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From: [email protected]
Date: Fri, 5 Feb 2010 15:20:13 -0500
Subject: Re: [TheArmenianGroup] ARMENIAN AND JEWISH COMMUNITY LEADERS OF AMERICA TO LAUNCH GRASSROOTS PETITION FOR U.S. REAFFIRMATION OF THE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE

The Caucasian Review of International Affairs (CRIA) is pleased to invite submissions for its Spring 2010 issue (Vol. 4, No. 2) to be published in the beginning of May 2010. Deadline for submissions is March 15, 2010. Submission guidelines can be viewed at Submit a Paper.

Nasimi Aghayev [[email protected]]

CRIA is particularly interested in papers on the following topics:
Regional topics:

– Prospects of the resolution of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict;
– Turkish-Armenian rapprochement;
– Relations between Azerbaijan and Turkey;

– Separatist conflicts in Georgia;

– Western energy interests in the South Caucasus and Central Asia;
– Nabucco gas pipeline;

– White Stream gas pipeline;
– European Union and the South Caucasus;
– European Union and the conflict resolution in the South Caucasus;
– Georgia and NATO;
– Russian policy towards the South Caucasus;
– New US Administration and the South Caucasus;
– Prospects of the South Caucasian regional security;
– Regional integration in the South Caucasus;
– Situation in the North Caucasus;
– Ethno-nationalism and violence in the North-Western Caucasus;
– Different faces of Sufi Islam in the present-day North Caucasus;
– Israel in the Caucasus;
– Azerbaijan’s foreign policy;
– Azerbaijan’s relations with the Moslem world;

– Relations between Azerbaijan and Georgia;

– Islam in Azerbaijan; Islam in the Caucasus;
– Foreign policy of Armenia;
– Iran-Armenia relations;
– Azerbaijani community of Iran;
– Legal status of the Caspian Sea;
– Azerbaijan-Turkmenistan legal dispute over the oil fields in the Caspian Sea;
– Turkey’s new foreign policy;
– Turkey ‘s accession to the EU;
– Iran-Turkey relations;
– Iran’s nuclear program;
– New Islamic directions in Central Asia: internal and external dimensions;
– Global and regional powers in Central Asia;
– Energy security in Central Asia;
– Ukraine ‘s foreign policy;
– Moldova’s foreign policy;

– GUAM and its future;
– Armenian Diaspora and lobby in the US;

– US missile defense shield in Eastern Europe.
International relations and general topics:

– Theory of International Relations;
– Problems of the Modern International Law;
– International Law and current world politics;

– International Court of Justice and the separatist conflicts;
– US foreign policy;
– Russia’s foreign policy;
– China’s foreign policy;
– Foreign policy challenges for the European Union.

This is a preliminary list. Please feel free to offer alternative topics, including commentaries and book reviews, to the Editor.

All correspondence and submissions should be e-mailed to:

contact[at]cria-online.org

The CRIA distinguishes itself as the only open-access peer-reviewed e-journal worldwide covering a variety of topics on the Caucasus. Being based in Germany the CRIA is published quarterly in English. The Review is committed to promote a better understanding of the regional affairs by providing relevant background information and analysis, as far as the Caucasus in general, and the South Caucasus in particular are concerned. The CRIA also welcomes and publishes lucid, well-documented papers on other countries and regions including especially Turkey, Iran, Central Asia, Russia, Ukraine, and Eastern Europe, as well as on all aspects of international affairs, from all political viewpoints. The CRIA is indexed/abstracted in Columbia International Affairs Online, ProQuest Research Library, EBSCOhost Political Science Complete, Directory of Open Access Journals, Ulrich’s Periodicals Directory, Deutsche Nationalbibliothek, etc. The last issue of the Review can be viewed at

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ARMENIA, NATO DEVELOPING COOPERATION

Armenia-NATO cooperation is successfully developing. New events in the framework of the Individual Partnership Action Plan, said Robert Simmons, NATO special representative for Caucasus and Central Asia. “We are continuing cooperation with the Armenian Defense Ministry. NATO assists implementation of reforms and development of strategically important documents,” he told a news conference in Yerevan. Mr. Simmons said the Alliance is thankful to Armenia for participation in peacekeeping missions in Kosovo and Afghanistan. He also informed that NATO is negotiating establishment of anti-crisis reaction center with the RA Ministry of Emergency Situations.

Nazar [[email protected]]

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Armenia to develop cooperation with NATO

The 6th International NATO Seminar was initiated by the Armenian Atlantic Association(ААА) in Yerevan on Mar. 13-14. The Seminar “South Caucasian Youth Forum. 60th Anniversary of NATO – The New Beginning” was organized with the assistance of NATO and the US Embassy in Armenia. 30 representatives of Armenia, Russia, Ukraine, Slovenia, Georgia, Latvia, Turkey as well as the US Ambassador to Armenia Marie Yovanovitch, GB Ambassador to Armenia Charles Lonsdale and NATO official representatives participated in the seminar.

European integration, in particular, development of relations with NATO is one of the priorities in the Armenian foreign policy, said Arman Israelyan, Head of the Armenian Foreign Ministry Department for NATO, speaking at the opening of the seminar ‘South-Caucasian Youth Forum: 60th Anniversary of NATO: New Start.

Armenia is interested in maintaining the relations with NATO as never before. The country’s involvement into the NATO PfP project is one of the most important elements of the country’s multiple-aspect security system and even one of the dynamically developing dimensions of the foreign policy, he said. A. Israelyan highlighted the importance of Armenia-NATO cooperation in reforming the military system of Armenia where NATO provides consultations and renders specialized assistance to Armenia. The final goal of the reform is to bring the Armenian army in conformity with European standards.

‘Participation of the Armenian contingent in the peacemaking mission in Kosovo is very important to us. The Foreign ministry is currently studying the issue of sending an Armenian contingent to Afghanistan. In 2008 the number of Armenian peacemakers to Kosovo has been doubled. The ministry is likely to adopt a decision to send a contingent also to Afghanistan’, he said.

In the nearest future Armenia’s new Individual Partnership Action Plan (IPAP) with NATO, meant for two years, will be adopted.  The NATO representatives, who participated in the sixth annual youth seminar informed on this.

TO LAUNCH GRASSROOTS PETITION FOR U.S. REAFFIRMATION OF THE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE

Noyan Tapan
Feb 3, 2010

BOSTON, FEBRUARY 3, NOYAN TAPAN – ARMENIANS TODAY. The Boston based
coalition of Armenian and Jewish Community Leaders launched grassroots
petition urging all people to sign a letter to President Obama and
Congress that calls for swift passage of H. Res. 252, reported the
Armenian Assembly of America.

The Armenian American Action Committee of Massachusetts (ARAMAC-MA),
Armenian National Committee of Massachusetts, the Massachusetts Jewish
community and Assembly anti-genocide coalition partner Investor’s
Against Genocide were instrumental in launching the petition and
resource page.

Herman Purutyan, ARAMAC-MA State Chair and coalition member stated that
was an exciting collaboration of two communities, who have experienced
the ultimate crime against humanity, to stop future genocides wherever
they may occur.

“As two communities, Jewish and Armenian, we ask our fellow citizens
to let the President and Congress know that the recognition of the
Armenian Genocide is critically important, not only because it is
morally the right thing to do, but also it is necessary to prevent
such crimes from happening again.”