Be very afraid: There’s a term for every fear
By PAULA LaROCQUE / The Dallas Morning News
Dallas Morning News , TX
June 19 2004
The horror genre has a concept that seems far more laughable than
horrifying – the concept of the “Invisible Man.” I mean: An empty
suit – how scary is that? Yet terrified folks flee, shrieking:
Aiieee! There’s nothing there! Literally, running from nothing.
Only those afraid of everything would run from nothing, if you follow
me. And there is in fact such a fear – pantophobia, which means fear
of everything. Fear of nothing – unless it’s the kind of “nothing”
presented by the Invisible Man – also has a name. It’s hypophobia,
or the absence of fear.
Fear of everything and fear of nothing are equally irrational,
of course. And there’s a difference between a simple fear and
a full-blown phobia. But judging from the huge number of “phobia”
words, there’s much to fear.
A few better-known terrors are claustrophobia, agoraphobia,
ochlophobia, ophidiophobia, musophobia and brontophobia – more
commonly known as fear of closed spaces, open spaces, crowds, snakes,
mice and thunder.
Certain fears are so prevalent that popular culture capitalizes on
them. The 1990 film Arachnophobia took fear of spiders to a comic
extreme, for example. Acrophobia, or fear of heights, was a central
theme in Alfred Hitchcock’s 1958 movie Vertigo. Fear of heights
also afflicted British TV’s beloved Inspector Morse. Aviatophobia
lent novelist Erica Jong the richly symbolic title of her 1973 book,
Fear of Flying.
The Oxford English Dictionary lists many odd, even outlandish phobia
words. Such words also can be found in the Insomniac’s Dictionary of
the Outrageous, Odd, and Unusual by Paul Hellweg; Crazy English by
Richard Lederer; and Words at Play by O.V. Michaelsen.
For some, apparently, hell really is other people. Anthropophobia
is fear of people; androphobia is fear of men; gynephobia, fear of
women; pediophobia, children; parthenophobia; young girls; xenophobia,
strangers or foreigners.
But do we really need a word such as armenophobia? Is fear of Armenians
a viable category?
Some fears are understandable even if you don’t share them
– dentophobia, for example, fear of going to the dentist. Or
agrizoophobia (fear of wild animals), algophobia (pain), poinephobia
(punishment), pyrophobia (fire) and hematophobia (blood).
And a biggie, thanatophobia – fear of death.
One can understand policophobia (fear of the police) in certain
circumstances, and even more readily politicophobia (fear of
politicians). But blennophobia, alliumphobia and arachibutyrophobia ?
Fear of slime, of garlic, of getting peanut butter stuck to the roof
of the mouth?
There’s no shortage of curious phobias. Tridecaphobia, fear of the
number 13, is well-known. I was surprised to find we need such a word
as porphyrophobia – fear of the color purple – until I discovered
chromophobia, fear of color in general. There’s a word for those who
can’t stand prosperity – chrematophobia, fear of wealth – and another
for those afraid of getting good news – euphobia.
One group of phobias makes you wonder if folks have been reading too
much DaVinci Code. Paterophobia, for example – fear of the Fathers of
the early Church. Ecclesiophobia means fear of church; hagiophobia,
fear of holy things; and homilophobia, fear of sermons.
Hard on the heels of those phobias may be hadephobia, fear of hell.
Could Franklin D. Roosevelt have had phobophobia in mind when he said,
“The only thing we have to fear is fear itself”? Phobophobia is fear
of fearing.
Wordsmiths have fears, too. Metrophobia, for example, is fear of
poetry. And don’t mention “Madam I’m Adam” to sufferers of aibohphobia,
fear of palindromes. (A palindrome is something that reads the same
backward as forward. Notice that the cleverly named aibohphobia is
a palindrome).
There’s even phobologophobia – a malady that could make reading this
column a nightmare. It means fear of phobia words.
Paula LaRocque, former Dallas Morning News writing coach, is author
of “The Book on Writing: The Ultimate Guide to Writing Well” and
“Championship Writing.” Send e-mail to plarocque @sbcglobal.net.

Live Music to Shatter Silence in Classical Iranian Film
Mehr News Agency, Iran
June 19 2004
TEHRAN, June 19 (MNA) — One of the earliest Iranian silent movies,
“Haj Aqa, the Film Actor” directed by the late filmmaker Avaness
Oganians, will be screened July 7 at the Film Museum of Iran. A
musical ensemble conducted by the renowned Iranian Armenian musician
Loris Tjeknavorian will play the background music. The screening is
being held as part of the seasonal exhibition of the museum entitled
“Christians in Iranian Cinema” and an Armenian pianist will also
perform during the program.
Produced in 1933, “Haj Aqa, the Film Actor” was the second film by
Oganians, who was an Armenian-Russian immigrant who later converted to
Islam. “Aabi & Rabi” starring Mohammad Zarrabi and Gholamali Sohrabi
was his first movie.
“Haj Aqa, the Film Actor” is the only film that has survived from the
early period of Iranian cinema. It was copied in 1977 by the director
of the Film Museum of Iran Jamal Omid. A screenplay of the film was
published on the centenary anniversary of Iranian cinema in 2000.
From: Baghdasarian

Putin stresses energy cooperation in talks with Kazakh president
ITAR-TASS news agency, Moscow
19 Jun 04
Almaty, 19 June: Russian President Vladimir Putin has held a working
meeting with Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev.
The Kazakh president thanked the Russian president for agreeing to
continue bilateral consultations in Almaty following yesterday’s
summits of the Eurasian Economic Community Belarus, Kazakhstan,
Kyrgyzstan, Russia and Tajikistan and the Collective Security Treaty
Organization Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
and Russia in Astana.
Vladimir Putin noted that major Russian-Kazakh joint projects were
being carried out in various sectors of the economy. There are also
other major plans which concern not only the oil and gas sector, the
Russian president noted. He stressed the possibility of developing
cooperation in power engineering, specifically, in electric power
engineering.
Implementing these projects will make it possible for Kazakhstan to
enter foreign markets, Putin stressed.

Kazakh, Russian leaders arrive in Kazakh ex-capital for cooperation talks
ITAR-TASS news agency, Moscow
19 Jun 04
Almaty, 19 June: Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Kazakh
counterpart Nursultan Nazarbayev have arrived in Almaty on the Russian
presidential aircraft, the Russian president’s press secretary,
Aleksey Gromov, told an ITAR-TASS correspondent.
During the flight the two leaders discussed the results of the summits
of the Eurasian Economic Community Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan,
Russia and Tajikistan and the Collective Security Treaty Organization
Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Russia which
were held in Astana yesterday.
At a meeting in Almaty the two presidents will discuss issues relating
to the further development of bilateral cooperation.

The Gazette (Montreal, Quebec)
June 19, 2004 Saturday Final Edition
Flood of prospects try to make cut: 1,500 show skills CBC reality TV
show offers shot at NHL
by: JOHN MEAGHER
A 30-year-old pharmacist by day and a beer-league goalie by night,
Dikran Karlozian is one of 1,500 NHL longshots attending the Bell
Making The Cut Tryout Challenge this weekend at the 4-Glaces arena
complex in Brossard.
“This is a once-in-a-lifetime chance,” said Karlozian, who was hoping
to survive yesterday’s round of cuts and eventually earn one of six
coveted invitations to an NHL training camp in 2005.
The three-day Montreal tryout camp is the last of seven stops in
a nationwide search for Canada’s best unsigned hockey players. The
public won’t know which skaters have been selected until the Making
The Cut reality television show airs this September on CBC and RDS.
While the odds of ever reaching the NHL are stacked against him,
Karlozian is taking an optimistic approach to his one and only kick
at the can.
“A 1-in-10,000 shot at the NHL is better than none at all,” he said.
“I’m looking at this as more of a chance to gauge myself against
better players out there. I honestly don’t actually expect to make
much of an impact unless I actually get some help from the hand of God,
or something.”
Since the Montreal camp began yesterday, legions of NHL wannabes
like Karlozian have gladly paid the $55 registration fee to be put
through their paces by a coaching staff headed by Scotty Bowman and
Mike Keenan. Assisting them will be Jacques Demers, Alain Vigneault
and Pierre McGuire.
A whittled-down group of players – or “survivors” – will be asked to
stick around for a series of contact 3-on-3 games in the afternoons.
Coaches and the scouting staff will then compare notes from the other
tryout camps held recently across the country, before issuing 68
invites to next month’s main tryout camp, to be held at an undisclosed
location.
>>From that shortlisted group, six eventual winners will be selected
to report to one of Canada’s NHL franchises: the Canadiens, Ottawa
Senators, Toronto Maple Leafs, Calgary Flames, Edmonton Oilers and
Vancouver Canucks.
Wesley and Shawn Scanzano, identical twin brothers from Dorval, also
headed to Brossard in hopes of some day landing a dream job in the NHL.
Last season, the undrafted Scanzano twins toiled in the minors for
the Tulsa Oilers of the Central Hockey League.
Wesley, a 23-year-old winger, has previously attended the NHL training
camp of the Phoenix Coyotes, but never caught on. He is viewing this
weekend’s tryout camp as another crack at an NHL career that’s eluded
him since his junior days with the Quebec Remparts, where he played
alongside future NHLers Mike Ribeiro, Simon Gagne and Eric Chouinard.
“I’ve nothing to lose,” he said. “I’m just going there to do my best
and hope something good happens. If not, we’ll move on.”
Scanzano says making the NHL is as much about timing as talent. “You
have to be in the right place at the right time. I’ve spent the past
couple of years trying to make the NHL, so I thought this might be
my last shot.”
Shawn Scanzano has tasted success before, but never at the NHL level.
As a rugged junior defenceman in 2000, he won a Memorial Cup with
Brad Richards and the Rimouski Oceanic. Richards won the Stanley Cup
this year with the Tampa Bay Lightning and was named the Conn Smythe
Trophy winner as playoff MVP.
Karlozian is a late bloomer who has improved with age.
A Montrealer of Armenian decent, he didn’t start playing organized
hockey until he was 16. He has spent much of the last 14 years making
up for lost ice time.
“Hockey has already changed my life,” said Karlozian, who was obese
as a child, weighing 260 pounds at age 12.
Now a more solid 230 pounds, he says his beer-league goaltending
skills give him the confidence to reach for the NHL.
“I just want to take my shot and have a little piece of mind at the
end,” he said. “If I make it, great. If I don’t, well, at least I
took my shot.
“Who knows? If I make a couple of big saves, I might catch the eye
of somebody important.
“But I’m not going to cry if I don’t make it, because I have very
good career to fall back on.”
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GRAPHIC: Photo: GORDON BECK, THE GAZETTE; Goalie hopeful Charline
Labonte, hoping to make the cut for the CBC reality series Making
The Cut, gets encouragement from NHL coaching greats Scotty Bowman
(left) and Mike Keenan at 4-Glaces Arena in Brossard.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress

This week’s Armenia v World match
The Guardian (London)
June 19, 2004
This week’s Armenia v World match in Moscow provided a rare chance
for Garry Kasparov and Vishy Anand to compete head to head, though
the Armenian team, honouring the 75th anniversary of Tigran
Petrosian’s birth, was a strange mix. Kasparov has an Armenian
mother, Hungary’s Peter Leko has an Armenian wife and the Israeli
Boris Gelfand is an ex-pupil of Petrosian. Loek van Wely, the
lowest-rated GM on the World team, was on the end of a full-blooded
Kasparov attack. Yet the Dutch No1’s resilient defence would have
been rewarded if he had found 31 gxf6! when 32 Qxf6 Rxf6 33 Rxf6 Bxf3
34 Qg5+ draws by perpetual check. As played, Black resigned after 33
fxg6! because of Rxf6 34 g7 or 33 . . . fxg6 34 Rxg6+ Kf8 35 Qh8+
forcing mate. The World won 18.5-17.5. G Kasparov v L van Wely 1 Nf3
Nf6 2 c4 c5 3 Nc3 Nc6 4 d4 cxd4 5 Nxd4 e6 6 a3 Nxd4 7 Qxd4 b6 8 Qf4
Be7 9 e4 d6 10 Qg3 O-O 11 Bh6 Ne8 12 Bf4 Bb7 13 Rd1 Bh4 14 Qh3 Qf6 15
Be3 Bg5 16 Be2 Bxe3 17 Qxe3 Qe7 18 O-O Nf6 19 Rd2 Rfd8 20 Rfd1 Bc6 2
Bb7 26 Nb5 Qxc4 27 Nxd6 Qc7 28 Qxh4 Bc6 29 g4 Ba4 30 g5 Bxd1 31 gxf6
Rxd6? 32 Rg2 g6 33 fxg6! 1-0
M Adams v V Akopian
1 e4 e6 2 d4 d5 3 Nd2 dxe4 4 Nxe4 Nd7 5 Nf3 Ngf6 6 Nxf6+ Nxf6 7 c3 c5
8 Ne5 a6 9 Bg5 Be7 10 dxc5 Qxd1+ 11 Rxd1 Bxc5 12 Be2 h6 13 Bh4 g5 14
Bg3 Ne4 15 Bf3 Nxg3 16 hxg3 Ke7 17 Bxb7! Bxb7 18 Rd7+ Kf6 19 f4! gxf4
20 gxf4 Kf5 21 Rxf7+ Ke4 22 Rxb7 Rag8 23 Rc7 Be3 24 Rc4+ Kd5 25 Rh5!
1-0
No 2836
White, playing up the board, checkmates in two moves, against any
defence. This week’s diagram is the opening round of the annual
Winton Capital British Solving Championship, to find the UK’s best
solver.
To enter, simply post White’s first move to: Paul Valois, 14 Newton
Park Drive, Leeds LS7 4HH. You should include a cheque or postal
order for £3 payable to British Chess Problem Society, and mark your
entry “The Guardian”.
Entries, which are open to British residents only, must be postmarked
July 31 or earlier. After the closing date all entrants will receive
the answer to the starting problem, a free copy of The Problemist
magazine, and, if successful, a postal round of harder problems. The
best postal solvers qualify for a £1,000 prize fund final in early
2005.
Last year nearly 90% of Guardian readers who entered the first stage
got it right. But be warned. This year’s starter problem looks harder
than in recent years, and I needed several attempts before finding
the key move. So check carefully before posting your answer.
Winton Capital also sponsors the British team at the annual world
solving championship.
No 2835 : Black should play Kb8! The game ended Kc7? 2 a7 Kb7 3 Nd6+!
Resigns as a pawn queens.

1ST LEAD: Horna replaces Nalbandian in Wimbledon draw
Deutsche Presse-Agentur
June 19, 2004, Saturday
Revised men’s draw for the 17.95-million-dollar Wimbledon
Championshiops starting Monday after withdrawal of fourth seed David
Nalbandian. Men Roger Federer, 1, Switzerland v Alex Bogdanovic,
Britain Julian Knowle, Austria v Alejandro Falla, Colombia Alberto
Martin, Spain v Fabrice Santoro, France Thomas Johansson, Sweden v
Nicolas Kiefer, Germany Feliciano Lopez, Spain v Richard Bloomfield,
Britain Cyril Saulnier, France v Michael Llodra, France Gilles
Elseneer, Belgium v Arvind Parmar, Britain Ivo Karlovic, Croatia v
Paradorn Srichaphan, 13, Thailand Carlos Moya, 9, Spain v Olivier
Patience, France Alex Corretja, Spain v Radek Stepanek, Czech
Republic Sargis Sargsian, Armenia v Marc Lopez, Spain Dmitry
Tursunov, Russia v Marat Safin, Russia Mikhail Youzhny, Russia v
Goran Ivanisevic, Croatia Jaime Delgado, Britain v Filippo Volandri,
Italy Irakli Labadze, Georgia v Kristof Vliegen, Belgium Jurgen
Melzer, Austria v Lleyton Hewitt, 7, Australia Guillermo Coria, 3,
Argentina v Wesley Moodie, South Africa Florian Mayer, Germany v
Wayne Arthurs, Australia Karol Kucera, Slovakia v Oscar Hernandez,
Spain Wayne Ferreira, South Africa v Ivan Ljubicic, Croatia Jonas
Bjorkman, Sweden v Raemon Sluiter, Netherlands Jan Vacek, Czech
Republic v Lu Yen-Hsun, Taipei Arnaud Clement, France v Joachim
Johansson, Sweden Ivan Pastor, Spain v Mardy Fish, 14, U.S. Sebastien
Grosjean, 10, France v Thierry Ascione, France Olivier Rochus,
Belgium v Gregory Carraz, France Daniele Bracciale, Italy v Jan
Hernych, Czech Republic Jan-Michael Gambill, U.S. v Max Mirnyi,
Belarus Robby Ginepri, U.S. v Janko Tipsarevic, Serbia-Montenegro
Fernando Verdasco, Spain v Glenn Weiner, U.S. Stefan Koubek, Austria
v Jose Acasuso, Argentina Julien Boutter, France v Juan Carlos
Ferrero, 6, Spain Tim Henman, 5, Britain v Ruben Ramierez Hidalgo,
Spain Flavio Saretta, Brazil v Ivo Hueberger, Switzerland David
Ferrer, Spain v Victor Hanescu, Romania Andre Sa, Brazil v Hicham
Arazi, Morocco Fernando Gonzalez, Chile v Martin Vassallo Arguello,
Italy Igor Andreev, Russia v John van Lottum, Netherlands Martin
Verkerk, Netherlands v Nikolay Davydenko, Russia Christophe Rochus,
Belgium v Mark Philippoussis, 11, Australia Jiri Novak, 16, Czech
Republic v Xavier Malisse, Belgium Antony Dupuis, France v Tommy
Haas, Germany Karol Beck, Slovakia v Jonathan Marray, Britain Potito
Starace, Italy v Tommy Robredo, Spain Dominik Hrbaty, Slovakia v
David Sanchez, Spain Mark Hilton, Britain v Albert Costa, Spain
Julien Benneteau, France v Tomas Berdych, Czech Republic Mario Ancic,
Croatia v Luis Horna, Peru Rainer Schuettler, 8, Germany v Robin
Soderling, Sweden Greg Rusedski, Britain v Davide Sanguinetti, Italy
Felix Mantilla, Spain v Kristian Pless, Denmark Todd Reid, Australia
v Vincent Spadea, U.S. Juan Chela, Argentina v Lars Burgsmueller,
Germany Thomas Enqvist, Sweden v Galo Blanco, Spain Todd Martin, U.S.
v Guillermo Canas, Argentina Lee Childs, Britain v Sjeng Schalken,
12, Netherlands Nicolas Massu, 15, Chile v Alexander Popp, Germany
Bohdan Ulihrach, Czech Republic v Albert Montanes, Spain Kenneth
Carlsen, Denmark v Richard Gasquet, France Andy Ram, Israel v Andrei
Pavel, Romania Taylor Dent, U.S. v Ramon Delgado, Paraguay Luis
Horna, Peru v Dennis van Scheppingen, Netherlands Alexander Peya,
Austria v Jeff Salzenstein, U.S. Yeu-Tzuoo Wang, Tailei v Andy
Roddick, 2, U.S. dpa bs gb
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress

Correction: 1ST LEAD: Pescosolido replaces Nalbandian in Wimbledon draw
Deutsche Presse-Agentur
June 19, 2004, Saturday
Horna becomes 33rd seed after Nalbandian’s withdrawal = London (dpa)
– Revised men’s draw for the 17.95-million-dollar Wimbledon
Championshiops starting Monday after withdrawal of fourth seed David
Nalbandian. Men Roger Federer, 1, Switzerland v Alex Bogdanovic,
Britain Julian Knowle, Austria v Alejandro Falla, Colombia Alberto
Martin, Spain v Fabrice Santoro, France Thomas Johansson, Sweden v
Nicolas Kiefer, Germany Feliciano Lopez, Spain v Richard Bloomfield,
Britain Cyril Saulnier, France v Michael Llodra, France Gilles
Elseneer, Belgium v Arvind Parmar, Britain Ivo Karlovic, Croatia v
Paradorn Srichaphan, 13, Thailand Carlos Moya, 9, Spain v Olivier
Patience, France Alex Corretja, Spain v Radek Stepanek, Czech
Republic Sargis Sargsian, Armenia v Marc Lopez, Spain Dmitry
Tursunov, Russia v Marat Safin, Russia Mikhail Youzhny, Russia v
Goran Ivanisevic, Croatia Jaime Delgado, Britain v Filippo Volandri,
Italy Irakli Labadze, Georgia v Kristof Vliegen, Belgium Jurgen
Melzer, Austria v Lleyton Hewitt, 7, Australia Guillermo Coria, 3,
Argentina v Wesley Moodie, South Africa Florian Mayer, Germany v
Wayne Arthurs, Australia Karol Kucera, Slovakia v Oscar Hernandez,
Spain Wayne Ferreira, South Africa v Ivan Ljubicic, Croatia Jonas
Bjorkman, Sweden v Raemon Sluiter, Netherlands Jan Vacek, Czech
Republic v Lu Yen-Hsun, Taipei Arnaud Clement, France v Joachim
Johansson, Sweden Ivan Pastor, Spain v Mardy Fish, 14, U.S. Sebastien
Grosjean, 10, France v Thierry Ascione, France Olivier Rochus,
Belgium v Gregory Carraz, France Daniele Bracciale, Italy v Jan
Hernych, Czech Republic Jan-Michael Gambill, U.S. v Max Mirnyi,
Belarus Robby Ginepri, U.S. v Janko Tipsarevic, Serbia-Montenegro
Fernando Verdasco, Spain v Glenn Weiner, U.S. Stefan Koubek, Austria
v Jose Acasuso, Argentina Julien Boutter, France v Juan Carlos
Ferrero, 6, Spain Tim Henman, 5, Britain v Ruben Ramierez Hidalgo,
Spain Flavio Saretta, Brazil v Ivo Hueberger, Switzerland David
Ferrer, Spain v Victor Hanescu, Romania Andre Sa, Brazil v Hicham
Arazi, Morocco Fernando Gonzalez, Chile v Martin Vassallo Arguello,
Italy Igor Andreev, Russia v John van Lottum, Netherlands Martin
Verkerk, Netherlands v Nikolay Davydenko, Russia Christophe Rochus,
Belgium v Mark Philippoussis, 11, Australia Jiri Novak, 16, Czech
Republic v Xavier Malisse, Belgium Antony Dupuis, France v Tommy
Haas, Germany Karol Beck, Slovakia v Jonathan Marray, Britain Potito
Starace, Italy v Tommy Robredo, Spain Dominik Hrbaty, Slovakia v
David Sanchez, Spain Mark Hilton, Britain v Albert Costa, Spain
Julien Benneteau, France v Tomas Berdych, Czech Republic Mario Ancic,
Croatia v Stefano Pescosolido, Italy Rainer Schuettler, 8, Germany v
Robin Soderling, Sweden Greg Rusedski, Britain v Davide Sanguinetti,
Italy Felix Mantilla, Spain v Kristian Pless, Denmark Todd Reid,
Australia v Vincent Spadea, U.S. Juan Chela, Argentina v Lars
Burgsmueller, Germany Thomas Enqvist, Sweden v Galo Blanco, Spain
Todd Martin, U.S. v Guillermo Canas, Argentina Lee Childs, Britain v
Sjeng Schalken, 12, Netherlands Nicolas Massu, 15, Chile v Alexander
Popp, Germany Bohdan Ulihrach, Czech Republic v Albert Montanes,
Spain Kenneth Carlsen, Denmark v Richard Gasquet, France Andy Ram,
Israel v Andrei Pavel, Romania Taylor Dent, U.S. v Ramon Delgado,
Paraguay Luis Horna, Peru v Dennis van Scheppingen, Netherlands
Alexander Peya, Austria v Jeff Salzenstein, U.S. Yeu-Tzuoo Wang,
Tailei v Andy Roddick, 2, U.S. dpa bs gb
EDITOR-NOTE:
Corrects that Ancic now plays Pescosolido instead of Nalbandian.

Federal Information and News Dispatch, Inc.
State Department
June 18, 2004
Loy of Homeland Security Dept. to Speak at OSCE Conference; Second
Annual Security Review Conference in Vienna June 23-24
TEXT: The OSCE’s second Annual Security Review Conference will take
place in Vienna, Austria, June 23-24, bringing together delegates
from the 55 OSCE participating states to exchange views on various
security issues including terrorism, arms control, border protection,
conflict prevention and crisis management.
Among those scheduled to speak is Admiral James Loy, deputy secretary
of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.
Following is an OSCE media advisory with more information:
(begin text)
Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe
Chairman-in-Office
18 June 2004
Media Advisory
OSCE CONFERENCE TO REVIEW BORDER SECURITY, ARMS CONTROL AND TERRORISM
THREATS
VIENNA, 18 June 2004 — A two-day conference to be held in Vienna
next week will focus on the OSCE’s activities in its
politico-military dimension, with issues such as combating terrorism,
border security and arms control on the agenda.
The second Annual Security Review Conference on 23 and 24 June will
provide a platform for the 55 OSCE participating States to exchange
views on risks and challenges to security across the OSCE region,
conflict prevention and crisis management.
Media representatives are invited to the opening plenary session of
the Conference, which around 350 political and military experts are
expected to attend, on Wednesday, 23 June, between 10:00 and 10:30,
at the OSCE premises in the Hofburg Congress Centre.
The OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Bulgarian Foreign Minister Solomon
Passy, and the Chairman of the OSCE’s Forum for Security
Co-operation, Armenian Ambassador Jivan Tabibian, will deliver the
opening speeches at this session.
Journalists are also invited to a press conference in Segmentgalerie
I in the Hofburg Conference Centre at 13:10 the same day. In addition
to Chairman-in-Office Solomon Passy, speakers will include the EU
Coordinator on Counter-Terrorism, Gijs de Vries of the Netherlands,
and the Deputy Secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security,
Admiral James Loy.
For admittance, please bring your OSCE press badge or a valid press
card to the security desk in the lobby of the Hofburg Conference
Centre, at any time from 9:30 onwards (main entrance from
Heldenplatz). Parking space is available for the press between 9:00
and 15:00 in the OSCE-reserved parking area on Heldenplatz. Temporary
parking permits should be collected from the security desk.
Advance background information and speeches will be posted on a
special conference website
, as and when these
become available.
Richard Murphy, Spokesperson/Head of Press and Public Information,
Press and Public Information Section, OSCE Secretariat, Kaerntner
Ring 5-7 1010, Vienna, Austria. Tel.: +43 1 514 36 180, +43 664 548
53 89 (mobile). Fax: +43 1 514 36 105. E-mail:
[email protected]
(end text)
(Distributed by the Bureau of International Information Programs,
U.S. Department of State.)

Charity “Aida To Armenia”
Azat Artsakh – Republic of Nagorno Karabakh (NKR)
18 June 2004
According to doctor of the children’s republic hospital Karineh
Tarkhanian, since 2003 wide-scale building works were carried out on
the third floor of the hospital by the French charity organization
“Aida to Armenia”. In October of last year a modern surgical
department was built, now the construction of wards corresponding
to the international medical standards is going on. Most probably
after the visit of the representative of the organization “Aida
to Armenia ” young pediatrician Stepan Berberian construction
works will start on the first and second floors of the hospital
building. “So far construction works were done only in one side of
the building. The other side where the children’s polyclinic and the
somatic department are placed no work has been done yet,” mentioned
Karineh Tarkhanian. She added that it is not clear yet whether the
program provides for the reconstruction of the mentioned side. This
will become clear only during the visit of Stepan Berberian.
NVARD OHANJANIAN.
18-06-2004