KHARRAZI: STABILITY IN ARMENIA IS IN THE NATIONAL INTEREST OF IRAN
YEREVAN (ARMENPRESS)–Armenian president Robert Kocharian met today with visiting Iranian Foreign Minister Kamal Kharrazi–who arrived in Yerevan yesterday evening on the last leg of his visit to the Caucasus. Before arriving in Yerevan–Kharrazi held talks with top officials in Azerbaijan and Georgia.
Kharrazi also met with [...]

As a part of a "Week of Remembrance" sponsored by the city of Glendale commemorating the Armenian Genocide–a third and final event took place at the Glendale Civic Auditorium on Thursday–April 24 at 5:30 PM.
Professor of History at Glendale Community College Levon Marashlian–introduced the director of "Voices from The Lake," Michael Hagopian who spoke of [...]

MOSCOW (Reuters)–Russia on Wednesday attacked Turkey for restricting shipping through the crowded Black Sea Bosphorus straits–crucial to Russian oil exports–saying it should not take unilateral decisions.
Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov criticized Turkish limits on the transit of most oil tankers through the Bosphorus–which have been in place since October–on a visit to Russia’s main Black Sea [...]

YEREVAN (Armenpress)–The legislative assembly of Brazil’s biggest state San Paolo–passed a new law setting April 24 as the day of remembrance for 1.5 million Armenia’s killed in 1915. In 1998 the assembly passed a decision that set April 24 as a day of solidarity with Armenia’s.
The Armenian foreign ministry said that the law was initiated [...]

"WE WILL NOT EQUIVOCATE… WE WILL GO ON UNTIL WE ARE VICTORIOUS" –Congressman Adam Schiff
HOLLYWOOD–Three events–organized by the United Genocide Commemoration Committee to mark the 88th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide took place in the Los Angeles area.
At 9:30 AM–about 200 representatives of Armenian political parties and organizations joined the region’s Prelate and Primate and [...]

FALLUJA (Reuters)–US troops killed 13 Iraqi demonstrators west of Baghdad overnight–witnesses said on Tuesday–in bloodshed sure to inflame anti-American anger.
US officers said they fired in self defense.
Witnesses in Falluja–30 miles outside the capital–told Reuters the troops opened fire late on Monday on several hundred unarmed demonstrators who had been demanding the soldiers vacate a school [...]

YEREVAN–29 APRIL (ARMENPRESS)–ARF leaders presented their party’s plans–concerns–and programmatic approaches during a meeting with the representatives of Armenia’s educational system.
Armenia’s Minister of Education and Science–Levon Mkrtchian–an ARF member–stated that for the ARF the support of the intellectuals–their acceptance of the ARF’s plans–is important.
Presidential Chief of Staff Artashes Toumanian–who is not a member of the ARF [...]

BAKU (IRNA)–Iran’s Foreign Minister Kamal Kharrazi who is currently visiting Georgia said on Tuesday that Iran attaches great importance to preserving security in the Persian Gulf region as well as the South Caucuses.
Addressing a joint press conference with his Georgian Counterpart Irakli Menagharishvili in Tbilisi–he said now that the constant threat of Saddam Hussein in [...]

BAGHDAD–April 28 (Reuters)–About 250 leading Iraqis from across the political and ethnic spectrum held a US-sponsored meeting on Monday to launch a new democratic era after the end of Saddam Hussein’s iron rule.
Behind a defensive ring of American tanks–US reconstruction chief Jay Garner opened the Baghdad meeting on Saddam’s 66th birthday–until this year a public [...]

YEREVAN (Armenpress)–Italian authorities banned the presentation of Atom Egoyan’s Ararat scheduled to be shown across the country on April 24 as part of events commemorating the 88th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide committed by the government of Turkey in 1915.
The Armenian embassy in Italy said the ban came unexpectedly as the showing had been announced [...]

LOS ANGELES–Protesters gathered at the Turkish Consulate in Los Angeles on April 24 demanding Turkish recognition of the Armenian Genocide.
The protest–one of many events commemorating the Armenian Genocide–attracted 4000 community members. The relatively youthful crowd picketed across almost two blocks of Wilshire Blvd. with signs reading "Genocide Unpunished is Genocide Encouraged," and "Turkey Stop Historical [...]

BAKU (Armenpress)–A group of Azerbaijani representatives in Georgia’s parliament criticized parliament speaker Nino Burjanadze for her statement on the Armenian Genocide. "This is a tragic day in the history of the Armenian nation. Unfortunately–after the events of 1915 the world has seen many such tragedies that have taken the lives of innocent people," she said [...]

LOS ANGELES–April 24 is marked by Armenia’s throughout the world as the start of a campaign of mass killings and deportations that wiped out the Armenian population of the former Ottoman Empire by 1917. Several Armenian communites throughout the United States–New York–Boston–Chicago–Washington–DC–Michigan–San Diego–San Francisco–Wisconsin–and others–held ceremonies on April 24 commemorating the event.
In Los Angeles–the Little [...]

WASHINGTON–DC–Despite having heard in recent weeks from over 168 US Representatives who had urged him to recognize the Armenian Genocide as a "genocide," George W. Bush today–in his third April 24th statement as President–again broke his February 2000 campaign pledge to properly recognize the Armenian Genocide–reported the Armenian National Committee of America (ANCA).
In a statement [...]