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PROCEDURE OF ACCEPTING PATIENTS FOR AIDS TREATMENT APPROVED YEREVAN, MARCH 26, ARMENPRESS: The Armenian government has taken a decision which is set to regulate the entrance of foreign citizens infected with AIDS or HIV to Armenia who wish to take treatment by Armenicum, an anti-AIDS drug reportedly developed by Armenian scientists. The infected foreigners, according to the decision, have to appeal to Armenia's diplomatic representation in the given country or its consulate with a request to get a permission to enter Armenia with the purpose of getting treatment against AIDS. The application is to be sent to Armenian foreign ministry within a month and the latter has to submit it to Armenia's health ministry within 5 days, the latter decides whether the applicants can be received for treatment or not. The patient is informed about the decision by the foreign ministry. The patients have also to prove their solvency.

HEAD OF ARMENIAN CHURCH TO VISIT CANADA IN MAY YEREVAN, MARCH 29, ARMENPRESS: The Canadian Diocese of the Armenian Holy Apostolic Church announced on Wednesday that the First Pontifical Visit of His Holiness Karekin II Supreme Patriarch and Catholicos of All Armenians to the Diocese of Canada will take place May 15-24, 2001. "We announce with great joy to the faithful of the Armenian Diocese of Canada that the first pastoral visit of His Holiness Karekin II, Supreme Patriarch and Catholicos of All Armenians to the Diocese of Canada will be on May 15 to 24, 2001. The pontifical visit of His Holiness coincides with the 1700th anniversary of Armenia's formal acceptance of Christianity as the state religion," a press release, issued by the Canadian Diocese says.

ARMENIAN DIASPORA ENCYCLOPEDIA READY FOR PUBLICATION YEREVAN, MARCH 30, ARMENPRESS: The editorial office of Armenian Encyclopedia has prepared its successive encyclopedia, called Armenian Diaspora, for publication and is seeking sponsors that will be willing to cover printing expenses. "If we succeed in finding them, the encyclopedia will be ready early in 2002 and," the editor-in-chief of the Armenian Encyclopedia Hovhanes Ayvazian told Armenpress adding that it includes the detailed history and life of Armenian communities in 65 countries of the world. The encyclopedia or separate articles can be translated into different languages in order to make it available for those Diaspora Armenians who don't master Armenian, the chief editor said.

ARMENIA-DIASPORA SECOND CONFERENCE TO BE HELD SEPTEMBER 2001 YEREVAN, MARC 30, ARMENPRESS: The state commission, charged with organization of the second Armenia-Diaspora conference, issued a statement on Thursday which says that the first Armenia-Diaspora conference has had an important role in making closer Armenia-Diaspora relations by laying strong foundation for their further development and strengthening. The first conference, reads the statement, was the beginning of a process that targets development and strengthening of Armenia-Diaspora multilateral relations. It has created a format for regular discussion and solution of pan-national problems. To continue the process it was decided to convene the second Armenia-Diaspora conference in Yerevan on September 19-20, 2001. It will have on its agenda issues of pan-national interest and programs for their realization. The second Armenia-Diaspora conference will be of special importance as it coincides with the 1,700th anniversary of Christianity adoption by Armenians and the 10th anniversary of Armenia's independence. The statement says that a range of preparatory measures will be carried out with involvement of secular and church structures and prominent individuals from both sides. Armenian embassies abroad are planning to hold consultations with Diaspora Armenian leaders to discuss how to best hold the conference.

"AFRO-AMERICAN CULTURE" DAYS TO OPEN IN YEREVAN ON MONDAY 30.03.2001 YEREVAN, March 30. /Mediamax/. "Afro-American culture days", organized by the US Embassy in Armenia, will open on Monday, April 2, in Yerevan State University. As Mediamax was informed today in the U.S. Embassy, the Ambassador of the United States Michael Lemmon will make a greeting speech at the opening. Exhibitions, lectures and other events will be held within the frames of the "Afro-American culture days", which will last till April 5. --0--

Students recognized for work Four from Glendale high schools went above and beyond in helping others. By ALECIA FOSTER NORTHWEST GLENDALE -- When Meline Martirosian heard about a holiday toy drive for needy elementary school students, she immediately jumped at the chance to help. "I remembered my struggle," she said. Martirosian and her family had a hard time making ends meet -- let alone having extra money to buy toys or other extras -- when they first moved to Glendale from Armenia about six years ago. Wanting to help, the Glendale High School senior donated 50 toys -- bought with her own money and that collected from co-workers. Her act of selflessness caught the attention of school leaders and the Glendale Host Lions Club, which at a luncheon Wednesday recognized Martirosian and three other high school seniors for being outstanding students. Hoover High senior Nancy Trinidad was recognized for her work in several campus organizations and her initiative in getting things done. Last year, she helped organize a peace march after Hoover student Raul Aguirre was stabbed to death in front of the school. She also organized a dance to raise money for a terminally ill student. "Nancy didn't just talk about it she did it," said Heidi Applebaum, an assistant principal at the school. Crescenta Valley High student Brian Landisi also has been active in school activities -- from student government to the school paper. He recently put together a video for the funeral of former CV student Roberta Happe, who was murdered several weeks ago. Beside doing well in school, Clark Magnet student Lois Song has been an active volunteer and member of her church -- singing in the choir and helping with other programs there. "I like to work with kids so I volunteer at a lot of schools," she said. While the day was devoted to students, the Lions Club surprised Glendale High Assistant Principal Leroy Sherman. He received the Good Guy Award from Lions member Dick Holway for all the work he has done with the students, including the holiday toy drive.

Lessons from a tragic past Glendale-based groups hope handbook will make Armenian Genocide part of high school curriculum for all students. By CLAUDIA PESCHIUTTA http://www.latimes.com/communities/news/bu...tgn0013085.html GLENDALE -- Mehmet Talaat *****, Ismail Enver *****, Kharpert, Der el-Zor. These names and places would inspire little more than curiosity in many people. For others, they are are as integral a part of heritage as the names and birthplaces of ancestors. In an effort to ensure the Armenian Genocide is not forgotten, two Glendale-based groups have worked together to produce a book on the issue for high-school teachers and students. The 118-page book, titled "The Armenian Genocide 1915-1923," includes everything from portraits of central figures to newspaper and eyewitness accounts of atrocities in places such as Kharpert and Der el-Zor. An estimated 1.5 million Armenians were killed after being exiled by the Ottoman Turks in 1915. The Western Region of the Armenian National Committee and the Armenian Cultural Foundation hope to get the book into classrooms in Glendale and other cities. Jim Brown, superintendent of the Glendale Unified School District, said he wants to get copies of the book for local teachers and campus libraries. "It's a timely and important work for us to have access to in the school district," he said. "This is going to be a valuable resource to us." Not all history textbooks include information on the genocide, said Alex Sardar, executive director of the Armenian National Committee's local chapter. "Excluding a historical truth creates a vacuum of ignorance on the issues," he said. "We hope that by educating world citizens at a very young age we are able to stop such violence and crimes against humanity from occurring in the future." The Turkish government denies allegations of a genocide and the U.S. does not officially recognize it. Most of the first 2,000 copies printed of the book, written by Simon Payaslian, have been given out or sold, Sardar said. Money raised by selling the books, which are $20 each, will be used to print more copies, he said. Many copies have been given to local education officials, including Glendale Board of Education members. There is "big interest" in getting the book into local schools, said board member Pam Ellis. The large population of Armenian students in the area and the inclusion of the genocide in state-mandated curriculum are reasons to teach the subject in Glendale classrooms, she said. "The harder it is to find the material, the less likely the teacher is to teach it," Ellis said. "This book just makes the material readily accessible." Sardar sees a connection between the genocide and more recent atrocities, such as school shootings. "There are some underlying issues that are dealt with in this book that are relevant to today's stuff ... issues of tolerance, issues of respect for human life," he said.

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-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MARYLAND STATE SENATE APPROVES BILL ON RECOGNIZING ARMENIAN GENOCIDE 28.03.2001 YEREVAN, March 28. /Mediamax/. Maryland State Senate approved a bill on recognizing the Armenian genocide of 1915. The bill was approved by 34 votes against 10. The bill still needs the approval of the House of Representatives of Maryland. On March 24 the Turkish Zaman paper reported that U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell sent a letter to deputies in Maryland state and said that the U.S. administration did not approve their initiatives for adopting a resolution on recognizing the Armenian genocide. In his letter Powell said that such initiatives affected foreign policy of the United States. --0--

GEORGE BUSH REAFFIRMS HIS ELECTORAL PLEDGE MADE TO AMERICAN ARMENIANS 28.03.2001 YEREVAN, March 28. /Mediamax/. During his recent visit to Chicago the U.S. President George Bush made statements reaffirming his campaign pledge to "ensure that our nation properly recognizes the tragic suffering of the Armenian people," Mediamax was informed in the Armenian National Committee (ANC) of Illinois. Answering the ANC representatives about his position on his campaign pledge, Bush said: "The Armenians are great people. You know I made a promise to you before I was elected." The ANC representative Rita Sarafian said in this regard that "the American Armenians expect that the President clearly and non-ambiguously classifies the events of 1915 as genocide."--0--

FIRST ARMENIAN LITERARY MAGAZINE IS LAUNCHED ON THE INTERNET 28.03.2001 YEREVAN, March 28. /Mediamax/. The first Armenian literary magazine - is launched on the Internet. As one of the authors of the project, writer Vahram Martirosian told Mediamax, "Bnagir" magazine will be issued once a quarter. Martirosian also said the printed version of the magazine will also be published, with circulation of about 100. The official presentation of the project will be held on March 29. --0--

ARMENIAN FOREIGN MINISTER HOPES THE U.S. PRESIDENT WILL KEEP HIS ELECTORAL PLEDGE 28.03.2001 YEREVAN, March 28. /Mediamax/. Minister of Foreign Affairs of Armenia Vardan Oskanian voiced his hope today that the U.S. President George Bush, in his traditional address to the American Armenians on 24 April, will give an assessment to the 1915 events similar to the one he gave during his pre-electoral campaign. In the interview to the Public Television of Armenia Minister Oskanian said: "We hope that the President of the USA will manage to keep his electoral pledge". During his recent visit to Chicago the U.S. President George Bush said: "The Armenians are great people. You know I made a promise to you before I was elected", Mediamax was informed in the Armenian National Committee (ANC) of Illinois. During his pre-electoral campaign George Bush said "the Armenians were subjected to a genocidal campaign". He also promised "to ensure that our nation properly recognizes the tragic suffering of the Armenian people". --0--

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WORLD CUP 2010 FIFA might have agreed on rotation in principal, but, contrary to widely circulated reports, it has not yet agreed that Africa will be the first continent in the rotation. Michel Zen-Ruffinen, FIFA's general secretary, said rotation has "a lot of potential problems" that have yet to be worked out. "We have to be sure there'll be a real choice," he said. "Some confederations have more members capable of hosting the World Cup than others, and we have to be sure the pool of potential bidders is as wide as possible." Meanwhile, former South African national team coach Clive Barker said South Africa, Morocco, Egypt and Nigeria are capable of staging the World Cup. "I think FIFA has looked at Africa and decided that they can take the risk in 2010 and then they won't have to bring it back to the continent for another 20 years," he said. "They'll have breathing space." Complicating matters for FIFA is the fact that by 2010 it will have been 32 years since a South American country last staged soccer's showcase event. Which makes Brazil a good bet for 2014, the year the U.S. wanted the World Cup back. * * * World Cup Qualifiers SATURDAY'S RESULTS * Andorra 0, Netherlands 5 * Armenia 2, Wales 2 * Azerbaijan 0, Moldova 0 * Bosnia 1, Austria 1 * Bulgaria 2, Iceland 1 * Croatia 4, Latvia 1 * Cyprus 0, Ireland 4 * England 2, Finland 1 * Germany 2, Albania 1 * Hungary 1, Lithuania 1 * Malta 0, Denmark 5 * Northern Ireland 0, Czech Republic 1 * Norway 2, Poland 3 * Russia 1, Slovenia 1 * Scotland 2, Belgium 2 * Sweden 1, Macedonia 0 * Luxembourg 0, Faroe Islands 2 * Yugoslavia 1, Switzerland 1 * Turkey 1, Slovakia 1 * Spain 5, Liechtenstein 0 * Romania 0, Italy 2 * Ukraine 0, Belarus 0 Note: Home team listed first

CALIFORNIA STATE SENATE UNANIMOUSLY RECOGNIZED APRIL 24 AS "DAY OF REMEMBRANCE OF THE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE" 23.03.2001 YEREVAN, March 23. /Mediamax/. On Thursday the California State Senate unanimously approved Joint Resolution 5 Designating April 24 as "Day of Remembrance of the Armenian Genocide" The joint resolution memorializes the United States Congress to also commemorate the genocidal acts committed against the Armenian people at the hands of the Turkish Ottoman Empire. California is home to the largest population of Armenians in the United States. --0--

PAKISTAN'S REPRESENTATIVE EXPRESSED "DEEP CONCERN OVER THE AGRESSION AGAINST AZERBAIJAN" 23.03.2001 YEREVAN, March 23. /Mediamax/. Speaking on behalf of the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC), at the 75th session of the U.N. Commission on Human Rights in Geneva, Pakistan's Ambassador at the United Nations, Munir Akram expressed "deep concern over the aggression against Azerbaijan". As IRNA reports, he regretted also the "unabated" violation of the rights of people in Palestine, Golan Heights of Syria, Lebanese territories, Kosovo, Jammu and Kashmir, Bosnia-Herzegovina and Armenia". --0--

U.S. SECRETARY OF STATE POWELL DOESN'T APPROVE THE RECOGNITION OF ARMENIAN GENOCIDE BY MARYLAND STATE 24.03.2001 YEREVAN, March 24. /Mediamax/. U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell sent a letter to deputies in Maryland state who have been taking up a resolution on Genocide on Armenians, and said that the U.S. administration did not approve such resolutions. In his letter Powell said that such initiatives affected foreign policy of the U.S. State Department, Turkish Zaman paper reported. Powell stressed that the issue was not among duties of the local assemblies. Quoting observers in Washington D.C. Zaman reported that Powell's letter was a sign of that the U.S.' new administration would continue to follow support given by former President Bill Clinton to Turkey. The California State Senate unanimously approved on March 22 Joint Resolution 5 Designating April 24 as "Day of Remembrance of the Armenian Genocide". No reports on official Washington's negative reaction to this decision have appeared in the press so far. --0--

THE MEETING BETWEEN POPE JOHN PAUL AND PATRIARCH ALEKSEI COULD BE HELD IN ARMENIA 26.03.2001 YEREVAN, March 26. /Mediamax/. Vatican officials suggest that the most likely occasion for a meeting between the heads of the Rome Catholic Church and the Russian Orthodox Church could be in Armenia. In the off the record interview to the Catholic World News agency they noted that Armenia is regarded as "neutral territory." They also say that the head of the Armenian Apostolic Church, Catholicos Karekin II, enjoys good relations with both the Vatican and the Moscow Patriarchate, so that he might serve as an ideal intermediary in setting up the meeting. Moscow's Catholic Archbishop Tadeusz Kondrusiewicz and Russian Orthodox Metropolitan Kirill have announced on March 23 that the meeting between Pope John Paul II and Patriarch Aleksei II of Moscow "should be truly historic, and not merely a protocol meeting." It is supposed that John Paul II will visit Armenia in autumn 2001 and will take part in the celebrations dedicated to the 1700th anniversary of adoption of Christianity in Armenia. --0--

HOLY ECHMIADZIN DENIES INFORMATION ABOUT POSSIBLE MEETING BETWEEN HEADS OF ROME CATHOLIC CHURCH AND RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH IN ARMENIA 26.03.2001 YEREVAN, March 26. /Mediamax/. The press-service of Holy Echmiadzin named "not true" the information of the Catholic World News agency about the possible meeting of the heads of Rome Catholic Church and Russian Orthodox Church in Armenia. The press-service of the Holy Echmiadzin informed Mediamax that such initiatives have never been and are not being discussed with the leadership of Armenian Apostolic Church. The Vatican officials have noted in the 23 March interview to the Catholic World News agency that the head of the Armenian Apostolic Church, Catholicos Garegin II, enjoys good relations with both the Vatican and the Moscow Patriarchate, so that he might serve as an ideal intermediary in setting up the meeting. --0--

"ALLEY OF HEROES" OPENED IN THE Artsax UNIVERSITY 27.03.2001 YEREVAN, March 27. /Mediamax/. An "alley of heroes" who died during the Artsax-Azerbaijani war was opened in the state University of the Nagorno Artsax Republic. Seventy one trees were planted, this was the number of students and graduates of the University who died defending the country. --0--

EXHIBITION OF ARMENIAN APPLIED ARTS OPENED IN ABU DABI 27.03.2001 YEREVAN, March 27. /Mediamax/. By joint efforts of Armenian Embassy in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Abu Dabi culture center the exhibition of Armenian applied art was opened in UAE capital on March 24. As Mediamax was informed in the press service of the Foreign Ministry of Armenia, the exhibition is being held under the patronage of the son of UAE president, Minister for information and culture Abdallah ben Zayed Al Nahayan. The exhibition will be open till March 29. --0--

LEADER OF "21ST CENTURY" PARTY COMPARES ARMENIAN PRESIDENT WITH SLOBODAN MILOSEVIC 27.03.2001 YEREVAN, March 27. /Mediamax/. Leader of "21st century" party David Shahnazarian compared at today's press conference in Yerevan Armenian President Robert Kocharian with Slobodan Milosevic, "due to the policy of whom Yugoslavia lost large territories". "If our society continues to tolerate this dictatorship, we'll repeat Yugoslavia's example", Shahnazarian said. According to him, today Artsax conflict is taken as a territorial argument between Armenia and Azerbaijan, and not as a problem of nations' self-determination. Shahnazarian noted that neither Armenian authorities, nor the OSCE co-chairmen and the international community deny this. Such perception of the problem provides favorable conditions for Azerbaijan at the negotiations, Shahnazarian said. Leader of "21st century" party stated that Azerbaijan's position remained unchanged throughout the meetings of R.Kocharian and H.Aliyev, while Armenia, appearing in foreign policy deadlock, has repeatedly changed its positions in the Artsax conflict settlement, Shahnazarian asserts. "It's obvious, that signing the "Istanbul" declaration at the OSCE summit in 1999, Armenia agreed that Nagorno Artsax Republic is a part of Azerbaijan", D. Shahnazarian said. --0--