Sargsyan-Erdogan Meeting Finished

SARGSYAN-ERDOGAN MEETING FINISHED

Tert.am
12.04.10

A meeting between the Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan and Turkish
Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan drew to an end just minutes ago.

It took place in Washington in the framework of the World Nuclear
Security Summit.

Tert.am’s correspondent in Washington says no press conference
followed the meeting. As stated previously no statement was made
after the meeting either.

It is not known what the two leaders discussed exactly, though earlier
there were reports that the main issue on the agenda would be the
Armenia-Turkey normalization and the ratification of Armenia-Turkey
Protocols.

Besides Serzh Sargsyan Armenian Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandyan,
President’s Deputy Chief of Staff Vigen Sargsyan were participating
in the meeting.

>From the Turkish side together with Erdogan Turkish Foreign
Minister Ahmet Davutoglu and Turkey’s Deputy Undersecretary Feridun
Sinirlioglu participated in the meeting that took place in a room
behind transparent windows in the background of the World Nuclear
Security Summit wallpaper.

Serzh Sargsyan is expected to lay a wreath on former US President
Woodrow Wilson’s tomb in the Washington National Cathedral.

RA Defense Ministry Urges Azeri Media To Withhold Misinformation Dis

RA DEFENSE MINISTRY URGES AZERI MEDIA TO WITHHOLD MISINFORMATION DISSEMINATION

news.am
April 12 2010
Armenia

Some Azerbaijani media consistency spread misinformation of allegedly
violations of ceasefire by Armenian armed forces and firing at
Azerbaijani position on various sectors of Armenia-Azerbaijan border.

April 8, Azerbaijani 1news.az disseminated information that at 10:06
a.m. Armenian armed forces were firing at Azerbaijani units within
a day, RA Defense ministry press service informed NEWS.am.

RA Defense ministry restates that Armenian armed forces closely
monitor observing of ceasefire and call in the relevant measures in
case of violations or adversary’s shooting.

Meanwhile, we urge Azerbaijani mass media to withhold false
information dissemination and artificial poisoning the atmosphere
Armenian-Azerbaijani armed forces contact line.

President Of Armenia About Meeting With Erdogan

PRESIDENT OF ARMENIA ABOUT MEETING WITH ERDOGAN

HULIQ
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April 12 2010
SC

We just received the following newswire from Armenia about the meeting
between the president of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan and the Prime Minister
of Turkey Recep Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

The president of Armenia Mr. Serzh Sargsyan has left for the
Washington National Cathedra to lay a wreath at the tomb of U.S.
President Woodrow Wilson. President Wilson was a very good friend of
Armenia and advocated for the Armenian independence. In his vision
independent Armenia included three more provinces that are currently
in the territory of Turkey.

At the Washington National Cathedreal President Sargsyan spoke to the
members of the Armenian community and personally addressed the people
speaking about the earlier meeting with the Prime Minister of Turkey
Mr. Erdogan. He particularly said the following, which we translate
from Armenian.

"This morning I met with the Prime Minister of Turkey. Our position
has been and remains very straightforward. Turkey cannot speak with
Armenia and the Armenian people in the language of conditions. We
will simply not allow that. We are not preparing in any way the
question the fact of the Armenian Genocide, or to pretend that we
believe that Turkey can play any diplomatic role in the process of
finding solution to the problem of Nagorno Karabakh.

"Any news foreign policy is subject to temptations because we pass
through a path that no one has passed before. I am confident that
Armenia will pass this exam with honor."

http://www.huliq.com/1/92618/presid

In Azerbaijan, the cause of Dr. Goebbels is everlasting

HULIQ.com, SC
April 11 2010

In Azerbaijan, the cause of Dr. Goebbels is everlasting

Apparently, not only the media but also the political promoters of
Azerbaijan headed personally by President Ilham Aliyev, the overking
of that country, made up their minds to follow both the fascist
ideology of national hatred and the Nazi methods of propaganda founded
by the notorious minister of Third Reich. One of the favorite sayings
of Nazi Germany’s Propaganda Minister was the following: `If you tell
a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to
believe it.

The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield
the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences
of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all
of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of
the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the
State.’

One of the absurd theories more and more actively boosted in the
Azerbaijani society is the assertion that the ancient city of Yerevan,
the capital of Armenia, founded in 782 BC has been an Azerbaijani
town!!! It looks like the supreme ruler of Azerbaijan decided to
expand the boundaries of this lie beyond his country’s borders.
According to the Azerbaijani media, when delivering a lecture at
Estonia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs on April 7th he, having no
scruples about lying, illuminated, or rather, took the gracious
Estonians aback by saying that `Armenians have already created their
state on Azerbaijani lands. No other Armenian state can be founded on
our lands’. Further on, he talked as big as he started: `Armenians
have already self-determined. They have their Armenian state, although
it had been created on historical Azerbaijani lands. Everyone knows
it. The next day after Azerbaijan declared its independence in 1918,
Azerbaijani Democratic Republic made a decision to transfer the city
of Irevan to Armenia as their capital. Irevan was a city of Irevani
Khanate populated by Azerbaijani people. As to history, that’s how it
used to be’. "As to history, that’s how it used to be…"

One can scarcely understand what is dominating in this statement `
demagogy or ignorance. I believe neither the former nor the latter –
it is just on-target propaganda of lies aimed at fraudulent
misrepresentation of history plus self-delusion. The fact, however, is
that this exact misinformation is becoming more and more frequent and
sophisticated. Indeed, harping on the same falsification will
hopefully lead people to believe it. There is no information about the
Estonian Ministry’s staff’s reaction to their high-rank guest’s
insinuations. We can only hope they know the truth and will not take
that speech for granted.

So, what is the truth? I am not going to deliver another lecture about
the four-thousand year history of Armenians on their aboriginal lands
but several interesting and important facts are worth to be mentioned
to evidence the autochthony of Armenians on the huge geographic area
officially called Armenian Plateau, or Armenian Highland, in the
world. Here’s Proof Number One. Unfortunately for the Azerbaijani
promoters, at least part of their country is situated on that
territory that carries this internationally adopted place name. The
core of that plateau is Armenia itself famous for another
internationally adopted scientific term ` armeniaca, or just apricot,
and here’s Proof Number Two. No doubt that these names have been given
as a tribute to the contribution of one of the most ancient nations to
the world scholarship and culture. One can imagine the nervous
irritation that seizes Aliyev and other Azeri agitators every time
they at least think about this.

Back to history, there is no doubt that such an administrative unit as
Yerevan Khanate was founded and that it was populated by Azerbaijani
Turkomen. By the way, no one would use the term Azerbaijani ` those
people were just Turks. The truth is, though, that the Khanate was
established by the Persian Shah Abbas the First after his invasion
into the Armenian lands in 1604. Consequently, at the very outset of
his rule tens of thousands native Armenians, including Yerevanites,
were deported to Persia; this resulted in the majority of the Muslim
population of then Yerevan. Even under these conditions, the Shah did
not dare change the name of the city that sounded and sounds now, too,
as the regular Armenian word yerevan that means an open, visible,
`seen’ place, which, by the way is in keeping with the Urartian name
of my native city Erebuni, and that is very easy to see, pronounce,
and hear even for a non-linguist. Here is Proof Number Three of
Armenians’ autochthony on the Armenian Plateau.

Regarding the proper name Azerbaijan / Azerbaijani, I would recommend
that Mr. Aliyev and all those interested take a look at the maps of
ancient or medieval times ` the ones published long ago, not the ones
posted on Internet because they may be easily faked by anybody. One of
my university colleagues collects such maps. I did not spare my time
and studied them thoroughly. So did I with the collection of ancient
maps at our university. All of them present the geographic region of
the Armenian Plateau as ARMENIA, sometimes syllabalizing this word so
that it could cover as much space as possible. No mention of the root
Azerbaijan / Azerbaijani at all! Here is Proof Number Four of the
authenticity of the lands on which the current state of Armenia with
its capital Yerevan were founded. If Mr. Aliyev talks about facts
everyone is aware of, he must know that his nation’s official name had
been Caucasian Tartars over the course of the world history before
1918. No one has ever heard of Azerbaijanis inhabiting the area to the
East of Armenia, nor have they heard of the country named `Azerbaijan’
there.

The list of evidences in favor of Armenian lands’ authenticity can be
endless. It is advisable to confront the Goebbelslike propaganda by
the presentation of undeniable truth and facts that refute the
falsifications of history since the followers of the Reich Minister
are prone to `tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it’. On the
off-chance, `people will eventually come to believe it’. This is
becoming the top principle of the Azerbaijani agitprop.

Written by Ashot Vardanyan
Mr. Vardanyan is a fellow at the University of Iowa

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http://www.huliq.com/1/92584/azerbaijan-caus

Sargsyan: Key to NK conflict settlement is not only in Armenia’s han

Serzh Sargsyan: Key to Karabakh conflict settlement is not only in
Armenia’s hands

2010-04-09 20:13:00

ArmInfo. "The key to the Karabakh conflict settlement is not only in
Armenia’s hands. The solution depends on all the parties – Armenia,
Azerbaijan, Karabakh and OSCE Minsk Group",- Armenian President Serzh
Sargsyan said to journalists in Tavush region.

The president said that if the problem is settled on the basis of the
principle of Nagorno-Karabakh people’s right to self-determination,
the rest of the problems may be solved within the shortest period of
time. Serzh Sargsyan advised the Armenian public not to believe in the
"tales" of the people saying that Armenia is allegedly in a bad state
at present and that the negotiations are currently being held badly
and with wrong arguments. "This is spoken about by the people, who
used to be responsible for the peace process and they had an
opportunity to settle this conflict in Armenia’s favor. However,
unfortunately, the fight is going on",- said the president and added
that history judges everything and several years later it will be
possible to say who was negotiating correctly, and who – incorrectly.

Former head of Vardenis branch of Ardshininvestbank accused

Former head of Vardenis branch of Ardshininvestbank accused of money laundering

2010-04-09 18:17:00

ArmInfo. The former head of Vardenis branch of Ardshininvestbank CJSC
is accused of money laundering. A relevant criminal case has been
instituted, the press release of the Armenian Prosecutor General’s
Office says. It was found out on the basis of materials provided to
Ardshininvestbank CJSC that according to a preliminary agreement with
expert A.Hambardzumyan, private entrepreneur Kh.Shaboyan and director
of Vasarat LLC, the former head of Vardenis branch of
Ardshininvestbank A.Baghdasaryan issued fictitious loans. In
particular, without the knowledge or consent of the branch borrowers,
396 credit agreements on purchase of household appliances worth 95 mln
788 thsd AMD and 27616 USD were issued on their names. The specified
amounts were by installments transferred to the accounts of Shaboyan
and Vasarat LLC, afterwards were converted into cash. Shaboyan and
Vasarat LLC, which are the clients of the branch, are engaged in sale
of household appliances.

On the basis of the specified data, a criminal case has been
instituted under Article 179 Part 3 Item 1 of the Criminal Code of
Armenia and under Article 190 Part 3 Item 1 of the Criminal Code of
Armenia. The criminal case has been submitted for preliminary
investigation of the Investigative Department of the National Security
Service under the Armenian Government. Charges have been arraigned
against A.Baghdasaryan, and arrest has been applied as a measure of
restraint.

The press service of Ardsininvestbank pointed out that the data on the
activity of the former head of Vardenis branch, as well as on a
similar case with the activity of the former head of Goris branch were
found out by the bank itself and then presented to law-enforcers. "The
relevant structures of the bank attentively follow and in case of the
slightest suspicion study in detail any violations, which are strictly
punished for. We appreciate the cooperation with the law-enforcement
agencies in this matter",- said
the press service of the bank.

BAKU: Azerbaijan Will Grant ‘Highest Status’ To Karabakh Armenians

AZERBAIJAN WILL GRANT ‘HIGHEST STATUS’ TO KARABAKH ARMENIANS

news.az
April 7 2010
Azerbaijan

Mubariz Gurbanli Azerbaijan is ready to provide the world’s highest
status of self-determination to Armenians living in Karabakh, a ruling
party MP said yesterday.

‘Azerbaijan’s position towards Armenians living in Nagorno-Karabakh
is clear. It has been openly expressed by the head of our state,’
the deputy executive secretary of the ruling New Azerbaijan Party,
MP Mubariz Gurbanli, said in an interview with the party website.

He said that the president of Azerbaijan had emphasized several times
that Armenians and Azerbaijanis living in Nagorno-Karabakh would live
in peace and prosperity.

Mubariz Gurbanli said that if military operations were to resume,
Armenians in Karabakh who did not resist the armed forces and complied
with Azerbaijani law and internal controls would have no problems in
their continued residence in Karabakh.

‘Azerbaijan conducts a transparent policy. The main purpose of our
state lies in the peaceful resolution of the conflict,’ Gurbanli told
the website.

Church Restoration An Attempt To Restore Malatya’s Image

CHURCH RESTORATION AN ATTEMPT TO RESTORE MALATYA’S IMAGE

armradio.am
06.04.2010 10:55

A mosque foundation has taken on a project to restore an Armenian
church in the eastern province of Malatya three years after the murder
of three Christians there.

Only two out of 16 members disagreed when Latif Yıldırım, the head
of a mosque foundation, offered to renovate the TaÅ~_horon Armenian
church in Malatya, the Hurriyet Daily News reports.

Asked why a mosque foundation would help restore a church, Yıldırım
said: "The reason is quite simple; I was born in Malatya, but I grew
up in Istanbul in Bakırköy with many Armenian neighbors. They were
the most amiable people. Their warm-heartedness and friendship entirely
changed the way that I see life."

Another reason for saving the historical sanctuary would be to
contribute to saving Malatya from the infamy of the murders of three
Christians in 2007. "This will be such a good advertisement for
Malatya that you cannot attain even if you pay a million dollars,"
said Yıldırım, who added that Al Jazeera and private German TV
station ZDF would visit the site.

Yıldırım said, "We can find money for the church quickly once the
permission is granted."

The foundation first asked the Prime Ministry for approval after its
board of directors decided assume the project.

The foundation then asked the Culture Ministry Renovation Directorate
for permission, which was granted, and approached the Armenian camp.

Although Aram AteÅ~_yan, the deputy patriarch of Armenians, first
refused their appointment request, he invited them to his office
three days later.

Now, the foundation is waiting for the Culture Ministry’s permission
to start construction and is looking for sponsors, having reportedly
applied for European Union funds, talked with wealthy Armenians and
had meetings with businessmen in Malatya.

UCLA AEF Chair Sponsors 95th Anniversary Events

UCLA AEF CHAIR SPONSORS 95TH ANNIVERSARY EVENTS

Noyan Tapan
Apr 6, 2010

LOS ANGELES, APRIL 6, NOYAN TAPAN – ARMENIANS TODAY. The UCLA
Armenian Educational Foundation Chair in Modern Armenian History has
organized three events between April 13 and 18 commemorating the 95th
anniversary of the Armenian Genocide, 1915-2010. The first two events
will be held on the UCLA campus and the third in the Glendale Public
Library Auditorium.

According to a report of Center for European-Eurosian Studies,
on April 13 and 15, Archival historian Matthias Bjornlund from
Copenhagen and Research historian Ugur Umit Ungur from Turkey will
speak and participate in discussions in the UCLA History Conference
Room. In the first talk, Mr. Bjornlund will consider "Smyrna/Izmir,
1914-1916: "A Special Case" during the Armenian Genocide." He says:
"Scholarship on the Armenian Genocide is in constant development.

Dr. Ungur’s topic on April 15, is "Confiscation and Colonization:
The Young Turk Seizure of Armenian Property." This is the subject of
his detailed study that will be released as a book later in 2010.

An important community outreach program will be held in a Sunday
afternoon seminar on April 18 in the auditorium of the Glendale Public
Library. The seminar is cosponsored by the UCLA AEF Chair and the
Glendale Public CtLibrary, Armenian Outreach, with Ms. Elizabeth
Grigorian serving as coordinator. The seminar will feature four
speakers: Richard Hovannisian, AEF Chair, UCLA, Matthias Bjornlund,
Wolf Gruner, Ugur Umit Ungur.

Return Of Karabakh Will Lead To Armenians’ Eviction – Armenian Presi

RETURN OF KARABAKH WILL LEAD TO ARMENIANS’ EVICTION – ARMENIAN PRESIDENT

Interfax
April 5 2010
Russia

Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan thinks the Karabakh conflict can
be resolved quickly if Azerbaijan recognizes the independence of
Nagorno-Karabakh.

"If Azerbaijan recognizes the independence of Nagorno-Karabakh,
I think the matter can be resolved within hours. Unfortunately,
they still believe they have to get Karabakh back. The return of
Karabakh to Azerbaijan will mean the full eviction of Armenians from
Nagorno-Karabakh within a short period of time," Sargsyan said in an
interview with the German magazine Der Spiegel.

"Why were the countries of the former Yugoslavia able to have
independence? Why should Karabakh not have the same rights? Is it only
because Azerbaijan has oil and gas and has Turkey as its patron? We
believe it’s unfair," Sargsyan said.

Sargsyan said the Turks want concessions from Armenia. "However, that
is impossible. The most important issue is the exercise of the right
of the people of Nagorno-Karabakh to determine their independence.

Armenia does not link the genocide of Armenians by Turkey to the
opening of the Armenian-Turkish border, it’s not our fault that no
reconciliation is happening," Sargsyan said.

Speaking about the international recognition of the genocide of
Armenians, Sargsyan said it is a matter of historical justice and
national security.

"The best way to prevent this horrible thing from happening again is
to clearly condemn it. However, I would like to specify the following:
no Armenian official has ever made territorial claims against Turkey.

The Turks are accusing us of that. Maybe they do so because they
realize their guilt?" Sargsyan said.

Sargsyan spoke against the idea of creating a joint Armenian-Turkish
commission made up of historians.