AZERI PUBLIC DEMANDS INFORMATION ON KARABAKH TALKS CONTENTS
PanARMENIAN.Net
14.04.2006 19:28 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ The coordinating center of the Azeri opposition is
going to hold a rally in Baku May 6.
“The process of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict settlement should be put
for discussion of the political circles and parliamentarians. This
will be the burden of the action,” chairman of Umid (Hope) party,
MP Igbal Aghazade told Interfax-Azerbaijan.
In his words, the OSCE Minsk Group and other international structures
say that the year of 2006 is the most appropriate for the conflict
settlement however the Azeri society does not possess sufficient
information on the negotiations yet.
“The information may be published incompletely but the government
should hold consultations with the political circles and
parliamentarians. This is the problem of the state and the opposition
should elaborate a unified position on the issue,” Aghazade said,
reported Interfax-Azerbaijan.

RALLY AGAINST SAFAROV’S SENTENCE TO BE HELD IN BAKU TODAY
PanARMENIAN.Net
14.04.2006 19:32 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ April 14 an action in protest against the sentence
passed upon Azeri officer Ramil Safarov by the Hungarian court will
be held in Baku.
As reported by the Organization for Karabakh Liberation, members of
Safarov’s defense committee and a group of refugees and displaced
persons will demand “to change the punishment meted out to Safarov”.
Protest action will also be held in various regions of Azerbaijan,
reported Trend. To remind, yesterday the Budapest Court sentenced the
murderer of Armenian officer Gurgen Margaryan to life imprisonment
without the right of pardon during 30 years.

U.S. DEPARTMENT FOR JUSTICE OFFICIALLY REGISTERED NKR REPRESENTATION IN WASHINGTON
PanARMENIAN.Net
14.04.2006 20:30 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ The U.S. Department for Justice published a report on
the activities of formally registered lobbying organizations. According
to the report, the Department of Justice has officially registered
the Representation of the Nagorno Karabakh Republic lobbying
organization. At that the American sources remark it doesn’t mean
official recognition of Karabakh independence by the United States,
since organization by any name can be registered in the U.S.
The lobbying activities in the U.S. are regulated by the law and they
are considered to be the forth power, since their aim is to exert
influence of the U.S. policy, reported RFE/RL.

OSKANIAN: ARMENIA NOT READY TO JOIN NATO YET
PanARMENIAN.Net
14.04.2006 20:40 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Armenia is not ready to join the NATO yet, Armenian
Foreign Minister Vartan Oskanian stated when addressing the students
of the Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO)
in the Russian-Armenian (Slavonic) University. In his words, the
security system of Armenia consists of several components, these
being the membership in the Collective Security Treaty Organization,
development of relations with the NATO and participation in the EU
projects, reported Mediamax.

COMMITTEE ON ARMENIA-EU PARLIAMENTARY COOPERATION TO SIT IN YEREVAN
PanARMENIAN.Net
14.04.2006 21:36 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ The 8th sitting of the Committee on Armenia-EU
Parliamentary Cooperation will be held in Yerevan April 17-21. The
delegation members are scheduled to meet with Armenian President
Robert Kocharian, National Assembly Speaker Artur Baghdassaryan,
Prime Minister Andranik Margaryan and Foreign Minister Vartan
Oskanian. They are as well expected to meet with the representatives
of the Institute of Public Society, OSCE Yerevan Mission head Vladimir
Pryakhin, German Ambassador to Armenia Heike Renate Peitsch and the
Ambassadors of other European states accredited in Armenia. To note,
the EU delegation members intend to visit the Armenian-Turkish border,
RA NA press service reported.

CANADIAN TVO-2 TO SCREEN ANDREW GOLDBERG’S “THE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE”
PanARMENIAN.Net
14.04.2006 21:31 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ April 17 and 24 Andrew Goldberg’s “The Armenian
Genocide” will be screened by Canadian TVO-2, reported the RA MFA
press office. The Turkish organizations of Canada demanded to hold
a discussion with the participation of Turkish historians but it did
not go beyond a 5-7-minute talk with reporters.
“The Armenian Genocide” will be shown April 16 and twice on and April
24 by TVO-2. April 17 and 24 the film will be screened by WNED Buffalo.

ARMENIAN TV TO BROADCAST EASTER DIVINE LITURGY INTERNATIONALLY
Armenpress
Apr 14 2006
ETCHMIADZIN, APRIL 14, ARMENPRESS: The Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin
and the Shoghakat TV Company, working in conjunction with the “First
Channel” of Armenian television (“H1”) have announced live global
telecast of the Pontifical Divine Liturgy on Easter Sunday in Holy
Etchmiadzin. The celebrant will be His Holiness Karekin II, Supreme
Patriarch and Catholicos of All Armenians.
Armenian communities throughout the world will be able to watch
Easter Divine Liturgy broadcast live from the Mother Cathedral of
Holy Etchmiadzin on Sunday morning, April 16, 2006, on the Armenian H1
“First Channel” available through satellite providers.

ORINATS YERKIR EXPELS DISOBEDIENT MEMBER
Armenpress
Apr 14 2006
YEREVAN, APRIL 14, ARMENPRESS; The governing council of Orinats Yerkir
party of parliament chairman Arthur Baghdasarian voted late on April
13 to expel a fellow party member from their ranks ‘for disobeying
and ignoring party’s decisions.”
The lawmaker, Artak Sarkisian, was the only member of the party’s
faction that voted to approve a government report on fulfillment of a
privatization plan in 2001-2004, which Baghdasarian and his loyalists
dubbed as ‘shady.” Baghdasarian and his party members argued a day
before that 70 percent of 69 entities put up for sale during that
period were privatized with blatant breaches of the law. He said his
party members would voted against the report.
The report was voted by 65 to 9, with ten abstentions. The opposition
boycotted the voting. The expelled party member, Artak Sarkisian,
is the owner of a chain of SAS supermarkets.

CIA ACKNOWLEDGED EXISTENCE OF SECRET OVERSEAS JAILS
PanARMENIAN.Net
14.04.2006 21:13 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ CIA Director John Negroponte has for the first time
publicly acknowledged the existence of CIA ran secret jails where Al
Qaeda terrorist are kept. In an interview with Time Magazine Negroponte
said that three dozen or so of the worst al-Qaeda terrorists held in
secret CIA prisons are likely to remain in captivity as long as the
“war on terror continues.” He added, “These people are being held.
And they’re bad actors. And as long as this situation continues,
this war on terror continues, I’m not sure I can tell you what the
ultimate disposition of those detainees will be.”
To remind, the information on the existence of CIA secret overseas
jails appeared last September in the Washington Post. According
to the newspaper, the CIA keeps there the suspects in ties with
al-Qaeda. Later the European Parliament has formed a special commission
for investigating the fact. The commission concluded that the planes
conveying the suspects in terror have crossed Europe. They made
intermediate flight stops in the European airports, specifically in
the UK, Germany, Spain, Poland and Romania. Then the criminals were
taken to the third states where the jurisdiction of the U.S. and
Europe is invalid.
According to European Parliament representative, the number of the
CIA flying jails reaches hundreds or even thousands. However, it’s
very hard to fix them.
It should be noted that the conclusions of the commission coincide
with the data furnished by some legal organizations including Amnesty
International, reported Golos Rossii.

ARMENIANS WELCOME HUNGARIAN COURT’S RULING
Armenpress
Apr 14 2006
YEREVAN, APRIL 14, ARMENPRESS: Armenian political parties have welcomed
today the ruling of an Hungarian court that sentenced Ramil Safarov, an
Azerbaijani army lieutenant to life imprisonment for killing Armenian
Lieutenant Gurgen Margarian, 26, in “premeditated, malicious and an
unusually cruel” way.
Gurgen Margarian was killed in February 2004 while he slept in a
dormitory used by participants in a NATO Partnership for Peace English
language course. The Hungarian court ruled that he will be eligible for
parole in 30 years. Levon Mkrtchian from the Armenian Revolutionary
Federation (ARF) said the court’s verdict ‘is of political and moral
significance’ for the Armenian side.
Alexan Karapetian from the opposition National Unity party said
Armenians hope that the murderer will serve his full term in an
Hungarian prison and will not be extradited to Azerbaijan where
he was declared the Man of the Year. Judge Andras Vaskuti of the
Budapest district court ruled that “Compassion and remorse were
completely missing from (Safarov’s) testimony,” Judge Vaskuti said
upon announcing the verdict. “During the whole case we waited for
him to be at least a bit sorry for the Armenian soldier he killed
brutally and for (Margarian’s) family.”
Safarov’s lawyer, Gyorgy Magyar, said they would immediately appeal
the verdict, adding that it was yet unclear whether his client would
serve his sentence in Hungary or be extradited to Azerbaijan.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress