told
the details of the trial on March 7 at the conference today. As she
mentioned the evidence given by Azeri murderer saying that he bought
the axe to protect himself from Armenian officers were rejected during
the lawsuit. A psychologist, a psychiatrist and a stressologist
were invited to the trial. The latter described the real state of
the criminal at the moment of murder from the professional point of
view. According to the conclusion of the above mentioned specialists
safarov was in quite a good psychological state and fully realized
what he was doing.

The representative of RA Defence Ministry in Budapest Court Hayk
Demoyan added that the Azeri murdered gave evidence dangerous for his
country saying the officers in Azeri Army pass Military Training on
the territory of Northern Cyprus.

“Judging by publications in Azeri papers the Azeri side will be
interested in ending the trial as soon as possible as they do not
like safarov’s evidence to be paid much attention to,” noticed the
Defence Ministry representative.

By the judgment delivered on March 13 r. safarov will probably be
sentenced to 10-13 years’ or life imprisonment. N. Vardanyan expects
that the sentence will be just and H. Demoyan insists: “The officer
of Azeri Army must be sentenced as a horrible criminal who is capable
of killing only a sleeping person.”

BETTER LATE THAN NEVER?

Panorama.am
13:58 14/03/06

The editorial staff of “Mekh” student’s paper of Faculty of Culture
at Armenian State Pedagogical University had organized a contribution
the funds collected during which were handed in to the manager of
museum of Khachatur Abovyan Zatikyan.

An analogical donation was made by the pupils of School N 6 in Abovyan
city years ago. At those times $100 was great help to the museum. At
present, as the manager mentions, 200 million drams were let from the
budget which is enough to repair the building of the museum. Besides,
thanks to the financial assistance it will be possible to realize
an interesting idea: 4 monuments will be erected on the road to
the museum; Abovyan with Alamdaryan, Nazaryants, Ashtaraketsi and
Parrot. As they say, better late than never. It was high time for
the museum to be repaired.

DEMAND SEVERE PUNISHMENT OF THOSE GUILTY IN MURDER IN TSALKA

Panorama.am
13:54 14/03/06

Today “Guards of Spirit” students’ youth organization of
“Armenian Courageous Unity” complained to the Georgian Embassy
in Armenia. Particularly it is mentioned in the complaint:
“Mr. Ambassador, we complain against anti-Armenian policy which has
a recurrent and purposeful character.”

As the authors of the announcement assure Georgian regimes “want to
de-armenianize Akhltskha, Akhlkalak, Aspnjakan, Bogdanovka, Tsalka
and other Armenian dwellings by all inadmissible means.”

“Mr. Ambassador, we demand: 1) Immediately to stop Georgianization
of Armenian historical-cultural and religious values in Georgia and
historical Armenian territories, 2) To punish those guilty for the
murder of Armenian young man in Tsalka publicly and severely, 3) To
restore study of Armenian History in Armenian schools in Georgia, 4)
To cease the de-armenianization and national assimilation policy of
Georgia in Armenian territories.”

We appreciated the amity of our neighbor Georgia, yet at the moment
all those friendly assurances have no value for us any longer as we are
the witnesses of assimilation process of more than 150 Armenians. We,
the Armenian youth, have learned a lesson from our history and we
shall not allow the events of 1915 to repeat,” mention the authors
of the announcement.

KARABAKH ISSUE – GLOBAL SECURITY PROBLEM

PanARMENIAN.Net
15.03.2006 19:00 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ “Territorial integrity of Azerbaijan”, “Nagorno
Karabakh Autonomous Region”, “liberated territories”… Theses are the
ungrounded notions imposed upon the Nagorno Karabakh Republic, former
NKR Deputy Defense Minister, lieutenant general Vitaliy Balasanyan
stated in an interview with Karabakh-online. In his words, the issue
is being purposefully politicized though it should be considered within
the legal field. “What does the expression security belt mean? I don’t
know such notion in the world practice when the territories belonging
by right are kept but even trees are not planted there. This notion
should be removed from the lexicon, recognize the NKR integrity within
its present borders and not follow the tastes of those who politicize
the issue artificially,” he underscored.

When touching upon the relations with the neighbor states, first of all
with Iran, Vitaliy Balasanyan noted that NKR is an independent state
bordering with Armenia and Iran. “During the pre-soviet period Iran
was Armenia’s age-old neighbor. Moreover Armenians made significant
contribution to the formation of the Persian State. We had common
interests including culture. We could jointly reconstruct and preserve
the monuments of Persian culture – mosques in Shushi and Aghdam. I
think we should use the border with Iran,” Balasanyan said.

He also reminded that the Karabakh problem is of pan-Armenian and
even global importance. “Some third states really attempt to cause
contradictions between the Armenian and Karabakh authorities. “I do
not notice any tension. Anyway the Nagorno Karabakh issue should be
over any personal ambitions,” the lieutenant general stated.

TURKEY SHOULD HURRY WITH ARMENIAN ISSUE

PanARMENIAN.Net
15.03.2006 19:03 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Turkey should maximally speed up the measures
undertaken within the Armenian issue.

Historians should deal with historical issues and Turks should think in
this direction, staunch defender of official Turkey’s position on the
Armenian Genocide Justin McCarty stated during the “New rapprochement
in the Turkish-Armenian relations” symposium held in Istanbul. McCarty
also touched upon the protest of the Armenian lobby against the TV
debates to take place after the show of Andrew Goldberg’s film titled
Armenian Genocide. “The resolution of the issue is unclear yet. But if
Armenians had anything to say they wouldn’t have minded the program,”
the American historian said, reported Marmara Istanbul-based newspaper.

AZERBAIJAN WILL NOT FORGIVE SAFAROV

A1+
05:36 am 14 March, 2006

Ramil Safarov, the “hero” of the Hungarian courts during the past 2
years has made interesting discoveries about his country.

“Safarov discovered that the representatives of the Azerbaijan military
forces train in Northern Cyprus.

There were many publications in the media in January.

Judging from the latest ones the Azerbaijan side realizes its
seriousness and wishes the trial to end as soon as possible. Turkey
may press on Azerbaijan on this score,”said the representative of
the Foreign Ministry Hayk Demoyan.

KARABAKH IS ACKNOWLEDGED BY THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY

A1+
06:40 pm 14 March, 2006

“There is no agreement connected with the settlement of the Karabakh
conflict,” declared the president of the party “National Renaissance”
Albert Bazeyan today in the club “Mirror”.

He claims that there must be compromise from the both sides for the
peaceful regulation of the conflict.

When Azerbaijan puts the question of taking back the liberated areas
and residing the refuges in Karabakh without discussing the status
of Karabakh, Armenia can’t but reject the offered solutions.

In Bazeyan’s opinion, there can’t be any settlement to the conflict
regulation without the agreement of Karabakh. According to him, it
is not proper today to recognize the independence of Karabakh as he
thinks we’d better let Azerbaijan adopt a non-constructive position.

The leader of the RPA Galust Sahakyan, Albert Bazeyan’s opponent,
declared at the beginning of the press conference that he didn’t
have great expectations from the Rambouillet meeting. The aim of the
Presidents’ meeting is not the signing of the document. It will be
presented to the population of Armenia and Karabakh after establishing
the principles. The international society has acknowledged the
sovereignty of Karabakh. The investments in the country, the grants
of many international organizations and the integration into economic
relations with Karabakh testify to this.” The Diplomatic Corps must
solve suchlike questions.”

According to Bazeyan, the launching of the war is improbable as the
defeated side will always wish to take a revenge. Bazeyan connects
the solution of the problem in favor of Armenia favor with the
strengthening of the economy of the country, the provision of the
national integrity, the improvement of psychological condition,
respect of human rights and freedoms and the prevention of emigration.

“Only in that case shall we be less vulnerable with high national
resistance.” stated Bazeyan. Agreeing with Bazeyan on this score
Galust Sahakyan couldn’t say definitely what the authorities do to
solve the above-mentioned problems. He spoke about the Constitutional
and legislative changes.

What ways of solution do the speakers offer for the conflict
regulation?

“Azerbaijan became independent using the sovereignty right after the
collapse of the USSR. Karabakh can also benefit from this right,”
Galust Sahakyan said.

Albert Bazeyan reminded that Azerbaijan’s Constitution does not allow
passing a referendum in separate parts of the country. Therefore,
if Armenia agrees to pass a referendum in 10-15 years’ time that will
be a trick.

“The question of Karabakh must be solved with the principle of
self-determination.”

By the way, Galust Sahakyan shares Albert Bazeyan’s opinion in many
questions. At the end of the conference Bazeyan declared that although
Sahakyan agreed with him on certain issues, it doesn’t mean that they
are adherents in all issues. “We continue our battle for establishing
lawfulness in the country”

GABRIEL SARGSYAN – WINNER OF THE REYKJAVIK TOURNAMENT

A1+
12:12 pm 15 March, 2006

In the last round of the Reykjavik international chess tournament
Armenian Grand Master Gabriel Sargsyan tied with Pantela Harikrishna
and won the tournament with 7 points.

Harikrishna, Mamedyarov, Adli and Nadaf had the same amount of
point as Sargsyan, but Sargsyan took the first place with additional
results. The Armenian player won 5 of the 9 games and tied in the
other four, without suffering any losses.

By the way, Sargsyan was only the 8th with his reputation in the
tournament among 102 players about 30 of which were Grand Masters. As
a winner of the tournament Sargsyan will get 6 thousand USD.

THEY ARE AFRAID OF ABRAHAM

A1+
02:45 pm 15 March, 2006

Armenian professional boxer Arthur Abraham winning the title of the
World Champion by the IBF version arrived in Armenia for several days
on the invitation on Unibank. During today’s press conference he told
about the latest game and future plans.

26-year-old Abraham mentioned that during the match against Shannon
Taylor he wanted to win with a knockout as he had great advantage
over him. “Be he was physically firm and this time I didn’t manage
to win with a knockout”.

Arthur also mentioned that although he represents Germany, after
winning he always raises the Armenian flag, “The organizers do not
allow me to take our flag to the ring before the match, but after
the match I do it by all means. It’s a pity that I do not represent
Armenia but I have more chances to succeed there”.

On May 13 Arthur Abraham will have another fight in Germany, and at the
end of the year he intends to organize fights against American boxers,
“It is not an easy thing to organize fights. My manager offered Bernard
Hopkins and Jermaine Taylor to fight with me, but they refused. No
one wants to lose the Champion’s belt”.