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Headlines for April 17, 2008BROADCAST OF GALA TV STOPPED
On April 16 the officers of the service of enforcement of court rulings visited Gala TV Company at about 2 pm to enforce the April 14 ruling of the Court of Appeal which did not change the February 29 ...NEW OLD MINISTERS
The press office of the president reports that Serge Sargsyan appointed Gevorg Danielyan as minister of justice, Armen Grigoryan as minister of sport and youth, Davit Lokyan as minister of agriculture. ...ULTRAMODERN TESTAMENT BY GOVERNMENT
Different representatives of government have made innumerable pronouncements the meaning and logic of which is that people are a mere community of consumers all which cares for is its daily bread and ...ENVIRONMENTAL BICYCLE MARCH
On April 20 at 12 o’clock a march of bicycles will set out from Matenadaran. It is an action for the rescue of the forest of Teghut which is being logged to extract copper and molybdenum. An immense ecosystem ...VAZGEN MANUKYAN: THE GOVERNMENT IS RESPONSIBLE
On April 17 the leader of the National Democratic Union, the ex-presidential candidate Vazgen Manukyan broke his silence since the presidential election and evaluated the events of March 1. According ...WHAT VAZGEN MANUKYAN AND SERGE SARGSYAN TALKED ABOUT
The leader of the National Democratic Union Vazgen Manukyan stated April 17 at the Tesaket press club that he has had a meeting with Serge Sargsyan, which was his initiative. “I phoned him, we met, before ...PACE RECOMMENDED ARMENIA
In the plenary session of April 17 the PACE voted 93 to 8 in favor of the report on the functioning of democratic institutions in Armenia. 8 abstained, Radio Liberty reports. According to Radio Liberty, ...DETENTION IS USED AS PUNISHMENT
In a news conference on April 17 at the office of the Nor Jamanakner Party Hrachya Sargsyan, member of the board of the Nor Jamanakner Party, and Harutiun Baghdasaryan, the attorney of Aram Karapetyan, ...ACNIS LOOKS INTO ARMENIA\'S EUROPEAN INTEGRATION PROSPECTS
The Armenian Center for National and International Studies (ACNIS) today convened a foreign policy roundtable to examine Armenia\'s policy on European integration and the country\'s commitments made and ...ONE OF THE FOUNDERS OF NDU IN GOVERNMENT
“I endorsed the appointment of Tigran Sargsyan, I have known him for a long time,” said the leader of the National Democratic Union Vazgen Manukyan in a news conference on April 17 at the Tesaket press ...WAS THERE AN INVITATION FOR A DIALOGUE OR NOT?
Interview with Levon Zurabyan, political scientist, representative of the election office of Levon Ter-Petrosyan Mr. Zurabyan, the PACE recommends the Armenian opposition to accept the decision ...STUDENT BOARDS SUPPORT THE CHURCH AND CATHOLICOS
On April 17 at the Holy See St. Echmiadzin Catholicos Garegin II met with about 60 presidents of student boards of state and private universities. The information network of the Holy See reports that ...
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Today in Armenian history- 1879 Death of Chamik Aramyan (publisher) in Constantinople. He was born in 1820.
- 1904 Birth of Hrant G. Pastrmajian. He died in 1954.
- 1922 Aram Yerkanian and Arshavir Shirakian executed Behaeddin Shakir, the leader of the "special forces" and Jemal Azmi, former Governor of Trabizond, in Berlin. Both were active in implementing the 1915 Armenian Genocide.
- 1957 Twinning of Kirovakan (Vanadzor) and Batumi (Georgia).
- 1990 An International Scholars' Meeting titled: "The Armenian Genocide: History, Theory, Political Responsibility" and devoted to 75th Anniversary of the Armenian's Genocide, takes place in Yerevan. It lasts to April 21.
- 1997 The Legislative Assembly of New South Wales (Australia) adopts a decision to commemorate April 24 as a Memorial Day of the Armenian Genocide. It suggests to the Federal Australian Government to adopt a similar decision.
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