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OBAMA TO MEET TURKISH PM ON TUESDAY: WHITE HOUSE

Agence France Presse
April 11, 2010 Sunday 9:05 PM GMT
English

US President Barack Obama will meet Turkish Prime Minister Recep
Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday, on the sidelines of his nuclear security
summit in Washington, the White House said.

The meeting, which was not previously announced, will occur just over
a week after Turkey decided to return its ambassador to Washington
after a row over moves in Congress to brand the World War I massacres
of Armenians as genocide.

"We very much wanted to have this opportunity to consult with Prime
Minister Erdogan," said Ben Rhodes, a deputy national security advisor,
adding that the talks would focus on Iran, Armenia and other issues.

The meeting will also take place as Turkey seeks to revive stalled
reconciliation efforts with Armenia. Obama is due meanwhile to meet
Armenian President Serzh Sarkisian in a separate bilateral meeting
on Monday.

Turkey recalled Ambassador Namik Tan on March 4 immediately after
the House of Representatives’ Foreign Affairs Committee adopted a
resolution branding the 1915-17 massacres of Armenians under the
Ottoman Empire as genocide.

news.az, Azerbaijan
April 9 2010

Necessary to find effective formula for execution of UN SC resolution
Fri 09 April 2010 | 13:51 GMT Text size:

Nikolae Ureke Unfortunately, the OSCE, EU and other international
organizations can not take an active part in the resolution of such
conflicts as Nagorno Karabakh.

The statement came from Romanian ambassador in Azerbaijan, NATO
coordinator in our country Nikolae Ureke speaking at the Center of
Strategic Studies under the Aezrbaijani president and commenting on
passiveness of international organizations on the Armenian-Azerbaijani
conflict over Nagorno Karabakh.

The diplomat said Romania is actively cooperation both with Azerbaijan
and Armenia. He voiced confidence that such partnership will help
search effective ways of the conflict settlement under the auspices of
international organizations.

"There is a need to find an effective and appropriate formula for the
execution of resolutions of the UN Security Council and other
international organizations for the resolution of conflicts in the
post-Soviet area", Nikolae Ureke said.

1news.az

COMANDOS DOES NOT UNDERSTAND SERGE SARGSYAN

08/04/2010
Lragir.am

Commander of the Karabakh war Arkadi Ter-Tadevosyan – Komandos, by the
request of reporters, on April 8, dwelt on Serge Sargsyan’s interview
given to the Syrian Al-Watan paper in which he dwelt on the
possibility to surrender the territories in exchange of the right of
the Karabakh people to self-determination.

Ter-Tadevosyan said we do not have a national ideology. He says that
political figures, of course, can give such assessments, but the right
to decide is to belong to the people. He cannot even understand how it
is possible to surrender territories, where so many people died,
without having any security guarantees.

He considers it absurd to surrender the territories and to keep the
Lachin corridor where Azeris can hit our cars even with stones.

Anadolu Agency, Turkey
April 7 2010

Turkey’s PM pledges commitment to Armenian agreements

Paris, 7 April: The Turkish prime minister said on Wednesday that
Turkey would not step back regarding the protocols it signed with
Armenia in Switzerland.

Replying to questions of reporters following his gathering with CEOs
of leading French companies in Paris, Turkish Prime Minister Recep
Tayyip Erdogan revealed the contents of the letter he sent to Armenian
President Serzh Sargsian by a special envoy today.

"This is what I can say about the main theme of the letter: Turkey
believes in the principle of ‘pacta sund servanda’ and it is
determined to act in accordance to that. Therefore, we will always
show commitment to the signatures we have put down in Switzerland.
Unless there are extraordinary circumstances, we will not step back,"
he said.

Erdogan said both Turkey and Armenia should fulfil their
responsibilities and be loyal to each other.

Pointing to the importance of carrying out the process through a
history commission, Erdogan said, "Turkey is ready to do all the
necessary things on such matter, however, this cannot be done through
the lobbies formed in the parliaments of various countries. On the
contrary, it will make the process more complicated".

Upon a question on whether he would meet with Sargsian in Washington
D.C., Erdogan said, "As you know I sent my special envoy to Mr
Sargsian today. I have a letter for him. I will make an assessment
once I get some results. I have a positive approach, but I will make
my final decision after my envoy returns".

Turkey Hopes Revitalize Armenia-Turkey Rapprochement: Namik Tan

16:21 – 10.04.10

Turkey hopes that the meeting between the Armenian President Serzh
Sargsyan and the Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip
Erdogan in the framework of the World Nuclear Security Summit, to be
held in Washington from April 12-13, can reanimate efforts aimed at
the normalization of Armenia-Turkey relations, Turkey’s ambassador to
US Namik Tan was reported by Associated Press as saying.

`We have received some satisfactory messages. I hope that a new page
will open in the [normalization] process,’ said Tan, commenting on
Armenia-Turkey rapprochement.

He also referred to the unexpected decision by Israel’s Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu, who declined his participation in the
above-mentioned summit.

Netanyahu had said he would not attend the summit as he was informed
that Turkey and representatives of other governments were planning to
raise issues related to Israel’s nuclear programs during the summit.

Namik Tan has denied that Turkey had such an intention.

`We do not have such issues on our agenda,’ Tan has said.

Tert.am

EVGENI KIRILOV’S SOUTH CAUCASUS REPORT RECEIVES WIDESPREAD SUPPORT IN EP FOREIGN AFFAIRS COMMITTEE

Focus News
April 8 2010
Bulgaria

Brussels. The European Parliament’s Committee on Foreign Affairs has
adopted with a convincing majority (only one vote against) the report
by the Bulgarian MEP from the Group of Socialists and Democrats Evgeni
Kirilov, the MEP’s office announced.

The report believed to be quite comprehensive and sensitive in many
areas caused a record number of proposals for amendments. As a result
of the balanced compromising changes suggested by Evgeni Kirilov
and backed up by almost all political groups, most of the allegedly
controversial texts in the document were dealt with.

Evgeni Kirilov’s report points at the need for enhanced strategic
involvement of the European Union in South Caucasus and calls for the
development of an entire EU strategy with regard to the countries in
the region (Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan).

The report gives constructive and expedient proposals for the EU’s
involvement in the solution to the unsettled conflicts in Georgia
(Abkhazia, South Ossetia) and the so-called frozen conflict in Nagorno
Karabakh (between Armenia and Azerbaijan). According to conclusions
of the report, these conflicts are the key obstacle for establishing
political stability, consistent social-economic development in the
region and improvement of the investment climate, especially in the
context of European energy security.

The document also emphasizes the key importance of the region for
European energy cooperation and security (the implementation of the
Southern energy corridor – the pipelines Nabucco and White Stream),
and suggests establishing a zone for free trade in the region.

ARMENIAN-TURKISH RELATIONS RESEMBLE A MINEFIELD

PanARMENIAN.Net
April 8, 2010 – 16:21 AMT 11:21 GMT

Chairman of the Labor Party of Armenia, entrepreneur Gurgen Arsenyan
stated that Armenia’s national initiatives have failed during the
past 300 years.

"To achieve success, Yerevan should present its interests in a state
format, as it’s done by Ankara and Baku," he told reporters on April
8. "People’s security should be a priority for Armenia."

Commenting on the Armenian-Turkish relations, he said these resemble
a minefield. "We should be extremely careful to prevent explosion
while the process of ratification of Protocols is going on both in
Armenia and Turkey," he said.

Dwelling on the domestic situation, Mr. Arsenyan said that the
authorities and opposition should demonstrate political will. "The
President should declare new amnesty and release people who were
arrested for their political views," he said, adding that his party
doesn’t support the idea of extra elections in Armenia.

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REPRESENTATIVES OF CHURCHES AND CHRISTIAN COMMUNITIES MEET FOR THE FIRST
TIME IN ANTELIAS

On Tuesday 6 April 2010, representatives of historic churches and recently
established churches and communities met in Antelias upon the invitation of
His Grace Bishop Nareg Alemezian, the Ecumenical Officer of Holy See of
Cilicia.

After welcoming the guests, Bishop Nareg asked the participants to introduce
themselves, the churches they represented, and the date the churches or
communities were established in Lebanon or the Region. After the first round
of introductions, Bishop Nareg asked them to describe briefly their vision
and understanding of Christian unity, and recommend ways of cooperation and
communication.

At the end, the group decided to continue such meetings and proposed to meet
again in September 2010 in Antelias.

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the Armenian Orthodox Church. For detailed information about the history and
the mission of the Cilician Catholicosate, you may refer to the web page of
the Catholicosate, The Cilician
Catholicosate, the administrative center of the church is located in
Antelias, Lebanon.

ARMENIA’S RUSSIAN THEATRE TO PARTICIPATE IN ST. PETERSBURG INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL

Tert.am
16:53 ~U 06.04.10

Stanislavski State Russian Drama Theatre in Armenia has received an
invitation from the Baltic International Festivals Center Foundation
to participate in "Meetings in Russia," the 12th festival of Russian
theatres of Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) and Baltic states,
taking place in St. Petersburg.

According to the RA Ministry of Culture, during the festival, in
which around 30 Russian-language theatre groups will take part,
Armenia’s Stanislavski theatre, on April 8 and 9, will present "I’m
Getting Married to an American Woman" based on Alexander Shirvanzade’s
"Morgan’s Relative" and O. Mardan’s "Scandal Without Intermission."

TURKEY WILL REMAIN GENOCIDAL COUNTRY AS LONG AS IT DENIES ARMENIAN GENOCIDE

PanARMENIAN.Net –
April 6, 2010 – 16:52 AMT 11:52 GMT

Meetings at any level will prove unproductive unless Turkey alters
its position on the Genocide issue, according to political scientist
Alexander Manasyan.

"Turkey will remain genocidal country as long as it denies Armenian
Genocide," he said during a joint news conference with Stepan
Grigoryan, head of the Analytical Center on Globalization and Regional
Cooperation. "Anyway, the international community would raise the
Armenian Genocide issue sooner or later."

For his part, Mr. Grigoryan added that Armenian President Serzh
Sargsyan should take certain steps before departing for the United
States. "First, Armenia should support Kazakhstan’s initiative banning
nuclear weapons testing. Second, Armenia should ratify the protocols
to put Turkey in an awkward situation," he said, adding that Erdogan’s
threat to deport illegal Armenian workers aimed to prevent Armenia
from ratification of protocols. "Turkey drags out the ratification
process to gain most not only from Armenia, but also from the United
States and European Union."