AZG Armenian Daily #117, 24/06/2006
Culture
FESTIVAL OF YOUTH THEATRE TO LAUNCH IN YEREVAN
Yesterday, the festival of Young Theatre Workers
launched in Yerevan. The festival will last till July
1. David Harutyunian, young director, opened the
festival. He represented a performance staged on “The
Feast of Beasts” by Vahe Kacha.
It is envisaged that 22 performances will be held in
Yerevan theatres and in the theatres in the regions of
Armenia, including the Artsakh based V. Papazian
Theatre and the Tbilisi based Petros Adamian Theatre.
Within the framework of the festival, discussions and
round tables will be held. The organizers of the
festival assure that this arrangement will help the
young generation of theatre workers to get
familiarized and cooperate with the theatre leaders
and participants of international festivals.
The organizers of the festival also represented
“Theatre” periodical issued by the young theatre
workers of Armenia.
By Tamar Minasian

ARMENIAN SAILORS SCORE IN ANOTHER VICTORY
By Tamar Minasian
AZG Armenian Daily #117, 24/06/2006
Moushegh Barseghian and Vahagn Matevosian, sailors of “Cilicia” sailing
vessel, were awarded with “steersman of long lasting expedition”
title. Zori Balayan, writer and member of the crew, informed that
the young sailors passed quite a difficult exam at one of the German
ports and received the abovementioned certificate. The sailors of
“Cilicia” celebrated the victory by drinking toast of Artsakh vodka.

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ONLY NKR HAS THE RIGHT TO SPEAK ABOUT COMPROMISE
[04:54 pm] 23 June, 2006
The coming elections will be another opportunity for the politicians
to make use of the Karabakh conflict for their interests, announced
Shavarsh Kocharyan, the head of the National Democratic Party
administration.
According to him, despite anything the Karabakh conflict must not be
treated that primitively.
Considering the change of the foreign policy of the country in
connection with the Karabakh conflict urgent, Kocharyan said,
«Azerbaijan is trying to prove to the world that Armenia is an
aggressor and the RA authorities cannot introduce changes to their
foreign policy». In this respect Shavarsh Kocharyan considers
the organization of the coming elections in compliance with the
international standards extremely important.
As for the RA authorities speaking about giving territories, Shavarsh
Kocharyan considers it ridiculous. «Only NKR has the right to speak
about compromise».
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From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress

NDP REPRESENTS AN ALTERNATIVE TO THE AMENDMENTS OF THE ELECTORAL CODE
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[04:05 pm] 23 June, 2006
“The amendments to the Electoral Code are meant to contribute to the
reduction of the number of electoral fabrications”, announced Shavarsh
Kocharyan, the head of the National Democratic Party administration
in club “Pastark”.
Before referring to the conclusion of the Venice Commission about the
EC amendments, Mr. Kocharyan reminded that the electoral process in
conditioned not only by the Electoral Code by also by the will of the
authorities as well as of the opposition. According to Kocharyan, the
draft that the NDP represented to the Venice Commission was something
exclusive as both the RA authorities and the opposition signed under
it. Besides, “It also showed the absence of will of the authorities
and the opposition in the electoral process”.
According to Shavarsh Kocharyan, one of the most importance omissions
of the draft Electoral Code is the correlation of the proportional and
majority electoral systems. “If we want to have stable executive branch
of power the Parliament must be more politicized. Those individuals
who are elected by the majority system are the floating votes which
tend from here to there and do not contribute to stability. We must
have a 100% proportional system”.
Mr. Kocharyan is also worried about the way of forming the electoral
committees. He thinks that the authorities and the opposition must have
equal quantity of members in the committees, the members must not be
appointed by the President of the country and they must not be judges.
Mr. Kocharyan also said that the NDP does not have ambitions and
their version is open for broad discussions.

ALIEV IS NOT AS PATIENT AS THE EUROPEANS
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[04:27 pm] 23 June, 2006
We are already hopeless about the international mechanisms of
settlement. We cannot put up with this situation. We will never put
up with the loss of the territories. We will never allow Nagorno
Karabakh to separate from Azerbaijan and that is not an issue of
negotiations. The only issue of negotiations can be the territorial
integrity of Azerbaijan and the security of all the nations living
in the region», announced President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliev today
during the school-leaving ceremony of the High Military School after
Heydar Aliev, agency «Trend» reports.
Till when do we have to participate in negotiations?
How long can we wait? Our patience is not endless.
Today Azerbaijan is developing rapidly. Armenia cannot catch up with
us in the economic, political and military field. Let them think in
Armenia where the two countries will be in one, three, or five years.
Armenia does not have any way of development. They are isolated from
all the international and regional programs, the possibilities of
economic development are restricted, and half of the population has
left the country. According to our information, they have difficulty
in protecting the borders due to the lack of human resources», the
Azeri President announced.
We don’t have any other problems except Nagorno Karabakh, that’s why
we must spend all the resources on the formation of the army», Aliev
said mentioning that Azerbaijan is at was and must pay attention to the
army. «We try to strengthen the army in every way we can. We must add
financing which we do. The military expenses have increased fourfold
for the last three years. In 2003 135 million USD were spent in the
military field, whereas in 2006 700 million», Ilham Aliev announced.
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DUAL CITIZENSHIP MUST BE A MEANS AND NOT AN AIM
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[05:34 pm] 23 June, 2006
“The adoption of dual citizenship is not an aim in itself and it must
not be looked upon as an aim. It is a means to reach our aim. And
the aims must be clearly formulated in the conception”, announced
President of the Constitutional Court Gagik Haroutyunyan during the
Parliamentary hearings today.
He represented the international experience and informed that only 54
of the 191 member-countries of the UN have adopted dual citizenship,
and half of them did it with reservations. Why does the 2/3 if the
countries avoid dual citizenship? And why was a convention adopted
in 1963 about reducing multiple citizenship. Gagik Haroutyunyan
announced that the law can’t be adopted till the end of the years
as it was previously told as Armenia has not joined a number of
international conventions. He has fears that if the law contradicts
international norms, the norms will be stronger. In order to avoid
possible contradictions, Gagik Haroutyunyan offered to join the
conventions first, to clear out the aims of cooperation of Armenia
and the Diaspora and then to adopt the law.
Gagik Haroutyunyan also put forward the problem of those people lost
their citizenship and those who have not had it at all. Besides,
there is no statistics about how many people there are abroad, and
how many people have lost their citizenship because of living abroad
for seven years.
Leader of the Union for National Self-Determination Paruyr Hayrikyan
announced that the discussion is a bit late. It ought to have taken
place 15 years ago when Armenia was restoring its statehood and was
to do everything to gather together its citizens.
Nevertheless, Hayrikyan is against the law on dual citizenship. He
thinks that we can eliminate the first article of the RA Law on
citizenship which says that the RA citizen cannot be citizen of
another country and live peacefully.
Member of the Communist Party central committee Frunze Kharatyan
called on the authorities to create a national state.

“PYUNIK” WILL PLAY WITH THE CHAMPION OF MOLDOVA
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[05:43 pm] 23 June, 2006
The casting of lots for the first qualifying phase of the 2006-2007
Champions League took place in the Swiss city of Nion. According tot
he selection champion of Armenia “Pyunik” will play with “Sheriff”,
the champion of Moldova. The latter was the strongest of all the
possible opponents of “Pyunik”.
The first match will take place in Yerevan on July 12.
The second one will take place a week later in Moldova.
The Armenian team has played with “Sheriff” only once and lost the
game 3:0. The winner of this pair will play with “Spartak”, the vice
champion of Russia.

CATHOLICOS VISITED THE HISTORICAL ISLAND OF THE SEA OF MARMARA
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[06:45 pm] 23 June, 2006
During the visit to Turkey Catholicos of All Armenians Garegin II paid
a visit to the island Heypel together with Patriarch of Constantinople
Bartholomew I and Patriarch of Armenians of Constantinople Archbishop
Mesrop Mutafyan. They visited the Greek Orthodox church of Holy
Trinity and the famous theological seminary.
The Catholicos of All Armenians prayed for the re-opening of the
seminary which was closed down by the Turkish authorities in 1970s. His
Holiness mentioned that the Armenian Church always supports his sister
churches in their misfortunes.
The Armenian and Greek delegations visited the historical library of
the island and got acquainted with the monastery complex.

TURKEY MUST THINK ABOUT EDUCATION OF ITS NEW GENERATION
Panorama.am
15:54 23/06/06
Poet Razmik Davoyan told a discussion with artist Henrik Harukian
saying “there can be no more barbaric attitude to a spiritual figure,”
speaking about the protest of Turks connected with the arrival of
Catholicos of All Armenians Garegin II to Istanbul.
In his words, it is not clear how the Turkish authorities can
talk about democracy and think about European integration after
that. R. Davoyan thinks that there is no sense to condemn the behavior
of Turks. Only conclusions can be made. “Turkish authorities must
think about the education of their new generation,” Davoyan stressed,
adding that the two countries have the right to communicate even
though there are no diplomatic relations between the two.
H. Harukyan said in his turn that there are some people who are
ashamed of the behavior of their fellow countrymen.
During the arrival of Catholicos of All Armenians Garegin II to
Istanbul airport, he was met with egg bombing and curses from the
side of protestant Turks./Panorama.am/

SHAVARSH KOCHARYAN CRITICIZES FOREIGN POLICY OF ARMENIA
Panorama.am
16:23 23/06/06
After parliamentary elections 2007 it is necessary to qualitatively
change the foreign policy of Armenia in relation to Nagorno Karabakh
conflict, leader of Democratic Party Shavarsh Kocharyan told a press
conference today. “Azerbaijan tries to assure step by step that
Armenia is an aggressor country. This is very dangerous for us,”
he said. According to him this is done due to wrong foreign policy
of Armenia which does not focus on Nagorno Karabakh as a party in
negotiations. In his opinion, compromises should be from both sides:
Armenia declares its readiness for concessions whereas Azerbaijan
does not want to make corresponding steps. According to him, another
fault is that Armenia has not recognized Nagorno Karabakh up until
today. Concurrently, Sh. Kocharyan thinks it possible to change the
foreign policy trends in Armenia only if the elections are held in
compliance with European standards. /Panorama.am/