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JUNE 11, 2011 MirTHE rARoMENr IAN -Spe ctator Volume LXXXI, NO. 48, Issue 4192 $ 2.00 NEWS IN BRIEF The First English Language Armenian Weekly in the United States Mirror-Spectator Mediators Annual Vacation New Jersey Banquet Celebrates WATERTOWN — The Armenian Mirror-Spectator will close for a two-week break in July, as part of its Meet Azeri traditional summer holiday. Mirror-Spectator Anniversary The last issue before the break will be that of July 2. The first issue back will be that of July 23. Leaders, Press releases on events between July 2 and 23 should be submitted as early as possible for inclu - sion in issues prior to the break. Travel to The office will reopen on July 18. Swedish MP Refutes Karabagh Azeri Media Story BAKU (RFE/RL) — International media - STOCKHOLM (PanArmenian.Net) — Swedish mem - tors met with Azerbaijan’s leaders and pro - ber of parliament Desire Petrus refuted the words ceeded to Nagorno-Karabagh on Tuesday ascribed to her by Azerbaijani media that recogni - during their latest round of shuttle diploma - tion of the Armenian Genocide “is a historic mis - cy coming amid fresh hopes for a break - take.” through in the Armenian-Azerbaijani negoti - In a letter addressed to the representative of the ating process. Armenian community of Sweden, Vahagn Avetian, The US, Russian and French diplomats co- Petrus wrote that she has not made such a statement. chairing the OSCE Minsk Group made no “I said that, taking into consideration the stance public statements after holding talks with of the Christian Democratic Party, recognition of Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev and genocides by parliaments is not a correct step as a Keynote speaker Stephen Kurkjian Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov. whole. Similar decisions should be adopted by They entered Karabagh later in the day. international courts. It would have been correct to Military officials in Stepanakert said they recognize the Armenian Genocide. There are not used the occasion to monitor the ceasefire TEANECK, N.J. — More than 200 any doubts with respect to it,” Petrus wrote. regime at a section of the Armenian- guests assembled here at a banquet By Aram Arkun Azerbaijani frontline northeast of the disput - on June 4 to raise funds, support and Mirror-Spectator ed territory. Armenia to Modernize celebrate the work of the Armenian The mediating troika is scheduled meet Mirror-Spectator , and commemorate with the ethnic Armenian leadership of the Electrical Substation three New York area intellectuals who were important in its history. Nagorno-Karabagh Republic (NKR) on see ANNIVERSARY, page 9 Near Turkish Border Wednesday. It will end the regional visit in Yerevan on Thursday with talks with YEREVAN (RFE/RL) — Armenia will start modern - President Serge Sargisian and Foreign izing later this year an electrical substation and a Minister Eduard Nalbandian. high-voltage transmission line stretching to the Ahmadinejad Visit to Armenia The co-chairs’ latest tour of the conflict zone Armenian-Turkish border with a $21-million loan comes less than two weeks after the presidents provided by Germany. of the United States, Russia and France urged The two facilities are located in the northwestern Cancelled at Last Minute Sargisian and Aliyev to finalize a framework Shirak province bordering Turkey and are a major peace accord on Karabagh at their upcoming component of the local power distribution network. YEREVAN (RFE/RL) — Iranian Salehi and Movsisian signed a memoran - meeting. “Further delay would only call into The transmission line underwent minor repairs President Mahmud Ahmadinejad cancelled dum of understanding to boost cooperation question the commitment of the sides to reach in 2009 during Turkish-Armenian negotiations that a visit to Armenia just hours before his on oil, gas and electricity, and expand over - an agreement,” they warned. raised the prospect of Armenian electricity exports planned arrival on Monday, May 30, for rea - all economic ties between the two neigh - Aliyev and Sargisian are expected to meet to Turkey. But the subsequent collapse of the rap - sons that were not immediately clear. boring countries. A key element of that in Kazan, Russia at the end of this month. prochement all but ruled out such possibility. The visit was announced by the Iranian cooperation is joint Armenian-Iranian ener - The summit will be hosted and mediated by “The substation remains prepared to supply elec - government late last month and confirmed gy projects. Russian President Dmitry Medvedev. tricity to Turkey,” its director, Gagik Avetisian said, by President Serge Sargisian’s office on Those include the construction of two Mammadyarov said on Monday that he and on Thursday, June 2. “It will be even more prepared Saturday, June 4. The latter gave no details hydro-electric plants on the Arax river Nalbandian will hold a trilateral meeting with after the reconstruction.” of its agenda, though. marking the Armenian-Iranian border and a their Russian counterpart, Sergei Lavrov, in Preparations for the project began shortly after In a short statement issued on Monday, pipeline that will ship Iranian fuel to Moscow on June 11. He said they will prepare the German bank KfW allocated the loan late last the Armenian presidential press service see AHMADINEJAD, page 20 for the next Armenian-Azerbaijani summit. year. The project will be implemented by French said the trip has been put off “by mutual companies chosen after an international tender. consent,” adding “it will be undertaken in Avetisian said the modernization process will get due course,” without elaboration. underway this autumn and take more than two The official Iranian IRNA news agency ‘Dr. Death’ Jack Kevorkian Dies at 83 years. quoted a spokesman for Ahmadinejad, Mohammad-Hassan Salehi-Maram, as say - ing that the Armenian side “did not prepare By Sindya N. Bhanoo documents” that were due to be signed in INSI DE Yerevan. The official did not specify what those documents are. ROYAL OAK, Mich. (Washington Post) — According to another Tehran-based Jack Kevorkian, 83, the zealous, straight- agency, ISNA, Iranian Foreign Ministry talking pathologist known as “Dr. Death” spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast gave a for his crusade to legalize physician-assist - The Art of similar reason for the delay. Mehmanparast ed suicide, died June 3 at a hospital here. expressed confidence that the unspecified He had been hospitalized since last Sumbat documents will be finalized and the Iranian month with pneumonia and kidney prob - leader will visit Armenia “in the near lems, close friend and attorney Mayer page 14 future.” Morganroth told the Associated Press. “The Islamic Republic of Iran and Kevorkian spent decades campaigning Armenia enjoy friendly relations and good for the legalization of euthanasia. He neighborliness and authorities of the two served eight years in prison and was arrest - ed numerous times for helping more than countries are continuously in contact,” he INDEX reportedly said. 130 patients commit suicide from 1990 to Ahmadinejad was due to fly to Yerevan 2000, using injections, carbon monoxide Armenia . 2,3 and his infamous suicide machine, built Arts and Living . 14 one week after a regular session of an Calendar . 17 Iranian-Armenian inter-governmental com - from scraps for $30. Those he aided had terminal conditions such as multiple scle - Community News. 5 mission on economic cooperation that was Editorial . 18 rosis, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and held in Tehran. The meeting was co-chaired International . 4 Dr. Jack Kevorkian by Iranian Foreign Minister Ali-Akbar malignant brain tumors. Salehi and Armenian Energy and Natural see KEVORKIAN, page 6 Resources Minister Armen Movsisian. 2 S ATURDAY , J UNE 11, 2011 T HE A RMENIAN M IRROR -S PECTATOR ARMENIA News From Armenia Experts: Armenian Nuke Plant Risk ‘Acceptable’ YEREVAN (ArmeniaNow) — of Armenia’s neighbors — Azerbaijan, export, and Armenia cannot abandon According to the head of the Georgia, or Turkey — have nuclear sta - its use. Moreover, the country is begin - Catholicos Karekin II International Atomic Energy Agency tions and the newly-built Bushehr ning the construction of a new reactor. (IAEA) ad hoc Operational Safety nuclear power plant in Iran has not yet A few days ago Germany renounced Defrocks Rev. Manukyan Review Team (OSART) for Armenia, been put into full operation. the use of nuclear energy and pledged Gabor Vamos, the level of risk at the The OSART commission acting to shut down all nuclear power plants BERN, Switzerland (Lragir.am) — By the Armenian Nuclear Power Plant is under the auspices of the IAEA cited a by 2022. Seven nuclear reactors in Patriarchal Verdict dated June 1, Rev. Abel acceptable and there are technical pos - number of examples of good practice at Germany built before 1980 were sus - Manukyan of Switzerland was defrocked. sibilities to extend the terms of the facil - the Armenian station, as well as voiced pended in Germany in March amid the The spokesman for the Holy See this week ity’s operation. But he said at a press a number of recommendations to news of the nuclear catastrophe coming dwelled on the history of the attempts to establish conference in Yerevan on Thursday that improve this practice. The group, con - from earthquake-hit Japan. Safety a diocese of the Armenian Apostolic Church in the station has not yet made such an sisting of 11 experts from eight coun - inspections began at all 17 nuclear Switzerland. In his words, the diocese was estab- initiative. tries, conducted monitoring in the fol - power plants operating in Germany. As lished de jure but was not brought into being due IAEA experts arrived in Armenia in lowing areas – state of the equipment, a result, only four of them continued to the efforts of Manukyan. mid-May to find out on the spot how the process of work. Vamos noted that their operations.