CALIFORNIA PARLIAMENT COMMEMORATES ARMENIAN GENOCIDE VICTIMS ON APRIL 27
PanARMENIAN.Net
27.04.2006 22:41 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ April 27 the California Parliament marks the Day
of Commemoration of Victims of the Armenian Genocide in Ottoman
Turkey. Members of the California Council and Senate, Armenia’s
Consul General in Los Angeles Gagik Kirakosyan, members of national
communities of the State take part in the event. California Governor
Arnold Schwarzenegger has sent a message on the 91st anniversary of the
Armenian Genocide, which declares April 23-29 Week of Commemoration of
Armenian Genocide Victims in California, reports the Press Service of
the Armenian MFA. We note that on April 24 2005 the California Council
and Senate adopted a resolution on commemoration and recognition of
the Armenian Genocide.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress

SAN JOSE DO RIO PRETO BRAZILIAN CITY RECOGNIZED ARMENIAN GENOCIDE
PanARMENIAN.Net
27.04.2006 23:08 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ April 25 Mayor of San Jose do Rio Preto Brazilian
city Edinho Araújo signed a law adopted by the Municipal Council on
April 19.
According to the legislation, “April 24 of each year is established as
commemoration day of victims of the Armenian Genocide in 1915.” The
Genocide recognition legislation, sponsored by MP Dorival Lemmos,
was adopted unanimously.
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ARMENIANS WERE FIRST TEACHERS OF JUDY BADY AMERICAN JAZZ SINGER
PanARMENIAN.Net
28.04.2006 00:10 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ “My teacher was a famous Armenian pianist, composer
and arranger Armen Donelian. My first music teacher also was Armenian,
Gergoy Toroyan,” American jazz singer Judy Bady stated at a news
conference in Yerevan today. In her words, national melodies form the
basis for jazz and Armenian music is strongly present in Armenian jazz.
“I started singing in a church, I sang gospels, then studied in
New York, which is considered a jazz center. I will perform my own
compositions and classical jazz in Yerevan,” she remarked. As of the
acquaintance with composition of Armenian jazzmen, Bady said she has
listened records of Chiko & Friends of Armen Tutunjyan and looks
forward to a joint concert. Jazz Parade will be held at the Opera
Theater on April 29.
Misha Piatigorsky and Hans Glavishnik, who had performed with famous
Armenian jazz singer Tatevik Hovhannisyan in their time, also play
with Bady.
Judy Bady Quartet is in Yerevan owing to a recurrentJazz Appreciation
Month, held by the US Embassy in Yerevan.

MONITORING OF CONTACT LINE OF NKR AND AZERI ARMED FORCES REGISTERED NO INCIDENTS
PanARMENIAN.Net
28.04.2006 00:21 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ No cease-fire violations were registered during the
OSCE recurrent planned monitoring at the contact line between the
Azerbaijani and Karabakh Armed Forces, held north-west of Gulistan
village of NKR Shahumyan district.
Special Representative of the OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Ambassador
Andrzej Kasprzyk of Poland led the group observing the positions
of the NKR Defense Army. The group included Harry Eronen (Finland)
and Peter Key (UK).
The monitoring was held in compliance with the planned schedule,
no cease-fire violations were registered.
The Azeri party, as different from the Karabakh party, did not take
the observation mission to its frontline.
>From the Karabakh side the observation mission was accompanied by
representatives of the Defense Ministry and the Ministry of Foreign
Affairs (MFA) of Nagorno Karabakh, reports the Information and Analysis
Department of the NKR MFA.

NKR SPEAKER CONTENT WITH OUTCOMES OF MEETING OF ARMENIAN AND KARABAKH MPS
PanARMENIAN.Net
28.04.2006 00:36 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Chair of the National Assembly of the Nagorno
Karabakh Republic Ashot Gulyan appreciated the results of the session
of the NKR and Armenian Interparliamentary Cooperation Commission,
which finished in Stepanakert today. Gulyan said that “efficient and
productive discussions” on all matters on the agenda were held. He
emphasized, “the results of the discussion will be a good basis for
further cooperation between the two Parliaments,” Mediamax reports.

BILL DECLARING APRIL 24 DAY OF COMMEMORATION OF ARMENIAN GENOCIDE ADOPTED IN BUENOS AIRES
PanARMENIAN.Net
28.04.2006 01:10 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ April 26 the House of Representatives of Buenos
Aires Argentinean State unanimously (92 votes) adopted a bill, which
declares April 24 Day of Commemoration of the First Genocide of the
20th century, of which the Armenian people became a victim, reports the
Press Service of the Armenian MFA. The bill was introduced by House of
Representatives member Serjio Nahapetyan. The law will come into effect
after being approved by the Senate and the Governor of the State.

GEORGIAN BUDGET WILL NOT COPE WITH REPATRIATION OF MESKHETI TURKS
PanARMENIAN.Net
27.04.2006 23:04 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ 35 thousand Meskheti Turks live in the territory of
Turkey today, reported State Minister for Conflict Settlement and Chair
of the State Commission on Repatriation of Refugees Georgi Khaindrava
at a news conference in Tbilisi. In his words, when entering the CE
Georgia pledged to return Meskheti Turks to their fatherland. The
year 2011 is determined the term for repatriation.
“We do not know yet, how many of the Meskheti Turks living in Turkey
want to return to their fatherland, however the process should comprise
all the country and they should return not only to Samtskhe-Javakheti,
from where they were exiled during the Stalin regime in 1944,” the
State Minister said. He emphasized that if those people consider
Georgia their fatherland, they should settle in any part of its
territory.
Khaindrava remarked the Georgian budget will not be able to cope with
repatriation of Meskheti Turks.
An international conference on the repatriation of Meskheti Turks
to Georgia will be held in Tbilisi on 27 April. The forthcoming
conference will come as the last stage, which will be followed by
the process of repatriation of Meskheti Turks to their historic lands.
Organized by the Council of Europe Commission on National Minority
Rights of and the Georgian Government, the forum will bring together
representatives from Meskheti Turk communities residing in different
countries. A law on repatriation is to be adopted by the Georgian
Parliament on the same day. The conference will mull over the
places for repatriation of Meskheti Turks to the regions of Georgia,
Trend reports.

LAWYER OF KILLED VAHAN ABRAMYANTS DENIES EVERYDAY MURDER VERSION
PanARMENIAN.Net
28.04.2006 01:59 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Lawyer of the family of Vahan Abramyants, 17,
killed in Moscow metro, denies the version of murder, based on
everyday circumstances.
“”We flatly deny the version of murder of Abramyants, based on everyday
circumstances, as we believe the crime was committed on ethnic
ground,” Simon Tsaturyan said at a news conference in Moscow. He
reported that along with the killed young man’s father he met with
Moscow metro Prosecutor, “we solved all formal matter and Vahan’s
father was unconditionally recognized as aggrieved party.”
Tsaturyan also reported that the prosecutor’s office has instituted
criminal proceeding according to part 2 of article 105 of the
Russian Criminal Code (murder committed as a member of a group of
two and more persons), with qualifying signs of racial and national
dislike. “However, it is not clear, why witnesses of the crime gave
evidence in the militia and not at the prosecutor’s office,” Simon
Tsaturyan said. He said he was sure the investigation conceals the
video cassette with the record of the crime.
Characterizing the victim, V. Abramyants, Tsaturyan called him a
well-bred, calm young person, “and he could never behave in the way,
as some people tried to present he allegedly was,” reports Interfax.

ARMENIAN YOUTH PARTY TO SEND DELEGATION TO MOSCOW TO PROTEST RACIAL KILLINGS
Armenpress
Apr 27 2006
YEREVAN, APRIL 27, ARMENPRESS: The last weakened killing of an
Armenian student in Moscow and an attack on an Armenian film critic
have re-ignited anti-Russian sentiments in Armenia with many of
its ordinary citizens questioning the wisdom of Yerevan’s allied
relationships with Moscow.
The Youth Party of Sarkis Asatrian was the first among political
forces to react publicly to what he termed was ‘the sinister wave
of hate murders across Russia.” Speaking to a news conference today
he urged all Armenians irrespective of their political affiliation,
to show determination and unity to demand that Russian government
takes swift action to put an end to racial killings.
But Asatrian warned that protest actions alone would not be
sufficient, saying other ways of struggle must be put in action, by the
government, but very cautiously so that not to harm Russian-Armenian
relations. “The government must take all possible actions, develop a
list of actions, have a plan of actions to press for an end to this
problem,’ he said.
Asatrian said he was concerned that the so-called Russian ‘skinheads’
who are behind murders and attacks on non-Slavs could have been
trained by special interior squads. This means, according to him,
that they are not ‘hooligans’ as declared by Russian officials,
but ‘ a well-organized group.” Asatrian went on to argue that
many forces inside and outside Russia are interested in inciting
instability across it and even ‘to force a wedge in Russian-Armenian
relationships. Asatrian said his party will gather a team of 15
prominent Armenian intellectuals to fly them to Moscow on May 15
where they will meet officials from the Russian president’s staff,
chief prosecutor’s office, interior and foreign ministries.
“This time we have to be resolute and act jointly so that to have a
dialogue with able Russian forces to shift the problem to a civilized
field,’ he said, adding it was regretful that attacks on Armenians
in Russia are taking place in a year declared Year of Armenia.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress

PRO-RUSSIAN OPPOSITION LEADER ADVERTISE THE IDEA OF ‘CONFEDERATION UNION’ WITH MOSCOW
Armenpress
Apr 27 2006
YEREVAN, APRIL 27, ARMENPRESS: Leader of an opposition party that never
made a secret of his very close Russian connections, argued today in
favor of furthering Armenia’s ties with Russia, up to foundation of
what he described as ‘a confederation union.”
Aram Karapetian, the leader of Nor Zhamanakner (New Times) party,
called actually for a partial revival of the former Soviet Union
saying the confederation he meant could be built on the basis
of Russia-Belarus union together with Uzbekistan. Kyrgyzstan,
Kazakhstan and Armenia. Karapetian’s arguments were that Armenia
could not all alone to ensure its national and energy security and
restore communications routes. But he added that no political leader
of Armenia should ever deny the need for maintaining good relations
with the United States.
Karapetian also spoke about the latest efforts to resolve the
Nagorno-Karabakh conflict saying Washington’s desire to deploy
international peacekeeping troops between Armenian and Azeri troops
was obvious, but he said Russia and Iran are against it. According
to him, Armenia should pursue a neutral foreign policy to avoid a
negative reaction of other countries.