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I KNOW WHAT CRIMINAL ELEMENTS ELIZABETH JONES SAID ABOUT AND I DO NOT THINK THE MATTER CONCERNED NAGORNY KARABAKH: JOHN EVANS
According to him, the U.S policy concerning the process of peaceful settlement of the Karabakh conflict remains unchanged. The United States provide assistance both to Yerevan and Baku in reaching resolution to the conflict, which is said in the statement of the U.S. Embassy this week. The United States is the good partner of Armenia and what is said does not require proves. As regards the statements of U.S. Assistant Secretary of the State Elizabeth Jones, "I have known him for almost 30 years as a professional diplomat and when I first read the information about its statements, I thought immediately - something is wrong here", John Evans stressed. He thinks that the statements of Elizabeth Jones concerning criminal elements did not concern Nagorny Karabakh. Generally, she had an unofficial talk with journalists during his vide news conference and meant then that the USA and Russia must cooperate closely in the issue of settlement of the conflicts in Abkhazia, Transdnesitria, Nagorny Karabakh. And she had noted there are extremist criminal elements here in the districts bordering with Russia. "I know the geography and I don't think that the matter concerned Nagorny Karabakh - we know what districts and elements she meant", the American diplomat said. He noted also that the USA has given humanitarian aid to Nagorny Karabakh for a long time. This assistance is also provided by the USA budget this year, at that the USA is one of the two countries of the world which provides such an aid to Nagorny Karabakh. Those, who wrongly comment on the statements of Elizabeth Jones, tries to damage the Armenian-American relations, which are at not bad level, and it is very important, John Evans said. ARMENIA'S FM TO LEAVE FOR NEW YORK JAN 24
From New York Oskanyan is to go to Rome to join Armenia's President Robert Kocharyan on his official visit to Italy. ARMENIA'S FM CONFIRMS ARREST OF ARMENIAN MP IN UAE YEREVAN, JANUARY 21. ARMINFO. The Foreign Ministry of Armenia has confirmed the fact of Armenian MP Hakop Hakopyan's (Tchoyt) arrest in United Arab Emirates. Armenia's Ambassador to UAE Arman Poladyan is inquiring into the incident. According to preliminary reports, Hakopyan, his son and his friend were arrested in Dubai for stealing cloths in "Vafi" shop. They took cloths for $24,000 but paid only $16,000 having on their credit cards over $100,000. Hakopyan was arrested by the police in the hotel several hours later. The friend is in a remand cell while Hakopyan and his son are in a police department. Investigation is underway. Hakopyan's relatives are using foreign ministerial levers to help him out. TURKISH COMMUNITY REVISES HISTORY OF ITS COUNTRY YEREVAN, JANUARY 21. ARMINFO. Turkey begins self reflection over Armenia. While an exhibition in Istanbul devoted to the daily life of the Armenians in Anatolia at the start of the 20th century is breaking attendance records, Turkish society is beginning to reflect on the Armenian question, erased from official history for the past 90 years The exhibition "my dear brother", which opened on January 8, has attracted 6,000 visitors in 12 days according to organizers, a record for local galleries. AFP Office in Istanbul reports. Through 500 postcards from the period, the exhibition endeavours to show, city by city and with supporting figures, how omnipresent Armenian communities were across the Ottoman territory and their role in society. "In Turkey, history has always been taught about one people -- the Turks, as if there had never been any other people on the territory. When we speak of Armenians, they are not described as an integral group of society but as a source of problems," explained Osman Koker, exhibition director. "It's to fill this void, because I have an 11-year-old daughter who is getting this kind of education at school, that I have decided to publish a book and put on this exhibition," said Koker, an historian turned editor. "Without this realization, it will remain impossible to discuss the events of 1915," he said, referring to the Armenian massacres committed between 1915 and 1917 by the Ottoman armies. Convinced of Turkish society's growing curiosity about its past, Koker, nonetheless acknowledges that any change in mentality will take time. "A majority of the public, especially in the country areas, consider the simple word 'Armenian' an insult," he said. Even if a handful of academics and amateur historians have attempted to re-examine Turkish history, it is not easy to break the deep taboo which has been deeply ingrained in the general consciousness by official history. "Until 1980, Turkish school textbooks quite simply didn't mention the Armenian massacre," explained Fabio Salomoni, author of a book on the Turkish education system. "With the first acknowledgments of 'genocide' by Western governments and the increasing number of attacks by Asala (an Armenian activist organization), a paragraph was then added excluding all Turkish responsibility for the deaths of Armenians, explaining in the context of a war..." he said. Even if Turkey acknowledges the massacres, it objects to the term 'genocide' and the figures of 1.2 to 1.3 million killed, as claimed by the Armenians, estimating the number of victims at between 250,000 to 300,000. Even though Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan recently opened an Armenian museum in Istanbul - just before the European summit in Brussels which gave a date to Ankara to start negotiations for joining the European Union (news - web sites) - there is no question of overturning the existing orthodoxy concerning the Armenians. Several state-subsidized organizations continue to conduct research aimed at showing that if there was a genocide, it was more likely committed by Armenians against the Turks. The Turkish population has still not fully acknowledged the problem; in this context, imposing a solution can only provoke hostile reactions," said Etyen Mahcupyan, an Armenian from Istanbul and writer for the daily newspaper Zaman. YEREVAN BRANDY COMPANY PLANS 5% SALES INCREASE IN 2005 YEREVAN, JANUARY 21. ARMINFO. This year Yerevan Brandy Company is planning to increase its sales by 5%, says YBC Commercial Director Serge Ter-Saakyan. He says that in 2004 YBC sold 4 mln l of brandy - almost as much as in 2003. 75% was sold to Russia - 8% rise. This year's increase is due to growing grape procurements. Ter-Saakyan says that YBC is planning to change its bottles and labels for better market promotion. This will allow to sell brandy high and to make forgery low. In three months YBC will present new brandies in Russia and Armenia and in second half 2005 in Ukraine and Belarus. This year the company is also planning to open an office in Kazakhstan. It has offices in all the CIS countries except Central Asia. YBC President and Director General Erve Karoff says that in 2005 the company's strategy is aimed at promoting premium (Akhtamar) and super-premium (Nairi) brandies which showed good sales in 2004. YBC was bought by Pernod Ricard (France) in May 1999 for $30 mln. The company's trade marks are registered in 47 countries with brandies sold in 25 countries. HEADLINES OF FEBRUARY 21 JANUARY
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YEREVAN, JANUARY 21. ARMINFO. "I know what criminal elements US
Assistant Secretary of the State Elizabeth Jones had said about and I
don't think that the matter concerned Nagorny Karabakh." U.S.
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Armenia John Evans
stated in the interview to TV company Armenia, commenting on the
recent statements of Elizabeth Jones.
YEREVAN, JANUARY 21. ARMINFO. Jan 24 Armenia's Foreign Minister
Vardan Oskanyan is leaving for New York to speak at the UN special
session devoted to the 60th anniversary of the liberation of
concentration camp prisoners during WWII.