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Headlines for September 10, 2012ARMENIA REGISTERS CHILD TRAFFICKING CASES
By Tatev Mesropyan YEREVAN. - Armenia has registered cases of child trafficking. Armenian children were mainly taken to United Arab Emirates for sexual exploitation, lawyer Hovik Arsenyan told Armenian ...AZERBAIJAN RESPONSIBLE FOR REGIONAL TENSION - EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT MEMBER
The matter concerning Ramil Safarov's extradition will be discussed Thursday in Strasbourg, France, at the Human Rights Committee of the European Parliament, the latter informed Armenian News-NEWS.am. In ...MASS TURNOUT AT HOLY LITURGY CELEBRATED IN ARMENIAN CHURCH OF AKHTAMAR (PHOTOS)
VAN. - Ninety-seven years after the Armenian Genocide, the third Holy Mass was celebrated Sunday at the Holy Cross Church of Akhtamar Island on Lake Van, Turkey (PHOTOS). The Holy Liturgy was offered ...ARMENIA'S VANADZOR REELECTS SERVING MAYOR
VANADZOR. - Armenia's City of Vanadzor Mayor Samvel Darbinyan was reelected to this office during Sunday's local self-government elections. Majority of the city's voters cast their ballots in Darbinyan's ...ARMENIA'S GYUMRI HAS NEW MAYOR
YEREVAN. - The National assembly's Prosperous Armenia Party MP Samvel Balasanyan is voted in as new Mayor of the City of Gyumri, as a result of Sunday's local self-government elections in the country. The ...INCUMBENT MAYOR OF ARMENIA'S ETCHMIADZIN IS REELECTED
YEREVAN. - Armenian MP Manvel Grigoryan's son, Karen Grigoryan, was reelected as City of Etchmiadzin Mayor during Sunday's local self-government elections. The Central Electoral Commission's website ...AZERBAIJANI MURDERER USES AXE FOR "SMILING AT HIM"
Ramil Safarov killed Gurgen Margaryan because the latter had "smiled at him," Safarov himself told during a program of "Russia 1" television. "The [Azerbaijani] army had sent me [to Budapest] for [English-language] ...AZERBAIJANI MURDERER'S CASE IS PRECONDITION FOR SUSPENDING TALKS - RUSSIAN POLITICAL SCIENTIST
The decision to extradite the Azerbaijani army officer to his country, and especially his pardon, has caused a wave of concern, Russian political Analyst Sergey Markedonov wrote in the Echo Kavkaza website. ...HUNGARIAN AUTHORITIES ENGAGED IN CRIMINAL DEAL WITH AZERI OFFICIALS - KARABAKH
STEPANAKERT. - The Hungarian authorities were engaged in a criminal deal with Azerbaijani officials and were condemned by lots of international institutions, including the EU, NATO and own society, Nagorno-Karabakh ...WASHINGTON EXPECTS EXPLANATIONS FROM BUDAPEST AND BAKU OVER SAFAROV CASE - US AMBASSADOR TO ARMENIA
YEREVAN. - Washington expects explanations from Budapest and Baku with respect to Ramil Safarov's extradition and pardon, US Ambassador to Armenia John Heffern stated Monday, at Armenia's Chief Prosecutor's ...ARMENIA'S PARLIAMENT KICKS OFF FALL SESSION
YEREVAN. - Armenia's fifth-convocation National Assembly (NA) commenced its fall session on Monday. A total of 104 from the 131 MPs were registered at the beginning of the first session, and therefore ...ARMENIA'S HERITAGE PARTY LEADER NOT ASSUMING PARLIAMENTARY MANDATE
YEREVAN. - During Sunday's meeting of its executive body, the governing board of Armenia's opposition Heritage Party considered Chairman Raffi Hovannisian's report and, in advance of the 2013 presidential ...LUXEMBOURG'S DEPUTY PM TO ARRIVE IN ARMENIA
YEREVAN. - At the invitation of Armenia's Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian, Luxembourg's Deputy PM and FM Jean Asselborn will pay an official visit to Armenia on Tuesday and Wednesday. During his ...US STILL HELPS ARMENIA IMPROVE LEGAL SYSTEM
YEREVAN. - A protocol was signed Monday, at Armenia's Chief Prosecutor's Office, on extending the term of the agreement on cooperation, between the Governments of US and Armenia, in drug control and ...NATO WILL TRY TO INCLUDE OFFICIAL BAKU IN ITS REGIONAL SCENARIOS - ARMENIAN POLITICAL ANALYST
YEREVAN. - NATO will attempt to include Azerbaijan in its peacekeeping programs, ArmenianCenter for National and International Studies Director of Research, analyst Manvel Sargsyan stated during a press ...HUNGARIAN FM SENDS LETTER TO ARMENIAN COUNTERPART
Hungary's recent transfer of Ramil Safarov to Azerbaijan was not aimed against Armenia and it cannot be considered as an insult to the Armenian people, Hungarian Foreign Minister János Martonyi ..."SMALL SINGERS OF ARMENIA" RETURN FROM JAPAN
YEREVAN. - The "Small Singers of Armenia" Children's Choir, which is conducted by Tigran Hekekyan, recently wrapped up its forty-day concert tour in eighteen Japanese cities and returned to Armenia. ...WHAT DID HUNGARY'S PM AND AZERBAIJAN'S PRESIDENT SPEAK ABOUT?
A restricted document issued by the Hungarian Institute of International Affairs (MKI), leaked by news website nol.hu, indicates that Hungarian authorities were misled by Azerbaijan in connection with ...WIFI INSTALLATION IN YEREVAN UNDERWAY
YEREVAN. - WiFi installation works in Yerevan are being carried on in parks and public places. Yerevan city hall Information and Public Relations Department informed that director of "Technology Management ...MAN TRIED TO RAPE HIS DAUGHTER-IN-LAW TWICE IN KOTAYK REGION
YEREVAN. - On September 7, a 21 years old Mayakovski village resident (Armenia's Kotayk region) reported Erebuni police department that on May 10, 2012 at around 08:00 am her father-in-law had tried to ...ARMENIAN DIES IN CLASHES IN ALEPPO
ALEPPO. - An Armenian died during the clashes in Aleppo, Syria. The identity of the man, who died in New Geghi region, is being clarified, Armenian community representative in Aleppo told Armenian News-NEWS.am. ...CSTO MILITARY EXERCISE EVENTS UNDERWAY IN ARMENIA
YEREVAN. - Deputy Chief of Staff of the Armenian Armed Forces, Lieutenant General Haykaz Baghmanyan on Sunday visited the CSTO-member countries' military subdivisions. He was reported that the subdivisions ...GRAPE DEFICIT EXPECTED IN ARMENIA - PHOTO AND VIDEO
YEREVAN. - In Armenia the demand on grapes exceeds the offer by agricultural farms, Yerevan Brandy Company ArArAt Brandies CEO Ara Grigoryan stated on Monday in the briefing with journalists. Photo coverage ...MAN STABBED HIS WIFE FOR WORK IN NIGHT CLUB
YEREVAN. - Resident of Armenian Soghomon Taronts lane Armen Aristakesyan, 29, hit with fists his wife Mariam Sargsyan, 37, afterwards stabbing her with souvenir knife, Police Service informed Armenian ...RUSSIA AND US TO REDUCE TENSION BETWEEN YEREVAN AND BAKU PRIOR TO UN SESSION
MOSCOW. - Russian FM Sergey Lavrov and the U.S. Secretary of the State Hillary Clinton will try to reduce tension between Yerevan and Baku prior to the UN General Assembly (GA), the U.S. State Department ...SWITZERLAND HOLDS PROTEST ACTION AGAINST EXTRADITION OF AZERI MURDERER - PHOTO
BERN. - The Armenian community organizations held a protest action near the Hungarian Embassy in Bern on Sept. 8 in connection with the extradition of the Azeri murderer Ramil Safarov from Hungary to ...US DOLLAR DOWN IN ARMENIA
YEREVAN. - The US dollar average exchange rate, against the Armenian dram (AMD), comprised AMD 412.12/$1, at NASDAQ OMX Armenia stock exchange on Monday, which is a 0.16 percent - or an AMD 0.67 - down ...ARMENIAN AND RUSSIAN DEPUTY FMS MEET IN MOSCOW
YEREVAN. - Armenia's Deputy Foreign Minister Shavarsh Kocharyan met, on Monday in Moscow, with his Russian counterpart, First Deputy FM of the Russian Federation, Andrey Denisov. The two deputy FMs discussed ...SAFAROV'S PARDONING TO HAMPER KARABAKH SETTLEMENT - US AMBASSADOR TO AZERBAIJAN
BAKU. - The U.S. Ambassador to Azerbaijan Richard Morningstar believes that the Nagorno-Karabakh peace process, despite recent tension in the region, will go on. The Ambassador, in addition, does not ...SOUTH AFRICAN REPUBLIC TO DEVELOP RELATIONS WITH ARMENIA
YEREVAN. - Armenian FM Edward Nalbandyan received on Monday the newly appointed Ambassador of the South African Republic Chupu Stanley Mathabatha (residence in Kiev) on the occasion of receiving the copies ...RAIN AND THUNDERSTORM EXPECTED IN ARMENIA
YEREVAN.-On Sept. 11, in most of the regions of Armenia, and on Sept. 12 in eastern regions forecasters predict rainfalls and thunderstorm with possibility of hail in separate areas of the country. On ...
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Today in Armenian history- 0 Hori was the second month in the old Armenian calendar (September 10 to October 9). One source identifies it with the Armenian word for "well" because villagers would store their harvest in wells. Academician Malkhasian thinks that the word is derived from "vine-branch" and alludes to the grape harvest that takes place during this month.
- 1826 End of the heroic defense of Fort Shooshee (Artsakh).
- 1869 Birth of cleric and ethno-musicologist Komitas (Soghomon Soghomonyan) in Kutina (Western Armenia). He died in Paris in 1935.
- 1890 Birth of Franz Werfel in Prague (Austrian novelist). He wrote "The Forty Days of Musa Dagh" (1933), a best-selling epic tale of Armenian resistance to the Turkish Genocide of 1915. He died in 1945.
- 1896 Armenian massacres begin in Akn.
- 1896 Start of the second defense of Van under the leadership of Vardgehss and Vardan.
- 1898 Andreas Artehruni (scientist) dies in Germany. He was born in 1847.
- 1920 The conference of Armenia's Communist organizations opens in Baku.
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