Author: Tatoyan Vazgen

ARMENIAN-GREEK COOPERATION INCLUDES NEW SPHERES

YEREVAN, AUGUST 9, ARMENPRESS: The Armenian-Greek relations are
developing dynamically including new spheres of cooperation. Besides,
among a set of towns of both countries fraternity memorandums have
been signed.

Verona mayor Nicolas Khartalias and Noyemberian mayor Levon
Mkrtchian called today a press conference at ARF’s Supreme body’s
office during whichthey noted that the cooperation between Verona and
Noyemberian towns started in 2000 and since then the friendly
relations between the towns have been deepening and strengthening more
and more on economic and cultural basis. Verona mayor said that being
in Armenia for the second time he was once again convinced that the
cooperation between the towns will be maintained. He said Verona is
ready to support Noyemberian in solution of the issues it is facing.

Last year with their support the Noyemberian park and this year the
central Zoravar Andranik street were renovated. It has provided 15,000
USD and is going to give another 25,000 for the construction of gym
and a cafe in the town.

On its part the Greek side benefits by importing Armenian culture: the
sides agreed on sending Armenian singing and dancing groups to
Verona. Nikolas Khartalias said besides, Verona benefits from the
contributions of the local Armenian community.

The leader of the Greek Diocese of Armenia, representative of the
Armenian Central Committee Gaspar Karapetian said that September 23 a
memorandum of fraternity will be signed between Greek Nika and
Armenian Ijevan and in October such like memorandum will be signed
between Armenian Alaverdi and Greek Rendis. Karapetian said that in
September the reconstruction of Dilijan hospital which is implemented
with the support of the Greek Foreign Affairs Ministrywhich provided
500,000 euros to Armenia will be finished.

This year with the efforts of the ARF’s Greek central committee the
Greek side will provide 1.6 million euros for the implementation of 4
programs – construction of maternity hospital in Akhurian,
construction of school for Greek in Yerevan, organization of training
program for teachers in Gyumri and repair of agricultural engineering
in Armavir province. For the next year the Greek Foreign Affairs
Ministry will provide 1.5-2 million euros which will be directed
towards creation of working places.

MAMMADYAROV ON KARABAKH ISSUE: «LIGHT AT END OF TUNNEL»

PanArmenian News Network
Aug 6 2005

06.08.2005 03:47

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Within his visit to the US Azeri Foreign Minister
(FM) E. Mammadyarov delivered a speech in the Carnegie Foundation.

Speaking of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict, Mammadyarov noted that
the Armenian and Azeri leaders and the two FMs hold meet periodically.

“The talks are held in a very hard situation, however I am cautiously
optimistic over the coming meetings. I think there is light seen at
the end of the tunnel, but we have to pass a long way to achieve it,”
the Azeri FM said. “We will always be guided by the principle of
territorial integrity in the talks,” he stated. Having noted that
“different signals” from Yerevan reach Baku, E.

Mammadyarov added, “Sometimes it seems we are moving forward,
sometimes like we make no headway, as the development of the process
depends on Armenia. They should understand that it is good time now
for settlement of the conflict and they should seize the opportunity.”

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ARMENIA WILL HAVE TO CONVEY HOME ILLEGAL MIGRANTS FROM GERMANY AT ITS OWN EXPENSE

PanArmenian News Network
Aug 5 2005

05.08.2005 05:59

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ August 1-5 the Armenian Foreign Ministry held the
second round of the discussions of the agreement “On persecution and
transit conveyance of illegal migrants” (agreement on readmission),
RA MFA press center reported. The German governmental delegation
lead by the permanent representative of the department of migration,
refugees and integration of the German Foreign Ministry Cornelia
Rogal-Grote. The Armenian party was represented by officials from
the Foreign Ministry, passport and visa department of the police,
department of migration and refugees under the RA government. The
first round of the negotiations took place in August 2004. During
the current negotiations the parties agreed on continuing and
completing the talks in 2005. The signing of the agreement on
readmission is one of the conditions for the integration into the
European structures. Such agreements regulate the mechanisms of
returning illegal migrants at the expense of the country they arrived
from. Presently Armenia has signed similar agreements with Denmark,
Lithuania and Switzerland. Agreements with Germany, Benelux states,
Norway, Czechia, Poland and Russia are still being discussed.

KARABAGH FOREIGN AFFAIRS MINISTRY SAYS KARABAGH CONFLICT SHOULD BE SOLVED ON BASIS OF INTERNATIONAL LAW

ArmenPress
Aug 3 2005

STEPANAKERT, AUGUST 3, ARMENPRESS: Nagorno Karabagh Foreign
Affairs Ministry disseminated yesterday a statement claiming that
the representatives of Azerbaijani mass media “without knowing the
details of the pace of peaceful regulation of the Karabagh conflict
issue articles not properly commenting Stepanakert’s information.”

“As a result, Azerbaijani public gets wrong information which hinders
the understanding of humans’ values and continuation of discussions
of alternative means,” says the statement.

“It is beyond any doubt that only by establishing effective contacts
between Karabagh and Azerbaijan it will be possible to find proper
resolution of the conflict.” “Azerbaijani leadership is responsible
for unbridling military actions as well as for their results. The
Karabagh conflict must be regulated on the basis of international law,”
concluded the statement.

Thirteen migrants detained on Ukraine’s western border

UNIAN news agency
2 Aug 05

Kiev, 2 August: Servicemen of the State Border Service have detained 13
illegal migrants on the border stretch patrolled by the Chop detachment
[Transcarpathian Region].

The public relations department of the State Border Service said
that there were six Vietnamese nationals, six Russian citizens from
Chechnya and one Armenian among the detainees.

The Vietnamese migrants were stopped by a detail from the Stuzhytsya
checkpoint 2.5 kilometres from the state border. Later, border guards
of the Onokivtsi checkpoint detained the Armenian, who got as close as
800 metres to the border. The Chechens, who wanted to get to Slovakia,
were stopped 600 metres from the border.

World Peace Herald, DC
Jamestown Foundation
Aug 1 2005

Georgia accuses Russia of terrorism
By UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL
Published August 1, 2005

TBILISI, Georgia — Georgia’s Interior Minister Vano Merabishvili
has identified a Russian military intelligence agent behind a bombing
in Gori.

Three policemen were killed in the February 1 car bombing. The Georgian
daily Rezonansi said that Merabishvili named Anatolii Sysoev as a
member of Russia’s Main Intelligence Administration (GRU — Glavnoye
Razvedovatelnoye Upravlenie).

Merabishvili said that Georgian security officials in South
Ossetia arrested three other persons suspected in carrying out the
attack. “According to our information, a year and half ago colonel
of the Russia’s GRU Anatoly Sisoev set up a group of saboteurs which,
according to our information, was trained on the territory of Russia.

This group has carried out the terrorist act here in Gori,” he said.

Gia Valiev and Gia Zasiev were arrested in the Tskhinvali region.

Police also arrested Joseb Kochiev, who allegedly bought a car shortly
before the terrorist act in which an explosive was detonated.

Merabishvili met with the Russian Ambassador in Georgia on July 25
and gave him all the materials of the investigation.

Anatoly Sysoev was born in 1950 in Tbilisi and served in the
GRU military intelligence. In 1992 Sysoev officially resigned
from the GRU, departing for Azerbaijan where participated in the
Nagorno-Karabakh conflict in 1992-1995 as a head of field intelligence
of the Azerbaijani field artillery. In 1995 Sysoev was arrested by
Azerbaijan on treason charges.

Azerbaijani police charged Sysoev in an assassination attempt on
Azerbaijani President Heydar Aliev by blowing up his airplane with an
IGLA man-portable anti-aircraft missile. Sysoev received a 15-year
jail sentence, which was later reduced to 10 years. In 2001 he was
granted amnesty and left for Ukraine.

Sysoev returned to the region in 2002 as a military advisor to
South Ossetian president Eduard Kokoev. Merabishvili noted that the
three Goribomb blast suspects said that Sysoev was training a group
of approximately 120 saboteurs in South Ossetia and that his group
possessed at least four IGLA missiles. Russian Defense Minister Sergey
Ivanov labeled “depressingly stupid” media reports on the possible
participation of GRU agents in terrorist acts abroad, including the
one in Gori.

PanArmenian News Network
July 29 2005

HEAD OF ETHIOPIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH PROMISED TO PUSH ETHIOPIAN
GOVERNMENT TO RECOGNIZE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE

29.07.2005 04:28

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ The victims of the Armenian Genocide were
commemorated July 28 in the chapel of the Antilias Cathedral
(Lebanon). Cilician Catholicos Aram I and Patriarch of the Orthodox
Church of Ethiopia Paulos were present at the event. The religious
ceremony was held in the Armenian and Ethiopian languages. The
Patriarch wished the Armenian people the restoration of infringed
rights and fair settlement of the problems. By request of Cilician
Catholicos head of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church promised to press
for recognition of the Armenian Genocide by Ethiopia, Yerkir Online
reported.

Four Armenian troops killed on Azeri border this year

Mediamax news agency
29 Jul 05

YEREVAN

Four Armenian servicemen were killed on Armenian-Azerbaijani contact
line in the first half of 2005, half the number killed in the same
period of 2004.

Armenian Military Prosecutor Gagik Dzhangiryan said this today in
Yerevan, speaking at a session of an extended board of the
Prosecutor-General’s Office, Mediamax reports.

Dzhangiryan said that 22 cases of attempt on the lives of Armenian
servicemen were registered in the first half of 2005.

In total, 24 casualties were registered in the Armenian armed forces
in January-June 2005. Thirty-nine servicemen died in the Armenian army
in the same period of 2004.

PanArmenian News Network
July 28 2005

FRENCH LEGION OF HONOR AWARDED TO ARA ABRAHAMYAN

28.07.2005 04:06

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ French President Jacques Chirac has signed a decree
on awarding well-known public figure, businessman, President of the
Union of Armenians of Russia and UNESCO Good Will Ambassador Ara
Abrahamyan with the highest decoration of the French Republic – the
Legion of Honor. `Ara Abrahamyan has done much to develop the
Russian-French relations,’ Russian Ambassador to France Aleksandr
Avdeyev said. `He co-chairs the Russian-French Dialogue
non-governmental association, sponsored by Presidents V. Putin and J.
Chirac,’ the Ambassador said. `Ara Abrahamyan has assisted in the
erection of the monument to the Soviet Soldier at Pere Lachaise
French Cemetery marking the 60th anniversary of the Great Victory. He
has organized productive bilateral business meetings, as well as a
Russian Film Festival in Onfler Norse city,’ Avdeyev remarked. `I
think Ara Abrahamyan has deserved the French awarding him the highest
decoration,’ he said. Napoleon has established the Legion of Honor in
1802. The decoration is awarded for outstanding services to France
and has 5 degrees, Itar-Tass reported.

PanArmenian News Network
July 28 2005

ARMENIA DAY HELD IN EGYPT

28.07.2005 07:41

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ The Armenian Embassy in Egypt in cooperation with
Women’s International Peace Movement organization, led by Egyptian
First Lady Suzanne Mubarak, and cultural unions of Armenians of Egypt
has organized an event titled Armenia’s Day in Maadi library, Cairo,
reported the Armenian MFA Press Service. In the course of the event a
documentary on Armenia was screened, Armenian national dances were
performed, works of Armenian children titled Egypt as Armenian
Children See It were presented. Diplomats representing a number of
countries that are accredited in Cairo, Armenian community members,
as well as media representatives took part in the event. July 29
World and Children program aired by the first and satellite channels
of Egypt will be devoted to Armenia and the event.