NEXT TRIAL ON CLAIM RAISED BY JAILERS AGAINST RAMIL SAFAROV SCHEDULED FOR SEPTEMBER 1 AND 5
Azeri Press Agency, Azerbaijan
May 4 2006
Yesterday trial on the claim raised by jailers against Azerbaijani
Army Officer Ramil Safarov accused of murder of Armenian officer
Gurgen Margaryan will took place in Pesht Court, Hungary.
Azerbaijani embassy in Hungary told APA that two jailer witnesses
gave testimony on in the trial presided by Judge Tot Dyendver and
the next trial was scheduled for September 1 and 5. the trial was
attended by Azerbaijani embassy representatives and students.
Hungarian lawyer Klara Fiser defended rights of Safarov.
Jailers demanded Ramil Safarov to give the phone card on June 19,
2004. Safarov don’t know Hungarian language and he therefore didn’t
understand the jailers and this misunderstanding caused incident
among them. 8 police tied Safarov’s arms and exercised force.
Safarov’s lawyers appealed to the court but the court didn’t meet the
appeal through lack of evidences. Then the jailers raised counterclaim
against Safarov that he put up resistance to jailers.

KOREA BACKS PEACEABLE RESOLUTION OF NK IN LINE WITH INT’L LAW
Author: S.Agayeva
TREND INFO, Azerbaijan
May 4 2006
Korea supports the peaceable settlement of the Armenian-Azerbaijani
conflict within framework of international principles,Trend reports
citing Charge d’affairs of Korea in Azerbaijan, Lew Kwang Chul.
The Korean government attentively observes over the peaceable
resolution of the conflict under the OSCE Minsk Group and hopes in
the mediators’ successful activities.
However, the diplomat noted that Korea has not its official position
on the Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.
Korea supports the resolution of the conflict within the framework
of the international norm and principle, he noted.

ARMENIAN AIRLINE EXPRESSES CONDOLENCES TO BEREAVED AFTER CRASH
RIA Novosti, Russia
May 4 2006
YEREVAN, May 4 (RIA Novosti) – The head of the Armenian airline whose
plane crashed into the Black Sea Wednesday killing all passengers
and crew issued a statement Thursday expressing his condolences for
the bereaved families.
Armavia Airlines Director General Norayr Belluyan said, “This terrible
day will never be forgotten. On behalf of the airline, I convey [my]
condolences to all those affected by the tragedy. We grieve with you.”
Investigators are searching for the black boxes of the A-320 Airbus
that plunged into the sea six kilometers form the coast, killing all
the 113 people onboard, including six children.
The head of the airline said, “There are no words to express all
the pain and suffering of thousands of people who have received
dreadful news.”
Belluyan said the airline had received “messages of condolence and
support from companies, organizations, and airlines, from hundreds
and hundreds of people.”

HEYDAR ALIYEV MONUMENT TO BE SET UP IN BISHKEK
Today, Azerbaijan
May 4 2006
Monument of Heydar Aliyev will be set up in Bishkek, State Committee
on Work with Azerbaijanis living abroad informs.
As APA reports, the committee associate Fuzuli Najafov, has
participated in the talks with regard to issues.
During the visit to Kyrgyzstan, Fuzuli Najafov met with Chairman of
Social Forum “Support and development of Heydar Aliyev policy”, Nusrat
Mammadov. Work on Nagorno Karabakh issue to bring to the attention
of Kyrgyzstan community, discussions on provision of Azerbaijanis
participation in social-political field of the country was discussed.
It was decided that Azerbaijani Diaspora will expand relations with
Azerbaijani government to execute these issues.
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“GERMAN-FRENCH” MODEL FOR NAGORNI GARABAKH
Democratic Azerbaijan
May 4 2006
Caucasian countries have no choice but integration to regulate conflict
in the region.
France and Germany, used to be enemies, have chosen integration and
reached advanced development. Cooperation between both countries was
reached with the help of politicians, being known that first step
in this direction were taken during joint exploitation of iron mine
and coal.
Accordingly to chairman of Armenian National Bank, Tigran Sargasyan,
mentioned model should be applied in South Caucasus, especially because
Azerbaijan, Armenia and Georgia want to be members of European Union.
Economic state of the above states will be examined, and the level
of compliance of showings with EU Maastricht Treaty will be defined.
These showings are defined by rise in prices, ratio of state debts
to national produce, long-term interest rate etc.
“If we take into account rise in prices, only Armenia meets
requirements of the Treaty. Azerbaijan and Georgia will not comply
with it long time. Azerbaijan pursues policy of price conservation
attempting to regulate their rise by administrative way what leads
to breaking up macroeconomic stability”, T. Sargasyan informed.
However, chairman of Armenian National Bank, misinterpreted facts.
One of the most significant showings necessary for being EU member
is average wage.
In Armenia it makes up 145, in Georgia – 113, and in Azerbaijan –
124 US dollars. Poverty level in Azerbaijan makes up 29%, in Armenia –
34% and in Georgia – 52%.
As for health care, in Azerbaijan 1,6 % of national produce is allotted
for this field. The same showing in Georgia is 0,5% and in Armenia
– 1,3%.
In Azerbaijan economic development rate runs up to 23,6%, in Georgia –
9,9% and in Armenia – 14%.
As for credit resources Azerbaijan enjoys better position than
Georgia and Armenia. Moreover, the worst court system is in Armenia,
and Georgia is leader of the region in the field of internet and
telecommunications.
Azerbaijan’s economic growth goes on mainly owing to production,
processing and transportation of oil. 42% of national produce came
from this field. In Georgia service and transport tariff for oil and
gas pipelines are of great importance, at the same time in Armenia
construction and agriculture serves for formation of national produce.
Azerbaijan allots 650 millions of US dollars for military needs,
that is, 4 times more then Armenia.
As for export, Azerbaijan deals with oil transportation, Georgia
exports metal, and Armenia exports agricultural products and
non-precious stones.
Taking into account all these facts, it is clear that “economic
integration” of Azerbaijan and Armenia is out of question.
If we recollect the fact that Armenia pursues policy of terrorism and
occupation, then realization “German-French model” for regulation of
Nagorni Garabakh conflict is no more but illusion.
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RESCUERS GET BLACK BOX SIGNALS AFTER PLANE CRASH
MosNews, Russia
May 4 2006
Airbus specialists working at the scene of the Armenian plane crash on
the Black Sea have detected a radio signal, possibly from the plane’s
black box flight recorders, a Russian emergency official told the
RIA Novosti news agency on Thursday.
The official added that the signal was very weak and they were not
sure of the exact location of the devices. Experts are using special
equipment while searching for flight data recorders from the A-320,
lying at the depth of about 500 meters (1,640 feet) below the surface
of the water, 5 km from the shore.
The plane, owned by Armenian Airlines, crashed at 02:15 local time
(22:15 GMT) as it made an attempt to land at an airport near the
Russian resort town of Sochi. Initial reports suggest bad weather
was the cause of the tragedy. Analysis of the plane’s black boxes
may give more information to allow emergency services to confirm or
disprove the theory.

NO AVAILABLE EQUIPMENT CAPABLE OF RECOVERING BLACK BOXES – MINISTER
RIA Novosti, Russia
May 4 2006
SOCHI, May 4 (RIA Novosti) – Russia’s transportation minister said
Thursday the flight recorders from an airliner that crashed off
Russia’s southern coast Wednesday with the loss of 113 people were
too deep in the sea to be recovered with available equipment.
The black boxes of the Armenian plane are at a depth of 680 meters
(2,230 feet), and there is no available equipment in southern Russia
that could recover them, Igor Levitin said.
On Thursday, French experts picked up a radio signal that could be
coming from the black boxes of the crashed plane. They said the signals
had been included in the design of the plane to make it easier to
identify the location of the flight recorders after a possible crash.
“Many fragments have been discovered where the signal was established,”
Levitin said. “We believe this is where the disaster happened.”
The minister said a request would be sent to the Navy to find the
necessary equipment.
“There is an experimental model in the north of the country, and we
will try to deliver it to the operation site,” he said. “It can work
at a depth of 500 meters [1,640 feet].”
He said the operation involved a Be-200 aircraft searching the coastal
line. Levitin added that recovery teams had reached Loo, a town 15
kilometers (9 miles) from the popular resort of Sochi and would now
move back to Adler, the airport servicing Sochi where the Airbus had
been trying to land when it crashed in poor weather.
Sergei Kudinov, the head of the southern regional center of the Russian
Emergency Situations Ministry, said international technologies would
be used to lift the black boxes from such a depth.
“We will employ international technologies, in particular, from France,
the U.S. or Norway,” he said.

RUSSIA AIR CRASH RELATIVES IDENTIFY BODIES
By Mikhail Antonov
Reuters, UK
May 4 2006
SOCHI, Russia (Reuters) – Relatives began the grim task on Thursday of
identifying bodies of some of the 113 passengers and crew killed when
their Armenian airliner crashed into the Black Sea off Russia’s coast.
In Sochi, the Russian holiday resort near where the Airbus A-320
crashed, a crowd of about 60 people gathered outside the morgue to
examine photographs of corpses hanging on a wall.
Most showed battered faces but some corpses were too disfigured. One
photograph showed only a man’s hand with a ring on one finger. Anyone
who recognised a relative was ushered inside the morgue to view
the body.
“People are, of course, in shock. It is an enormous stress for them,”
said Yuri Meditsa, a psychologist who was assigned to counsel grieving
relatives at the morgue.
“There are bodies that can be identified and there are some that,
realistically, cannot,” he said.
There were at least five children on the plane which took off from
the Armenian capital Yerevan early on Wednesday bound for Sochi’s
airport. Most of the passengers were Armenian. There were 26 Russian
passport holders on board.
A day and a half after the jet vanished from radar screens, divers
and rescue workers in boats had pulled 49 bodies from the water,
officials said. Twenty of the dead had been identified.
The first bodies will be flown home to Armenia later on Thursday for
burial, Armenian government minister Hovik Abrahamiyan said in Yerevan.
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search was going on for more bodies and for the aircraft’s “black box”
flight recorder which should help investigators piece together the
jet’s last moments.
Crash investigators had picked up a radio tracking signal from one of
the black boxes lying on the seabed, said Viktor Beltsov, a spokesman
for Russia’s Emergencies Ministry.
Investigators and officials from Armavia, the airline operating the
plane, said they believed torrential rain and poor visibility were
factors in the crash. Russian prosecutors have ruled out terrorism.
Armavia’s managers said the aircraft had initially turned back to
Yerevan because weather conditions in Sochi made it impossible to land.
The crew changed course again and tried to land at Sochi a second time
when flight controllers told them the weather had cleared slightly,
the airline said.
FINAL MINUTES
There was a haunting glimpse into the flight’s final minutes on
Thursday when the Rossiya television station broadcast what it said
was a taped radio exchange between the crew and air traffic controllers
in neighbouring Georgia.
“We are returning to Yerevan,” a crew member can be heard saying over
a crackly radio link.
“Right now or later?” the controller asks.
“Now,” the crew member replied.
A special submersible was despatched to Sochi to help retrieve some
of the debris which, rescuers say, has sunk to the seabed about 500
metres (1,600 feet) down.
Russian television showed a rescuer picking up a single, white training
shoe from the water and adding it to a pile of clothes and shredded
suitcases on the deck of his dinghy.
(Additional reporting by Hasmik Mkrtchian in Yerevan and Nataliya
Borisova in Moscow)

AZERBAIJANIS RESIDING IN LONDON PROTEST AGAINST BUDAPEST COURT RULING
AzerTag, Azerbaijan
May 4 2006
Azerbaijanis residing and studying in London gathered May 2 in front
of the embassy of Hungary in the United Kingdom to protest against
Budapest court ruling towards Azerbaijan Armed Forces officer Ramil
Safarov.
Speaking at the rally, member of the World Azerbaijanis Coordinating
Council, Prof. Gulamrza Sabri Tebrizi stated Budapest Court ruling
was unfair.
Those gathered in the rally urged the International Criminal Court
to give a legal assessment of the ethnic purge policy pursued by
Armenians, acts of violence and genocide against Azerbaijanis as well
as of Ramil Safarov’s extradition to Azerbaijan.
Protesters submitted their written demands to the embassy of Hungary.

IRAN AND PEARL HARBOR SYNDROME
By Pyotr Romanov
Focus News, Bulgaria
May 4 2006
The Paris meeting on Iran, which the media dubbed “secret” because
journalists were barred from it from start to finish, ended in failure
as expected.
The positions of the sides remained the same. The United States wants
the UN Security Council to pass the toughest possible resolution on
Iran’s nuclear file. By and large, the Europeans are leaning toward
the U.S. proposal, while permanent members of the Security Council
Moscow and Beijing insist on talks. The negotiators were trying hard
to conceal what has long become an open secret.
Trying to help Beijing and Moscow out of the predicament,
U.S. Ambassador to the UN John Bolton has suggested that they should
abstain from voting on the problem at the Security Council. If the
Council is torn apart by contradictions and fails to exert pressure
on Iran, the U.S. and other countries may themselves punish Iran.
Other U.S. officials have expressed the same opinion. U.S. State
Department spokesman Sean McCormack has just made another statement
to this effect.
Moscow also has to adjust its position. Chairman of the Duma committee
on international affairs Konstantin Kosachyov has just declared
that Iran’s ostentatious refusal to comply with the Security Council
requirements was fraught with serious consequences. He did not rule
out sanctions against Iran.
It is even more interesting to hear the opinions of intelligence
officers, military men and independent experts. U.S. intelligence
spokesmen openly admit that they know very little about Iran; such
statements, however, should not calm Tehran down because they clearly
show that the U.S. and its foremost allies are channeling all the
necessary financial, material and intellectual resources into the
effort. It is hardly a coincidence that when U.S.-Iranian dispute
reached its peak, the military announced successful testing at the
Eglin air base in Florida of the 10-ton Massive Ordnance Air Burst
(MOAB), which the press immediately dubbed the Mother of All Bombs.
The use of tactical nuclear arms, primarily anti-bunker weapons, has
not been ruled out, either. It is not surprising that Moscow insists
on negotiations – it does not want a nuclear war near its borders,
all the more so since nuclear issue is no bluff. Former U.S.
Secretary of State Henry Kissinger said that the American military
should analyze all options against Iran, including the use of nuclear
weapons.
It is not merely the doctrine of a preventive strike that is pushing
the U.S. to be tough. In effect, the doctrine itself reflects the
painful Pearl Harbor syndrome, and a highly dubious assumption that
it was possible to nip Hitler in the bud if the U.S. had intervened
in Europe earlier. The trauma inflicted on the U.S. by the barbarous
hostage seizure in Iran has not healed, either. Good old Freud is
here again.
Finally, the Americans are worried by some forecasts. Zbigniew
Brzezinski thinks that the U.S. will wage war with Iran for 30 years
and lose its world supremacy as a result. This prediction suggests the
conclusion – either not go to war at all, or strike without mercy and
win a quick victory. Thus, the American Eagle is now looking around
with particular attention and is ready to nip in the bud anything it
perceives as an attack. Invasion of Iran on the basis of unverified
data may be just a prelude, all the more so since presumption of
innocence does not apply to Iran. Defending its right to a civilian
nuclear program, Tehran has already said too much and got bogged down
in contradictions.
Even some independent Russian experts believe that war is inevitable.
Chairman of the Presidium of the Institute of Globalization Problems
Mikhail Delyagin said: “I think that the actions, which have been
taken, and the propaganda accompaniment, which we have been hearing,
give us enough grounds to predict that the decision on a missile
attack… has been made. Considering the election race, this should
happen in late spring or summer.”
It is rumored that in Yerevan, capital of Armenia, wealthy Iranians
of Azeri background have already rushed to buy housing, just in case…
In turn, the press is trying to predict what Iran will do in return.
Quoting its sources in Tehran, the British Sunday Times writes that
Iran is ready for an adequate reply. There are 40,000 trained suicide
bombers, who will attack American, Israeli and British targets, 29 of
which have already been selected. The Iranian president is talking
about an asymmetrical blow at Israel. Tehran has also repeatedly
threatened to blockade the Strait of Hormuz.
To sum up, Pearl Harbor and the good old Freud are spelling a lot
of trouble.