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YEREVAN TO HOST INTERNATIONAL TOURISM FAIR An international exhibition-sale, entitled “The Land of Singing Stones» will open at Yerevan’s Moskva Cinema House October 31. Some thirty local travel agencies, as well as other related companies, such as air companies and hotels along with travel agencies from Egypt, India, Lebanon and Georgia will be participating in a three-day exhibition. The exhibition is organized by the Armenian industry and trade ministry in concert with the Armenian Association of Travel Agencies (AATA). The chairman of the AATA Yeghishe Tanasian says the exposition will not only seek to show what the ravel agencies can offer, but also to establish new contacts. Several local companies, such as Yerevan Brandy Company, Yerevan Hotel, Coca Cola Bottlers Armenia, Syrian Airlines, Armenia Hotel and several mass media outlets, including the daily Azg are sponsoring the exhibition. © Copyright AZG

MOST INFLUENTIAL MEN OF ARMENIA Russian ‘Panorama’ information-experimental center, together with Azg daily carried out a traditional public opinion poll in Armenia, aiming to find out the most popular and influential political and public figures of Armenia. The list of the top men of Armenia goes as follows: 1. Kocharian Robert – Armenian president (98,8% of the respondents found Kocharian to be the most influential figure of the country) 2. Sargissian Serzh – defense minister (92,2% found Sargissian as the second top official of Armenia) 3. Margarian Andranik – prime minister (51,7%) 4. Oskanian Vardan – foreign minister (30,2%) 5. Geghamian Artashes – chairman of parliamentary ‘Right and Unity’ faction (28,5%) 6. Sargsian Aram – ex-prime minister (18,1%) 7. Ter-Petrosian Levon – ex-president of Armenia (17,8%) 8. Bazeyan Albert – leader of ‘Hanrapetutyun party (16,9%) 9. Demirchian Stepan – leader of People’s Party of Armenia (16,3%) 10. Margarian Hrant – representative of Armenian Revolutionary Federation bureau (12,8%) 11. Torosian Tigran – deputy chairman of Armenian parliament (10,4%) 12. Naghdalian Tigran – head of Armenian Public TV (10%) 13. Vardanian Hrant – director of ‘Grand Tobacco’ company (9,6%) 14. Baghdasarov Michael – head of ‘Mika Limited’ company (8,9%) 15. Hovhannisian Vahan – chairman of parliamentarian defense committee (8,5%) 16. Harutyunian Alexan – advisor to the Armenian president (7,8%) 17. Haroutiunian David – justice minister (6,7%) 18. Tumanian Artashes – chief of staff of Armenian president (6,7%) 19. Ghukasian Arkadi – President of Karabagh (6,3%) 20. Petrosian Karlos – national security minister (5,2%) 20. Sadoyan Arshak – parliament deputy (5,2%) As we can see the first quartet remained unchanged compared with the last poll. The leaders of Hanrapetutyun party Aram Sargsian and Albert Bazeyan gained higher rating this time. The first president of the third Armenian republic Levon Ter-Petrosian also entered the top ten of the list- re-emerging in the society with organizing a presentation dedicated to the 10-th anniversary of Armenia’s Independence this month. It was a success for the justice minister of Armenia David Haroutiunian to appear among the top 20 poplar figures of Armenia. Representatives of Armenia’s most influential mass media and information sources, as well as famous politologists and sociologists participated in the poll. By Souren Manukian, author of the program, Center for Political and Regional Research © Copyright AZG

AZERBAIJAN’S EFFORTS TO ACCUSE ARMENIA AND KARABAGH OF TERRORISM DOOMED The Armenian national security ministry has many times informed the population about special agents, sent to Armenia by Azerbaijan, who are tasked with carrying out sabotage and subversive activity. The Azerbaijani special services believe that in case of being arrested, its agents, according to preliminary worked out plans, would be recruited by the Armenian special services and be sent back to Azerbaijan with orders to carry out diversions there, where on the basis of their “testimonies,’ it would be possible to accuse Armenia of terrorism. The goal of such steps is clear, to destabilize the situation in the region. Azerbaijani special services are making every effort to accuse Armenia, and especially Nagorno Karabagh, of harboring terrorist centers. Despite the fact that all previous such attempts failed Azerbaijan continues its hostile encroachments. Mohamed Ojaverdiyev, an Azerbaijani citizen, was arrested recently in Armenia, who was trying to cross Azerbaijani-Armenian border through Nakhichevan section. The interrogation has revealed that Ojaverdiyev was recruited by Azerbaijani special agents Mobil and Kuliyev at a Baku prison where he was placed for avoiding military service. He also admitted of collecting information about the political prisoners at the orders of Azerbaijani KGB. After being released and having special training Ojaverdiyev was sent to Armenia. He was ordered, in case of being arrested, to create an impression that he was persecuted in Azerbaijan by special services and was ready to go back to Nakhichevan to carry out diversions there to take his revenge. The world is still shocked by the September 11 terrorist attacks on the USA. Numerous countries, including Azerbaijan, have condemned the attacks, and have united with a firm decision to root out terrorism. But the Azerbaijani leaders, being guided by double behavior standards, common to them, and supporting the Chechen terrorists and ignoring the presence of bin Laden’s supporters in the country are continuing their unsuccessful attempts to discredit Armenia. Azerbaijan should realize that its hostile encroachments are well known to the international community and its groundless attempts to accuse Armenia and Nagorno Karabagh of terrorism are doomed to failure. Armenian national security press office © Copyright AZG

AZERBAIJAN AND TURKEY CONFIRM THE ELIMINATION OF ARMENIAN CULTURAL VALUES IN THEIR TERRITORIES The cultural, science and education committee of the PACE holds its regular session in Yerevan. For participating in the session 21 deputies arrived in Armenia from 16 counties of the world on October 22. The chairman of the cultural, education and science committee of PACE Anatoliy Rakhanski was presiding the session. The chairman of Armenian parliament Armen Khachatrian delivered a greeting speech – welcoming the guests from the name of parliament. He considered it symbolic that the conference held in Armenia is connected with science, education and cultural issues. The initiative of holding the session in Armenia belongs to Armenian parliamentary delegation to COE, which presented the proposal to the committee during one of the PACE sessions. By the efforts of the Armenian delegation to COE the issues of preservation of Armenian cultural values in foreign countries were put on the agenda of the committee’s discussions. The problems mainly relate to the situation existing in Georgia, Turkey and Azerbaijan. Actually the initiative can be considered as a regular project drawn forward as a result of a clash between Armenian and Azerbaijani propaganda in the COE. The discussion of the problem in Armenia can be considered a victory of the Armenian delegation headed by Hovhannes Hovhannisian. Representatives of Azeri and Turkish delegations who are now in Armenia, though, tried to oppose the facts that Armenian historical-cultural monuments are being destroyed in their countries- thus indirectly confirming that there is really such problem in both countries. Particularly the representative of Azerbaijan brought a ‘document’ with him, which as though stated that Azeri cultural values are being destroyed in Karabagh. The Azeri deputy was presenting pictures of some subjects which as if proved his facts. In reality, though, it is very doubtful that the presented ‘facts’ really were monuments of Azerbaijani culture, for they were so ancient and worn out that one who knows history well would say that there was no Azerbaijani nation at those times. The Azerbaijani deputy was simply distorting facts by fiercely opposing the accusations of the Armenian side. According to some sources the representative of Turkey noted at yesterday’s session that they are ready to cooperate with anybody who wants to join them in preservation of different nations’ cultural values in Turkey. If there really was such a statement then by that the Turkish deputy showed that Turkey alone is incapable to preserve the cultural monuments of other nations in the country and needs help of foreigners. At the break of the session the guests participated in the opening of photo exhibition dedicated to the situation of the Armenian historical-cultural monuments in neighbor counties, which took place in the ‘Green Hall’ of the parliament building. Deputy education and science minister Vardan Grigorian, deputy culture, youth issues and sports minister Karen Aristakesian and the head of monuments’ preservation department Grigor Gyurjian delivered speeches at the session and answered questions. During their speeches they brought facts proving to the committee members that there are really tendencies of destruction of Armenian monuments and other cultural values in our neighbor countries. By Gor Abrahamian © Copyright AZG

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After numerous visits, extending in periods of nine months to one week, from the year 1993, finally, we moved from Canada to Armenia in 1999, the first few months were really hard, no need to dwell on that, during this period we started a web page to post pictures from Armenia, for our friends and family, to be in touch with our experiences and us. Being the country's state very volatile and knowing how hard it was to learn the "ins and outs", the only thing we could do was to start something from our own experience. A Company to assist visitors, to facilitate their stay in Armenia and to encourage their presence here, whether it is for tourism or for business purposes. We provide accommodations in hotels or apartments, we even let you share an apartment with a local family. We offer personalized tours or join you into small groups, according to your desire or time frame. We may not treat you as a V.I.P. but we will treat you as a friend. We will be here to cushion the potholes of your expectations, after all this is not Cancun or Cote d’azure, what we offer is our “Yergir” or “Hayrenik”. Eventually the website evolved into a shop-on-web for Armenian products, to encourage export and development, periodically new products were introduced. The company is called "Parev Yergir Ltd. Tourism & Other Services". Go to our website to see what we can do for you if you are planning to come to Armenia in the near future or if you are interested in the products we offer. Maybe just bookmark the site to enjoy the NEW PICTURES every other week. Why join a group of strangers or buy an expensive package to ARMENIA. Come with family or friends from 2-4 or 7-9. Buy your ticket and let us do the rest for you and save. . Packages are available to suit your needs. . Or plan your schedule and let us organize it for you and your group. . We offer cars and mini-buses with reliable drivers. In Tourism domain our services include (but are not limited to): airport transfers hotel reservations short term apartment rentals sightseeing tours and excursions hunting and fishing trips mountain climbing Summer art camp for 14 to 16 years old guide and interpreter services providing meals at different restaurants car rental (with driver) TASTE of ARMENIA Nigol Abrahamian & Zabelle Barbarian web page

http://www.acc.am/~geghard/images/Log1.jpg Geghard Meat Processing Co. Ltd. was established in 1989 in the attractive suburb town of Jrvegh, near the city of Yerevan , along the highway to the historical Geghard Monastery dated from the 12th century A.D. Our company's mission is to provide the highest possible standards of production and quality at competitive prices, tailored exactly to our consumers' needs. The company's vision is to be #1 in the local market through persistent technology and quality improvement. http://www.acc.am/~geghard/images/Kalbas/0x3.jpg ISO 9002-98 APPROVED Licensed by the Armenia's National Safety Food Control Agency Honored by the Armenian Government as winner of the QUALITY PRICE Aword in 1999 All processing operations are carried out in modern purpose-built factory units outfitted with cubicles that equiped with modern plants and coincide with environmental issues Production means and technologies are improved by well known German companies such as NESS Mashinen & Analagenbau, as well as Frey Maschinenbau, Baader, Tipper Tie-Technopach and Kramer-Grebe. Over 7000 sq.m occupied factory (of which 5000sq.m production space is alloted to production) enable a daily output of over 20 000 kg of finished products . Over 100 names of finished products available. Over 170 employees. web page [ October 20, 2001: Message edited by: MosJan ]

http://www.lco.am/black-title.gif Land and Culture Organization in Armenia The belief that a national culture can best flourish and bear fruit on its own land is the mission of the Land and Culture Organization. Each nation has the privilage of dwelling on its ancestral lands, struggling for its preservation. The commintment of the LCO is to gain and disseminate an intimate knowledge of the land and its rich culture; to raise international awareness that the treasures of the Armenian heritage are at the mercy of an indifferent world; to rescue these treasures from total destruction; and to assist in the social and economic developments of communities living in historic and present-day Armenia. Established over two decades ago, the LCO has undertaken a challenging variety of activities that range from restoration projectsof national monuments, to social and economic assistance programs, to historical documentation, and to development programs for Armenian communities lining on ancestral lands. Culturally proud peoples the world over are fast gaining awareness that cultural survival is inextricably tied to their lands. The Land and Culture Organization creates enriching opportunities for men and women of all backgrounds and interests to directly praticipate in the process of getting back to their roots, bridging gaps between past and present and forging links with today and tomorrow. Since its inception, the LCO has organized summer "campaigns" in which volunteers from Europe, North and South America, Australia and Armenia itself join together in the accomplishment of this mission. The effort is voluntary. The results are far reaching. Keep the Spirit!!! web page

The monastery of Kecharis http://www.hrazdan.am/Kecharis/kecharis.jpg Tsakhkadzor In Armenian it means canyon of flowers. This town is located on the eastern slope of Teghenis Mountain 1845 m. above sea level. Kecharuik This is an ancient name of Tsakhkadzor. During the early Middle Ages it was a royal hunting place for the House of Arshakids. X century The House of Grand Duke Of Pahlavooni took over this place from the feudal house of Varajnuni. They gave a new name to the place - Tsakhnots, in Armenian it means - Flower.-bed. XI century Grigor Magistros Pahlavooni, famous Armenian politician, military commander, diplomat and scientist started to develop this place. It was he who founded the Monastery of Kecharis, built the church of St. Grigor the Illuminator and the church of Surp Nishan (Sign). 1196 year Kecharis is freed from Seljuqs. 1196-1206 The main entrance (gavit) of the church of St. Grigor the Illuminator was built. 1203 year The Grand Duke Vasak Haghbakian took over Kecharis place. 1214 year The Grand Duke Vasak Haghbakian built the church of Katogike, Architect - Vetsik. 1236-1243 Armenia was conquered by Tatars. Nearly all churches were destroyed. 1248 year Kecharis was restored. XIII century Famous Armenian poet and spiritual figure Khachatur Kecharetsi had his own school in Kecharis. XVI-XVII c. Armenia becoming the place of Turkish-Persian wars. 1828 year Eastern Armenia joined Russia. Kecharis was given the name Tsakhkadzor. 1991 year Armenian became an independent country. 1997-2000 Kecharis was restored once again. http://www.hrazdan.am/Kecharis/kecharis1.jpg Kecharis before restoration http://www.hrazdan.am/Kecharis/kecharis2.jpg web page

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PEOPLE IN AZERBAIJAN THINK THE ANTHRAX PREVENTS 907 SECTION REPEAL 19.10.2001 /PanARMENIAN.Net/ The American-Azerbaijani council head Jeykhun Mollazade has stated that there are some grounds for the hope that the 907 Section of the Freedom Support Act, restricting the US administration aid to Azerbaijan until it lifts the blockade against Armenian and Nagorno-Artsax, will be repealed. As "Zerkalo" Baku newspaper informs, the question on restriction lifting might be included in the Senate agenda even yesterday if anthrax carriers had not been found in the office of the Senate majority leader. Because of this, information that the hearing of "Azerbaijani question" would be postponed for indefinite period appeared. At the same time there is information that the Senate decided not to stop its work. This let Baku commentators hope that the discussion of the question of restriction lifting or granting the president with authority to veto the 907 Section validity will not be postponed. Reproduction in full or in part is prohibited without reference to "PanARMENIAN.Net"

ISLAMIST ORGANIZATIONS ACTING IN AZERBAIJAN LAY FOUNDATION FOR DRUG MAFIA SYNDICATE ACTIVITIES 19.10.2001 /PanARMENIAN.Net/ According to "Sobitia" newspaper issued in Baku, a number of ultra-extremist organizations that "are engaged in forcible introduction of Islam having selfish ends", are operating in Azerbaijani northern region. Among them are "Jihad", "Ihvanul muslimin", "Khizbut Tahrir', "Gutbiye". The newspaper states that these "so-called Islamic but, in reality, criminal structures really work for the development of "jihad" in the territories of the Caucasus and the Central Asia in order to establish their own political units as a foundation for future "caliphate" of transnational drug mafia syndicates". Reproduction in full or in part is prohibited without reference to "PanARMENIAN.Net"

AMERICANS TO LOOK FOR NOAH'S ARK ON ARARAT MOUNTAIN 19.10.2001 /PanARMENIAN.Net/ From Vandenberg airbase in California, a satellite was launched yesterday. It is assumed that it will be used in the search of the Noah's Ark that is on Ararat Mountain. The satellite is to take photos of the Earth. In summer scientist of Richmond University Porcher Tailor addressed the leadership of «Digital Globe» firm that is the project sponsor, with a request to help to prove the theory that Noah's Ark is on Ararat mountain. According to Tailor, photos of one of the parts of the mountain that is 4.7 km high have to be taken. A strange object was found there, when photos were taken in 1949. This object, called «Ararat anomaly» is 182 m long. The photos of the anomaly, taken in 1999 and 2000, could not help to solve the mystery. Reproduction in full or in part is prohibited without reference to "PanARMENIAN.Net"

MEETING OF HEADS OF ARMENIAN, AZERI, GEORGIAN AND FRENCH PARLIAMENTS TO TAKE PLACE IN TBILISI 20.10.2001 /PanARMENIAN.Net/ Monday a delegation of Armenian parliamentarians headed by Chairman of Armenian the National Assembly Armen Khachatrian will leave for Tbilisi on a two-day working visit. As reported by "Arminfo" agency making reference to BSP Georgian agency, the Armenian delegation will visit Tbilisi within the framework of the visit of OSCE Parliamentary Assembly delegation, which also includes Chairman of Milli-Mejlis of Azerbaijan Murtuz Aleskerov and Chairman of the French Senate Christian Ponslet. Armen Khachatrian will hold a meeting with Chairman of the Georgian Parliament Zurab Zhvaniya, State Minister Giya Arsenishvili, Catholicos-Patriarch of All Georgia Iliya II. The Speaker will visit Surb Gevorg church in Tbilisi as well as Saint Georgy cloister in Shavnabada near Tbilisi. The meeting of President Eduard Shevardnadze with Armen Khachatrian and Murtuz Aleskerov will take place October 22 evening. Joint meeting of Zurab Zhvaniya, Armen Khachatrian, Murtuz Aleskerov and Christian Ponslet will be held on October 23. Reproduction in full or in part is prohibited without reference to "PanARMENIAN.Net"

Uzbekistan's ambassador to Azerbaijan played down official Baku's allegations that Nagorno Karabagh shelters terrorists. "Azerbaijan has to first prove the existence of terrorist camps in Nagorno Karabagh before to start talking about its intent to carry out anti-terrorist action there," Uzbekistan's embassy announced. In an interview with a Baku-based Olailar news agency Uzbekistan's ambassador to Baku said it would be naive for Baku to expect international community's support in this issue. "Azerbaijan will have to provide proof about occupation of Nagorno Karabagh by terrorist forces to present them to the international community, including Uzbekistan and only then ask for support," he said. In a related development an official of the Union for Azerbaijan organization told 525 Gazet that it views Armenia and Iran as Azerbaijan's biggest enemies. "Iran helped Armenia occupy Azerbaijani territories and was also involved in the explosion in the Baku underground and president Kocharian's visit to Iran is not surprising," the official said.

BRITISH QUARTET ARRIVES IN YEREVAN YEREVAN, OCTOBER 19, ARMENPRESS: A well-known British Chilinkarian Quartet is to arrive in Yerevan October 23 to perform several concerts within a program called For You, Christian Armenia, dedicated to the 17 centuries of Armenia's conversion to Christianity. The quartet, led by Levon Chilinkarian, will perform the works by Beethoven, Benjamin Britten and Heidn.

305,000 PASSENGERS TRANSPORTED BY AIR IN SIX MONTHS OF 2001 YEREVAN, OCTOBER 19, ARMENPRESS: Some 305,000 passengers were transported by air in the first six months of the year in Armenia, and nearly half of them traveled by Armenian planes. According to Armstat, only 0.6 percent of the overall passengers were transported by charter flights. Fifty-five percent of them were to foreign countries and the rest to the CIS ones. In 2000 the ratio was 87.5% to 12.5%. The same source also said that the actual number of flights in the specified period of time was by 7.6 percent higher than it was time-tabled. Overall 2,308 flights were made to CIS countries and 619 flights abroad. Almost 20 percent of flights were delayed, of which 16.1 percent because of bad weather, 2.1 percent because of absence of fuel and the rest because of other reasons.

ARMENIA WILL APPRECIATE HELP OF THIRD COUNTRIES TO HELP END KARABAGH CONFLICT YEREVAN, OCTOBER 19, ARMENPRESS: "Armenia appreciates very much Ukraine's help in the efforts to peacefully resolve the Karabagh conflict," Armenian foreign minister Vartan Oskanian said today after concluding negotiations with the visiting Ukraine's foreign minister Anatoliy Zlenko. Oskanian brushed aside some allegations that Russia was impeding Ukraine's more active involvement in the resolution of the conflict. "I disagree with such viewpoint, as Russia is a co-chairman of the OSCE Minsk group and is playing a positive role in the efforts which seek peaceful regulation of the conflict," he said. Oskanian also said that Armenia would appreciate any third country's help in solving the conflict. Anatoliy Zlenko said that the conflict should be resolved basing on international norms and principles.

AZRERI ISLAMISTS ACCUSE WASHINGTON OF TERRORISM AND THREAT AMERICANS WITH "MASS PROTEST ACTIONS" AGAINST OPERATIONS IN AFGHANISTAN 18.10.2001 /PanARMENIAN.Net/ Assistant of the leader of the Islamic Party of Azerbiajan Haji Hajiaga Nurieva stated the actions of the U.S.A. cause serious resentment in Azerbaijan. Nuriev considered the military action held in Afghanistan by U.S. and British forces to be "terrorism". "The Azeri nation definitely blames these actions," – she asserts. In her words, "if the operations continue with the same harshness, mass anti-American actions may commence in Azerbaijan." Reproduction in full or in part is prohibited without reference to "PanARMENIAN.Net"

AZERI POLITICIANS CALL ON ALIEV TO REFUSE SUPPORT TO U.S.A. AS WASHINGTON DID NOT SUPPORT THE IDEA OF "ANTITERRORIST OPERATION" IN NKR 18.10.2001 /PanARMENIAN.Net/ Alliance of political parties called "Union of Pro-Azeri Forces" demanded from the country leadership to express its attitude towards the recent statement of the U.S. Ambassador to Baku. As we have already reported, Ambassador Ross Wilson expressing the official Washington position stated in an interview to ANS television channel that beginning of "an antiterrorist operation" in Nagorno-Artsax would not do any good to Azerbaijan. In his words, the United States will not support this action. In connection with this the leaders of the Union of Pro-Azeri Forces have raised the question of expediency of Azerbaijan's support of the action held by the Americans in Afghanistan. Chairman of "Namus" party Torgul Ibragimili says, "Wilson made it clear that Armenians are not terrorists for the U.S.A.," while "Azeri authorities stated in the course of eight years that Armenian terrorists have seized Naforno-Artsax." "Why should Azeri authorities and nation support Americans, who do not already support us today?" – asks Ibragimili. He is convinced, "such attitude of the American Ambassador can be regarded as interference in the internal affairs of Azerbaijan." Reproduction in full or in part is prohibited without reference to "PanARMENIAN.Net"

ANOTHER BAKU TRACK OF BIN LADEN On the initiative of Egyptian special services a member of a terrorist group, connected with September 11th events, is detained in Baku. Last updated: October 15, 2001 The other day Azerbaijani national defense ministry stated about the arrest of terrorist organization member, suspected in participation in the 11 September terrorist acts in Washington D.C. and New York. It is informed that the unit, the member of which is the arrested, is based in Cairo and the terrorist is the citizen of Egypt. Immediately after the arrest he was sent to Cairo. A special "Egypt Airlines" plane was sent to Baku for the flight of the accused, convoyed by Egyptian soldiers, to Cairo. Journalists were invited to make this demonstration action widely known. The arrested got on the airplane in a black mask, the fact that was making the situation false mysterious. It is kept the terrorist's name secret for some reason and Azerbaijani special services do not make clear the arrest particulars because of "investigation interests"… There is a direct evidence of the fact that Baku is a terrorist net part, leaded from Arab countries. Azerbaijani special service has made the arrest of Egyptian a demonstration show to prove the world that Azerbaijani government have no relations with terrorist bases operating in its territory. Nevertheless it is known that Azerbaijani law-enforcement bodies have had no participation in neutralization of the Islamist terrorist organization units operating within the country. It is also known that in Baku a year ago American special services, not Azerbaijani ones, arrested head of "Jihad" military operation department Ahmed Salam Mabruk, accused of participation in US embassy explosion in Kenya. The CIA agents, not Azerbaijani national defense ministry workers "took" two other "Jihad" activists Isama Hafis Mabruk and Yasir el-Eydaruz again in Baku. At the trial for organization terrorist acts in Kenya, Eydaruz admitted that he was the "Egypt Islamist Jihad" Baku unit leader since September, 1997. That was a big surprise for Azerbaijani law-enforcement bodies. American, not Azerbaijani intelligence service found out that the fax, stating the order for US embassy explosion in Nairobi, had been sent exactly from Baku. The fact that top terrorist Usama bin Laden called Baku and had negotiations with his local representatives 60 (!) times 1996-1998 was found out by not Azerbaijani, but American "pathfinders" too. The mysterious parcel sent to Baku by the Kenya terrorist act organizers was not intercepted in Bina airport for some reason. A month ago Azerbaijani MNS high-rank representative colonel Ilham Ismaylov, indirectly admitting Baku's being the regional center of the terrorist net headed by Usama bin Laden, stated in his interview to the local newspaper that the special services had received the information on the terrorist base presence in the country from Americans and not through their own channels. And what is more, the recent arrest of Egyptian was not made "on Azerbaijani initiative" but in response to the inquiry made by Cairo government. All the above mentioned facts are indisputable as the information primary source is the material of the investigation regarding the terrorist acts organized by bin Laden's people. Azerbaijani media has referred to the information not once expressing worry that Baku is becoming "one of the centers of the terrorist network". The direct relations between Azerbaijan and those, who the world civilized community declared war on, now are beyond any doubt. Azerbaijani role in the actions carried out by "El-Quaide" organization that in essence has admitted the responsibility for the barbaric terrorist acts in New York and Washington, are seriously discussed in the USA congress. "Recent information confirms that Azerbaijani government has invited top terrorist Usama bin Laden and his followers to Azerbaijan", stated Virginia Congressman Erik Cantor while he was having speech at the meeting of the committee for European issues of the commission of international relations of the House of Representatives of the American parliament. Having such a background, the Azerbaijani official leadership attempts to convince the world of its non-participation in international terrorism look, to say the least, are not persuasive. PanARMENIAN Network analytic department

DEPUTY MINISTER REPORTS 200 PERCENT GROWTH IN MACHINE BUILDING Armenian deputy trade and industry minister Ashot Shahnazarian said on Tuesday that a 14 percent growth was reported in the volumes of industrial output in the first nine months of the year against the same period of time last year. He also said that export volumes in the specified period of time grew by 10 percent. Though some decline was reported in the chemical production, but a growth in diamond cutting sector secured the overall increase. Shahnazarian also said that 200 percent growth was reported in the machine building sector. Ashot Shahnazarian also said that one of the leading Armenian enterprises, Nairit plant, which produces synthetic rubber, sells now some 500 tons of rubber monthly, though the plant has already produced 6,000 tons of rubber this year. He claimed that the plant was planning to raise production volumes up to 25,000 annually soon. He said Armenia could sell the rubber also to India and Korea. It recently shipped 20 tons of rubber to the USA. © Copyright AZG

ARMENTEL, ARMINCO SET UP NEW COMPANY -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Nikos Yotgulas, the chief executive manager of Armentel and Andranik Alexanian, director of Arminco, an Internet provider, have announced about creation of a joint company, called Infocom with 51 percent of shares belonging to Armentel and 49 percent to Arminco. The new company’s executive director will be appointed by Arminco. Nikos Yorgulas said Arminco was one of the leading Internet provider companies and that was why Armentel chose it to set up the new company. Andranik Alexanian in his turn praised the Armentel, saying it has extended a hand to help develop the telecommunications sector of Armenia. Alexanian also said that the new company would provide more qualitative services to all Internet users. He said that tariffs for Internet services will be changed towards reduction. Alexanian also dismissed allegations that the new company will not place the other Internet provider companies in an unfavorable position, as only Infocom could make use of Armentel capacities, which is still holds a monopoly in this sector. Alexanian also dismissed allegations that Armentel was not providing Internet traffic to other companies. Yorgulas also dismissed these allegations. By Ara Martirosian © Copyright AZG

US AMBASSADOR IN BAKU COOLS HEAT Until Wednesday one of the most controversial and debated topics, exploited by Azerbaijani press was the possibility of carrying out “anti-terrorist” actions in the occupied Azerbaijani territories, controlled by the defense army of Nagorno Karabagh. The anti-terrorist actions carried out by the US-led coalition seemed to give hopes to Azeris and it turned out that the supporters of the idea were many, though there were also pessimistic estimates. One of the authors of the idea, a former aide to president Aliyev, now an independent political analyst Eldar Namazov said to the Bilik Dunyasi new agency that the idea was supported by the country’s leadership. But against this background the announcement made by the US ambassador to Baku Ross Wilson that “resumption of hostilities would not produce a desired outcome” and that his “country was against any force methods in solving the conflict” was something like a cold shower for belligerent Azeris. In an interview with the ANS news agency the ambassador said his country was giving a special attention to negotiations between Aliyev and Armenian president Kocharian. President Aliyev himself put an end to these meaningless debates by announcing during a meeting with the visiting Ukraine’s foreign minister Anatoliy Zlenko that “it is not difficult to resume military actions, but to what extent would it be expedient”? © Copyright AZG