Author: Yeghisabet Arthur

ARMENIAN PARVANA COMPANY PERMITTED TO JOIN ANELIK MONEY TRANSFER SYSTEM

ARKA
June 5, 2008

YEREVAN, June 5. /ARKA/. Armenian Central Bank permitted the Parvana
Company to join the Anelik payment system. The CBA made the decision
at a regular board meeting chaired by Vice-Chairman Artur Javadyan.

Parvana was issued a license to provide money transfer services in
august 2007.

In addition to the commercial banks, six non-banking Armenian
organizations; HayPost, Depi Tun LLC, Elver LLC, Parvana CJSC, Tandem
Payments LLC, and Tel Cel CJSC; are currently joined in individual
money transfer systems in Armenia.

The following international payment systems are operating in Armenia
are SWIFT, Western Union, Money Gram, Anelik, Unistream, Bistraya
Pochta;, Interexpress, Contact, Lider, Migom, Privat Money Transfer,
STB Express, Faster, Travelex.

ELDAR SABIROGLU: "DIVERSION TO BE COMMITTED BY ARMENIA ON 90TH ANNIVERSARY OF AZERBAIJANI ARMY WILL BE PREVENTED"

Azeri Press Agency
June 5 2008
Azerbaijan

Baku. Mahbuba Gasimbayli-APA. Diversion to be committed by Armenia
on the 90th anniversary of Azerbaijani Armed Forces on June 26 will
be prevented", Eldar Sabiroglu, Spokesman for Azerbaijani Defense
Ministry told APA.

"It is difficult to prognosticate which diversion will be committed by
Armenia, but diversion of Armenians will be prevented by Azerbaijani
Army irrespective of its day and time. Azerbaijani Army protects
contact line vigilantly. All measures are taken to prevent any
diversion of the enemy", he said.

U.S DIPLOMAT TO DISCUSS KARABAKH IN MOSCOW WITH PARTNERS IN MINSK GROUP

Interfax News Service
June 4 2008
Russia

Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Matthew Bryza is arriving in
Moscow on Wednesday.

Bryza will hold consultations with the partners in Organization for
Security and Cooperation in Europe’s (OSCE) Minsk Group on Nagorno
Karabakh, the U.S. Embassy in Russia told Interfax.

The Minsk Group is co-chaired by Russia, the United States and France.

The consultations will be held in Moscow on Wednesday and Thursday,
the embassy said.

Bryza will have a series of meetings in St. Petersburg on Friday,
it said.

Bryza visited Baku before traveling to Moscow.

BRYZA: WE BACK AZERBAIJAN’s TERRITORIAL INTEGRITY

State Telegraph Agency of the Republic of Azerbaijan
June 4, 2008 Wednesday

The OSCE Minsk Group`s American Co-Chair Matthew Bryza said the group
backs the territorial integrity of Azerbaijan, which is conflicting
with Armenia over the Nagorno-Karabakh.

Speaking to AzerTAc`s reporter in Baku, Bryza said now we are seeking
for ways to solve the problem through political talks.

He stressed a forthcoming meeting between the Azerbaijani and Armenian
presidents in Saint Petersburg will mark a new phase in finding a
solution to the dispute.

Bryza said what the co-chairs can do is only help create favorable
conditions for the conduct of the talks.

I think both the people of Azerbaijan and Armenia want a peaceful
solution to the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, he stressed.

17 WINKS OF DESTINY

KarabakhOpen
05-06-2008 14:28:56

This is the title of the festival dedicated to the jubilee of the
renowned composer Michael Tariverdiyev. Concerts took place in
Yerevan and on June 3 there was a concert in Shushi. The works by
Tariverdiyev were performed by the Russian pianist Alexander Grikol
and the trio Meridian.

His wife Vera Tariverdiyeva said she was eager to organize a concert
in Shushi. Tariverdiyev was born in Tbilisi but his parents came
from Karabakh.

"Michael Tariverdiyev is back home, and I hope not for just a few
days," said Vera Tariverdiyeva.

AZG Armenian Daily #103, 31/05/2008

Armenian Genocide

ARMENIAN LOBBY SCARCELY MORE POWERFUL THAN THE TURKISH ONE

The Diaspora, of course, greatly contributes the international
recognition of the Armenian Genocide. The contribution of the
Armenian lobbies is most remarkable, although the progress in the run
for international recognition of the Genocide cannot be explained only
by the Diapsora’s efforts, as that would be beyond the powers of both
Armenia and the Diaspora. The secret of the success of the recognition
campaign is not in the Diaspora’s capability of imposing certain
decisions upon Parliament of different countries, but rather in the
irrefutability of the historical truth.

Expert of the Armenian Research Center of Ankara, Yildiz Deveci,
published in the institute’s May 28 bulletin published an article
entitled "The Scottish Armenian Lobby and the Position of the
Protestant Church", which is aimed at explaining the Catholic Church’s
initiative on the Armenian Genocide by the influence of the Armenian
lobby.

This is what he wrote, "By now the 1915 events have been recognized as
genocide by the parliaments of 19 states. The influence of the
Armenian lobbies of those countries in this issue is well
known. Nevertheless parliaments of certain states with very little
Armenian population sometimes tend to display similar attitudes, which
shows that the power of the Armenian lobbies does not depend on the
number of the Armenian population.

In this regard the activity of the Armenian lobby in Scotland is
remarkable. For the first time the question of the `Armenian Genocide’
was included in the agenda of the Edinburgh municipality council in
2005, by the initiative of Liberal Democrats. In despite of objection
of certain MPs, the council qualified the 1915 events as genocide.

Although in 2006 member of Edinburgh Municipality Council Phil Etridge
demanded to support Turkey’s proposal to establish a joint historians’
commission for studying the 1915 events and stated that `in England
the rights of the minorities are always respected and the Armenians
pretend that they are the only minority massacred in the war’, his
demands were rejected.

Recently the Armenian lobby of Scotland, pursuing the recognition of
the `Armenian Genocide’, has been trying to put the Scottish
protestant church to work. The Elder council of the Scottish
protestant church, which was founded in the 1690’s, has made decision
to ensure the recognition of the Armenian Genocide in England. This
decision will surely have some effect in the British parliament, as
the Armenian lobby of England periodically states that it expects an
`appropriate’ decision on that matter from England during the coming
couple of years."

Although the Parliament of England still seems unwilling to make a
certain decision on 1915 events and states that they can be hardly
qualified as genocide, the efforts of the Armenian lobby and the
recognition of the Armenian Genocide in Scotland and Wales, make us
suppose that hot arguments on the Armenian Genocide will soon occur in
England.

By H. Chaqrian, translated by A.M.

Process of forgiving receivables of ArmenTel’s fixed communication
subscribers finishes on May 27

2008-05-27 17:05:00

ArmInfo. The process of forgiving the receivables of fixed
communication subscribers of ArmenTel company (Beeline brand) is
finishing on May 27.

ArmenTel’s PR service told ArmInfo that after completion of the process
of debt forgiveness, the subscribers will have a chance to see the real
amount of the debt for April 2008. Disconnection of the phone
communication of the specified subscribers (who make up 20% of the
total number ArmenTel’s fixed communication subscribers) will be put
off till July. Thus, debtor-subscribers’ communication won’t be
disconnected before July 1. If a subscriber has completely repaid the
debt, the amount for the period from January till March, will remain as
prepayment on his/her account.

To recall, on May 14 Beeline took a decision not to levy from the
subscribers the amounts of "from fixed to mobile numbers" calls which
were not settled in the specified period (from January till March) and
were presented in the bills for April.

ArmenTel CJSC is a branch of VimpelCom OJSC (Russia) and represents the
Beeline trademark in Armenia. ArmenTel provides fixed and mobile
communication services in Armenia.

KHAZAR IBRAHIM: "AZERBAIJAN EXPECTS ARMENIA TO DEMONSTRATE CONSTRUCTIVENESS AND WILL"

Today.Az
tics/45241.html
May 26 2008
Azerbaijan

We expect Armenian side to be constructive and demonstrate will during
the meeting of the Presidents of Azerbaijan and Armenia to be held
in Saint Petersburg.

The due announcement was made by Azerbaijan’s Foreign Minister Khazar
Ibrahim at a traditional briefing.

He said Azerbaijan’s Foreign Minister Elmar Mamedyarov noted recently
that there are chances to advance in the negotiation process.

"If the Armenian side demonstrates will, the attainment of a
breakthrough in the negotiation process will be possible. And we
expect the Armenian side to demonstrate will, realize the reality and
undertake steps. Only in this case will the breakthrough be possible",
said Ibrahim.

SLOVAKIA: THOSE WHO DECLINE GENOCIDE WILL BE IMPRISONED

Panorama.am
19:53 26/05/2008

Till the end of this year the Parliament of Slovakia will make
correspondent legislative changes and reforms by defining imprisonment
for those who decline Armenian Genocide, said the deputy Prime
Minister and the Minister of Justice of Slovakia Stephan Harrapin
in Yerevan. According to him in January-February 2009 the norm will
be implemented.

S. Harrapin said that there is a law in Slovakia which defines a
punishment for those who decline Holocaust.

The Parliament will make reforms by using the same point of punishment
for the other genocides.

Note that according to the law declining of Armenian Genocide by
a citizen of Slovakia and by anyone in the territory of Slovakia
will define 5 years imprisonment. According to Harrapin even if the
punishment is too strict every democratic country should treat the
question like that.

Remind: the fact of condemning Armenian Genocide was adopted by the
Parliament of Slovakia in 2004.

PRESS RELEASE
Catholicosate of Cilicia
Communication and Information Department
Contact: V.Rev.Fr.Krikor Chiftjian, Communications Officer
Tel: (04) 410001, 410003
Fax: (04) 419724
E- mail: [email protected]
Web:

PO Box 70 317
Antelias-Lebanon

Armenian version: nian.htm

THE ARMENIAN CHURCH PARTICIPATES IN THE WCC ECUMENICAL OFFICERS’ MEETING

The Ecumenical officers of World Council of Churches (WCC) member churches
convened a meeting in the organization’s Geneva headquarters on May 20-22.
Bishop Nareg Alemezian (Ecumenical Affairs officer of the Catholicosate of
Cilicia) and Father Hovagim Manougian (Assistant to the director of the
Ecumenical Relations Office of the Catholicosate of All Armenians in
Etchmiyadzine).

Some 40 representatives from churches in Asia, Africa, Europe, Latin
America, Northern America and the Middle East participated in the meeting.

The following issues were discussed during the meeting: the main ecumenical
facets of each church, the reports of WCC project managers, the activities
of the WCC Youth Department, ecumenical relations and the mission of
churches in globalized societies, the imperative for the unity of churches,
the essential importance of ecumenical relations, the situation in the
Middle East and the need to overcome violence, issues related to the global
climate, immigration as an international phenomenon and understandings of
Christianity’s mission and evangelism today.

Bishop Nareg presented during the discussion interfaith and interchurch
activities of the Catholicosate of Cilicia and held meetings with
representatives from various churches, shedding light on the socio-economic
challenges Lebanon faces currently.

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The Armenian Catholicosate of Cilicia is one of the two Catholicosates of
the Armenian Orthodox Church. For detailed information about the Ecumenical
activities of the Cilician Catholicosate, you may refer to the web page of
the Catholicosate, The Cilician
Catholicosate, the administrative center of the church is located in
Antelias, Lebanon.