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1) Azeris Fail Planned Ceasefire Monitoring
2) Chairman of Danish European Movement Says Turkey Must Acknowledge Armenian
Genocide
3) Turks Petition PBS to Air ‘Armenian Revolution’ Film
4) City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo to Host Armenian Genocide Exhibit, LAUSD
Training
5) Conference Dedicated to Cilician Culture to Be Held in Antelias
6) Corruption-Related Crimes Cause Damage Amounting to 3.5 Billion Drams
1) Azeris Fail Planned Ceasefire Monitoring
YEREVAN (Armenpress/A1Plus)–The regular monitoring of the contact line
between
Armenian and Azeri troops near the settlement of Seysulan of Karabagh’s
Martakert region scheduled for March 29 was canceled because of shots fired
from the Azeri side.
Andrzey Kasprzyk, personal envoy of the Organization of Security and
Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) chairman-in-office, who heads a team of observers
monitoring the ceasefire had to stop the planed monitoring due to the absence
of safety guarantees from Azerbaijan.
The Mountainous Karabagh Republic foreign ministry said Kasprzyk and
officials
from the ministry accompanying him registered three separate shots fired by
the
Azeris coming from the occupied village of Karmiravan.
2) Chairman of Danish European Movement Says Turkey Must Acknowledge Armenian
Genocide
YEREVAN (Yerkir/Armenpress)Erik Boel, chairman of the Danish European
Movement,
visited the Armenian Genocide Memorial and Museum in Yerevan Wednesday and
wrote in the guestbook that, “This tragedy should not be forgotten.”
Boel was accompanied by Armenian Parliament Vice-speaker and Armenian
Revolutionary Federation Bureau member Vahan Hovhannisian and Bureau member
Mario Nalbandian.
He also laid a wreath in honor of the victims.
“The country I represent and I personally believe that it was a genocide. And
this is why I am paying homage to the victims of that tragedy. I believe all
countries should come to terms with their pasts to move forward, I believe
Germany is the best example,” he said.
As for making recognition of the Armenian genocide for Turkey a precondition
to admission into the European Union, Boel said that he believed it is in
Turkey’s interest to recognize the Genocide.
He said Turkey must acknowledge this crime committed by the Ottoman Empire
and
come to terms with its past. He said the EU and Armenia should encourage
Turkey
to continue its membership drive, otherwise nationalistic forces within the
country may become stronger.
Boel also spoke about the Karabagh conflict, saying it is not as big a
priority for Europe, which focuses more on problems in the Middle East and
Kosovo.
3) Turks Petition PBS to Air ‘Armenian Revolution’ Film
Turkish Americans have begun collecting signatures urging PBS to air a film
called “The Armenian Revolution” on April 17, the same night that PBS
affiliates around the country will be airing the documentary “The Armenian
Genocide.” So far, over 10,000 have signed the petition.
The Petition alleges that the $650,000 budget for Andrew Goldberg’s
documentary on the Genocide was paid for by Armenian American associations.
4) City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo to Host Armenian Genocide Exhibit, LAUSD
Training
City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo will host an exhibit and teacher training
workshop for Los Angeles Unified School District teachers about the Armenian
genocide at Los Angeles City Hall on April 3.
The teacher training workshop will be conducted by The Genocide Education
Project, a non-profit educational organization, which will ultimately train
more than 300 LAUSD world history teachers about the Armenian genocide. The
workshop, which incorporates elements of the iwitness exhibit in its lesson
plans, will take place at City Hall from 8 AM to 3 PM on April 3, with the
opening reception for iwitness at 5 PM.
The exhibit, iwitness, features striking portraits and oral histories of
Genocide survivors and will be on display through the end of April. Iwitness
will be on display at the City Attorney’s Office through the month of April.
For more information, or to schedule a student field trip to the exhibit,
please call (213) 978-8100.
To RSVP for the April 3 opening reception, please email [email protected] or
call (213) 978-1575 by March 31.
See our Saturday edition for more information about the exhibit and teacher
workshop.
5) Conference Dedicated to Cilician Culture to Be Held in Antelias
The Catholicosate of Cilicia and the Mashdots Madenataran of Armenia will
organize an international conference called “The Culture of Cilicia,” which is
to be held in Antelias, Lebanon in January 2007.
The deputy director of the Mashdots Madenataran of Armenia is currently
visiting the Catholicosate of Cilicia. Arshag Panoutchian arrived almost a
week
ago in Antelias to carry out philological research in Antelias and to pave the
way for cooperation between the Madenataran and the Catholicosate of Cilicia.
Arshag Panoutchian and His Holiness Aram I discussed the possibilities of
cooperation between the Catholicosate and the Madenataran through various
initiatives particularly in the field of culture and Armenology. Panoutchian
praised the cultural activities organized by the Catholicosate and especially
the publication of new books by the collective efforts of the Catholicosate
and
the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation.
His Holiness hailed the readiness of the Mashdots Madenataran to cooperate
with the Catholicosate of Cilicia. “The Mashdots Madenataran of Yerevan is not
only Armenia’s Madenataran, but that of the entire nation. The entire nation
therefore has obligations in the efforts for the betterment of the
Madenataran,
the expansion of its work and its economic viability. The Mashdots Madenataran
is a symbol for the Armenian nation’s cultural identity, richness, and
greatness. Our Holy Seat is always ready to actively participate in all the
initiatives aimed at its better organization,” said His Holiness.
As proposed by His Holiness Aram I, an international conference titled “The
Culture of Cilicia” will be organized collectively by the Catholicosate and
the
Madenataran in Antelias in January 2007. Experts from Armenia and the
diaspora,
as well as foreign experts will be invited to participate in the conference. A
special committee will be formed in the future to follow up on the efforts for
organizing the conference.
6) Corruption-Related Crimes Cause Damage Amounting to 3.5 Billion Drams
YEREVAN (Armenpress)–The amount of damages inflicted last year by corruption
and related crimes amounted to almost 3.5 billion drams, while local courts
were able to recover only 236 million drams. Bagrat Yesayan, an aide to
president Kocharian, revealed these figures and said law-enforcement bodies
have to shift the focus on recovering money lost to corruption.
He said this was one of recommendations of a report on Armenia by GRECO, an
organization that helps its member states fight corruption. Yesayan downplayed
public discontent with the law that only convicted 97 government officials of
corruption when 352 such crimes were reported.
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