Author: Nahapetian Boris

LEADER OF ARMENIAN ARYANS THREATENS AUTHORITIES WITH CONSCRIPTION OF
PEOPLE’S VOLUNTEER CORPS IN CASE OF TERRITORIAL CONCESSIONS IN KARABAKH

YEREVAN, JULY 16. ARMINFO. “I do not think that there will be an
Armenian who will sign to the document about the surrender of our
lands, but if he is, we will declare the conscription of people’s
volunteer corps”, leader of Armenian Aryan Order Armen Avetissyan
stated journalists today.

“International law provides the possibility of popular uprising in
case of a threat to the state integrity”, he stated. In Avetissyan’s
opinion, Azeri authorities should become thoughtful about the lands’
surrender “forced out aboriginal population of both Nakhichevan and
the plain Artsakh”. “Neither promises of economic prosperity nor
billions or trillions of dollars can be the compensation of the blood
shed for the homeland”, Avetissyan declared.

ChronWatch, CA
July 16 2005

The Long and Bloody History of Islamic Terrorism
Written by Barbara J. Stock
Saturday, July 16, 2005

The Sunday morning pundits preach that the terrorist attacks around the
world continue because American troops remain in Iraq. These so-called
“experts” claim that Iraq is a training ground for attacks in Europe
and America. Have these armchair-terror-experts forgotten the 50-year
Islamic training ground called Israel?

These “experts” also seem to believe that this split between so-called
“moderate” Muslims and the Islamic terrorists is something new.
These “experts” have missed the mark by about 1300 hundred years.
The present Islamic terrorists are a result of the split within Islam
between Muslims who wish to live in the 21st century, secular Muslims,
and the followers of “True Islam” who want the world to be ruled by
Islamic Sharia law with the Quran as the new world constitution.

The recent attack in London proves the line between a “moderate”
Muslim and a terrorist is very, very thin. It seems with only a small
dose of “True Islam” a peaceful Muslim can become a mass murderer.

Islamic terrorism started long before there was an Israel.

Sunni and Shia Muslims have been killing each other since the death
of Mohammed.

Centuries ago, Islam ruled a large part of the world and Muslims had
spread out of the Middle East and moved across Europe, conquering all
in their path. At Islam’s pinnacle, the Ottoman Empire stretched from
Egypt to the Black Sea and from the Persian Gulf to Hungary.

So what happened to the glorious Islamic empire? Today, Islam blames
the Crusades, the Jews, Western culture, and Christians for its fall
from power. In truth, the most destructive enemy that Islam has ever
had was Islam itself.

As the world modernized around them, the Islamic leaders refused
to move forward with the rest of the world. Firmly believing in
Islamic superiority, the pompous ruling class of religious leaders
planted the seeds of hatred towards the West as far back as the 1700s.
The ruling Islamic religious leaders believed western inventions were
evil things created by evil and inferior people.

Any attempt to modernize the empire was put down by the ruling
Islamic body called the ulema which wanted to hold onto its power and
maintain Islam in its pure state. This meant no non-Muslim influence
of any kind.

It should be no surprise that the western advancements in warfare
eventually overwhelmed the archaic ways of Islam. The Islamic dream
of ruling the world, was over.

At the end of World War I, France and England carved up what was
left of the once great Islamic Empire. All that remained was Turkey.
It was the Islamic Turks who slaughtered over 1.5 million Armenian
Christians. The Turks blamed the Armenian Christians for assisting in
Islam’s fall from power. Islam has a long history of blaming others
for its failures.

The new leader of Turkey, Mustafa Kemal, wanted Turkey to join
the modern world and insisted on a separation of mosque and state,
something that infuriated the Islamic leaders. Kemal declared Islam
the national religion but did not allow the controlling and backward
ways of Islam to destroy the new country. The battle rages today in
Turkey between the Islamic leaders and the secular government.

Slowly, the Islamic leaders are winning.

By 1924, the glory days of Islam were over.

This inner battle for Islam stewed after the fall of the Ottoman
Empire and Middle East came under the influence of western culture.

Secular Arab governments, which accepted western modernization,
drove the followers of True Islam into a murderous rage.

Today’s terrorist movement started in 1928 with the founding of Ikhwan
al-Muslimun, the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, to oppose the Arab
secular governments that stripped the Islamic elite of its power.
This group, led by Hassan al-Banna, felt no Islamic country should
tolerate a secular government. Islam had always been the judge, jury,
and executioner over the people.

This militant group armed and trained itself and became such a problem
for the Egyptian government that the terrorist leader, al-Banna,
was executed but this only elevated him to martyrdom. The movement
grew in power and status.

In the 1950s, a new and extremely radical leader, Sayyid Qutb,
convinced his followers that the Quran justified the killing of fellow
Muslims. In his book, “Milestones,” he encouraged a jihad to remove
secular Muslim leaders and claimed it was the duty of all Muslims to
return Islam to its former power and glory. Following strict Islamic
law could only do this. Secular Muslims were put in a category with
Christians and Jews–they were infidels.

Sayyid Qutb was also executed by the Egyptians in 1966, but the
Islamic terrorist movement grew and expanded and now has branches
of loyal followers in over 70 countries around the globe and these
Islamic terrorists are more than willing to kill for their cause.

The embarrassing defeat of Islamic/Arab countries by the lowly
“monkey-Jew” in the 1967 Six Day War gave fuel to the Islamic terrorist
movement. This humiliating loss to the tiny Jewish state was proof
for Islamic terrorists that secular Islamic states were against all
that was Islamic. Islamic countries were defeated by a people that
True Islam does not even consider human.

Mu’ammar Qaddaffi seized power in Libya in 1969 and he used Libya’s
vast oil wealth to fund Islamic terror around the world. A decade
later, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini overthrew the secular government
in Iran by taking the American embassy personnel hostage and keeping
them as prisoners for over a year.

The 1980s saw the Iranian-backed terror group, Hezbollah strike
American troops on a peacekeeping mission in Lebanon and the American
embassy was bombed. The United States made the tragic mistake of
leaving Lebanon, and the Islamists saw this as a sign of weakness,
and a rash of attacks on Americans continued unpunished around the
world for the next two decades.

True Islam had its golden moment on 9/11 when it succeeded in attacking
the “great Satan” on its own soil. Their bragging and celebration
was brief. The American response to that attack took the terrorists
by surprise. Believing America was a weak paper-tiger, I believe the
invasion of Afghanistan surprised bin Laden. The loss of Afghanistan
enraged the Islamists. Afghanistan was True Islam’s model for the
world. Even more insulting was that the majority of Afghani people
seemed to welcome the overthrow of the Taliban.

True Islam couldn’t care less about the overthrow of Saddam
Hussein. The fact Saddam is Muslim means nothing to them. He was a
secular infidel. Iraqi Muslims who wish to remain under a secular
government are slaughtered like sheep because they too are considered
un-Islamic infidels. Radical Islam knows this may well be its only
chance to subjugate the Iraqi people under strict Islamic rule and
take possession of an oil-rich terrorist training base. If True Islam
were to gain control in Iraq, it would immediately join forces with
Iran to wreck havoc on the world.

Once a great power, Islam has now been reduced to training the
gullible to strap bombs on themselves and blow up a bus or train
full of civilians. Radical Islamic leaders have only one goal: To
make Islam the only religion, and to put Islamic leaders in command
over the entire population of the world. To accomplish this, western
civilization, Christianity, Judaism, secular Muslims, and all other
non-Muslim forms of religious beliefs, must be exterminated.

There has been one important adjustment in True Islam’s plan.

It no longer shuns modern weapons and technology. Indeed, Islamics
believe that the detonation of nuclear weapons on American soil will
bring them a quick victory. This is a serious miscalculation on True
Islam’s part. A very deadly miscalculation.

If one studies the history of Islam and its violent roots, it is not
difficult to understand it. Islamists have killed millions of people
over the centuries and killing millions more to accomplish the goal
of total Islamic rule does not disturb them.

The number of moderate-secular Muslims is declining as true Islam
spreads its rage and hatred to every corner of the world. Time is
short. Iran may be only months away from obtaining nuclear weapons.
There are reports that several nuclear weapons are already here and in
place in America. There can be no signs of weakness from the western
world. There can be no negotiations or deals made with True Islam.
There can be no quarter given.

History has taught us one thing: It is us, or them. There is no middle
ground with terrorists. True Islam has not changed in 1400 years. It
is not going to change now.

About the Writer: Barbara J. Stock is a registered nurse who enjoys
writing about politics and current events. She has a website at
Barbara J. receives e-mail at
[email protected].

Azeri experts see Russia’s Caspian security initiative as being anti-NATO

Zerkalo, Baku
15 Jul 05

Excerpt from F. Teymurxanli’s report by Azerbaijani newspaper Zerkalo
on 15 July headlined “The idea has emerged of setting up joint naval
units in the Caspian”

An international conference on security in the Caspian was held in
Astrakhan yesterday [14 July].

[Passage omitted: attendance details]

The head of the [Azerbaijani] Defence Ministry’s press service, Ramiz
Malikov, has told Zerkalo that the Azerbaijani delegation was led by
the chief of staff of the naval forces, Col Yunus Mammadov.

Malikov confirmed that the conference had discussed the issue of
setting up joint naval units. This is basically all information
Malikov shared with our correspondent.

Russian sources reported that the Astrakhan conference was held on
board of Tatarstan missile ship of the Russian Caspian Fleet. Experts
in Russia believe that the objectives of five coastal states – to
stand up to terror and create a system of protecting Caspian energy
resources – bring the positions of coastal countries closer.

Azerbaijani experts think differently. They are convinced that this
initiative of Russia is intended to create problems for NATO.

In this connection we have to acknowledge that the USA and NATO
are invigorating their positions in the South Caucasus by the day.
Another thing to be kept in mind is that the stationing of NATO’s
peacekeeping troops in the Nagornyy Karabakh conflict zone has become
a popular talking point.

However, let’s return to the conference proper. The thing is that
the Defence Ministry is not making it clear whether the Azerbaijani
side might take part in the proposed units. Malikov has said in
particular that this is more of a political issue and “had better be
put to politicians”.

Military expert Uzeyir Cafarov is somewhat cautious about Azerbaijan’s
possible involvement in the joint units.

“This issue must have been discussed during [commander of Russian
Caspian Flotilla] Yuriy Startsev’s visit to Baku earlier this year.
It seems Caspian states are determined to take serious steps in this
issue,” Cafarov said.

He added that Azerbaijan is capable of keeping the situation in the
Caspian under control without the help of other coastal countries. He
said Azerbaijan’s involvement in joint naval units could take a toll
on the country’s relations with the USA and NATO.

[Passage omitted: other topics on conference’s agenda]

Iran Can Blow Up Azerbaijan From Within
By Asim Oku, AIA Turkish and Caucasian section

Axis Information and Analysis
30.06.2005

Despite the menacing statements by the confidant of the new Iranian
President, it is unlikely that Tehran will attack Baku. The veiled
influence on the political situation in Azerbaijan seems much more
promising from the point of view of Iran than a direct missile attack.
For this purpose religious and ethnic factors can be effectively used.

In the first case the idea is to bring into play the various groups
of Islamic fundamentalists. Though the Islamic factor as such in
some areas of Azerbaijan possesses a certain “explosive potential”,
religious activists have no appreciable influence in the scales of the
Republic as a whole. Besides, most of them are connected not to Iran,
but to the Arab countries or Turkey. As a consequence, the ethnic
factor is much more useful for Tehran. Applying it, an appreciable
result may be achieved in really short terms.

Ethnic Azerbaijanians constitute a little more than 90 % of
Azerbaijan’s 8.5 million population. At the same time, about 20
national minorities live in this country. The largest are Lezghin,
Talysh, Russian, Meskhetian Turks and Kurdish. Lezghins, Talyshs and
Kurds are the indigenous inhabitants of Azerbaijan. They compactly
live in areas of the historical dwelling, constituting majority of the
population in some of them. National movements of these peoples were
formed in the first half of the 1990s, but they have been oppressed
by the official Baku.

Lezghin population is concentrated in the northeast part of the
republic. The area of their dwelling adjoins to the border with the
Russian Caucasus, where the most part of Lezghin people live. The
number of this people in Azerbaijan, according to demographers,
reaches about 260 thousand (by the official data from 1999 –
178 thousand). The leaders of national Lezghin movement claim that
their number in Azerbaijan exceeds 800 thousand. Separatist moods of
the local Lezghins in many respects depend on their leaders in the
neighboring Dagestan. Lezghin movement is traditionally exploited
by Russia in its Caucasian policy.

Kurds are living in the western part of Azerbaijan along the border
with Armenia. According to demographers, their population reaches
about 60 thousand (by the official data from 1999 – 13 thousand;
such a huge gap is explained by the high level of assimilation). From
the end of the eighties, Armenia tries to use the “Kurdish factor” in
confrontation with Azerbaijan. Besides the Armenians, Abdullah Ocalan’s
PKK has certain influence here, especially on the representatives of
the Kurdish youth.

Talysh people represent the indigenous Iranian population of Azerbaijan
that distinguishes itself from the majority of modern inhabitants of
the Republic having a Turkic origin, language and cultural attributes.
Talysh population is concentrated in the southeast of Azerbaijan near
the border with Iran, where the most of these people live.

In Azerbaijan according to official census of 1999 there was almost
77 thousand Talysh people. According to demographers, the real figure
reaches approximately 250 thousand. However, the leaders of Talysh
national movement in the republic state that there are about 1-1.5
million representatives of this nationality in Azerbaijan.

Because of the discriminative policy of Baku the majority of them
either have lost national consciousness, or are afraid to recognize
themselves openly as Talysh. In the summer of 1993, on the background
of destabilization of political situation in Azerbaijan, leaders
of national movement have declared the establishment of Talysh
Republic. It existed for only two months and has been “abolished”
with the help of Azeri power and security structures following the
instruction of President Aliev.

Ex-president of Talysh Republic Alikram Gummatov is still in prison.
Majority of the other national leaders, who managed to flee, settled
down in Russia, because the Talysh movement was Russian-oriented from
the beginning of the last century. However, receiving no support from
Moscow in 1993, a number of activists of Talysh movement have changed
their alliance to Iranian.

The separatist moods of the above listed peoples, at favorable
coincidence of circumstances can seriously destabilize the situation
in Azerbaijan. And the compact residing of the Lezghin, Kurds and
Talysh at the suburbs of the republic, near the borders with Russia,
Armenia and Iran will ease this plot. These peoples can potentially
be separated from Azerbaijan, enter the structure of the neighboring
states or create their own political formations under the protection
of Azeri neighbors.

Prospective

Results of Iranian presidential elections will inevitably lead to
further confrontation between Tehran and Washington. As a consequence,
Baku will find itself stuck between two smoldering flames. Wave of
“velvet revolutions” that swept over the former Soviet republics is
now threatening to sweep over Azerbaijan. Moreover, on the threshold
of the autumn parliamentary elections, the opposition in this country
has apparently reinforced its activity. A certain guarantor for saving
Ilham Aliev’s regime could be his strengthening ties with the US. On
the other hand, the growing rapprochement between Baku and Washington,
particularly in the military sphere, is menacing Iran. To guarantee
its strategic interests, as Jamal Muhammedi has warned, Tehran is
ready to take some “preventive measures”. In order not to incite an
open conflict with the Americans, the Iranians’ actions won’t be
of military but rather of disguised nature. Otherwise speaking, a
new splash of a secret war between the Azeri and the Iranian secret
services is to be expected. In this war Tehran can count on the
assistance of Erevan, and Baku – on the help of Washington.

Main task of the Iranian intelligence will be putting pressure upon
Aliev’s regime in order to convince it that it will rather loose from
the strategic alliance with the US then benefit. Azeri Ministry of
National Security (that had undergone a number of important personnel
replacements last April) in its turn will have two tasks. The first one
is tactic: to neutralize opponent’s activity, including by operating
on its territory. The second one is strategic: raising the value
of Aliev’s regime in the eyes of Washington, in the context of a
potential American-Iranian conflict.

According to the confidant of the new president, Tehran plans first
of all to use the ethnic factor, namely: to provoke the activation
of Talysh national movement. Baku, as it seems, will bet on inflaming
the separatist moods in the Iranian Azerbaijan.

Such clandestine games can turn to be a catastrophe for the whole
of the Caucasus, the Central Asia, and the Middle East. The national
minorities that inhabit Azerbaijan and Iran, are as well present in
considerable numbers in the countries of all these regions.

Caucasus: Destabilization of situation in Azerbaijan, through the
Talysh factor, at the background f the parliamentary elections, can
provoke the Lezghin unrest in the North-East of the Republic. This will
lead to activation of Lezghin national movement in the neighboring
Dagestan. The situation there now is so tense that one match will be
enough to explode the whole of the Russian Caucasus. From there the
flame will inevitably stretch to Georgia. The Osetian problem and
the unity of Vainakh peoples of the Caucasus will favor this process.

Central Asia: Splash of separatism in the Iranian Azerbaijan can
incite the unrest of the Kurds and the Turkmen, who in the beginning
of the 1980s still fiercely opposed the Islamic regime. Turkmen
riots may impact the situation in the neighboring Turkmenistan,
where the popular discontent from Niyazov’s dictatorship is at the
rise. Destabilization in this country will be followed by a chain
reaction in the whole of the Central Asia. This region already is at
the edge of the overall explosion, because of the recent aggravation
in the situation in Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan. From here the flame
of revolutions and ethnic conflicts will threaten the neighbors: the
Chinese Xinjiang (Uighur separatism), and the Northern Afghanistan
(Tajik-Uzbek conflict).

Middle East: Revival of Kurdish national movement in Iran will
inevitably have impact on Turkey, Iraq, and Syria. In all of these
countries the Kurdish problem persists. Its aggravation in Iraq will
favor the raise of confrontation between the Kurds, the Shiites,
and the Sunnites. Tension between the authorities and the Kurdish
minority has been growing in Syria from the last year. A new push
for it was the mysterious death of the Kurdish leader, at the end of
May. In such conditions the unrest in the Iranian Kurdistan may provoke
Kurdish revolt in the North-East of Syria. In the light of worsening
economic crisis, and Damascus’ loss of its positions in Lebanon, the
antigovernment acts of Kurds may provoke mass manifestations of the
Sunnite population against the regime of the Allawi minority. Such
a scenario will inevitably have impact on the situation in the
neighboring countries, in particular in Lebanon, and probably – in
Jordan. Such dramatic events in the region cannot possibly pass by
the monarchies of the Persian Gulf. On the one hand, there are large
Shiite communities here that are discriminated. On the other hand,
the radical Islamic opposition reinforces its activity. The Saudi
Arabia is in particular danger.

It is unreasonable to describe the further course of events. Only
taking in account the obligatory in such a case jump of the oil prices,
it is clear that the consequences of this scenario will be felt at
a global scale.

Strange as it is, but trying to hold Baku back from rapprochement
with Washington, Tehran representatives by their threats simply
push Aliev further into the embrace of his only protectors – the
Americans. Thus, either willingly or not, the new Iranian leadership
draws the Apocalypses day nearer and nearer~E

Czech Business Weekly, Czech Republic
July 13 2005

>From perestroika to sweet success

We approached sweet shops and asked them to offer pieces of the cake
to their customers as free samples

As a young couple living in Moscow, Marianna Kchibovskaya and Oleg
Kchibovskiy visited Prague. After the beginning of perestroika – the
series of economic, social and political reforms spearheaded by
Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev in the late 1980s – the university
graduates, struggling to find employment, decided to move here.

`The situation in Russia was really bad then. Even if you had a job,
the companies did not have the money to pay wages,’ Kchibovskaya
remembers.

Arriving in 1996, Kchibovskiy promptly founded a company, Vizard
s.r.o., with the idea that he would sell cars, as he had done in
Russia. Kchibovskaya, who did not speak Czech, stayed home to take
care of the family and enjoyed throwing dinner parties.

`My husband was meeting a lot of people thanks to his job, and when
we had them over I always tried to cook some specialities I knew from
Russia for them,’ Kchibovskaya says.

Kchibovskiy’s car business was not doing well, but luckily, one of
their many dinner guests was then-owner of the Barracuda restaurant
on Krymská street in Vršovice. He was so impressed with
Kchibovskaya’s medovník, or honey cake, which was based on a family
recipe, that he put it on the Barracuda menu.

The honey cakes were soon in demand at other restaurants, and
Kchibovskaya ended up baking as many as 100 each month from her
kitchen. `We approached sweet shops and asked them to offer pieces of
the cake to their customers as free samples,’ she says. `We gave the
cakes to the shops for free and said they did not have to pay for
them if they didn’t sell.’ The gambit paid off and won them converts.

In 1998 the couple rented an old bakery in Prague near the village of
Újezd nad lesy for about Kè 5,000 (e 168) per month. It took some
time to set up the premises, which were being used as storage and
work space, and to convince the neighbors to shop in the small
grocery they opened alongside the bakery. `There were days when I
sold just one lighter,’ Kchibovskaya says. `We worked 24 hours a day,
but waiting for customers in the shop was the hardest thing I ever
experienced.’

But the Vizard honey cake bakery business grew until in 2000 the
company – the two owners and three employees – decided to expand
their distribution network to include the entire country.

Vizard has since moved to Modøany and has 40 employees and yearly
revenues of Kè 50 million. Its bakery can produce about 100 cakes per
hour. The company still sells most of its cakes in the Czech
Republic, primarily in Prague, but the distribution network also
includes Slovakia, Poland, Slovenia, Austria and Germany. The company
is also trying to break into the Belgian and Canadian markets.

But the competition is getting tougher for Vizard on its home field,
where the number of companies producing honey cakes is on the rise.

A company based in Frýdek Místek, north Moravia, Miko International
s.r.o., started producing Armenian honey cakes in 2003, also based on
a family recipe. `The demand is higher than we can produce and
currently we are moving to new premises, where hundreds of cakes
daily can be produced,’ Miko representative Georg Avetysjan says.

Several weeks ago, Prague-based confectioner Smetanová Cukrárna
started supplying Carrefour with its own honey cake product.

Despite the competition, Kchibovskaya remains confident in the
quality of Vizard’s homemade cake. `What we count on are top-shelf
ingredients, consistent quality and taste,’ she says. `We are not
afraid of the competition,’ she adds.

In 2003 Vizard registered a patent for its honey cake and the Vizard
logo, which is now advertised in restaurants. `We tried to register
the license for the recipe and the label for the name medovník but
were rejected,’ Kchibovskaya says.

She and her husband, who takes care of the financial side of the
company, have been considering introducing new products, but the
bakery in Modøany is not large enough to increase production.

She says the company is looking for a space larger than 500 square
meters. Vizard recently requested a Kè 12 million bank loan but was
turned down.

`Instead of [Kè] 12 million they would give us only six,’
Kchibovskaya says, adding that Czech banks do not offer enough
support to entrepreneurs. `To put the rest together will take us a
year or two,’ she says. But Kchibovskaya has her eye on expansion. `I
have a number of traditional recipes I want to try, like Russian
suflé cake or even homemade bread.’

Sector: Confectionery
Ownership: Oleg Kchibovskiy, Marianna Kchibovskaya
Type of company: Limited liability
Founded: 1996, started honey cake production in 1998
Number of employees: 40
Main competitors: MIKO International, Gajane s.r.o., Smetanová
cukrárna a.s.
The elevator pitch:
The company emphasizes the importance of using the highest-quality
ingredients to create the true, characteristic taste of homemade
honey cake. Maintaining an open attitude toward customers and
consistently checking product quality has helped the company expand
its distribution network from the Czech capital to throughout the
region.

Ajax USA
July 12 2005

Four goals from the ‘old guard’ at Quick ’20: 0-4

0 (0) – 4 (3)
Pre-Season Friendly
Sportpark Vondersweijde, Oldenzaal
Tuesday, 12 July, 2005

After an early morning ‘marathon’ in the woods of De Lutte (a
‘punishment’ for yesterday’s poor performance against WHC) and a two
hour training session the same morning Ajax drove to the town of
Oldenzaal in the early evening for a game against Quick ’20, the
local Hoofdklasse outfit. Blind’s sanctions had the desired effect —
sort of. Ajax still didn’t play well, but worked considerably harder
and were far better concentrated in the back. Hosts Quick ’20 never
had a chance to score. Ajax, meanwhile, netted three times in the
first half, but added only one in the second: 0-4.

Newly appointed captain Escudé played in the second half. [Photo:
Ajax.nl]

As usual in this phase of the pre-season campaign some of the Ajax
players are suffering from some minor pains and injuries due to the
stiff training schedule. Blind replaced nine players at half-time in
previous games. In Oldenzaal he decided to rest a few players: De
Mul, Obodai and Manucharyan. Vonk and Rosales are still injured and
didn’t see action either, so that Blind made ‘only’ six substitutions
at half-time. Heitinga, Grygera, De Jong, Sneijder and Mitea played
the full match.

Two of them (Mitea and De Jong) notched a goal in the first half, but
the nicest one was Ajax’s first, scored by Nourdin Boukhari, whom
Danny Blind told that he should not only focus on the position of
left winger but also on that of left midfielder this season. Only
three minutes had been played when Boukhari chipped a Daniël de
Ridder cross over goalkeeper De Römph and into the net.

The second half was a rather dull affair: Wesley Sneijder hit the
cross-bar, the Oldenzaal crowd said goodbye to ‘local hero’ Barry van
Ierssel who played his last game for Quick ’20 after 14 years in the
first team and Zdenek Grygera netted Ajax’s fourth goal, eight
minutes before the final whistle.

Once again it was not great.

AZG Armenian Daily #127, 12/07/2005

Home

HOPE LOOMING AS AUTHORITIES TRY TO SETTLE DISCORDS OF SOCIAL CORDS

Low-key public protests against social security cards yielded no
result, and the overwhelming majority of Armenian citizens conceded to
the new system. Different social groups warn and give alarm over the
dangers social cards hold. Numerous Armenian citizens turn the cards
down and face bitter results. Photojournalists who visited Armenian
Genocide survivors on late April days were stunned to see those people
in their 90s deprived of their pension because of not having social
cards.

Disagreements over social cards were discussed in early July by the
chairman of Christians Against Human Encoding NGO, Khachik
Stambultsian, representative of a citizens’ group and the head of the
Department on National Minority and Religious Issues, Hranush
Kharatian. As a result of these disputes, authorities drafted
amendments to a relevant Armenian law. The mentioned sides came to an
agreement yesterday, according to which the Trade and Social Security
Ministry will make amendments to the law on Personal Data and Law on
Social Security Cards and will change the design of the cards. In
particular, the Ministry should specify what it means under “personal
data”.

The Ministry will bring in a suggestion to the government to change
the appearance of the cards. Passionate followers of religion will be
granted the chance to get special cards with no barcode and Ministry
logo as well as the card will contain “card’s number” inscription.

According to ratification, the social security cards that Armenian
citizens receive will be used only in the social sphere, which does
not exclude that suchlike cards can be applied in other spheres.

This agreement presupposes that Armenians refusing social cards will
get their demands satisfied and will agree to receive new cards. They
will make no further demands once those issues are settled.

By Melania Badalian

Armenpress

JAPANESE GROW INTERESTED IN ARMENIAN MARKET

YEREVAN, JULY 7, ARMENPRESS: A deputy trade and economic development
minister, Tigran Davtian, argued today that Japanese businessmen are showing
increasingly growing interest in Armenia and are definitely set to enter its
market.
Talking to Armenpress Davtian said that was his impression from a June
23-24 Armenian-Japanese business conference held in the Russian capital. He
said he meant leading Japanese companies which, however, before deciding to
enter a market usually weight all possible positive and negative
consequences. “At any rate, the Moscow conference was the first and serious
step as a follow-up to prime minister Margarian’s visit to Japan last
month,” the deputy minister said, adding also that Japanese businessmen’s
impression about Armenia from the conference was “very positive.” According
to him, the next such conference is likely to take place in Yerevan. Davtian
said Japanese are interested specially in Armenia’s tourist sector,
electronics and trade. Armenians presented to Japanese 24 programs,
encompassing food, light industry, tools building and high technology
sectors.

AzerNews, Azerbaijan
July 7 2005

US sees Russia as threat to democratic changes in CIS

The US House of Representatives committee on financial services has
said that Russia poses a threat to democratic development in the
former Soviet Union republics (Commonwealth of Independent States).
The committee said it is concerned over Russia’s strengthening
position and called on the State Department to hold an international
conference to promote democracy in the

region, Russian Novosti (News) news agency quoted a US Senate source
as saying.
The US State Department draft state budget for 2006, approved by the
committee last weekend, says that authoritarian Russia is a source of
threats for countries currently in transition to democracy and
averting this threat is a priority for the United States.
The committee indicated that the State Department’s programs on
support for democratic development are of particular importance for
‘countries like Ukraine, Georgia and Kyrgyzstan’ due to the success
of democracy in these countries.
The committee also said that considerable resources are required to
give an incentive to democratic development in CIS, calling on the US
government to increase budget spending. It also instructed the US
Agency for International Development (USAID) to explicitly and
substantially ‘support the democratic processes’ in Russia and
Azerbaijan.
The US has allocated $565 million for financial programs, support to
democratic and economic reforms and promoting the rule of law in the
former USSR republics this year. Azerbaijan will receive $38 million,
while Armenia – $75 million, and Georgia $70.5 million. The largest
amount among CIS states, $95 million, is earmarked for Ukraine.

ARMENIANS KILLED AZERBAIJANI LIVING IN GEORGIA
2005-06-29 20:45

Azerbaijan News Service
June 29 2005

The resident of Sadakhli village of Marneuli region Sadraddin
Palangov disappeared without a trace near the water canal crossing
from Georgia-Armenia border in the evening yesterday. According to
the information of the Georgian bureau of ANS, Sadraddin Palangov
recognized under the pseudonym “Molla Gara” left his house for
bringing back the cattle from the pasture in the evening hours and
did not return back. The residents of Sadakhli village inform that
they heard bullet sounds from the border direction at the evening
hours. The residents of the village went to that place after some
hours and saw bloodstains on the ground near the canal. Sadraddin
Palangov’s cap covered with blood, hand-stick and 7 cartridge-cases
of “Makarov” pistol were found during the review in that place.
Nothing was heard of Sadraddin Palangov during the last 24 hours.
About 500 residents of Sadakhli village getting angry with this
incident held a protest action, they closed the Georgia-Armenia
highway since the morning today. The residents of the village said in
their explanation given to the Georgian bureau of ANS that they
suppose Molla Gara was murdered by the Armenians. The residents
informed that if it is asserted that the Armenians committed this
incident, then they will revenge the Armenians thousand fold for
their villager. Though the prosecutor’s office of Kvemo-Kartli region
and associates of the police department required the residents to
open the highway, the local resident declared that they do not intend
to open the road until Sadraddin Palangov is found. The participants
of the action let only the divers come to there for searching the
canal several minutes ago to pass forward. The head of the executive
power of Marneuli region Amiran Shubitidze arrived at the place of
incident at the midday hours today, the residents required him the
internal affairs minister of Georgia, the general prosecutor and the
first persons of Kvemo-Kartli region to intervene the incident. The
process of searching Sadraddin Palangov is being continued. None of
the Azerbaijani parliamentarians of the Georgian parliament arrived
at the place of incident. The chief of the press-service of the
embassy of Azerbaijan in Georgia Elkhan Polukhov is in Sadakhli
village in connection with the incident at present. According to the
information given from the Georgian bureau of ANS for the last
minute, The Internal Affairs Ministry of Georgia sent special
destination groups to Sadakhli village for opening the highway. These
groups severely beat the residents of the village, scattered the
action and opened the Georgia-Armenia road. According to the
information given to the Georgian bureau of ANS from the reliable
source, the internal affairs minister Vano Merabishvili was reported
about Azerbaijani’s being murdered in the border with Armenia and the
IAM head intends to arrive at the Georgia-Armenia border for getting
acquainted with the essence of the incident in the place.