Tuesday 27 September 2016

Telefax







Valdimir V. Putin




V.V.P

Names




ALLY




Sergei Naryshkin




As New Foreign Spy Chief





BBC


22 September 2016





Russian President Vladimir Putin has appointed the country's former parliament speaker as head of its foreign intelligence service.[1]

Sergei Naryshkin is a longstanding Putin ally and reportedly served alongside the president at the KGB, Russia's Soviet-era security service.[1]

Mr Naryshkin previously served as the president's chief of staff.[1]

His appointment comes amid reports that Mr Putin intends to combine Russia's intelligence services.[1]



Putin:
Meeting with Sergei Naryshkin
and Mikhail Fradkov




According to the Russian newspaper Kommersant, Mr Putin wants to combine the domestic espionage service, the FSB, and the foreign service, the SVR, to create a new Ministry of State Security (MGB), reminiscent in scope and power of the KGB (Committee of State Security).[1]

Approached by the paper, Dmitry Peskov, Mr Putin's spokesman, did not confirm or deny the reports.[1]

Mr Naryshkin's appointment comes at a time of heightened tensions between Russia and the West, following Russia's annexation of Ukraine's Crimea region and support for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.[1]

Mr Naryshkin is among a group of Russian officials and businessmen sanctioned by the United States, European Union and Ukraine.[1]

The appointment also follows a landslide win for Mr Putin and his United Russia party in the country's parliamentary elections. Voting irregularities were reported in several areas.[1]

Speaking to Mr Naryshkin in televised comments, Mr Putin said: "You are well aware, as we all are, what situation we are in now and how important success for this service is for the stable, secure development of our country.[1]

"It is important to head off threats that arise in relation to Russia promptly, not to let them grow but on the contrary to act in such a way so that they don't arise - to neutralise these threats at an early stage."[1]

Mr Naryshkin has long shadowed Mr Putin, working at the St Petersburg mayor's office in the 1990s at roughly the same time Mr Putin was there, and joining Mr Putin's office in 2004 as deputy head of the economic development.[1]

He went on to head the president's office in 2008 - 2011, when Dmitry Medvedev was president.[1]

Mr Naryshkin has a colourful recent history. In 2015 he faced accusations that he had plagiarised large parts of his doctoral thesis on economics, accusations he denied.[1]

He will replace Mikhail Fradkov, a former prime minister who headed the SVR since 2007. Mr Fradkov will move on to the board of directors at the state-run Russian Railways. [1]





Donald Trump




Loses  Cool




While Clinton Stays Calm




During First Presidential Debate






Dan Roberts, Ben Jacobs

and Sabrina Siddiqui


Tuesday 27 September




Donald Trump’s freewheeling approach spun wildly out of control in the first presidential debate as he was forced on the defensive during a chaotic clash with Hillary Clinton.[2]

Goaded by Clinton and pressed hard by moderator Lester Holt, the Republican nominee angrily defended his record against charges of racism, sexism and tax avoidance for much of the 90-minute debate at Hofstra University, outside New York City.[2]

Trump hit Clinton on trade and her political record – issues that have helped him draw level in recent polls and may yet dominate the election – but appeared thin-skinned and under-prepared as he sniffled his way through the debate.[2]

“It’s all words, it’s all soundbites,” he retorted after a particularly one-sided exchange, adding that Clinton was a “typical politician: all talk, no action”.[2]

But the Democratic nominee seized on Trump’s meandering responses and apparent loss of focus as their long-anticipated meeting wore on.[2]

“Words matter when you run for president, and they really do matter when you are president,” said Clinton.[2]

“I think Donald just criticized me for preparing for this debate. And yes I did. You know what else I did? I prepared to be president,” she added.

In her sharpest exchanges, the former secretary of state accused Trump of racism for questioning Barack Obama’s citizenship. [2]

“He has a long record of engaging in racist behavior. And the birther lie was a very hurtful one,” said Clinton. [2]

She also accused him of “stiffing thousands” of contractors by declaring bankruptcy as a businessman. And in a powerful closing argument she highlighted Trump’s record of sexism, noted that he had called women pigs and slobs and, in one case, called a beauty contest Miss Housekeeping “because she was Latina”.[2]

In turn, Trump attacked Clinton’s suitability as president in blunt terms. “She doesn’t have the look and she doesn’t have the stamina,” he said. “I’ve been all over the place. You decided to stay home,” he added.[2]

But after rattling off her record of visiting 112 countries in four years as secretary of state, Clinton shot back: “When Donald Trump spends 11 hours testifying in front of a congressional committee, he can talk to me about stamina.” [2]







First Debate 2016
- Trump vs Hillary - 9/26/16
- US Presidential debate
- Excerpt








Azerbaijan’s Ambassador To Washington


Elin Suleymanov:


The World Rewards


Violence  & Uncivilized



BEHAVIOR


Azeri Envoy To US Explains Why World Ignores  Nagorno-Karabakh, Focuses  On  Israel.



Herbs Keinon


04/07/2016





The world rewards violence and uncivilized behavior and ignores those asserting their rights through appeals to international law and conscience, Azerbaijan’s ambassador to Washington, Elin Suleymanov, said Wednesday.[3]

Suleymanov’s comments came during a telephone interview with The Jerusalem Post when asked why the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict with Armenia – a conflict that has left some 20 percent of Azerbaijan occupied, led to 30,000 people killed in a war in the early 1990s, and some million refugees and internally displaced people – does not get a fraction of the world’s attention that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict gets.[3]

“That is an interesting question,” he said. “You live in the Holy Land, and that has its benefits and drawbacks – you will always have global attention.[3]

The Israeli-Palestinian conflict has a symbolic and emotional impact around the world.”[3]

A tense cease-fire held Wednesday, halting fighting between Azerbaijan and Armenia forces over Nagorno-Karabakh that flared up on Friday and has killed at least 50 people.31]


Nagorno-Karabakh is an ethnic Armenian enclave inside Azerbaijan that was taken over by Armenia during a six-year war that ended in 1994.[3]

Considering the dimension of the conflict, Suleymanov said, “it does appear that the world feels more comfortable ignoring the conflict.”[3]

Pressed why he thinks this is, he replied, “Our displaced population is not engaged in any violence. They did not emigrate anywhere. Our refugees and internally displaced people moved in the areas outside the occupied areas in Azerbaijan, and have built their lives there.”[3]

In contrast to how the Arab world and the Palestinian Authority has treated Palestinian refugees, Suleymanov described a situation whereby the Azerbaijan government has spent a great deal of money and made it a priority to integrate hundreds and thousands of their compatriots.[3]

The down side, he said, is that if refugees are integrated and build a normal life, “the world seems to say you have no rights, forgets your right to return to your homeland. In a sense it is unfair. The world rewards violence, the world rewards uncivilized behavior.[3]

And when you try to build a normal society and raise issues legally, appeal to international law and conscience, people seem to ignore it.”[3]

Asked if Azerbaijan erred in absorbing its refugees, Suleymanov replied, “Of course not. We are fellow citizens of these people. They are among the most talented people of Azerbaijan. We are building a society, a nation, and from a national point of view it was the right decision.”[3]

He said that Baku has found the balance between asserting its legal right over Nagorno-Karabakh and getting international bodies to recognize those rights, without sacrificing the daily life of the refugees.[1]

Suleymanov, a seasoned diplomat whose country maintains good ties both with Israel and the Palestinians, sidestepped whether he thought the Palestinians and Arab world could learn a lesson from how Azerbaijan dealt with the displaced people.[3]

“It is not up to me to say whether our example can be used by the Palestinians or not,” he said. Everyone decides their own way how to build their society.”[3]

Suleymanov reiterated what Ali Hasanov, a senior adviser to Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliyev, told the Post on Monday – that Azerbaijan expects Israel to publicly come out with support on the issue.[3]

“We expect and count on support from our friends, including Israel,” Suleymanov said. “When Azerbaijan is under attack, it is good to see our friends stand with us.”[1]

Israel, however, has not yet issued any comment on the conflict, and is not interested in publicly getting involved in the issue.[3]

Azerbaijan, on the border of Iran and a country that provides Israel with some 40 percent of its oil, is strategically important to Jerusalem, while Armenia is heavily backed by Russia, another country of immense strategic importance to Israel.[3]

Although Israel may not be giving diplomatic support to Azerbaijan publicly, The Washington Post reported Wednesday that what appeared to be an Israeli-made suicide drone was seen flying over Nagorno-Karabakh. [3]

The report said the drone, apparently an IAI Harop, targeted a bus full of “Armenian volunteers,” killing seven. [3]










The Political Affairs Committee of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE)


CALLED



For the Withdrawal


of


Armenian Armed Forces


And other irregular armed forces


From

 Nagorno-Karabakh

And the other occupied territories of

Azerbaijan



The Political Affairs Committee of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE)


November 04, 2015





Statement by FM Elmar Mammadyarov
at the General Debate
of the 71st session of the UN GA





In a draft resolution approved today, the Political Affairs Committee of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) has called for “the withdrawal of Armenian armed forces and other irregular armed forces from Nagorno-Karabakh and the other occupied territories of Azerbaijan, and the establishment of full sovereignty of Azerbaijan in these territories", in the framework of the OSCE Minsk process.[4]

The committee also called for "the convening of a plenary meeting of the Minsk Group to establish an interim status for Nagorno-Karabakh guaranteeing security and internal self-governance, with an agreed corridor linking Armenia to Nagorno-Karabakh, and other confidence-building measures, including an access corridor to Nakhchivan".[4]

Strongly condemning the deliberate targeting of civilian settlements close to the line of contact, the committee said it regretted that the Nagorno-Karabakh problem has been side-lined by other major international crises. "Further procrastination only complicates the settlement of this 'un-frozen' conflict which has claimed over a hundred human lives since the beginning of 2014, and which may escalate into a real war between two Council of Europe member States", it added.[4]

Recalling that both Armenia and Azerbaijan committed themselves, when joining the Council of Europe in 2001, to use only peaceful means for settling their conflict over the Nagorno-Karabakh region, the committee urged both governments to refrain from using armed force.[4]



Interview with Vafa Guluzade
over Nagorno-Karabakh conflict
and peace process




The committee also called for the establishment by the OSCE of an international peacekeeping force to maintain security within Nagorno-Karabakh and the other occupied territories and to ensure the safe return and resettlement of displaced persons, as well as the creation of a mechanism to investigate ceasefire violations.[4]

The draft resolution, based on a report by Robert Walter (United Kingdom)[4]





Putin on Armenian History.mp4



NewsLinks

Nagorno-Karabakh:
Russia's Proxy War in the Caucasus

Russia shows its hand on Karabakh

PETERSEN: How Kerry could be key to Karabakh conflict

Nagorno-Karabakh Isn't Disputed Territory
—It's Occupied

How the Karabakh khanate was joined to the Russian empire:
Historical myths and realities

Attempts to create an Armenian state in Nagorno-Karabakh in the early XIX century

AGGRESSION OF THE REPUBLIC OF ARMENIA
AGAINST THE REPUBLIC OF AZERBAIJAN

Settlement of Armenians in Karabakh

Resettlement of Armenians in Russian sources

Tragedy has No Borders: the Khojaly Massacre Remembered

Khojaly Massacre: Tragedy of 20th century

In Cultural Cleansing, ISIS is Not Alone





Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict
(brief history)






In Cultural Cleansing


ISIS is Not Alone




Rabbi Israel Barouk




September 24, 2015




Beyond the ethnic cleansing of Azerbaijan’s occupied lands, another, even more compounding cleansing was also carried out by the invaders – not only during the armed hostilities, but also during the time of ceasefire that has been in place since 1994.[5]

That extended assault was cultural cleansing, resulting in the destruction of hundreds of Azerbaijani historical monuments, cemeteries, places of worship, relics and the physical history of entire Azerbaijani villages.[5]

In 2010, Swiss journalist Andre Widmer visited the occupied regions of Azerbaijan, and described later how the Armenian invaders had destroyed many ancient monuments of Azerbaijani culture and history. [5]

Among the destroyed cities and towns, he specifically mentioned Aghdam, once 50,000-strong Azerbaijani populated city, which was leveled to the ground in the years following the occupation. [5]

Widmer writes: “Yet even today, almost 20 years after the ceasefire was signed, the occupiers continue to loot Aghdam…[5]

A city of Agdam has been reduced to the state of a spare parts depot for the victors of the war… Agdam, robbed of the pulsating life of civilization, of cultural assets and of infrastructure, has become a lonely, eerie place in no-mans-land.” [5]

(Andre Widmer, “The Forgotten Conflict: Two Decades after the Nagorno-Karabakh War,” Schellenberg Druck AG, 2013, page 75).[5]

Another journalist, renowned British expert on the Caucasus Thomas de Waal was appalled by the level of destruction carried out by Armenians in Aghdam and likened it to “small Hiroshima” (De Waal, “Black Garden: Armenia and Azerbaijan Through Peace and War”, 10th Year Anniversary Edition, NYU Press, Jul 8, 2013, page 6).[5]

Now, the Armenian government is heavily involved trying to somehow “find an ancient Armenian civilization” in these previously Azerbaijani-populated areas.[5]

Moreover, Armenia is diligently changing the names of all Azerbaijani towns and villages into Armenian ones trying to erase every trace of Azerbaijani presence in the occupied lands.[3]

Much the way ISIS is trying to recreate history in their shadow, so are the Armenian occupiers focused on a total replacement of the facts of history.[5]

The cultural cleansing was such a priority of the invaders, it transcended the occupied lands of Azerbaijan.[5]

Many monuments of Azerbaijani cultural heritage and evidence of Azerbaijani life in Armenia were destroyed, artifacts belonging to a once 300,000 strong indigenous Azerbaijani population of Armenia; all expelled during the war.[5]

For instance, here is a short video (filmed by an Armenian reporter) of one of the many destroyed Azerbaijani graveyards in Armenia.[5]

The cultural cleansing was such a priority of the invaders, it transcended the occupied lands of Azerbaijan.[5]

Many monuments of Azerbaijani cultural heritage and evidence of Azerbaijani life in Armenia were destroyed, artifacts belonging to a once 300,000 strong indigenous Azerbaijani population of Armenia; all expelled during the war. [5]

For instance, here is a short video (filmed by an Armenian reporter) of one of the many destroyed Azerbaijani graveyards in Armenia.[5]

That Azerbaijan has survived, despite these inhumanities, and turned into a thriving island of progress and stability in a tough neighborhood, is a weak thread of hope for Syria and similarly vulnerable nations to rely on. [5]



EU'S Mogherini voices support
for Azerbaijan's
territorial integrity




The current and historical differences are vast, the outcomes impossible to compare or suggest. But the depth of impact from the ISIS-like action that took place against Azerbaijan can offer some insight into what may come after the dust has settled.[5]

Daily, we consume existentially painful news on the destruction in Syria and other places too, and we can barely create the time or space to recognize and mourn the wreckage of humanity and heritage; there will be more news of more intensifying carnage to grab our attention tomorrow. [5]

But ISIS and those alike are consuming life and legacy at once, marching bloodsoaked across the smashed dust of our most ancient vestiges. [5]

For either Bel in Syria, the ancient city of Nimrud in Iraq or the historic town of Aghdam in Azerbaijan, these irrevocable demolitions are an invasion on the basic story of our collective existence.[5]

For the lives taken by ISIS and the history of those lives, now demolished, what will be left in that part of the world to see, experience and understand? [5]

On an even darker note, all of this raises the question as to how future generations will even know the difference, while ISIS and extremist groups similar to ISIS crush and destroy our most precious etiology, stamping out the evidence of history and culture like dust into the earth, and leaving in its place only the decaying remains of stolen life, to be shortly disremembered, and eventually erased in perpetuity.[5]




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[1]http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-37442330

[2]https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/sep/27/
debate-clinton-trump-recap-presidential-election-hofstra

[3]http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/
Politics-And-Diplomacy/
Azeri-envoy-to-US-explains-why-world
-ignores-Nagorno-Karabakh-focuses-on-Israel-450512

[4]http://www.assembly.coe.int/
nw/xml/News/News-View-EN.asp?newsid=5862

[5]http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/
in-cultural-cleansing-isis-is-not-alone/