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IN CASE OF ESCALATION OF ARMENIAN-AZERBAIJANI CONFRONTATION USA WILL RE-IMPOSE SANCTIONS ON BOTH: JEFFERY KOHLER
He reminded the journalists that USA had applied certain sanctions against both countries until 2001-2002. Although it is not the business of the US European Command, but if conflicts take place on the dividing line between the two countries' armed forces, the sanctions will be re-imposed, the Major General said. He pointed out that the USA's cooperation with Armenia and Azerbaijan is based on two factors - cooperation in battling terrorism and a peaceful settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. The General refuted the information on the USA's intention to station mobile military bases in Azerbaijan. MOTHER ARMENIA FILM SCREENED IN FRANCE YEREVAN, MARCH 31. ARMINFO. Mother Armenia documentary, shot by French journalist Maite Jardin, was screened in Chaville French city the other day. The film was shown on the initiative of the local Armenian commission for culture and church. According to PanArmenian.net with reference to Yarach Armenian newspaper issued in Paris, the film presents the today's life of residents of Armenian villages, as well as Gyumri city, which has experienced destructive earthquake, their problems and needs. "The film was the outcome of two visits of Maite Jardin to Armenia. It expresses her attitude toward the country, with which she is in love and where she dreams to settle down," the newspaper writes. The film is expected to be shown via one of the French TV channels in the future. KARABAKH LIBERATION ORGANIZATION TO MARCH TO KARABAKH YEREVAN, MARCH 31. ARMINFO. This May Karabakh Liberation Organization (Azerbaijan) is going to march to Karabakh, reports Zerkalo newspaper (Baku). "And nobody will stop us," says KLO leader Akif Nagi. He rejects pointblank the proposal by some international organizations that "five districts be exchanged for communication." "Karabakh is not an object for haggling. It must be liberated. Nobody can prevent a man from living on his land. It's time for resolute actions." DAY OF AZERI GENOCIDE BY ARMENIANS IS IN FACT DAY OF PREVENTION OF ARMENIAN PROGROMS IN BAKU YEREVAN, MARCH 31. ARMINFO. The day of the genocide of Azeris by the Armenians (Mar 31) alleged by the Azeri authorities is in fact the day of the prevention of the 1918 Armenian pogroms in Baku, says historian Vardan Khachaturyan. To remind, in Mar 1918 the Azeri party Musavat started Armenian pogroms in Baku. This made the Dashnak government of the Third Armenian Republic together with the Armenian Communists led by Stepan Shahumyan to march into the city and to stop the massacres by force. A Soviet Commune ruled Baku for almost half a year to be later shot down by the British. Naturally this civil war claimed numerous lives but that was not Azeri pogroms. Quite the opposite, the 1918 events were much like the Jan 1990 Baku pogroms when Soviet troops led by Alexander Lebed opened fire to prevent Armenian massacres by the People's Front of Azerbaijan, says Khachaturyan.- PERMANENT EXHIBITION OF ARMENIAN PRODUCTS ORGANIZED IN BUCHAREST YEREVAN, MARCH 31. ARMINFO. A permanent exhibition of Armenian products has been organized at the exhibition hall of the Bucharest-based "Dudyan" cultural center. The press service of the RA Foreign Office reports that the exhibition was organized by Armenia's Embassy in Romania in cooperation with the Romanian diocese of the Armenian Apostolic Church (AAC). Attending the ceremonial opening of the exhibition were Armenian ambassador to Romania Yeghishe Sargssian, RA Permanent Delegate to UNESCO, Ambassador of Good Will Charles Aznavour, who is currently in Bucharest. In Bucharest, Charles Aznavour visited the RA Embassy, Armenian church and held a meeting with the Armenian community in Romania. A similar exhibition was also organized during Armenian President Robert Kocharian's visit to romania last November. The organization of such exhibitions promotes the interest and establishment of business ties with Armenian producers, as well as the development of Romanian-Armenian economic cooperation. POLISH SPECIALIST IN ARMENIAN STUDY DISAPPEARED IN TERRITORY OF TURKEY STILL SEARCHED YEREVAN, MARCH 31. ARMINFO. A Polish student (Historical Faculty of the Yagelon University) Rafal Yedrashik who made for Armenia in the May of 2002 missed in the territory of Turkey and is still searched, the Polish community of Armenia told ARMINFO. The letter recently received by the community from the students of the Yagelon University says that the missing student took an interest in the history of Armenia and especially in the Armenian Genocide of 1915. The scenario of a documentary film about Armenia was to be based just on the events of 1915. Yedrashik intended to investigate the situation in Nagorny KArabakh and present the nowadays life of the Armenians residing in the territory of Nagorny Karabakh. In the May of 2002, Yedrashik left for Turkey for 14 days and disappeared. The last information on him was that he left Poland on May 7, visited the Polish Embassy in Ankara on May 13 and was to leave for the Turkish town of Tatvan on May 20. In that period he made a trip of the area around Lake Van. The letter says that Yedrashik held a phone conversation with his parents on May 24 for the last time. According to unofficial data, the student was seen in the territory of Georgia, in the settlement Vale. He was to cross the Armenian boundary via Georgia. However, the Poland refutes the information that the student left Turkey as he intended to made for the Ararat from the Lake Van. MAR 28 DISORDERS IN GYUMRI VIOLATION OF MPs' RIGHTS TO PEACEFUL RALLY: HANRAPETOUTYUN PARTY
YEREVAN, MARCH 31. ARMINFO. Hanrapetoutyun party says that the Mar 8
disorders in Gyumri are the violation of MPs' rights to hold a free
rally and to meet with their voters.
HEADLINES OF FEBRUARY 31 MARCH
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YEREVAN, MARCH 31. ARMINFO. The USA's approach to the
Nagorno-Karabakh settlement is that it must only be peaceful,
Major General Jeffery Kohler, Director of Plans and Policy for US
European Command, stated at the Yerevan "Zvartnots" airport after
his visit to Armenia.
