Author: Kharatian Ani

THE ARMENIAN WOMEN CONCEDED IN FOOTBALL

Aysor
March 29 2010
Armenia

The national team of the Armenian women conceded the National team
of Slovenia with the score of 0:1 in the game held in the frameworks
of the Women’s World Cup 2011 which took place in Velenye city. The
author of the only goal was Anya Milenkovich.

She conquered our gates at the 56th minute.

Thus the Armenian Women’s National team lost for the 6th time and is
still on the last place in the tournament list.

The next meeting of our team will be on March 31 against the team of
Portugal .

‘KING’ ARTHUR ABRAHAM DISQUALIFIED

Tert.am
10:38 29.03.10

"The Matrix" Andre Dirrell defeated IBF middleweight world champion
"King" Arthur Abraham by an 11th round disqualification in the second
stage of the Super Six World Boxing Classic in Detroit, Michigan,
reports Bleacherreport.com.

Dirrell (19-1, 13 KOs), a southpaw who won the middleweight bronze
medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, had dominated Abraham
(31-1, 25 KOs) and he was ahead on the scorecards when the "King"
committed an intentional foul that knocked "The Matrix" unconscious
and forced the referee to halt the bout.

"He executed a perfect game plan and I’m proud of him and I just
want to hug him and kiss him," said Dirrell’s trainer and uncle,
Leon Lawson Jr. "But it was blemished."

Lawson contended that Dirrell’s victory was "blemished" because he
wanted his nephew to emerge victorious in a more conventional fashion.

Abraham, an Armenian-German professional boxer who is ranked as the
14th best boxer in the world by The Ring Magazine and who was never
defeated during his 32 fights, claimed he didn’t realize that Dirrell
had slipped and was perched on one knee when he belted him with a
vicious right to the chin.

"I was not looking at his feet; I was looking at his eyes. I didn’t
see if he was down. A professional boxer should use every opportunity
to make a knock-out without waiting for the competitor to recover. But
I wish Andre Dirrell good health and hope everything is OK with him,"
said Abraham, 30, who violently knocked-out Jermain Taylor (28-4-1,
17 KOs) in the tournament’s first round last October.

The contest marked Abraham’s first failure as a professional
prizefighter and it enabled Dirrell to rebound from his heartbreaking
split decision loss to Britain’s Carl Froch (26-0, 20 KOs) this
past fall.

Dirrell, 26, a native of nearby Flint, is very mobile and possesses
tremendous hand speed.

Additionally, "The Matrix" is blessed with solid power in each of
his fists.

news.am, Armenia
March 27 2010

89.6% newcomers moved to NKR from Armenia

17:38 / 03/27/2010 Last year as many as 1.581 people, (of which 421
children under 16) arrived in Nagorno-Karabakh Republic, whereas 995
left the country.

According to NKR National Statistical Service, the number of newcomers
2.5 times exceeds the leavers.

97% of immigrants intends to stay in Nagorno-Karabakh. Majority of
migrants ` 89.6% moves to NKR from Armenia, while 6.5% ‘ from Russia
and 3.9% from other countries.

Internal migration in NKR made 48.9%.

A.G.

Spring conscription starts in Armenia

26.03.2010 14:57 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan signed a decree on
spring conscription and demobilization for 2010.

Obligatory conscription for citizens who reached the age of 18, as
well as those who lost the right for deferment granted earlier, is in
order.

Servicemen who started military service in due time will be
demobilized in April-June 2010, presidential press service reported.

ANKARA MULLS U.S. TRADE POST-GENOCIDE BILL

UPI United Press International
2010/03/24/Ankara-mulls-US-trade-post-genocide-bil l/UPI-44181269442251/
March 24 2010

ANKARA, Turkey, March 24 (UPI) — Ankara halted efforts to expand
defense, trade and energy ties with Washington in the wake of a
U.S. measure declaring Ottoman-era killings an act of genocide.

The U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Foreign Affairs
narrowly passed a non-binding resolution March 4 that classifies the
1915 killings of Armenians by the Ottoman Empire an act of genocide.

The measure passed despite a last-minute plea by U.S. Secretary of
State Hillary Clinton.

Ankara contends the events in which an estimated 1.5 million Armenians
were killed during World War I were exaggerated and says the genocide
classification wasn’t a matter for U.S. lawmakers to decide.

Zafer Caglayan, the Turkish minister for foreign trade, told the
Financial Times that Ankara halted its effort to expand trade relations
with the United States in part because of the genocide resolution.

"All steps taken so far are at a halt," he said.

Direct trade between Turkey and the United States is focused on arms
and aerospace.

Ankara recalled its ambassador to Washington in the wake of the
resolution. The trade-focused American-Turkish Council, meanwhile,
is delaying an annual conference because of the measure.

The Turkish government warned that passage of the measure could
unsettle bilateral cooperation in the region, including key support
from Ankara in the U.S. war efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan. Ankara’s
relationship with Tehran could be a factor as well.

ARA SAGHATELIAN: ARMENIAN JOURNALISTS SHOULD UNDERSTAND THAT AZERBAIJANI MASS MEDIA REPORTS ABOUT RENEWAL OF WAR ARE MANIPULATION

NOYAN TAPAN
MARCH 23, 2010
YEREVAN

YEREVAN, MARCH 23, NOYAN TAPAN. Some media outlets of Armenia recently
published reports concerning the renewal of the Karabakh war. As
Ara Saghatelian, Director of the Public Relations and Information
Center of the RA Presidential Staff, said during the March 23 press
conference, the Armenian mass media mainly reprint materials from
Azerbaijani websites. However, according to him, Armenian journalists
should understand that reprinting such materials has its effect
on the Armenian public and that the Azerbaijanis spread them for
"manipulation" purposes.

Speaking about the recent amendments and additions to the RA Civil
Code, the RA Criminal Code, and the RA Criminal Procedure Code, A.

Saghatelian declared that they are aimed at balancing freedom of
speech and the protection of a person’s dignity.

As for the concern expressed by reporters that these amendments may
become a truncheon in the hands of the authorities against the print
media, he said that there is no problem of closing newspapers in
Armenia. He underlined that the adopted package of amendments does
not envisage any administrative procedures, simply the mass media
must become "socially responsible". In the words of A. Saghatelian,
if the current quality of the press is not improved, Armenian society
will suffer.

Sunday’s Zaman: Turkey should face what happened in 1915 without any
foreign pressure

21.03.2010 19:55 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Thanks to a kind of strange Turkish exceptionalism,
military generals should speak every day so that people will see their
intellectual caliber and so the army’s meddling with politics will no
longer be tolerated, Ihsan Yilmaz, observer of Sunday’s Zaman, wrote
in an article he titled `Armenians and our speaking prime minister’.

The article goes on: `After seeing that our generals are also mere
mortals, the people will know they are not super-humans and that in
some exceptional cases, quite the contrary may also be true. In
addition to my abovementioned strange undemocratic offer, here is the
second one: Our prime minister should speak less, for the sake of our
democracy and for the well-being and prosperity of our country and
nation. All right, I loved `one minute,’ and I still do, but when it
comes to spontaneous reactions, our prime minister is very rarely that
lucky. I can list here several examples of how he inflicted himself
and democratic forces in society harm by his spontaneous and
definitely unnecessary reactions. That is why, knowing this weakness
of the prime minister, his opponents everywhere try to provoke him.’

`The last incident is his unfortunate – maybe misunderstood – remark
on illegal Armenians immigrants who have been working in Turkey
illegally, numbering up to 20,000 people. To date, the Turkish state
has turned a blind eye to their existence as a good gesture and sign
of goodwill. It is also known that Turkey has helped Armenia when they
had food shortages, etc. The prime minister warned Armenia last week
that Turkey may send these illegal workers back. Speaking to
journalists in Africa, President Abdullah Gul said the prime minister
was misunderstood and so on. Even this sufficiently shows that there
is something troubling in the remarks of the prime minister,’ it says.
`I have been thinking about the classic Turkish counterattack of
threatening the US with the closure of the US military base in
Incirlik, Turkey, as a reaction to the US congressmen’s annual threats
to pass a resolution to condemn Turkey because of what happened back
in 1915 that have never arrived at a conclusion. But I think if
politics pollutes everything it touches, if these canny American
politicians touch anything, they pollute it twice. No, I will not
mention the redskins, the forefathers of the American Indians! But,
the US politicians can start with the massacres in Iraq, Afghanistan,
Bush, neocons, etc., and then continue going back. When the buck stops
at 1915, they can question Turkey. But, saying this does not negate
the ultimate truth that Turkey has to face what happened in 1915. And
we should do this without any foreign pressure.’

In conclusion, the author remarked that instead of constantly
speaking, Turkey can simply declare that it is ready to give
everything back to their rightful and legal owners if they can produce
documents or the state is able to find the records in the archives.
Doing this, according to him, does not mean that Turkish politicians
accept the Armenian Genocide but `it would simply substantiate our
claims to morality, ethics and, above all, humanity.’

Hurriyet, Turkey
March 19 2010

Berman’s Armenia remarks become Washington mystery

Friday, March 19, 2010
ANKARA – Hürriyet Daily News

Remarks supposedly made by a U.S. congressman that a recent committee
vote on Armenian `genocide’ claims will go no further turned into a
minor Washington "whodunnit?" Friday.

Did the chairman of the U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee, Howard
Berman, promise colleague Virginia Foxx, who heads the congressional
Turkish caucus, that the bill would not move to the full House? Foxx
said he did. Berman said he did not, denying a conversation on the
matter even took place.

At the center of the dispute is the famous resolution that passed
Berman’s committee earlier this month, inflaming Turkey, dividing
Armenians over its wisdom and imperiling historic normalization talks
between Ankara and Yerevan.

Earlier this week, Foxx met with a group of Turkish journalists and
said the whole resolution is just political theater, a reflection of
`local politics in California.’ Berman, a Democrat, is from
California, which is home to many Armenian Americans. Foxx, a
Republican, is from North Carolina.

`[Berman] was pretty strong [in saying] it will not come for a vote on
the floor. He did not say it exactly in that way – he simply said it
won’t go any further. I accept his word on that,’ Foxx said Tuesday
during a meeting between Turkish and U.S. youth organized by the
Atlantic Council, a Washington-based think tank. She also posted the
comments to her Web site.

But the comments reported in the Hürriyet Daily News & Economic Review
made their way to Berman’s office. He was not happy.

`I never made the comments attributed to me by Rep. Foxx as reported
in the Hürriyet Daily News,’ Berman said in a written statement
Friday. `In both public and private, I have consistently said that
this resolution should be brought to the House floor for a vote as
soon as we are confident that a majority of House members will support
it.’

Foxx was unavailable for comment as the Daily News went to press
Friday. On her Web site, however, the earlier comments had been
removed.

BELARUSSIAN PARLIAMENTARY DELEGATION TO VISIT ARMENIA

news.am
March 19 2010
Armenia

A delegation of the House of Representatives of the Belarussian
Parliament led by Vice-Speaker Valeri Ivanov is to be on visit to
Yerevan on March 22-25. The delegation is to participate in the
4th sitting of the Armenian- Belarussian parliamentary cooperation
commission.

The commission is to discuss numerous issues, including strengthening
of bilateral contacts, development of economic, scientific and
cultural cooperation.

The Belarussian delegation is to hold a meeting with Speaker of the
Armenian Parliament Hovik Abrahamyan and top officials of the RA
Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

MAIN OPPOSITION PARTY TO CALL FOR PARLIAMENTARY SESSION ON ARMENIA

Hurriyet
March 18 2010
Turkey

The main opposition Republican People’s Party, or CHP, is planning to
request a parliamentary session to review the normalization process
with Armenia.

Party leader Deniz Baykal had earlier urged the government to withdraw
the protocols signed in October following the approval of "genocide"
recognition bills in the Swedish parliament and the U.S. House of
Representatives’ Foreign Affairs Committee.

Addressing his party members Wednesday, Baykal criticized recent
comments by Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who told the BBC in
an interview that some 100,000 Armenians had been illegally working in
Turkey. Turkish-Armenian weekly Agos, however, estimates the number
at 14,000, citing Labor Ministry statistics. Erodgan’s remarks were
interpreted as a threat to expel the workers in reaction to campaigning
by members of the Armenian diaspora for bills such as those passed
in Sweden and the United States.

"It is an unfortunate and serious statement," Baykal said, adding
that he found the remark "unacceptable."

"It is against human rights to misuse those people working in Turkey
in seeking a solution to a disagreement," the CHP leader said.

Baykal has opposed any normalizing of relations with Armenia due to
the deadlock in the Nagorno-Karabakh dispute between Yerevan and Baku.

The CHP argues that the protocols between Turkey and Armenia, which
envision opening the border and normalizing diplomatic ties, should not
be ratified until Armenia amends its constitutional article related to
"genocide" and withdraws from the territory it occupies in Azerbaijan.