Noyan Tapan News Agency
Sept 23 2005
ARMEN RUSTAMIAN: NOT ACCEPTING KARABAKH AS A NEGOTIATIONS PARTY,
AZERBAIJAN FACTUALLY AVOIDS PEACEFUL NEGOTIATIONS
YEREVAN, SEPTEMBER 23, NOYAN TAPAN. No complete negotiations go on
the Karabakh settlement today. Armen Rustamian, a representative of
the ARF Supreme Body of Armenia, the Chairman of the NA Standing
Committee on Foreing Relations, expressed such a confidence at the
September 22 press-conference. According to him, today meetings,
consultations take place, but no negotiations: “No real negotiations
can be spoken on as Nagorno Karabakh is not present at the
negotiations as a party.” According to Rustamian, refusing to
recognize Nagorno Karabakh as a side, Azerbaijan, factually, avoids
peaceful negotiations, by this approving that it prefers the way of
war solution.
According to Armen Rustamian, Armenia can represent and protect
approaches of Karabakh in all those instances where the NKR hasn’t
been represented yet because of its being unrecognized, but it may
never take the place of Karabakh. According to him, no document
concerning the problem settlement, adopted without the participation
of Karabakh may be legal. According to Rustamian, there are issues
which are just under commission of Nagorno Karabakh, and Armenia may
not reach agreements on those issues. The problem of territories is
particularly among them as today those are factually guarantees of
the security of the people of Karabakh, and today this people has no
other real guarantee of security.
According to Rustamian if Azerbaijan tries to replace the discussion
of the issue to the UN platform without the participation of Nagorno
Karabakh Armenia should not participate in that discussion.
According to him, it’s impossible to solve all problems put on
negotiations at the same time that’s why “the agreement must be
package and the solution phasal.” “I won’t be against such phasal
solution when the issue of the status of Karabakh is solved first,”
ARF SB representative stated.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress

Anatolian Times, Turkey
Sept 23 2005
Suspension Of Academic Conference On Armenian Issue
ISTANBUL – Several groups held demonstrations in front of Istanbul’s
Bogazici University on Friday to protest an academic conference on
the Armenian issue which was suspended by the court.
Members of the Culture & Ethics Association hang photographs of women
and children who were killed by Armenian gangs during the World War I
on fences surrounding the university campus.
Meanwhile, members of the National Power Platform held another
protest to support decision of the court.
Kemal Kerincsiz, chairman of the Platform and a member of the
Executive Board of the Lawyers’ Association, said, ”yesterday, the
Armenian issue was debated at the European Parliament and a
parliamentarian said, ‘they (Turkish authorities) gave us a promise.
How could they suspend the conference now?’ Now we want to know who
has given those promises? Was it the prime minister or the foreign
minister? We expect Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan to make a
statement.”
”The conference is not scientific at all. It aims to explain biased
views of the Armenian diaspora,” he said.
Kerincsiz kept on saying, ”Turkish nation has the most honorable and
cleanest history of the world. There is nothing to be ashamed of in
our history including relocation of Armenians in 1915 due to security
reasons. Turkey has already opened its archives to researches.
According to documents in those archives, 527 thousand Turkish people
were massacred by Armenian gangs.”
Meanwhile, speaking on behalf of the Patriotic Movement, Bedri
Baykam, a prominent Turkish painter, said, ”some circles wanted to
organize this conference with extremely biased, antidemocratic and
misleading mentality.”
In another part of Istanbul, members of the Association of Retired
Officers held a demonstration to protest the conference.
Riza Kucukoglu, chairman of the Association said, ”we respect
decision of the court. We believe that the Bogazici University was
saved from an Armenian occupation after the decision of the court.”
A court in Istanbul ordered the suspension of the academic conference
on ”Armenians in the Late Ottoman Empire: Scientific Responsibility
and Democracy Problems”. The conference was originally scheduled for
May but was postponed as a result of severe criticisms. The case to
cancel the conference was brought by lawyers who are members of the
Foundation of Turkish Lawyers’ Union.

Dansk Boldspil-Union, Denmark
Sept 23 2005
English Futsal on the up
Gary Macbeth, event director of the UEFA Futsal Cup preliminary round
in London, says the event has shown how the game in England is
developing.
Competitive European Futsal came to the capital of England for the
first time last week – and the finish could not have been more
exciting.
Heartbreaking exit
Hosts London White Bear FC, having lost to Dinamo Tirana but defeated
France’s Roubaix Futsal, went into their last UEFA Futsal Cup
preliminary round game needing what seemed an unlikely two-goal win
against experienced Tal Grig Yerevan, and the odds increased when the
Armenian champions scored after only ten seconds. But London
equalised early in the second half and took the lead late on, and
when the whistle went there was some number crunching before they
realised that Yerevan and Dinamo Tirana had pipped them on
head-to-head record, on goals scored.
Praise for city
The chance to come to London was relished by the visiting teams.
Roubaix president Messaoud Ferkioui said: “We have learned so much
just being in London, it has confounded our expectations. It is as
beautiful as Paris!” Yerevan coach Ruben Nazaretyan added: “We
enjoyed it – thank you London!”
English improvement
London’s performance shows the development that is taking place in
English Futsal, as promoted by the Football Association (FA) and the
burgeoning leagues. One prominent example is the Futsal Premier
League (FPL), whose CEO Gary Macbeth was the event director of the
mini-tournament at the Crystal Palace National Sports Arena.
‘Fantastic experience’
Eastern European-influenced London are the current FPL champions, and
Macbeth told uefa.com: “This truly was a fantastic experience for our
team in hosting this event and bringing European competition to our
shores. The opportunity to offer a higher level of Futsal was a real
treat and we hope the Futsal fans that came out to support the event
thought so too. For me personally, I think it was also a huge success
in demonstrating the positive results that can come from UEFA and the
FA working with league organisations like the FPL to advance Futsal.”
‘Desperately unlucky’
Macbeth was certainly pleased with London’s performance in
representing his league and English Futsal. “Having not seen the
other teams, I had no idea really what to expect from them or how
well the White Bear team would do,” he said. “They were desperately
unlucky not to qualify. Winning two games, including coming from
behind and beat the group winners Yerevan, is a testimony to the
improvement in Futsal in this country over the last few years.”
Brazilian influence
He added: “The standards have raised here in the UK.. The competitive
league structure is going from strength to strength. The Futsal
Premier League is fortunate in that we benefit from a strong presence
of Brazilian and Eastern European teams. This is a definite help in
raising the level of the game overall.”
Future years
Next year’s English representatives will be Doncaster College for the
Deaf from the Sheffield and Hallamshire County FA’s Elite Futsal
league, who beat London in this year’s national finals. But there is
no doubt that London’s performance on their European debut has raised
the expectations for English teams, and Macbeth hopes that
improvement will continue.
Benefit gained
“I think the teams know now they can compete in Europe,” he said.
“There’s still a long way to go, but only by competing at that level
can teams learn what it will take. The cost of international fixtures
is high of course, but the benefit from the experience is significant
and obvious. It’s our hope of course to continue now in working
closely with UEFA and the FA, but any sponsors out there who love
football, should seriously take a look at Futsal.”
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress

Colgate University, NY
Sept 23 2005
Balakian’s ‘The Burning Tigris’ wins Raphael Lemkin Prize
Friday, September 23, 2005
Colgate professor Peter Balakian’s The Burning Tigris: The Armenian
Genocide and America’s Response has been awarded the 2005 Raphael
Lemkin Prize for best scholarly book in the preceding two years on
the subject of genocide, mass killings, gross human rights
violations, and the prevention of such crimes.
The award is given by the Institute for the Study of Genocide at John
Jay College of Criminal Justice/CUNY Graduate Center in New York
City. The prize, which comes with a cash award, commemorates Raphael
Lemkin, the legal scholar who pioneered the international legal
concept of genocide.
Helen Fein, chair of the prize committee, called The Burning Tigris
`a book of enduring scholarly value and of important contemporary
meaning.’
Previous winners include Samantha Power’s A Problem From Hell:
America and the Age of Genocide (winner of the Pulitzer Prize), and
Alison Des Forges’s Leave None To Tell The Story: Genocide In
Rwanda.
The Burning Tigris was a New York Times bestseller and a Times
notable book of 2003. Balakian is the author of seven other books,
including Black Dog of Fate, which won the 1998 PEN/Albrand Prize for
memoir, and June-tree: New and Selected Poems.
Balakian is the recipient of honors and awards including a Guggenheim
fellowship, a National Endowment for the Art, the Anahit Literary
Prize, and an Ellis Island Medal of Honor.
He has appeared widely on national television and radio. Translations
of his work have been published throughout Europe. He is the Donald
M. and Constance H. Rebar Professor of the humanities and professor
of English at Colgate, where he was the first director of Colgate’s
Center For Ethics and World Societies.
The award ceremony and talk by the author will be at 2:15 p.m.
Friday, Nov. 11, at John Jay College of Criminal Justice. Contact
Helen Fein, director of the Institute for the Study of Genocide, at
[email protected] for more information.
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ANOTHER CHAMPION
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| 17:38:56 | 26-09-2005 | Sports |
In Serbia the Chess European Youth Championship in which 23 Armenian young
chess-players participated, has been over. The most successful of all was
16-year-old Zaven Andreasyan who won 7 points from 7 possible and became
Champion of Europe.
Another medal was won in the 12-year-old age group where Hayk Tamazyan took
the third place winning a bronze medal.

IN 3-5 YEARS YEREVAN CENTER WILL LOSE ITS FACE
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| 17:37:41 | 26-09-2005 | Social |
While “victims of state needs” gathered opposite the Yerevan
municipality and demanded a meeting with the Yerevan mayor, the
chief architect of the capital Samvel Danielyan told the journalists
inside the building how they will reconstruct the areas “bought”
for state needs.
Today during the usual briefing Mr. Danielyan spoke about the monuments
of historical-cultural importance. Their list has finally been verified
by the Government. The monuments have been divided to two groups –
of local and state importance. Those in the first group will not be
transported, and the 14 buildings in the second group are subject
to transportation.
So, according to the chief architect, in 3-5 years Yerevan will
have its center finished. As for how much money will be needed to
realize the project, Mr. Danielyan was not sure, but he informed
that a competition will be organized. The winners will make
corresponding investments and will realize the projects ratified by
the Government. Samvel Danielyan announced that there will also be
local rich people among the investors.

OSKANYAN IS ALMOST ITALIAN
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| 17:41:24 | 26-09-2005 | Official |
On September 24 in Verona, Italy, the RA Foreign Minister Vardan
Oskanyan was awarded the “Great Venice Gold Award” (Grosso d’Oro
Veneziano). Oskanyan was awarded the medal of the Italian MASI Fund
for his contribution to the process of Armenian integration into
the European structures and the enhancing of the Armenian-Italian
relations.
In this connection Vardan Oskanyan made a speech in the 25th solemn
ceremony in the Verona St. George Church of the 8th century where
he referred to the determination of Armenia to develop according to
the European standards, to the inner development of the country, the
Armenian-Italian relations, as well as represented the events of the
Armenian-Italian friendship days to be organized in Yerevan in October.
The MASI fund was founded and is now headed by the inheritors of the
Italian poet Dante Alighieri. Every year distinguished representatives
in the literature, art, science, and economy fields are awarded these
medals. They are usually awarded to Italians.
Up to now the only foreign politician who had won the award was the
former President of Slovenia Milan Kuchan.

REFERENDUM WILL TAKE PLACE DESPITE ANYTHING
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| 17:40:28 | 26-09-2005 | Politics |
Tomorrow in the Parliament a special session will be convened where
the draft Constitution will be discussed. At present the draft which
is to be presented by third reading is not yet distributed to the
Parliamentary fractions; it will be distributed either tonight or
tomorrow morning.
By the way, it is not yet clear if the special session will be
broadcast live or not. The NA deputy President Tigran Torosyan could
not answer the question, but he reminded that the opposition which has
decided to participate in the session does not have much possibility
as the regime of the third reading does not give much time for speeches
and questions.
Asked if there were enough changes introduced into the draft and if
they can say “Yes” to the draft Tigran T Torosyan naturally enough
said, “Yes, of course”. According to Tigran Torosyan, the editing
works are fulfilled, and the formulations are cleared.
Despite the announcements of other deputy Presidents and Armen
Roustamyan who said that the referendum may be postponed, Tigran
Torosyan said that nothing of the kind will take place.
As for the statement that the society is not ready for the referendum,
Tigran Torosyan disagrees with it, “Whether the society is ready or
not the responsibility falls on political powers. For that purpose
after the third reading we must make all efforts to raise public
awareness about it”.
The whole interview with Tigran Torosyan will be published in the
“Ayb-Fe” weekly.

INDIFFERENT TOWARDS THE COMMUNITY HEADS
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| 17:39:22 | 26-09-2005 | Politics |
The elections of local governing bodies in all the communities have one
thing in common – they are marked by the passiveness of the electors.
For example, in Arabkir, from the total number of 83 127 electors
only 27 580 fulfilled their civic duty on Sunday. Factually, only 32%
of the residents decided who the community head will be.
By preliminary information, in Arabkir Hovhannes Shahinyan has
been elected community head receiving about 18 215 votes. And David
Gyuloumyan from the United Labor Party has received 8 079 votes.

2006 BUDGET TO BE BROUGHT TO THE PARLIAMENT
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| 17:42:09 | 26-09-2005 | Politics |
“The draft law on the 2006 budget will be brought to the Parliament
earlier that it was supposed to”, announced the head of the NA Standing
Committee on Financial-Credit, Budgetary and Economic Affairs Gagik
Minasyan.
According to the law, it was to be brought to NA in November 1,
but according to our information, it is ready and it will be in the
Parliament a month earlier.