http://www.panarmenian.net/ Armenian Information-Analytical Electronic Media. http://www.panarmenian.net/images/logo_sep.gif http://www.panarmenian.net/ http://www.panarmenian.net/details/eng/?nid=886 On May 12, 1994 the Bishkek Protocol about the cease-fire in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict zone was signed, and on May 16 the meeting of the Minister of Defence of Armenia Serge Sargsyan, the Minister of Defence of Azerbaijan Mamedraffi Mamedov and the NKR Army Commander Samvel Babayan took place on May 16 in Moscow. During the meeting the agreement on cease-fire which had been reached earlier was confirmed. A document "Agreement on the order of the realization of the Protocol of February 18 of 1994" anticipating the raising of the troops of Karabakh and Azerbaijan, and the establishment of the buffer zone between the countries, was also prepared. Tue, 13 May 2008 16:06:00 GMT http://www.panarmenian.net/details/eng/?nid=885 16 years in a row on May 8-9 the Azeri press is filled with articles about "the occupied Shushi". Every year officials and "simple citizens" announce, that "the day when the occupied Azeri city will be regained back is not far." The strange thing is though nobody says how and who is going to "liberate" Shushi. Most probably it will be realized by the very Afghan mojakheds with their leader Shamil Basaev who disgracefully escaped the Armenian Army. As for "the native Azeri city", our neighbors should finally read the historical chronicles. Thu, 08 May 2008 14:16:00 GMT http://www.panarmenian.net/details/eng/?nid=884 On the first sight Azerbaijan's behavior in its foreign political scene becomes more and more unpredictable. Here the statement of Ramiz Mekhtiev; the Head of the Executive Personnel of the President, would be appropriate to mention. "The allocation of the US funds for holding democratic election in Azerbaijan is interference in the internal affairs of the country," he had said in a press-conference in Baku. Tue, 06 May 2008 15:53:00 GMT http://www.panarmenian.net/details/eng/?nid=883 We are already used to the fake information disseminated by the Azeri press, which aims at creating "image of enemy Armenians". There is too much unreasonable and ridiculous information provided by the Azeri press, which is published with the violation of ethics. It is already useless to repeat the fact about "the appropriation" of the culture, architectural and even national belongings. According to the Azeri press, there are no Armenians in the world but only Azerbaijani, and today already the second generation is being raised with the same hatred towards all Armenians and all that is of Armenian origin. Sat, 03 May 2008 14:17:00 GMT http://www.panarmenian.net/details/eng/?nid=882 Lately in the relationship between Azerbaijan and Russia some kind of tension regarding Iran, or to be more exact, regarding the nuclear power-station equipment supply. Thermal equipment for the first Iranian nuclear power-station coming from Russia was detained in Azerbaijan about a month ago. On March 29 Russian road-train carrying thermal equipment, destined for "Busher" nuclear power-station in Iran was detained in "Astara". The negotiations of the representatives of "Rosatom" with Azerbaijan about the equipment have been no success so far. Tue, 29 Apr 2008 14:29:00 GMT http://www.panarmenian.net/details/eng/?nid=881 It happened so, that Turkey says something and does something completely different, but always acts according to its own interests, never taking into consideration the point of view of its strategic partners; i.e. the USA and Israel. However it is more appropriate to call these countries "strategic partners", since Ankara's conduct towards these countries already exceeds the limits of simple cooperation. For pressure on its partners Turkey has chosen a very handy target; the Armenian Genocide committed in the Ottoman Empire in 1915 - 1923. Sat, 26 Apr 2008 12:24:00 GMT http://www.panarmenian.net/details/eng/?nid=879 Turkey has found itself in a rather difficult situation: on the one hand Turkey is already tired of waiting for 10-15 more years to be integrated into the EU; on the other hand, this idea seems too tempting to give it up. The demands of the EU after all are no fancy but necessity for the Turkish officials. As it has already been said more than once, Turkey must prove by its actions and not by words that the country has chosen the democratic way of development. Tue, 22 Apr 2008 16:55:00 GMT http://www.panarmenian.net/details/eng/?nid=878 After the explicit failures in NATO, in the Balkans and in the Middle East, the US Secretary of States set to the Karabakh Conflict. In any case, this is how the latest statement of the Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice can be interpreted. "The USA remains the active party of the negotiations on the peaceful regulation of the Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict. The USA doesn’t recognize the Nagorno-Karabakh as an independent state, and its government body is not recognized in the international level or in the USA. Sat, 19 Apr 2008 12:25:00 GMT http://www.panarmenian.net/details/eng/?nid=877 The almost sensational instructions of Vladimir Putin to the RF government about working out of new mechanisms of the protection of the rights of the Russian citizens, living in the unrecognized republics of Abkhazia and South Ossetia, became a kind of response of the RF to the Kosovo problem. As it is mentioned in the announcement of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, instructions have been made regarding the resolution of the announced course of the Russian authorities on giving support to the population of the two republics, where Russian citizens reside. Thu, 17 Apr 2008 15:54:00 GMT http://www.panarmenian.net/details/eng/?nid=876 The latest belligerent announcements of the President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev, most likely, aim at frightening Armenia and the World Community in the issue of the Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict resolution. At that, the official Baku continues to claim that they are going to resolve the problem by force, "without taking anyone into consideration". The basic argument of Aliyev is making the enlarging the military budget, which in 2008 will reach up to $2 milliard, which is a rather promise sum, however, the question is – what will this sum be used for? Tue, 15 Apr 2008 14:47:00 GMT http://www.panarmenian.net/details/eng/?nid=875 The Israeli Knesset will be on holiday till May 18, and now Turkey is doing its best "to persuade" the deputies to forget about the discussion of the Armenian Genocide. Turkey has already started implementing the well-known method; blackmail, which works so well in the USA and so badly in Europe. It is quite obvious that it will be much easier with Israel, than with any other country, especially with Europe. However, it should be mentioned that Turkey, which have chosen the Islamic Justice and Development as the leading party of the country, will most probably want to join the Islamic world, whose main aim is to raze Israel to the ground. Sat, 12 Apr 2008 12:51:00 GMT http://www.panarmenian.net/details/eng/?nid=874 The leading party of Turkey Justice and Development has come up with a suggestion to changing the 301 Article of the Turkish Penal Code, according to which those who are accused of "insult to Turkishness", are sentenced to a 3-year imprisonment. In the revised version of expression "insult to Turkishness" is changed into "insult to the Turkish Nation", and the maximum period of imprisonment is 2 years instead of 3, which gives the chance of changing the imprisonment with conditional release. Thu, 10 Apr 2008 15:46:00 GMT http://www.panarmenian.net/details/eng/?nid=873 Resolution 106 of the US House of Representatives has never been withdrawn from the Agenda of the US Congress. The truth is, long months have passed since October 2007 and that would be enough to forget about the Resolution. However the representatives of influential Armenian Diaspora Organizations in the USA, and not only them, are certain that sooner or later the Resolution will be approved. Tue, 08 Apr 2008 15:36:00 GMT http://www.panarmenian.net/details/eng/?nid=870 "The Kosovo Independence" has started to develop in new directions, the majority of which would take away Hashim Tachi’s hopes of establishing a recurrent Islamic county in the middle of Europe. This time a person who cannot be easily blamed for his likings for the Serbs spoke with revelatory details. The former attorney general for International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia Carla Del Ponte in her autobiography "The Hunt" told about how the present authorities of the independent Kosovo made money on trade of inner organs, taken out of the bodies of the kidnapped Serbs. Tue, 01 Apr 2008 14:38:00 GMT http://www.panarmenian.net/details/eng/?nid=869 It seems that the US President George Bush has decided to resolve all the conflicts during his last days of Presidency. These intentions concern all the conflicts around the world, where the USA directly or indirectly has its share of "responsibility". And if the Kosovo conflict is chronologically one of the latest ones, the Near-Eastern conflict is already 60 years old, and the conflicts in the post-Soviet area are 20 years old. Sat, 29 Mar 2008 13:44:00 GMT