Author: Zakarian Garnik

BAYKAL LOBBIES IN LONDON FOR TURKEY’S EU MEMBERSHIP

Turkish Press
Sept 29 2005

Press Review
SABAH

Opposition People’s Party (CHP) leader Deniz Baykal said yesterday
that Turkey had fulfilled its obligations on the road to European
Union membership. Speaking to the BBC on his trip to London to hold a
series of contacts to push Turkey’s EU membership bid, Baykal said that
Turkey had seen great changes in recent years. Regarding the Armenian
issue, the CHP leader said that the European Parliament’s demand for
recognition of the so-called Armenian genocide was a trap, adding that
that shouldn’t be a precondition for Ankara’s full membership. /Sabah/

ArmInfo News Agency, Armenia
Sept 28 2005

ARMENIAN GOVERNMENT APPROVES PROGRAM ON RESTORATION OF LAKE SEVAN
ECOSYSTEM FOR 2006

YEREVAN, SEPTEMBER 28. ARMINFO. The Armenian Government has approved
a program of actions on restoration of the ecosystem of Lake Sevan
for 2006.

The Armenian Governmental press-service reports that the program is
included in the draft budget for 2006. Besides the restoration of the
ecosystem and promotion of development of the biological diversity of
the basin, the program provides for fulfillment of the measures and
programs on rational use of natural resources for 2006.

The governmental program is based on the RA Law on Lake Sevan. It
takes into account the tasks, principles and actions stipulated by
the “Law on approval of the annual and complex program on
restoration, preservation and rational use of the ecosystem of Lake
Sevan.” To note, the program on Sevan plans 30 sm. annual rise of the
lake’s level.

The Record (Bergen County, NJ)
September 28, 2005 Wednesday
All Editions

Andrew Antranig Shahinian; fostered Armenian culture;
Helped preserve folk music, art

By PETER J. SAMPSON, STAFF WRITER, North Jersey Media Group

Andrew Antranig Shahinian of Oradell, a prominent member of the
Armenian-American community whose passion for native music and art
was celebrated, died Saturday after a long illness. He was 87.

Mr. Shahinian was born in Yerevan, Armenia, on June 2, 1918. Fleeing
ethnic genocide at the end of World War I, the family immigrated to
Syracuse, N.Y., in 1920 and relocated to New York City a decade
later.

An accomplished violinist, the young Mr. Shahinian turned down a
scholarship to the Juilliard School of Music and pursued a career in
graphic arts.

Enlisting in the U.S. Army during World War II, he became a pilot and
flight instructor, flying B-29 bombers. At the end of the war, he
resumed his career as a photoengraver.

Over the years, Mr. Shahinian and his partners acquired more than a
dozen firms, making the Master Eagle Family of Companies into one of
the largest graphic arts businesses in the country. He retired in the
late 1980s.

Mr. Shahinian was active in numerous Armenian-American organizations,
serving in leadership positions in the Armenian General Benevolent
Union, the Eastern Diocese of the Armenian Apostolic Church of
America and the Armenian Library and Museum of American, and on
various ad hoc committees dedicated to the advancement of Armenian
culture and the preservation and development of the fledging Armenian
nation.

He led humanitarian fund-raising and relief efforts to assist
Armenian refugees displaced by massacres and ethnic cleansing in the
Nagorno-Karabakh region of the Soviet Republic of Azerbaijan.

At home, Mr. Shahinian was known as “the rock,” because as the
patriarch of large extended family, he could always be counted on
when someone needed help, said his son, Armen Shahinian.

As a first-generation Armenian, he took pride in and was dedicated to
preserving the heritage and culture of an ancient people who at
various times in their history have come close to annihilation, said
Armen Shahinian.

He supported Armenian artists and writers at every opportunity and
possessed an encyclopedic knowledge of Armenian songs, taught by his
parents, that served his efforts to preserve folk music.

Mr. Shahinian is survived by his wife, Alice; five children, Steven
Shahinian of Midway, Ky.; Armen Shahinian of Franklin Lakes; Virginia
Devitre Shahinian of Cohasset, Mass.; Paul Shahinian of Wyckoff; and
Linda Pedrazzini of Switzerland; 13 grandchildren and two
great-grandchildren.

A wake will be held at St. Leon’s Armenian Church in Fair Lawn on
Thursday from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. Funeral services will be held
there Friday at 10 a.m. Arrangements are by William G. Basralian
Funeral Home, Oradell.

Donations are being directed to the Armenian General Benevolent
Union, 55 E. 59th St., New York, N.Y. 10022, for the AGBU Karabakh
Centennial Repopulation Project to aid displaced Armenian refugees.

SPEAKERS, SUPPORTERS OF ARMENIAN CONFERENCE TO BE SUED
By Cihan News Agency

Zaman, Turkey
Sept 28 2005

zaman.com

The Turkish Judicial Officials Union have filed a complaint against
17 people for organizing last week’s controversial conference on the
Ottoman Armenians, and for making statements about the legal process
regarding the suspension of conference.

The Chairman of the Judicial Union, Kemal Kerincsiz and accompanying
lawyers submitted their files to Beyoglu Public Prosecution Office
on Tuesday.

The Judicial Union had blocked the organization of the conference
at Bogazici University. The conference was later switched to Bilgi
University.

ARMENIAN MILITARIZATION CONTINUES: YEREVAN BUYS AIRPLANES

Journal of Turkish weekly
Sept 27 2005

YEREVAN – Deputy Defense Minister Artur Aghabekian on Saturday
confirmed reports that Armenia purchased ten Russian-made military
aircraft from Slovakia last year, significantly boosting its air
force, Emil Danielyan from RFE/RL reported yesterday. Aghabekian said
`They are fully capable of performing combat tasks. The new aircraft
enhanced our military potential.’

Aghabekian declined to disclose the cost of the aircraft purchase.

He also insisted that the Su-25s are not outdated despite having been
used by the Slovak military for over a decade.

Armenian forces have occupied almost 20 percent of Azerbaijani
territories and Armenia seeks to strengthen its army in case Azerbaijan
attempts to recapture the occupied territories. Armenia has thorny
relations with other neighbors Turkey and Georgia.

CONFERENCE ON ARMENIANS CONCLUDES

NTV MSNBC, Turkey
Sept 26 2005

A conference discussing Armenians in the declining years of the
Ottoman Empire found there was strong evidence that massacres and
widespread deportations had been carried out, but stopped short of
describing the acts as genocide.

Guncelleme: 04:29 ET 26 Eylul 2005 PazartesiISTANBUL – Turkey could
not be held responsible for the actions of a state that no longer
existed, Professor Oran said.

The conference, dealing with what has been described as the last taboo
in Turkey, concluded in Istanbul Sunday, despite delegates having to
run the gauntlet of nationalist protestors throwing eggs and tomatoes
at them as they entered the conference hall at Bilgi University.

The conference was staged even though on Friday an Istanbul court
had imposed a ban on its being held. After the ruling by the court,
deans of many of Turkey’s universities said they would opposed the
decision, saying it threatened the autonomy of their institutions.

Addressing the conference on Sunday Professor Baskin Oran of Ankara
University’s Political Sciences Department said that the event had
broken down the last taboo in Turkey. “Concept of class, criticisms
of Ataturk, Cyprus, socialism, communism and Kurdistan are no more
taboos in Turkey,” he said. “There was only one taboo left, and it
was Armenian issue. Now, it is no more a taboo.”

According to Associate Professor Taner Akcam, the leaders of the Party
of Union and Progress had decided to remove those non Turkish-ethnic
groups not of Turkish in the part of the Ottoman Empire that is
now Turkey.

“The Ittihat and Terakki Party (Party of Union & Progress) had a plan
to purify whole Anatolia of the non-Turks, starting from the Aegean
Region, before the World War I, and this plan was carried out in entire
Anatolia during the years of the war,” Taner told the conference.

“Ottoman documents indicate that the decision to relocate the Armenians
was made to end a deeper problem defined as the ‘eastern problem’
and to end the dissolution process of the Ottoman Empire.

This decision was not a result of a need that erupted during the war.

There are many documents in hand with respect to the destruction
of Armenians.”

However, Dr Ahmet Kuyas of Galatasaray University said that the policy
of relocation, decided upon by four of the leading figures in the
Ittihat and Terakki Party, had had a darker side, with a series of
massacres also taking place. Those responsible for these acts were
the Minister of War Enver Pasa, Talat Pasa, Dr Bahattin Sakir and Dr
Nazim, he said.

A surprise speaker in the conference was Cevdet Aykan, formerly a
minister from the long defunct right wing Justice Party (AP), who
spoke on the Armenian community in the Tokat region in eastern Turkey,
which he had covered in his published memoirs. According to Aykan,
out of Tokat’s population of 28,000 in the early years of the 20th
century, 8,800 were Armenian. He said that in the census of 1924 the
Armenian population was down to about 700.

“It was not a good thing,” he said “Thousands of Armenians lost their
houses, country, homeland and some cases their lives,” he said. Aykan
said he had chosen to take part in the conference to repay debt
of conscience. The events of 1915 were interpreted differently by
different parliaments and that Turkey should not see the civilised
world and those that run it as enemies, he said.

Another delegate at the two day conference, Professor Dr Ilhan
Cuhadaroglu, said that he felt a feeling of mourning at the conference
that almost moved him to tears.

“I feel like asking was I in Bulgaria or Greece,” he said.

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1) In Turkey, a First-ever Debate about Armenian Genocide
2) Groups in Javakhk Advocate Autonomy
3) System of A Down to Rally for Vote on Armenian Genocide Legislation
4) Conference Produces New Level of Cooperation among Europe’s Armenians
5) Balakian’s ‘The Burning Tigris’ Wins Raphael Lemkin Prize

1) In Turkey, a First-ever Debate about Armenian Genocide

On eve of EU accession talks, conference discussing Armenians in the declining
years of the Ottoman Empire found there was strong evidence that massacres and
widespread deportations had been carried out, but stopped short of describing
the acts as genocide.

ISTANBUL (Christian Science Monitor/Guncel)–Opposition to a conference about
the genocide of Armenians moved from Turkish courtrooms to the street over the
weekend as scholars discussed the issue publicly for the first time on Turkish
soil.
Turkish nationalists, who back the official line that there was no Armenian
genocide, sought to make their views embarrassingly plain by hurling eggs and
tomatoes outside Istanbul Bilgi University, a back-up venue used to skirt a
court order Thursday that sought to shut down the conference at another
location.
But participants cast the event as `a breakthrough for expanding civil
society’–a key issue as Turkey prepares to open talks Oct. 3 over
accession to
the European Union. “The most important thing is that this [conference] is
happening at all,” said Cengiz Candar, a prominent columnist for Bugun
newspaper, who was hit by an egg as he spoke outside the conference. “It will
help to recoup some of Turkey’s negative image and, more fundamentally, its
commitment to the EU and democracy.”
Aspirations for EU membership have prompted certain democratic changes (at
least on paper) in recent years. EU officials say they view the conference
as a
benchmark for tolerance, warning after the court ruling of a “provocation”
that
could hurt Turkey’s case.
Last May, the justice minister said the conference was a “stab in the Turkish
nation’s back,” prompting it to be postponed, and tapping into hard-line
elements.
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul,
keenly aware of the challenges ahead in EU talks, spoke forcefully in favor of
the conference after the Thursday court decision. Erdogan said he wants a
Turkey “where liberties are practiced to the full.”
Halil Berktay, coordinator of the history department at Sabanci University,
says the opposition was not surprising. “This is a country of more than 70
million, with a strong nationalist past; there are strong forces opposed to
the
European Union, to democracy and opening up,” he says.
But, he adds, “the question of what happened in 1915-1916 is not a mystery,
it’s not like we know just 5 percent. We know 85 percent, so the question is
not finding more evidence. The question is liberating scholarship from the
nationalist taboos…”
“Turkey has to confront its history, and the fact of the violence of 1915 and
1916, and lack of accountability, sanctioned more [state] violence,” says
Fatma
Muge Gocek, a sociologist at the University of Michigan and a conference
adviser.
“The discourse is not new; the fact that it is said in Turkey is what
matters,”
says Gocek. “They are great developments.”
Candar shares the optimism. “The judiciary is one of the most reactionary and
backward institutions in Turkey, and the illegal [court] verdict reflects the
inherent problems,” he charges. “But the fact that we are discussing this is
ample evidence to be optimistic.”
A surprise speaker in the conference was Cevdet Aykan, formerly a minister
from
the long defunct right wing Justice Party (AP), who spoke on the Armenian
community in the Tokat region in eastern Turkey, which he had covered in his
published memoirs. According to Aykan, out of Tokat’s population of 28,000 in
the early years of the 20th century, 8,800 were Armenian. He said that in the
census of 1924 the Armenian population was down to about 700.
`It was not a good thing,’ he said `Thousands of Armenians lost their houses,
country, homeland and some cases their lives,’ he said. Aykan said he had
chosen to take part in the conference to repay debt of conscience. The events
of 1915 were interpreted differently by different parliaments and that Turkey
should not see the civilized world and those that run it as enemies, he said.
Another delegate at the two day conference, Professor Dr. Ilhan Cuhadaroglu,
said that he felt a feeling of mourning at the conference that almost moved
him
to tears.
`I feel like asking was I in Bulgaria or Greece,’ he said
Candar shares the optimism. “The judiciary is one of the most reactionary and
backward institutions in Turkey, and the illegal [court] verdict reflects the
inherent problems,” he charges. “But the fact that we are discussing this is
ample evidence to be optimistic.”

2) Groups in Javakhk Advocate Autonomy

TBILISI (Civil Georgia)–A group of non-governmental organizations based in
Georgia’s southern region of Javakhk, predominately populated by ethnic
Armenians, held a conference on September 23-24 to discuss current problems in
the region.
In a resolution adopted at the conference, the Council of Armenian
non-governmental organizations in Javakhk called on the Georgian leadership to
consider granting autonomy to the region with `broad authority for
self-governance, including the right to hold elections for all bodies of
governance.’
The resolution also says that by offering the broadest form of autonomy to
South Ossetia and Abkhazia, the Georgian authorities are `discriminating
against other ethnicities living in Georgia–the rights of [other ethnicities]
who have demonstrated civil loyalty are being ignored,’ it reads.
Participants of the conference stated that a federal arrangement of Georgia
could be the best solution to the problem and called on the Georgian
leadership
to consider creating a `Samtskhe-Javakheti Parliament through free and direct
elections, which would be authorized to carry out cultural, education social
and economic policies, as well as [will be authorized] to protect public
order.’

3) System of A Down to Rally for Vote on Armenian Genocide Legislation

BAND RALLIES FANS, ALONG WITH ARMENIAN NATIONAL COMMITTEE OF AMERICA (ANCA) IN
FRONT OF SPEAKER HASTERT’S BATAVIA, IL OFFICE TUESDAY, SEPT 27 AT NOON

LOS ANGELES–System Of A Down, one of rock’s most daring and innovative bands,
have just announced that they–along with their fans, the Armenian National
Committee of America (ANCA; ), Axis of Justice
(<;) and the Armenian Youth
Federation–will visit the Batavia office of Rep. Dennis Hastert on Tuesday,
September 27 (Noon) to ask Speaker Hastert to `do the right thing’ and keep
his
commitment to hold a vote on the pending Armenian Genocide legislation. If
passed, the legislation will officially recognize Turkey’s destruction of 1.5
million Armenians between 1915 and 1923. The band have invited their fans to
join with them in this effort by attending the rally and have set up a system
by which fans can directly email Speaker Hastert on the issue.*
System Of A Down’s four band members–Serj Tankian, Daron Malakian, Shavo
Odadjian and John Dolmayan–are of Armenian descent and have made awareness of
the genocide, and genocide around the world, a central message of the band.
All
have lost family members to the Armenian genocide. `Dennis do the right thing’
stated Serj Tankian, `I just visited my 97 year old grandfather, my only link
to the far past, and promised him that I would go and try to talk to Dennis
Hastert, Speaker of the House, and make sure that he takes this opportunity to
bring up the Armenian Genocide Resolution to the floor of the House of
Representatives. This is a personal issue to me and System.’ The System Of A
Down/ANCA rally will take place at the offices of Rep. Dennis Hastert – 27
North River Street, Batavia, Illinois (about an hour from downtown Chicago).
The rally is scheduled for 12Noon-2:00 PM on Tuesday, September 27. The
Armenian community, activists, and the band’s fans from across the greater
Chicago area are expected to attend the rally.
Members of System Of A Down and Aram Suren Hamparian, Executive Director of
ANCA, are available to discuss the rally and pending legislation on Tuesday,
September 27 and Friday, September 30, the day of their concert at Chicago’s
Allstate Arena. On September 15, the House International Relations Committee
overwhelmingly approved legislation recognizing the Armenian Genocide, despite
objections from both Turkey and the Bush Administration. Despite his previous
public support for the measure in 2000, Speaker Hastert has twice prevented
the
Armenian Genocide legislation from coming to a full vote in the House. Today
the fate of this human rights issue rests in the Speaker’s hands. He has two
choices: either allow a vote on the Armenian Genocide Resolution, giving the
435 Members of the U.S. House a chance to cast their ballots on this human
rights measure or, delay, defer, and ultimately defeat the Armenian Genocide
Resolution by refusing to bring the measure to a vote of the full U.S. House.
The rally is in support of a fair and full vote in the House of
Representatives, ending U.S. denial of this crime and opening the doors to
justice – to the restoration, reparation, and restitution owed to the victims
of genocide.
* System Of A Down have asked their fans to take action and send a free WebFax
urging Hastert to hold a vote on the Armenian Genocide Resolution:

<;u=c9oct>
gemail.com/arch/Hit?m=zjomj33qc&amp;u=c9oct
<;http://capwi
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The Speaker has, in the past, taken positive actions on the Armenian Genocide
issue:

1) Remarks on the House floor, on April 19, 1994, marking the 79th anniversary
of the Armenian Genocide: `Over a million Armenians were exiled and eventually
murdered by the Ottoman Turks beginning on April 24, 1915. As a result of this
genocide, the Armenian population of the Ottoman Empire was effectively
eliminated through a carefully executed government plan.’
2) His vote, on June 5th of 1996, for the Radanovich Amendment, to cut U.S.
aid
to Turkey until it ceases denying the Armenian Genocide. This measure was
adopted on the House floor by a bipartisan majority of 268 to 153.

4) Conference Produces New Level of Cooperation among Europe’s Armenians

BRUSSELS–A meeting aimed to raise awareness of current challenges for
Europe’s
Armenians was held on September 23 in Brussels, just one day after a
conference
on Turkey was held in the European Parliament. Both events were organized by
the European Armenian Federation.
Topics included the Euorpean Union’s (EU) New Neighborhood Policy toward
Armenia, Turkey’s aspirations to join the EU, and the role and development of
Europe’s Armenian diaspora.
Many ongoing issues were tackled by experts and political leaders, notably
Turkey’s stepped-up policy of denial in Europe through local media (Time
Magazine and Quid cases), as well as the destruction of Armenian monasteries
and monuments in Turkey and in occupied Northern Cyprus.
`We received only positive feedback from the participants,’ said European
Armenian Federation chair Hilda Tchoboian. `We wanted to initiate a
diaspora-wide dialogue. I think we succeeded. We brought together
representatives of distant communities who will work together after this
point,’ added Tchoboian.
Though most of the delegates were from major Armenian communities such as
Belgium, Cyprus, France, Greece, and Italy, great attention was paid to those
just developing in Slovakia, Czech Republic, and Hungary.
`This is the new stage in shaping a proactive and collaborative diaspora. This
is our contribution to the building of Europe,’ stressed Tchoboian.

5) Balakian’s ‘The Burning Tigris’ Wins Raphael Lemkin Prize

(Colgate University)–Peter Balakian’s The Burning Tigris: The Armenian
Genocide and America’s Response has been awarded the 2005 Raphael Lemkin Prize
for best scholarly book in the preceding two years on the subject of genocide,
mass killings, gross human rights violations, and the prevention of such
crimes.
The award is given by the Institute for the Study of Genocide at John Jay
College of Criminal Justice/CUNY Graduate Center in New York City. The prize,
which comes with a cash award, commemorates Raphael Lemkin, the legal scholar
who pioneered the international legal concept of genocide.
Helen Fein, chair of the prize committee, called The Burning Tigris `a book of
enduring scholarly value and of important contemporary meaning.’
Previous winners include Samantha Power’s A Problem From Hell: America and the
Age of Genocide (winner of the Pulitzer Prize), and Alison Des Forges’s Leave
None To Tell The Story: Genocide In Rwanda.
The Burning Tigris was a New York Times bestseller and a Times notable book of
2003. Balakian is the author of seven other books, including Black Dog of
Fate,
which won the 1998 PEN/Albrand Prize for memoir, and June-tree: New and
Selected Poems.
Balakian is the recipient of honors and awards including a Guggenheim
fellowship, a National Endowment for the Art, the Anahit Literary Prize,
and an
Ellis Island Medal of Honor.
He has appeared widely on national television and radio. Translations of his
work have been published throughout Europe. He is the Donald M. and Constance
H. Rebar Professor of the humanities and professor of English at Colgate,
where
he was the first director of Colgate’s Center For Ethics and World Societies.

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SEIZURE OF PLACES

Today the NA deputy Grigor Haroutyunyan was not able to fulfill his duty as
confidant of Rouzan Khachatryan. Visiting the Kentron Community electoral
area 934 he found out that there was another confidant there named Rouben
Saroukhanyan.

No one knows who he is and with what certificate he has come, as they
informed from the pre-electoral headquarters of Rouzan Khachatryan that
Rouben Saroukhanyan is not in the lists they have represented. By the way,
the latter refused to leave the area and give his place to the real
confidant.

Alongside with this case, there were many «self-invited confidants» of
Rouzan Khachatryan in different electoral areas. They informed from the
headquarters that their representatives went to the areas early in the
morning and learned that other have already taken their places. They managed
to oust the self-invited confidants from the areas with difficulty.

Public Television of Armenia, Yerevan, in Armenian
22 Sep 05

ARMENIAN FOREIGN MINISTER, US SENATOR DISCUSS EXPANSION OF TIES

[Presenter] The Foreign Affairs Commission of the US Congress has
already adopted two resolutions condemning the Armenian genocide and
efforts to recognize the Armenian genocide will continue, Californian
Senator Jack Scott said at a meeting with Armenian Foreign Minister
Vardan Oskanyan in Yerevan today.

The American senator also spoke about the opening of a regional trade
and investment centre of California in the Armenian capital.

[Correspondent] The regional trade and investment centre of
California will open in October, Californian Senator Jack Scott said
today. He did not hide his joy in this connection since he has spent
five years on the implementation of this programme.

[Jack Scott speaking in English with an Armenian voice-over] Why
should the regional trade and investment centre of California open in
Armenia? Because more than 50,000 citizens of Armenian origin are
living in California. Californian Armenians are very devoted to their
motherland and are doing their best to help Armenia’s development.
The opening of the office is the beginning of increasing trade
relations between Armenia and California. I am sure that the project
will be of benefit to both sides.

[Correspondent] At present, the trade turnover between Armenia and
the USA is 60-70m dollars with California having a big share in it.
Jack Scott said that thanks to the trade and investment centre, the
trade turnover will increase noticeably. He added that Armenians
living in California will be interested in agricultural produce,
fruits and vegetables from Armenia.

In turn, California will offer biological and information
technologies, engineering and agricultural produce. The trade and
investment centre will boost Californian export not only to Armenia,
but also to Ukraine, Georgia and Russia.

[Vardan Oskanyan] The senator is a good friend of Armenia. He has
made an important contribution to the promotion of the Armenian
question in California. Thanks to his efforts, the Armenian genocide
has been recognized in California.

[Correspondent] Speaking about the recognition of the Armenian
genocide, Senator Jack Scott said that they will continue their
struggle for its approval by Congress.

[Jack Scott] The resolution concerning the Armenian genocide was
passed at the Californian Congress with great difficulty because we
encountered a strong Turkish lobby. We will make every effort to have
the US Senate adopt a resolution on the Armenian genocide.

[Correspondent] Jack Scott noted that Turks are trying to persuade
them that there was no genocide. He said that he had met some Turkish
scientists and used facts and photos to prove the Armenian genocide.

Lilit Setrakyan, Arman Garibyan, “Aylur”.

ARKA News Agency, Armenia
Sept 23 2005

ARMENIA SUGGESTS INCREASING THE EXTENT OF INVOLVEMENT OF THE UNDP
YEREVAN OFFICE IN IMPLEMENTATION OF TRADE AND DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMS

YEREVAN, September 23. /ARKA/. Armenia suggests increasing the extent
of involvement of the UNDP Yerevan Office in implementation of trade
and development programs. According to the RA Ministry of Trade and
Economic Development Press Service Department, this was mentioned in
the course of the meeting of the RA Minister of Trade and Economic
Development Karen Chshmarityan with General Secretary of the UN
Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) Supach Panitcapak. In
the course of the meeting reforms conducted in UN were discussed. In
particular, programs implemented by UNCTD. The sides touched upon the
perspectives of involvement of state and private sectors in the
programs implemented by UNCTD. Also the possibility of formation of a
separate corresponding staff in UN Yerevan Office for the
implementation of UNCTAD programs and inclusion of it in the frames
of UNDP were discussed.
UNCTAD was established in December 1964 as a main body of the UN
General Assembly in the field of trade. It’s located in Geneva. A.H.
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