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    News about Artsakh

    Azeri Forces Sabotage OSCE Monitoring Mission

    Published: Thursday February 26, 2009

    STEPANAKERT (Combined Sources)--Azeri armed forces sabotaged on Wednesday a scheduled monitoring of the Nagorno-Karabakh line of contact near Fizouli, firing repeatedly at officials from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe on the Karabakh side of the border, the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic Foreign Ministry Reported.

    The regular monitoring of the line-of-contact between Azerbaijan and Karabakh is always conducted at the same location on both sides of the border by two separate teams.

    But the monitoring mission on the Azeri side, headed by the OSCE Chairman's special representatiave, Andrzej Kasprzyk, was taken to an alternate destination away from the site scheduled for monitoring.

    Azerbaijan usually undermines the missions by refusing to transport OSCE officials to the wrong section of the border or altogether refusing to allow them to travel in the country.

    This time, however, Azeri forces opened sustained machine gun fire on the monitoring mission on the Karabakh side of the border, sending them scrambling for cover.

    Kasprzyk called off the monitoring mission after receiving word of the incident near Fizouli.

    The monitoring mission on the Karabakh side included the coordinator of the OSCE Office, the Field Assistant to the representative of the OSCE's Chairman-in-office, and representatives from the Nagorno-Karabakh Defense and Foreign Affairs ministries.


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    Renaissance…, so far Administrative: Karabakh authorities decide to “revitalize” Shushi

    Officials in Karabakh have decided to move a number of state institutions from Stepanakert to Shushi in an attempt to revive the town that – a century ago – was considered one of the most significant towns in the Caucasus. Shushi, 15 kilometers from the capital, Stepanakert, was one of the most devastated settlements following the war of 1991-94.

    Starting from autumn 2008, two buildings not far from “Kanach Zham” church have been reconstructed, and it is into these buildings that the Supreme and Appeals Courts will move, according to preliminary data. The facilities for the state cadastre committee, the ombudsman’s office and the Ministry of Culture are still in the mapping-out process. About 40 people work at these institutions.

    The government’s decision is conditioned by the fact that this is the only way to breathe a new life into the town that had up to 45,000 residents at the beginning of the 20th century, more than half of the population being Armenians. At the end of 19th – the beginning of 20th century 22 newspapers were published in Shushi, there were 7 churches, and a theater. As a result of the massacres of Armenians at the hands of Turkish-Tatar forces in March 1920, the greatest part of the cultural heritage of Shushi vanished (20,000 Armenians were killed and about 700 buildings were destroyed).

    As a result of the Armenian-Azeri war in 1991-1994 the town was almost completely destroyed. Now the greatest part of the town consists of half-destroyed houses of the 18th-19th centuries that are tumbling down because of the wind, rains, and the human factor. Not more than 3,000 people live in Shushi now.

    Karabakh authorities linked the rebirth of the city with the potential of the Diaspora, considering that the state budget of Karabakh cannot afford it, although the total sum necessary for revitalizing the town was not even calculated. Every year small amounts were allocated to “maintain” the town; the largest sum – about 400 million drams ($1.3 million) – was allocated in 2008. Within the 15 post-war years the road to the Cathedral of St. Savior (Kazanchetsots) was renovated, gas was supplied and the road and the entrance to the town were renovated.

    In the autumn of 2008 Levon Hayrapetyan, a patron famous in Karabakh, announced about his “patronage” in the course of Shushi’s rebirth. He promised that in a few years 50,000 people would live in the town. But, perhaps because of the world economic crisis, the projects have not started yet. Authorities say that a master plan of the town is being designed, and the reconstruction will be carried out according to it.

    Particular hopes were connected with “The Shushi Revival” Fund that was established by the Mayor of Yerevan Ervand Zakharyan in 2006. The Fund had announced magnificent projects, however, little has been done so far. In January 2008 the Fund organized a teleton “Yerevan-Shushi-Bethlehem,” during which an announcement was made about donating $5.7 million for the town’s rebirth. A decision was made to use the money for the restoration of the water supply pipe, but the project has not started until now. The representative of the Fund in Karabakh Artur Hambardzumyan informed that the projects that were supposed to be implemented in 2008 were postponed “for a number of reasons.” The construction of the water supply pipe will start in the spring of this year, and the project is ready, he said.

    During one of the sessions of Karabakh government Prime Minister Ara Harutyunyan expressed his dissatisfaction in relation to the work of the fund. “The ‘Shushi Rebirth’ Fund had taken up the reconstruction of a number of buildings, where the state institutions were to be moved. However, nothing has been done so far, and we will have to allocate the means from the state budget,” Harutyunyan said.

    At the beginning of February Zakharyan visited Shushi, he also met with the President of Nagorno Karabakh Republic Bako Sahakyan. As it turned out, the implementation of a number of projects, the reconstruction of Adamyan Street in particular, had been postponed until the master plan of the city would be designed. The Fund has also designed a project of a cable-car road, which may facilitate the development of tourism.

    The money was used to renovate the roofs of the houses on Proshyan Street, an apartment was bought for the family of a soldier who died in the war, the reconstruction of Shushi picture gallery was continued, roads were repaired, and the water supply was partly reconstructed.

    Meanwhile, apparently in expectation of a miracle, real estate prices in Shushi doubled in 2008. The price for a square meter went up to $200 (and $817 in Stepanakert); a decade ago the price in Shushi was about $8.

    “I have been living in Shushi for 8 years now. My husband was able to get a job here and an apartment. We have three children, and in Stepanakert we used to live with my husband’s parents in a small apartment,” 38-year-old Zoya Arakelyan says, “We moved to Shushi. We literally started from scratch, because the apartment was half-ruined, we had to lay the sewage and water pipes ourselves. But at that time this was the only way out. Then my husband had to quit the job, and now he works in Stepanakert. I was never able to find a job. There are no enterprises and organizations here – only state institutions.”

    Now residential buildings in Shushi are being renovated as well. 60 apartments were provided for the officers of the Defense Army in 2008. The housing issue in Shushi is critical despite its small population. The thing is that after 1995, when the privatization of the housing fund was announced, the apartments in Shushi were bought or simply privatized by the people who do not reside in Shushi.

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      Armenian refugees demand their future be discussed in Karabakh talks
      27.02.2009 15:15 GMT+04:00

      /PanARMENIAN.Net/ The Armenian refugees from Azerbaina are the real victims of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict.

      “Today, on the eve of the 21st anniversary of Armenian pogroms in Sumgait, the Armenian refugees demand that their future be discussed in Karabakh talks,” said Eleonora Asatryan, coordinator of Refugees and International Law organizations network.

      “Some 500 thousand refugees, who are scattered throughout the globe, have the right to moral, financial and territorial compensation,” she said.

      “We have requested the NKR authorities for partial compensation and permission to settle in the liberated territories. We have received no response yet, but we know that official Stepanakert never minded the idea,” Mrs. Asatryan said.

      The Armenian pogroms in Sumgait on February 26-29, 1988 were the first outburst of ethnic violence in the modern soviet history.

      Violence, robberies and killings resulted in flows of Armenians to Nagorno Karabakh and Armenia.

      Armenians were evicted from their houses while Azeris in Armenia were given a possibility to sell or exchange their immovable property.

      Armenian refugees demand their future be discussed in Karabakh talks
      http://www.panarmenian.net/news/eng/?nid=28981

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        Re: News about Artsakh

        Current Karabakh talks nothing more but imitation
        24.02.2009 19:42 GMT+04:00 Print version Send to mail

        /PanARMENIAN.Net/ “Under the circumstances, resolution is impossible,” Armen Aivazyan, head of Ararat strategic research center, told a PanARMENIAN.Net reporter.

        “The Karabakh conflict can’t be settled through talks. The ongoing process is nothing more but imitation,” he said, adding that resolution will become possible only when Azerbaijan and Turkey recognize Armenia and NKR as truly established states.

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        • #5
          Re: News about Artsakh

          Originally posted by KarotheGreat View Post
          Azeri Forces Sabotage OSCE Monitoring Mission

          Published: Thursday February 26, 2009

          STEPANAKERT (Combined Sources)--Azeri armed forces sabotaged on Wednesday a scheduled monitoring of the Nagorno-Karabakh line of contact near Fizouli, firing repeatedly at officials from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe on the Karabakh side of the border, the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic Foreign Ministry Reported.

          The regular monitoring of the line-of-contact between Azerbaijan and Karabakh is always conducted at the same location on both sides of the border by two separate teams.

          But the monitoring mission on the Azeri side, headed by the OSCE Chairman's special representatiave, Andrzej Kasprzyk, was taken to an alternate destination away from the site scheduled for monitoring.

          Azerbaijan usually undermines the missions by refusing to transport OSCE officials to the wrong section of the border or altogether refusing to allow them to travel in the country.

          This time, however, Azeri forces opened sustained machine gun fire on the monitoring mission on the Karabakh side of the border, sending them scrambling for cover.

          Kasprzyk called off the monitoring mission after receiving word of the incident near Fizouli.

          The monitoring mission on the Karabakh side included the coordinator of the OSCE Office, the Field Assistant to the representative of the OSCE's Chairman-in-office, and representatives from the Nagorno-Karabakh Defense and Foreign Affairs ministries.


          http://www.asbarez.com/index.html?sh...88_2/27/2009_1
          The baboons are precious, you really couldn't make this up!

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          • #6
            Re: News about Artsakh

            Originally posted by hrai View Post
            The baboons are precious, you really couldn't make this up!
            They are digging their own grave let them.

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              Re: News about Artsakh

              Does the president of Azerbaijan appoint NKR officials?

              /PanARMENIAN.Net/ Ilham Aliev signed a decree on appointment of Bayram Asad oghlu Safarov "Chief Executive" of Shushi Region, Azerbaijani president press office reported.

              The Previous "Chief Executive" of Shishi Region Nizami Bakhmanov died on Sep. 13, 2008.

              Does the president of Azerbaijan appoint NKR officials?
              http://www.panarmenian.net/news/eng/?nid=28989

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              • #8
                Re: News about Artsakh

                True perpetrators of Armenian pogroms in Sumgait and Baku remains unpunished

                /PanARMENIAN.Net/ “Massacres of Armenians in Sumgait, Baku and other cities of Azerbaijan were a genocide. Unfortunately, these events have not been investigated thoroughly and true perpetrators have not been brought to justice”, the Chairman of the Board of Lawyers, participant of some legal trials on Sumgait events Ruben Sahakyan said at a press-conference in Yerevan. “The case on Sumgait pogroms was divided into several parts and sent to different institutions. Today we don’t have full information about the organizers and perpetrators of the pogroms”, Ruben Sahakyan said and added he was personally informed about 12 cases. According to the lawyer, the culprits were charged merely with organization of mass disorders. “Today it’s absolutely necessary that the documents and materials on those criminal cases and part of them in Russia, were found. Only in that case we’ll have factual proofs that genocide was committed in Sumgait against the Armenian population”, Ruben Sahakyan emphasized.

                The Sumgait massacre in February 1988 that claimed lives of 32 Armenians was the first mass explosion of ethnic violence in the modern Soviet history that resulted in huge refugee flows to Armenia and Nagorno Karabakh. No timely fact-finding , identification and punishment of perpetrators were initiated.

                True perpetrators of Armenian pogroms in Sumgait remains unpunished
                http://www.panarmenian.net/news/eng/?nid=28985

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                • #9
                  Re: News about Artsakh

                  How long can we tolerate this? They will push it so much that we will expand the buffer zone.

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                  • #10
                    Re: News about Artsakh

                    I think we need to take another 20% of their land for them to shut up.

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