Armenian official bewares possible military action

Assa-Irada, Azerbaijan
May 5 2006

Baku, May 4, AssA-Irada — Armenian Foreign Minister Vardan Oskanian
has called on Azerbaijan to refrain from military action to settle
the Upper (Nagorno) Garabagh conflict.

Addressing a conference held in Lithuania on Thursday as part of
the summit of Baltic and Black Sea member states, Oskanian stated
that Azerbaijan has strengthened its military power owing to its oil
revenues and is seeking to solve the long-standing dispute through
military action. He also called on the European Union to put pressure
on Azerbaijan in this respect.

Azerbaijani Prime Minister Artur Rasizada speaking at the summit
criticized Armenia for its policy of aggression. He reaffirmed his
country’s stance, saying Azerbaijan backs a negotiated settlement
based on the principle of its territorial integrity.*

Interests towards resolution of Nagorno-Karabakh conflict resolution
increased in 2006 – senior state officer

Source: Trend
Author: J.Shahverdiyev

06.05.2006

A mandate of Azerbaijan at the CE will be never annulled, head of
the Foreign Relationships Department of the Azerbaijan President’s
Apparat, Novruz Mammadov, told Trend.

Commenting on Azerbaijan’s positions in the international world he
noted that if the head of the world super power states that Azerbaijan
is the world modern Muslim country, then all factors for coincidence
to advanced standards have been concluded it.

He also noted the absence of necessity for addressing a letter to
international organizations, as the leading world powers possess
information on ongoing processes in Azerbaijan.

Touching the issue on the resolution of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict
in 2006 Mammadov said that in 2006 the interest on the resolution of
the conflict increased. “The OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs take every
effort to achieve solution to the conflict,” he underlined.

Azeri Press Agency, Azerbaijan
May 6 2006

Nagorno Garabagh Azerbaijanis Majlis founded

[ 06 May 2006 15:08 ]

Nagorno Garabagh Azerbaijanis Majlis which was formed by
International Garabagh Fund, has held a meeting of foundation
today.(APA).

Azerbaijani representation leadership of the Fund Mehman Ismayilov
making a speech at the meeting said that 52 people are represented
in the Majlis. According to him, representatives of the organization
are elderly people from Garabagh, intellectuals and youth. In the
next stage, he said the Majlis will be expanded and be as a public
parliament. According to Ismayilov, the Majlis will make cooperation
with Tatars of Crimea. At present stage, Mr.Ismayilov stated, there
is no necessity to elect leader to the Majlis.

Azerbaijan Liberal Party chairman substitute Avaz Temirkhan taking
part in the meeting as a guest, stated the necessity of establishing
coordination of organizations organized with regard to Western
Azerbaijan and their activity in joint form. According to him, this
may give more successful results. Political Culture Center leader
of Women, Mehriban Vazir said there is no coordination between
Garabagh organizations and Western Azerbaijanis, as well as among
Garabagh organizations. She put forward an initiative to establish
coordination center related to Garabagh. Azerbaijani Intellectual
Movement chairman Eldaniz Guliyev stressed the Majlis to activate as
peoples movement. He also considered propaganda work to be significant
factor. “Armenians have shot a film “Ararat”, but not any alternative
film has been shot in Azerbaijan with regard to it. I consider that
International Garabagh Fund should prepare scenario in this subject,
and for financial support of shooting that film competition should be
announced. ” Other guests in the meeting and Majlis members making a
speech have forwarded different proposals. In the end of the meeting,
resolution was adopted on behalf of the Majlis. Resolution authors
have announced founding of Majlis and they stated that they will try
for territorial integrity of Azerbaijan./APA/

TREND Information, Azerbaijan
May 6 2006

Azerbaijan grounds justice bur not oil in resolution of
Nagorno-Karabakh conflict – spokesman for Foreign Ministry

Source: Trend
Author: S.Agayeva

06.05.2006

Azerbaijan has never used the natural wealth that God granted for
political deals, Matin Mirza, the spokesman for Azerbaijani Foreign
Ministry, stated. He was commenting on the statement by Armenian
Foreign Ministry Vardan Oskanian made in the Vilnus conference on
‘Common theory of common neighborhood’ as though with its rich oil
reserves and high world prices Azerbaijan is sure it can resolve the
conflict in an armed way.

“Azerbaijan grounds justice, but not oil, in the fair resolution of the
Nagorno-Karabakh conflict with in the framework of the international
law and maintenance of the territorial integrity of the country,
spokesman for the Ministry underlined.

44 vessels helping recover fragments of crashed Airbus
13:20 | 06/ 05/ 2006

RIA Novosti, Russia
May 6 2006

SOCHI, May 6 (RIA Novosti) – Forty four vessels are continuing to
search for parts of an Armenian passenger plane that crashed off
Russia’s Black Sea coast three days ago, a spokesman for emergencies
ministry said Saturday.

“Over 90% of plane parts floating in the sea were recovered in the
first days, but work continues,” the spokesman said.

He added that captains of all vessels in the incident area were
ordered to report immediately if they found fragments of the plane.

The Airbus A-320 operated by Armenia’s Armavia was flying from the
Armenian capital, Yerevan, to Adler airport, which services the popular
Russian resort at Sochi, when it crashed 6 kilometers off the Russian
coast early Wednesday morning, killing all 113 people onboard.

The ministry said Friday that so far 51 bodies had been recovered at
the site, and 42 of them had been identified.

Arizona Republic, AZ
May 6 2006

Lucy Mardian, wife of former mayor of Phoenix, dies

85-year-old called ‘ultimate lady,’ recognized for community
activities

Brent Whiting
The Arizona Republic
May. 6, 2006 12:00 AM

Lucy Mardian, wife of a former Phoenix mayor and a member of an
influential Arizona family, died Friday.

Friends said the 85-year-old Mardian will be remembered for her years
of service to Phoenix in a number of civic and charitable ventures.

“She was the ultimate lady, absolutely,” said Anne Walsh, widow of
Mason Walsh, a former publisher of The Arizona Republic.
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“She was the type of woman everybody would like to have as a sister,”
she added.

Her husband, Sam Mardian Jr., 86, served as mayor from 1960-64. The
Mardians celebrated their 63rd wedding anniversary on Dec. 1.

“She was totally devoted to her children,” said Sam Mardian III, 62,
oldest of the couples’ five children, when reached at his father’s
Phoenix home.

Dennis Mitchem, director of corporate relations for Northern Arizona
University, described Lucy as a warm and friendly person.

“She could laugh at herself and at things going on around her,”
Mitchem said. “She could lighten up things when political things
would sometimes get tense.”

He described her death as a true loss to the community and to her
family.

Phoenix Mayor Phil Gordon said, “Our thoughts and prayers are with
Mayor Mardian and his family for the loss of his wife.”

Lucy served with the Phoenix Symphony Guild, Phoenix Art Museum
League and hospital, charitable and Kiwanis Club auxiliaries.

She had been in failing health for a number of months, said the Rev.
Peter K. Perry, senior pastor of First United Methodist Church.

It was always a joy to meet with the Mardians and hear them reflect
on the years he was active in politics, he said.

The Mardians moved to Phoenix in 1947 from Pasadena, Calif., to join
his brothers in the construction business.

Lucy Mardian, formerly Lucy Keshishian, was born in Cyprus on Oct. 6,
1920. Her family and the Mardians came from Hadjin, a small village
in Armenia.

Her parents and her husband’s parents knew each other in Armenia but
went separate ways.

Lucy and Sam met in 1939 after the Keshishians traveled across the
country from New York to attend an Armenian picnic in California.

She is survived by her husband and five children, Sam III of Meyer;
Jim of Paradise Valley; Carol Pickens and Doug, both of Phoenix, and
Steve of Scottsdale, and five grandchildren.

Funeral services are set for 10 a.m. Thursday at the First United
Methodist Church, 5510 N. Central Ave.

More bodies of air crash victims airlifted to Armenia

ITAR-TASS, Russia
May 6 2006

YEREVAN, May 6 (Itar-Tass) -Bodies of eight people who died in the
air crash near Sochi were airlifted to the Armenian capital Yerevan
last night, an official of Armenia’s company Armavia, to which the
A-320 plane was registered, has said.

He told ITAR-TASS that seven other bodies would be brought to Yerevan
by air on Saturday.

He expressed doubt that “bodies of all passengers and crewmembers
can be found”.

The scheduled flight of Armavia also took on the board 26 relatives
of the dead who were staying in Sochi for identifying the bodies.

Armenian National Security Service former director Lieutenant-General
Karlos Petrosyan, who is at present an advisor to the administration of
Russia’s company Transneft, returned to Yerevan from Sochi last night.

His 21-year-old son Aram was on the ill-fated flight. His body has
not been found so far.

The A-320 passenger plane that was en route from Yerevan to Russia’s
sea resort of Sochi crashed into the Black Sea during a landing
approach to Sochi on May 3 night.

The crash claimed 113 lives.

According to the latest information, 53 bodies have been recovered
from the sea, 42 of which have been identified.

A plane of the Russian Emergency Situations Ministry ferried remains
of 26 crash victims to Yerevan on Friday.

Saturday is the second day of mourning announced in Armenia in
connection with the tragedy.

Flags are flying half-mast, all culture functions have been cancelled,
and television and radio programmes changed.

Today, Azerbaijan
May 6 2006

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad: “No independent state to accept literature of
bullies”

06 May 2006 [11:46] – Today.Az

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said that no independent state will
accept the literature of the bullying powers.

“Our stances on nuclear activities are based on the international
regulations and those taking stances against our country in the case
of nuclear energy should know that if nuclear energy is good, why we
should not have it and if it is bad, why they should have it,” said
Ahmadinejad in a press conference on the sidelines of the 9th ECO
summit, IRNA informs.

On Tehran-Baku relations, Ahmadinejad said, “Regional states are
friends and brothers to each other and cooperation is the best
guarantee for security of the region; the countries can build
security by helping each other adding that regional countries are
against foreign interference.”

On Iran-Russia relations, Ahmadinejad said Tehran-Moscow ties are
friendly and growing.

“And we are interested in further expansion of the relations; and as
far as nuclear issue is concerned, we are ready to act within
framework of the International Atomic Energy Agency’s regulations.”
To a question on dispute between Armenia and Azerbaijan, Ahmadinejad
said, “We are for peace, tranquility and spirituality; the rights of
both sides should be respected.”
Elsewhere in the interview, Ahmadinejad said Iran is mulling
inauguration of an oil exchange market and details of the plan will
soon be unveiled to the public.

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TREND Information, Azerbaijan
May 6 2006

Representatives of Azeri Justice Ministry did not find errors in work
of Hungarian court

Source: Trend
Author: E. Javadova

06.05.2006

Representatives of Azeri Justice Ministry that participate May 3 in
the work of second trial on Ramil Safarov’s case, said the process
is going on normally, Trend reports quoting Zavar Gafarli, head of
international relations, Ministry of Justice.

The process included examination of two jail guards. “We may state
justice or injustice of court’s position only after the sentence”,
– Gafarli said.

The court hearing is continued September 1, 2006. Representatives
of Azeri Ministry of Justice are expected to participate at this
session too.

The reason for the second trial is discrepancy between Ramil Safarov
and employees of jail, where he was kept under the investigation
for his original case. R.Safarov is charged with resistance to jail
employees. According to the accusation, on June 19, 2004 jailers
entered R.Safarov’s cell and demanded to give them phone card.
However, Safarov disobeyed and resisted jailers trying to cuff him.

On April 13, 2006 Safarov was sentenced to life imprisonment for
killing Armenian officer G.Markaryan. His second case is tried in
Pest district court.

Azerbaijan will never get along with loss of grounds – Chairman of Milli Medjlis

TREND Information, Azerbaijan
May 6 2006

Source: Trend
Author: R. Abdullayev

06.05.2006

On May 5 Chairman of Milli Medjlis Ogtay Asadov received
Goran Lenmarker, special representative of PACE chairman for
Nagorno-Karabakh, Trend reports.

In the course of the meeting, Azeri Speaker stated Azerbaijan’s
concern in cooperation with OSCE that plays significant role in
conflicts resolution in the region.

“We hope and pray that visits of such level will give traction to
mutual cooperation and positively influence resolution of conflicts”,
– Asadov said.

Azeri speaker one more time stressed firmness of Azerbaijan’s position
on Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, saying ‘Armenian-Azeri confrontation
shall be settled based on international legislation with accounting
for principle of Azerbaijan’s territorial integrity’.

“Azerbaijan will never get along with loss of grounds”, – Asadov said.

The sides exchanged opinions on Nagorno-Karabakh report draft,
methods of conflict resolution and other issues of mutual interest.

In his speech Mr Lenmarker stated his satisfaction with Azerbaijan’s
economic development.