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ACCORDING TO US AZERBAIJANI AND ARMENIAN LEADERS MUST ACTIVATE THEIR EFFORTS
IN KARABAKH CONFLICT SETTLEMENT

11.02.2005 18:53

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ According to the US, leaders of Azerbaijan and Armenia
must activate their efforts in settlement of the conflict, US Ambassador to
Azerbaijan Rino Harnish said at a press conference. The Ambassador gave a
positive assessment of the activity of OSCE Minsk Group and expressed
opinion that the visit of OSCE mission to the region testified to the
efforts and interests of OSCE in the fair and long-term resolution of the
conflict. He came out for peaceful resolution of the conflict in the nearest
future, giving a positive assessment of US’s role and efforts in the given
issue, which would contribute to establishing peace and stability in the
region. At the same time, Ambassador Harnish noted that the resolution does
not depend only on the USA or any other country.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress

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ILLINOIS HOUSE COMMITTEE DECIDED ON TEACHING COURSE ON GENOCIDE IN PUBLIC
SCHOOLS

11.02.2005 16:54

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ The bill states that all public elementary and high
schools should have a unit covering genocide throughout the world,
including the Armenian Genocide, the killings in Ukraine as well as
recent incidents in Cambodia, Bosnia, Rwanda and Sudan. Currently,
public schools are required to teach a course on the Holocaust only.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress

Pan Armenian Network

REPORTS ON ARMENIA, AZERBAIJAN AND GEORGIA OF EU: NEW NEIGHBORHOOD
INITIATIVE TO BE PUBLISHED WITHIN 2 WEEKS

11.02.2005 14:35

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ The reports on Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia
within the EU Wider Europe: New Neighbors initiative have been already
prepared and will be published within 2 weeks in Brussels, EU Special
Representative for South Caucasus Heikki Talvitie stated in Baku. In
his words, after the consideration in the EU Headquarters in Brussels
the reports will be submitted to the Committee of Ministers.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress

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HEIKKI TALVITIE: WE BELIEVE KARABAKH CONFLICT WILL BE SETTLED

11.02.2005 14:23

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ “The OSCE Minsk Group deals with the Nagorno Karabakh
conflict settlement. As you know, the US, France and Russia are the
MG Co-Chairs and the activities of the group are efficient enough”,
EU Special Representative for South Caucasus Heikki Talvitie stated
in Baku. In his words, the EU is assisting to the conflict settlement
and believes that this problem will be resolved. The EU will go on
forming peacekeeping forces to be sent to the region. He also stated
that the EU can contribute to the restoration and reconstruction of
the territories after the conflict is settled.

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ARMENIA TO APPOINT NEW TRADE REPRESENTATIVES IN EU AND US

11.02.2005 15:11

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ The Armenian government came to the decision on
appointing trade representatives (Attaches) in the EU member-states
with the residence in Brussels and in the US with the residence
in Washington

Classical: BBC Philharmonic

The Independent – United Kingdom
Feb 12, 2005

Stuart Price

The young Armenian violinist Sergey Khachatryan renews his association
with the BBC Philharmonic this evening, in an all-Russian programme
helmed by Gianandrea Noseda (left), the orchestra’s principal conductor
and a guest conductor at Valery Gergiev’s Kirov in St Petersburg. The
19-year- old is soloist in Shostakovich’s Violin Concerto No 1,
a work written for the Jewish violinist David Oistrakh in 1948 that
remained unperformed while Stalin was alive; its quoting of Jewish
melodies was a comment on the anti-semitism of the Soviet state.
The concert opens with Shostakovich’s orchestration of the Prelude
to Mussorgsky’s unfinished opera, Khovanshchina, and concludes with
Scriabin’s Symphony No 3, The Divine Poem. In a talk at 6.30pm, the
Independent’s Lynne Walker is in conversation with the music writer
David Nice about the work of Scriabin.

Bridgewater Hall, Lower Mosley St, Manchester (0161-907 9000) tonight,
7.30pm, pounds 7-pounds 28

Canberra rings with international music, colour

Canberra Times – Australasia
Feb 12, 2005

Artists from overseas began pouring into Canberra yesterday for the
showcase concert held last night at the Canberra Theatre and the week
of international performers’ events to follow.

Meeting outside the Canberra Theatre for the first time yesterday
were musicians from Senegal- Gambia, Nigeria, Egypt, Tibet and Turkey.

Jali Buba Kuyateh, a hereditary musician known for his skills in
playing the kora, a West African harp, has been performing since the
age of five.

He was joined by Bintou Kandeh, who dances, but also plays the hand
drum to accompany Kuyateh. She has been performing for 15 years.

The Ebonyi State Nigerian Troupe combines dance and drumming
skills. They will also be performing today at the Food and Dance
Spectacular and tonight at Club Mombassa.

The Tawadros brothers, Joseph and James, originally came from
Egypt. Joseph, 21, plays the oud and was nominated for an award at
the 2004 Arias for his first album Storyteller. They will play tonight
at Tilley’s in Lyneham.

Nyima Tashi and Dawa Dolma play music rarely heard outside
Tibet. Trained at the Tibetan Institute of Performing Arts in
Dharamsala, the Dalai Lama takes a personal interest in their
music. They have lived and worked in Australia since 2000.

The Samsun State Classical Turkish Music Choir, which also performed
at the Peace Concert on Thursday was founded in 1991.

Conducted by Murat Salim Tokac, the choir performs music by composers
with Ottoman, Greek, Armenian and Jewish origins.

The showcase concert has always been one of the National Multicultural
Festival’s most popular events. With the addition of Canberran Moya
Simpson, who compered last night’s concert, and Peter J. Casey, who
performed at his piano, it was a good example of Canberra reaching
to the wider world.

For festival information, phone 62070162 or visit the web site,

BIRAND: WE MISSED THE TRAIN TURKISH JOURNALIST ALARMS AGAIN

Azg/arm
12 Feb 05

On February 9, Turkish Daily News newspaper published a new article
by Mehmet Ali Birandi on the policy Turkey conducts in the issue of
the Armenian Genocideâ~@~Ys recognition. The article is entitled “We
Missed the Train”. The author admits in the article that the Armenians
made success in recognition of the Armenian Genocide especially in
the West. Birand suggests to elaborate a new line in the Turkish
policy. “The Armenians consequently achieved their aim in the course
of the last 75 years. They published thousands of books and articles,
opened departments at Universities and could convince the international
community and achieve the recognition of the Armenian genocide though
they didnâ~@~Yt have sufficient proofs for that and do not reflect
the reality,” he wrote in the article.

Birand calls on opening a new page in the Turkish policy that will
take into account the current situation of increasing danger.

He cited the following statement made by Yusuf Halacogli, president
of Turkish History Foundation: “We canâ~@~Yt overcome this situation
by propaganda, creating documents, books and films.

We should continue our efforts, but we should take steps that will
arouse interest. Together with the historical science we should act
in the policy as well. We should concentrate our strategy.”

Birand stated that Turkey should wake up, elaborate a strategy
and realize that it will achieve nothing if its leaves that to the
historians only.

“It is high time to act at the UN and to open new horizons for
achieving success in the international arena. Wake up!” he appeals.

By Ruzan Poghosian

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INDIAN STUDENTS IN ARMENIA

Azg/arm
12 Feb 05

Viviek Kumar studies at the Yerevan State Medical University. He wants
to become a cardiologist and says that the profession of a physician
is one of the most respected in India. He used to live in a town
near Calcutta and had an Armenian friend there. He learnt about the
Yerevan State Medical University from newspapers. “I read about the
medical University in one of the Armenian newspapers publishing in
Calcutta. My friend studied there. He talked of both the University and
Armenia with love,” Viviek Kumar said. He learnt Armenian in 6 months.

Not only Diaspora Armenians but also the foreign citizens have the
opportunity of studying in the Universities of Armenia. The Deansâ~@~Y
office of the foreign students at the Yerevan state Medical University
opened in 1957. In the beginning the number of Diaspora Armenians
prevailed among the students, but in the course of the last few years
the number of the students from Syria, Iran and India increased. The
Indian students prefer to study at the Medical University. About 700
Indians study there at present. Itâ~@~Ys worth mentioning that they
are paying $1500 annually in Armenia, while they have to pay several
times more in their country.

Ravindra Rara used to live in a three-storied house with 30
relatives. He said it was difficult to get accustomed to living without
the family. He visited all the remarkable places of Armenia, but most
of all he admires the snow. “It seldom snowed in the Indian town I
lived in. It is so beautiful when the snow covers the streets here,”
Ravindra Rara said.

The girls brought Indian dresses, bright adornments and various
items from India for decorating their rooms. The posters of Indian
matinee idols also decorate their rooms. “I like wearing Indian
national dresses. Though I like very much the way the clothes that
the Armenian girls wear, I prefer wearing our national dresses in
Armenia,” Ivsha Syet said.

One can see the Armenian pomegranate beside the bright Indian
adornments on the table in the room of the Indian students.

By Arevik Badalian

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DO THE TURKS DISTORT FACTS?

Azg/arm
12 Feb 05

The Turkish Public TV aired sensational information on February
9. According to it Arsen Ghazarian, president of Armenian-Turkish
Business Union, and Sinan Aygyun, president of Ankara Trade Hall,
visited Sargis Asatrian, member of Armenian delegation and head of
Youth Party of Armenia. Asatrian stated during the meeting that the
“genocide claims” are rumours and that suchlike thing used to take
place in the Ottoman reign but we forgot everything, then added:
“Armenian nation is hundred percent for establishing relations with
Turkey”.

The program provided proper videotape. The statementâ~@~Ys
exclusiveness demanded second broadcast which happened in the morning,
February 10. Milliet newspaper responded to Asatrianâ~@~Ys words
in an articled signed by Ayd?n Hasan the same day. The Turkish
paper mentions of the Armenian delegation visiting Ankara and
links it with Armenian authoritiesâ~@~Y goodwill who are looking
to developing Tu rkish-Armenian relations and opposes such stance
to Armenian Diasporaâ~@~Ys “propaganda on the occasion of Armenian
genocideâ~@~Ys 90th anniversary”.

Milliet reports that the Armenian delegation met 7 Turkish lawmakers
at the Mejlis on February 9. On the Trade Hall meeting of Aygyun and
Asatrian the paper notes that Aygyun turned to Armenian party leader
with a direct question: “You have to rein the Diaspora Armenians to
stop their activities. Do you accept that the Armenians were massacred
in 1915?”

Asatrian replied: “There were such rumours once. The Ottoman state was
an empire. Turkey has nothing to do with it. Kemal Ataturk toppled
the sultanâ~@~Ys reign; there was indeed such a thing in the last
period of the empire. They say that Turks slew Armenians. All these
are rumours. Many things happened in the past. 1.5 million people
died. But years have past. Today Turkey is a democratic state. We
forgot all these. Let such countries as America, France, Azerbaijan,
Uruguay and China not poke into Armenian-Turkish relations”.

Turkish press often distorts the reality especially while dealing with
Armenian politiciansâ~@~Y statements concerning the Genocide. Though
the head of the Armenian Youth Party is said to demand Turkish mass
media to officially refute this misinformation, what concerns more
is that the Turkish Public TV, being a state company, did not shrink
from such a lie. I think that the Armenian politicians should not
have given cause for such distortion rather than demanding refutation
afterwards. Itâ~@~Ys not a secret that Turkey is carefully watching
to find anything against Armenian Genocide in foreignersâ~@~Y and
Armeniansâ~@~Y statements.

By Hakob Chakrian

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