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  • #1

    Armenia / Nato News

    NATO STRENGTHENS COOPERATION WITH ARMENIA

    YEREVAN, JANUARY 19. ARMINFO. "We are pleased to see that all three
    South Caucasus partner countries now have agreed IPAPs with NATO,"
    said NATO Spokesman James Appathurai, This reflects the 2004 Istanbul
    Summit decisions to place a special focus on the strategically
    important regions of the Caucasus and Central Asia . "

    According to the official web-site NATO, on 16 December 2005, Armenia
    became the third partner country to agree an Individual Partnership
    Action Plan (IPAP) with NATO, following Georgia and Azerbaijan.

    The IPAP is a comprehensive plan that sets out political and defence
    reform objectives and the assistance that NATO and individual Allies
    intend to provide to help achieve them. Stepping up cooperation

    It provides for enhanced political dialogue between NATO and the
    relevant country, as well as intensified practical cooperation
    including expert advice, training of staff and officers, and
    participation in NATO operations.

    The approval of the Plan by the North Atlantic Council and Armenia
    follows several months of consultations between NATO and Armenian
    authorities.

    After Georgia (2004) and Azerbaijan (2005), Armenia is the third
    partner country that has agreed an IPAP with NATO.

    IPAPs with Moldova and Kazakhstan are under development. Armenia has
    been a NATO partner country since 1994.
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    Armenia Ready To Receive Azeri And Turk Envoys Within Nato Exercise

    PanARMENIAN.Net
    14.03.2006 00:01 GMT+04:00

    /PanARMENIAN.Net/ NATO Rescuer 2006 exercises will be held in late
    June in Yerevan, Armenian Deputy MOD Head, lieutenant general Artur
    Aghabekyan said. In his words, participants from 20 countries,
    including those of the region, will arrive in Armenia. "Armenia
    has always been for cooperation with neighboring states, based on
    Partnership for Peace principle, and is ready to receive envoys from
    Azerbaijan and Turkey," he said. Aghabekyan also remarked that the
    conference on final planning of Rescuer 2006 exercises will be held
    in April. Within the Armenia-NATO cooperation 110 events are planned
    in Armenia this year.
    "All truth passes through three stages:
    First, it is ridiculed;
    Second, it is violently opposed; and
    Third, it is accepted as self-evident."

    Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860)

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    • #3
      TIGRAN TOROSIAN CALLS FOR TURKISH REPRESENTATIVE TO NATO NOT TO OVERESTIMATE HIS PLENIPOTENTIARIES






      TURK CHAIRMAN OF NATO PA SUBCOMMITTEE ATTEMPTS TO REFUSE FACT OF GENOCIDE AT MEETING WITH RA NA SPEAKER

      Noyan Tapan
      Armenians Today
      Jun 14 2006

      YEREVAN, JUNE 14, NOYAN TAPAN - ARMENIANS TODAY. RA NA Speaker Tigran
      Torosian received on June 13 members of joint delegations of the
      Future Security and Defence Capabilies Subcommittee of the Defence
      and Security Committee and the Democratic Management Subcommittee of
      the Security Civil Measurement Committee of the NATO Parliamentary
      Assembly.

      The NA Speaker mentioned that Armenia's relations with the NATO develop
      dinamically and expressed satisfaction with their level. It was also
      mentioned that within that framework the Individual Partnership Actions
      Plan has an exclusive meaning. Tigran Torosian considered the state of
      Armenia's associated member to the NATO PA as an important stimulus
      for deepening relations, attaching importance to the issue that
      those relations develop not only in the defence direction but also
      in the directions of making the legislation going with democratic,
      political and European standards. The Parliament Speaker separated
      this period in life of Armenia as time of preparing for the 2007 and
      2008 state elections and making the legislation corresponding to the
      constitutional amendments. Then Tigran Torosian answered questions
      of the delegations members that relate both to relations of NATO and
      Armenia, and to works of region and National Assembly.

      Vahit Erdem, the Chairman of the Future Security and Defence
      Capabilities Subcommittee mentioned about their mission that the
      problem is review of Armenia and NATO relations, taking into account
      that as a result of geopolitical changes, the NATO was also changed
      and turned into a structure of defending peace in the world which is
      open for any country. Representative of Great Britain Frank Cook will
      prepare the regional report.

      As Noyan Tapan was informed by the NA Public Relations Department,
      Erdem was interested in how Armenia prepares for the elections. NA
      Speaker Tigran Torosian presented in details that the Parliament is
      today engaged in reforms of the Electoral Code, the Venice Commission
      experts' opinion has already been got, after discussions of which and
      agreeing with the political forces at the autumn session, the National
      Assembly will already receive the Electoral Code. He also mentioned
      that some principles are being experimented for to be defined and
      improved in action. For holding elections corresponding to democratic
      standards, the NA Speaker attached importance to creation of beneficial
      moral-psychological atmosphere and cooperation of all parties.

      Vitalino Canas, the representative of Portugal was interested if
      Armenia, considering membership to the European Union as its' foreign
      political supremacy, is not going to join the NATO either. Tigran
      Torosian reminded that there are EU member countries which are not
      NATO members, and it is a normal phenomenon. He re-affirmed that
      membership to the European Union is supremacy of foreign policy of
      Armenia, and all steps are undertaken in the direction of Armenia's
      membership to the EU, and Armenia has made no statement about its
      intention to join the NATO, and it said that it is successive on the
      way of deepening relations, what is being done.

      Chetin Kazak, the Chairman of the Subcommittee on Democratic
      Management, the representative of Bulgaria was interested in relations
      of Armenia with two neighbors. The NA Speaker mentioned that Armenia
      has stated many times that he is for normal relations with neighbors,
      without proposing pre-conditions, and finds that contacts, discussions,
      an open dialogue are necessary for establishing relations. Some
      steps have already been taken at the PACE and within the framework
      of the South Caucasian Parliamentary Initiative, and Tigran Torosian
      expressed a hope that neighbors as well will have readiness to take
      steps forward.

      Speaking about the report being prepared, Tigran Torosian mentioned
      a number of principles that needs improvement: it was particularly
      mentioned in the report that Armenia's "international symphathizers"
      consider that a genocide took place, when it's necessary to mention
      the EU member countries and the Europarliament which recognized the
      Genocide. In response, representative of Turkey Vahit Erdem refused
      the fact of the Genocide: according to his insistence, neither 1915
      Armenian Genocide took place nor there was a state order to kill
      Armenians, and it may be spoken just about 400-500 thousand people who
      themselves attacked Turks by Russians' instigation. Tigran Torosian
      interrupted Turk deputy's "history lecture" and calling on him to be
      proper, considered incompatible such a behaviour with the post occupied
      within the framework of the international organization. Tigran Torosian
      reminded Vahid Erdem that he has no right to give estimations either to
      Genocide or to Europarliament or to countries recognized the Genocide.
      "All truth passes through three stages:
      First, it is ridiculed;
      Second, it is violently opposed; and
      Third, it is accepted as self-evident."

      Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860)

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      • #4
        Namik Tan: Turkey Hasn't Taken Part in Any Stage of Secret CIA Activities


        15.06.2006 18:19 GMT+04:00
        /PanARMENIAN.Net/ Turkey yesterday denied any involvement in alleged CIA secret activities after the Council of Europe (CoE) concluded last week that 14 European nations colluded with U.S. intelligence in a "spider's web" of human rights abuses to help the CIA spirit terror suspects to illegal detention facilities. "Turkey hasn't and won't take part in any stage of secret CIA activities," Turkish Foreign Ministry Spokesman Namik Tan said at a weekly press conference.

        Tan made the remarks in a response to an Amnesty International statement on Wednesday which accused seven European countries, including Turkey, of aiding U.S. abductions of terror suspects. " Accusations by Amnesty International, other institutions or people, shouldn't be taken seriously," Tan added. Asked whether Incirlik Air Base in Adana could be used for alleged transportation of detainees by CIA secret flights without the Turkish authorities being informed, Tan ruled out such a possibility, saying, "Incirlik is a Turkish Armed Force [TSK] base. Our officials are aware of everything that goes on at the base." Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul also previously denied allegations of detainees being interrogated on secret CIA flight at Sabiha Gokcen Airport in Istanbul, accusing such groundless claims of being aimed at opening a debate on the sovereignty of the Turkish Republic, reported ABHaber news agency.

        Turkey yesterday denied any involvement in alleged CIA secret activities after the Council of Europe (CoE) concluded last week that 14 European nations colluded with U.S. intelligence in a "spider's web" of human rights abuses to help the CIA spirit terror suspects to illegal detention facilities. "Turkey hasn't and won't take part in any stage of secret CIA activities," Turkish Foreign Ministry Spokesman Namik Tan said at a weekly press conference.
        "All truth passes through three stages:
        First, it is ridiculed;
        Second, it is violently opposed; and
        Third, it is accepted as self-evident."

        Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860)

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        • #5
          Armenian Vice Speaker: "Armenia is not ready for NATO membership"

          Armenian Vice Speaker: "Armenia is not ready for NATO membership"

          Journal of Turkish Weekly
          July 9 2006

          "NATO membership means rebuilding relations with that organization -
          something Armenia is not ready for today," the vice speaker of the
          Armenian parliament Vahan Hovhannissyan said during a roundtable with
          NATO representatives.

          Armenia has close military co-operation of Russia. Yerevan is
          considered the only Russian ally in the region while Georgia,
          Azerbaijan and Turkey have close military ties with the US, EU and
          the NATO, Regnum reported.

          Hovhannissyan said that since the Soviet times Armenia has regarded
          NATO as some military organization - some alliance formed for
          protecting the European democratic values. "It later turned out that
          many countries join NATO not so much for adopting these values as for
          feeling more protected, for gaining some cover," Hovhannissyan said.

          "Obviously, the new NATO and EU members from Eastern Europe were not
          ready for that. Unlike its neighbors, Armenia believes that the key
          goal of NATO membership is to attain conformity with the European
          standards so that this membership be natural rather than artificial."

          Hovhannissyan noted that membership in NATO means rebuilding relations
          with that organization - something Armenia is not ready to do yet.

          Asked by British delegate Franck Cook what challenges Armenia is
          faced with today, Hovhanissyan said that for many years already
          Turkey has been keeping Armenia in blockade and laying pre-conditions
          for establishing diplomatic relations with it, which makes mutual
          improvement impossible. Turkey and Armenia have never confronted in
          the past. When Armenian forces occupied 20 percent of Azerbaijani
          territories and thretened to occupy Nahcivan province, Turkey closed
          its borders with Armenia. Turkey was one of the states recognised
          Armenia's independence. Another problem is Armenian 'genocide'
          claims. Turkey does not see Armenian claims as a pre-condition to
          restore diplomatic relations. Ankara offered to establish a joint
          commission to discuss the historical disputes, yet Armenia rejected
          many times these offers. Armenian Constitution and some other documents
          do not recognise Turkey's national borders and some of the Armenian
          politicians call Eastern Turkey as 'Western Armenia'.

          Armenia also does not recognise the Kars Treaty.

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          • #6
            NATO does not directly deal with Nagorno Karabakh problem

            NATO does not directly deal with Nagorno Karabakh problem

            /PanARMENIAN.Net/ The settlement of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict is in the competence of OSCE Minsk Group, Deputy Secretary-General of NATO Jean Fournet told in the interview to the PanARMENIAN.Net journalist. He said, NATO is not directly dealing with the Nagorno Karabakh problem. “But we carefully watch the developments of negotiation process. The Alliance is for peaceful solution of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict. I must also underline that we appreciate Armenia for the information about Nagorno Karabakh she provides us in the IPAP framework,” Fournet underscored.

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