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Armenia calls day of national mourning for victims of air crash in Iran.
YEREVAN, July 16 (Itar-Tass) - Republic of Armenia has a day of
national mourning Thursday for the victim of an aircrash in northern Iran
that carried away the lives of 153 people, including five Armenian
citizens.
Throughout the day, flags will fly at half-mast on the buildings of
governmental organizations and Armenian embassies abroad.
Entertainment events have been cancelled and changes have been made in
the program schedules of radios and TV channels.
A Tupolev-154 jet of the Iranian air carrier Caspian Airlines crashed
on a flight to Yerevan 16 minutes after takeoff from Teheran airport,
Artyom Movsessian, the chief of the Armenian government's Civil Aviation
Department said.
He indicated that the list of victims includes the citizens of Iran,
Armenia /five people/ and Georgia. There were no Russians aboard.
The crash killed Iran's national youth team in judo that was going to
an international competition, and the chairman of the 150,000-strong
community of Iranian Armenians Levon Davidian, who had a record of fifteen
years in Iranian parliament.
Armenia's President Serzh Sargsyan interrupted a trip to the Shiraq
region in the country's northwest and returned to the capital Yerevan
where he convened an emergency meeting in connection with the disaster.
Officials from the National Security Service and the Civil Aviation
Department told him about the circumstances of the crash.
Territorial Development Minister Armen Gevorkian has been appointed
chief of an interdepartmental commission that will organize the burial of
the five Armenian citizens, who died in the accident, and will distribute
aid to their families.
.Russian diplomats to honor memory of Soviet Frgn Minister Gromyko.
MOSCOW, July 16 (Itar-Tass) - Leading Russian diplomats are expected
to get together Thursday for paying tribute to their outstanding
colleague, Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko, widely known in the
history of 20th century diplomacy as Mister Nyet.
A centenary anniversary since Gromyko's birth will be marked July 18.
Thursday, top officials from the Russian Foreign Ministry, members of
Gromyko's family and veterans of the diplomatic service will come to the
Novodevichy Cemetery in Moscow to take part in the ceremony of laying
wreaths and flowers at the minister's tomb.
Gromyko's personality continues enjoying big interest in Russia and
abroad and it was not at all accidental that the centenary anniversary was
preceded by a chain of conferences and exhibitions.
A documentary film has been made to enable today's generations of the
Russians to remember Andrei Gromyko's contribution to the shaping up of
Soviet foreign policy course.
Gromyko, one of the founding fathers of the United Nations, occupied
the post of Soviet Foreign Minister from 1957 through 1985.
June 26, 1945, he signed the UN Charter on behalf of the Soviet Union
and later on he received the appointment as the first Soviet ambassador to
the UN.
He gained fame in the international community before assuming the
latter position. He always looked dissatisfied, wore a solemn expression
on his face, and was tough in his actions - the characteristics that won
him the 'Mister Nyet' nickname, 'nyet' meaning 'no' in Russian.
However, his son Anatoly, who addressed a special conference at the UN
headquarters earlier this week read out a passage from his father's book
of memoirs where Gromyko Sr. said he had heard the English 'no' much more
often than he would utter 'nyet' himself, as the Soviet Union would come
up with numerous proposals at the UN.
Henry Kissinger, a former U.S. Secretary of State recalled his
'ideological adversary' and partner at negotiations with much warmth.
Dr Kissinger said their joint efforts had fallen on a very difficult
period of time that had been marked by the events as momentous as the
introductions of Soviet troops in Czechoslovakia, the Caribbean crisis,
and the war in Vietnam.
Russia's Ambassador to the UN Vitaly Churkin said it would not be an
over-exaggeration to say that Andrei Gromyko, who occupied the Foreign
Minister's post for 28 years, has become a legend of world diplomacy.
His diplomatic heritage is huge and multifarious in character and it
requires a scrupulous analysis, as it has genuine significance for the
understanding of international relations, Churkin said.
.OSCE Secretary Gen to discuss Karabakh conflict settlement in Baku.
BAKU, July 16 (Itar-Tass) - Secretary General of the Organization for
Security and Cooperation in Europe /OSCE/, Marc Perrin de Brichambaut is
expected to hold a range of meetings with Azerbaijani officials Thursday.
Focus will be given some aspects of the social and political
situation in Azerbaijan, peace settlement of the dragged-out conflict in
the Armenian-populated enclave of Nagorny Karabakh and Baku's cooperation
with the OSCE.
The organization has the so-called Minsk Group playing the role of a
mediator in the Karabakh peace settlement process.
De Brichambaut said in an interview with Azerbaijani media Wednesday
he feels optimistic about the prospects for the summit meeting of
Azerbaijani and Armenian President, Ilham Aliyev and Serzh Sagrsyan, due
in Moscow.
He said the meeting will mark one more step in the process of
negotiations, the latest achievements in which send signals of hope.
This is a very encouraging moment and it is important to continue
moving in this direction in the future, too.
As he mentioned the situation in Azerbaijan, he said this country has
reached a steady economic growth and this tendency has not been affected
even by the current economic crisis.
All of these factors create opportunities for further reforms, De
Brichambaut said.
He said he fully supports the Azerbaijani government's program for
social and economic development that aims to strengthen the oil sector, to
diversify the economy, to attain balanced development, and to further
improve people's well-being.
De Brichambaut stressed the OSCE's readiness to help Azerbaijan in
ensuring the freedom of speech and mass media, as well as in promoting the
progress that could be clearly seen during the presidential election in
October 2007 and to replicate it at the municipal election in December
2009 and the parliamentary election in November 2010.
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national mourning Thursday for the victim of an aircrash in northern Iran
that carried away the lives of 153 people, including five Armenian
citizens.
Throughout the day, flags will fly at half-mast on the buildings of
governmental organizations and Armenian embassies abroad.
Entertainment events have been cancelled and changes have been made in
the program schedules of radios and TV channels.
A Tupolev-154 jet of the Iranian air carrier Caspian Airlines crashed
on a flight to Yerevan 16 minutes after takeoff from Teheran airport,
Artyom Movsessian, the chief of the Armenian government's Civil Aviation
Department said.
He indicated that the list of victims includes the citizens of Iran,
Armenia /five people/ and Georgia. There were no Russians aboard.
The crash killed Iran's national youth team in judo that was going to
an international competition, and the chairman of the 150,000-strong
community of Iranian Armenians Levon Davidian, who had a record of fifteen
years in Iranian parliament.
Armenia's President Serzh Sargsyan interrupted a trip to the Shiraq
region in the country's northwest and returned to the capital Yerevan
where he convened an emergency meeting in connection with the disaster.
Officials from the National Security Service and the Civil Aviation
Department told him about the circumstances of the crash.
Territorial Development Minister Armen Gevorkian has been appointed
chief of an interdepartmental commission that will organize the burial of
the five Armenian citizens, who died in the accident, and will distribute
aid to their families.
.Russian diplomats to honor memory of Soviet Frgn Minister Gromyko.
MOSCOW, July 16 (Itar-Tass) - Leading Russian diplomats are expected
to get together Thursday for paying tribute to their outstanding
colleague, Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko, widely known in the
history of 20th century diplomacy as Mister Nyet.
A centenary anniversary since Gromyko's birth will be marked July 18.
Thursday, top officials from the Russian Foreign Ministry, members of
Gromyko's family and veterans of the diplomatic service will come to the
Novodevichy Cemetery in Moscow to take part in the ceremony of laying
wreaths and flowers at the minister's tomb.
Gromyko's personality continues enjoying big interest in Russia and
abroad and it was not at all accidental that the centenary anniversary was
preceded by a chain of conferences and exhibitions.
A documentary film has been made to enable today's generations of the
Russians to remember Andrei Gromyko's contribution to the shaping up of
Soviet foreign policy course.
Gromyko, one of the founding fathers of the United Nations, occupied
the post of Soviet Foreign Minister from 1957 through 1985.
June 26, 1945, he signed the UN Charter on behalf of the Soviet Union
and later on he received the appointment as the first Soviet ambassador to
the UN.
He gained fame in the international community before assuming the
latter position. He always looked dissatisfied, wore a solemn expression
on his face, and was tough in his actions - the characteristics that won
him the 'Mister Nyet' nickname, 'nyet' meaning 'no' in Russian.
However, his son Anatoly, who addressed a special conference at the UN
headquarters earlier this week read out a passage from his father's book
of memoirs where Gromyko Sr. said he had heard the English 'no' much more
often than he would utter 'nyet' himself, as the Soviet Union would come
up with numerous proposals at the UN.
Henry Kissinger, a former U.S. Secretary of State recalled his
'ideological adversary' and partner at negotiations with much warmth.
Dr Kissinger said their joint efforts had fallen on a very difficult
period of time that had been marked by the events as momentous as the
introductions of Soviet troops in Czechoslovakia, the Caribbean crisis,
and the war in Vietnam.
Russia's Ambassador to the UN Vitaly Churkin said it would not be an
over-exaggeration to say that Andrei Gromyko, who occupied the Foreign
Minister's post for 28 years, has become a legend of world diplomacy.
His diplomatic heritage is huge and multifarious in character and it
requires a scrupulous analysis, as it has genuine significance for the
understanding of international relations, Churkin said.
.OSCE Secretary Gen to discuss Karabakh conflict settlement in Baku.
BAKU, July 16 (Itar-Tass) - Secretary General of the Organization for
Security and Cooperation in Europe /OSCE/, Marc Perrin de Brichambaut is
expected to hold a range of meetings with Azerbaijani officials Thursday.
Focus will be given some aspects of the social and political
situation in Azerbaijan, peace settlement of the dragged-out conflict in
the Armenian-populated enclave of Nagorny Karabakh and Baku's cooperation
with the OSCE.
The organization has the so-called Minsk Group playing the role of a
mediator in the Karabakh peace settlement process.
De Brichambaut said in an interview with Azerbaijani media Wednesday
he feels optimistic about the prospects for the summit meeting of
Azerbaijani and Armenian President, Ilham Aliyev and Serzh Sagrsyan, due
in Moscow.
He said the meeting will mark one more step in the process of
negotiations, the latest achievements in which send signals of hope.
This is a very encouraging moment and it is important to continue
moving in this direction in the future, too.
As he mentioned the situation in Azerbaijan, he said this country has
reached a steady economic growth and this tendency has not been affected
even by the current economic crisis.
All of these factors create opportunities for further reforms, De
Brichambaut said.
He said he fully supports the Azerbaijani government's program for
social and economic development that aims to strengthen the oil sector, to
diversify the economy, to attain balanced development, and to further
improve people's well-being.
De Brichambaut stressed the OSCE's readiness to help Azerbaijan in
ensuring the freedom of speech and mass media, as well as in promoting the
progress that could be clearly seen during the presidential election in
October 2007 and to replicate it at the municipal election in December
2009 and the parliamentary election in November 2010.
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