FRENCH SOCIALIST LEADER URGES TURKEY TO RECOGNIZE SO- CALLED ARMENIAN
GENOCIDE FOR EU MEMBERSHIP
Milliyet, Turkey
June 4 2004
French Socialist Party (SP) leader Francois Hollande yesterday said
that the European Union giving a date to Turkey to begin its accession
talks should be contingent on Ankara recognizing the so-called Armenian
genocide. In a joint press conference with Murat Papazyan, the European
head of Armenia’s Tashnak Party, Hollande said that in addition to the
Copenhagen criteria, Turkey should heed a 1987 European Parliament
1987 resolution calling for recognition of the so-called genocide,
withdrawal of Turkish troops from Cyprus and respect for human and
minority rights. /Milliyet/

Seminar on Imam Khomeini’s Thoughts Held in Armenia
Tehran Times
June 5 2004
MOSCOW (IRNA) — A one-day seminar entitled ‘The late Imam Khomeini’s
Thoughts and Views’ was held in Armenian capital Yerevan on Thursday
attended by Armenian scholars and politicians.
During the meet, organized by Iranology Department of Yerevan
University and Iran’s cultural advisor to Armenia, speakers highlighted
the role the late Imam Khomeini, the founder of the Islamic revolution,
played in the regional and international developments, particularly
in social and cultural areas.
Iran’s outgoing Ambassador to Armenia Mohammad Farhad Koleini and
some Armenian outstanding scholars in their lectures expounded on
various aspects of Imam Khomeini’s personality.

The Observer / Guradian (UK)
June 6 2004
Ask the experts
Our Lonely Planet experts, Tom Hall and Fiona Christie, answer your
travel queries
[parts omitted]
I plan an autumn trip to Armenia, and want to go by train from there
to see England play Azerbaijan in a World Cup qualifier in Baku in
October. But I’m told I will have to travel via Tbilisi in Georgia
as the border between Armenia and Azerbaijan is closed due to a
territorial dispute.
As the situation between the two countries is tense, is there a
problem visiting Azerbaijan with an Armenian visa and entry stamp in
my passport?
Geir Engene, by email
Though you should clarify this with the Azeri Embassy (020 7938 3412)
closer to the time, the only visa stamp which will prevent your entry
into Azerbaijan is that of the breakaway enclave of Nagorno Karabakh,
which you’re highly unlikely to visit anyway.
Otherwise, you shouldn’t have any problems travelling from Armenia
to Azerbaijan via Georgia.
Of the three Caucasus countries, Armenia is the safest and easiest
to visit.
Lake Sevan and the Dilijan forests are wonderful natural sights,
but it’s the history of ancient monasteries at Tatev and Sanahin and
the hundreds of stone monoliths at Zorats Karer that really make the
trip special.
British Mediterranean flies from London direct to Yerevan. Flights
cost from £460, including taxes. Book through British Airways (0870
850 9850; ).
It’s also possible to fly from Cologne to Tbilisi in Georgia with the
German budget airline Germania Express (00 49 805 737 100; )
for £253 return including taxes.
The rival German Wings () flies from London to
Cologne for as little as £4, so this could prove the cheapest route
for you.

United Press International
June 6 2004
D-Day: A close-run thing
By Martin Walker
UPI Editor
Published 6/4/2004 5:41 PM
WASHINGTON, June 4 (UPI) — Sixty years on from that grim day in June,
time enough has passed to take the shock from the news that German
Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder will attend the D-Day commemoration
ceremonies. And by saying that he is one of that very large number of
Germans today who say that D-Day also marked the beginning of their
liberation from Adolf Hitler’s Nazi regime, Schroeder has added grace
to his presence.
It is also right that Russia’s Vladimir Putin will attend. They may
have been Soviets back then, but until D-Day, the Red Army took the
brunt of the war and the mass of casualties, and they tore the heart
out of Hitler’s Wehrmacht. They were comrades-in-arms, and with the
Cold War more than 10 years over, it is right that the Russians now
take their place on the Normandy beaches.
Perhaps Vladimir Kuchma of Ukraine should also be there. When the
British and Canadian troops stormed ashore at Gold and Juno beaches,
they encountered whole battalions of Ukrainian, Cossack and Tartar
troops in the 709th Division, recruited by the defecting Soviet Gen.
Andrei Vlasov from German prisoner-of-war camps. And after the
devastation of their country by the great famine that came with
Stalin’s collective farms, who can blame them?
Perhaps the Koreans might be there too, and the Georgians and
Armenians. Korean troops who had somehow been dragooned into the
Red Army, captured and then put into Wehrmacht uniform, were among
the prisoners the Americans took on the first day ashore. There
were Georgian and Armenian, not to mention Latvian, Lithuanian and
Estonian troops, all wearing the field gray of the Wehrmacht, having
laid aside the khaki and the red star of the Red Army.
Wars are like that, hauling in whole continents and peoples, and
subsuming millions of personal dramas and improbable fates into the
vast anonymity of armies. And there were Indian and South African and
Rhodesian and Australian and Polish and Czech troops and airmen and
sailors in the British forces, while the American melting pot meant
that the GIs probably comprised the most polyglot and cosmopolitan
force of all.
But the presence of all these lesser-known players in the great assault
on Hitler’s fortress Europe should serve to remind us of something
important. There were very few of Hitler’s best troops guarding the
Normandy beaches. There were whole units of the German army known as
“ulcer battalions” from the special diet required by these second-line
troops, and one of them was in the 243rd Division among the forces
guarding Omaha beach. But Allied intelligence had failed to record
the presence of one front-line German division at Omaha, the 352nd,
reinforced by elements of the 3rd Sturm-Flak Korps with 37mm and 88mm
anti-aircraft guns.
Hitler’s reserve of five panzer divisions, the armored fist of the
Wehrmacht, were concentrated nearly 200 miles north of Normandy in
the Pas de Calais, just across the most direct invasion route from
England. Hitler was convinced the main attack would come there, and
even after the D-Day landing he believed the Normandy invasion was
but a ruse.
Well, there was a ruse, but it was not Normandy. Called Operation
Fortitude, it was the presence of a handful of signalers with their
radio transmitters in southeast England, keeping up the constant
flow of radio traffic that signaled the presence of a vast force,
the nonexistent 7th Army Group. The trick — and it worked — was to
convince Hitler and his High Command that the aggressive American
General George Patton was preparing to invade near Calais. So that
was where the bulk of the German tanks and the best troops — 19
divisions in all — were kept fruitlessly waiting.
Only one panzer division, the 21st, stationed around Caen, was sent
into action against the beaches on the morning of D-Day. Two more,
the Panzer Lehr and the even bigger 12th SS Panzer (SS divisions
were almost twice as large and better equipped than standard Panzer
divisions), were ordered to mount a counterattack at 4 a.m. on D-Day
by Field-Marshal Gerd von Rundstedt, but Hitler’s HQ refused to confirm
the order while the Führer was sleeping. By the time they got underway
in the early afternoon, the overcast skies of the morning had given
way to clear weather and the British and U.S. fighter-bombers exacted
a high toll for all German road movements.
One other unit should have arrived to counterattack the Normandy
beachhead by June 10. This was the SS Das Reich Panzer division,
which had been refitting and resting near Toulouse in Southern France
after being nearly destroyed in the battle of Kursk on the Eastern
front the previous summer. Rested and reinforced, at full strength
and equipped with Panther and Tiger tanks, it was probably the most
powerful single armored unit in Western Europe.
Allied planners estimated it would take four days for Das Reich to
reach Normandy. But thanks to air attacks on bridges and railroads
and to some heroic actions by the French resistance in the Perigord
and Limousin regions, blowing bridges and mounting doomed but valiant
ambushes, and provoking the Germans into turning aside to commit
hideous atrocities against civilians, it took three weeks for the
division to come into action against the beachhead. (At the village
of Oradour-sur-Glane, over 400 civilians, mainly women and children,
were locked inside a church that was then set on fire by SS Das
Reich; this was supposedly a reprisal for the killing of a German
officer.) The official historian of Britain’s Special Operations
Executive, M.R.D. Foot, concluded that the delays in Das Reich reaching
Normandy may have saved the invasion.
D-Day, despite the ruse of Operation Fortitude, despite allied air
power and command of the sea, and despite the bravery of allied troops
(and the French Resistance), was a close-run thing. Had Hitler not
been fooled, and had the panzer divisions been in the right place,
the allies might well have been thrown back into the sea. Even when
established ashore, it took the allies almost six weeks to break out of
the beachhead and into France, so resourceful was the German defense.
By the time the allies finally broke out from Normandy in later July,
the cream of the German army in France and all available panzer
divisions had finally been committed to the battle. Their defeat was
total. The American breakout threatened to cut off the entire army,
as the British and Canadians and Polish troops advanced from Caen to
join up with the American pincer at Falaise. As the Germans fought
desperately to prevent the jaws from closing, the Falaise gap was
turned into a giant killing ground for the German troops trying to
escape encirclement.
Among those fleeing were the remnant of SS Das Reich. They had begun
on June 6 with 23,000 troops and nearly 500 armored vehicles. But
only 240 men and three tanks got out of the Falaise gap.

Borji’s One-Day Photo Exhibition to Open Today
Tehran Times
June 5 2004
Tehran Times Art Desk
TEHRAN (MNA) — A one-day photo exhibition by Iranian war
photojournalist, and documentary filmmaker Reza Borji is to open
today at Axkhaneh Shahr.
The photographer will also review his photos on display from 17:00
to 19:00 at the gallery.
He has taken many photos from the contemporary wars in Iraq, Bosnia,
Afghanistan, Karabakh, and Ghana. He also has a collection of many
outstanding photos from the Iraqi imposed war against Iran during
the years 1980-1988.
Akxkhaneh Shahr is located on Haft-e Tir, Bahar Shiraz Square.

M. Hollande exige la reconnaissance du génocide arménien
Le Monde, France
4 juin 2004
François Hollande, premier secrétaire du PS, et son homologue
arménien, Mourad Papazian, président de la Fra Dachnaktsoutioun,
ont signé, jeudi 3 avril, un texte commun appelant la Turquie à
reconnaître le génocide arménien. Les deux partis “réaffirment leur
profond attachement à une Europe démocratique et sociale, garante des
valeurs éthiques et morales dont les Etats membres se doivent d’être,
individuellement et collectivement, les dépositaires vigilants et
intransigeants”. “Dans cet esprit”, précise le texte, les PS français
et arméniens “considèrent que l’ouverture des négociations d’adhésion
avec la Turquie est soumise au respect des critères de Copenhague
et de la résolution du Parlement européen du 18 juin 1987.” Parmi
ces critères, figurent les droits de l’homme et des minorités. Or,
“même si des réformes ont été adoptées par Ankara, elles demeurent
largement insuffisantes”, assurent MM. Hollande et Papazian qui
formulent “l’exigence” de la reconnaissance du génocide arménien.

Krymbek Kusherbayev handed over credentials to Armenia President Robert Kocharyan
KAZINFORM
04.06 /04
Almaty. June 4. KAZINFORM. Krymbek Kusherbayev Ambassador Extraordinary
and Plenipotentiary of Kazakhstan to Russia, Finland and Armenia handed
over credentials to Armenia President Robert Kocharyan on June 2,
in Yerevan. After the ceremony, Krymbek Kusherbayev informed Robert
Kocharyan about the current development of social economic reforms
in Kazakhstan.
The Armenian President was interested in the industrial and innovation
development strategy of Kazakhstan till 2015. The prospective
June summits preparation and EuroAsEC were discussed during the
negotiations.

Bush’s Neo-Con Praetorian Guards
by Ahmed Amr
June 5, 2004
A few weeks ago, on April 14th, George Bush decided to void the
Palestinians’ right to return to their homeland. The President also
took the occasion to make illegal Jewish settlements a permanent
“fact on the ground.” In a single press conference with Ariel Sharon,
he managed to truncate the size of a Palestinian state and assault
the fundamental human rights of refugees around the world. One has to
assume that Bush has now assumed the right to decide which other group
of refugees can forget about ever returning to their native lands.
Before unilaterally making this radical departure from the policies
of every American administration since 1948, Bush dispatched Elliott
Abrams to negotiate terms with Sharon. Abrams, the radical Likudnik
activist of Iran/Contra fame, has a history of beating the drums of
the Netenyahu wing of the Likud party. His mission was to convince
Netenyahu to accept the terms of the “moderate” Sharon who had declared
his intention to withdraw from Gaza.
Abrams convinced Netenyahu to agree to stop lobbying against Sharon’s
plan, which was scheduled to come up for a vote in the Likud party. But
his agreement came with a stiff price. Netenyahu’s “generous offer” was
contingent on getting American assurances that the Palestinians right
of return would be voided and that the settlements would become legal.
Upon returning to America, Abrams held a meeting in the White House
with the leadership of the Christian Zionist movement, a key Bush
constituency. He wanted to reassure them that Gaza was not part of
biblical Israel and evacuating it would not stall the Second Coming of
Jesus or the prospects of a timely advent of the rapture and the end
of times. You have to marvel at the marketing skills of this Likudnik
fanatic who doesn’t even believe in the First Coming of the Messiah.
In any case, Abrams managed to convince Bush that he had cut a
great deal. All Bush needed to do was to stiff the Palestinian on
a few of their rights and shrink the boundaries of the Palestinian
Bantustan to accommodate Israeli expansionist fantasies. In return,
Netenyahu would not actively obstruct a critical vote in the Likud. The
president accepted Netenyahu’s “generous offer.” By the time Sharon
landed in Washington, Bush had prepared a letter officially committing
to Netenyahu’s terms. For the Palestinians, it was the Second Coming
of the Balfour Declaration.
Abrams didn’t go to Israel to negotiate American terms with Sharon. He
was there to settle an internal Likud party squabble. As a confirmed
member of the Netenyahu wing of the Likud, he wanted to draw a line
in the sand for the “moderate” Sharon. In effect, Bush had dispatched
one Likudnik fox to negotiate with another Likudnik fox on how best
to cook the chicken.
As promised, the reluctant Netenyahu did not publicly campaign against
Sharon’s plan. But he wasn’t about to endorse it either. When the
vote took place, the Likud faithful turned down the “compromise”. So,
the Israelis pocketed George’s concession of Palestinian rights and
Palestinian real estate and laughed all the way to the West Bank.
After the Likud turned down the idea to withdrawing from Gaza, the
Israelis came back and got a green light from the Bush administration
to batter the Palestinians. Sharon explained that he needed to
torment the refugees in Gaza to shore up his standing in the Likud
after failing to get approval for his plan. Bush understood. After
a few weeks of demolishing homes and killing dozens of Palestinians,
the people of Gaza staged acts of resistance that resulted in the
death of thirteen Israeli soldiers.
As usual, Sharon lost his temper and Bush agreed that Israel had
the right to defend its soldiers from the “terrorists” who had the
audacity to resist Sharon’s efforts to demonstrate his toughness in
front of the Netenyahu wing of the Likud. The president of the free
world had an AIPAC engagement coming up and that’s never a good time
to bring up the issue of Palestinian rights to life, liberty and the
pursuit of happiness. So once again, Bush expressed sympathy and gave
a green light to “Operation Rainbow.” The rape of Rafah was on.
In an effort to resolve a feud within the Likud, Elliott Abrams had
set in motion a major Israeli killing spree.
Abram’s Likudnik antics are typical of the standard operating procedure
in the Bush administration. In reviewing the resume of the folks
Bush appointed as architects a “Greater Middle East,” one runs into
a who’s who list of professional Jewish activists with a long record
of supporting the most extreme right wing factions in Israel.
Wolfowitz’s sister actually gave up on America and immigrated to
Israel. Like his sibling, he has spent his whole adult life working
on Likudnik agendas. Douglas Feith’s law partner in Israel represents
the right wing settler movement. Lewis Libby, the lawyer who convinced
Clinton to pardon the tax dodging Mark Rich, has well established
ties to Israeli intelligence. Richard Perle sits on the board of the
Jerusalem Post and works with Conrad Black, a media mogul and Zionist
propagandist. Along with Dick Cheney’s wife, all four are affiliated
with the neo-con movement that has its imprint all over Bush’s Middle
East policies.
Before joining the Bush administration, this neo-con cabal agitated
against the Oslo agreement and worked on Netenyahu’s election
campaign. Dick Cheney and his wife actually retained Bernard Lewis to
tutor our president of vice on the “Arab mind.” Lewis is a vicious
anti-Arab racist and a suspect pseudo-academic who was convicted in
a French court of denying the Armenian genocide.
One has to be extremely delusional to subscribe to the notion that
any of these characters are interested in the freedom of any pedigree
of Arabs, be they Iraqi or Palestinian. Quite the contrary. Their
real motives are to subjugate and humiliate Arabs into accepting
Sharon’s dictates.
It should come as no surprise that Douglas Feith was the Pentagon
official who signed off on torturing and sexually humiliating Iraqi
prisoners. Or that Feith and Libby are the main suspects in leaking
the identity of Valerie Plame, a CIA agent. Or that Wolfowitz
and Perle virtually created Chalabi’s Iraqi National Congress and
collaborated with the INC in fabricating false intelligence and
feeding it to neo-con media operatives like Judith Miller and Charles
Krauthammer. Or that Libby and Feith were the force behind setting
up the Office of Special Plans that sabotaged the CIA’s and DIA’s
intelligence gathering operations. Or that Feith was in charge of
the now discredited post invasion fantasies. Or that Paul Bremer,
the current emperor of Baghdad, is a self-declared neo-con and a
protégé of Henry Kissinger. Or that Michael Rubin, a neo-con zealot,
was given a major role in administering our Iraqi colony. After
his assignment in Baghdad, Rubin went right back to his desk at the
American Enterprise Institute.
These are the Bush advisers that prey on the mind of a president who
believes he is getting battle plans from God. They write his speeches
and condense the news that he can’t bother to read. Even Republican
Senators are alarmed at the virtual seclusion of this President
behind a wall of Praetorian guards recruited from the ranks of the
Israeli Lobby.
None of this is a secret. It is just one of those taboo subjects that
can get you libeled as an anti-Semite if you so much as hint at who
these people are or question their allegiance to a foreign state ruled
by a serial war criminal. But some prominent Americans have apparently
had enough of their shenanigans. Retired General Anthony Zinni and
Senator Hollings and others are finally taking them on. Zinni, in a
challenge to the complicit silence of many in Washington, recently
appeared on a 60 Minutes program and said, “I know what strategy they
promoted. And openly. And for a number of years. And what they have
convinced the president and the secretary to do. And I don’t believe
there is any serious political leader, military leader, diplomat in
Washington that doesn’t know where it came from.”
Zinni is not just any old retired General. During his military career,
this distinguished American officer served for four years as the
commander-in-chief of the United States Central Command, in charge
of American forces in the Middle East.
The Israeli Lobby has always had an extraordinary amount of influence
on American foreign policy. With Bush, they have hit the jackpot
because they find him so easy to manipulate, especially when they
make an appeal to his faith. He is at once the most peculiar and
the most transparent of Presidents. If he appears to be cruel, he
is just administering the wrath of God on planet earth. For him,
Palestinian and Iraqi sufferings are a necessary price to pay to bring
on Armageddon. He is not an opportunist preaching to the flock. He is
part of the Christian Zionist movement. The designated priests of this
Christian heresy are folks like Abrams who must get a huge kick out
of messing around with the collective emotions of these holy rollers.
We can only hope that a slumbering America will wake up to the real
and present danger of giving this very simple and very dangerous
President a mandate of a second term in office. If he gets four more
years, we might just find ourselves two years away from Armageddon.
Unfortunately for the Palestinians, John Kerry appears to be recruiting
his own brigade of neo-con Praetorian guards to administer Middle
East policy. Rafah was just one more sign that the Palestinians are
set to lose another American election.
Ahmed Amr is the Editor of NileMedia. He can be reached at:
[email protected].
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress

Ex-Armenian Foreign Minister Says His Country’s Being Russian Stronghold In Caucasus Is Key Problem
Baku Today 05/06/2004 13:59
A former chief Armenian diplomat said on Friday that Russiaâ^À^Ùs
retaining strong influence in Armenia is the main stumbling block
preventing the country from forging relationship with Turkey.
“The republic’s key problem is that Armenia is the Russian stronghold
in the region and Russian troops are guarding Armenia-Turkey borders,”
Yerevan’s A1 Plus television quoted Alexander Arzumanyan, ex-Armenian
foreign minister and a member of former Armenian-Turkish commission,
as saying.
Arzumanyan said at a discussion dedicated to Armenian-Turkish borders
organized by Youth Conservative Party that the Collective Security
Treaty Armenia has joined is not in the country’s interests.
“I wonder why Armenia has joined Collective Security Treaty while not
a single of its four neighbors are the Treaty members.” Arzumanyan
said, according to A1 Plus.
The former diplomat maintained that Armenia should join such security
systems where Turkey, Iran, Georgia and Azerbaijan are also included.
He also blamed Armenia’s current authorities for making statements
approving the border-opening idea without any precondition but,
in fact, putting forward own demands.
“Closed border means blockade. It means a state of war with
the neighboring country,” Arzumanyan said, suggesting that the
Armenian-Turkish relationship can be improved only by the join efforts
of the two countries.
Turkey must recognize and condemn the purported fact of Armenian
Genocide and Armenia, for its part, should support Turkey in its
aspiration to join Europea n Union, Arzumanyan said.

Assadourian to advise PM on foreign policy
By Lynne Cohen
Jewish Tribune
May 20, 2004 – 29 Iyar, 5764
Leaders in the Jewish community reacted cautiously to the announcement
that Sarkis Assadourian is stepping aside after almost 11 years
representing the Liberals in the Ontario riding of Brampton Springdale,
in order to join the Prime Minister’s office as a special advisor
on foreign affairs. The Syrian-born, Armenian MP will be responsible
for Near Eastern and South Caucasus affairs.
“I am delighted to be able to turn to Sarkis Assadourian for expertise
when it comes to matters of trade and foreign relations with the Near
East,” said the Prime Minister in a statement immediately following
the appointment.
Assadourian’s appointment is in exchange for giving up his riding so
that Manitoba-born Ruby Dhalla, a Toronto chiropractor, can run for
the Liberals in his place. Assadourian has been a frequent critic of
Israel in recent years. In 2002 he attempted to introduce a Motion in
the House of Commons calling on fellow MPs to express their support
for what he called “our government’s position at the UN” on Israel. At
the time he was referring to UN Security Council Resolution 1402
which called for the immediate “withdrawal of Israeli troops from
Palestinian cities, including Ramallah.” This resolution was adopted
after a series of Palestinian suicide bombings prompted Israel to
deploy Israeli troops around Yasser Arafat’s headquarters in Ramallah.
A spokesman for Assadourian, Daniel Kennedy, said the countries
involved in Assadourian’s new portfolio are Eastern European as well
as Armenia, Georgia and Azerbaijan. “He is not advising on the Middle
East,” said Kennedy.
“Just because the countries under Assadourian’s mandate do not include
those in the Middle East, it does not necessarily follow that his
appointment will have no wider impact,” said Amos Sochaczevski,
National Chair of B’nai Brith Canada’s Institute for International
Affairs. “What happens in the Middle East impacts many different
countries in many different regions, several of which are struggling
with the rising tide of Islamic extremism and terrorism in their
own territories.”
Assadourian hosted a reception recently to provide a representative of
the Armenian Patriarchate in Jerusalem with a platform to explain why
his organization was suing the Israeli government over the construction
of its security fence.
“Our concerns are not limited to international issues,” said
Sochaczevski. “For instance, not only does Assadourian oppose the
construction of a Holocaust museum, he also opposes the construction
of any museum on intolerance that would place emphasis on the Holocaust
as a unique event in history.”
Instead, Assadourian has been promoting a private members bill that
would see the creation of an exhibit at the Museum of Civilization
located in Gatineau, across the river from Parliament Hill, that
would commemorate in a generic sense all “crimes against humanity
perpetrated during the 20th century.”
“My position has been from day one that we can’t have one museum for
every minority,” explained Assadourian at the time.
“A museum… is not a doughnut shop that you open on every street
corner. It has to be inclusive…”
Assadourian’s appointment comes at a time when Canadian Jews are
beginning to ask themselves where exactly the Government stands
on issues of concern to the Jewish community. The day before the
announcement, Canada supported a resolution at the United Nations
that for all intents and purposes denied Israel any a priori rights
in the disputed territories. This is a move that contradicts the
government’s own guidelines on Middle East policy, which emphasize the
importance of not pre-judging the outcome of final negotiations and
of reaching a negotiated agreement between the parties. Canada’s vote
also went against Resolution 242 which it has always endorsed. That
resolution recognizes that modifications to the so-called Green Line
are necessary.
“Our Government must make up its mind on the fundamental issue,”
added Sochaczevski… “Either Canada supports Israel as the only free
and democratic country in the region, or it doesn’t.”
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress