"SCR" Cooperate With Students Of Armenian Engineering University

"SCR" COOPERATE WITH STUDENTS OF ARMENIAN ENGINEERING UNIVERSITY

/PanARMENIAN.Net/
09.09.2009 17:05 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Management of the "South Caucasus Railway" company
appreciated participation of students of the Armenian Engineering
University in organizing carriage of passengers, press service of
the company reports.

According to the press release, a group of 10 students made internship
travel in the Yerevan-Batumi-Yerevan passenger train. Then, after
passing the exam, students were allowed to work in the licensed
"Armenia" passenger train passing Yerevan-Batumi-Yerevan rout.

"SCR" CJSC, being a subsidiary of "RZD" OJSC, is the concessionaire
of the Armenian railway.

Three Forces Aimed To Shuffling Azerbaijan

THREE FORCES AIMED TO SHUFFLING AZERBAIJAN

Aysor
Sept 8 2009
Armenia

Three power centers’ monstrous plan to shuffle Azerbaijan seems to
become reality.

This conclusion is based on running events in Azerbaijan associated
with disturbing a society "bomb calls".

"Every week at least once a day the residents of Baku again and again
have to experience fear and anxiety. After each call the police declare
alarm, encircle and check the appropriate territory paralyzing activity
in the city. Then it turns out that this is another false call and
a new criminal case is excited," Azerbaijani agency of information
and analysis, "Polygon" reports.

According to the edition, it turns out that in some cases these calls
are teenagers’ jokes and attempts to prank.

But the law is the law and each case must be investigated that costs
the state a pretty penny.

However "bomb calls" have acquired a total character and can’t be
taken as an ordinary event any more.

In fact Azerbaijan is the country that suffers from terrorism. In
addition, regular "bomb calls" complicate the already severed
psychological state of society. On the other hand these calls can
be a real warning. Thus mass psychosis in society is quite evident,"
the author of article notes.

The agency noticed, the existence of forces interested in terror and
capable of that was not a secret.

Actually the confirmation of the ability to conduct terrorist acts
of groups of Wahhabi and radical Shiites is already obtained.

The only last year there were two notorious cases conducted. One of
them is under trial.

Actual confirmation of the ability to conduct terrorist acts, are
already available for groups of Wahhabi and radical Shiites. In one
only last year, law enforcement agencies have been prosecuted on two
notorious cases. One of them is currently under trial.

"The second one, known as "SE~Yidin DE~YstE~Ysi" (Saeed’s group)
is well-introduced to society. Last year’s explosions in "Abu Behr"
mosque and terrorist attacks on a number of other objects turn out
that "bomb call" can every moment come true. That is why the phone
terrorism is seriously perceived. Sure, if not this any random call
can turn into nightmare," "Polygon" marked.

The author asks what, which factors are behind all these calls. Why
these calls suddenly became so widespread and universal?

"To speak the truth it’s quite difficult to answer these questions
clearly. For no one call confirmed. If only once a threat turned
into a reality, it would be much easier to engage in a substantive
conversation.

Meanwhile we have to think of forces that stay behind phone
threats. The primary assumption is the fact of presence of forces
interested in increasing tension in society, in maintaining the
public’s sense of fear and anxiety as well as in presentation of
their own opportunities," Azerbaijani agency says. "It is important
that those forces exist and show their threatening role, they check
society and state vigilance by "bomb calls", too. After the tactic
of false calls, exhausting and eroding society, any moment can give
start to monstrous plans of real terror.

Experts are working on this problem. On their opinion terrorist
organizations often resort to such methods to probe the level of
mobility and maneuverability of the authorities and society.

Specialists believe that the practice already tested in the Middle
East now appeares in Azerbaijan. Trends suggest results of telephone
attacks. It is not clear just when and where all these will happen."

"What should we do to prevent the realization of threats? Note
this question has nothing to do with methods of combating terrorism
and is associated first of all with intentional phone threats and
participation of children and minors. MIA’s experts call to take urgent
action and involve parents into conduct of preventive measures. Formal
structures argue they see no other way."

"We have already marked there were threatening forces in Azerbaijan. So
who are they? The primary and main source of threat is Armenia,
who keeps under its control our territories for years and it tries
to hold terrorist attacks in Baku as opportunity offers. The act of
terrorism happened in 1994 in Baku tube confirms that Armenia is not
going to give up its black intentions."

The second source Wahhabis are, who, according to the author, are the
actual and real threat. The explosions in "Abu Behr" mosque confirmed
clearly it was impossible to look at this religious movement "through
fingers" and they are actually potential terrorists.

Our society is well aware of the bloody events committed by Wahhabis
in Chechnya and Palestine as well as of financing and patronage
of these forces from the radical religious structures of a number
of Arab countries. Now these well-known scenarios are planned in
Azerbaijan. Therefore official Baku should take some measures aimed
at preventing the implementation of the threats, considering that
U.S. itself, one of the superpowers, became the victim terrorist
attacks.

The third force, according to analyst, is radical Shiite militias,
supported and financed by Iran. The head of these forces is
Hezbollah, which has already proved it has got solid base of support
in Azerbaijan. "Saeed’s group" itself clearly demonstrated that Iran
still keeps Azerbaijan to be shot and doe not shy even of acts of
terror," it is posted on website "Polygon".

According to the author, each of these named three centers is
autonomous and seem to have no need for their alliance. However,
connection between Hezbollah and Armenia has high probability seeing
close relations of Armenia to Iran and to Iran’s secret services.

As for Wahhabis and Armenia ties, they seem possible just because
of the similarity of their interests. After all, the main mission
of Wahhabi is to shake Azerbaijan and, if successful, create a
caliphate, and to achieve this goal they are ready to cooperate even
with the devil.

Thus, if we analyse the problems from these positions it turns out that
phone threats are the part of program to keep Azerbaijan’s society in
fear, anxiety and panic which at any time can come true. In short,
Azerbaijan enters a new and dangerous period of new threats ant in
order to get out of them, minimizing losses, not only efforts of the
authorities are needed but effort of Azerbaijanis as well."

Kommersant: Armenia Is Pulled To Nabucco

KOMMERSANT: ARMENIA IS PULLED TO NABUCCO

ArmInfo
2009-09-07 14:39:00

ArmInfo. Reconciliation which started between Armenia and Turkey
has given an unexpected result. At the end of the last week they in
Ankara started to talk about Yerevan’s joining Nabucco energy project,
September 7 issue of Kommersant Russian newspaper writes. ‘Though the
experts admit such a possibility taking into account the unstable
political situation in Georgia, Azerbaijan, which is considered to
be a resource base for Nabucco, is the main obstacle on the way of
turning Armenia into a transit country. Baku has already claimed that
opening of the Armenian-Turkish border in the conditions of pendency
of the Karabakh problem conflicts with its interests. It means that
Azerbaijan will never agree to the idea of transportation of its gas
through Armenia without the Karabakh conflict settlement acceptable
for it.

Assumptions about the possible joining of Yerevan to the big energy
projects started to appear in the foreign mass media just after
the information about the forthcoming reconciliation of Armenia and
Turkey. Star Turkish newspaper said on Friday, quoting the diplomatic
sources, that Ankara may support Yerevan’s joining Nabucco, where
Armenia may replace Georgia being unstable in the political aspect. The
Azerbaijani Ekspress quoted Head of the Baku Center of Economic and
Political Research who supposed that ‘EU may require introduction
of technical changes in Nabucco for the latter to pass not through
Georgia but through Armenia’, the newspaper says. President of
"Turksam" Turkish Center for International Relations and Strategic
Analysis Sinan Ogan told Kommersant that such a scenario is quite
real. ‘During signing of a protocol on preliminary agreement on
resumption of diplomatic relations between Turkey and Armenia,
Foreign Minister of Armenia Edward Nalbandyan gave to understand
that his country is ready to take part in all the energy projects
of the South Caucasus. Although he did not named Nabucco, everybody
understood what was the point. EU and the USA want to specify Nabucco
route till late 2009, therefore, Ankara started to prepare a protocol
of restoration of diplomatic relations at the heightened rates.

To recall, the 3,300 kilometres (2,050 mi) long pipeline will run from
Erzurum in Turkey via Bulgaria, Romania, and Hungary to Baumgarten an
der March, a major natural gas hub in Austria. Construction of the
pipeline is expected to begin in 2010 and is planned to be finished
in 2014.[25] It estimated to cost around ?7.9 billion.[26][27] The
company leading the project is OMV. The project is developed by the
Nabucco Gas Pipeline International GmbH. The managing director of the
company is Reinhardt Mitschek.[28] The shareholders of the company are:
OMV (Austria) MOL (Hungary) Transgaz (Romania) Bulgargaz (Bulgaria)
BOTAS (Turkey) RWE (Germany)

Each of the shareholders hold 16.67% of the shares.

In the meanwhile, Chairman of ArmRusgasprom CJSC Board Karen Karapetyan
told The Kommersant that development of local energy projects in
the Transcaucasus is in question and Nabucco is not among these
projects so far. Nevertheless, the possible supply of Russian gas
to Turkey and the Iran gas to Armenian power stations in exchange
for electricity supply to Iran is currently discussed. In addition,
Head of Gazprom Aleksey Miller stated earlier that SWAP operations
are possible between Iran and Turkey. In case the Armenian-Turkish
border is opened gas may be supplied just via Armenia.

TO BE ABLE TO BE MORE CRIMINAL

TO BE ABLE TO BE MORE CRIMINAL
SIRANUYSH PAPYAN

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16:27:35 – 03/09/2009

Interview with the artist Hovhannes Margaryan

In your opinion what is the government and what are the mechanisms
of its formation and its functions?

The word government hints that it is about the ruling class. It is
created to control some economic, financial and social functions,
but the main aim of the ruling class is to have political and
economic supremacy, to appropriate others’ work etc. The power
is often equalized with the state, but in reality, they are
different. Government may be formed through elections and class
struggle.

Of course, political freedom, democracy and electoral rights may
eliminate the need for class struggle, moreover, non-governmental
organizations, taking part in the formation of government are able
not only to soften disagreements, but also country’s significance
and its meaning.

What kind of government do we have?

>From the beginning, of course, constitutional. Our country has the
function to form government through elections, but here we deal with
violation of government, because here the power is used for personal
purposes. For instance, one wants to become a parliamentary member not
to solve national issues but to have guarantees for their business. We
have this kind of National Assembly (except the Heritage party) where
the parliamentary members pursuit only their personal interests. All
the questions are solved not in the National Assembly but in some
other place.

How would you comment on the essence and the structure of the Armenian
government?

The essence and the structure of the government in Armenia are about
those who are capable: who can violate the law and be unpunished,
who may commit a crime and make career etc, shortly speaking to
be able and not to create knowledge. The point is not about the
creation of Constitution, structures, or even knowledge, but about
being able to use the existing goods and proceeding from this, a
relevant contingent is shaped in the National Assembly: strong and
stronger people, criminals and more criminals.

There was a period, before Congress was set up, when kindness, honesty,
reading and such kind of things were considered defaming things. I
remember once on the level of the president I heard an opinion "we
saw a book reader too", meaning of course the first president.

Mildly speaking this is a semi-criminal system, where the government
abuses its rights and it becomes more dangerous, when arms are used
against people to repress their right to expression, their freedom
and health.

In your opinion, do electoral mechanisms to form government operate
in Armenia? Whom does the government represent? Which is the basis
of the Armenian government?

The mechanism of formation of the government is of course the
election. But in our case it is different. I participated in the
last three elections as an observer and if I had been told I would
never believe before … It was not an election but a defamation of
election. The government comes to power in a defamed way. Their basis
is money, bodyguard, armed groups, criminals, businessmen and so on.

Do you think the mechanism of formation of government through election
did not succeed among us?

Not only did not succeed but also we have never had such a mechanism,
and what we had has been defamed in the last 10 years.

We have had a very hard soviet heritage and to set up European
institutions on European level is a little difficult. I don’t know
if to consider these elections a good phenomenon or not that they
happen in Armenia even in this way but they are election.

In your opinion, how can the society return its right to form a
government?

This is a difficult question. There is the right to form democratic
government but the current authorities do not give possibilities and
the society cannot decide what to do.

Maybe the present non-governmental organizations and other structures
should be activated but I do not mean those set up during Soviet Union.

What qualities would you like the Armenian government to have?

First, I would like the government to be formed through real and
not false elections, regardless the government. The people have also
the right to make a mistake but they have to have the opportunity to
change the government always. There should be a law on dissolving the
National Assembly and on holding new elections. Of course, I would like
to have a democratic government where the supreme value is the man.

Do you agree with the opinion that people deserve the government
they have?

I agree, but with reservations. It is not always this way because
hardly any nation will like dictatorship. Or how can those people
who make political strolls near the Saryan statue deserve today’s
government? I think this is an obligation rather than a choice.

Is change of government a possible variant?

When the society is really sick of the government that tension cannot
last for long and there maybe different variants. The most terrible
one is of course the civil war. And the best way of the change
of government is of course the one through constitutional way. I
believe that in Armenia there will be shift of government through
constitutional way, through election.

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Yerevan Hosts Conference Of Association Of Electoral Authorities Of

YEREVAN HOSTS CONFERENCE OF ASSOCIATION OF ELECTORAL AUTHORITIES OF EUROPE

PanARMENIAN.Net
03.09.2009 13:38 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ 18th annual conference of Association electoral
authorities of Europe opened in Yerevan, dedicated to "Courting the
right to vote". The conference involved over 150 representatives from
28 countries and various international organizations, in particular,
chapters of the constitutional courts and CEC chairmen.

RA Central Electoral Commission, the Association of Electoral
Authorities of Europe with the support of OSCE Office in Yerevan
and the Armenian branch of the International Foundation for Election
Systems are organizers of the conference.

Association of Electoral Authorities of Europe has been founded in
1991. The seat of the permanent secretariat is located in Budapest
(Hungary). The CEC chairman of the country hosting the annual
conference chairs the association every year.

Process Of Improvement Of Armenian-Turkish Relations Is Interrelated

PROCESS OF IMPROVEMENT OF ARMENIAN-TURKISH RELATIONS IS INTERRELATED WITH NAGORNO KARABAKH PROBLEM, ARMENIAN POLITICAL SCIENTISTS CONSIDER

Noyan Tapan
Sep 3, 2009

YEREVAN, SEPTEMBER 3, NOYAN TAPAN. In the affirmation of political
scientist Alexander Margarian, the Armenian-Turkish Protocols are
aimed at establishing relations between the two neighboring countries
and cannot but be positive. Touching upon a number of alarming issues
recorded in the documents he mentioned at an August 3 press conference:
"The Armenian side has stated exactly that it will not renounce the
process of recognition of the Armenian Genocide and does not link
the improvement of the Armenian-Turkish relations with the Nagorno
Karabakh problem."

According to the observation of another political scientist, Yervand
Bozoyan taking part in the press conference, the Armenian-Turkish
border will be opened only in one case, if a progress is recorded in
the issue of Nagorno Karabakh settlement. In that respect, according
to Y. Bozoyan, the protocols initiated between Armenia and Turkey
give an occasion for anxiety. "The Nagorno Karabakh problem can be
not included in that document but I am convinced that indeed these
two issues are interrelated, which is dangerous," Y. Bozoyan said.

Khachatur Sukiasyan Comes Out Of Underground

KHACHATUR SUKIASYAN COMES OUT OF UNDERGROUND

ArmInfo
2009-09-02 17:12:00

ArmInfo. Armenian MP and entrepreneur Khachatur Sukiasyan, who has
been wanted since March 2008, surrendered himself to law-enforcers,
Wednesday.

Sukiasyan is accused under Article 225, Part 1 of the Armenian
Criminal Code (organization of mass disorders). The measure of
restraint is arrest.

To recall, Sukiasyan is accused of being privy to organization of March
1 2008 mass disorders in Yerevan when 10 people died and hundreds of
people were injured as a result of clashes between the opposition,
which disagreed with the results of the presidential election,
and the police troops. The criminal case on the mass disorders is
investigated by the Armenian Special Investigative Service. Three
more MPs – Sasoun Mikayelyan, Myasnik Malkhasyan and Hakob Hakobyan
are also defendants in this case.

Armenia To Take Every Possible Step To Deepen Relations With Russia

ARMENIA TO TAKE EVERY POSSIBLE STEP TO DEEPEN RELATIONS WITH RUSSIA

/ARKA/
September 2, 2009
YEREVAN

YEREVAN, September 2, /ARKA/. President Serzh Sargsyan said Tuesday
Armenia will continue to take every possible step to deepen and
strengthen its diversified relations with Russia.

Addressing an annual gathering of top Armenian diplomats and
ambassadors in Yerevan the president paid special heed to ‘multilateral
and large-scale cooperation between Armenia and its strategic ally
Russia,’ the presidential press office said in a statement.

"We took and will continue to take every possible step to deepen and
reinforce our relations with Russia in all areas. Several meetings on
the level of presidents have already taken place, including reciprocal
official visits to Armenia and Russia,’ the president said.

Serzh Sargsyan said he began visits to Russian provinces with strong
Armenian communities.

"I am sure that our work with Russian provincial authorities has a
big potential both in terms of stimulating Russian-Armenian economic
relations and in terms of inspiring Russian Armenians and helping
them to strengthen their ties with their homeland country,’ Serzh
Sargsyan said.

The president reminded that Russia moved to extend to Armenia a
$500 million stabilization loan to help the government in Yerevan
to mitigate the fallout from the deepening economic and financial
crisis.

Cyprus House President To Address Meeting On Armenian Genocide At Ha

CYPRUS HOUSE PRESIDENT TO ADDRESS MEETING ON ARMENIAN GENOCIDE

Financial Mirror
Sept 1 2009
Cyprus

President of the House of Representatives Marios Garoyian departs
on Tuesday for Beirut to address a conference "Armenian Genocide and
International Law".

The Armenian National Committee of the Middle East and the Chaikazian
University co-organize the conference, which will take place between
2 and 4 September.

Garoyian will be accompanied by the representative of the religious
group of Armenians to the House of Representatives Vartkes Mahdessian.

During his visit to Beirut, Garoyian will be received by the President
of the Republic of Lebanon Michel Suleiman and will have a meeting
with the President of the Lebanese National Assembly, Nabih Berri.

The House President will also be received by the Patriarch – Catholicos
of the Great House of Cilicia Aram A’, who will honor Garoyian with
the Order of the Knight of Cilicia, and will host a lunch in his honor.

The House President returns to Cyprus on Friday.

BAKU: Armenian Political Expert: Serzh Sargsyan Most Likely To Make

ARMENIAN POLITICAL EXPERT: SERZH SARGSYAN MOST LIKELY TO MAKE TRIP TO TURKEY

Today.Az
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Sept 1 2009
Azerbaijan

Armenian political expert and Deputy Director of Caucasus Institute
Sergey Minasyan commented to Day.Az protocols on the development of
bilateral relations between Turkey and Armenia made public today.

"Protocols made public by Armenian and Turkey first of all point to a
new stage in the process of normalization of Armenia-Turkey relations
and willingness of the parties to continue the process regardless of
the complexity of the regional context," Minasyan said.

"Secondly, they point to political decision Ankara has made to fully
normalize relations with Yerevan and serious impact of this decision
by U.S. and the EU. At the same time, mechanism of implementation of
these protocols (for example, 6 weeks for "internal consultations")
indicate serious limitations both in the Armenian and the Turkish
leadership with regard to domestic policy and a need to prepare
societies of both countries to the final stage – establishment of
full diplomatic relations and opening of borders," Minasyan said.

"Under current conditions, Serzh Sargsyan is most likely to visit
Turkey especially considering that the so-called "6 weeks" exactly
coincide with the date of October 14 -date a soccer match between
Turkish and Armenian national teams," the political expert said asked
whether the president Serzh Sargsyan will trip to Turkey to watch
return football match.

"Moreover, perhaps the afore-said protocols will be signed during
the visit and "meter" of final stage in normalization of relations
between Armenia and Turkey will be launched," Minasyan said.

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