Politics

It doesn’t help

09.07.2006

On July 2, president of Karabakh, Arkadi Ghukasyan met with representative of the current head of the OSCE Anjey Kasprchik. During the meeting they discussed issues concerning the Karabagh conflict resolution and issues concerning the ties between army forces on the borderline. They also discussed Azerbaijan’s allegations claimng that Karabagh had burned forests in territories …

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Confusion in Azerbaijan

09.07.2006

“Who will Azerbaijan declare war on? If it’s going to declare war on Karabagh, then that means it recognizes the independence of Nagorno Karabagh. If it’s going to declare war on Armenia, then that’s simply nonsense if we look at it from the international law perspective because Armenia is not officially in a state of …

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Karabagh awaits Azerbaijan’s decision-interview with head of the Karabagh National Assembly constant committee on foreign affairs Vahram Atanesyan

09.07.2006

– OSCE Minsk Group American co-chairman Matthew Bryza and the rest of the co-chairmen revealed the secrets of the Karabagh conflict and proposed their principles, however, Bryza’s secrets and principles don’t differ from those of the co-chairmen. Intermediaries recommend dislocating the Armenian military troops based in the Azerbaijani territories surrounding Karabagh, paying close attention to …

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Legal proceedings against the Catholicos?

08.07.2006

The public prosecutor’s office of Istanbul has instituted legal proceedings against the Catholicos of all Armenians. The Catholicos is accused of harming Turks’ dignity by announcing that Turks should recognize the Genocide. After that, a group of lawyers applied to the prosecutor’s office to institute legal proceedings. The prosecutor’s office may decide to arrest the …

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Uncle got caught

08.07.2006

According to our information, former NA speaker Arthur Baghdasaryan’s uncle, head of the Yerevan Kanaker-Zeitun state cadastre, Sargis Baghdasaryan got caught by police for violations. The problem is that a large share of citizens’ payments for land privatization has not been transferred to the state budget. According to our information, S. Baghdasaryan and his deputy …

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Pressuring Mass Media

08.07.2006

Several days ago, chief editor of “Yerevan-Time” newspaper, Arman Babajanyan was arrested for document falsification in order to void going to the army and is currently at the Nubarashen prison. He made an announcement stating the following, “The purpose of my imprisonment was to stop the legal, independent and fair media from doing its job, …

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Azerbaijan is not satisfied either

08.07.2006

Head of Ilham Aliev’s administration, Novruz Mamedov has announced that the recent announcements concerning the Karabagh conflict negotiations, which caused confusion aren’t true. “Mr. Bryza wanted to say that he was aware of the negotiations process and wished to help develop that process. He has made several recommendations, which are out of the interests of …

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Impossible

08.07.2006

“It is impossible to organize a fair referendum in Karabagh when many people with Azeri origin are not there”, according to “Kavkazpress” announced head of the Georgian national security board, Kote Kemulari. The latter recently met with Elmar Mamediarov and told him that he was ready to support them in resolving the conflict. According to …

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Thirty places to the opposition

08.07.2006

Head of the Republican faction, Galust Sahakyan says that he thinks that it’s impossible to have the elections ahead of time. He also thinks that the number of oppositional places in the new parliament would not exceed thirty. “If the parties that left the parliament make an alliance, they may enter the parliament too”, said …

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Dropping membership

08.07.2006

On June 30, “168 Hours” interviewed Rule of Law member Vram Gjulzadyan, who didn’t deny the rumors saying that he was going to drop his membership and join the Republican party. In response to our question, he said that anything was possible. As for joining the Republican party, he said that he hadn’t received such …

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