Boxing: Darchinyan’s next fight!

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April 23 2006

Darchinyan’s next fight!
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Vic Darchinyan To Defend Against Maldonado June 3 On SHOWTIME

NEW YORK (April 23, 2006) – In a terrific matchup of unbeaten
flyweights, IBF champion Vic “The Raging Bull’~R Darchinyan will
defend his crown against IBF No. 8 contender Luis Maldonado Saturday,
June 3, 2006, on SHOWTIME. The 12-round world title fight, which was
announced by SHOWTIME Sports & Event Programming General Manager Ken
Hershman, will precede the highly anticipated rubber match between
WBC Lightweight Champion Diego Corrales and former two-time WBC
titleholder Jose Luis Castillo.. The SHOWTIME CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING
world championship doubleheader from the Thomas & Mack Center in Las
Vegas, Nevada, will begin at 9 p.m. ET/PT (delayed on the west
coast).

Darchinyan (25-0, 20 KOs), of Sydney, Australia, by way of Vanadvor,
Armenia, is coming off of a sensational eighth-round TKO over
Diosdado Gabi March 3, 2006, on the SHOWTIME boxing series, “ShoBox:
The New Generation.” A pint-sized powerhouse armed with
bone-crunching power, Darchinyan is one of the hardest
pound-for-pound hitters in boxing. The Lord of the Flys has won seven
consecutive bouts by knockout. This will be the southpaw’s fourth
title defense. Darchinyan also holds the International Boxing
Organization (IBO) 112-pound belt.

Maldonado (33-0-1, 25 KOs), of Mexicali, Mexico, had a 33-fight
winning streak end in his last outing when he boxed to a 12-round
draw against slick southpaw boxer Cristian Mijares in a flyweight
elimination bout on Feb. 24, 2006. An aggressive, offensive-minded
slugger who makes for great fights and never takes a backward step,
Maldonado will be the naturally bigger man against Darchinyan. The
unbeaten crowd pleaser, who also is the World Boxing Organization
(WBO) No. 6 contender, will make his second United States start.

Can anyone fill me in on the opponent? Sounds like this one is going
to be a cracker! If the writer of this article is anything to go
by,it would be no surprise if Darchinyan lost.

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Akhalkalak Branch of Tbilisi State Uni to Pass Accreditation

AKHALKALAK BRANCH OF TBILISI STATE UNIVERSITY TO PASS PROCESS OF
ACCREDITATION

AKHALKALAK, APRIL 21, NOYAN TAPAN – ARMENIANS TODAY. The Akhalkalak
branch of the Tbilisi State University will pass a process of
accreditation soon. According to Roin Ghavrelishvili, the Director of
the branch, the branch is not able today to satisfy claims laid by the
state. But he hopes that as to a newly founded institution of higher
education, the branch will not be laid claims, and it will continue to
function. The “A-Info” agency reminds that the Akhalkalak branch of
the Tbilisi State University has been founded in 2002 and has about
450 students today. In spite of the statement made by the Government
at the moment of founding, that mainly or exclusively young people
from Javakhk will study here, today the most part of students of the
university are Georgian young people who have come from different
regions of Georgia. It is enough to mention that only 4 young people
from Javakhk entered the university in 2005, two of who are Armenians,
two are Georgians.

Nicosia: Armenians mark 1915 genocide

Armenians mark 1915 genocide
By Alexia Saoulli

Cyprus Mail
April 20 2006

THE ARMENIAN community in Cyprus will mark the 91st anniversary of
the 1915 genocide in which one and a half million of their people
were killed by Ottoman forces.

Speaking to reporters at a news conference ahead of the April 24
anniversary, Kevork
Zeyeountsian said: “Today, 91 years after the genocide a lot has been
done in the direction of recognising the 1915 genocide.

“Everyone knows what happened in 1915 and a great number are aware of
the reason for the presence of Armenian communities in all four
corners of the earth.

“A great number of countries have already recognised the genocide,
while those governments that have not yet recognised it maintain this
position purely for political reasons and strategic interests, not
because they do not agree with justification of Armenians.”

The Armenian Genocide was carried out by the ‘Young Turk’ government
of the Ottoman Empire in 1915-1916. Over a million Armenians were
killed, out of a total of two and a half million Armenians living
under the Ottoman Empire.

The Turkish government today denies that there was an Armenian
genocide and claims that Armenians were only removed from the eastern
“war zone”.

Zeyeountsian added: “Turkey – a European Union candidate country –
has a lot to do before it becomes an equal state with the rest of
Europe’s 25. A number of thorns await it along its course and the two
million Armenians who are today citizens of a united Europe have
every right and obligation to demand from Turkey to first repay its
historical debt to our people.”

To mark the anniversary the Armenian Community Memorial Committee has
organised a series of events on Sunday and Monday.

On Sunday April 23 there will be a photograph exhibition in Nicosia’s
Eleftheria Square between 10am and 7pm. This will be followed by a
memorial march along Armenias Avenue at 8pm followed by a memorial
service at 8.30pm at the Armenian Genocide monument. On Monday at
10am a Holy Mass followed by a requiem at 11am at the Armenian
Genocide monument.

Armenian Genocide Recognition Issue Entered New Stage

ARMENIAN GENOCIDE RECOGNITION ISSUE ENTERED NEW STAGE

PanARMENIAN.Net
19.04.2006 20:06 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ The Armenian Genocide recognition issue has entered
a new stage. Almost all of the leading states recognized this fact and
even the U.S. doesn’t deny it, leader of ARF Dashnaktsutyun faction,
historian Levon Mkrtchian told PanARMENIAN.Net reporter. In his words,
Armenia should take the advantage of the international community’s
positive attitude about the Genocide recognition and pursue a more
precise line towards Turkey. “It’s time to speak of compensations,
since without it the fact of recognition loses sense. For Armenia
the matter concerns not only moral and material side but appears as
a security issue as well,” the ARFD leader said.

Levon Mkrtchian underscored that is the neighbor state doesn’t
acknowledge the crime committed against a whole nation the opening
of the Armenian-Turkish border and the Nagorno Karabakh conflict
settlement can be protracted for an uncertain term.

At the same time the faction leader remarked that the Arab world
and Iran support Armenia in struggle for the Armenian Genocide
recognition. “Iran has not declared it at the state level but it sides
with Armenia. Actually, the majority of states arrived at a conclusion
that the Armenian Genocide in Ottoman Empire should be recognized,”
Levon Mkrtchian said.

Armenians Stage Anti-Turk March Over Massacre

ARMENIANS STAGE ANTI-TURK MARCH OVER MASSACRE

Middle East Times, Egypt
April 17 2006

ATHENS – Around 300 Greeks of Armenian descent marched on the
Turkish embassy in Athens on April 15 to mark the 91st anniversary
of massacres allegedly committed against their kin by the Ottoman
Empire during World War I. The message warned Ankara that “the gates
of Europe, which it so greatly desires to cross, will remain closed”
if it continues to refuse to recognize the 1915-17 massacre. Turkey
is seeking to join the European Union, of which Greece is a member.

Armenian deputy FM, Emir of Qatar discuss bilateral relations

ARKA News Agency, Armenia
April 14 2006

ARMENIAN DEPUTY FM, EMIR OF QATAR DISCUSS BILATERAL RELATIONS

Yerevan, April 14. /ARKA/. RA Deputy Foreign Minister Gegham
Gharibjanyan and Emir of Qatar Sheikh Amad bin Khalif Al Tani
discussed the Armenian-Qatari relations in Doha.
The sides addressed bilateral cooperation in international
organizations, stressing the importance of mutual visits. Preliminary
agreements were reached.
The sides also discussed the terms of the first meeting of the
Armenian-Qatari intergovernmental commission, as well as the details
of Armenia’s participation in the 15th Asian Games in Doha, on
December 1-15, 2006, as a guest of honor.
During his visit, Gharibjanyan also held meetings with Qatari Foreign
Minister Sheikh Amad bin Jasem bin Jaber Al-Tani and State Foreign
Minister Ahmad bin Abdallah al Mahmudi.
The Armenian delegation took part in the 6th international conference
`Democracy, development and free trade’ in Doha on April 11, 2006.
About 600 representatives from various countries took part in the
conference. P.T. -0–

ULP Expects Success

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ULP EXPECTS SUCCESS

[06:55 pm] 14 April, 2006

Gourgen Arsenyan, head of the United Labor Party
faction, predicted at the journalists’ request what
political powers will be represented in the Parliament
formed in 2007.

`The ULP will be there by all means, as well as the
Republican party, the National Unity, the ARF, the
Orinats Yerkir, plus one of the newly formed party
(Arsenyan did not mentioned whether he meant
`Prospering Armenia’ or the `Alliance’), the Justice
bloc will not be represented as it is, but probably
some of its components will be’, said Gourgen
Arsenyan.

Viktor Dallakyan, secretary of the Justice faction
informed that the bloc as it is was a pre-election
structure and he did not exclude the possibility that
it will not preserve the same format, but he said it
operates today and there can be no doubt about it. As
for the People’s Party, according to Dallakyan, it
will be represented in the Parliament in contrast to
the ULP.

The other Parliamentary powers abstained from making
predictions saying that the people are to elect and
only they can decided the structure of the Parliament.

Die of anger, defiant Iran tells the West

Die of anger, defiant Iran tells the West
By Anne Penketh and Angus McDowall

The Independent/UK
14 April 2006

Iran kept up its defiant rhetoric after the head of the international
nuclear agency urged Iranian leaders to co-operate in reining in
sensitive activities that have raised suspicions that they are bent on
building a bomb.

Mohamed ElBaradei, the director general of the International Atomic
Energy Agency, was circumspect after holding talks with Iranian
nuclear experts aimed at heading off a growing crisis over Iran’s
nuclear ambitions. But there was no apparent breakthrough.

He confirmed that he had discussed with his Iranian hosts a UN
proposal for Iran to resume a freeze on uranium enrichment until
questions over the full extent of its nuclear programme have been
resolved.

However, the chief Iranian nuclear negotiator, Ali Larijani, indicated
suspension was not an option during a joint news conference with Mr
ElBaradei. “Such proposals are not very important ones,” he said.

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad issued a typically inflammatory
statement only hours before Mr ElBaradei arrived in Tehran. “Our
answer to those who are angry about Iran obtaining the full nuclear
cycle is one phrase, we say: Be angry and die of this anger,” he said.

“We will not hold talks with anyone about the Iranian nation’s right
(to enrichment) and no one has the right to step back, even one iota.”

Mr ElBaradei went to Tehran as he prepares to report back to the UN
Security Council at the end of the month on Iranian compliance with
IAEA and UN demands. If Iran continues its defiant stand, it risks
increased diplomatic pressure from the UN although Russia and China –
Iran’s allies on the council – are adamant that sanctions should not
be imposed.

Uranium enrichment is the key to developing the fuel for a reactor or
for a nuclear weapon. Although Iran insists that its intentions are
peaceful, the announcement on Tuesday that its scientists had enriched
uranium prompted a chorus of international condemnation.

Even Russia and China, urged Iran to resume its uranium enrichment
freeze.

Estimates vary as to how long it would take Iran to produce a nuclear
bomb, which requires 90 per cent levels of enriched uranium but it is
at least two years away. So far, Iran says it has only mastered the
technology for enriching uranium to the 3 per cent needed for reactor
fuel.

The timeline for building a weapon depends on Iran’s ability to
operate large numbers of spinning centrifuges that enrich uranium but
which are unreliable. Nuclear experts say it would take 200
centrifuges at full capacity for six to nine months to make sufficient
highly enriched uranium for a bomb – without the IAEA safeguards that
are in place.

Iran has announced that it had enriched uranium using 164 centrifuges
at its Natanz plant. Mr ElBaradei said yesterday that IAEA inspectors
had taken samples but was unable to confirm Iran’s claim.

Iran also reaffirmed on Wednesday that it intends to move toward
large-scale uranium enrichment involving 3,000 centrifuges by late
2006, and then expand the programme to 54,000 centrifuges. However, no
time-frame was given.

Mr ElBaradei said yesterday that the IAEA inspectors had “not seen
diversion of nuclear material for weapons purposes but the picture is
still hazy and not very clear”. He noted that Iran had failed to come
clean on the full extent of its activities for 20 years.

Mr ElBaradei also held talks with Gholamreza Aghazadeh, head of Iran’s
Atomic Energy Organisation. He did not meet Mr Ahmadinejad, or Iranian
spiritual leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei who has supreme authority over
the nuclear programme, which has become a matter of national pride.

Iran kept up its defiant rhetoric after the head of the international
nuclear agency urged Iranian leaders to co-operate in reining in
sensitive activities that have raised suspicions that they are bent on
building a bomb.

Mohamed ElBaradei, the director general of the International Atomic
Energy Agency, was circumspect after holding talks with Iranian
nuclear experts aimed at heading off a growing crisis over Iran’s
nuclear ambitions. But there was no apparent breakthrough.

He confirmed that he had discussed with his Iranian hosts a UN
proposal for Iran to resume a freeze on uranium enrichment until
questions over the full extent of its nuclear programme have been
resolved.

However, the chief Iranian nuclear negotiator, Ali Larijani, indicated
suspension was not an option during a joint news conference with Mr
ElBaradei. “Such proposals are not very important ones,” he said.

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad issued a typically inflammatory
statement only hours before Mr ElBaradei arrived in Tehran. “Our
answer to those who are angry about Iran obtaining the full nuclear
cycle is one phrase, we say: Be angry and die of this anger,” he said.

“We will not hold talks with anyone about the Iranian nation’s right
(to enrichment) and no one has the right to step back, even one iota.”

Mr ElBaradei went to Tehran as he prepares to report back to the UN
Security Council at the end of the month on Iranian compliance with
IAEA and UN demands. If Iran continues its defiant stand, it risks
increased diplomatic pressure from the UN although Russia and China –
Iran’s allies on the council – are adamant that sanctions should not
be imposed.

Uranium enrichment is the key to developing the fuel for a reactor or
for a nuclear weapon. Although Iran insists that its intentions are
peaceful, the announcement on Tuesday that its scientists had enriched
uranium prompted a chorus of international condemnation. Even Russia
and China, urged Iran to resume its uranium enrichment freeze.

Estimates vary as to how long it would take Iran to produce a nuclear
bomb, which requires 90 per cent levels of enriched uranium but it is
at least two years away. So far, Iran says it has only mastered the
technology for enriching uranium to the 3 per cent needed for reactor
fuel.

The timeline for building a weapon depends on Iran’s ability to
operate large numbers of spinning centrifuges that enrich uranium but
which are unreliable. Nuclear experts say it would take 200
centrifuges at full capacity for six to nine months to make sufficient
highly enriched uranium for a bomb – without the IAEA safeguards that
are in place.

Iran has announced that it had enriched uranium using 164 centrifuges
at its Natanz plant. Mr ElBaradei said yesterday that IAEA inspectors
had taken samples but was unable to confirm Iran’s claim.

Iran also reaffirmed on Wednesday that it intends to move toward
large-scale uranium enrichment involving 3,000 centrifuges by late
2006, and then expand the programme to 54,000 centrifuges. However, no
time-frame was given.

Mr ElBaradei said yesterday that the IAEA inspectors had “not seen
diversion of nuclear material for weapons purposes but the picture is
still hazy and not very clear”. He noted that Iran had failed to come
clean on the full extent of its activities for 20 years.

Mr ElBaradei also held talks with Gholamreza Aghazadeh, head of Iran’s
Atomic Energy Organisation. He did not meet Mr Ahmadinejad, or Iranian
spiritual leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei who has supreme authority over
the nuclear programme, which has become a matter of national pride.

Hungary jails Azerbaijani killer of an Armenian

Kazinform, Kazakhstan
April 14 2006

Hungary jails Azerbaijani killer of an Armenian

BUDAPEST. April 14, 2006. KAZINFORM – An Azerbaijani army officer has
been jailed for life for murdering an Armenian while the two were
taking a Nato course in English in Hungary.
Safarov was also convicted of trying to kill a second Armenian;
KAZINFORM cites BBC News.

Lt Ramil Safarov confessed to hacking Lt Gurgen Markarian to death
with an axe in February 2004 in a dormitory used by Partnership for
Peace trainees.

The Budapest court sentenced Safarov to life in prison, with a
30-year minimum term before any parole hearings.

Azerbaijan and Armenia have been bitter rivals since a war in the
1980s-90s.

Verdict welcomed

Safarov, 29, showed little emotion as Judge Andras Vaskuti read out
the sentence.

He had claimed that he had been driven to his act by the plight of
fellow Azerbaijanis, including close family relatives, in the
Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.

He also said he had been provoked by what he called the insulting
behaviour of Lt Markarian towards the Azerbaijani flag.

But the judge ruled that the murder was pre-meditated and had been
carried out with extreme cruelty.

Had his fellow officers not restrained him, the judge added, Safarov
would have killed a second Armenian officer as well.

A lawyer representing the victim’s family welcomed the sentence as a
“good decision for the Hungarian court and for [Armenian] society”.

Safarov’s lawyer said he planned to appeal against the verdict.