PanARMENIAN.Net
Law Criminalizing Genocide Denial May Be Adopted in Netherlands

29.05.2006 17:47 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ At a news conference on June 1 member of the
Christian Union of the Dutch parliament Tineke Huizinga will submit a
bill criminalizing denial of genocide and other crimes against
humanity. As an example of such a crime the Armenian Genocide in
Ottoman Turkey is mentioned. Members of `April 24′, the Federation of
Armenian Organizations, as well as representatives of Jewish and Dutch
organizations will take part in the news conference, reported Yerkir.

PanARMENIAN.Net
Frank Pallone: U.S. Shouldn’t Refrain from Declaring Truth to Promote
Relations with Turkey
29.05.2006 18:11 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ The controversy surrounded the firing of
U.S. Ambassador to Armenia John Marshall Evans continued to grow this
week with a powerful statement by the Co-Chairman of the Armenian
Caucus, calls for Congressional hearings, and a series of as yet
unanswered inquiries from the national media during the State
Department’s daily press briefing, reported the Armenian National
Committee of America (ANCA). In a May 25th statement on the House
floor, Congressman Frank Pallone (D-NJ) forcefully condemned the
Administration for forcing Amb. Evans to vacate his post for publicly
affirming the Armenian Genocide. He voiced his “fear that the
Government of Turkey may have played a role in this unfortunate
event. I strongly believe they have expressed concern to the White
House over Evans’ remarks last year. In fact, immediately following
his remarks, Evan issued a “correction,” all too seemingly at the
behest of the Administration. We must not allow a third party to
interfere in U.S. diplomacy and refrain from declaring the truth in
order to promote relations with Turkey.”
Congressman Pallone noted that he has yet to receive an explanation
from the State Department, despite having written a letter to the
Secretary more than two months ago requesting a thorough description
of the reasons behind the Ambassador’s recall. Commenting on similar
unanswered letters and questions posed during Congressional hearings
regarding this controversy, he noted that, “now, the White House has
made an ‘official’ announcement but still has not given an
explanation.” He closed by expressing his “hope that the
newly-appointed U.S. Ambassador to Armenia, Richard Hoagland, will not
play the word games of the White House, and comply with Turkey’s
campaign of genocidal denial.”

PanARMENIAN.Net
Turkish MP Distributed Booklets Denying Genocide among NATO PA Session
Participants
29.05.2006 18:41 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Turkish MP representing Justice and Progress ruling
party Aziz Akgul distributed booklet titled `The Armenian Issue and
Reality’ among the participants of the NATO PA session in Paris.
The booklet issued in the French, German and Turkish languages denies
the Armenian Genocide. As reported by the Anatolian news agency the
booklet expresses Turkey’s official position on the Genocide issue. It
`explains why the deportation of Armenians should not be described
genocide’.

Armenpress
ARMENPRESS NEWS AGENCY AMONG FOUNDERS OF BLACK SEA
ASSOCIATION OF NEWS AGENCIES
KIEV, MAY 29, ARMENPRESS: Armenpress news agency is
among several news agencies from countries of the
Black Sea region which have gathered today in the
Ukrainian capital city to establish the association of
the national news agencies of the Black Sea states.
The association is to be established at the
initiative of the Ukrainian national news agency
Ukrinform and with the support of the Ukrainian
government. These news agencies are from he Black Sea
Economic Cooperation organization (BSEC): AzerTaj
(Azerbaijan), ATA (Albania), Armenpress (Armenia),
Caucasus-press (Georgia), Moldpres (Moldova),
ITAR-TASS (Russia), Rompres (Romania) and TANJUG
(Serbia).
Ukrinform Director General Viktor Chamara said the
association will be an international non-commercial
organization that will pool efforts of the national
news agencies of the Black Sea states for the
effective use of their information resources, a free
and equitable exchange of information on the most
important issues of political, economic, scientific
and cultural life of their countries spreading it in
the BSEC states.

Armenpress
INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM TO CELEBRATE CHILD PROTECTION
DAY STARTS IN YEREVAN

YEREVAN, MAY 29, ARMENPRESS: A three-day
international scientific symposium aimed at fostering
a discussion of modern practices and issues of child
protection opened today in Yerevan at the hall of
sessions of the Armenian government building. First of
its type in Armenia, this event was organized by World
Vision Armenia in cooperation with the USAID and
UNICEF.
Among the participants are leading specialists in
the sphere of child protection, special pedagogy and
inclusive education, experts from Russia, Georgia,
Switzerland, Serbia, and other countries, as well as
representatives of Ministries, international and local
NGOs, charity foundations, educational and healthcare
institutions.
The Symposium is supposed to introduce new and
effective methodologies, discuss state policies and
strategies related to child protection, and foster
productive dialogue and cooperation among different
entities operating in this sphere.

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EXPRESSROAD TO BE CONSTRUCTED
[08:24 pm] 29 May, 2006
The first expressroad in Armenia is to be constructed in the
capital. The part of the Admiral Isakov avenue from the stadium
«Hrazdan» until the «Zvartnots» airport crossroad will be changed into
an expressroad.
According to Frunzeh Basentsyan, the head of the Yerevan municipality
urban development administration, the above mentioned part of the
avenue can be easily turned into a 7-meter wide two-sided
expressroad. The officials in the municipality think that there will
be no problems with the owners of the casinos in Paraqar.

Panorama.am
14:54 29/05/06
DO CASINO AND SHOP OWNERS AGREE?
The Armenian authorities intend to make capital reconstruction of
Isakov avenue, a space running from Victory Bridge to the crossroad
leading to airport Zvartnots, the head of construction administration,
municipal improvements and utility services of Yerevan municipality
Yervand Basentsyan told a briefing today. In his words, double sided
express road will function on this section complying with
international standards.
It should be noted that casinos and furniture shops have been
operating on the section for a long time. The furniture shops display
their products on the street. Answering to the question `what will the
fate of those shops be,’ Basentsyan responded, `high advertisement
posters will be posted in front of the shops but that will not trouble
them.’ However, the shop owners would hardly like that. The casinos
will be isolated from the highway, either, with a road section with
6.5-meter width.
Speaking about municipal improvements and construction, Basentsyan
said that 11 emergency buildings will be reconstructed this year in
Yerevan. `2-3 buildings will be put in commission by the end of June
and the rest will be commissioned by the end of November,’ he
said. The city authorities plan to recover street illumination in 13
streets this year. 5.5 billion drams are allotted to municipal
improvements with 1.5 billion drams already in use./Panorama.am/

Regnum, Russia
May 29 2006
Europe Publishing House has published `Karabakh Conflict: Azerbaijani
Vision’ Collected Articles by REGNUM Agency
`Karabakh Conflict: Azerbaijani Vision’ Collected Articles by REGNUM
News Agency, prepared with assistance of the Eurasian Research
Institute Development Foundation, was published by Europe Publishing
House (Moscow). The book contains various materials, which
demonstrate perception of Karabakh conflict’s past and present by
Azerbaijani society.
First part of the book contains interviews of REGNUM correspondents
in Baku Rafik Mustafayev and Mamed Syleymanov with well-known
Azerbaijani political analysts and public figures Mubarriz
Akhamdoglu, Rauf Rajabov, Shahin Rzayev, Arif Yunusov, Eldar
Zeynalov, Eldar Namazov. The second part consists of 2005-2006
Azerbaijani mass media (Zerkalo, Echo, 525th daily, Real Azerbaijan)
selected publications on Karabakh conflict. The third part contains
Azerbaijani official documents regarding tragic events of Karabakh
war.
REGNUM Editor-in-Chief Konstantin Kazenin is the collected articles’
main compiler and author of the preface. The book’s presentation is
planned to be held in the near future in Azerbaijani capital Baku.

AFX News Limited
Russia to remove enriched uranium from other former Soviet-bloc states by
2013
05.29.2006, 09:02 PM
MOSCOW (XFN-ASIA) – The government here has announced that it will
repatriate by 2013 the enriched uranium from reactors in 17 countries
that formerly belonged to the Soviet bloc, as part of the Global
Threat Reduction Initiative.
The 17 countries, which together possess 20 Soviet-era nuclear
reactors, have all agreed to participate in the initiative.
The initiative, launched by the US in 2004, aims to identify, secure
and remove from other countries around the world any US or Russian
nuclear materials, in order to avoid their falling into the hands of
terrorists.
Russia’s first operation was completed in secret in April, when 63
kilograms of uranium was removed from Uzbekistan, according to Valeri
Govorukhin, deputy director-general of Technsabexport, which deals
with exports of products and services produced by the Russian federal
atomic energy agency.
‘The Uzbek reactor was only 37 kilometres from Afghanistan,’ where
US-led forces are battling Islamist extremists, Govorukhin said.
‘The operation was paid for by the US and cost around 7 mln usd, a
third of which went on environmental protection,’ he said.
The next two countries from which Russia plans to remove fissile
material are Latvia and the Czech Republic.
‘We plan to finish the program of repatriating enriched uranium by
2013,’ Govorukhin said.
According to the International Atomic Energy Agency, more than 100
research reactors around the world are using highly enriched uranium
that could be used for terrorist purposes.
afp/jm

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`IF THE EU SURVIVES FOR ANOTHER 50 YEARS, WE WILL BECOME ITS MEMBER’
[06:11 pm] 29 May, 2006
`Europe is not a kindergarten to leave us inside by the hand. We must
be integrated into it to have achievement,’ NA deputy Shavarsh
Kocharyan thinks. Saying `Europe’ he means the nucleus of
Europe. During the seminar organized by the NGO `European Integration’
he represented a report on the theme `The System of European values as
the result of the competition between the nations and combat of
nations for their right of property.’
The head of the National Democratic Party mentioned that the way of
integration is difficult but the results are profitable. He brought
the example of France enumerating the revolutions and offering to
follow their examples. He mentioned three factors: national interest,
system of values and religion. He thinks that all the nations are in a
competition. According to him, in order to become member of the EU
and to be more powerful the national values must be preserved. `The
State which processes an efficient way of governing wins. And the
efficiency of the governing must be based upon the system of values,’
Shavarsh Kocharyan says.
Head of the NGO `European Integration’ Karen Beqaryan is convinced
that the process of integration cannot be carried out in a
day. According to him, it is better to take our time as unnecessary
rush can cause undesirable results.
`First we must become a national state and only then – member of the
EU,’ head of the Mass Media Caucasian Institute Alexander Iskandaryan
claims. By the way, mentioning that he has nothing to do with
Nostradamus, he added that if the EU survives for another 50-60 years,
we will become its member by all means.