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THE SOLUTION WILL BE FAVOURABLE
`As to Karabakh issue, we’ll take a decision that is advantegeous for our
people, that solves the problem raised in 1988′, – Serge Sargsyan told the
journalist during today’s briefing.
Mr. Sargsyan didn’t comment on the parliament resolution concerning the
return of deposits. «I’ve never spoken loudly on tat subject and now I
won’t. The Prime-minister knows my opinion of that question, he’ll announce
it if he finds it necessary», – Minister of Defence said.

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WE WILL LIVE IN AUTHORITATIVE STATE
It would be advisable if the upcoming referendum ended the same way as in
1991 at the referendum on independence. Today people trust to no one,
chairman of the Helsinki committee Avetik Ishkhanyan considers.
In his opinion, the nation will express its attitude towards the
authorities. `I think that the number of people supporting the incumbent
leadership does not exceed 20%. Thus, in case of free and fair election the
amendments will not be adopted.
According to A. Ishkhanyan, in case the referendum fails the RA authorities
will be in a very awkward position however it will give us the possibility
to start a new process of constitutional reform. `I was inspired to think
that we will have a good constitution but I was mistaken’, he said
Contrary to him, Mikael Danielyan is convinced that the authorities will
falsify the outcomes of the referendum. `If the draft is adopted, Robert
Kocharyan will have the possibility to run for President for the third time.

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HOW WILL NATION VOTE?
If the majority votes for the constitutional amendments but the number of
those who have voted makes less that 1/3 of the citizens registered in the
rolls the operating Constitution will remain if force.
The election to the local self-government showed that the electoral activity
has lowered , since only 35% of the voters took part in the election of the
Nor Nork community head.
Will the constitutional amendments be adopted? We addressed to 100 citizens
with this question October 3-6.
29% of the respondent suppose the amendments will not be adopted.
32% of the respondent think that the amendments will be adopted. Some of
them say that the outcomes will be forged. Some of them consider that this
is the desire of Europe. Only minor part of them rate the amendments as
progressive.
33% found difficulty in answering

Turkish Press.com
Published: 10/8/2005
40,000 People From Armenia Live Peacefully In Turkey, Bagis
SYDNEY – Egemen Bagis, the foreign policy advisor to Turkish Prime Minister
Recep Tayyip Erdogan, said on Friday that 40,000 people who came to Turkey
from Armenia lived peacefully in Turkey.
Bagis, who is currently in Australia prior to the visit of Prime Minister
Erdogan to this country and New Zealand in December, met representatives of
an international policy think-thank organization named Lowy Institute in the
morning.
Speaking in the meeting and responding to questions, Bagis said that mutual
visits started between the two parties in Cyprus and no problems took place.
When asked what kind of a solution could be found in Cyprus, Bagis said,
”let’s persuade those two countries to get united under the same state,
country and flag or let’s make the UN Security Council take up the report of
UN Secretary General Kofi Annan about Cyprus once again.”
Responding to a question about the Armenian issue, Bagis said that Prime
Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan called on the parties to make public the
documents they had regarding the ‘genocide claims’ and face their history.
”Although we opened our archives, Armenia hasn’t done that so far. It still
debates whether it should open the archives or not. Today there are 40,000
Armenians who came to Turkey from Armenia to live in our country. Our
citizens of Armenian origin are not included in that figure. These 40,000
Armenian citizens work in construction sites and some of their wives look
after our babies. Turkish families entrust Armenian women with taking care
of their children and it shows that Turks don’t have any hostility towards
Armenian people,” Bagis said.

EU official meets Turkish novelist who faces prison
ISTANBUL, Oct 8 (Reuters) – A senior European Union official on
Saturday met best-selling Turkish novelist Orhan Pamuk, who faces a
possible three-year jail sentence for his views, and urged EU
candidate Turkey to respect freedom of expression.
EU Enlargement Commissioner Olli Rehn is in Turkey to mark the opening
of EU membership talks this week with the large Muslim nation after
years of delay due partly to human rights concerns.
“Free speech and free expression are core values of the European
Union,” Rehn’s spokeswoman Krisztina Nagy quoted him as saying after
meeting Pamuk at his home in Istanbul.
“You don’t have to agree with everything a writer or journalist says
but they all have a right to express themselves freely,” Rehn was
quoted as saying.
Pamuk, best known for historical novels such as “My Name is Red” and
“The White Castle”, is being charged in connection with claims that
Armenians suffered genocide at Ottoman Turkish hands during World War
One.
The first hearing in his trial has been set for Dec. 16.
Underlining the sensitivity of the Armenian issue in Turkey, an
Istanbul court gave Armenian-Turkish journalist Hrank Dink a six-month
suspended sentence on Friday for “insulting Turkish identity” in an
article he wrote.
Dink denies any wrongdoing and says he had in fact called on the
Armenian diaspora to reject the anger they felt towards Turkey for
events which happened 90 years ago.
Nagy told Reuters Rehn had wanted to meet Pamuk because he admired his
work. She said they had discussed literature and the situation in
Turkey and in Europe.
Pamuk’s comments about the Armenians upset the Turkish establishment
and nationalists, who strongly deny the Armenian genocide claims.
They were also angered by Pamuk’s remarks that Turkish forces shared
responsibility for the death of more than 30,000 Kurds in southeast
Turkey during separatist fighting there in the 1980s and 1990s.
Rehn met Turkish political leaders in the capital Ankara on Thursday
and told them their country would now come under much closer scrutiny
as it tries to bring its laws and standards into line with those of
the wealthy 25-nation EU.
10/08/05 13:22 ET

Major earthquakes around the world during the past 50 years
.c The Associated Press
Major earthquakes around the world in last 50 years:
Oct. 8, 2005: Pakistani Kashmir; magnitude 7.6; more than 1,700 killed.
March 28, 2005: Sumatra, Indonesia; magnitude 8.7; up to 1,000 killed.
Dec. 26, 2004: Sumatra, Indonesia; magnitude 9.0; more than 176,000 people
killed in 11 countries from earthquake and subsequent tsunami.
Dec. 26, 2003: Bam, Iran; magnitude 6.5; more than 26,000 killed.
May 21, 2003: Northern Algeria; magnitude 6.8; nearly 2,300 killed.
March 25, 2002: Northern Afghanistan; magnitude 5.8; up to 1,000 killed.
Jan. 26, 2001: India; magnitude 7.9; at least 2,500 killed. Estimates put
death toll as high as 13,000.
Sept. 21, 1999: Taiwan; magnitude 7.6; 2,400 killed.
Aug. 17, 1999: Western Turkey; magnitude 7.4; 17,000 killed.
Jan. 25, 1999: Western Colombia; magnitude 6; 1,171 killed.
May 30, 1998: Northern Afghanistan and Tajikistan; magnitude 6.9; as many as
5,000 killed.
Jan. 17, 1995: Kobe, Japan; magnitude 7.2; more than 6,000 killed.
Sept. 30, 1993: Latur, India; magnitude 6.0; as many as 10,000 killed.
June 21, 1990: Northwest Iran; magnitude 7.3-7.7; 50,000 killed.
Dec. 7, 1988: Northwest Armenia; magnitude 6.9; 25,000 killed.
Sept. 19, 1985: Central Mexico; magnitude 8.1; more than 9,500 killed.
Sept. 16, 1978: Northeast Iran; magnitude 7.7; 25,000 killed.
July 28, 1976: Tangshan, China; magnitude 7.8-8.2; 240,000 killed.
Feb. 4, 1976: Guatemala; magnitude 7.5; 22,778 killed.
Feb. 29, 1960: Southwest Atlantic coast in Morocco; magnitude 5.7; some
12,000 killed, town of Agadir destroyed.
10/08/05 12:54 EDT

Pan Armenian
Armenian MOD Head To Visit US In Late October
08.10.2005 11:28
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Secretary of the National Security Council at the
President of Armenia, Defense Minister Serge Sargsyan will visit the US in
late October on the invitation of his counterpart Donald H. Rumsfeld. At the
National Press Club in Washington S. Sargsyan will make a statement, titled
Armenia: Security and Development Prospects in the South Caucasus. During
his visit he will meet with US Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld,
National Security Council top officials, as well as Armenian servicemen
participating in the Kansas National Guard exercises. The Armenian MOD head
will also visit the US Central Command base situated in Tampa town, Florida,
reported IA Regnum.

Pan Armenian
Constitutional Reforms Dominant Of Armenia Political Life
08.10.2005 09:28
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Armenian President Robert Kocharian today received
Chairman of the Constitutional Court of Lithuania Egidijus Kuris, reported
the Press service of the Armenian leader. Highlighting mutual contacts,
Kocharian hailed steps aimed at cooperation and exchange of experience.
Egidijus Kuris noted that close cooperation is established between the
Constitutional Courts of the two countries. Speaking of constitutional
reforms in Armenia, Mr. Kocharian noted these were the dominant of the
political life of the country today. In his words, they are aimed at
strengthening stability. The changes are especially significant from the
point of view of local self-government, human rights, increase of
constitutional court authority, strengthening constitutional control.

San Gabriel Valley Tribune, CA
Whittier Daily News, CA
Oct 8 2005
Armenian pontiff to visit memorial
By Debbie Pfeiffer Trunnell, Staff Writer

MONTEBELLO — Area Armenians were anxiously awaiting the arrival
today of the spiritual leader of one of the Armenian Apostolic
Church’s two branches, who will visit the city’s memorial to Armenian
genocide victims.
His Holiness Aram I, Catholicos of the Great House of Cilicia, will
conduct a brief religious ceremony at the Armenian Genocide Monument,
which commemorates the estimated 1.5 million Armenians believed to
have been massacred by the Turkish government in 1915.
“This is an occasion that does not come often, the tremendous
opportunity to see him and meet him,” said Zanku Armenian, spokesman
for the Western Prelacy of the Armenian Apostolic Church of America,
the church’s administrative body for the Western United States, which
is hosting today’s event.
The local visit at 10 a.m. in Bicknell Park is one of many stops in
the pontiff’s 15-day visit to California to mark the 90th anniversary
of the mass killings.
“It will be such an important event for me,” said Knar Kortoshian, a
member of the Western Prelacy. “It is our Catholicos paying his
respect to our martyrs’ monument and speaking on our rights as human
beings.”
The pontiff’s historic trip is focused on the theme of “Toward the
Light of Knowledge.” Aram I serves as the moderator for the World
Council of Churches, an organization representing more than 400
million Christians worldwide.
After visiting Montebello, he is scheduled to participate in a number
of religious ceremonies, education programs and youth forums in Los
Angeles, Fresno and San Francisco.
His holiness was elected in 1995 as head of the Great House of
Cilicia, the diaspora branch of the church, based in Lebanon.
During his many years of service, he has assumed important
responsibilities in the Armenian Catholiscosate of Cilicia, as well
as the worldwide ecumenical movement.

Battle Creek Enquirer, MI
Oct 8 2005
Words of inspiration honored
Katie Oliveri
The Enquirer
Amber Suedmeyer for the Enquirer
>From left, the Kellogg Career Scholarship recipients – James Doty,
Dympha Martin and Maurice Anderson – stand next to Julie Bosley of
the Kellogg Co., which awarded a scholarship at the event.
The Enquirer
Photo: Atoyan
Nona Atoyan, 17, was inspired by 10 words written below a painting
hanging in the hallway of Kellogg Community College.
“Somebody was once a nobody who wanted to and did.”
It was that quote which made Atoyan, who grew up in Armenia, realize
that “one benefits from life exactly what they put into it.”
“No one was born a teacher…a lawyer…a president,” she wrote in a
personal statement. “We all are born with equal opportunities and
abilities to make the right choices and actually become
somebody…I’m a strong-willed, focused individual…on her way to
becoming a somebody.”
It was Atoyan’s words that earned her the Robert L. and Lois H.
Brenner Memorial Scholarship, in the amount of $1,500. Atoyan, in her
fourth semester at Kellogg Community College, received one of about
170 scholarships awarded to students this year at the third annual
fall scholarship luncheon Friday, hosted by the KCC Foundation.
“I’m so very happy to receive the award since I’m an international
student,” she said. “It’s a great help.”
Some recipients Friday had the opportunity to meet and thank donors
at the luncheon.
“It’s kind of like an inspiration to meet someone from the company,”
said Maurice Anderson, 19, who was awarded the Kellogg Careers
Scholarship. “I feel really important.”
Julie Bosley, manager of corporate public relations at Kellogg Co.,
said it’s a great opportunity to actually meet the students receiving
the money. The scholarship pays for a student’s full tuition and
recipients also intern at the company.
“It’s great and I’m happy to meet them,” Bosley said. “And also
giving them a chance to intern (at Kellogg) adds value to the
scholarship.”
“I’m just excited to meet anyone (from Kellogg),” said James Doty,
17, of Olivet, who also received the Kellogg scholarship. “I was
shocked when I actually won. It’s pretty overwhelming.”
The scholarships awarded for the 2005-06 academic year totaled
$213,150. The KCC Foundation, established in 1998, exists to
exclusively raise funds for students and programs.