Author: Chavushian

INTERACTION 2009 TO FINISH IN KAZAKHSTAN ON OCTOBER 16

/PanARMENIAN.Net/
13.10.2009 17:37 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ The final stage of CSTO’s Interaction-2009
command-headquarter training is scheduled in Kazakhstan for October 16.

Military exercises were launched on October 2, with the first joint
training organized on October 7, Kazakhstan’s Embassy to Armenia
reported to a PanARMENIAN.Net correspondent. Trainings brought together
servicemen from the armed forces of Kazakhstan, Russia, Armenia and
Kygyzstan. Parties successfully elaborated various tactical tasks on
resisting aggression, stabilizing atmosphere, blocking and eliminating
foreign military detachments etc.

More active trainings are planned for October 16. Presidents and
Defense Minister from CSTO member states are expected to attend the
final stage of exercises.

CSTO’s large scale trainings are aimed at assessing organization’s real
potentials as a political-military union, solving various tasks in real
conditions and acting as peace and stability guarantor in the region.

RAMKAVAR AZATAKAN PARTY URGES RA NA NOT TO RATIFY PROTOCOLS

/PanARMENIAN.Net/
13.10.2009 21:04 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ In connection with RA-Turkey protocols signing
in Zurich, Ramkavar Azatakan Party of Armenia issued a statement,
specifying that Turkey willl not ratify Protocols, citing Karabakh
issue as a reason.

In this connection, the Party urges RA NA not to ratify Protocols,
demanding RA Government to prepare a new agreeement to include only
stipulations on establishement of diplomatic relations and opening of
borders, while refusing the remaining stipulations as unacceptable,
Ramkavar Azatakan Party press service reported.

GEORGIA: USING TEA TO PROMOTE PEACE IN THE SOUTH CAUCASUS
Nino Patsuria

Eurasia Insight
ticles/eav100909a.shtml
10/09/09

One of the few things that all residents of the South Caucasus have
in common is a love of tea. Betting on local tea-drinking customs,
a group of regional manufacturers hopes that a joint tea brand —
involving individuals and entities from Georgia, Azerbaijan, Armenia,
as well as the breakaway regions of South Ossetia and Nagorno-Karabakh
— may help ease feelings of enmity in the region.

"We’re creating a unified tea brand to show Europe that we have
another image apart from conflicts," said Ismail Allakhverdyev,
the project’s Azerbaijani coordinator and a livestock expert for the
Azerbaijani Ministry of Agriculture. "When professional businessmen
talk, political issues are absent"

The project’s brand — Caucasus Tea — will offer tea leaves from
all five participating countries and breakaway territories. Georgia
and Azerbaijan will produce black and green tea; Armenia and the
disputed regions of Karabakh and South Ossetia will contribute herbal
teas. Expected to launch by late 2009, the project is the brainchild of
national tea associations and the British government-funded Caucasus
Business Development Network, a non-governmental organization that
promotes business initiatives in the South Caucasus as a form of
conflict resolution.

The project’s timing proved less than auspicious. It kicked off in July
2008 at a regional tea conference in Baku, just before the outbreak
of the five-day war between Georgia and Russia. That conflict spooked
many foreign investors. The war also may have cost the project one
key participant: Russia, with its smoky black teas from the Krasnodar
region, situated to the north of breakaway Abkhazia.

On hand for the initial discussions, the Association of Tea and Coffee
Producing Companies of the Russian Federation, a group of the largest
Russian coffee and tea producers also known as RosTeaCoffee, has not
contacted any of the project partners since the end of the conflict.

Ustin Shteyman, the 89-year-old chairman of RosTeaCoffee, says the
organization considered itself merely an observer at the initial
Baku talks. RosTeaCoffee officials now believe the project has slim
chances for success. Caucasus Tea is more about politics than business,
Shteyman said.

"Georgia and Azerbaijan are at a different level of tea production
at the moment and both lag behind on tea production standards,
while [Russia’s] Krasnodar tea is of better quality," Shteyman
said. "Restoring [tea] quality requires big investments and much time."

Not all of the project’s partners are actual tea producers, he
continued, noting that Armenia, Karabakh and South Ossetia will
contribute only herbal teas. "Herbal tea is not tea to me," scoffed
Shteyman.

RosTeaCoffee General Director Ramaz Chanturia argues that the project
also requires intergovernmental cooperation among all partners — a
remote possibility in the South Caucasus. So far, government agencies
in the project partners’ countries are taking no official part in
Caucasus Tea.

"If we want to develop a united brand, we have to base this concept
on international experience and work out this initiative at the
inter-governmental level," Chanturia maintained. "The involved
countries could get the right of international copyright protection for
the . . . brand Caucasus Tea, create a logo and a special trademark
for the products produced in the region, create a government-based
structure responsible for promoting and protecting this brand in the
international market."

Russian tea producing companies, he continued, will participate
in this process only in compliance with Russia’s interests in the
region. RosTeaCoffee planned to collaborate with Abkhaz tea producers,
but a lack of financing put the venture on hold.

One Caucasus Tea partner — South Ossetia — agrees with RosTeaCoffee’s
reasoning, but Ossetian representatives contend that the project’s
peace-making angle is a worthwhile pursuit. "The project would show
… that a degree of common sense has remained in us," said South
Ossetian coordinator Timur Tskhovrebov, a journalist who works with
the Caucasus Business Development Network in South Ossetia.

Tskhovrebov told EurasiaNet that the de facto government of South
Ossetia has not "welcomed the project initiative, but has not tried
to stop it, either."

Georgia’s other breakaway region, Abkhazia, has so far reportedly
shied away from the project.

Representatives of relevant Abkhaz companies did not respond to
EurasiaNet requests for comment.

Karabakh, the scene of a six-year war between Armenia and Azerbaijan,
reportedly plans to contribute a local mountain herbal tea to the
project. Karabakh representatives could not be reached for comment.

How much tea each participant will contribute to the Caucasus Tea
brand for now remains unknown.

Georgia, once a tea powerhouse, produced 90,000-130,000 tons per year
during the Soviet era, but production in recent years has plummeted
to roughly 4,000-5,000 tons annually, according to the Association of
Georgian Tea Producers. Ninety percent of that production is exported
abroad to Ukraine, Germany, the United Kingdom, Mongolia and Middle
Eastern countries.

Data on Azerbaijani tea production was not immediately available
from the Association of Azerbaijani Tea Producers or from the
government. Azerbaijani project coordinator Allakhverdyev noted that
Azerbaijani tea plantations have not been updated since the Soviet
era. One industry source estimates that Azerbaijan’s tea production
is just a tiny fraction of 200-300 tons produced per year during the
Soviet era.

Once the brand goes into the marketing phase, consumers will not know
which country or region’s tea dominates the contents of a Caucasus Tea
box. Boxes will be stamped "Made in the Caucasus," with no mention of
the particular countries of origin. That absence is deliberate. "If
we put the names of breakaway republics side by side with legally
recognized countries, it means we also recognize their sovereignty,"
commented Tengiz Svanidze, chairperson of the Association of Georgian
Tea Producers.

While the region’s tea industry may not be as robust as it once was,
and the project fraught with potential political complications, talking
about how tea could foster an "image of a business-friendly place,"
according to Artush Lazarian, the project’s Armenian coordinator and
the chief executive officer of Yerevan’s Caucasian Center for Proposing
Non-Traditional Conflict Resolution Methods. The possibilities give
participants at least something to talk about.

Azerbaijani coordinator Allakhverdyev agrees. "It’s better to have
economic dialogue than not to have any," he said. "Dialogue leads to
solutions, ultimately."

Editor’s Note: Nino Patsuria is a freelance reporter based in Tbilisi.

KEY-ISSUES OF JAVAKHETI ADDRESED TO BENITA FERRERO-WALDNER

Aysor.am
Tuesday, October 13

Armenian Community of Javakhk’s Armenians in Russia wrote a letter
to Commissioner Benita Ferrero-Waldner in which voices concerns on
wide range of key-issues of Armenians in Javakheti (Georgia).

In particular, the letter outlines the following items: issue of
home rule, Armenian language to be additional state one in region of
Javakheti, returning to people of Javakheti their historical relics
and architecture, etc.

The letter also includes a brief note about immediate liberation of
political prisoner Vahagn Chakhalyan, as well as mentions other key
problems that concern Armenian minority in Georgia, such as indication
of Diocese of Armenian Apostolic Church which has no registration
in Georgia, problem of discrimination against Armenian in public
fields, etc.

"We believe that the international community ought to take immediate
steps to avoid further aggravation and to prevent genesis of new
hotbed of confrontation," said in letter.

TURKEY AGAIN LINKS ARMENIA MOVES WITH KARABAKH

AZG DAILY
13-10-2009

Armenia-Turkey

Turkey will not normalize relations with Armenia before a breakthrough
in the Nagorno-Karabakh peace process, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip
Erdogan said on Sunday, raising more questions about the implementation
of landmark Turkish-Armenian agreements signed the previous night,
Azatutyun reports.

"I want to reiterate once again that Turkey cannot adopt a positive
attitude unless Armenia withdraws from "occupied" Azerbaijani
territories," he was reported to tell a news conference held in Ankara
after a high-level meeting of Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development
Party (AKP).

Erdogan made clear that an internationally brokered agreement on
Karabakh acceptable to Azerbaijan is critical for the ratification
by the Turkish parliament of the two Turkish-Armenian relations
envisaging that the establishment of diplomatic relations and opening
of the border between the two nations.

"If the problems between Azerbaijan and Armenia are solved, then it
will be easier for the Turkish community to embrace the normalization
of the relations between Turkey and Armenia. Also, it will make it
easier for the Turkish parliament to adopt the protocols," he said. The
parliament and the Turkish public will therefore be closely following
Armenian-Azerbaijani peace talks, he added.

PROTESTANTS, COLLECTIVE UNCONSCIOUSNESS, FUNDAMENTALIST

Today’s Zaman
09 October 2009, Friday

We all are prisoners of our own preconceived perspectives. The stronger
the prejudices we have, the thicker the walls of the prisons that
hold us captive.

When it comes to religions, unfortunately, these prisons are much
more isolating than we can imagine. Protestants are one of the
most stigmatized groups in Turkey. Having had the privilege of
being their lawyer for many years, I believe I have gained a deeper
understanding of the collective unconsciousness of the state elites
in Turkey. They are the scapegoats for Turkish elites who are trying
to escape from the burdens of our history. Without knowing history,
we can never understand how this handful of Protestants turned into
enemy No. 1 for state elites in Turkey. Just 3,000 or 4,000 Turkish
Protestants have turned into one of the "internal enemies" of the
Turkish state. Why? If 25 percent of your population was non-Muslim
just 100 years ago and if they were "vaporized" for reasons you no
longer remember, anything that reminds you of this past would of
course trigger your unconscious fears.

The fear of Protestant missionaries is a kind of phobia that shows
us what is hidden in the unconscious side of our neurotic minds in
Turkey. Can you imagine, this tiny group has been a constant item on
the agenda of the National Security Council (MGK), which is dominated
by soldiers who rule one of the biggest and strongest armies of the
world? An elephant in fear of an ant is a depressive, deeply neurotic
elephant, is it not?

If you really want to understand Turkey, look at the situation of
Protestants in Turkey. Recently, I realized that their situation also
presents a golden opportunity to have a look at the outside world’s
prejudices against Turkey.

On April 18, 2007, three Protestant missionaries were killed in
Malatya, in eastern Turkey. This was not an ordinary murder. It was
a horrific, barbaric, heinous crime. The victims were killed . As
you can imagine, the incident attracted serious attention in both
the national and international media. As the lawyer of the victims’
families, I became the contact person for all media interviews. Right
from the beginning, I realized that the persons interviewing me wanted
to hear a certain story confirming some well-known patterns. Were
the murderers fundamentalist Muslims? Did they do this for religious
purposes? Did they belong to a Muslim community, and so on. Most of
the reporters did not like what I told them. I tried to explain my
understanding of the murder. The youngsters who committed the crime
and were caught at the crime scene were members of ultra-nationalist
groups and had some connection with some "deep state elements" in
Turkey. My comments were disappointing for some reporters. They wanted
to tell the world that Muslims were slaughtering Christians in Turkey.

Actually, this was exactly what the deep state elements who
masterminded this slaughter wanted to tell the world. They
wanted to convince the world that as soon as a "pro-Islamic"
government came to power in Turkey, "Muslim fundamentalists"
started to kill Christians. Before the Protestants, Hrant Dink, an
Armenian-Turkish journalist, and a Catholic priest, Father Andrea
Santoro, were also killed by exactly the same type of murderer: young
ultra-nationalists. When we argue this, some people claim that if it
was the "deep state" behind these murders against Christians, then
there must have been more murders. Actually, in my opinion this was
the original plan of the deep state gang Ergenekon. After the Malatya
massacre, the police prevented four other similar attempts against
Protestant missionaries in different cities across Turkey. During
the Ergenekon investigation, murder plots targeting Armenians and
Alevis were also revealed. If the Ergenekon investigation goes
deep enough, the gang’s connection with these murders could be
established. This is something I have been trying to explain from the
very beginning. Ergenekon is modern Turkey’s Committee of Union and
Progress, which in the past committed atrocities against Christians
in Turkey. Same mentality, same structure.

I wrote all this because, here in New York, while I was trying to
find out how the American media covered the Malatya massacre, I
felt really angry. Some correspondents, including some of those who
interviewed with me, had reported the incident as a textbook example
of terrible prejudice. "Young Muslims killed Christians in Turkey." I
watched some videos on the Internet; their interviews with me have
been taken out completely.

If Slobodan Milosevic massacred Bosnian Muslims for Christianity,
yes than these ultra-nationalist youngsters killed Christians for
Islam. Milosevic was an ultra-nationalist butcher exactly like the
murderers of the Protestants in Malatya. By distorting these kinds of
facts, believe me, you do not do anyone anywhere any good. You do not
understand Turkey, you do not help Christians in Turkey and you are
just sowing the seeds of discord between cultures and religions. You
are just a prisoner of your own prejudices and trying to lock up
everyone else there. Please do not do that!

ARMENIAN DELAY CASTS DOUBT ON HISTORIC ACCORD WITH TURKEY
Simon Tisdall

guardian.co.uk
Thursday 8 October 2009 21.11 BST

A historic accord to normalise relations between Turkey and Armenia,
long at odds over Armenian claims of first world war genocide, was
thrown into doubt tonightwhen Turkey’s foreign minister refused to
say whether the signing ceremony would go ahead as planned in Zurich
on Saturday.

Ahmet Davutoglu said he remained confident that the accord, which
would also reopen the common border closed by Turkey in 1993, would
be completed. But he added: "I am not giving any dates. Let’s wait
for a statement from the Swiss. As Turkey, we have no doubts the
protocols will be signed."

Concern that the long-discussed pact could be delayed has grown
in recent days after Armenia appeared to backpedal. The country’s
deputy foreign minister, Arman Kirakossian, said he hoped it would
be signed "very soon" but that no decision had been made as to when
and where. That led to speculation that Armenia would seek changes
to the text.

Diplomats said strong opposition expressed at home and by the Armenian
diaspora may lie behind the last-minute hesitation in Yerevan. Serzh
Sargsyan, Armenia’s president, has spent the past week trying to
reassure ethnic Armenian communities in the US, France, Lebanon
and Russia.

But many expressed anger that the pact, which would create a joint
commission of historians to investigate the mass killings of 1915,
could allow Turkey to avoid taking responsibility for what they say
was a policy of genocide by the Ottoman empire in which 1.5 million
Armenians died.

Ankara has consistently denied the genocide charge. At a rally in
Beirut on Tuesday, Sargsyan was confronted by a crowd of 2,000 ethnic
Armenians waving banners saying "We will not forget".

Opposition parties in Turkey and Armenia say they will vote against the
pact, which must be approved by their respective parliaments. Recep
Tayyip Erdogan, Turkey’s prime minister, has warned that passage
cannot be guaranteed, since the vote will be by secret ballot.

Another stumbling block is the dispute over the ethnic Armenian
enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh, inside Azerbaijan’s borders. Fighting
with Azeri forces erupted there in the early 1990s, and 30,000 people
died. Turkey took Azerbaijan’s side, closing its border with Armenia.

The latest round of talks, sponsored by the US and the EU, to settle
the Nagorno-Karabakh dispute were due to begin in the Moldovan capital
Chisinau yesterday, with Sargsyan and the Azeri president, Ilham Aliev,
in attendance. Diplomats played down the chances of a breakthrough.

Erdogan said this week that progress in the Chisinau talks was not a
precondition for signing the Turkey-Armenia accord. "The agreement
will be signed on 10 October. It doesn’t have anything to do with
what happens in Moldova," he said. But he admitted a positive outcome
would be helpful overall.

International pressure on Turkey and Armenia not to let the chance of
a rapprochement slip is intense. Both are vital links in the chain
of actual or planned western oil and gas pipelines stretching from
central Asia to Europe.

The US and the EU strongly support the pact, which they believe will
help stabilise the volatile Caucasus region. Bringing Armenia in from
the cold, as Washington sees it, would also help diminish Russia’s
regional influence after its war last year with Georgia.

ARF DASHNAKSUTYUN HOLDS A PROTEST ACTION AGAINST ARMENIAN-TURKISH PROTOCOLS

ArmInfo
2009-10-09 19:06:00

ArmInfo. ARF Dashnaksutyun organized a procession against signing of
Armenian-Turkish Protocols.

The procession started from Republic Square at 5 pm local time. The
number of the procession participants is several thousands. Chanting
the slogan "No to Turkish preconditions", they made their way to
the president’s residence, and a rally started near Tsitsernakaberd
Memorial dedicated to the Armenian Genocide victims at 7 pm.

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Thursday, October 8, 2009

Artist Emil Kazaz is Slated to be Honored in Pasadena by AGBU

Pasadena, CA – Taking place in Pasadena in early November is an
outstanding three-day tribute to the life and art of Emil Kazaz –
world-renowned sculptor and painter. Kazaz, who is known for his
juxtaposition of mythical creatures, classic yet modern figures, and a
playful view of the world, will be honored by AGBU for his lifetime
achievements.

Starting Friday, November 6, and continuing through Sunday, November 8,
Emil Kazaz’s latest works will be on exhibit at the AGBU Center in
Pasadena, California. This will be an exceptional opportunity to meet
the artist, view and discuss his works, and purchase his paintings,
sculptures, and mixed media pieces.

The climax of the weekend will be a tribute event at the AGBU Pasadena
Center on Saturday, November 7, 2009, at 7:30pm. The public is invited
to attend this free event and join art connoisseurs, critics, collectors
and fellow artists for an evening of stimulation, presentation and
musical entertainment.

Especially invited distinguished speakers for the November 7th tribute
will include internationally esteemed art historian and author Shahen
Khachatryan, who is currently the cultural advisor to His Holiness
Karekin II, Catholicos of All Armenians, and the director of the Arshile
Gorky Gallery in Armenia. A graduate of the Leningrad Academy of the
Arts, Khachatryan has managed the National Art Gallery in Yerevan, and
has served as the director of the highly regarded Martiros Sarian
Museum. His vast knowledge of 19th – and 20th-century Armenian art will
be a great asset in the night’s discussion of Emil Kazaz’s art. Most
recently, Khachatryan published two prestigious art books on
19th-century Russian-Armenian seascape painter Hovhannes Aivazovsky and
early 20th-century modernist painter Martiros Sarian.

Joe Lewis, a nationally known artist, author and educator who is
currently serving as Dean of Alfred University’s School of Art & Design,
in Alfred, New York, will also speak at the event. Throughout his
career, he has come across the masterful work of Emil Kazaz. His close
association with Kazaz led Lewis to author many articles and essays on
his art and the philosophy behind his creations. He will help shed light
on Kazaz’s oeuvre. Lewis is a graduate of Hamilton College, where he
received a Master of Fine Arts degree, and from the Maryland College
Institute of Art, as a Ford Foundation fellow. He has likened the
characters and situations in Kazaz’s art to the "adventurers of Homer,
moving through unreal worlds of appearances where nothing is what it
seems."

The evening presentation will be accompanied by the majestic music of
Vatche Mankerian, internationally renowned pianist, composer, conductor,
author, lecturer and a dedicated advocate of Armenian music. Mankerian
holds a master’s degree from the USC Thornton School of Music where he
studied with Stewart Gordon, Eduardo Delgado and Nancy Bricard. He has
performed as a soloist in the world’s most revered venues spanning four
continents, including the Armenian Philharmonic Orchestra in Yerevan,
Armenia. Mankerian, who has won several international competitions, has
been praised by many major media outlets, including the Los Angeles
Times, which wrote: "Mankerian performed with quiet poetry… there was
nothing assembly-line about the reading." The Cleveland Plain Dealer
described him as "a bold and vibrant performer."

Adding to the musical interlude will be operatic tenor Bakur
Kalantaryan, who started his musical career at the age of eleven at one
of Armenia’s leading music schools, where he studied under Professor
Nona Melkumova. During his four years at the Komitas Conservatory in
Yerevan, he received numerous awards and delivered over a hundred
performances. More recently, Kalantaryan was awarded the gold medal and
named Grand Champion Vocalist of the Year during the World Championship
of Performing Arts, held in Los Angeles, California. He is a proud
scholar of international tenor Vahan Mirakian. Much adored by Kazaz
himself, Kalantaryan’s empowering voice will be a perfect complement.

His Eminence, Archbishop Hovnan Derderian, Primate of the Diocese of the
Armenian Church of America (Western), will attend the event and
represent His Holiness Karekin II, Catholicos of All Armenians. Sinan
Sinanian, representing the AGBU Central Board of Directors, and Berj
Shahbazian, chairman of the AGBU Southern California District Committee,
will also assist.

The three-day celebration is organized by the AGBU Southern California
District Committee and the AGBU Kazaz Tribute Committee chaired by Haig
Messerlian, with members Ani Aivazian (vice-chairperson), Ara
Arzumanian, Ara Babayan, Sonia Babayan, Ani Babian, Nairie Balian, Houry
Boghossian, Eada Bourian, Ani Boyadjian, Ben Charchian, Maral Ghazarian,
Garine Haytayan, Vahe Imasdounian, Ivan Kesian, Aleen Khanjian, Vartouhy
Kojayan, Yeva Manucharyan, Avedis Markarian, Silva Nazaretian, Siran
Oknayan, Krikor Satamian, Shaghig Sepetjian, Garine Seuylemezian, Tamar
Sinanian, Maida Tchaprazian, Shake Toumayan and Aline Yeterian.

For more information, please call AGBU at: (626) 794-7942. The AGBU
Center is located at 2495 E. Mountain St, Pasadena, California 91104.
Event dates are as follows:

Art Exhibition:
Friday and Saturday, Nov 6th-7th, 7:30 – 10:30 pm
Sunday, Nov 8th, 2:00 – 6:00 pm

Tribute Event:
Saturday, Nov 7th, 7:30 pm

With chapters in Glendale, Pasadena, Orange County, San Diego and San
Fernando, AGBU SCDC () oversees a host of cultural, youth
and educational programs in Southern California that include the
Generation Next Mentorship Program, the Ardavazt Theater Group,
Sardarabad Dance Ensemble, the Hye Geen movement, Asbeds, Young
Professionals (Orange County & Los Angeles), scouts, athletic teams, and
a local Ladies’ Committee. SCDC carries on AGBU’s mission and maintains
a prominent role in one of the largest and most vibrant Armenian
communities in the world. Southern California is also home to two of
AGBU’s leading day schools, the Manoogian-Demirdjian School (MDS) in
Canoga Park and the AGBU Pasadena High School, which is the first new
day school to have been established in the Armenian diaspora during the
last decade.

Established in 1906, AGBU () is the world’s largest
non-profit Armenian organization. Headquartered in New York City, AGBU
preserves and promotes the Armenian identity and heritage through
educational, cultural and humanitarian programs, annually touching the
lives of some 400,000 Armenians on six continents.

ARMENIA’S NATIONAL SECURITY FACES NO THREATS

PanARMENIAN.Net
08.10.2009 18:10 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ RA NSC staff considers all possible challenges
resulting from Armenian-Turkish border opening and establishment
of ties, NSC Secretary Arthur Baghdasaryan told a news conference
in Yerevan. "Armenia and Diaspora have concerns over Armenia-Turkish
normalization and border opening. I want to assure you that RA National
Security Council studies all challenges, considering the potentials
of state system. Establishment of diplomatic ties will be accompanied
by elaboration of a relevant program aimed at providing solution to
those problems," Arthur Baghdasaryan noted, adding that Armenia’s
national security currently faces no threat.