Author: Chaltikian Arsine

ANOTHER TRADITIONAL DISINFORMATION, TYPICAL TO AZERBAIJANI MEDIA

Panorama.am
18:21 06/05/2010

Politics

Evidently, the tempest in the glass of water, namely in the article
in milaz.info, immediately captured by vesti.az ("Mass scuffle in
Moscow with participation of Azerbaijani and Armenian servicemen")
has flooded the Internet, however, we will try not to be carried away
by the torrent but will turn to facts. Thus:

– Armenian official sources in Moscow refute the "information".

– At the end of the article, vesti.az highlighted that "the spokesman
of the Azerbaijani Defense Ministry Eldar Sabiroglu told APA that no
incidents have occurred between the Armenian and Azerbaijani servicemen
in Moscow."

– Milaz.info has issued the article in Azerbaijani language only,
without any Russian or English translations, which limits the targeted
audience by "the inner market".

– In the stated in the article time "yesterday evening", i. e. May 5,
Armenian and Azerbaijani servicemen (by the way, having had joint
marching trainings before) were in different military towns, and
couldn’t have met.

So, we can conclude: a recurrent, traditional disinformation, typical
to Azerbaijani media.

And in conclusion:

What is saddest, particularly, for the head of Moscow department
of All-Russian Azerbaijani Congress Ilgar Hadjiev, he cannot get
occupied with the highly patriotic matter he has taken on, namely,
"specification of the number of suffered Azerbaijanis." Moreover,
the military attache of Azerbaijan’s Embassy in Russia, Colonel Tofik
Salmanov, didn’t even manage to participate in the activities.

ARMENIAN DELEGATION TO PARTICIPATE IN RCC SESSIONS IN MOSCOW

Aysor
May 6 2010
Armenia

Armenian delegation with country’s Minister of Transport Manouk
Vardanian on the head will participate in the 42nd session of the
Regional Commonwealth in the Field of Communications (RCC) and its
15th session of the Coordination Council on Information.

The sessions will take place in the Russian capital on May 8-9. Among
highlights are items of development of information and communications,
establishment of the official connections between the international
electronic operators of the RCC member states, development of the
electronic services, and preparation for the World Telecommunications
Union Forum.

Participants will discuss and speak about development of the post
services in regions and effects of the global crisis on the postal
sphere of the RCC member-states.

EXHIBITION ON ARMENIAN CULTURAL HERITAGE OPENS IN YEREVAN

Aysor
May 4 2010
Armenia

Works by photographer Ruben Baghdishian went on display at the photo
exhibition, opened Tuesday at the Yerevan State University. The
exhibition’s theme is "Our grand sires’ heritage," aimed at showing
author’s shots of Armenia and Nagorno Karabakh’s historical places
and those of cultural value.

Ruben Baghdishian said at the opening ceremony that he is going to
organise exhibitions of the displayed works in large centers of the
Armenian Communities abroad and called on the businesses to cooperate
to promote and popularize the Armenian culture.

Andranik Nikogosian, president of the All-Armenian World Center,
spoke at the opening ceremony.

Ruben Baghdishian was born in 1987; he started shooting from the early
age; his images of Ukraine brought him a victory at the Ukrainian photo
contest, entitled "Ukraine Through the Eyes of Foreigners," in 2009;
Ruben Baghdishian participated in prestigious international contests
such as the World Press Photo and the International Image Circuit.

FREE PRESS, FREE EXHIBITION

Aysor
May 3 2010
Armenia

Today on the day of freedom of press was held the exhibition titled
"Press Freedom: Freedom of Information".

>>From the presented 300 works were elected 30 unique photos. The
exhibition is aimed at reflecting the possibilities and challenges
in the speech and information freedom and availability as well as
reminding the population about those rights.

The exhibition was initiating by the Center of Information Freedom,
financed by the US international development agency, Yerevan Office
of the OSCE and the UNO office.

On the exhibition were present not only professional photographers
but also citizens, who have presented photos depicting the free press,
and in the photos were as the citizens so the officials.

Aronian 5th in FIDE rankings

May 1, 2010 – 16:05 AMT 11:05 GMT
PanARMENIAN.Net –

FIDE has published the list of 100 strongest chess players. The men’s
top five remains unchanged: Norway’s Magnus Carlsen (2813 points),
Bulgaria’s Veselin Topalov comes one point behind the leader. Vladimir
Kramnik is the 3rd followed by Viswanathan Anand. Armenia’s Levon
Aronian is the 5th. Vladimir Akopian is the 43 with 2694 points while
Gabriel Sagissian is the 55th (2677 points).

In women’s rating, Lilit Lazarian is the 26th (2477 points), Elina
Danielyan is the 29th (2473 points). Lilit Galoyan is the 66th (2402
points).

AZERBAIJANI FM TO INVESTIGATE STATEMENTS MADE BY RUSSIAN CO-CHAIR IN KHANKENDI

APA
April 29 2010
Azerbaijan

Baku. Lachin Sultanova – APA. Russian Co-chair of the OSCE Minsk Group
Igor Popov met with leader of Nagorno Karabakh separatists in Khankendi
Bako Sahakyan, APA reports quoting Armenian news agencies that the
diplomat said the Nagorno Karabakh Armenians should participate in
the negotiations in certain stage.

Popov noted that he had discussed socio-economic issues of Nagorno
Karabakh as well as construction of airport in Khankendi with Sahakyan.

Answering APA’s question on this issue, Sprokesman for Azerbaijani
Foreign Ministry Elkhan Polukhov stated that the statements spread
on behalf of the Russia’s new co-chair would be investigated.

EU CALLS FOR NORMALIZATION WITHOUT PRECONDITIONS

Aysor
April 28 2010
Armenia

The decision by Armenia’s administration to suspend ratification
of Armenia-Turkey protocols, aimed at normalizing of relations with
Turkey, is a cause for concern, the European Union said. At the same
time the EU welcomed Armenia’s decision not to abandon its agreements
on reconciliation with Turkey, while expressing concern about "the
loss of momentum."

Catherine Ashton, the High Representative of the Union for Foreign
Affairs in the European Union, said through her spokesperson that "the
EU was pleased" that Armenia remains committed to normalization. She
said: "But at the same time expresses concern about the loss of
momentum in this process."

The European Union calls on Turkey and Armenia to remain steadfast in
the normalization process "without preconditions and in a reasonable
time frame," Catherine Ashton said.

ARMENIAN-TURKISH RAPPROCHEMENT TALKS WILL HARDLY BE RESUMED UNTIL 2013-2014

ArmInfo
2010-04-28 11:02:00

ArmInfo The Armenian-Turkish rapprochement talks will hardly be resumed
until 2013-2014, say Masterforex-V Trading Academy Forum experts.

They say that the present Turkish authorities will hardly do anything
to ratify the Armenian-Turkish protocols before the parliamentary
elections 2011 while the most probable winners, the Nationalists,
are even less likely to foster the process.

An article in the Birzhevoy Lider magazine says that independent
Armenia has come face to face with the successor of the Ottoman Empire
(the regime that committed the Armenian Genocide in the territory of
Western Armenia) and with its denial policy. Turkey sees that Armenia
is able to initiate the international recognition of the Armenian
Genocide and may claim compensation, as a result.

The article says that the key goal of the Armenian Genocide was to
establish a direct link between the Ottoman Turks and the Turkish
speaking communities of the Russian Empire and Persia. The Turks’ plan
was to annihilate the Armenians living in the territory of the Ottoman
Empire and Eastern Armenia (Nakhichevan and Nagorno-Karabakh). It was
then that the Turks and the Azeris formed their military-political
alliance against the Armenians of Nagorno-Karabakh – a geographical
barrier in Turkey’s way to Baku and its oil.

The fate of Nagorno-Karabakh was sealed in 1921: the Caucasian Bureau
of the Central Committee of the Russian Communist Party decided to
make it part of Armenian SSR but, all of a sudden, they changed their
verdict under the "wise" pressure of Stalin. The region was given to
Azerbaijani SSR. Their argument was as follows: "Considering the need
to ensure peace between Muslims and Armenians, economic ties between
Upper and Lower Karabakhs and permanent link with Azerbaijan, we
hereby rule that Nagorno-Karabakh should left within Azerbaijani SSR."

This obvious contradiction between historical facts and a political
decision constitutes the background of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.

As it is accepted to consider, it was the Turkish factor that
determined this decision of the USSR country, having thereby calmed
down the Turkish governors and the unrest of the USSR Muslims. With its
population, which was much larger than the Armenian one, Azerbaijan
was considered to be the beacon of revolution in the East and seemed
more important than Yerevan for the revolution interests.

The article says that such position of Ankara in delaying the
ratification of the Protocols and Yerevan’s reaction to this are
getting clear now, as the Protocols reflect normalization of the
Armenian-Turkish relations, and not the problems of Armenia or
Azerbaijan.

Formally, neither of the leading countries of the world is revising
the principle of territorial integrity. But, unfortunately, this is
only formally. In fact, double standards are observed everywhere,
and this proved by the attitude to the situations in the Balkans and
in the Caucasus.

ERDOGAN PULLS THE WOOL OVER INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY’S EYES

Aysor
April 27 2010
Armenia

When asked during the interview with the State Public Television
that Turkey’s Prime Minister says he didn’t receive any answer to his
letter to the second-sitting Armenian President Robert Kocharian in
2005, Armenia’s Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian said: "I don’t’
think that Turkish Prime Minister’s administration keeps the letter
back knowingly and doesn’t give it to PM; especially keeping in mind
that the letter was published.

"So this is another attempt to put it across the international
community. Besides, the signed Armenia-Turkey protocols take into
consideration provisions from Kocharian’s respond, not Erdogan’s
letter," added Nalbandian.

KIM KARDASHIAN: TIME TO RECOGNIZE GENOCIDE

By:Armenian Weekly Staff
Tue, Apr 27 2010
ISTANBUL, Turkey

The Turkish daily newspaper HaberTurk reported in a front page story
on April 25 that Armenian American celebrity Kim Kardashian responded
to a genocide denier by saying, "The time has come to recognize the
Armenian Genocide."

Kardashian’s words were in response to a Turkish woman, using the name
"meraals," who said on Kardashian’s Twitter page that there was no
genocide against the Armenians.

Kardashian’s page is one of the most popular on Twitter, with several
million followers.