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OSCE OFFICE AND YEREVAN STATE UNIVERSITY SIGN COOPERATION AGREEMENT
- YEREVAN.- The Head of the OSCE Office in Yerevan, Ambassador Andrey Sorokin and Rector of the Yerevan State University, Aram Simonyan, signed on Friday a Memorandum of Understanding on establishing a Sustainable Development Centre in the Yerevan State University.
The Centre will support Armenia in the adaptation and implementation of the UN declarations on sustainable development by raising awareness through roundtable meetings, training sessions, and serving as a resource hub to support researchers in their work.
The aim of the Centre is to ensure enhanced participation of civil society and the scientific community in the promotion of principles outlined in the UN Rio Declaration on Environment and Development.
According to the co-operation agreement free access to the Centre's facilities for individuals, non-governmental organizations, associations, governmental institutions and international organizations will be ensured. It also envisages setting up a library and a website.
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Headlines for March 02, 2012NUMBER OF TURKISH TOURISTS VISITING TO ARMENIA DECREASES
10.6 thousand tourists from Turkey visited Armenia in 2011.
Compared to 2010, when the number of Turkish tourists visiting Armenia was 19.2 thousand, in 2011 that number decreased by 14.2 per cent, the ...ARMENIA'S INTERNATIONAL RESERVES REDUCED
YEREVAN. - Armenia's international reserves made $1.82 billion this January.
$1.23 billion or 67.5 % of international reserves are in equities, Central Bank of Armenia informs Armenian News-NEWS.am adding ...MITSUBISHI PAJERO ROLLS INTO VALLEY IN YEREVAN
YEREVAN. - Armenia's Ministry of Emergency Situations (MES) received a distress call, on Thursday, informing that a road accident had occurred in the capital Yerevan, there were injured, and rescuers ...MURDERED ARMENIAN BUSINESSWOMAN'S INJURED BODYGUARD ALSO DIES IN MOSCOW
MOSCOW. - Armenian businesswoman Irina Ziroyan's bodyguard died in a Moscow hospital on Thursday evening.
The doctors had informed that the injuries, which the man had sustained, were life threatening, ...LONG-TIME ARMENIAN MP TO BID FAREWELL TO HIS "RESIDENCE" - NEWSPAPER
YEREVAN. - Gagik Abrahamyan, who is the eldest of the Abrahamyan family of MPs in the Armenian National Assembly—and who "sits" in the parliament for numerous years—, in all probability will ...ARMENIAN PARLIAMENT SPEAKER GIVES OUT FUNNY CERTIFICATES - NEWSPAPER
YEREVAN. - Armenian National Assembly (NA) Speaker Samvel Nikoyan has given an interesting birthday gift to the ruling coalition's Republican Party of Armenia MP, Misha Stepanyan, Zhoghovurd daily writes. ...SPRING BRINGS VANDALISM TO ARMENIA'S IJEVAN CITY - NEWSPAPER
YEREVAN. - Two sculptures and a bench were vandalized in Armenia's Ijevan city's Municipal Park on Thursday, the first day of spring, Aravot daily writes.
"Foam was smeared on the bench, and the two ...WRITERS' UNION OF ARMENIA DID ELECT NEW MEMBERS FOR 3 YEARS - NEWSPAPER
YEREVAN. - The Writers' Union of Armenia (WUA) has elected new members, Haykakan Zhamanak daily writes.
"Around forty writers became Union members these days. As WUA Chairman Levon Ananyan informed in ...ARMENIA'S SELIM MOUNTAIN PASS IS STILL CLOSED FOR TRAFFIC
YEREVAN. - Armenia's interstate highways, local roads, and mountain passes are drivable, for the most part, as of Friday at 10 a.m.
But there is black ice on some road sections, the Ministry of Emergency ..."ALARM" IS SOUNDED IN ARMENIAN VILLAGE (PHOTOS)
Marking World Civil Defense Day, a drill, entitled "Population protection measures in case of strong earthquakes," was held Thursday at the school of Achajurvillage of Armenia's Tavush Region.
The students ...NEW DETAILS EMERGE IN ARMENIAN POST OFFICE BRANCH TREASURER'S SUICIDE CASE
YEREVAN. - Armenian News-NEWS.am has ascertained new details with respect to the suicide case of Andranik Manukyan, the senior treasurer at Abovyan city's post office branch of Haypost Company.
Armenian ...NAREGATSI ART INSTITUTE OPENS 8TH SPRING EVENTS SERIES SEASON
YEREVAN.- The Naregatsi Art Institute enters on its 8th Spring Events Series Season on Friday by a grand gala concert and exhibition featuring some of Armenia's most prominent musical and visual artists.
A ...BETTER WHEN STATE OF EMERGENCY IS RULED BY LAW - RULING COALITION
YEREVAN. - It is much better when the state of emergency is ruled by a law, head of ruling coalition member Orinats Yerkir group Heghine Bisharyan briefed in the Parliament on Friday.
"Such law exists ...WATER LEVEL OF ARMENIA'S LAKE SEVAN RISES FASTER THAN SPECIFIED LAW - OFFICIAL
YEREVAN. - At present, Armenia's Lake Sevan is 1900.19 meters above sea level, Chairman Vladimir Movsisyan of the Presidential Committee on Lake Sevan Issues stated during a press conference on Friday.
In ...CRASHING-SORTING EQUIPMENT NOT TO BE OPERATED IN GOLD MINE… - ARMENIAN EXECUTIVE
YEREVAN. - The ore crashing-sorting equipment will not be installed at Armenia's Sotk Gold Mine if the environmental assessment comes out negative, Chairman Vladimir Movsisyan of the Presidential Committee ...OFFICERS ACCUSED FOR INACTION IN DINK'S MURDER CASE PUNISHED
The Court of Trabzon, Turkey, passed a verdict against former chief of Trabzon gendarmerie Ali Oz and another 7 officers convicted for inaction in relation to Agos Chief Editor Hrant Dink's murder case.
The ...EU COUNCIL STATEMENT DESCRIBES NEW QUALITY OF EU-ARMENIA RELATIONS
The Foreign Affairs Council of the EU defined the framework for the EU's relations with the South Caucasus for the near future.
"The Council statement describes a new quality of relations between the ...BETTER NOT TO SEARCH SOMEONE STANDING BEHIND PROSPEROUS ARMENIA'S BACK - MP
YEREVAN. - There is no need to search someone standing behind ruling coalition member Prosperous Armenia's back, MP Naira Zohrabyan briefed in the Parliament on Friday commenting on the Thursday's speech ...PROSPECTS OF ADOPTING NEW BILL ON GENOCIDE DENIAL DISCUSSED WITH FRENCH PARLIAMENT
YEREVAN. - Armenian MPs have discussed with their French colleagues prospects for adopting a new bill on genocide denial, Prosperous Armenia Party (PAP) MP Naira Zohrabyan said in the parliament on Friday.
"We ...LAW ON STATE OF EMERGENCY TO GET COUNTERMEASURES - PARLIAMENT OPPOSITION
YEREVAN. - Parliament opposition ARF Dashnaktsutyun (ARFD) takes on preventive measures against the law on state of emergency, head of ARFD group Vahan Hovhannisyan said on Friday.
He stressed the party ...TURKISH INTERIOR MINISTRY ATTEMPTS TO "SAVE FACE" OF MINISTER WHO MADE ANTI-ARMENIAN STATEMENTS
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YEREVAN. - Turkey's progressive journalists and public figures have harshly reacted to the Turkish Internal Affairs Minister Idris Naim Sahin's anti-Armenian speech made during the ...PAROLE SYSTEM IN ARMENIA NEEDS URGENT REFORM - STUDY
YEREVAN. - The results and recommendations of an OSCE-supported study on early conditional release system (parole) in Armenia were discussed in Yerevan on Friday.
The study was carried out between May ...LET TURKEY PRESENT KURDISH OR ARMENIAN SONG AT NEXT EUROVISION - KURDISH MP
Kurdish Peace and Democracy Party (BDP) MP Sirri Sakik offers Turkey to present a Kurdish or an Armenian song during the next Eurovision song contest.
The Kurdish MP said that English songs seem to be ...ARFD MAY INCLUDE BUSINESSMEN IN PROPORTIONAL LIST
YEREVAN. - Businessmen may appear in the party list or among single-mandate candidates of parliament opposition ARF Dashnaktsutyun, head of ARFD group Vahan Hovhannisyan said on Friday.
"Anyone can be ...PRISONER IN HRANT DINK MURDER CASE DEMANDS FILING OF LAWSUIT AGAINST GENDARMERIE
ISTANBUL. - In an interview with Taraf daily of Turkey, Yasin Hayal, who is sentenced to life in prison in the murder case of Hrant Dink—the founder and former chief editor of Istanbul's Agos Armenian ...MY SON DEALS WITH MY BUSINESSES - ARMENIAN MP
YEREVAN. - The ruling coalition's Republican Party of Armenia (RPA) has decided that the Football Federation of Armenia President and RPA MP Ruben Hayrapetyan will run—in the majority election system—for ...ARMENIA'S APPEALS COURT TO CONTINUE COOPERATION WITH OSCE
YEREVAN. - Arman Mkrtumyan, Chief Judge of Armenia's Court of Appeals, on Thursday received Ambassador Andrei Sorokin, the newly appointed Head of the OSCE Office in Yerevan, and he discussed the joint ...ARMENIAN DEPUTY FM ADDRESSES HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL SESSION
Armenia's Deputy FM Ashot Hovakimian, who was on a working visit to Geneva between Tuesday and Thursday, addressed at the 19 Session of the Human Rights Council on Thursday.
Hovakimian reflected on ...ARMENIAN OPPOSITION PARTIES TO CREATE UNION
YEREVAN. - Armenian opposition Free Democrats and Heritage parties will form a union, Free Democrats party member Ararat Zurabyan told reporters on Friday.
Responding to the question who will lead the ...ARMENIA CAN PROPOSE NEW PROJECTS TO OSCE
YEREVAN. - Armenia's Deputy PM and Regional Governance (RG) Minister Armen Gevorgyan on Friday received Ambassador Andrei Sorokin, the newly appointed Head of the OSCE Office in Yerevan.
In Deputy PM's ...TOP 4 CASES OF VIOLENCE AGAINST JOURNALISTS IN ARMENIA
YEREVAN. - Four cases of physical violence against journalists occurred in Armenia in 2011, Armenia's Helsinki Committee informs in the 2011 report in a meeting with reporters on Friday.
The first violence ...ARMENIAN OPPOSITION PARTY CONGRESS DOES NOT DISCUSS FORMAT FOR ELECTION PARTICIPATION
YEREVAN. - Armenia's parliamentary opposition Heritage Party on Friday convened its seventh congress, but it did not examine the format for its participation in the upcoming parliamentary elections. ...HELSINKI COMMITTEE OF ARMENIA OFFERS 4 OPTIONS TO CHANGE SITUATION IN ARMY
According to official facts, 36 people died in the Armenian Army in 2011, but according to Helsinki Citizens' Assembly (HCA) office in Vanadzor, 39 people died during peaceful conditions in the Armenian ...RULING COALITION PARTY READY TO ACCEPT LEADER OF UNITED LABOR PARTY
YEREVAN.- Prosperous Armenia Party (PAP), one of the political forces of ruling coalition, is pleased to accept the leader of the United Labor Party Gurgen Arsenyan.
Speaking to journalists on Friday, ...NICOLAS SARKOZY ANNOUNCED DECISION TO CLOSE EMBASSY IN DAMASCUS
France has decided to close its embassy in Syria. The President of France Nicolas Sarkozy said about this during the press conference in Brussels.
He noted that the recent incidents in Syria are alarming ...ARMENIAN FM RECEIVES OSCE MEDIATORS
YEREVAN.- Armenian Foreign Minister received on Friday OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs Robert Bradtke, Igor Popov and Jacques Faure and Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office Andrzej Kasprzyk.
The ...ELECTIONS MUST BE USED FOR MAKING QUALITATIVE CHANGES IN ARMENIA - OPPOSITION MEMBER
YEREVAN. - The next test, that is, the elections will be held in Armenia, and they will considerably differ from the previous ones, Democratic Motherland Party Chairman, and the opposition bloc Armenian ...ARMENIAN POLICE ACQUIRES TESTIMONIES THROUGH TORTURES - HELSINKI COMMITTEE
YEREVAN. - Cases of inhuman behavior are registered in the Armenian police of, Armenia's Helsinki Committee informed the journalists on Friday presenting its 2011 report.
European Committee for the Prevention ...PREPARATORY WORKS FOR LANDSCAPING ARE GOING TO TAKE PLACE IN YEREVAN FROM MARCH 1
YEREVAN. - .
As the press service of Yerevan city hall informs Armenian News-NEWS.am, dry leaves and branches are being removed from Yerevan parks and walking paths in order to start landscaping works. ...BEAUTY EXPO 2012 - EVERYTHING ABOUT BEAUTY (PHOTOS)
YEREVAN. - Moscow business center in Yerevan opened its doors for the participants and visitors of International Specialized Exhibition of Beauty Industry 'Beauty Expo 2012'. The exhibition is usually ...ARMENIAN PRESIDENT, OSCE MEDIATORS DISCUSS KARABAKH ISSUE
YEREVAN.- President of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan received on Friday OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs Robert Bradtke, Igor Popov and Jacques Faure and Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office Andrzej ...AZERBAIJANI TELEVISION SILENT ABOUT QUBA UNREST
Central Azerbaijani television is completely silent about the dramatic events in Quba district in northern Azerbaijan where a curfew was imposed after an outbreak of civil unrest.
State television-broadcasted ...ARMENIAN PM VISITED ARMENAL PLANT
YEREVAN. - Armenian PM Tigran Sargsyan accompanied by the Minister of Economy Tigran Davtyan visited Armenal plant producing aluminum foil and familiarized himself with the production process.
A session ...OSCE OFFICE AND YEREVAN STATE UNIVERSITY SIGN COOPERATION AGREEMENT
YEREVAN.- The Head of the OSCE Office in Yerevan, Ambassador Andrey Sorokin and Rector of the Yerevan State University, Aram Simonyan, signed on Friday a Memorandum of Understanding on establishing a ...ARMENIAN PRESIDENT HEADS TO BRUSSELS
YEREVAN. - Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan will head to Brussels on Mar. 5-7 with working visit.
He will participate in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization-Armenia session, and will deliver a speech ...CARS CATCH FIRE IN YEREVAN
YEREVAN. - A call was received at 3.29 p.m. on Friday that a minibus caught fire in Yerevan.
As the press service of Armenia's Emergency service informs Armenian News-NEWS.am, it turned out that a Yeraz ...ARMENIAN PRESIDENT VISITS ART EXPO EXHIBITION
YEREVAN. - Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan visited the 4th annual ART EXPO art exhibition in Armenia's Artists Union on Friday.
As the press service of Armenia's president informs Armenian News-NEWS.am, ...
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Today in Armenian history- 0 Vardanants Day of the Armenian Apostolic Church Calendar.
- 1902 Stepan Shahoomyan organizes a student strike at the Polytechnic Institute in Riga (Estonia). As a consequence, he is exiled to the Caucasus.
- 1916 "The Armenians and the War" magazine was publishing in Odessa from March to the following February .
- 1917 Creation of the Provisional Russian Government.
- 1931 Birth of the German orientalist and armenologist Alfred Gutschmidt. His studies focussed on the sources of Khorenatsi and Agathangeghos.
- 1931 Birth of Mikhail Gorbachov, the first and last President of the Soviet Union.
- 1981 Start of operations for Yerevan's subway. In 2001 it extends over 12 kilometers and has 10 stations.
- 1992 Armenia becomes a member of the United Nations.
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