Catholic world news
June 24 2004
Turkish bishops in historic meeting with premier
Ankara, Jun. 24 (FIDES/CWNews.com) – In a historic first, Turkey’s
Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has met with the country’s
Catholic bishops, raising hopes for an eventual legal recognition of
the Catholic Church in that country, the Fides news service reports.
Erdogan met on June 21 with the bishops of the several Catholic
groups in Turkey, representing the Latin, Armenian, Chaldean, and
Syrian rites. The prelates asked the prime minister to consider
juridical recognition of the Catholic Church in Turkey.
The unprecedented meeting is a “milestone” for the life of the
Catholic Church in Turkey, Father George Marovich told Fides. Father
Marovich, a spokesman for the bishops’ conference, reported that
Prime Minister Erdogan sought the bishops’ help in securing Turkish
entry into the European Union, and expressed satisfaction when he was
reminded that the Turkish bishops have already joined with the
Council of European Bishops’ Conferences, a group bringing together
the Catholic bishops of the European Union nations.
Turkey has a population of 66 million, of whom 98 percent are Muslim.
Many Christians hide their faith, since Christians are not allowed to
sit in parliament or enter the military.
Among the country’s Christians, most are Orthodox, led by the
Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople– who is acknowledged as the
leading prelate of the Orthodox world, although his own flock is
relatively small.

PRESS RELEASE
June 24, 2004
ARMENPAC
421 East Airport Freeway, Suite 201
Irving, Texas 75062
CONTACT: Bryan Ardouny
Phone: (406) 546-5250
E-mail: [email protected]
ARMENPAC CO-CHAIR ANNIE TOTAH BRIEFS SENATE LEADERS
Attends historic evening honoring Senator Barbara Mikulski (D-MD)
Irving, TX — ARMENPAC Co-Chair Annie Totah attended a historic
evening honoring Senator Barbara Mikulski (D-MD), Dean of the
U.S. Senate women. During the event, held at the National Aquarium in
Baltimore, Maryland, Senator Mikulski introduced Totah `as one of the
top leaders of the Armenian community. In addition to Senator
Mikulski, Totah also met with Senators Barbara Boxer (D-CA), Maria
Cantwell (D-WA), Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-NY), Dianne Feinstein
(D-CA), Mary Landrieu (D-LA), Blanche Lincoln (D-AR), and Patty Murray
(D-WA).
Totah emphasized the importance of strengthening U.S.-Armenia trade
relations and timely passage of S. 1557, which would extend permanent
normal trade relations to Armenia. This important legislation was
introduced by Senate Majority Whip Mitch McConnell (R-KY) and
continues to gain momentum with the support of the Bush Administration
as well as 21 Senators. Totah also urged support of S. Res. 164,
which affirms the Armenian Genocide. Introduced by Senator John Ensign
(R-NV), S. Res. 164 is currently pending further action in the Senate
Judiciary Committee.
“On behalf of the ARMENPAC Board of Directors, I was pleased to attend
this landmark event to honor my home-town Senator,” said ARMENPAC
Co-Chair Annie Totah. “Each and every Senator was receptive to our
issues and I look forward to working with them throughout the
remainder of the 108th Congress and beyond.”
ARMENPAC is an independent, bipartisan political action committee and
was established to shape public policy by raising awareness of and
advocating for Armenian-American issues. ARMENPAC provides financial
support to federal officeholders, candidates, political action
committees and organizations that actively support issues of
importance to Armenian-Americans.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress

UCLA Armenian Students Association
405 Hilgard Ave.
Los Angeles, CA. 90095
PRESS RELEASE ~ June 21, 2004
Contact: Raffi Kassabian [email protected]
UCLA ASA Ushers In New Leadership With Annual Banquet

Pasadena, CA– A crowd of over 400 Armenian-American students and
professionals gathered at the Pasadena Armenian Center on Friday June
18, 2004 to celebrate UCLA Armenian Students Association’s annual End
of the Year Banquet. Guests included various executives from ASA’s
and ASO’s from all over Southern California, including, USC, UC
Riverside, Cal Poly Pomona, and Shant Students Association.
Entertainment was provided by singer Harout Pamboukjian and DJ
Soundillusionz.
The program included UCLA’s traditional “Passing the Torch” Ceremony
MC-ed by former ASA Social Director Elen Asatryan. The newly elected
executive board honored the current executive and showed their
appreciation for their diligence and efforts with a small gift
presentation. In addition, the current executive board honored Maral
Karacussian, this year’s recipient for the 2003-2004 “Most Dedicated
Member” award for her hard work and dedication to this year’s ASA
Cultural Committee. “We need to come together and further the cause”
proclaimed Karacussian. “Social events are great, but it is also
important that we spread cultural and educational awareness throughout
our respective college campuses.”
The night was filled with great food, drinks, and quality music. More
importantly, it brought together Armenian-American students from all
over California for a night of fun and dancing. “It’s events like
these that serve as a conduit for students and executives from
different ASA’s to network with one another to further the Armenian
Cause” asserted newly elected UCLA ASA President Raffi Kassabian.
The UCLA ASA is one of the oldest Armenian-American student groups in
the United States, celebrating its 60th year in existence. The
organization’s purpose is to cultivate a true understanding and
appreciation of Armenian history, heritage, and culture through
cultural, social, and recreational activities.

New York Times
June 25 2004
Separatist Revives Movement in Quebec
By CLIFFORD KRAUSS
MONTREAL, June 24 – Until a few months ago, Gilles Duceppe was a shaky
leader of the fading separatist movement in Quebec, seemingly
destined to be an odd footnote in Canadian history.
But in an turn of fortunes that has more to do with the collapse of
the governing Liberal Party than his own skills, Mr. Duceppe is
emerging as the big winner of the parliamentary election campaign
that will choose a new prime minister on Monday.

Mr. Duceppe has no chance of replacing Prime Minister Paul Martin,
because his party is competing just in Quebec. Because of widespread
disgust in the second most populous Canadian province over Liberals’
scandals, Mr. Duceppe’s Bloc Québécois is poised to sweep Quebec and
carry a large delegation to the next House of Commons. If recent
polls hold, the bloc will emerge for the first time as a vital power
broker in Ottawa whose support may well be necessary for the next
federal Liberal or Conservative government to survive in power.
The son of a famous actor, Mr. Duceppe was a Maoist union organizer
in his youth and appears an unlikely politician to become a leading
national force. His generally stiff speaking style makes him anything
but an inspiring political leader. He was the laughingstock of a
campaign seven years ago, when he was photographed wearing a hygienic
hairnet at a cheese factory that made him look like he was coming out
of the bath wearing a shower cap.
For a rebel leader, Mr. Duceppe appears to be a portrait of caution
and paradox. At age 56, he campaigns without a tie in a charcoal-gray
suit held up over his slight frame by a belt and suspenders. On his
campaign bus, he relaxes with high-volume Janis Joplin and Maria
Callas.
A year ago, Mr. Duceppe’s Bloc Québécois and the entire separatist
movement were waning into the fringes of politics. The bloc’s
provincial cousins, the Parti Québécois, lost control of the
provincial legislature and government in a landslide defeat in April
2003 to the Liberal Party led by Jean Charest, a passionate advocate
for a united Canada.
Since that vote, Mr. Charest has fallen quickly in the polls after
unfulfilled promises to cut taxes and improve health care and day
care.
A government audit found that the federal government had furtively
passed out tens of millions of dollars to friendly advertising
companies involved in antiseparatist publicity efforts deeply
offended Quebecers.
“The Liberals tried to buy Quebecers, and there is a lot of
indignation about that,” Mr. Duceppe said in an interview. He
modestly noted that a recent poll by Leger Marketing showed that
roughly half the people who planned to vote for the bloc’s
parliamentary candidates were not trying to win sovereignty but
merely trying to punish Mr. Martin and the governing party.
“Duceppe is riding the biggest surfing wave of his life,” Michel C.
Auger, political columnist of the Journal de Montréal, said. “He
didn’t create the wave, but he saw it and knew what to do with it.”
Mr. Duceppe’s campaign is tightly controlled to avoid any more
hairnet incidents. A day of campaigning in and around Montreal this
week was carefully choreographed to make him appear as liberal and
unthreatening as possible to fence-sitting voters, especially ethnic
minorities who usually vote Liberal and oppose separation from
Canada.
While appearing on a youth music television station to discuss his
support for environmental protection and the need to clean up
politics, he spoke of the importance of Black History Month and
Jackie Robinson’s playing for a minor league team here as a sign that
he is receptive to minorities. At a news conference, he courted
minority votes by speaking of the Jewish Holocaust and Armenian
genocide.
He attended a barbecue here for an underdog bloc candidate, Maria
Mourani, who is of Lebanese descent, where he was filmed and
photographed surrounded by Muslim, Chinese and Russian voters.
“There’s no difference between Quebecers who are immigrants and
Québécois de souche,” he said sitting beside Ms. Mourani, referring
to Quebecers whose ancestors were French settlers before the
18th-century British conquest.
It was a pitch before the cameras with future elections in mind.
Although Liberal candidates in some Quebec districts have thrown in
the towel and halted campaigning, separatist leaders around the
province plan to build on the expected victory to retake the
provincial government in 2007. Mr. Duceppe may well use his campaign
this year to set up a campaign as leader of the Parti Québécois
against Mr. Charest, followed by a push for a referendum a year or
two after that.
The separatist forces lost two referendums, in 1980 and 1995, the
second defeat by an extremely narrow margin. Polls show support for
sovereignty at 40 to 45 percent.
Mr. Duceppe is careful to repeat at almost every campaign stop that
the election on Monday is not about sovereignty and that he is ready
to work in Ottawa to influence policies like opposing any missile
defense agreement with the United States and pressing for more
federal money for health care and unemployment insurance.
In two television debates, Mr. Duceppe projected the most poise of
the four major party leaders, surpassing expectations.
At the same time, he makes no effort to hide his long-term
intentions.
“Quebec is a nation that will someday be a country,” he said at a
press conference on Tuesday. “I want to create a new society with
social justice, without racism or sexism.”
Prime Minister Martin, who represents a Montreal district in the
House of Commons, had hoped to appeal to Quebec nationalists by
appointing Jean Lapierre, a former founder of the Bloc Québécois, to
be his chief Quebec spokesman. But Mr. Lapierre proved to be a clumsy
advocate, leading Mr. Martin in the last week to turn to Liberal
hard-line antiseparatists to shore up the traditional Liberal base.
“Let’s not play with fire,” Health Minister Pierre Pettigrew warned
this week. “By voting for the bloc, you give them momentum. You give
them the taste of victory that they had lost recently.”

Brownsville Herald, TX
June 25 2004
Olympian visits Brownsville
By Criselda Valdez Villarreal
The Brownsville Herald
June 25, 2004 – Vanes Martirosyan lives and breathes the adage that
`winners never quit and quitters never win.’
Martirosyan – the No. 1-ranked welterweight boxer in the United
States – traveled to Brownsville on Thursday to visit with
participants in the 2004 U.S. Junior Olympic National Championship
games.
The now Glendale, Calif., resident moved from Armenia to the United
States when he was 4. Nearly four years later, Martirosyan’s father
Noviq encouraged his active son to “do something positive and go to
the gym,” Martirosyan, now 18, said Thursday at the Jacob Brown
Auditorium.
At the urging of his father, Martirosyan put on his first set of
boxing gloves and learned the sport. Eventually, his older brother
Vahe and his younger brother Vatche also started boxing.
When the time came that he wanted to play basketball, the Martirosyan
patriarch wouldn’t let him leave. Perhaps his father saw his second
born had Olympic potential.
His father was right.
In a few weeks, Martirosyan will travel to Athens, Greece for the
second time this summer to participate in the 2004 Olympics Games as
part of the boxing team.
The trip from his home in California to the island is just a plane
ride over, but the journey to the U.S. Olympic team was a little more
difficult.
There are seven Olympic team-qualifying games, according to Julie
Goldsticker, USA Boxing director of media and public relations.
The last two were the Everlast U.S. Championships in Colorado and the
Western trials in Bakersfield, Calif. – and the only two that
Martirosyan fought in.
The championships in January ended in disqualification after
Martirosyan threw a `body shot,’ Goldsticker said.
With only one chance left at the Western trials in early February,
Martirosyan said his father and Uncle Serg Martirosyan encouraged him
to have fun. After all, they told him, he had nothing to lose.
Walking into the trials as a relative unknown and definite underdog,
Martirosyan’s first fight was against the U.S. No. 2-ranked boxer in
the welterweight division Timothy Bradley.
`I beat him,’ he said quietly.
After winning the championships, Martirosyan moved on to the Olympic
Team Trials in Tunica, Miss., just two weeks later. According to
Goldsticker, the winners are determined by double elimination and the
winner of a `box-off’ – which features the winner of the weight-class
and the winner of the consolation weight-class – in Cleveland.
Martirosyan walked into the `box-off’ the champion and after winning
that game, became an Olympian.
He had just one more trial ahead before being named to the team –
Gold Rush games in Tijuana, Mexico. To be on the team, Martirosyan
explained, boxers have to win an international game.
Andre Berto, formerly ranked first in the United States before
leaving for his native home in Haiti, proved to be his biggest
competitor.
Martirosyan won in a decision match after four rounds.
`I had to beat him to prove to everyone that I (deserved) to go,’ he
said.
He knows that had it not been for his father encouraging him to stay
with boxing, he wouldn’t be going to Athens.
`I’m going for the gold,’ he said.
Martirosyan and two other members of the U.S. Olympic boxing team
will be at the former Amigoland Mall at 7 p.m. today for the first
Boxing on the Border fund-raiser for the Foundation for Brownsville
Sports.
The fund-raiser will feature auctions, and attendees will have the
chance to meet the three boxing Olympians.
To purchase tickets or for more information on the Boxing on the
Border Fundraiser, call Dr. Rose Gowen’s office at 504-6880.

Providence Journal , RI
June 25 2004
Radio operators plan disaster drill
The Providence Radio Association will hold its annual emergency
communications exercise this weekend at Bevertail State Park in
Jamestown.
Amateur radio operators will set up three shortwave radio stations
that are powered by solar or wind sources and will operate their
communications system continuously from Saturday afternoon through
Sunday afternoon.
“This is a practice exercise,” said Frank DePetrillo, association
president. “We’ve done this as far back as the ’38 hurricane.” He
said amateur radio operators have helped transmit messages during
other storms and during the earthquake in Armenia in 1988, “when we
handled hundreds of health and welfare messages in the aftermath,”
DePetrillo said.
The event is sponsored by the national American Radio Relay League.

Azer Tag, Azerbaijan State Info Agency
June 25 2004
INT’L COMMUNITY HIGHLY ASSESS AZERBAIJAN`S POSITION IN FIGHTING
TERRORISM
[June 25, 2004, 11:38:44]
Foreign minister of Azerbaijan Republic Elmar Mammadyarov met the
director of American Jewish Committee on international affairs of
Jews Andrew Baker, 24 June.
In the meeting, Minister Elmar Mammadyarov noted that the relations
between Azerbaijan and US are of traditionally friendly character,
underlined the necessity of continuation of political dialogue for
expansion of the developing links in all spheres, MFA press center
said.
The Minister also stated that the people of Azerbaijan always felt
respect towards civil traditions and was notable for its religious
tolerance. Then, he in detail dwelled on the socio-political
situation in the Republic, on the realized democratic reforms, the
work done in the field of settlement of the Armenia-Azerbaijan,
Nagorny Karabakh conflict.
Mr. Andrew Baker informing that the Organization he represents
attaches great importance to development of relations between US and
Azerbaijan stated that he adheres continuation of bilateral
cooperation in more intensive form. He noted that integration of
Azerbaijan to the Euro-Atlantic structures, and its active position
in combat against terrorism was highly assessed by the international
community.
Ambassador of the United States to Azerbaijan Reno Harnish attended
the meeting.

PRAVDA / RIA Novosti, Russia
June 25 2004
Argentine Foreign Minister arrives in Russia to give economic
cooperation a boost
11:39 2004-06-25
One of the goals of the Argentine Foreign Minister’s current visit to
Moscow is to boost economic cooperation between his country and
Russia.
Speaking at a news conference in Moscow, Rafael Antonio Bielsa said
the Argentine government’s current confidence-building measures were
aimed at getting the national economy out of a deep crisis. Argentina
is trying to make its trade policy predictable and to rise investor
confidence, the minister said, expressing hope that his country’s
relations with Russia would benefit from these steps.
Russian and Argentine officials will sign a framework agreement on
the use of nuclear power for peaceful purposes at a special ceremony
Friday, Mr Bielsa revealed to the media. “One of a Russo-Argentine
joint venture’s senior executives is currently visiting Moscow, and
[cooperation in the] nuclear energy [industry] will be discussed
within the framework of the 2nd Russia-Argentine business forum, now
underway in Moscow,” the minister said.
Mr Bielsa said President Nestor Kirchner had asked him to convey an
invitation for Vladimir Putin. The Argentine government is working
hard to make the Russian leader’s visit possible before the end of
this year, he added.
At a ceremony in Argentina’s Embassy, national Argentine awards were
presented to Russian politicians and people in the arts who had made
outstanding contributions to the promotion of cooperation and
friendship between the two nations. The awardees included former
world chess champion Anatoli Karpov, Armenian community activist Ara
Abramyan, and choreographer Igor Moiseyev.
In his acceptance speech, the 98-year-old Moiseyev said: “Being in
love with Argentina as I am, I feel deeply moved, and will take your
award of honor close to heart. That you have taken notice of my
endeavors inspires me to continue working, however challenging this
may turn out to be for me.”
From: Baghdasarian

ARKA News Agency
June 23 2004
RA Government considers corruption as system evil – Robert Kocharian
RA President Robert Kocharian meets with CE administration in
Strasbourg
International forum on information technologies to take place in
Yerevan on June 28-30
Criminal case brought against two Armenian citizens for illegal
import of 3.3 kilograms of gold
Events devoted to 10th anniversary of founding Vazgen Sargsian
Military Institute of RA Defense Ministry to be held in Yerevan on
June 27
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RA GOVERNMENT CONSIDERS CORRUPTION AS SYSTEM EVIL – ROBERT KOCHARIAN
YEREVAN, June 23. /ARKA/. RA Government considers corruption as
system evil, RA President Robert Kocharian stated at PACE session in
Strasbourg. He said that Armenia is concentrated on system changes
that eliminate the motives of corruption. `That is why we entered
GRECO group, where we can study the experience of other countries in
this sphere. By means of wide discussion with participation of OSCE,
WB and IMF, we development National anticorruption strategy and
several weeks ago, in accordance with my decree, we created Council
on coordination of fight against corruption’, Kocharian said. Among
number-one measures directed on elimination of corruption in Armenia
the President mentioned necessity of deepening of reform of legal
system, improvement of administration in tax and custom bodies,
creation of effective state service system. For decrease of
corruption risks Kocharian noted the importance of approval of
competitive sphere, predictability of Government activities, easing
of procedure, their transparency and public control.
`These are our priorities today and their goal is to provide
irreversibility of economic reforms and democratization of Armenia’,
Kocharian said.
According to research of international agency Transparency
International, in 2003 Armenia placed 78th place among 133 states on
the level of corruption. In this list Armenia is between Turkey (77th
place) and Iran (79th place). L.D. –0–
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RA PRESIDENT ROBERT KOCHARIAN MEETS WITH CE ADMINISTRATION IN
STRASBOURG
YEREVAN, June 23. /ARKA/. RA President Robert Kocharian met with CE
administration in Strasbourg, RA President’s press office told ARKA.
The President met with the Chairman of PACE Peter Schider, CE
Secretary General Walter Schwimmer, European Court on Human Rights
Luzius Wildhaber and Norway’s PM Kjell Magne Bondevik. RA President
attended the ceremony devoted to opening of the exhibition in
European Parliament devoted to Fritjof Nansen.
Note Robert Kcharian is paying official visit in Strasbourg since
June 22. RA Today the President will hold a speech on PACE
Parliamentary Session then he will answer the question asked by PACE
MPs. L.D. -0–
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INTERNATIONAL FORUM ON INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES TO TAKE PLACE IN
YEREVAN ON JUNE 28-30
YEREVAN, June 23. /ARKA/. International forum on information
technologies will take place in Yerevan on June 28-30. The organizers
of the forum told ARKA that the forum will include to large
activities: Open Source and investment conference. According to the
statement, the participants of the seminar will be the heads of
public organizations, local and foreign companies and high officials
of Armenian Government.
The press release also notes that investment conference held in the
frames of the forum is a final stage of grant contest on stimulation
of business, initiated by Enterprises Incubator Fund. The conference
is to coordinate specialists and entrepreneurs of IT sphere,
stimulate realization of new ideas and initiatives and involvement of
foreign financing in Armenian IT sector. L.D. –0–
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CRIMINAL CASE BROUGHT AGAINST TWO ARMENIAN CITIZENS FOR ILLEGAL
IMPORT OF 3.3 KILOGRAMS OF GOLD
YEREVAN, June 23. /ARKA/. Criminal case was brought against two
Armenian citizens – Anna Kamalian and Vardan Khazmalian – for illegal
import of 3.3 kilograms of gold and more than $30 thousand from
Turkey, RA National Security Service told ARKA. It was discovered
that they hid the gold in delivery blower for production of gold
products, which they received from representative of Spartak Muradian
Ltd, the company dealing with cargo transportations.
Kamalian and Khazmalian stated that they have chosen such type of
import, being confident that cargo transportations do not go through
detail inspection at custom bodies. L.D. –0–
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EVENTS DEVOTED TO 10TH ANNIVERSARY OF FOUNDING VAZGEN SARGSIAN
MILITARY INSTITUTE OF RA DEFENSE MINISTRY TO BE HELD IN YEREVAN ON
JUNE 27
YEREVAN, June 23. /ARKA/. On June 27, Yerevan will hold celebrate the
10th anniversary of founding the RA Defense Ministry Vazgen Sargsian
Military Institute by organizing an event on the Republic Square. As
it is mentioned in the statement, placed on the RA Defense Ministry
website, in the course of the celebration, the graduates of the 2004
academic year of the Institute will be awarded initial military ranks
and diplomas. T.M. -0–

ARKA News Agency
June 24 2004
Today Armenian officers to leave Baku for Tbilisi
Italian edition of Charles Aznavour’s memoirs presented in Milano
Theater Dal Verme
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TODAY ARMENIAN OFFICERS TO LEAVE BAKU FOR TBILISI
YEREVAN, June 24. /ARKA/. The Armenian officers participating in
conference on planning of filed exercises of NATO Cooperative Best
Efforts – 2004 to leave today Baku for Tbilisi, as stated by RA
defense Minister Arthur Aghabekyan. Touching upon the incident
related to staying of the Armenian officers in Azerbaijani capital,
Aghabekyan stated that the Azerbaijani authorities underestimated the
`opposition movement in Baku’. At the same time, in his opinion, the
incident was not directly organized by Azerbaijani authorities. At
the same time, he said that on the first day of the conference the RA
Defense Ministry demanded that the US Embassy in Baku was in charge
of security of the Armenian officers, however after insisting request
of the Azerbaijani side, the RA Defense Ministry agreed that this was
done by the Azerbaijani side. He also added that two days of the
conference went calmly and the Armenian side was given a number of
positions on exercises. `We, as minimum have five various positions
for officers on subdivision and on headquarter level, Aghabekyan said
adding that possibly an Armenian journalist would participate in the
exercises. He also said that to all probabilities 5-7 Armenian
officers to participate in Baku exercises.
On evening, June 21 Armenian officers – Colonel Murad Isakhanyan and
Senior Lieutenant Aram Hovhannisyan representing the Armenian
delegation arrived in Baku for participation in the conference.
To remind that on the eve of the conference, the activists of
Karabakh Liberation Organization (KLO) made an attempt to hamper a
three -day final conference in Baku devoted to planning of field
exercises Cooperative Best Efforts -04. KLO protesting against the
arrival of the Armenian delegation in Baku, KLO organized a picket in
front of Hotel Europe where the conference is going on. On June 22
around 100 picketers continued action protest and even 3-4 members of
eth organization were able to cross the police cordons as well as
security employees and approaching the doors of the hall where the
session was on. Seeing that the doors were closed they by broking the
door entered the hall, from where they were pushed out.
Simultaneously other members of the KLO tried closing the traffic on
the Tbilisi Avenue, where the hotel was located. The hotel was
patrolled by intensive unit of the police. T.M. -0–
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ITALIAN EDITION OF CHARLES AZNAVOUR’S MEMOIRS PRESENTED IN MILANO
THEATER DAL VERME
YEREVAN, June 24. /ARKA/. Italian edition of famous French singer of
Armenian origin Charles Aznavour’s memoirs `Past days’ was presented
in Milano Theater Dal Verme As RA Foreign Ministry Information and
Press department told ARKA, the ceremony of the event was opened by
the Director of the largest publishing group RCS Libri Feruccio de
Bartoli. After this former Italian Ambassador in Russia Sergio Romano
red a paper `Reasons of Forgetting the Armenian Genocide’. Famous
Italian piano player Michele Campanella performed on the concert
organized on occasion of the presentation of the book.
The book is published by famous Italian publishing house Rizoli. The
presentation was attended by RA Ambassador Extraordinary and
Plenipotentiary in Italy Gagik Baghdasaryan. T.M. -0–