Azer Tag, Azerbaijan State Info Agency
Aug 18 2004

K.KOSACHEV: RUSSIA RECOGNIZES TERRITORIAL INTEGRITY OF AZERBAIJAN
[August 18, 2004, 16:20:03]

Russia’s stance is unambiguous: the Russian Federation recognizes
territorial integrity of Azerbaijan, and this fact is reflected in a
plenty political documents signed between Azerbaijan and Russia ,
Chairman of the International Affairs Committee of the Russian State
Duma Konstantin Kosachev told AzerTAj Moscow -based reporter.
Overwhelming majority of the Russian State Duma members, according to
him, support the thesis on Russia’s recognition of the territorial
integrity of Azerbaijan.

Asked how does Russia value the facts of Armenia’s military exercises
in the occupied Azerbaijani territories and the `elections’ in
Nagorno-Karabakh, and can Azerbaijan count on fair stance of the
Russian Federation as the OSCE Minsk group co-Chair considering that
Armenia is a Russia’s military appendage, Konstantin Kosachev noted
that Russia’s only aspiration is to work not in favor of either side
but enduring resolution of the conflict that, according to him, is
possible only in case of peaceful, not military methods. Russia will
accept any decision made by Azerbaijan and Armenian for the
conflict’s resolution, he said.

Commenting on why does Russia not urge Armenia to fulfill the UN SC
four resolutions on release the occupied Azerbaijani territories,
whereas Russia stands for the UN’s leading role in solving
international problems, Mr. Koshachev said: Russia has always
supported these resolutions, and confirms its positions in both OSCE
and Minsk Group. However, he added, we believe that the role of third
countries here is minimal, and bears just intermediary character. But
our role, at the same time, our historical mission is to make the
Armenian side sure to accept the principles on which the
international law is based, the Chairman concluded.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress

Baku Today, Azerbaijan
Aug 18 2004

Azeri, Armenian Foreign Ministers May Not Meet In Paris

Baku Today 18/08/2004 17:04

It is still to be ascertained whether the next meeting between
Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov and his Armenian
counterpart Vardan Oskanian scheduled to be held in Paris in August
will take place, Mammadyarov has told journalists before leaving for
Moscow on an official visit.

The minister said that issues related to the forthcoming meeting
remain unsettled. Azerbaijani and Armenian foreign ministers were
scheduled to meet this August after the last visit of the OSCE Minsk
Group co-chairs to the region in July.

However, no steps in this respect have been taken since then,
Mammadyarov underlined.

UEFA.com
Aug 18 2004

Stojkov shoots down Armenia

F.Y.R. Macedonia’s bid for a place in the 2006 UEFA European Under-21
Championship finals got off to a good start with a comfortable 4-0
victory against Armenia.

F.Y.R. Macedonia have made a winning start in Group 1

Took control
The home side had not won a competitive U21 match since June 2001,
but they took control in the early stages of the Group 1 tie and
never looked back after Aco Stojkov had opened the scoring on 27
minutes.

Hat-trick complete
On the half-hour Darko Tasevski set up Stojkov to double the lead and
after Goran Todorcev had struck the third from outside the area on 48
minutes, Stojkov completed his hat-trick from the penalty spot with
three minutes remaining. The Macedonians now hold the early lead in a
group where Romania, their next opponents on 3 September, beat
Finland 1-0 yesterday.

Next fixture
Armenia will hope to revive their bid for one of the two play-off
places on offer when they welcome Finland on 8 September, by which
time the Czech Republic and the Netherlands will also have begun
their campaigns in the six-team group.

Opinion Editorials, VA
Aug 18 2004

FROM THE HEARTLAND/Will it be as it was?
Alan Thederahn

`There is nothing new in the world except the history you do not
know'(Harry S. Truman). The current armed uprising in Iraq is not a
surprise to anyone familiar with the Iraqi revolt against the British
military occupation in 1920. Resentment of the occupation led to the
formation of a secret society, Haras al-Istiqlal (Independence Guard)
led by Muhammad al-Sadr, (Grandfather of Moqtada Sadr, the leader of
the current Iraqi uprising) a son of the prominent Shi’a mujtahid
Ayatollah Hasan al-Sadr. Haras al-Istiqlal also had a close liaison
with esteemed cleric Ayatollah Muhammad Tami al-Shirazi who in April
1920 issued a fatwa pronouncing that service in the British
occupation administration was unlawful. By May there was active
cooperation between Sunnis’ and Shi’a against the British occupation.
The armed uprising broke out in June, set off in part by the arrest
of the son of Ayatollah al-Shirazi by British authorities. The
response of Ayatollah al-Shirazi, the premier Shi’a cleric in Iraq,
was to send out another fatwa appearing to encourage armed
insurrection. British measures to pre-empt an uprising only resulted
in the revolt breaking out and acquiring momentum. Inadequate British
forces were compelled to regroup and the uprising was not suppressed
until the end of October 1920 at a cost of lives of approximately 500
British and Indian soldiers and 6000 Iraqis.

If viewed from a time outlook of years rather than months the current
American military invasion and occupation of Iraq shares conspicuous
affinities with the campaign of the Roman emperor Trajan in the same
geographic region between 113 and 117 A.D. In both instances
political instability in the region jeopardized vital economic
interests which motivated both America and Rome to attempt to impose
a radical political solution upon the region by military conquest and
de facto annexation. It is a noteworthy fact that in both cases this
fundamental and far-reaching revision of previous established foreign
policy was instigated by `War cliques’ within the current American
administration and the emperor’s retinue. In both cases initial rapid
and complete military success was followed by an occupation
characterized by chaos, growing resentment, and ever more pervasive
violence which served only to generate even more political
instability in the region. Finally in both instances the military
invasion and occupation produced enormous strains upon both the
military capacity and financial solvency of both America and Rome.
These costs could not be recouped from the economic exploitation of
the occupied territory. A brief review of the main factorsand
sequence of events comprising Trajan’s campaign and its aftermath
clarify these four defining similarities with the present American
position in Iraq.

The prudent moderation of Emperor the Augustus fixed the geographic
limits of the Roman Empire within the Empire’s military capacity to
protect Rome’s vital economic
interests. These economic interests were essentially coterminous with
the Commerce of the Mediterranean world. On its eastern frontier Rome
had come to an arrangement in 66 A.D. with the Parthian Empire (the
regions of present day Iran and Iraq) over the disputed buffer
Kingdom of Armenia to the satisfaction of both Rome and Parthia. This
modus vivendi produced conditions that fostered regular caravan trade
which was a source of income for both powers. Such commerce yielded
large customs duties to both empires Treasury’s and brought
prosperity both to Roman Syria and Parthian Mesopotamia. The
arrangement permitted Rome to continue consolidation of its eastern
frontier to promote the affluence of the Empire’s urban and upper
classes.

The diplomatic and commercial understandings between Rome and Parthia
were ruptured in the reign of Emperor Trajan (98-117 A.D.). An
irregular succession inthe buffer Kingdom of Armenia and attendant
disorders in that realm provided Rome with a pretext to place matters
in the East on an entirely new footing. The death of Trajan’s
confidante L. Licinius Sura about 110 A.D. was an evil day for the
Empire because it strengthened the influence of the military element
in the emperor’s entourage. From his experiences in the Dacian wars
(105-108 A.D.) Trajan had acquired distaste for compromise which
played into the hands of those who advocated an aggressive policy in
place of the established traditional policy of Augustus.

The end result was that Trajan determined to annex Armenia as a Roman
province and end the threat posed by Parthia by occupying portions of
its territory by military garrisons and appointing a Roman nominee as
king of Parthia. This radical military solution would also entail a
tremendous commercial coup for the conquest to of Iraq would
eliminate Parthia from its middleman roll in the lucrative India
trade leaving the caravan routes to Syria completely in Roman hands.
Initial and complete military success attended Trajan’s plans from
114-116 A.D. With the fall of the Parthian capital, near present-day
Baghdad, and the emperor’s advance to the Persian Gulf the war seemed
over. Revolt quickly broke out to in the occupied areas of Iraq and
Rome regain control only after extensive heavy fighting. However, the
resources of Rome had been severely strained and it became a serious
question of how much effort would be required from the Roman Army to
preserve the bulk of Trajan’s conquests with Parthian military forces
still very much present and active. With the memorable failure of the
Roman Army before the key caravan city of Hatra in Iraq in 116
A.D.and the death of Trajan in 117 A.D., his successor Hadrian was
left to wrestle with the formidable legacy Trajan’s radical policy
had bequeathed to him. The new emperor, who had served on the Army
staff in the recent campaigns, was deeply impressed that Trajan’s
conquests were a severe political miscalculation and that it was
unsafe to attempt any extension of the Empire’s eastern frontiers
beyond the boundaries Augustus established 100 years previously. The
discretion of Hadrian recognized that in the East there were alien
and indissoluble cultural structures that might well exhaust the
energies of the Empire to provide the institutions and laws which
characterized the pax Romana. He also fully appreciated the extent to
which the Roman army had been stretched in the recent fighting and
for the preservation of the Army it was necessary to disengage the
troops from Iraq. The first acts of Hadrian were to evacuate the new
conquests in Iraq, to reestablish the former arrangement with Partha
over Armenia, and to withdraw the legions within the traditional line
of the Euphrates. The wisdom of these measures was quickly
demonstrated when the withdrawal of the legions made available extra
military forces for the suppression of an extensive insurrection
which had broken out among the Jewish Diaspora in the possessions of
the Empire itself while Trajan had been campaigning in Iraq. In his
actions on becoming emperor demonstrated a political courage that
enabled him to reject a failed radical policy, and in doing so save
the Army and restore peace within the Empire. The present American
position in the occupied Iraq leaves unanswered the critical
historical question: Will it be as it was?

Comments may be sent to: [email protected]

Alan W. Thederahn Director
Robert W. Meyer Deputy Director & Senior Analysts
The Old Virginia Military District Institute

Azer Tag, Azerbaijan State Info Agency
Aug 18 2004

AZERBAIJANI FOREIGN MINISTER MEET WITH HIS RUSSIAN COLLEAGUES
[August 18, 2004, 20:17:29]

Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Elmar Mamedyarov meet with with his
Russian colleagues Sergei Lavrov in Moscow on August 18.

After the talks the both ministers were hold press-conference.

The settlement of the Nagorny Karabakh issue is possible only through
agreements between Armenia and Azerbaijan, Russian Foreign Minister
Sergei Lavrov told journalists.

“Russia is interested in the resolution of the Nagorny Karabakh
problem. The conflict can be settled only on the basis of the sides’
agreements,” Mr. Lavrov said.

He noted that Russia is ready to contribute to the negotiating
process both as “a co-chair of the OSCE Minsk Group and as a friend
and partner.”

“We are satisfied with the fact that the negotiating process was
resumed early last year,” Mr. Lavrov said.

“We hope that the working group on the Caspian will work out
acceptable decisions on the Caspian status at its regular meeting, to
take place in Moscow,” the minister told journalists.

He noted that these decisions would be in the field of international
law.

In his turn, Mr. Mamedyarov stressed that “the diplomatic resource
must be intensified.” He also expressed confidence that “points of
contact will be found to reach a final decision in determining the
Caspian status.”

Russo-Azeri relations have been developing actively, Sergei Lavrov
said after talks with Elmar Mamedyarov.

“We discussed a wide range of bilateral relations, regional and
Caspian cooperation, the Nagorny Karabakh settlement and
international cooperation. We agreed on a number of issues called
upon to remove the existing problems,” he said.

On his part, Mr. Mamedyarov said that Azerbaijan regards relations
with Russia as strategic partnership.

Azer Tag, Azerbaijan State Info Agency
Aug 18 2004

STEVEN MANN: CO-CHAIRS TRY TO BRING ELEMENTS OF REALISM INTO THE
DISCUSSIONS.
[August 18, 2004, 21:33:27]

The following is an exclusive interview given by US co-chair of the
Minsk group Ambassador Steven Mann to the Washington representative
of AzerTAj news agency Shafag Akifqizi.

– Mr. Mann, it has been 4 months since you have been appointed as a
Special Negotiator for Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. Do you think this
assignment brought anything new to the Minsk group or peace process?

I think there is no magic to the mediators, myself included. By
participating in the process, we demonstrate strong interests of our
governments in promoting a solution. But the bottom line, as always,
is that, it is up to the governments of Azerbaijan and Armenia to
come through with the solution.

-The recent developments coming from the region are troublesome – the
so-called Nagorno-Karabakh republic holds elections, conducts
military trainings on the occupied Azerbaijani territories. What’s
your reaction to that?

The State Department has already answered your question. I’d just
like to stand with the statement of Mr. Ereli – `we don’t recognize
Nagorno-Karabakh as an independent country. Our position is to
support the territorial integrity of Azerbaijan. We don’t believe
that these elections will have an impact on the Minsk process.’

-Our Ministry of Foreign Affairs doesn’t seem to agree with you. They
are concerned, that Minsk co-chairs don’t react properly to some of
the developments going on in the region. They believe, that if
mediators don’t come up with clear position on issues like the
so-called elections or military training on the occupied territories
conducting by the separatists, the continuation of the whole
negotiation process may be jeopardized. Do you agree with that?

First of all, let me say that the Minsk group discussions at the
ministerial level are discussions, not negotiations. These
discussions are a serious effort among diplomatic professionals. And
we need to keep to that.

There are always going to be events in the region that are unpleasant
to one side or the other. This simply comes from the history of
conflicts. But a responsibility of all of us involved in the Minsk
process is to keep focused on the discussions themselves and the
development of the peaceful solution. Now, let me explain – why do we
do this? Why does Azerbaijan or Armenia do it? We don’t do these out
of any vague sense of courtesy or certain norms that we follow. All
of us are pursuing this out of our national interests. So, I think it
is a correct decision that president Aliyev has taken to participate
in the process and that is the decision based on Azerbaijan’s
national interests.

-Mr. Mann, you have stated that the US supports the territorial
integrity of Azerbaijan. Yet, your country never recognized Armenia
as an occupant. What is that holds you back?

Yes, of course. And I reaffirm that we support territorial integrity
of Azerbaijan. We have also made a point that the solution to the
Karabakh conflict must take into account wishes of all the people of
the area. As to your question, you shouldn’t forget what a mandate of
the Minsk group is. The Minsk group is not there to take sides. The
international community has recognized the conflict and decided to
support negotiations and mediate. The international community didn’t
give the Minsk group the mission to be a judge. That is not what our
instructions are from the international community. So, what we can do
is work as hard as we possibly can to look for those elements of
common ground between the two sides and try to bring elements of
realism into the discussions.

-Will the November elections in the US put the interest of your
country in resolving the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict on the background?

No, I don’t think so. The position of the US has been very consistent
year after year, administration after administration in this. The
elections in November are not going to affect the professional
diplomacy that we want to this conflict.

-As a Special Advisor on Caspian Basin Diplomacy, were you surprised
by the recent suspension of the construction on BTC pipeline?

Frankly, I was mildly surprised. We have been having discussions with
BTC Co and Georgian government for some months now. The officials of
new Georgian government had a lot of questions about the project.
But, we were surprised when we saw stop of work order This was the
subject of extensive discussion in president Saakashvili’s recent
visit to Washington. It has also been the subject of some real
productive work between Georgia and BTC Co. I’m feeling good about
where we have come out and, as you know, the construction has fully
resumed now on the Georgian section of the pipeline.

-Will the main export pipeline have a role to play in
Nagorno-Karabakh conflict resolution?

Interestingly, I get asked this question in Armenia as well. The
answer is no, it will not. The issues are separate. Naturally, we all
wish that the conflict was settled, so that we could all have
region-wide cooperation. But the pipeline reflects not political, but
commercial realities in the region.

Washington, D.C.

August 17, 2004

Athens 2004 Official website
Aug 18 2004

Men’s Light Fly (48kg) : Bouts 110 to 115

ATHENS, 18 August – Iraqi Light Flyweight (48kg) boxer Najah ALI, who
is competing in the Athens 2004 Olympic Games by special invitation,
was the first contestant in the ring for the evening session of
competition at the Peristeri Boxing Hall.

Trained in New York by Maurice `Termite’ Watkins, ALI came via the
USA from war torn Baghdad to take part in the Olympic Games, and was
given a warm welcome by spectators at the venue.

Equal shortest boxer in the tournament at just 1.5m, ALI’s opponent
KWAK Hyok Ju (PRK) had a distinct reach advantage, but from the
opening bell the young Iraqi put together some blistering
combinations to the head and body and made a dream Olympic debut,
winning the bout 21-7.

Redouane ASLOUM (FRA) took two standing eight counts in round two of
his clash with Aleksan NALBANDYAN (ARM), but fought back bravely, the
two trading punches toe to toe for most of the four rounds before the
Armenian was declared the winner, 27-20.

HONG Moo Won (KOR) was too experienced for Lalaina RABENARIVO (MAD)
in the next bout, the referee stopping the contest in round three
under the 20 point rule.

Sherali DOSTIEV (TJK) lost a tight contest, 17-12, to Harry TANAMOR
(PHI), twice a World Championship bronze medallist.

The quick hands of former World Champion, Yan BHARTELEMY VARELA (CUB)
made short work of Miguel Angel MIRANDA GUERRA (VEN), the referee
stopping the contest in the third round with the Cuban ahead 24-4.

In the final Light Flyweight bout of the evening session, Suban
PANNON (THA) looked untidy at times, but did enough to make it
through to the round of 16 over Salim SALIMOV (BUL), the judges
scoring the contest 26-14.

UEFA.com
Aug 18 2004

Pandev ensures perfect start
Wednesday, 18 August 2004
By Igor Panevski

Goals from Goran Pandev, Artim Sakiri and Velice Sumulikoski earned
F.Y.R. Macedonia a 3-0 victory against Armenia in Skopje in 2006 FIFA
World Cup qualifying Group 1.

Strong section
The victory will leave the Macedonians in good heart for their next
qualifying test, a trip to Romania, 2-1 winners against Finland this
evening, on 4 September. Armenia, meanwhile, will hope for better
fortunes at home to the Finns four days later, with the Netherlands
and the Czech Republic – both semi-final losers at UEFA EURO 2004′ –
joined by Andorra to complete the lineup.

Early advantage
S.S. Lazio forward Pandev struck first for the home side at the
Gradski stadium – home of FK Pelister – opeing the scoring with a
fine shot from 16 metres. The forward might have doubled his side’s
lead midway through the first half when he found himself unmarked in
front of Armenian goalkeeper Armen Ambartsumyan but defender Marotyan
Vardanyan recovered well to clear.

Sakiri strikes
With the home side threatening on the counterattack throughout the
first 90 minutes, it was no surprise that such a source lead to a
second goal seven minutes before half-time. This time two Macedonian
players were left with time and space in front of Ambartsumyan’s goal
and Sumulikoski unselfishly squad for Sakiri to roll in.

Ambartsumyan stops
It was nearly 3-0 in the final minutes of the half as Pandev met
Aleksandar Mitrevski’s cross with a powerful header but this time
Ambartsumyan was equal to it. The Armenian goalkeeper then denied the
same player ten minutes after the restart, and also kept out Sakiri’s
close-range header two minutes past the hour.

Decisive moment
The visitors almost found a way back into the match a minute later,
but Andrey Movsesyan’s fine close-range volley struck an upright and
Armenian hopes were effectively ended with 21 minutes left as captain
Marotyan Vardanyan was dismissed for a professional foul on Pandev.

First goal
The points were duly secured in the final minute as another fine
counterattack was clinically rounded off by Sumulikoski from Igor
Jancevski’s pass, his first goal for his country.

Kanatlarovski cheer
“I want to thanks to my players for a good game,” said F.Y.R.
Macedonia coach Dragan Kanatlarovski. “We deserved to win, although I
knew that would be a hard game, but we had several chances to score
one or two goals more. It’s important to earn a victory in the first
match in qualification.”

‘Expected result’
His counterpart Bernard Casoni was more downbeat, saying: “It was the
expected result for us, as we were missing several players. F.Y.R.
Macedonia are a good team and they deserved to win. They scored early
and after the second we knew that we would lose.”

Los Angeles Times
Aug 18 2004

Dad’s in His Corner
Vanes Martirosyan’s immigrant father gave him a love of boxing and a
belief in the American dream. Now the son wants to give him a medal.

By Diane Pucin, Times Staff Writer

ATHENS – Norik Martirosyan lost a hand in a grenade explosion, so he
uses his other one when he’s smoking cigarettes, one after another.
It is an old, unhealthy habit and Martirosyan’s son, Vanes, has
begged his father to stop.

So Martirosyan said, “Vanes, if you win the Western boxing trials and
qualify for the Olympic trials, I’ll stop smoking.”

When Vanes won those trials, Norik said, “Vanes, if you qualify for
the Olympic team, I’ll stop smoking.”

When Vanes won the Olympic trials after the two favorites in his
weight class were disqualified in controversial circumstances, Norik
said, “Vanes, if you win a gold medal, I’ll quit smoking.”

So here he is, Vanes Martirosyan of Glendale, an 18-year-old
underdog, son of an Armenian immigrant, in love with the home cooking
of his mother and the rap music of America and determined to win an
Olympic gold medal in the 152-pound welterweight class so that his
father will quit smoking. And for one other reason.

“For all the time I have been boxing,” Vanes said, “my father has
told me what a lucky boy I am to be growing up in the United States,
where we have freedoms to do what we want and be what we want. He has
told me, since I can remember, that there would be no greater honor
for a sportsman such as me to win a gold medal to honor our country.
The United States is our country now.”

“Yes,” said Norik Martirosyan, his younger brother Serge translating
Norik’s Armenian words. “It would be our gift to the United States.
>From Vanes and from Norik, our gift.”

Martirosyan will fight 2003 Pan American Games gold medalist Lorenzo
Aragon of Cuba in the second round today. Martirosyan out-pointed
Benamar Meskine of Algeria in the first round.

At the Olympic trials, Andre Berto was disqualified – he later joined
Haiti’s Olympic team – for a flagrant foul that injured his opponent,
Juan McPherson. Berto and McPherson were considered the two strongest
fighters in the weight class. Berto had thrown McPherson to the mat
and sent him to the hospital with a head injury. McPherson appealed
to reenter the tournament after leaving the hospital but his appeal
was denied and Martirosyan won the trials.

Because of his youth and because he didn’t beat the top competitors,
Martirosyan isn’t given much chance to win a medal here.

“But that doesn’t matter,” Martirosyan said. “Our family has been
underdogs for a long time and what I have learned from here, so far,
is that anything can happen if you work hard.”

In 1990, as the Soviet Union was breaking apart. Armenia and
Azerbaijan, two former republics, were readying for a war rooted in a
history of religious conflict and Norik Martirosyan was doing what he
thought was best.

Martirosyan was foraging in an aging Soviet bomb-making facility,
looking for repairable weapons, when he picked up a grenade. Before
he even knew what was in his hand, the thing exploded.

But out of that accident, a dream was born. Looking for freedom and
peace, longing for a chance to raise his three sons in a land where
they could prosper, Martirosyan decided to go to the United States
with his parents and his brother. They would join other families in
California and start over.

Vanes, the middle child, was 4 in 1991, when they left Armenia. Norik
had been an amateur boxer in the Soviet Union before he had to join
the Soviet army. Even when he wasn’t competing, Norik would hang
around gyms, watching, learning the craft, memorizing footwork or the
way to throw a perfect jab.

When the family arrived in California, Norik went to work in a
family-run pizza parlor in Eagle Rock. In his free time, he took his
sons, Vahe, Vanes and Vatche, to the gym every day. Vahe eventually
gave up boxing for swimming and Vatche turned to soccer. But Vanes,
the most inexhaustible of the boys, the fiercest competitor and the
son most tuned to the father’s love of boxing and America, stuck with
boxing.

“It gave me pride and it was a great outlet for my energy,” he said.
“It was a way to be so close with my father because he was always my
coach. He had learned boxing under the Soviet and European style and
then he spent so much time studying at home the American style. In
his head, my dad put together both styles to teach me the best.”

Early this year, Vanes was ranked only 14th in the country in his
weight class. Then he went 5-0 at the Western qualifier in
Bakersfield.

“My dad stopped smoking for a moment,” Vanes said. “But then he
started again. When I won the Olympic trials, he stopped again – but
has started up again. I think it’s his way to motivate me more for
the gold medal. He promises, no more cigarettes if I win.”

Norik said he wouldn’t smoke anymore, medal or no medal.

“I believed when I saw my son walking inside the Olympic boxing
arena,” Norik said, “I believed that in the USA, everybody’s dream
can come true. I believed the world is mine now. And my son’s. So,
yes, I will quit smoking.”

‘He has told me, since I can remember, that there would be no greater
honor for a sportsman such as me to win a gold medal to honor our
country.

The United States is our country now.’

Vanes Martirosyan speaking of his father, Norik

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress

Calcutta Telegraph, India
Aug 19 2004

Draw takes Harikrishna to 4th spot

Abu Dhabi: P. Harikrishna shared a point with Ghaem Maghami Ehsan of
Iran but a draw in the fourth round meant the Indian Grandmaster
slipped further behind the leaders in the masters section of 14th Abu
Dhabi Chess Festival here on Wednesday.

Mikhail Kobalija of Russia joined overnight leaders compatriot Evgeny
Gleizerov and Ashot Anastasian of Armenia at the top with 3.5 points
out of a possible four.

Harikrishna is tied for the fourth spot with Maghami, Kazakhstan duo
of Evgeny Vladimirov and Pavel Kotsur, Artashes Minasian of Armenia
and Russians Konstantin Cheryshov and Dmitry Bocharov. They have
three points each.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress