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Headlines for June 26, 2012ARMENIAN GOVERNMENT PROGRAM IS AMBITIOUS - MINISTER OF FINANCE (INTERVIEW)
YEREVAN. - Armenian Minister of Finances Vache Gabrielyan comments on the Government Program for the upcoming 5 years which was confirmed by the Parliament and answers to questions regarding the Program ...PROBLEM OF SYRIAN OPPOSITION IS DISAGREEMENT BETWEEN THEM - EDWARD DJEREJIAN
The days of Bashar Assad are counted, however the regime might hold on as long as there are protest actions outside Damascus and Aleppo, former US Ambassador to Syria Edward Djerejian told United Press ...DEMAND FOR REAL ESTATE DECREASES IN ARMENIA - POLL
YEREVAN. - Recently there is much talk about a crisis in Armenia's Real Estate Market. Armenian News-NEWS.am conducted a poll among real estate agencies about the condition of the market in 2012 and the ...WINNER OF CONTEST AT NEMIROFF DELIKAT VODKA PRESENTATION GETS BOXING GLOVES AUTOGRAPHED BY VITALI KLITSCHKO (PHOTOS)
YEREVAN.- Ukrainian Nemiroff and its representative in Armenia Sovrano company presented a new soft vodka "Delikat" during an event organized at Best Western restaurant in Sevan. The winner of one of ...ARMENIAN PARLIAMENTARY OPPOSITION FORCES CAN COOPERATE - MP
YEREVAN. - The two-day discussions in the newly-elect Armenian Parliament showed that it is possible to find ways of cooperation among the Parliamentary opposition forces and the fact that 49 MPs voted ...GOVERNMENT INTENDS TO TRIPLE FISH PRODUCTION IN ARMENIA
YEREVAN. - Fish production in Armenia will be increased by three times, states in the Armenian Government Program. It is stated that the modern technologies and methods are to be applied.
Head of the ...BUS HITS THREE-YEAR-OLD BOY IN TURKEY (VIDEO)
KONYA. - In Konya, Turkey, a bus hit 3-year-old Mohammed Cetin who flew several meters. As the Turkish Hurriyet Agency reports, the boy who was injured badly was immediately hospitalized. The incident ...LUYS FOUNDATION SCHOLARSHIP WINNERS TO BE TEMPORARY RELEASED FROM ARMY IN ARMENIA
YEREVAN. - Male winners of the Luys foundation scholarships, who are students, will be released from the Armenian Army temporary.
The issue submitted by the Armenian Ministry of Education and Science ...PROSPEROUS ARMENIA PARTY LEADER IS EXTREMELY HURT BY PM - NEWSPAPER
YEREVAN. - Prosperous Armenia Party (PAP) Chairman Gagik Tsarukyan will not go to the National Assembly (NA) as long as Tigran Sargsyan is Premier, Zhamanaki Mitk weekly writes.
"They say the PM behaved ...ARMENIA'S STATE REVENUE COMMITTEE TO INSPECT FORMER FM'S FOUNDATION - NEWSPAPER
YEREVAN. - Upon the instruction by Armenia's National Security Service, the State Revenue Committee (SRC) is preparing to carry out inspections at The Civilitas Foundation, whose founder and chairman ...MORE PEOPLE EMIGRATE FROM ARMENIA - NEWSPAPER
YEREVAN. - Over 78,000 people have left from but not returned to Armenia—by all means of transport—in the first five months of this year, Haykakan Zhamanak daily writes,
"The State Migration ...MOST OF 500 IMPORTED TRACTORS ARE GIVEN TO ARMENIAN FARMS ON COMMERCIAL PROGRAMS? - NEWSPAPER
YEREVAN. - Armenia's political "backstage" is discussing that the majority of the 500 tractors—which Prosperous Armenia Party (PAP) Chairman Gagik Tsarukyan had imported during the parliamentary ...ARF MEMBERS ARE LEAVING PARTY IN NKR? - NEWSPAPER
YEREVAN. - It has become a pattern that when Armenia's opposition ARF Dashnaktsutyun Party has no response, it has no time to listen either, Iravunk daily writes.
"The Facebook discussions are actively ...SNAKE BITES WOMAN IN ARMENIA'S REGION
YEREVAN. - Knarik Kamalyan, 55, a resident of Agarak village of Armenia's Aragatsotn Region, was transferred to hospital, on Monday at 6:25pm, on symptoms of snake-bite poisoning.
Doctors say the woman ...ARMENIA'S GOVERNMENT DESIGNS PLAN AGAINST HOSPITAL-ACQUIRED INFECTION
YEREVAN. - Armenia's Healthcare Ministry submitted for the approval of the Government's session on Thursday the 2012-2016 plan for controlling and preventing nosocomial infection.
A nosocomial infection, ...ARMENIA TO SIGN EDUCATIONAL, SCIENTIFIC COOPERATION AGREEMENT WITH SEVERAL COUNTRIES
YEREVAN. - The Government of Armenia is preparing to sign cooperation agreements with the governments of Malaysia, Japan, Vietnam, and Australia in the domains of education and science.
And the approval ...ARMENIAN PARTY LEADER TO DEFINITELY RUN FOR PRESIDENCY
YEREVN. - If you are satisfied with the current policy being conducted in Armenia, you also must marvel at the Government's program, National Self-Determination Union Chairman Paruyr Hayrikyan said during ...ARMENIA'S DEFENSE MINISTER MEETS WITH CSTO SECRETARY GENERAL
YEREVAN. - Armenian Minister of Defense Seyran Ohanyan on Monday met with Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) Secretary General Nikolay Bordyuzha.
They discussed the preparations for the "Cooperation ...FATHER AND SON COMMIT SUICIDE IN YEREVAN
YEREVAN. - A double suicide occurred in Armenia's capital, Yerevan, on Tuesday morning.
The Police received a call, at around 8:20am, informing that a father and son had killed themselves in their home, ...OFFICIALS WHO GOT FAT FROM EATING SHOULD NOT HAVE BODYGUARDS - ARMENIAN PARTY LEADER
YEREVAN. - Armenia's National Assembly has become colorful, but it cannot be subjected to a qualitative change because the authorities form its majority, National Self-Determination Union (NSU) Chairman ...ARMENIA'S LAW ENFORCEMENT CONFISCATES LARGE AMOUNT OF WEAPONS, AMMUNITION
YEREVAN. - Armenia's Police have seized a great quantity of weapons and ammunition in recent days.
On Monday at 8am, 2 homemade guns, a hand grenade, 34 bullets, and 3 shells were found and confiscated ...ARMENIA'S POLICE SOLVE 308 DRUG-RELATED CRIMES IN FIRST QUARTER OF 2012
YEREVAN. - Armenia's Police have solved 308 illegal drug trafficking cases in the first quarter of 2012, in the case when this was 230 in the same time period last year, stated Police General Department ...UKRAINE OFFERS TO LEASE AIRCRAFTS TO ARMENIA
Ukraine's Trade and Economic Development Minister Petro Poroshenko and Armenia's Economy Minister Tigran Davtyan discussed the matter of leasing Ukrainian airplanes to Armenia.
Also, they agreed to ...NARCOTICS ARE BROUGHT TO ARMENIA FROM IRAN, TURKEY, FRANCE AND RUSSIA - POLICE
YEREVAN.- Narcotics are brought to Armenia mainly from Iran, Turkey, France and Russia, police representatives told reporters on Tuesday.
Serob Harutunyan, head of department on fight against organized ...SEVERAL NKR MILITARY SERVICEMEN ARE AWARDED
STEPANAKERT. - Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR) President Bako Sahakyan on Tuesday signed a decree on bestowing awards.
According to the decree, Lieutenant Colonel Arthur Avanesyan, Major Gagik Israelyan, ...KARABAKH CONFLICT CANNOT BE SOLVED BY FORCE - AUSTRIAN PRESIDENT (PHOTO)
YEREVAN.- The Karabakh conflict will not be solved by force, President of Austria Heinz Fischer said in Yerevan (photos).
During a joint press conference with his Armenian counterpart Serzh Sargsyan, ...AZERBAIJAN BRINGS TENSION TO KARABAKH CONFLICT ZONE - ARMENIAN PRESIDENT
YEREVAN.- The situation over Nagorno-Karabakh remains a challenge for the region and Europe's security, said President Serzh Sargsyan.
"We do not see an alternative to peaceful resolution of the Karabakh ...ARMENIAN-FRENCH ARCHAEOLOGICAL TEAM TO SUM UP RESULTS OF CURRENT EXCAVATIONS AT YEREVAN'S EREBUNI FORTRESS
YEREVAN. - The Armenian-French archaeological cooperation, which commenced in 2008 at the ancient Erebuni Fortress located in Armenia's capital city Yerevan, will continue until 2015.
And the Armenian ...AUSTRIAN LEADER SAYS VISIT TO ARMENIA MET EXPECTATIONS
YEREVAN.- President of Austria Heinz Fischer said his official visit to Armenia met expectations.
During a press conference in Yerevan, Fischer said he had interest in Armenia long ago. Being a schoolchild ...ENERGY PROJECT MUST NOT BE FINANCIAL SOURCE FOR NEW WAR - ARMENIAN LEADER
YEREVAN.- Armenia praises high Austria's balanced position on the Karabakh conflict settlement and firmness in assisting Armenia's aspiration to peaceful resolution of the conflict, President Sargsyan ...AZERBAIJAN CONTINUES TO BREACH ARMENIA'S, NKR'S BORDER REGIONS - AMBASSADOR
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YEREVAN.- Austria is interested in the development of cultural relations with Armenia, President Heinz Fischer said in Yerevan.
Fischer said he is satisfied with the current level of cooperation adding ...TWO MEN HOSPITALIZED IN VANADZOR CAR ACCIDENT
VANADZOR.- Two people were taken to hospital on Tuesday as a result of a car accident in Armenia's Vanadzor.
The driver of VAZ-2606 lost control of the vehicle and it overturned. According to preliminary ...ARMENIA'S DILIJAN TO HOST ARMENIAN-GEORGIAN BUSINESS FORUM
YEREVAN. - The Armenian-Georgian Financial Market Forum will be held Friday in Armenia's Dilijan city.
This will be the first such event along the lines of cooperation between the financial markets of ...ARMENIA'S PRESIDENT BIDS FAREWELL TO GERMANY'S OUTGOING AMBASSADOR
YEREVAN. - Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan on Tuesday received German Ambassador Hans-Jochen Schmidt, who is ending his diplomatic mission in Armenia.
The President extended his gratitude to the Ambassador ...CATS OF TURKEY'S VAN TO GET ON PODIUM (PHOTOS)
VAN. - Turkish Van Province's cats, which are the only ones of their breed who are not afraid of water, are preparing to step on the podium (PHOTOS).
The Province's Center for Study and Preservation ...ARMENIAN MAN COMMITS SUICIDE BECAUSE OF DEBTS?
YEREVAN. - The dead body of a man was found not far from the shore of Armenia's Lake Sevan, on Monday at around 7:30pm.
The man was 59 years old and a resident of Masis city, the Police press service ...AZERBAIJANI HACKERS ATTACK "ARMENIA WINE" WEBSITE
YEREVAN.- Azerbaijani hackers cracked the website of Armenia-based "Armenia Wine" factory on the night of June 25.
A group of hackers calling themselves "Anti-Armenia team" posted an article about alleged ...PACE DISCUSSES ISSUE OF POLITICAL PRISONERS IN AZERBAIJAN
STRASBOURG. - PACE Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights is discussing special rapporteur Christoph Straesser's report on political prisoners in Azerbaijan.
Armenian delegate Naira Zohrabyan told ...DOLLAR STILL LOSES VALUE IN ARMENIA
YEREVAN. - This is the second consecutive day that the US dollar's exchange rate against the Armenian Dram (AMD) fell in Armenia's financial market.
Its average exchange rate comprised AMD 417.25/$1, ...ARMENIAN COURT OF APPEALS, CHINESE SUPREME PEOPLE'S COURT TO PREPARE COOPERATION MEMORANDUM
YEREVAN. - At the invitation of Chief Judge Arman Mkrtumyan of Armenia's Court of Appeals, a delegation from China, led by the Supreme People's Court Grand Justice of the Second Rank Jiang Bixin, is in ...ARMENIA'S PRESIDENT WILL HEAD TO BELGIUM
YEREVAN. - Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan will travel to Belgium on Wednesday for a two-day working visit.
In Brussels, Sargsyan will attend the European People's Party (EPP) Summit and also meet with ...
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