BAKU CALLS MG CO-CHAIRS AS INSTIGATORS

Pan Armenian News
18.04.2005 04:46

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ When commenting on the mediators’ statement that
was issued the other day former Adviser to the Azeri President Vafa
Guluzade called the Minsk Group Co-Chairs as instigators. “How can
the Azeri people be prepared to mutual concessions? Our territorial
integrity is inviolable. These mediators-mongers suggest the
Azerbaijani President should tell his people that the country should
sacrifice its sovereignty”, Guluzade stated. “As for Nagorno Karabakh,
Azerbaijan can make a compromise and refrain from ethnic purge. We
agree to let the Armenian population leave there, secure their rights
and render cultural sovereignty”, he resumed.

SPIRITUAL SHEPHERD OF ARMENIANS CALLED POLAND TO RECOGNIZE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE

Pan Armenian News
18.04.2005 04:36

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ A solemn liturgy on occasion of the 1600-th anniversary of
the creation of the Armenian written language was chanted in the Church
of St. Mikolay in Krakow yesterday. As Archimandrite of the Krakow
monastery, Armenians’ spiritual shepherd Tadeus Isahakian-Zalezski
told PanARMENIAN.Net reporter, the representatives of the Catholic
and Roman Catholic Churches as well as of the Armenian community of
Poland took part in the event. In his pray Isahakian-Zalezski called
to the Polish parliament to recognize the Armenian Genocide.

HEAD OF FRONTIER SERVICE OF RUSSIAN FEDERATION VLADIMIR PRONICHEV ARRIVED IN ARMENIA

Pan Armenian News
18.04.2005 08:04

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Head of the Frontier Service of the Russian
Federation Vladimir Pronichev arrived in Yerevan today. The purpose
of the visit is the familiarization with the conditions of the Russian
frontier troops dislocated in Armenia. A number of bilateral documents
and agreements referring in part to the financing of the Russian
troops are to be signed within the frames of the visit.

GENOCIDE ISSUE SHOULD BE VIEWED ON POLITICAL LEVEL

Pan Armenian News
18.04.2005 07:01

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ It is time to speak of the recognition of theArmenian
Genocide in Ottoman Turkey on the political level, put forward the
objectives and press for the international discussion of this crime
as well as territorial and moral compensation”, Director of the
National Academy of Sciences Ashot Melkonian, who participated in the
international conference entitled “Genocide: reality and condemnation”,
stated, IA Regnum reports. In his words, the mission on the historical
level has been already accomplished. “After today’s conference we,
historians should not be present at any conference on Genocide summoned
by Turks. To date this approach is comprehended by the politicians”,
he said. When touching upon the proposal of Turkish Prime Minister
Recep Tayyip Erdogan on conduction of a joint investigation of the
events taken place in the Ottoman Empire at the beginning of the last
century Ashot Melkonian stated that we “have nothing to discuss and
prove.” “Tens of books containing documents from various archives
have been published recently in Armenian, Russian, Spanish, German,
French, English and even in Turkish. The Turkish party has not called
either of them in question. Whey Turks say that one of these documents
does not correspond to reality we will get involved in the scientific
dispute”, the professor said.

CYPRIOT AMBASSADOR TO RA HANDED CREDENTIALS TO ARMENIAN PRESIDENT

Pan Armenian News
18.04.2005 05:13

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Today Cypriot Ambassador to Armenia Leonidas
Pantelides handed his credentials to Armenian President Robert
Kocharian, RA President’s press service reported. During the
meeting the parties focused at consolidation of the Armenian-Cypriot
relations. The Ambassador stated, in part, that the enhancement of
cooperation within international structures can considerably contribute
to the development of the Armenia-Cyprus relationships. Robert
Kocharian in his turn highlighted the re-estimation of the bilateral
ties and complete use of potentialities.

ARMENIANS OF IRAN TO STUDY BY ARMENIAN BOOKS

Pan Armenian News
18.04.2005 05:39

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ The Armenian Ministry of Education is preparing
manuals for the Armenians residing in Iran, According to the
information provided by Oyanish, the Center of National Studies, the
work was started last year and the manuals of History and Geography
are ready to date. The textbooks will be delivered among 10 thousand
pupils studying in 23 Armenian schools in Iran. The books written
by Armenian authors have been printed in Iran with the financial
assistance of the Iranian government, Day.az reports.

Armenian suspected of smuggling weapons handed over to US

Agence France Presse — English
April 18, 2005 Monday 9:14 PM GMT

YEREVAN April 18 — An Armenian national suspected of taking part in
a weapons smuggling plot uncovered last month was handed over to US
authorities last week, the US embassy said in a statement late Monday.

Armen Barseghyan, who is accused of photographing weapons and
ammunition at an Armenian military base and sending them by e-mail to
US contacts, is due to appear in a US court this week, the embassy
said.

“This is a bright example of US-Armenian cooperation on security
issues,” the embassy said.

The United States announced last month that it would prosecute 18
people suspected of attempting to bring illegal assault weapons from
eastern Europe across US borders. Armenia arrested three suspects a
week later.

No arms or ammunition disappeared off the military base targeted by
the accomplices, the Armenian military said.

Countering genocide rap, Turkey says Armenians killed many Turks

Agence France Presse — English
April 18, 2005 Monday 10:57 AM GMT

ANKARA April 18 — In a fresh step in a propaganda war against claims
that the Armenians suffered genocide under the Ottoman Empire,
Turkey’s state archive has issued a list of massacres of Turks by
Armenians between 1910 and 1922 in which over half a million people
are said to have been killed.

The release on Sunday of the list, with a total of 523,955 alleged
victims, came as part of increasing Turkish efforts to counter pressure
on the government to address the genocide allegations.

Armenians are preparing to mark the 90th anniversary on April 24 of
the start of the controversial 1915-1917 events.

Turkey categorically denies the allegations and says that hundreds of
thousands of people perished on both sides in what was civil strife
during World War I when the Armenians took up arms for independence
in eastern Anatolia and sided with Russian troops invading the
crumbling empire.

The director of the Turkish state archive, Yusuf Sarinay, said a 1915
Ottoman decision to deport the Armenians from the region, which marked
the beginning of the mass killings, was a defensive measure against
an insurgency that had already claimed many Turkish lives.

“The Armenians committed systematic massacres in certain regions in
order to become the majority there,” Sarinay was quoted as saying by
the mass-market Hurriyet newspaper on Monday.

Ankara fears that the 90th anniversary of the start of the alleged
genocide could fuel anti-Turkish sentiment in international public
opinion and cloud the country’s image at a time when it is bidding
for membership in the European Union.

Some EU politicans are pressing Turkey to address the genocide claims
in what Ankara sees a politically-motivated campaign to impede its
EU membership bid.

Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan last week proposed to Armenian
President Robert Kocharian the creation of a joint commission to
study the genocide allegations as a first step towards normalizing
ties between the two estranged neighbors.

Ankara has also declared its archives open to all historians.

The killings have already been acknowledged as genocide by a number
of countries, including France, Canada and Switzerland.

FIRST GRAPHIC EDITION ABOUT ARMENIAN GENOCIDE ISSUED

Pan Armenian News
18.04.2005 08:27

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ “Silence. Order to Constantinople”, the first
graphic edition depicting the Armenian Genocide has been published
in Armenia. As the author of the illustrations Tigran Mangasarian
said at the presentation of the book, no thing of the kind has
been issued in Armenia so far. The present edition tells the young
population of Armenia about the real amount of losses during the
period of 1915-1923. The idea of creation of the book occurred to
Tigran Mangasarian 2 years ago and then he appealed to script writer
Ruben Tsaturian, who in his turn noted that it was rather difficult to
work with the material which served a basis for the book. The history
of the Armenian Genocide is represented in the book through the story
of Harutyun Partashian’s family.

BUSINESS OF RUSSIA AND ARMENIA TO SPEAK IN SAME LANGUAGE

Pan Armenian News
18.04.2005 08:08

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Today Chairmen of the Chambers of Commerce
and Industry of Armenia and the Perm Oblast signed agreement on
cooperation. As Acting Governor of the Perm Oblast Oleg Chirkunov
noted after the signing ceremony, the visit of the delegation will
convey an impulse for more active commodity circulation between one of
the largest regions of Russia and Armenia. “The agreement will allow
the Armenian and Russian business to speak in the same language”, he
noted adding that besides business ties cultural cooperation should
be developed as well.