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Headlines for October 09, 2006

ARMENIAN GENOCIDE: ELECTION PASSIONS RUN HIGH IN NETHERLANDS
Protests against the exclusion of three candidates - ethnic Turks denying the Armenian Genocide – are going on. Parties lose votes, chairman of the Federation of the Federation of Armenian organizations ...
NATO CLOSELY WATCHES KARABAKH TALKS
NATO closely watched the peaceful talks on the Nagorno Karabakh conflict settlement, NATO’s Special Representative for the South Caucasus and Central Asia Robert Simmons said in Baku. According to him, ...
TWO ARMENIANS SHOT DEAD IN PODMOSKOVIE
Corpses of two a 33-year-old man and his 22-year-old roommate were found yesterday evening in the village of Kartino, Podmoskovie. The examination showed they died of gunshots five hours before they were ...
DUTCH FM CALLED ON ARMENIA AND TURKEY TO FACE UP TO PAST
Dutch Foreign Minister Bernard Bot asked the Turkish community in the Netherlands to stay calm in regards to the exclusion of Turkish members from the parliamentary member election list due to their rejection ...
TURKEY’S MEMBERSHIP IN EU WOULD BE END OF POLITICAL EUROPE
French Interior Minister and presidential hopeful Nicholas Sarkozy on Friday reiterated his opposition to Turkey's membership in the European Union. Speaking to French magazine Le Meilleur des Mondes, ...
ERDOGAN SAYS FRANCE MAKES GREAT MISTAKE DISCUSSING GENOCIDE ISSUE
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan met with French businessmen on Saturday to discuss the Armenian Genocide issue and continued to raise his objections against the Armenian Genocide bill in France. ...
SERBIAN FMA OPPOSED TO EXPORT OF WEAPONS TO GEORGIA AND ARMENIA
The Serbian Foreign Ministry has decided to not export weapons to that region because they can be used against Russia and the Russian military. “We hope that our weapons producers and military equippers ...
GEORGIAN AMBASSADOR’S ADVISOR DIED IN ACCIDENT
Georgian Ambassador’s Advisor on security Gocha Merabishvili died in a car accident in Armenia. The RA Police say the accident took place on Saturday on Ashotsk-Gyumri highway (Shiraki region). Mersedes-Benz-E200 ...
NATO REPRESENTATIVE TO ARRIVE IN ARMENIA OCTOBER 11
NATO Special Representative for South Caucasus and Central Asia Robert Simmons will arrive in Armenia October 11, RA MFA Acting Spokesman Vladimir Karapetian told a PanARMENIAN.Net reporter. In his words, ...
RUSSIA AND GEORGIA SHOULD PROVE FRIENDSHIP WITH ARMENIA IN DEED
“One thing is clear: both Russia and Georgia should do the utmost to alleviate tension and prevent any impact on Armenia,” Armenian National Assembly Speaker Tigran Torosian told reporters on Monday. ...
KARABAKH PROBLEM NOT ACTUAL FOR NETHERLANDS
Nagorno Karabakh has not been the issue of concern for Netherlands for a long time, chairman of the Federation of the Federation of Armenian organizations of Netherlands Mato Hakhverdyan told a PanARMENIAN.Net ...
TURKEY GOING TO ADOPT BILL SAYING “FRANCE COMMITTED GENOCIDE IN ALGERIA”
A rally with a slogan “Stop, France! Armenian Genocide is a lie” was held in Turkey. Although the rally in front of the French Consulate General in Istanbul was authorized, policemen did not let the protesters ...
AKHTAMAR CHURCH TO OPEN NOVEMBER 4
The opening of the church on Akhtamar island will most likely take place November 4. According to supervisor of the restoration works, architect Zakhid Certanly, the works were started in May 2005 and ...
GEORGIA INTRODUCED ‘SPECIAL CONTROL’ OVER TRANSIT OF MILITARY CARGO THROUGH ITS TERRITORY TO ARMENIA
Some changes were introduced into the order of transit of military cargo and personnel to the 102nd Russian base in Armenia. In accordance with the treaty “On organization of transit of military cargo ...
NETHERLANDS: NEBAHAT ALBAYRAK SAYS SHE NEVER RECOGNIZED ARMENIAN GENOCIDE
Nebahat Albayrak, a member of the Dutch parliament of Turkish origin and the number two candidate of the Labor Party for next month's elections, claimed over the weekend that she never said she acknowledged ...
FRANCE: PUNISHMENT FOR ARMENIAN GENOCIDE DENIAL SHOULDN’T BE APPLIED TO HISTORIANS
A leading figure from the ruling People’s Majority Unity Party, French Armenian Patrick Devedjian proposed an amendment to the bill penalizing the Armenian Genocide denial. The single-sentenced proposal ...
OSCE MG: OSKANIAN-MAMMADYAROV TALKS WERE RICH
The talks held with the Azerbaijani and Armenian Foreign Ministers on October 6 in Moscow were very useful and rich, Russian Co-chair of the OSCE Minsk Group Yuri Merzlyakov said. According to him, both ...
ANOTHER TURKISH WRITER ACCUSED OF VIOLATING ARTICLE 301
Writer Ipek Kalislar was accused of “insulting Turkishness”. Kalislar in the authors of the book about the wife of Turkish State’s founder Kemal Ataturk. In August the Ankara Court acquitted Elif Shafak, ...
SOUTH CAUCASIAN STATES STAND NO CHANCE FOR EU MEMBERSHIP YET
The PACE commission for political affairs has considered Adrian Severin’s report on the Pact of stability in the South Caucasus, Armenian National Assembly Speaker Tigran Torosian said at a press conference ...
IRANIAN EXPERT: TEHRAN AS REGIONAL POWER SHOULD HELP KARABAKH
Iranian expert Daryush Safarnejat says no serious improvements are observed in the settlement of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict, because Karabakh does not take part in peace making process. In his article ...